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Robert Naylor.
From John O'Groats to Land's End online
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became one of the most famous missionaries of the nineteenth century.
His name was Robert Moffat, and he laboured hard in South Africa, where
his son-in-law, David Livingstone, following his example, also became a
renowned explorer and missionary in the "Dark Continent."
Accept me for Thy service, Lord,
And train me for Thy will,
For even I in fields so broad
Some duties may fulfil;
And I will ask for no reward
Except to serve Thee still.
MOFFAT.
[Illustration: ROBERT MOFFAT.]
We soon arrived at Leamington, which was quite an aristocratic town, and
different from any other we had seen on our journey, for it consisted
chiefly of modern houses of a light stone colour, which contrasted
finely with the trees with which the houses were interspersed and
surrounded, and which must have appeared very beautiful in the spring
The chief object of interest there was the Spa, which although known to
travellers in the seventeenth century, had only come into prominence
during recent times, or since the local poets had sung its praises. In
the introduction to a curious book, published in 1809 by James Bissett,
who described himself as "Medallist to his Majesty King George the
Third, proprietor of the Picture Gallery, public, news-room, and the
museum at Leamington," there appeared the following lines:
Nay! Foreigners of rank who this look o'er
To try the Wells may quit their native shore;
For when they learn the virtues of the Spaw
Twice tens of thousands to the spot will draw,
As when its wondrous powers are pointed out
And men found cap'ring who have had the gout;
When pallid cheeks regain their roseate blush
And vigorous health expels the hectic flush
When those once hypp'd cast the crutch away;
Sure when the pride of British Spas they see
They'll own the humble instrument in me!
The Spa, it appeared, had been patronised by royalty on several
occasions, and Queen Victoria in 1838 acceded to the request that the
inhabitants might henceforth style the town the "Royal Leamington Spa."
Benjamin Satchwell claimed to have discovered the principal well there
in 1784, and on his tombstone in the churchyard appeared the following:
Hail the unassuming tomb
Of him who told where health and beauty bloom,
Of him whose lengthened life improving ran -
A blameless, useful, venerable man.
We only stayed a short time here, and then walked quickly through a fine
country to the ancient town of Warwick, with Guy's Cliffe and Blacklow
Hill to our right, the monument on the hill being to Piers Gaveston,
Earl of Cornwall, the hated favourite of Edward II. Gaveston was
beheaded on the hill on July 1st, 1312, and the modern inscription
In the hollow of this rock was beheaded, on the first day of July
1312, by barons, lawless as himself, Piers Gaveston, Earl of
Cornwall, the minion of a hateful King, in life and death a memorable
instance of misrule.
[Illustration: GUY'S TOWER, WARWICK]
Gaveston surrendered to the insurgent barons at Scarborough, on
condition that his life should be spared; but he had offended the Earl
of Warwick by calling him the "Black Hound of Arden," and the earl
caused him to be conveyed to Warwick Castle. When brought before
Warwick there, the Earl muttered, "Now you shall feel the Hound's
teeth," and after a mock trial by torchlight he was led out of the
castle and beheaded on the hill. Every one of the barons concerned in
this rather diabolical action died by violence during the next few
[Illustration: WARWICK CASTLE FROM THE RIVER. "As we crossed the bridge
we had a splendid view of Warwick Castle ... the finest example of a
fortified castle in England ... the 'fairest monument of ancient and
chivalrous splendour yet uninjured by time.'"]
[Illustration: WARWICK CASTLE]
[Illustration: THE PORTCULLIS.]
[Illustration: ENTRANCE TOWERS.]
As we crossed the bridge leading over the River Avon we had a splendid
view of Warwick Castle, which had the reputation of being the finest
example of a fortified castle in England, Sir Walter Scott describing it
as "the fairest monument of ancient and chivalrous splendour which yet
remain uninjured by time." It could boast of a continuous history from
the time of Ethelfreda, the daughter of the Saxon King, Alfred the
Great, and its towers rose to a considerable height, Cæsar's tower
reaching an elevation of 174 feet. Here could be seen the famous and
exquisite Vase of Warwick, in white marble, of unknown age and of
fabulous value, said to have been found at the bottom of a lake near
Hadrian's Villa, at Tivoli, in Italy. There were an immense number of
curios in the castle, some of which were connected with that famous
character Guy, Earl of Warwick, including his shield, sword, and helmet,
and his kettle of bell-metal, twenty-six feet wide and capable of
holding 120 gallons of water. We had no time to visit the interior of
the castle, but it was interesting to read, in one of his letters, what
Dr. Adam Clark saw there in 1797: "I was almost absolutely a prey to
astonishment and rapture while I contemplated the painting of the wife
of Schneider by Rubens, such a speaking canvas I never beheld." He saw
the large Etruscan vases collected by Sir William Hamilton, some bronze
cups dug out of the ruins of Herculaneum, and the bed in which Queen
Anne slept and which, according to report, she wrought with her own
hands. In the Armoury he was permitted to fit on some of the armour, and
attempted also to wield the sword of Guy, Earl of Warwick, which weighed
seventy pounds. He also examined the rest of Guy's gigantic equipments,
not omitting his porridge-pot, which held no gallons and was filled
every time an Earl of Warwick came of age. This Guy was not the famous
King Maker, but the original Guy, who lived at a time when England was
covered with thick forests in which savage beasts, now unknown, roamed
at large, causing great havoc amongst the early settlers, both to their
persons and their cattle. Of gigantic stature, he was renowned for his
courage and prowess, and, being in love with the fair Felice at Warwick
Castle, for her sake he performed prodigious feats of valour, both at
home and abroad. Amongst other monsters which preyed upon and terrified
human beings he killed the wild and fierce Dun Cow which infested Dun's
Moor, a place we had passed by the previous day; and we were reminded of
his prowess when we saw the sign of the "Dun Cow" displayed on inns in
the country, including that on the hotel at Dunchurch. He went on a
pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where he killed many Saracens, and when on
his return he landed at Portsmouth, King Athelstane, ignorant of his
name, asked him if he would become his champion in a contest on which
the fate of England depended. The king told him that the Danes had with
them a champion named Colbran, a gigantic Saracen, and that they had
offered to stake their fortunes on a duel between him and an English
champion, not yet found, on condition that if Colbran won, England must
be given up to Anlaf, King of Denmark, and Govelaph, King of Norway. Guy
undertook the fight willingly, and defeated and killed the gigantic
Saracen, after which he privately informed the king that he was the Earl
of Warwick. He secured the hand and affections of the fair Felice, but
when the thoughts of all the people he had killed began to haunt him, he
left her, giving himself up to a life of devotion and charity, while he
disappeared and led the life of a hermit. She thought he had gone into
foreign lands, and mourned his loss for many years; but he was quite
near the castle all the time, living beside the River Avon in a cave in
a rock, which is still called Guys Cliffe, and where he died. Huge bones
were found and kept in the castle, including one rib bone, which
measured nine inches in girth at its smallest part and was six and a
half feet long; but this was probably a bone belonging to one of the
great wild beasts slain by the redoubtable Guy. We were sorry we could
not explore the castle, but we wanted particularly to visit the
magnificent Beauchamp Chapel in St. Mary's Church at Warwick. We found
this one of those places almost impossible to describe, and could
endorse the opinion of others, that it was "an architectural gem of the
first water and one of the finest pieces of architectural work in the
kingdom." It occupied twenty-one years in building, and contains the
tomb of Richard Beauchamp, under whose will the chapel was begun in
1443; Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the haughty favourite of Queen
Elizabeth, was also entombed here. We had too much to do to-day to stay
very long in any place we visited, but we were interested in the remains
of a ducking-stool in the crypt of the church, although it was far from
being complete, the only perfect one of which we knew being that in the
Priory Church of Leominster, which reposed in a disused aisle of the
church, the property of the Corporation of that town. It was described
as "an engine of universal punishment for common scolds, and for
butchers, bakers, brewers, apothecaries, and all who give short measure,
or vended adulterated articles of food," and was last used in 1809, when
a scolding wife named Jenny Pipes was ducked in a deep place in one of
the small rivers which flowed through that town. The following lines,
printed on a large card, appeared hanging from one of the pillars in the
aisle near the stool:
[Illustration: TOMBS IN THE BEAUCHAMP CHAPEL.]
[Illustration: THE DUCKING-STOOL, WARWICK.]
There stands, my friend, in yonder pool,
An engine called a Ducking Stool;
By legal power commanded down,
The joy, and terror of the town.
If jarring females kindle strife,
Give language foul, or lug the coif:
If noisy dames should once begin
To drive the house with horrid din,
Away! you cry, you'll grace the stool
We'll teach you how your tongue to rule.
Down in the deep the stool descends,
But here, at first, we miss our ends,
She mounts again, and rages more
Than ever vixen did before.
If so, my friend, pray let her take
A second turn into the lake;
And rather than your patience lose
Thrice and again, repeat the dose,
No brawling wives, no furious wenches
No fire so hot, but water quenches.
[Illustration: THE DUCKING-STOOL, LEOMINSTER]
The stool was exactly like a chair without legs, fastened on one end of
a long pole, in the centre of which was a framework with solid wooden
wheels. The culprit was fastened in the chair with her face towards the
men, who were at the other end of the pole, and who had to push and
guide the machine through the narrow streets of the town until they
reached the "deep hole," where the unfortunate woman had to be ducked
overhead in the river. Her feet were securely tied to the top of the
pole to prevent them from being hurt when passing through the town, and
to hinder her from using them to keep her head above the water. The poet
describes the "engine called a ducking-stool" as the "joy and terror of
the town," but the "joy" could only have been that of the men, women,
and children who could be spared to see the show, and knew the woman's
scolding propensities. If she continued scolding after the first "duck,"
down she went again, and again, until, as we imagined, half filled with
water, she was unable to scold further, and so the water triumphed in
the end:
The tower of St. Mary's Church was built on four lofty arches, one of
which formed the entrance to the church while the other three formed
entrances to the street, the footpath passing through two of them.
[Illustration: LORD LEICESTER'S HOSPITAL AND GATE.]
We passed alongside the ancient and picturesque half-timbered building
known as Lord Leicester's Hospital, which was one of the few buildings
in the town that escaped the fire in 1694. It had been built by Robert
Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the favourite of Queen Elizabeth and of
Kenilworth fame, to accommodate twelve poor men or brethren besides the
master, who, according to Dugdale the famous antiquary, "were to be
clothed in blew cloth, with a ragged staff embroydered on the left
sleeve," and not to go into the town without them. The hospital dated
from 1571, but what was formerly the banqueting-hall belonged to an
earlier period, and owed its preservation largely to the fact that the
timber of which the roof had been constructed was Spanish chestnut, a
timber which grew luxuriantly in the forests of England, and resembled
English oak. It was largely used by the monks in the building of their
refectories, as no worm or moth would go near it and no spider's web was
ever woven there, the wood being poisonous to insects. It is lighter in
colour than oak, and, seeing the beams so clean-looking, with the
appearance of having been erected in modern times, it is difficult for
the visitor to realise that they have been in their present position
perhaps for five or six centuries. Over one of the arched doorways in
the old hospital appeared the insignia of the bear and the ragged staff,
which was also the sign of public houses, notably that at Cumnor, the
village of Amy Robsart. This we discovered to be the arms of the Earls
of Warwick, originating during the time of the first two earls: the
first being Arth or Arthgal of the Round Table - Arth meaning bear - and
the second Morvid, who in single combat overcame a mighty giant who
came against him with a club - a tree pulled up by the roots and stripped
of its branches; and in remembrance of his victory over the giant the
"ragged staff" ever afterwards appeared on the coat of arms of the Earls
of Warwick.
[Illustration: CÆSAR'S TOWER, WARWICK CASTLE.]
At the end of the hospital stood St. James's Chapel, built over the West
Gate of the town, which we left by the footpath leading both under the
church and its tower, on our way to Stratford-on-Avon.
[Illustration: SHAKESPEARE'S HOUSE (Before Restoration).]
We walked the eight miles which separated the two towns at a quick
speed, and, leaving our luggage at the "Golden Lion Inn" at the entrance
to Stratford, we went to explore that town, and soon arrived at the
birthplace of Shakespeare, one of the few houses in England where no
fire is ever lit or candle lighted. It was a very old-fashioned house
built with strong oak beams, the ceiling of the room in which
Shakespeare was born in 1564 being so low that visitors could easily
reach it, and they had written their names both on it and the walls
until there was scarcely an available space left. Written with lead
pencil, some of the autographs were those of men distinguished in every
rank of life both past and present, and would doubtless have become very
valuable if they had been written in a book, but we supposed Visitors'
Books had not been thought of in those days. We wondered if the walls
would ever be whitewashed again, and this thought might have occurred to
Sir Walter Scott when he scratched his name with a diamond on one of the
window panes. It was at another house in the town that Shakespeare wrote
his plays and planted a mulberry-tree in the garden. This mulberry-tree
used to be one of the objects of interest at Stratford, nearly every
pilgrim who arrived there going to see it. There came a time when the
house and garden changed hands, and were sold to a clergyman named
Gastrell, who we were sorry to learn was a countryman of ours, as he
belonged to Cheshire. He had married a "lady of means," who resided at
Lichfield, and they bought this house and garden, we supposed, so that
they might "live happily ever afterwards"; but the parson, who must have
had a very bad temper, was so annoyed at people continually calling to
see the mulberry-tree that he cut it down. It was probably owing to this
circumstance that he had a furious quarrel with the Corporation of
Stratford because they raised the rates on his property. When he
complained that they were excessive and the surveyor insisted on their
being paid, Gastrell ended the matter by pulling the house down to the
ground, and leaving the neighbourhood, so we supposed it was then a case
of -
Where he's gone and how he fares
Nobody knows and nobody cares.
Eventually the site became a public garden, where a slip of the
mulberry-tree may still be seen.
[Illustration: SHAKESPEARE'S TOMB, STRATFORD-ON-AVON.]
Shakespeare died in 1616, and was buried in the church at Stratford,
where on the ancient stone that covered his remains were inscribed in
old English characters the well-known words:
Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here,
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.
Shakespeare's threatened curse was doubtless one reason why his bones
had remained undisturbed, for it was no uncommon occurrence in his time
for the bones of the dead to be removed from a tomb and to be replaced
or mingled with those of a stranger, for even the tomb of his daughter,
who died in 1649, shared that fate, her epitaph being effaced and
replaced by another of a person in no way related to the Shakespeare
family, but who was buried in the same grave.
In one corner of the church was a tomb bearing the effigy of John
O'Combe, who we thought might have hailed from the neighbourhood of the
old abbey of that name which we passed the night before. In spite of his
benefactions recorded in the church, he was looked upon as a usurer,
because he charged 10 per cent, for his money. He was at one time a
friend of Shakespeare, and often asked the poet, who was no doubt
acquainted with his rate of interest, to write him an epitaph. When at
length he acceded to his request he greatly offended Combe by writing:
"Ten in the hundred" lies here en-graved,
'Tis a hundred to ten if his soul be saved.
If any one asks who lies in his tomb -
"Oho" quoth the devil "'tis my John O'Combe."
Shakespeare bought the house in which he wrote his plays from the
Clopton family, calling it "New Place," and a sorrowful story was
connected with the Clopton vault in Stratford Church. Sir Hugh Clopton,
who was buried there, was Lord Mayor of London in 1492, and had a very
beautiful young daughter named Charlotte, who, according to her
portrait, which was still in existence, had light blue eyes and pale
golden hair. In the time when a plague was raging in Stratford she was
said to have been found sitting in a chair in the garden apparently
dead, and was at once carried to the vault to be buried. A few days
afterwards another member of the family died of the plague, and was also
taken to the vault; but when the torch-bearers descended the steps
leading into the vault, the light from their torches revealed the form
of Charlotte Clopton leaning against the side of the tomb. They were
stricken with horror, but had arrived too late to save her, as she was
now quite dead. The poor girl must have been in a trance when they
carried her to the vault, and in her agony of hunger had bitten a piece
of flesh from her own shoulder!
We found the "Golden Lion" quite a comfortable hotel, and had a
first-class tea there in the company of an actor from London, who, like
ourselves, was exploring the country hereabouts, though perhaps from a
different point of view, and who had a lot to tell us about Shakespeare
and his plays. He had been to a village named Bidford a few miles away
where there was an old-fashioned inn, in the courtyard of which
Shakespeare and his friends had acted his _Midsummer's Night Dream_ long
before it appeared in London. It was at that inn that Shakespeare on
one occasion had too much to drink, and when on his way home to
Stratford he lay down under a thorn tree to sleep off the effects; the
tree was fenced round later on in memory of that rather inglorious
event. Although we were temperance men, we had to admit that the old
inns where the stage-coaches stopped to exchange passengers and horses
had a great attraction for us, and it was not without a feeling of
regret that we found them being gradually closed throughout the country
we passed through. They had mostly been built after the same model, the
gateway or door at the entrance being arched over and placed in the
centre of the front of the hotel. Through this archway the coaches, with
passengers and luggage, could pass in and out, a door on each side of
the entrance leading into different sections of the inn. The yards of
the inns were in the form of an oblong, generally roofed over, and along
each side were the out-offices, storerooms, and stables, with a flat
roof overhead, extending backwards as far as the bedroom doors, and
forming a convenient platform for passengers' luggage as it was handed
on and off the roof of the coach. The outside edge of the platform was
sometimes ornamented with a low palisade, which gave the interior of the
covered yard quite a pleasant and ornamental appearance.
[Illustration]
Such was the character of the inns that existed in the time of
Shakespeare, and although sanitary regulations in later times required
the horses to be provided for in stable-yards farther in the rear, very
little structural alteration in the form of the inns had taken place.
The actor told us that in Shakespeare's time nearly all the acting
outside London and much within was done in the courtyards of these inns.
The actors travelled in two covered wagons or coaches, and when they
arrived at the inn they were drawn into the inn yard, while two members
of the party went out into the town or village vigorously beating a drum
to announce the arrival of the actors, almost the entire resident
population, men, women, and children, following them to the inn yard to
listen to the play, which custom, he said, was referred to by
Shakespeare in one of his plays in the passage:
The Actors have come and the rout are following!
The covers were then taken off the top of the wagons and placed round
the sides of the wheels, to act as screens while the actors changed
their dresses, which had to be done underneath the coaches. Meanwhile
boards, kept at the inns specially for that purpose, were fastened over
the tops of the wagons, and on these the actors performed their plays.
The squire, or lord of the manor, had the right to see the plays free of
charge, and when he came, a bar of wood was placed across the entrance
to one of the horse-boxes to keep off the spectators who thronged the
inn yard. From these people the actors collected what money they could,
while those who were better able to pay were accommodated on the
platform above the stables, which commanded a better view of the play.
When theatres were built, he informed us, they were modelled in the same
shape as the yards of these inns, their arrangement being also the same:
the stage represented the boards on the wagons and the actors dressed
underneath it, the pit corresponded to the inn yard, the gallery to the
platform over the stables, the boxes to the place railed off for the
squire. The actor was not sure about the stalls, and thought these were
instituted at a later period; but we reminded him that stalls were a
necessary adjunct to stables.
[Illustration: STRATFORD-ON-AVON CHURCH.]
He also told us that the actors had a language peculiar to their
profession, which also dated from the time when they acted in the
country inn yards, for even when they travelled by train they were
always "on the road," and when acting in the theatre they were still "on
the boards."
We asked him if he knew about Shakespeare's stealing the deer from
Charlecote Park, Sir Thomas Lucy's property, and he said he did; but the
report was not quite correct, for at that time the park was surrounded
by Common Land, and it was there that Shakespeare shot the deer, which
only went into the park to die. Shakespeare followed it, and as he was
removing the carcase he was caught and summoned; the case hinged on
whether he had his weapon with him or not. As that could not be proved
against him, the case was dismissed. It appears that the Law of England
is the same on that point to-day as in the time of Shakespeare, for if a
man shoots a hare on his own land, and it dies on adjoining land
belonging to some one else, he has a perfect right to remove it,
providing he does not take his gun with him, which would constitute a
punishable offence. We were sorry to leave the hotel, as we should have
been very comfortable there, and the actor, who wanted to hear of our
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Homomorphically encrypted data supports real-time learning in personalized cancer medicine
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The changing paradigm of Big Data
"The 2010s was the decade of Big Data.
The 2020s will be the decade of privacy."
Big Data has changed people, now people change big data.
People are not Luddites. People love what online and the cloud can offer.
Connected data is more than just convenience: health, genome-driven precision medicine, AI and autonomous systems, industrial internet, …
But not at all costs:
No one wants to feel exploited
The threats are real. It is not just an annoyance. More than just money will be lost.
Cloud services often mean "lock-in" for businesses – giving away your trade secret might just not work for all.
And policy changes, too. GDPR is just the beginning.
Incorporating privacy
A stack of technologies was just invented that finally does the trick:
Homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs for privacy preserving computation
Federated learning to train models decentralized for privacy preserving AI
True peer-to-peer networks as data infrastructure without a single point of failure.
Technology is ready
Researchers at Microsoft, Intel, IBM, and others have defined standards and opened homomorphic encryption for broad application.
Zero-knowledge proofs have been working flawlessly in cryptocurrencies such as zCash and Monero for years
Federated learning has been pushed to be ready by the AI and chatbot wave.
The blockchain offers true secure and trustable peer-to-peer interactions without intermediation.
Consumer DNA data and privacy: The case for homomophic encryption
Respecting the autonomy of participants in genetic studies is necessary for long term sustainability of the genomics ecosystem.
Yaniv Erlich
Personally identifiable information is data that, even if it does not link immediately to the person who generated it, can be traced back and de-anonymized. The more dimensions the data spans, the more variability it shows, the more likely it is to find an exact match to one single person.
Genome data, the sequence of base pairs in a person's DNA is probably the most personal of all today's data. It is unique not only to every human -more even than fingerprints- but it also ties together families, closer or more remote relatives, and even ethnic communities.
Yaniv Erlich and his research team has put together a good summary of what DNA databases and ancestry-related research entails in terms of informational self-determination. The conclusion: We need privacy-preserving mechanisms like differential privacy and homomorphic encryption.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/10/10/science.aau4832
Privacy-preserving deep learning
Paper by Ryffel, et.al.
We detail a new framework for privacy preserving deep learning and discuss its assets. The framework puts a premium on ownership and secure processing of data and introduces a valuable representation based on chains of commands and tensors. This abstraction allows one to implement complex privacy preserving constructs such as Federated Learning, Secure Multiparty Computation, and Differential Privacy while still exposing a familiar deep learning API to the end-user. We report early results on the Boston Housing and Pima Indian Diabetes datasets. While the privacy features apart from Differential Privacy do not impact the prediction accuracy, the current implementation of the framework introduces a significant overhead in performance, which will be addressed at a later stage of the development. We believe this work is an important milestone introducing the first reliable, general framework for privacy preserving deep learning.
Secure multi party computation library for deep learning
Distributed AI is one of the most important topics of privacy preserving computation. Here is a recently published library:
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Training data for natural language processing
Paper by Gerlach & Font-Clos
The use of Project Gutenberg (PG) as a text corpus has been extremely popular in statistical analysis of language for more than 25 years. However, in contrast to other major linguistic datasets of similar importance, no consensual full version of PG exists to date. In fact, most PG studies so far either consider only a small number of manually selected books, leading to potential biased subsets, or employ vastly different pre-processing strategies (often specified in insufficient details), raising concerns regarding the reproducibility of published results. In order to address these shortcomings, here we present the Standardized Project Gutenberg Corpus (SPGC), an open science approach to a curated version of the complete PG data containing more than 50,000 books and more than 3×109 word-tokens. Using different sources of annotated metadata, we not only provide a broad characterization of the content of PG, but also show different examples highlighting the potential of SPGC for investigating language variability across time, subjects, and authors. We publish our methodology in detail, the code to download and process the data, as well as the obtained corpus itself on 3 different levels of granularity (raw text, timeseries of word tokens, and counts of words). In this way, we provide a reproducible, pre-processed, full-size version of Project Gutenberg as a new scientific resource for corpus linguistics, natural language processing, and information retrieval.
Removing information is information, too.
Readers of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon know it: If you try to keep things secret, better not just erase the news you want to keep to your self.
By being forced to blurr military facilities, satellite data services like Google Maps are made to unintentionally reveal the very information they are supposed to keep secret: Just keep looking for the weird clouds covering the otherwise sunny landscape and you will find all that should be hidden.
Read the full story here:
https://fas.org/blogs/security/2018/12/widespread-blurring-of-satellite-images-reveals-secret-facilities/
More efficiency in dealing with noise in homomorphic encryption
Paper by Wang, et.al.
Dealing with noise is what slows down homomorphic encryption because the encryption has continuously to be refreshed.
Achieving both simplicity and efficiency in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes is important for practical applications. In the simple FHE scheme proposed by Ducas and Micciancio (DM), ciphertexts are refreshed after each homomorphic operation. And ciphertext refreshing has become a major bottleneck for the overall efficiency of the scheme. In this paper, we propose a more efficient FHE scheme with fewer ciphertext refreshings. Based on the DM scheme and another simple FHE scheme proposed by Gentry, Sahai, and Waters (GSW), ciphertext matrix operations and ciphertext vector additions are both applied in our scheme. Compared with the DM scheme, one more homomorphic NOT AND (NAND) operation can be performed on ciphertexts before ciphertext refreshing. Results show that, under the same security parameters, the computational cost of our scheme is obviously lower than that of GSW and DM schemes for a depth-2 binary circuit with NAND gates. And the error rate of our scheme is kept at a sufficiently low level.
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/2018/8706940/
Survey of Homomorphic Encryption Libraries
Paper by Sathya, et.al.
Good overview with comments on available homomorphic encryption libraries.
Microsoft puts powerful homomorphic encryption open source
Microsoft has published their "Simple Encryoted Arithmetic Library" SEAL. The code is written in standard c++ without external dependencies.
Microsoft has lead international efforts to standardize homomorphic encryption. Standardization and a larger base of developers actually working on this new paradigm of provacy-preserving computation are key to turn homomorphic encryption from an experimental, academic research into applications that can practically be implemented for real use cases.
Read Microsofts anouncement here:
The Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source
The SEAL repo on Gitub:
https://github.com/Microsoft/SEAL


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CRZ norms violations inviting disasters in Odisha
Wednesday, 22 May 2019 | MAYARANI PRAHARAJ
The UN has proclaimed May 22 as the International Day for Biological Diversity to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. The theme for 2019 is "Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health" emphasising the diversity provided by our natural systems for human existence and wellbeing on earth, while contributing to other Sustainable Development Goals, including climate change mitigation and adaptation and ecosystems restoration.
Odisha's coastal communities are dependent on coastal ecosystem for their livelihoods. Uses of the coastline are generally considered under four categories such as resource exploitation, tourism and recreation and the conservation and protection of biodiversity.
The coastal ecosystems are now highly disturbed and very much threatened, encountering problems like pollution, siltation, erosion, flooding, storm surges, uncontrolled coastal development and other activities due to ever expanding human settlements.
During the pre and post-monsoon period, depressions generated in the Bay of Bengal leading to cyclonic storms of great severity which bring havoc to parts of Odisha's coastal stretch.
The coast was hit by the Super Cyclone on October 29, 1999 with wind speed ranging from 220/300 km/hr. Fani, India's most severe cyclone in 20 years hit Puri on May 3 with a sustained wind speed of 175-185 km/hr, causing devastation. Puri was the worst-hit, followed by Bhubaneswar.
Because of the availability of timely information on landfall point, velocity of wind, storm surge, etc. loss of lives has been minimised. The cyclone has generated lots of direct impacts such as high tide, intrusion of salt water, water logging etc. which affect livelihood. Higher tides as a result of sea level rise force fishing community people to migrate towards more inland areas and occupy mangrove forest.
Coastal communities therefore have to undertake adaptation measures to buffer against these events. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the linkages between ecosystems and human societies that can help to reduce vulnerability as well as enhance the resilience capacity of these communities.
Human activities encroaching CRZ norms seem to be an outstanding cause of meteorologicaldisaster. Under the Environment Protection Act, 1986 a notification was issued in 1991, for regulation of activities in the coastal area by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).
As per the notification, the coastal land up to 500m from the High Tide Line (HTL) and a stage of 100m along banks of creeks, estuaries, backwater and rivers subject to tidal fluctuations, is called the Coastal Regulation Zone(CRZ).Coastal States are empowered to enact the provisions of the CRZ notification.
According to the CRZ notification, the coastal zone encompasses all that land with which the sea has direct contact and also those portions of the land on which the sea has an influence indirectly through tidal action.
As per the notification, the coastal stretches are categorized into different zones and certain activities are restricted and regulated within the particular zone. The main objective of the notification is to conserve the rich and diverse coastal biodiversity and for the better management of the same.
As per the notification, HTL is defined as the line up to which the highest high tide (simply means the highest reach of sea during the highest high tide period) reaches.
In order to safeguard livelihood and property of local communities including the infrastructure along the coastal areas, the hazard line has been introduced taking into account tides, waves, sea level rise and shoreline changes which will be demarcated by the Survey of India.
Generally, the States follow Survey of India (SOI) topographic sheets to fix the HTL and recent satellite data is used to update it wherever there are drastic changes in the shoreline.
The Government, through the CRZ 2018 notification, has lifted the restrictions on construction along the coastal zone.
Benefiting the tourism sector, temporary tourism facilities are also now permissible in the 'No Development Zone (NDZ). Till now, the construction of toilets, changing rooms, drinking water facilities and temporary shacks on beaches were not allowed but now the Government has permitted the construction of tourists' facilities up to 10 meters from HTL.
The Government in the CRZ 2018 also reduced the "NDZ" to 20 meters for all islands close to main land coast and for all backwater areas in the main land, in wake of space limitations. The new CRZ will allow construction closer to the sea.
It will boost tourism in terms of more activities, more infrastructure and more opportunities and will certainly go a long way in creating employment opportunities in various aspects of tourism.
The coastal areas are assuming greater importance in recent years owing to increasing human population, urbanisation and accelerated developmental activities.
These activities have put tremendous pressure on the coastal environment. Large-scale CRZ violations have been noticed along sea coast in Odisha. Hotels and recreational facilities along the coast may cause loss of biodiversity due to land use changes.
There are Coastal Zone Management Plans (CZMP) for different States of India. The provision related to Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) in CRZ 2018 notification now reads that the provisions of the notification shall not apply till the Coastal Zone Management Plans (CZMP) are updated according to the provisions of CRZ 2018 notification.
An Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project (ICZMP) is carried out in Odisha. Under this, coastal erosion, hydrodynamic processes on the coast, vulnerability to coastal hazards, biodiversity conservation and pollution problems have been addressed.
Sustainable development of coastal ecosystems may reduce the pressure on them and also help in preserving biological diversity. The coast should be left free to combat against sea level rise and high tide.
The coastal areas which have more potential for tourism development may develop infrastructure in the areas permissible by CRZ notification. Besides, there is a need to prepare proper shoreline management plan to ensure sustainable maintenance of coastal morphology, solution to coastal erosion and prevention of salt water intrusion into agricultural fields and other habitation.
(Dr Praharaj teaches at Department of Architecture, College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar)


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Pompeo: World Will Hold China Responsible for Coronavirus
Secretary of State accuses China of cover up and propaganda
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that other member nations of the G7 understood China was launching a false propaganda campaign accusing the U.S. Military of planting the deadly coronavirus in their country.
Pompeo outlined China's reluctance to work with the US on combatting the virus.
"We've wanted to work with the Chinese Communist Party throughout this crisis – this crisis that began in Wuhan, China," Pompeo said.
"We tried – you'll remember – from the opening days to get our scientists, our experts on the ground there so that we could begin to assist in the global response to what began there in China, but we weren't able to do that. The Chinese Communist Party wouldn't permit that to happen."
"You'll recall, too, at the beginning of this, when it was clear that this was an issue, China knew about it, they were the first country to know about the risk to the world from this virus, and they repeatedly delayed sharing that information with the globe," Pompeo continued.
He added, "there was a lot of discussions today amongst the G7 about the intentional disinformation campaign that China has been and continues to be engaged in."
"You see it. You see it in the social media. You see it in remarks from senior people inside the Chinese Communist Party talking about whether this was a U.S. – U.S. brought to China," he continued.
As Neon Nettle reported earlier this month, spokesman for communist China's Foreign Ministry, Zhao Lijian, said the deadly coronavirus 'might' have been brought to China by members of the U.S military.
"When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!," Lijian tweeted.
Pompeo continued:
"I mean, this is crazy talk. And every member of the G7 today saw that – this disinformation campaign. China now making small sales of products around the world and claiming that they are now the white hat in what has taken place here."
Pompeo was later asked about discussion among members of Congress about launching an international investigation into China over what happened.
"With respect to the first, I'll leave to Congress. I'm not doing that anymore," Pompeo said.
Sec. of State @MikePompeo: There was discussion at the G-7 about the "Intentional Disinformation Campaign" that China has been engaged in. The idea that the U.S. Military brought Coronavirus to China is "Crazy talk". pic.twitter.com/NnDuLR8MfY
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) March 26, 2020
"I'll leave to Congress to decide how they want to proceed. But as I said earlier, today is not the day for recriminations and accountability. We need to make clear that the information that is available to everyone in the world is available. That means full transparency by everyone, including by the Chinese Communist Party," he added.
"This is a continuing challenge. We still need good information from the Chinese Communist Party about what has taken place there and the level of the virus that continues inside of that country. We need accurate, transparent information just like we're demanding from every country around the world."
"But there will be a right time," Pompeo said.
"After we've managed to address this crisis, after we've managed to get these economies back on their feet, there'll be a time for the world to evaluate responsibility for what took place."
On Wednesday, Pompeo accused China of denying the world important information on the deadly coronavirus, putting the world at risk in tackling the epidemic.
He added China's actions had "truly put thousands of lives at risk."
"My concern is that this cover-up, this disinformation that the Chinese Communist Party is engaged in, is still denying the world the information it needs so that we can prevent further cases or something like this from recurring again," he added, Reuters reported.
[RELATED] Coronavirus Could've Been Reduced By 95% if China Acted Sooner, Report Shows


The Navajo Nation Council Naabik'iyati Committee confirmed Seraphina A. Nez of Tachee/Blue Gap, Arizona, as the first member of the Dine' Uranium Remediation Advisory Commission with a vote of 16-0 on Feb. 9, 2017, at the Navajo Department of Transporation in Tse Bonito, New Mexico.
Council Delegate Kee Allen Begay sponosored LEGISLATION 0016-17 which was for the confirmation of Nez by the Naabik'iyati Committee. The final authority on 0016-17 is the Naabik'iyati Committee.
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Q: How can I solve issue with One to One relationship using foreign keys I've been using eloquent in my models. I've got the following two tables:
Singlecard
  ->id
  ->card_id

Card
  ->id
  ->card_id

My Singlecard Model has the following function:
public function info()
{
    return $this->hasOne('Card', 'card_id', 'card_id');
}

I used this to get the card (there's only one card in the deck for my test).
$cards = Singlecard::where('deck_id', '=', $deck)->get();

foreach ($cards as $card)
{
    $cards_array[] = $card;
}

It got the correct card and using var_dump I verified that. However, here's the problem:

    id }}">

            info->card_image }}">

{{ $single->info->name }}

                @foreach ($single->attributes as $attribute)

{{ $attribute->alias }}

                @endforeach

Here's the twist: The attributes code works correct. It grabbed the correct attributes from a one to many relationship I defined. But it's grabbing the wrong info from the Cards table. Even though I defined the keys to match on, it is matching based on the ID of the singlecard and the card_id in the Cards table.
I've tried removing the keys and that didn't do anything. I even removed the function all together just to verify that that was the function being called. I'm not sure what's wrong?
UPDATE:
I figured it out, I did two things. One, I used id from the Cards table as the record to match with Singlecards. I also changed my function in the Singlecards model like so:
public function info()
{
    return $this->belongsTo('Card', 'card_id');
}

This allowed me to properly query the relationship.

A: I needed to update how my models were related and better form the relationship. I also needed to change the model so that Singlecards belonged to Cards. I assumed it should be the opposite.
Cards contains all the info about the various cards and Singlecards is what is in each individuals hands/decks. I assumed that would make Singlecards the parent but that was a mistake. Once I changed the function in the model to be like this:
public function info()
{
    return $this->belongsTo('Card', 'card_id');
}

Then it worked.

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Q: google-drive-api method "drive.files.create" stopped working (V3 - 1.58.0.2859) and return nothing We have a .Net app using Google Drive api to upload files to a g-drive. And it just stopped working days ago (Nov 29th). But we didn't remember doing anything changes during that time.
During the investigation, we could confirm the service account for calling the Google API are valid, since the same service account is also being used for calling other google APIs, and works fine. We also can confirm it's not a permission issue, since we even set the permission of the gdrive to allow "anyone" who has the link, to have edit permission, but the issue is still there.
Unfortunately, we cannot find any useful log, and the return message of the API call is NULL. No error code or error message returned.The only related info we saw is:  on the chart of "Error by API method", it shows "drive.files.create" failed 100%.
One interesting thing is, if we disable the Google Drive API, then enable it again, it will work once, then will stop working again.
private string SaveFileToGoogleDrive(IFormFile file, string claimNumber)
        {
            try
            {
                var driveService = GetDriveServiceInstance();
                var fileMetadata = new Google.Apis.Drive.v3.Data.File();
                var mimeType = file.ContentType;
                fileMetadata.Name = CreateFileName(file.FileName, claimNumber);
                fileMetadata.MimeType = mimeType;
                fileMetadata.Parents = new List { _googleSettings.GoogleDriveFolderId };
                FilesResource.CreateMediaUpload request;
                using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
                {
                    file.CopyTo(stream);
                    request = driveService.Files.Create(fileMetadata, stream, mimeType);
                    request.Fields = "id";
                    request.Upload();
                }
                var googleFile = request.ResponseBody; \\The response body is always NULL, after the issue happened. :(
                return googleFile.Id;
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                _logger.Error($"Google Drive exception {ex.Message} SACKTRACE: {(ex.StackTrace ?? "")} INNER EXCEPTION: {(ex.InnerException != null ? ex.InnerException.Message + "STACK TRACE:" + ex.InnerException.StackTrace ?? "" : "")}");
                return string.Empty;
            }
        }

We found more details from the progress property in the response object, and saw the error message "The user's Drive storage quota has been exceeded.", but it does not make sense at all, since we are using "Enterprise edition" Google Workspace, which is supposed to have no limit. The service account and the key look good, GCP didn't complain at all. And that's the first thing we checked during troubleshooting.
Do you have any idea on what to do to solve the issue or what too look for when investigating this issue?

A: We found more details from the progress property in the response object, and saw the error message "The user's Drive storage quota has been exceeded.", but it's not make sense at all, since we are using "Enterprise editions" google workspace, which suppose has no limit. The service account and key look good, GCP didn't complain any thing. And that's the first thing we checked during troubleshooting. Anyway, the fix is: after create a new service account then use the new key of this new service account, the system back to work.


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Q: 'Lazy' geocoding Is there any feature in gmaps4rails to process 'lazy' geocoding?
My situation:
I have a database of companies, which has one address. When a company is added manually (only 1 record), there aren't any problems, process_geocoding is set to true by default.
Once every two weeks, we update our db with an import script. When we use import, we set  process_geocoding to false, because geocoding slows our import script by 4 - 5 times (in my case - it is unacceptable).
I need lazy a gecoding feature, which can process geocoding if !address.blank? && lat.blank? && lng.blank?

A: Since 1.5 you can do:
process_geocoding: lambda { |obj| !obj.address.blank? && obj.lat.blank? && obj.lng.blank? }

or:
process_geocoding: :method_name


Enjoy a summer butterfly walk in The Heart of England Forest led by Mike Slater from Butterfly Conservation.
Spend the early afternoon exploring the forest and searching for as many different species of butterflies as you can find. If you're lucky you'll see a Small Copper, Purple Hairstreak, Marbled White and Essex Skipper and hopefully many more.
Mike truly is a butterfly expert so make sure you come prepared with all the questions you've ever wanted to ask about these beautiful insects.
This is a casual walk and talk for all the family, with plenty of stopping to observe and ask questions. Sensible footwear for woodland walking is required – no summer sandals. Dress for the weather and don't forget your sunblock, bottle of water and your butterfly spotting guide.
All donations made for this event will be split equally between The Heart of England Forest and Butterfly Conservation.
Please meet in the Barton Car park to set off at 1pm.


The process of playwriting is given a peculiar wavelike rhythm in Miller's own story of his efforts to realize his intentions from one play to the other. Troughs of dejection on being exposed to unexpected critical and audience responses to a newly completed play are followed by swells of creativity informed by the dramatist's determination to make himself more clearly understood in the next one. This wavelike rhythm of challenge and response is the underlying structural principle of Miller's "Introduction" to his Collected Plays. Behind it one may suspect the workings of a radical distrust of his chosen medium. The present essay will consider some of the effects both of this distrust of the theater as a means of communication and of Miller's theories of dramatic form on his career as a dramatist.
When Miller is slightly dissatisfied with his first successful play [All My Sons], it is because he believes that he had allowed the impact of what he calls one kind of "morality" to "obscure" the other kind "in which the play is primarily interested." ... These two kinds of "morality" are closely related to the two kinds of "motivation"—psychological and social—that ... critics have pointed to. The problem may be seen more clearly by observing that the play has two centers of interest. The one, in which Miller claims "the play is primarily interested," is intellectual, the other emotional. The former is mainly expressed through the play's dialogue, the latter is more deeply embedded in the action itself.
Joe Keller gradually emerges as a criminal. He has sold defective cylinder heads to the air force during the war and was thus directly responsible for the deaths of twenty-one pilots. The horror of this deed is further brought home to the audience by the discovery that Keller's elder son was a pilot lost in action. This is what we may call the emotional center of interest, and most of the plot is concerned with this past crime and its consequences for Keller and his family. But it is this emotional center that for Miller obscures the real meaning of the play.
Miller wanted his play to be about "unrelatedness": Joe Keller's trouble, in a word, is not that he cannot tell right from wrong but that his cast of mind cannot admit that he, personally, has any viable connection with his world, his universe, or his society.... In this sense Joe Keller is a threat to society and in this sense the play is a social play.... [The] crime is seen as having roots in a certain relationship of the individual to society, and to a certain indoctrination he embodies, which, if dominant, can mean a jungle existence for all of us no matter how high our buildings soar.
This, then, is the intellectual center of the play. Any good drama needs to engage the intellect as well as the emotions of its audience. Miller's problem is that these two spheres in All My Sons are not concentric. When a play has two centers of interest at odds with each other, the emotional one will often, as here, have a more immediate impact on the audience because it is more intimately related to the action of the play. Invariably action takes precedence over the sophistication of dialogue or symbols.
Miller seems to have become increasingly aware of the difficulty of making a harmonious whole of his vehicle and his theme. His story would have sexual infidelity (consider for instance the prominence this factor must have in any brief retelling of the plot of Death of a Salesman or The Crucible) or another personal moral failure at its center, while the significance the story held for the author had to do with man's relationship to society, to the outside world. The one kind of "morality" continues to obscure the other. When starting out to write A View from the Bridge (1955), Miller had almost despaired of making himself understood in the theater: no "reviews, favorable or not," had mentioned what he had considered the main theme of The Crucible (1953). Since he, apparently, could not successfully merge his plots and his intended themes, he arrived at a scheme that on the face of it seems preposterous: he would "separate, openly and without concealment, the action of the next play, A View from the Bridge, from its generalized significance...."
[Although Miller has discussed Death of a Salesman in terms of a prose narrative, it] succeeds precisely because Willy's story is shown on the stage, not told. The possible uncertainty as to motivation does not detract from the intense and unified impact of the drama in the theater. The characters reveal themselves through action and dialogue supported by what Miller has called the play's "structural images...." All the more striking then, the need Miller evidently felt to have the characters stand forth and give their various interpretations of Willy's life after the drama proper has closed with Willy's death. The chorus- like effect of the "Requiem" is obviously related to Miller's conscious effort to write a tragedy of "the common man," a drama which places man in his full social context, which in his essay "On Social Plays" is so clearly associated in Miller's mind with Greek drama. From another point of view the "Requiem" may also be seen as the embryo of the narrator figure who becomes so conspicuous in A View from the Bridge and After the Fall: after the play is over the characters stand forth and tell the audience what the play is about.
Miller's reluctance to let a play speak for itself became even more evident in his two attempts to add extra material to the original text of The Crucible after its first production in 1953. The first of these additions, a second scene in Act Two, helps to explain Abigail's behavior in Act Three, but ... it is not necessary.... [This is] evidence of Miller's sense of not having succeeded in making himself understood in the original version of the play.
While [some of the interpolated expository] passages are further instances of Miller's apparent distrust of his medium as a means of communication, other passages speak of an impatience with the limitations of the dramatic form. Miller had researched this play thoroughly, and it is as if on second thought he has regretted that he had not been able to bring as much of his research and his historical insights into the play as he would have liked. But when he in the interpolated passages takes on the roles of historian and biographer he tends to confuse the sharp line that must be drawn between the characters in a play called The Crucible and a group of late seventeenth century individuals bearing the same names as these characters.... It should further be noted that these interpolated expository passages are often concerned with motivation, and that both psychological, religious and socio-economic explanations of the trials are given. While the information is interesting in itself and throws light on the Salem trials, it cannot add to our understanding of the drama as acted on the stage. Whatever needs to be known about these characters and their motives by the audience must be expressed in action and dialogue. That is, if we do not accept the dichotomy of "action" and "significance," with the latter element presented by a representative of the author, a "Reader" or a narrator.
The story is obviously Alfieri's story. What we see on the stage is Alfieri's memory of Eddie as he ponders on its significance: "This is the end of the story. Good night," he concludes the original one act version of the play. The past tense is the mode of narrative; drama is enacted in the present.
The title A Memory of Two Mondays is in itself interesting in this connection as it suggests an implied narrator, someone whose memory is projected on the stage as is Alfieri's. This technique is developed to its furthest extreme in After the Fall, where "the action takes place in the mind, thought, and memory of Quentin." The play has become illustrated narrative, and is essentially a two act monologue which the narrator and main character Quentin, directs at the audience. Significantly, since the flow of narration is essential to the play and the many dramatizations of situations in the narrative are incidental, Quentin's audience is in Miller's stage directions defined as a "Listener, who, if he could be seen, would be sitting just beyond the edge of the stage itself."
Miller in After the Fall made the narrator's attempt to arrive at the significance of his own life and explain himself directly to the audience the center of the play.... In his next play, ... Incident at Vichy ... written immediately after the critical disaster of After the Fall, he returned to the form of the straightforward, realistic play. By concentrating on one of the two poorly integrated themes of After the Fall, that represented by the concentration camp tower, the later play, moreover, avoids the conflict between two different kinds of "morality" or "motivation" many critics have found in his plays up to and including After the Fall. Incident at Vichy may be too much the drama of ideas (and not very new or original ones at that) to be successful in the theater, ... but at least there is no need for any "Requiem," explanatory footnotes or narrator to express the play's dominantly public theme.
[The Creation of the World and Other Business] is his first attempt to express himself through comedy and pure fantasy, and in this his most radical departure from realism his earlier concern with the problems of integrating man's private and social life has given way to teleological speculation. Behind the fanciful cosmological draperies, however, one may discover the playwright's old story of the two sons and familial conflict. Indeed, the new play serves as a reminder that the Cain and Abel story is an archetypal pattern in All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, After the Fall and The Price.
In a different guise the old question of the two centers of interest is also raised by Miller's attempt at comedy. While God and Lucifer incessantly come together on the stage to discuss the Creator's design, Miller's alleged theme, the audience, who cannot but grow restless after two acts with God, his Angels and a boring couple named Adam and Eve, are finally given the two sons, the responsible and respected Cain and the irresponsible and loved Abel. The rather simplistic psychological presentation of the conflict between them is the kind of dramatic material Miller has successfully handled before, and both because it is welcome relief from the overall tediousness of the rest of the play and because it has dramatic potential, it will easily lay claim to the attention and the interest of the audience at the expense of the play's concern with the human dilemma.... [This] venture thus is not only thematically related to his first one but shows that the playwright has still not been able to solve the problem of dramatic form he then felt had served to obscure his main theme.
The story of Arthur Miller's struggle with dramatic form had its beginning in his realization of the two centers of interest in All My Sons. His subsequent theories of social drama and its relationship to the realistic and unrealistic modes of drama should be regarded primarily as rationalizations of his own attempts to express himself clearly, to bridge the gap not so much between the social and the private as between his conscious intentions and the audience and critical responses. This was fully demonstrated in his attempts deliberately to separate the action of a play from its significance. His distrust of the realistic drama as a usable medium was thus properly a distrust of the theater itself as a medium, as evidenced in his use of intermediary commentary and narrators and in his tendency towards illustrated narrative. Realism nevertheless has proved to have a strong hold on Miller, and it is the mode with which, the evidence of his plays suggests, he is most at home.
Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2003 Gale.
Overland, Orm. "The Action and Its Significance: Arthur Miller's Struggle with Dramatic Form." DISCovering Authors. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Student Resources in Context. Web. 30 Mar. 2016.


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Home / Announcements / New Bedford's Discovery Language Academy to Become First South Coast School to Bring Virtual Reality to the Curriculum
New Bedford's Discovery Language Academy to Become First South Coast School to Bring Virtual Reality to the Curriculum
The students at Discovery Language Academy will be travelling the world…virtually, that is…when the school becomes the first in the area to introduce virtual reality (VR) to its curriculum, beginning this December.
Only a few schools in the state are currently utilizing this revolutionary technology as a tool for language and cultural learning.
Virtual reality (VR) technology utilizes computer-generated environments that can simulate physical presence in places in the real world. By injecting students into all sorts of places and situations, it captivates their attention and fully immerses them in the learning experience.
Dr. Leslie Vicente, Executive Director, sees the introduction of this technology as significant step toward Discovery Language Academy's mission of providing innovative opportunities for students of all ages.
"The students are aware that we are going to incorporate Virtual reality into the curriculum and they are very excited about it" stated Vicente. "This will permit our students to virtually visit many places of interest worldwide such as Lisbon, Portugal or Washington, D.C."
Virtual reality will be incorporated into the school's curriculum at all grade levels twice a week, with different modules for younger and older students and shorter experiences for young students.
The National Training Laboratory (National Education Association of the United States) reports that retention rates for lecture-style learning are 5%, with reading rates at 10%. Meanwhile, VR scored a retention rate of 75% and at the top of the class is learning by teaching others.
Although the technology has been used in gaming for years, it has only recently made its way into the classroom. This method of learning can be especially beneficial for students who may have trouble learning by more conventional means.
The modules that Discovery Language Academy will use simulate situations ideally suited to second language learners and, in addition to three-dimensional, real-looking visuals, includes auditory cues to stimulate interaction and help with pronunciation of new words.
For example, one module explores navigating an airport, taking students from check-in and immigrations to security and boarding. After completing the module, the students will be scored on their preparedness to navigate their way through an airport in a Lusophone country using only Portuguese.
For hardware, the school has invested in two set ups of an Oculus Rift S with an accompanying PC, giving students the very best of the virtual reality experience. With this setup, six or seven students can share and discuss each experience together. While one student uses the headset, five or six others will simultaneously see that student's experience on a large screen. Eventually, the school hopes to have 16 complete units with the financial assistance of community.
Originally incorporated in 1979 as Portuguese United for Education (PUE), the school changed its name to Discovery Language Academy in 2016, when it moved to the DeMello International Center in Downtown New Bedford. It provides educational opportunities responsive to the diverse needs of the South Coast community in the areas of Portuguese and English language acquisition and cultural understanding.
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Also guys remember 3 to 4 sets per exercise is not set in stone and most do a lesser routine because they do 4 plus sets and do 3 exercises that add to 15 sets plus. Its much better to hit a every angle completely than the amount of sets. I take many small non athletic women through my routines at sometimes 1 to 2 sets per exercise. I myself use 2 sets on certain things. Even one set.
so would you say its a good idea or bad idea to sometimes go up to 5 sets on a exercise if im feelin it real good?
I just gave you a 5 set chest workout.
you gave me 5 exercises, so your saying only do 1 set of each?
No, I was just making a point that it is better to hit it completely than just 3 angles with lots of sets.
Use the basic 3 set protocol as it will be MORE than enough.
ALL working sets. ESPECIALLY the first one of the next exercise. I see this constantly. Every exercise they start with warmups. At the end of the 15 sets 4 were worth something.
I meant each. Like ur saying.
i think u were confused by my question. i was asking, if you advocate slower higher reps to mimic their action, but i feel low explosive reps give my biceps a better response, whcih should i go with?
so how long do you hold the peak contraction for calves?
I do 3 sets seated 15 reps failing at 12 rest pause to 15 with 3 to 5 second INTENSE peak contractions. Not just holding the weight up but actually squeezing. Then super set the last one with weight enough to do continuous reps with about 1 second contraction failing at 20, this is for the other fibers that make up a very small portion of the muscle, then rest pause to 25 with 3 second contractions again.
Next I do standing 3 sets 15 failing at 12 with the same 3 to 5 second contractions. I superset these with standing no weight with 1 second contractions for 15 to activate whatever other fibers exist within the muscle.
After every set I do very intense peak contractive work with contractions from 10 to 15 seconds until it self cramps slightly.
I then follow that up with intense stretching to elongate the muscle.
Remember one very important thing. The longer a muscle is the bigger it will be in as contracted state. Take a piece of tin foil. A small piece makes a small ball but if I were to pull out a long piece it would make a big ball. The same with a muscle if my bicep is full from elbow attachment to shoulder attachment then when I contract it there is more to group together. Length = Size.
A follow up here It is very important when working biceps whether arm or leg you train from insertion to insertion which is not as important with other muscles. This means a full extention almost flexing your ticeps to a full contraction touching the bar at your neck. Also negatives will benefit the bicep obviously better than any other muscle and can be incorporated to increase duration of stress. Remember once any muscle becomes contracted it must STAY contracted through the entire set ESPECIALLY biceps.
got a pic of your calves?
I have always utilized the extreme stretch under load (i.e DC style 15 sec. holds in the stretched position) and felt it worked well.
I never held the contraction BUT used Larry Scott's approach to use a stick to give yourself a few forced reps at the end to get the contraction as tight as you can.
I wonder if it is beneficial to do both - hold the peak contraction as you suggest and hold the stretch position in the same rep. Does one take away from the other?
Very beneficial to do both but not in the same exercise. Each set of every exercise you do must be followed with a set of intense elongation work. Once you come down you must IMMEDIATELY EXPLODE back up to activate the fast twitch fibers. Once again we want to duplicate its action. Its ability to explode very quickly, as well as stay in a PEAK contracted state for a period of time. Remember MAINLY the fast twitch fibers respond for size increase. Every exercise of every set of every muscle needs to explode quickly and consistantly. Once the muscle is in a contracted state it must stay in a contracted state for the duration of the reps no matter what muscle we are working.


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EY Announces Darin Brannan Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2018 Finalist
Austin, TX, May 9, 2018 – EY today announced that Darin Brannan of ClearDATA™ is a finalist for the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2018 Award in the Central Texas region. The awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who are excelling in areas such as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Brannan was selected as a finalist by a panel of independent judges. Award winners will be announced at a special gala event on Friday, June 8, 2018 at the JW Marriott, in Austin, TX.
ClearDATA CEO, Darin Brannan stated: "Growing up in a family of doctors, I have always been keenly aware of the promise and potential within healthcare, as well as its inherent challenges and gaps. I wanted to use my love of business and entrepreneurialism to bring innovation to healthcare by leveraging emerging technologies and research. Unlike my family who used medicine to improve patient outcomes, I saw an opportunity to use business to make healthcare better, every single day."
Brannan has built ClearDATA with a healthcare-exclusive focus on providing security and compliance in the managed cloud. This brings healthcare organizations, be they hospitals and doctors or insurance companies, researchers or pharmaceutical companies an opportunity to securely scale and innovate their organizations while maintaining important regulatory compliance frameworks that protect patients' rights and health.
Now in its 32nd year, the EY program has expanded to recognize business leaders in more than 145 cities and more than 60 countries throughout the world. "It's a tremendous honor to be among this group of entrepreneurs selected as finalists, and we each strive to create positive change in our communities and the world," said Brannan.
Regional award winners are eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year National competition. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced at the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 17, 2018. The awards are the culminating event of the Strategic Growth Forum®, the nation's most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.
Founded and produced by EY, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards are nationally sponsored in the US by SAP America, the Kauffman Foundation and Merrill Corporation.
Healthcare professionals across the globe trust the ClearDATA HITRUST- certified cloud to safeguard their sensitive data and power their critical applications. We offer our customers the most comprehensive Business Associate Agreements (BAA) in the industry, combined with market-leading healthcare-exclusive security and compliance solutions. Our innovative solutions help protect our customers from data privacy risks, improve their data management, and scale their healthcare IT infrastructure, enabling our customers to focus on making healthcare better by improving healthcare delivery.
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Entrepreneur Of The Year®, founded by EY, is the world's most prestigious business awards program for entrepreneurs, chosen from an independent panel of judges including entrepreneurs and prominent leaders from business, finance, and the local community. The program makes a difference through the way it encourages entrepreneurial activity among those with potential and recognizes the contribution of people who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. As the first and only truly global awards program of its kind, Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates those who are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses, recognizing them through regional, national and global awards programs in more than 145 cities and more than 60 countries. ey.com/eoy
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CANCELATION OF POST UTME: PLUS OR MINUS FOR EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
Posted byOgunbowale Olugbenga June 16, 2016 June 16, 2016 Posted inProject X, The Spark
Every day in every city, Nigerian youths face gargantuan challenges ranging from economical to educational leaving vibrant, brilliant young minds hopeless after multiple failed attempts. Today, 7 epic debaters are going to contribute to a very controversial topic, the cancellation of POST-UTME. Get ready to gain fresh insight from their critical thinking and creative writing skills.
And now, we bring you their entries.
CANCELLATION OF POST-UTME: MINUS FOR EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
OLAYIWOLA OLAYIDE WALIYULAH
Sadly, the federal government has taken the most detrimental turn in education by announcing the cancellation of Post-UTME.
My submission stems from the experience I had when seeking admission. Ten of us at the tutorial centre I attended had 280+ score in our UTME. We all had the same school in mind.
The Post-UTME we had showed that only 3 of us are legitimate owners of our UTME scores. This, no doubt, shows that UTME alone cannot guarantee an unadulterated education and post-UTME worked as a sieve to separate honest students from cheats.
CANCELLATION OF POST-UTME: PLUS FOR EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
GEORGE ADEYEMO
For some decades now, the education in Nigeria has been a victim of deadly plagues ranging from under-funding and examination malpractices to poor quality of teachers. While clear-sighted individuals have been wishing for its quick recovery, a move that will continue to deal it destructive blows has just been made by the corresponding ministry.
Nigeria is nowhere near the global benchmark for literacy and only a disappointing percentage of the literate are literally literate. Hitherto its cancellation, Post-UTME had served as a third level scrutiny to ensure that candidates coming into the tertiary institutions are those who can really thrive there.
Even with that, there have been alarming records of graduates who hardly could construct blunder-void English sentences and those who had too little to offer in the disciplines they studied in school. There is no doubt that the made-easy and cheap entrance into Nigerian institutions will be directly proportional to the worth and quality of education in the coming years.
MAKINDE BOLUWATIFE
What is cancellation? This is the process to annul or cancel something.
Post-UTME is the exam done after JAMB before gaining admission into the university of one's choice. This is conducted by each university.
Cancellation of POST-UTME is a minus for education in Nigeria because it will reduce the quality of education in Nigeria in the sense that each university will just give admission anyone whether qualified or not. POST-UTME helps to test d brain of applicant whether they can cope with school programme of learning.
POST-UTME also helps student to broaden their scope of study because they travel to another state or town and travelling is part of education. It helps students to know more about happenings in their surrounding and country as a whole.
With these, I believe cancellation of POST-UTME is a minus to education in Nigeria.
CANCELLATION OF POST-UTME: PLUS FOR EDUCATION IN NIGERIA?
ADENIRAN MOSES ABAYOMI
Good day panel of judges, my name is Adeniran Moses Abayomi. I am here to support the motion which says; cancellation of Post-UTME: plus or minus to Nigerian education. To start with, we all need to know what Post-UTME is, it is an examination conducted by a higher institution of learning after the joint admission examination board (JAMB) as conducted the universal tertiary matriculation examination (UTME). This is done to trim down the number of candidates to be admitted by such institution.
Firstly, I support the cancellation of the Post-UTME because it will be a plus to our education since, every year, students leave secondary school aiming to get admitted into a tertiary institution, but having passed the UTME, they have to sit for another UTME the following year because they failed to pass the Post-UTME, this has resulted in the accumulation of students leaving secondary school writing UTME again.
Secondly, the cancellation of Post-UTME will be a plus and not minus to our education because it will give students the opportunity to get admitted to their choice of course and not what their Post-UTME cut-off mark has fetched them. Many students are in several tertiary institutions today that are interested in a course but due to their Post-UTME cut-off mark, they have to change the course to another one of low interest or no interest at all. But if Post-UTME is cancelled it will help students get admitted into their course of choice and this will help in the development of the society, because it is what you have interest in that you will be good at.
In conclusion, cancellation of Post-UTME in Nigeria will be a plus because it will reduce the number of students enrolling for UTME every year to those just leaving secondary school and those that have left like two or three years ago won't add to the number. Also, it will be a plus because students will be able to study in the course they are interested in and not what their Post-UTME cut-off mark fetched them. I believe with the points above, I have been able to convince you that, Cancellation of Post-UTME: is a plus not a minus to education in Nigeria. THANK YOU
SOGUNRO OLUSEYI
By and large, PostUTME is TIME WASTING for the school's system and for candidates. RISKS AND HAZARDS of travelling, theft and all unthinkable eventualities on admission pursuit that is unsure. OVERCHARGED FEES on the part of Post UTME organizers. REPETITIVE TEST FORMAT of JAMB and sometimes even below standards. NOT Being a TRUE TEST as in some cases, the inconsistencies that bedevil the UTME also show up at Post UTME. There is sometimes a marked lack of integrity of the PostUTME process which leaves student more CONFUSED THAN THE LEARNING EXPECTED.
PostUTME is not a blessing to Nigeria Education system.
CANCELLATION OF POST UTME: MINUS FOR EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
AKINTEYE MUKHTAR OMOTUNDE
Education, like other sectors in Nigeria is plagued with mismanagement and corrupt practices. It can best be described as watery. The credibility of Jamb is Questionable, as arrays of special centers abound in the country who not only make huge amounts of money from this act of gross immorality but also take pride in their handiwork such that they openly advertise and state emphatically that if patronized, not only will their clients pass JAMB but also state the probable mark such Clients would score. Also, The Task of admitting students will definitely be more daunting if Post Utme were to be cancelled.
Cancellation of post Utme will further jeopardize the already watery Educational system.
OHIMAI-UZEBU HENRY
First of all, looking critically at the educational system of the country which has taken a decline over years now, most especially in terms of standards judging from the saddonic performances recorded year in year out in the West Africa Examination Council written by secondary school levers, one would expect that the federal government would gear in efforts in resurrecting the dilapidated standard of education in the country by ensuring severe methods in curbing the menace of malpractices, which most students has found as an excuse to relaxing in their oars.
The Post-Utme which in 2005/2006 was put in place by the then Minister of education in person of Mrs Chinwe Obaji, for due to the inadequacy of the 'so-called Utme screening exam' in producing qualified candidates for admission into the tertiary institutions, discovered the need for second screening as a form of defence if the result gotten from the Utme screening process. This invention then was very laudable and greeted with much applause for its effectiveness in detecting suspected cases of malpractices. This also led to students sitting up basically for the exercise which was not as loose as the Utme.
I believe strongly that much restructuring and overhauling is actually needed presently in the educational system of the Country, but I would suggest the government 'Major on the Major and minor on the minor', the scrapping of the post-utme excercise is in no way beneficial to the educational standard of the country as we shouldn't only look within because we are in a race with the world labour market and the country's system is accessed on world standard it would be so hazardous for the government at this era where resurrection is actually needed that laws that might make the country look unrepentant and our certificates worthless by international standards.
An open concession should be held in a bid to looking for a forward in reclaiming our once held fame for academic excellence in the country.
Cancellation of POST-UTME.
What's your take?
Did the federal government make the right move or has FG put Nigeria's tertiary education on the brink of failure?
Drop a comment.
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Weng  ist ein Ort im Salzburger Seengebiet in Land Salzburg, und
Ortschaft der Gemeinde Köstendorf im Bezirk Salzburg-Umgebung.

Geographie
Das Dorf liegt 4 Kilometer westlich von Neumarkt am Wallersee, 3 km südwestlich von Köstendorf, und 2 km ab vom Nordufer des Wallersees. Es liegt auf rund  am Eisbach, der von Köstendorf her in den Wallersee fließt.

Die Ortschaft umfasst knapp 50 Gebäude mit etwa 150 Einwohnern, zum Ortschaftsgebiet gehört auch der Pragfischer am See. Nicht zu dieser Ortschaft, sondern zu Helming gehört die – jenseits des Bachs nördlich an der L238 Seekirchner Landesstraße gelegene – Waldsiedlung Fischweng,  die heute aber weitgehend mit Weng verwachsen ist. Dort befinden sich weitere etwa 30 Gebäude.

Nachbarortschaften und -orte

Geschichte, Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur

Frühgeschichte
Weng ist uraltes Siedlungsgebiet, so wurde am Ufer des Wallersees ein Einbaum aus der Steinzeit (in Nähe zur Mondseekultur) gefunden. Die Siedlungsgeschichte des Raumes ist durchgängig über Hallstattzeit, römisches Norikum (Römerstraße Wels–Salzburg), slawische Besiedlung und bajuwarische Landnahme.

Westbahn-Haltestelle Weng bei Neumarkt
1860 wurde hier von der seinerzeitigen k.k. privilegierte Kaiserin Elisabeth-Bahn die heutige Westbahn erbaut. Besonders der Abschnitt Weng-Zell, der Moorgebiet durchquert, erforderte umfangreiche Dammsicherungsmaßnahmen.
Weng bekam eine Haltestelle, Weng bei Neumarkt (auch: Weng/Wallersee)
die die umliegenden Orte zwischen Neumarkt und Wallersee bedient. Auf das Ortsbild selbst hatte das wenig Einfluss, das Dorf ist klein geblieben. Am Ort haben sich aber einige bedeutendere Unternehmen angesiedelt, so Palfinger (Kranbau, Werk Köstendorf, heute auch Sitz der Palfinger Europe) oder das Holzunternehmen Lauterbacher, und 2004 die EZA-Zentrale Österreich (Dritte Welt-Handel). Insgesamt hat der Ort durch die Einbindung der Haltestelle in den Salzburger Verkehrsverbund als Randsiedlungsgebiet Seekirchens in den letzten Jahren Aufschwung erlebt.

Der viergleisige Ausbau der Westbahn als Schnellfahrstrecke zwischen Straßwalchen und Salzburg ist noch im Planungsstadium, es werden diverse Trassierungen untersucht. Die Haltestelle soll aber beibehalten werden.

Natur und Bauten
Bedeutend ist das Wenger Moor
am Wallersee, 1973 zum Naturschutzgebiet (NSG 00014) erklärt, 1995 als Natura-2000-Gebiet nominiert und 1996 als EU-Vogelschutzgebiet mit 298,47 ha ausgewiesen (LGBl. 51/2006, AT3201014/ESG 00005). Es ist der größte naturnahe Moorkomplex des Salzburger Alpenvorlandes und wird mit einem Naturlehrpfad und einem Steg mit Aussichtsturm erschlossen, der den Blick in die Zentralgebiete erlaubt, ohne die Bodenvegetation zu beeinträchtigen. Im Umraum findet auch Landart des Seekirchener Kulturvereins KunstBox statt, der das Augenmerk auf das Schutzgebiet lenken soll.

Die Filialkirche Hl. Leonhard . Die historische Haltestelle der Elisabeth-Bahn ist nicht erhalten.

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Ort im Bezirk Salzburg-Umgebung
Köstendorf


I woke up today and it's 70 degrees outside. It's a balmy Christmas, but I'll take it. I went to bed last night with tornado warnings--I can do without that. Sorry and sad to read about your health problems, I have them too, though not the same. I thought I was loosing some of my hearing in my left ear, which is a something that was bothering me, plus I always have ringing in my ears from working around heavy equipment and noise. My allergies have been on the war path. In essence, getting older. I guess there is some way to come to terms with age, but it's difficult at time. At least we still have our memories, and we'll take a few rewards when we can get them. From the sketch you left, I'd say you've still got it though it may take longer these days. Have a good holiday.
I was just thinking of you and wondering how you are doing. It is saddening to hear about you declining health, I was hoping you might have found some relief by now.
Awesome Christmas gift, thanks! I am thrilled to see your awesome art again, and most of all, the Captain and Rocket.
I hope you and your family have a great Christmas and I really hope you have a better year next year, you deserve it!
Take care my friend, and get better!
Yes we are still around!!
Hope you feel better in the new year. Thank you for taking the time to create and share this inspirational image of the good Captain.
It's always great to see your art!
Still here reading in little ole Christchurch, New Zealand. Its been a while my friend, hope to see more art and, more importantly, Captain Spectre!!!


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Shane's recent work has involved working as Movement Director for Tara Arts' Game Of Love and Chai with Writer, Nigel Planer and Director, Jatinder Verma and Crying in The Wilderness Productions' Conundrum opening at Young Vic, London in 2019. He is currently touring Altered Skin's Confessions Of A Cockney Temple Dancer with dates set for 2018/2019 and 2020.
Beyond creative works Shane Shambhu is a speaker presenting at conferences nationally and internationally and also co-project lead on Ensemble Mathematics, a curriculum and professional development project, which explores the impacts of using drama in the teaching of primary mathematics, and The Natya Project, a project aimed at discovering career progression routes for young bharatanatyam professionals.