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HSUS & FEDERAL "PUPS" LEGISLATION
HSUS lied to Congress about PUPS legislation which would have affected hobby breeders and today co-sponsor Senator Richard Durbin is back in the news.
May 2017 update | TheDogPress.com
Oct. 2008 John Yates, American Sporting Dog Alliance
In 2008 the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) was pushing new federal legislation that the radical ii Animal Rights group claimed was aimed at stopping dog breeding kennels that skirt the law.
Background: According to HSUS, the legislation only would affect kennels that sell more than 50 puppies a year. Note the bill's sponsors, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA), repeated those claims.
Dog Legislation groups across the country mobilized. The bill failed in large part because voters understood it was just a first step in regulating hobby breeders, the plan being to reduce the qualifying numbers. Voters were right. Durbin and Farr laid low, then lobbied for PUPS in 2010{1} proving they were lying through their teeth!
Analysis of the legislation reveals Durbin and Farr would've targeted almost every boarding, day care, training and handling kennel in America. The bill Durban and Farr sponsored also impacted hunting and sporting hobbyists even though they only raise a couple of litters of puppies a year. In 2014 Senator Durban was still working through government agencies like IRS (Lois Lerner) {2} and USDA/APHIS and SARAH CONANT{3} to regulate even small, private hobby breeders.
Speaking of Lois Lerner, Director of the IRS's Exempt Organizations Division - in early 2017 she finally admitted under oath that the IRS had been giving additional scrutiny to applications for tax-exempt status from groups with the "Tea Party" or "patriot" in their title. With a new Congress, we may see her Lois Lerner testifying again this year. Back to the lying guys.
Rep. Farr was a prime sponsor of H.R. 6949, and Sen. Durbin sponsored its companion bill in the Senate, S. 3519. The formal name of this legislation was the "Puppy Uniform Protection Statute," or "PUPS." See below. It was nicknamed "Baby's Bill," after a rescued dog from a commercial kennel that was touring the country with Chicagoan Jana Kohl. Kohl was on an HSUS-sponsored campaign against "puppy mills." Her book praised presidential candidate Barrack Obama for his reported commitment to clamp down on "puppy mills."
ASDA and TheDogPlace.org were at the forefront of dog groups that defeated the PUPS legislation. We escaped as people who sell dogs and puppies directly to the consumer, not through pet shops. HSUS called that a "loophole" and had been pushing for many years to include kennels that sell directly to the buyer. Previous attempts, such as the Pet Animal Welfare Act and Sen. Durbin's attempted amendment to the 2008 Farm Bill, had failed.
Although restrictive hobby dog breeder legislation quieted down in 2016, we feel this background information should remain as an example of the insidious ways some members of Congress have attempted to chip away at our Constitutionally guaranteed freedom. Most dog breeders have taken a deep breath, waiting to see if President Trump is going to handle the nation's security and immigration problems instead of being led into "animal rights" legislation.
With ISIS and Immigration, the rights of dog owners and breeders are low on the priorities list but we must be alert. In the 2017 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Judge Neil Gorsuch, Durbin questioned judge Gorsuch's ruling in the Hobby Lobby case and other cases in which the judge upheld the U.S. Constitution. He was not in favor of President Trump's choice.
John Yates warned Dog fanciers in 2008 that a favorite tactic of HSUS is to deliberately use ambiguity in model legislation in order to entrap as many kennels and dogs in the law as possible, going far beyond the stated purpose. It has been almost a decade since dog breeders were legislatively targeted on a budding internet. In 2017, most hobby and show breeders have nice websites, and we do run online advertisements to sell individual dogs and litters of puppies. As the American Sporting Dog Assoc. pointed out even in 2008, a good case could be made that it is almost impossible to buy a high quality puppy from a kennel that does not make use of the Internet.
That does not (so far) show cause to include hobby breeders in any legislative action to regulate commercial dog breeders under the PUPS legislation.
But we must also be informed about our political leaders and internet does that too. Make no mistake, HSUS is not an animal welfare organization and it has nothing to do with local humane societies. Instead, it is a political action and lobbying arm of the radical animal rights movement that continually pushes for tighter restrictions on animal ownership, with each piece of legislation making a step toward its ultimate goal, which is the total elimination of animal ownership in America.
Note the co-sponsors of PUPS, the PUPPY UNIFORM PROTECTION & SAFETY ACT OF 2008 in the Senate were Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA], Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO], and Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]. House co-sponsors are Reps. Judy Biggert (IL), Lois Capps (CA), Terry Everett (AL, Barney Frank (MA), Elton Gallegly (CA), Jim Gerlach (PA), Patrick Kennedy (RI), Mark Steven Kirk (IL), Daniel Lipinski (IL), Betty McCollum (MN), Thaddeus McCotter (MI), James McGovern (MA), Dennis Moore (KS), James Moran (VA), Patrick J. Murphy (PA), Jerrold Nadler (NY) and Janice Schakowsky (IL). Feinstein and McCaskill are very active today.
The link-to provided for Feinstein, McCaskill, and Wyden will help you track other legislators listed. The American Sporting Dog Alliance (closed with John's death, see below) provided the remaining contact links.
It is up to hobby breeders (all species) to monitor the HSUS and all politically-motivated "animal rights" groups because most of not all, are a threat to our democracy and the personal freedoms we value.
Here is a link for State Governors - and to your U.S. Representatives
and for your background reference: Pet Animal Welfare Act
We thank the American Sporting Dog Alliance for representing dog owners, dog fanciers and breeders. It was the ASDA's mission to "protect the rights of dog owners, and to assure that the traditional relationships between dogs and humans maintains its rightful place in American society and life..."
Editor's Note: John Yates died Sept. 2009. He was my friend and newspaper colleague, a fighter who won many battles on behalf of all dog owners but lung cancer took him swiftly. When I talked to John in the hospital, he was in good spirits and optimistic the "tests and x-rays" would be okay. Photo and John Yates Obituary by his wife Donna Yates. John was Founder and Executive Director American Sporting Dog Alliance (ASDA),
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As Professor Bedi stated, "As leaders, it matters how we structure our conversations." In the previous week's session, Professor Wheelan made a similar argument with his discussion of the power of language. His lessons were effectively extended by Professor Bedi's focus on instructing the Fellows how to turn "fights about rights into conversations about reasons." Especially when discussing issues that spring out of deeply held values, it can be hard to have an effective conversation about these issues with someone that stands in opposition to you on the issue. Yet, as Professor Bedi pointed out, focusing on the right rather than the reasons we support or oppose that right is an automatic obstacle to a productive conversation. Learning to reframe important but difficult issues as an investigation of the reasons we feel different ways can lead to deeper insights and a realization of important similarities between stances that at first appeared to be diametrically in direct contrast.
Leaders have a responsibility to those under their authority to hear all opinions out entirely and always seek to understand those with whom they are working. Without success at these responsibilities, a leader can lose the trust of those with whom they work by alienating others for misunderstanding their opinions or else unsuccessfully seeking out similarities between different stances on an issue. Through the strategy proposed by Professor Bedi, the Fellows are now equipped with one strategy for employing language responsibly to reframe important but difficult conversations as conversations about the "why" and not the hot button "what" of the issue. As the past two sessions have made clear to the Fellows, language is an important tool that leaders must learn to responsibly and effectively command.
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A quick liquid flip helps explain how morphing materials store information
Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser reveal in atomic detail how two distinct liquid phases in these materials enable fast switching between glassy and crystalline states that represent 0s and 1s in memory devices.
Instead of flash drives, the latest generation of smart phones uses materials that change physical states, or phases, to store and retrieve data faster, in less space and with more energy efficiency. When hit with a pulse of electricity or optical light, these materials switch between glassy and crystalline states that represent the 0s and 1s of the binary code used to store information.
Now scientists have discovered how those phase changes occur on an atomic level.
Researchers from European XFEL and the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, working in collaboration with researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, led X-ray laser experiments at SLAC that collected more than 10,000 snapshots of phase-change materials transforming from a glassy to a crystalline state in real time.
They discovered that just before the material crystallizes, it changes from one liquid-like state to another, a process that could not be clearly seen in prior studies because it was blurred by the rapid motions of the atoms. And they showed that this transition is responsible for the material's unique ability to store information for long periods of time while also quickly switching between states.
The results, published in Science today, offer a new strategy for designing improved phase-change materials for specialized memory storage.
"Current data storage technology has reached a scaling limit, so that new concepts are required to store the amounts of data that we will produce in the future," said Peter Zalden, a scientist at European XFEL and lead author of the study. "Our study explains how the switching process in a promising new technology can be fast and reliable at the same time."
When stable becomes unstable
The experiments took place at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) which produces X-ray laser pulses that are short enough and intense enough to capture snapshots of atomic changes occurring in femtoseconds – millionths of a billionths of a second.
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In phase-change memory devices, a material switches between glassy and crystalline phases that represent the 0s and 1s used to store information. One pulse of electricity or light heats the material to high temperature, causing it to crystallize, and another pulse melts it into a disordered, glassy state. Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser revealed a key part of this switch – a quick transition from one liquid-like state to another – that enables fast and reliable data storage. (Peter Zalden/European XFEL)
To store information with phase-change materials, they must be cooled quickly to enter a glassy state without crystallizing, and remain in this glassy state as long as the information needs to stay there. This means the crystallization process must be very slow to the point of being almost absent, such as is the case in ordinary glass. But when it comes time to erase the information, which is done by applying high temperatures, the same material has to crystallize very quickly. The fact that a material can form a stable glass but then become very unstable at elevated temperatures has puzzled researchers for decades.
At LCLS, the scientists used an optical laser to rapidly heat amorphous films of phase-change materials, just 50 nanometers thick, atop an equally thin support. The films cooled into a crystalline state as the heat from the laser blast dissipated into the surrounding support structure over billionths of a second.
They used X-ray laser pulses to make images of the material's structural evolution, collecting each snapshot in the instant before a sample deteriorated.
A tale of two liquids
The researchers found that when the liquid cools far enough below the material's melting temperature, it undergoes a structural change to form another, lower-temperature liquid that exists for just billionths of a second.
The two liquids not only have very different atomic structures, but they also behave differently: The one at higher temperature has highly mobile atoms that can quickly arrange themselves into the well-ordered structure of a crystal. But in the lower-temperature liquid, some chemical bonds become stronger and more rigid and can hold the disordered atomic structure of the glass in place. It is only the rigid nature of these chemical bonds that keeps the glass from crystallizing and – in the case of phase-change memory devices – secures information in place. The results also help scientists understand how other classes of materials form a glass.
This article is based on a press release from European XFEL.
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The research team after performing experiments at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser. (Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten/University of Duisburg-Essen)
LCLS is a DOE Office of Science user facility, and SLAC co-authors Aaron Lindenberg, David Reis and Mariano Trigo are investigators with the Stanford PULSE Institute and the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES). This study was part of an international collaboration including scientists from European XFEL, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institut Laue-Langevin, the DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Lund University, Paul Scherrer Institute, Stanford University, The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), University of Aachen, University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Potsdam.
Major funding was provided by the German Research Council, the European Union (7th Framework Program) and the DOE Office of Science Office of Basic Energy Sciences (Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering).
Citation: P. Zalden et al., Science, 13 June 2019 (10.1126/science.aaw1773)
SLAC is operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit energy.gov/science.
Scientific TopicsMaterials ScienceUltrafast ScienceX-ray ScienceX-ray Scattering/DiffractionEnergy Sciences DirectorateStanford PULSE InstituteStanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences (SIMES)LightsourcesLinac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)LCLS X-ray Pump Probe (XPP)


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What's the problem with being late?
We all know that scheduling our busy lives to arrive on time carries some risk, yet with careful planning, most of us have mastered the habit of punctuality.
Yet, most of us know someone within our circle who struggles with being on time (pretty much most of the time). Maybe that's you?
Lateness can affect the relationship you have with others, your boss, your friends and family. Not showing up on time is a broken promise that comes with negative character labels such as unreliable, selfish, and lazy. Harsh? Perhaps, yet there could be some grains of truth in these labels.
Missed flights, train trips, exam or dissertation deadlines, late arrival at job interviews can impact on present and future bank balances. These expenses can hit us hard financially and block career advancement. When you arrive late for an engagement, it also means you're not at your best, leaving you frazzled and flustered.
Punctuality is not about being on time, it's basically about respecting your own commitments.
So what's at the root of this behaviour?
Procrastinating plays a part in punctuality. We put off what we don't enjoy, we distract ourselves, play down the importance of the task at hand and sometimes blame others. Deeper issues around self-worth can come into play.
Are you the indulger, the rebel, the forgetter, the blamer, the anxious?
With greater self awareness, and a different vision of yourself.
That being "ahead of time" is a great feeling that you want to keep doing.
When did you start being late? Was it learnt from a parent or did this behaviour start during a particular phase of your life?
Work through your life script of lateness and rewrite it with one of punctuality.
Practice now in the present being ahead of time, load your brain using your imagination up with these experiences.
Connect with those feel good feelings of being on time and get your conscious and unconscious working together to make this change permanent.


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Обединението на Короните през март 1603 г. е обединение на монархичното управление на Кралство Шотландия и Кралство Англия.

Става с възкачването на английския трон на Джеймс VI, крал на Шотландия, присъединявайки Англия към Шотландската корона. Това се случва след смъртта на неговата неомъжена и бездетна първа братовчедка кралица Елизабет I – последния монарх от династията на Тюдорите.

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Политическа история на Великобритания

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How the A16 chip could be a game-changer for the iPhone 14 Pro
Massive speed and memory boosts on tap for Apple's flagship phone.
Senior Editor, Macworld JUL 30, 2022 9:30 am PDT
Each year, we take a look at the trajectory of Apple's A-series silicon (which premieres in iPhones and is often used in iPads) in order to get an idea of how the next chip will perform. By combining what we know of state-of-the-art chip manufacturing and packaging processes and Apple's past improvements, we can generally glean what's coming from the next system-on-chip (SoC).
This year, as we look ahead to the A16, making this call is harder than ever. The strongest rumors suggest that the A16 will not move forward to a major new manufacturing process node, and that it will only appear in the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max–with the regular iPhone 14 models utilizing the same souped-up A15 in the iPhone 13 Pro models. What's more, we have to consider the way Apple uses these designs. Prior A-series chips might get a bigger "X" version intended for the iPad Pro, but now that Apple scales the design up to a whole line of M-series chips destined for Macs, including very powerful computers like the Mac Studio, some of those extra cores might make their way into the iPhone processor.
So let's dive in and attempt to predict the A16, perhaps with a slightly bigger grain of salt than usual. We're making our best-educated guesses here, but there are more variables at play than in prior years, and we're often surprised by at least a few details when Apple unveils its new iPhone chips.
A Pro-only chip
Generally speaking, the latest A-series SoC powers the entire new iPhone lineup in the fall. Sometimes the Pro models have a little more RAM, but in broad strokes it's the same chip. With the iPhone 13 line, Apple changed that a little. The iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max so have more RAM (6GB compared to 4GB in the iPhone 13 and 13 mini), but it also has five GPU cores where the non-pro models have four. It's almost certainly the same chip design with one of the cores disabled, a common tactic to improve yields with advanced chip fabrication, but it's the first time Apple has made this differentiation in iPhone models. (Perhaps confusingly, both versions of the chip are still called just "A15," and you need to dive into the tech specs to see the difference.)
The iPhone 13 Pro models have a slightly better A15 chip, but the iPhone 14 Pro might have a completely different chip than the iPhone 14.
With the A16, most tipsters are suggesting that Apple plans to include the new chip only in the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max. The non-pro iPhone 14 models will allegedly will get the A15, albeit the 6GB, 5-core version found in the iPhone 13 Pro models. It's unclear yet if Apple will essentially rename that chip "A16," but it does mean a small but respectable upgrade for the non-Pro models, even though they're not getting the new SoC.
This is especially important because it could help signal what the A16's design priorities might be. If it's only going to show up in iPhones that are considerably more expensive (and rumors suggest the starting prices could rise by $100), it could perhaps afford to be larger and more expensive, with different emphasis. In addition to other features like an always-on display, the iPhone 14 Pro models are said to introduce a new 48MP rear wide camera. That could require a lot more image processing and machine learning power.
A new old manufacturing process
The most believable rumors say the A16 will be manufactured on a 5nm manufacturing process, just as the A15 and A14 were. It's not often that Apple goes three years in a row on the same process node. Some rumors have suggested that it will be manufacturing with a 4nm process, but TSMC doesn't actually have one. What it has is N4P, a code name for its third generation of 5nm high-performance manufacturing process. N4P offers and 11 percent performance boost, 22 percent power efficiency improvement, and 6 percent improvement in density over the original 5nm "N5" manufacturing process.
The A15 was built using a 5nm process and the A16 will likely follow suit.
It was the A14 that was made with the N5 process, and the A15 used the second-generation N5P process, which offered some small improvements. In other words, Apple's not going to get a ton of performance or power efficiency out of a third-generation 5nm manufacturing process. It's certainly not the leap we expect from TSMC's 3nm process, which is supposed to be ready this year but probably not in time for Apple to manufacture tens of millions of them for an iPhone 14 Pro launch this fall. When we go to 3nm, Apple will be able to squeeze some 70 percent more transistors in the same space, with considerable power savings.
Despite the fact that this third-gen 5nm process isn't drastically better than the second-gen one Apple used last year, we think the A16 will have to get substantially bigger. We're probably looking at a big 18 billion to 20 billion transistors, up from 15 billion in the A15. The bulk of that is likely going to go into the Neural Engine for machine learning, the image signal processor and video encoder and decoders, and some general improvements to CPU performance.
There's little point to Apple expanding beyond the current core configuration of iPhones. Two high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores are more than enough for a platform that nearly always runs one app at a time, full screen, with some lightweight background processes and such from other apps. At least, for the time being.
Apple's probably more interested in improving power efficiency and making CPU cores run faster. The high-performance cores, in particular, are likely an area of focus as the company relies on those to really drive home Mac performance when the CPU core design ends up in M-series chips. The M3 line is likely to have the same CPU core designs found in the A16, only scaled to higher core counts, and perhaps with larger caches.
Don't be surprised if the single-core CPU performance of the A16 generates a Geekbench 5 score around 2000.
A rumor from an untested source on Twitter reported recently that the A16 is testing 42 percent faster than the A15. That's almost certainly an unreasonable expectation. I think Apple will move to LPDDR5 this year, which should improve memory bandwidth, and some other improvements, combined with higher peak clock speeds, might get Apple up to a 15 percent performance improvement.
If Apple can continue recent trends, the multi-core Geekbench 5 CPU score might be around 5700.
There's one exception worth talking about. When ARM was finalizing the ARMv9 instruction set last year, there was some speculation as to whether Apple would be the first to incorporate it in a design. I don't think it was quite done in time, but Apple likes to be on the bleeding edge here. The ARMv9 instruction set is already available in several core designs licensed from ARM (Cortex-A710, Coretex-A510). Those are going to be used in chips like the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, which will show up in Android phones late this year.
Apple doesn't license core designs from ARM; it makes its own designs that are compatible with the ARM instruction set. The A15 supports the ARMv8.5-A instruction set, and the move to ARMv9 could have a positive effect on some very specific areas of performance. In particular, wide SIMD vertex operations (which are usually more of a high-end desktop thing) should be a lot faster and more flexible.
The A16 could support the same ARMv9 compatible design as the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1.
ARM has spoken about performance improvements of 30 percent in the same breath as promoting the ARMv9 instructions, but the company was specifically talking about its own licensed CPU core designs there. There isn't necessarily anything about the instruction set that would boost performance like that, and Apple already uses its own designs with its own customizations and extensions.
To make a long story short, the A16 might be Apple's first ARMv9 compatible design and one of the first on the market at all, and that might make some very particular kinds of CPU operations go faster, but overall performance isn't likely to skyrocket.
Apple continues to invest heavily in GPU performance, despite the fact that iPhones are usually miles ahead of other premium smartphones in this area. Now that the company scales its chips designs up to laptops and desktops, with powerful integrated graphics replacing discrete AMD GPUs, it's even more important.
Without a huge boost in transistor density from a move to the next major process technology node, Apple probably can't afford to boost the number of GPU cores a lot. We think the A16 will have either five GPU cores (like the A15's full configuration) or six, but probably not more. Still, architectural improvements and a shift to LPDDR5 RAM for increased memory bandwidth will help increase graphics performance.
3DMark's Sling Shot test is a bit antiquated, and performance improvements are starting to taper off.
We think it's reasonable to expect a 25 percent to 30 percent improvement in GPU performance, roughly in line with the last several A-series processors. You'll especially see this in benchmarks and tests that are currently limited by memory bandwidth.
The more modern 3DMark Wild Life test better represents graphics architecture improvements. Expect the A16 to score between 85 and 90 fps.
Apple will probably have to include hardware to accelerate ray tracing in a future GPU. It is quickly becoming standard faire in laptops and desktops, and the M series chips derive their architectures from Apple's A series. (Or more accurately, they're all designed as a family of products sharing major architectural elements.) Even the major mobile chip designs from Qualcomm and ARM have ray tracing on their roadmaps.
Geekbench's GPU compute benchmark isn't as bandwidth-limited and shows big gains year over year. If this keeps up, the score will be around 20,000.
However, I wouldn't expect this to be the year it happens. High-performance ray tracing acceleration adds a lot to transistor count, and without a big increase in transistor density Apple will probably conclude that any increase in chip size would be better spent elsewhere. When Apple shifts to TSMC's 3nm process, ray tracing graphics hardware could be on the table.
A heavy investment in ML and imaging
One of the most persistent rumors regarding the iPhone 14 Pro is that it will feature a new 48MP wide rear camera. In low-light situations it would "bin" the light values of neighboring pixels to produce a 12MP pixel, but in brighter light you could get an image with four times the resolution of today's iPhones. This also opens the door to 8K video, impressive digital zoom capabilities, and more.
The camera on the iPhone 14 Pro could be getting a massive upgrade—which will require some serious processing power.
But it asks a lot of your phone's processor. You can't just slap in a 48MP sensor and call it a day. You have to have wider and faster data paths to the image signal processor. That image processor has to be able to handle four times the pixels (or else take four times as long to process the image, unlikely given Apple's priority on camera responsiveness). Modern smartphones produce a single image by taking a of exposures and processing them into a single image across many steps, utilizing all kinds of photo science and machine learning algorithms along the way. Some of these steps could be processed at a lower resolution, but some would need to be done on the full 48MP image to get a quality result.
In other words, this new camera will likely demand a much more powerful image signal processor and Neural Engine (the dedicated hardware for AI and machine learning tasks). I'm sure Apple would love to improve the Cinematic Mode introduced with the iPhone 13 Pro. It's currently limited to 1080p, for example, but a boost to 4K would require more image processing power. So too would more natural artificial bokeh or tracking of multiple subjects. All good reasons for Apple to seriously beef up the image processor and Neural Engine.
Of course, video encoding and decoding is a priority, too. Apple's latest video processors handle both HEVC and ProRes, but not the newer AV1 codec. I have long suspected that Apple would be among the first to really popularize that codec, the same way it did with HEIC images and HEVC video. It will deliver equivalent video quality with much smaller file sizes and bandwidth requirements. Will the iPhone 14 Pro be the first phone to offer native default AV1 video support in both hardware and software?
LPDDR5 RAM (for real this time)
Last year, I thought Apple would ditch LPDDR4x memory in favor of LPDDR5. It didn't. But the M1 Pro and M1 Max in the MacBook Pro, and M1 Ultra in the Mac Studio do, as does the new M2 in the MacBook Air. Is this the year LPDDR5 finally comes to iPhone? Yes! Maybe! Supply chain analysts like Ming-Chi Kuo say that Apple has ordered LPDDR5 for the iPhone 14 Pro models, and it does seem like it's time. Premium Android phones have used it for some time now, and Apple's latest M-series chips do, too.
The move from LPDDR4x to LPDDR5 will improve memory bandwidth by as much as 50 percent, and should have a positive impact on energy efficiency as well. This in itself doesn't make any one task faster, it just gives more breathing room for high-bandwidth operations like 3D graphics and image/video processing.
An upgrade to the Snapdragon X65 modem
The cellular modem isn't really part of the A16 chip, but it's a tightly integrated part of the whole platform and critical to the iPhone, so it's worth mentioning. Apple has been hard at work on its own 5G modem for years, but the latest rumors show it's not ready for deployment yet.
We expect the iPhone 14 Pro (and possibly the regular iPhone 14) to incorporate the Snapdragon X65 modem. The chief improvements, according to Qualcomm, are better power efficiency and reliability. It's got a higher theorhetical maximum speed (10Gbps), but you're unlikely to see that from any real-world 5G network. Rather, the modem is said to be better at reliably locking on to signals, which should allow your phone to get better real-world throughput and use less battery in less-than-ideal situations.
The rumors about when we can expect an Apple-made cellular modem in our iPhones and iPads are mixed. Some say as early as 2023, while others suspect the project has had major setbacks and we're still several years away. Whatever the answer, this is almost certainly not Apple's year.
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A batalha do rio Hális, também conhecida como a batalha de Ptéria, foi um conflito armado ocorrido entre dois grandes impérios da antiguidade, o incipiente Império Aqueménida e o reino de Lídia no seu apogeu, que data de 547 ou  As forças persas de Ciro, o Grande travaram uma batalha contra as forças invasoras de Lídia lideradas por Creso, que foi forçado a partir em retirada para oeste, para o seu próprio reino.

Antes do auge do povo persa, os lídios e medos tinham acordado que o rio Hális (atual rio Quizil-Irmaque) passaria a definir a fronteira natural entre os dois impérios. Com a assimilação dos medos pelos persas, Creso procurou tirar partido deste conjunto de eventos para expandir as suas fronteiras para leste, onde teria inevitavelmente que enfrentar a pressão persa. Então, antes de os confrontar, Creso enviou um mensageiro ao Oráculo de Delfos, que lhe disse que se atravessasse o rio Hális com o seu exército, acabaria por destruir um império. Creso fez então aliança com Babilônia, Egito e Esparta.

Incentivado pela profecia, Creso liderou o seu exército desde a sua capital Sardes para leste, atravessando o Hális e tomando a cidade de Ptéria, escravizando os cidadãos locais. Ciro reuniu as suas tropas e, depois de ter tentado sem sucesso a deserção dos aliados jónios de Creso, tomou a batalha contra os lídios em Ptéria. De acordo com Heródoto, as forças lídias eram bastante inferiores aos rivais, e depois de sofrer perdas significativas em ambas as partes, Creso decidiu retirar-se para Sardes. Esta derrota estratégica de Creso implicaria que a profecia do Oráculo fosse na realidade cumprida: ao cruzar o rio Hális, Creso levou à queda de um império, o seu.

Bibliografia
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 Dupuy, R. Ernest, and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 B.C. to the present. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
 Fuller, J. F. C. A Military History of the Western World, Volume One. N.P.: Minerva Press, 1954.

Rio Halis
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Batalhas do século VI a.C.


Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492 in the Julian calendar and October 21, 1492 in the modern Gregorian calendar, as an official holiday.
The day is celebrated as Columbus Day in the United States, as Día de la Raza (Day of the (Hispanic) race) in many countries in the Americas, as Día de las Culturas (Day of the Cultures) in Costa Rica, as Discovery Day in the Bahamas, as Día de la Hispanidad and Fiesta Nacional in Spain, as Día de las Américas (Day of the Americas) in Uruguay and as Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenous Resistance) in Venezuela.
These holidays have been celebrated unofficially since the late 18th century, and officially in various countries since the early 20th century.
Columbus Day first became an official state holiday in Colorado in 1906, and became a federal holiday in 1934. However, people have celebrated Columbus' voyage since the colonial period. In 1792, New York City and other U.S. cities celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World. In 1892, President Benjamin Harrison called upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus Day on the 400th anniversary of the event. During the 400-year anniversary in 1892, teachers, preachers, poets and politicians used Columbus Day rituals to teach ideals of patriotism. These patriotic rituals were framed around themes such as support for war, citizenship boundaries, the importance of loyalty to the nation, and celebrating social progress.
Since 1971, the holiday has been fixed to the second Monday in October, coincidentally the same day as Thanksgiving in neighboring Canada (which was fixed to that date in 1959). It is generally observed today by banks, the bond market, the U.S. Postal Service and other federal agencies, most state government offices, and some school districts. Some businesses and stock exchanges remain open, however, and there is a trend among some states and municipalities away from observing the holiday.
Christopher Columbus (c. 1451 – 20 May 1506) was a navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. With his four voyages of exploration and several attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola, all funded by Isabella I of Castile, he initiated the process of Spanish colonization which foreshadowed general European colonization of the "New World."
Although not the first to reach the Americas from Europe—he was preceded by at least one other group, the Norse, led by Leif Ericson, who built a temporary settlement 500 years earlier at L'Anse aux Meadows— Columbus initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans.
Academic consensus is that Columbus was born in Genoa, though there are other theories. The name Christopher Columbus is the Anglicisation of the Latin Christophorus Columbus. The original name in 15th century Genoese language was Christoffa Corombo. The name is rendered in modern Italian as Cristoforo Colombo, in Portuguese as Cristóvão Colombo (formerly Christovam Colom) and in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón.
Columbus' initial 1492 voyage came at a critical time of growing national imperialism and economic competition between developing nation states seeking wealth from the establishment of trade routes and colonies. In this sociopolitical climate, Columbus's far-fetched scheme won the attention of Isabella I of Castile. Severely underestimating the circumference of the Earth, he estimated that a westward route from Iberia to the Indies would be shorter and more direct than the overland trade route through Arabia. If true, this would allow Spain entry into the lucrative spice trade — heretofore commanded by the Arabs and Italians. Following his plotted course, he instead landed within the Bahamas Archipelago at a locale he named San Salvador. Mistaking the North-American island for the East-Asian mainland, he referred to its inhabitants as "Indios".


Pantheon Macroeconomics - Yesterday's Brazilian industrial production data continue to tell a story of a slow business cycle upturn. Output rose 0.2% month-to-month in November, after a downwardly revised 1.2% plunge in October. The year-over-year rate, though, jumped to -1.1%, from -7.3% in October. The underlying trend is now on the mend, following weakness in Q3 and early Q4. Output rose in November three of the four major categories and in 13 of the 24 sectors.


What makes GSM London different?
Now, joke aside. You may think you do not fit the standard 'student' mould and the opportunity for you to become one has since long passed. However, I am here to lovingly tell you that is incorrect and how studying at GSM London can prove that.
Firstly, GSM London's intake criteria are different from traditional institutions in that it is not completely dependent on educational attainment for admission. Prospective students can qualify for a mode of study by using their work references for example. GSM London places value on an individual's ambition to learn, this ethos is at the core of their admissions process. So, if you have ever questioned your admissibility to higher education based on your previous studies and grades here is the answer to your question.
Myself and others are mature students at GSM London, which makes for a productive learning environment, most of the people you will share classes with are there to increase their employability chances or are studying for a sense of personal fulfilment. Either way, it is an atmosphere of learning and achieving personal goals. GSM London has an array of people from all walks of life and at different stages in their careers, education and their personal life, I personally have met people from political backgrounds, musicians and artists alike.
At GSM London they really go a long way to support their student's education, using methods like Strengths Based Learning and including modules such as Academic Skills and Employability Skills as part of the curriculum. These modules help students who may have no experience with academic writing and aren't aware of ways to increase their employability such as successful group work. While it seems like knowing the difference between Harvard and Oscola referencing will only prove useful during your educational career, skills like academic writing will be beneficial in almost every aspect of any career. GSM London prepares their students for the modern workplace. I was pleasantly surprised in my first semester to have a lecture solely based on writing effective and concise professional emails, this is the kind of preparation one can expect at GSM London.
Supportive Learning is when staff and faculty band together to make sure you do the best you can and provide you with all the necessary information and tools to achieve. It is easy to assume that supportive learning is the foundation of all educational institutions, but I can attest to the fact that this is sometimes not the case in higher education. This is where GSM London is different. The aim here is to help everybody achieve their goals so whether you are a college leaver ready to take the next step to further your education, a parent or carer looking to change their direction, or you are currently on a career path that could do with an upgrade, GSM London is well equipped to support you through the journey into studying.
My time at GSM London so far has reminded me of the importance of trying instead of wondering if you could have, would have and should have. I enquired twice but I never picked up the phone to see my application through, until I did and here I am. Studying here is a challenge I have enjoyed, and I have already been given opportunities that I would not have received had I not tried, i.e. writing this post. To summarise don't let your perception of your circumstance deter you from pursuing higher education, if that is really a goal you have for yourself after all as the adage goes 'where there is a will, there is a way'.


IPRA President 2015, Dr. Amybel Sánchez de Walther, was the keynote speaker and patron at this week's graduation ceremony for Advertising and Public Relations students at the Universidad de Barcelona.
Dr. Sánchez spoke of "the relevance of leaders as strategic communicators". She called on the graduates to "awaken their entrepreneurial spirit and above all to be creative in order to seize business opportunities".
The ceremony took place at the Escuela Superior de Relaciones Públicas de la Universidad de Barcelona (ESERP).
IPRA is the leading global network for Public Relations professionals. Membership is individual not corporate. It aims to further the development of open communication and the ethical practice of public relations. IPRA fulfils this aim through networking opportunities, its code of conduct and intellectual leadership of the profession. IPRA is the organiser of the annual Golden World Awards for excellence – PR's global awards scheme. With 60 years of experience, IPRA, recognised by the United Nations, is now present throughout the world wherever public relations are practiced. IPRA welcomes all those within the profession who share its aim and who wish to be part of the IPRA worldwide fellowship.


#TVisCOOL: How to charge a phone from the rail tracks. Measuring voltage on the railway.
How to charge a phone from the rail tracks. Measuring voltage on the railway.
I don't recommend to repeat this not to cause false railway traffic jam by mistake. All the actions in this video were performed under the supervision of an experienced railway worker. There was nothing damaged during the shooting.
The description of an unusual method of charging a phone in extreme conditions for a tourist. Measuring voltage test showed that there is a small strain of about 5 Volt. It's a varying voltage transferring the code. There are quite high currents as voltage slumps during connection of the phone were not noticed. However, I don't recommend you to do like that not to cause disruption in work of railway by accident.


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Brainwashed is the twelfth and final studio album by English rock musician George Harrison. It was released posthumously on 18 November 2002, almost a year after his death at age 58, and 15 years after his previous studio album, Cloud Nine. Recordings began over a decade before Harrison's death but were repeatedly delayed. The album's overdubs were completed by his son Dhani, session drummer Jim Keltner, and longtime friend and collaborator Jeff Lynne.

Brainwashed reached the top 30 in the UK and the top 20 in the US, and received mostly favourable reviews. The album includes the singles "Stuck Inside a Cloud" and "Any Road". The instrumental "Marwa Blues" went on to receive the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, while "Any Road" was nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

History
Harrison began recording the tracks that eventually were issued on Brainwashed as early as 1988 (with "Any Road" being written during the making of a video for "This Is Love" from the album Cloud Nine) and continued to do so in a sporadic manner over the next decade and a half. Progress was delayed by business problems with Harrison's former manager, Denis O'Brien, as well as his work with the Traveling Wilburys, Ravi Shankar, and his work on The Beatles Anthology. In an interview in 1999, Harrison announced the title of his next album to be Portrait of a Leg End, and played songs entitled "Valentine", "Pisces Fish" and "Brainwashed". During the promotion for the 2001 re-release of All Things Must Pass, Harrison joked that the name of the album would be Your Planet Is Doomed – Volume One. After recuperating from being attacked in his home on 30 December 1999 by a man with paranoid schizophrenia, Harrison focused on finishing the album, simultaneously sharing his ideas for all its details (from the sound of the finished songs to the album's artwork) with his son Dhani – information that ultimately proved very valuable, as Dhani helped to complete the album after his father's death.

Harrison successfully battled throat cancer in 1997; in 2001 he underwent surgery to remove a cancerous growth from one of his lungs, and radiotherapy for lung cancer which had metastasised to his brain. Once he realised it was an irreversible situation, he worked further on the album's songs – in conjunction with Dhani and his old collaborator Jeff Lynne – for as long as possible. Harrison's final work on the album was carried out at a recording studio in Switzerland shortly before his trip to the United States for cancer treatment. On 29 November 2001, Harrison died before he could finish the project, but with a guide to completing it in the hands of his son and Lynne.

After a few months away from the project, both Lynne and Dhani returned to working on Harrison's final songs and added the appropriate instruments, as per his specifications, to the recordings. The project was so close to completion that the two used the exact timetable and session bookings that Harrison himself had originally planned.

Lynne reflected on Brainwashed in 2020: "His life was in those final songs, the things he got up to each day, like riding down the River Thames. Lots of very personal stuff. Some of them are really good. We gradually just filled them in. It was just about mixing them and making them sound like George would like them. You just had to go with your gut feeling."

"Run So Far" had previously appeared on Eric Clapton's album Journeyman (backed by Harrison), 13 years before finally being available in a version sung by its original writer. The original Clapton recording featured a third verse not included here.

Release

Brainwashed was released on 18 November 2002 to mostly favourable reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album scores 77, based on 16 reviews, which means "generally favorable".

Writing in Uncut, Nick Hasted described it as "the best solo record by a Beatle since McCartney's Flowers in the Dirt (1989)". Although he found that "a certain monotony creeps in towards the end", Hasted wrote that "Harrison's songs and singing represent a burst of form". Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club concluded his review by writing: "Harrison never seemed to recognize the difference between philosophical profundities and the sound of a catchy song, and that may have been his greatest gift to the world. Brainwashed offers a fine, final reminder of that gift." PopMatters Gary Glauber found the album "phenomenal" and "easily ... Harrison's best solo effort since All Things Must Pass". He said it was "spiritual and uplifting in a way that serves to remind how much this undervalued Beatle will be missed" and "in turns funny, serious, philosophical, precious and ultimately enjoyable".

The album was issued on LP and CD. A limited-edition CD box was also released, containing a Brainwashed poster, a Dark Horse sticker, a guitar pick with George's signature on it, and a bonus DVD with a seven-minute featurette about the making of the album. The album sold respectably, reaching number 18 in the US and going gold, and number 29 in the UK, where "Any Road" became a top 40 hit single in spring 2003. A live tribute to Harrison by an assembly of his musical contemporaries, titled Concert for George, took place at London's Royal Albert Hall simultaneously with the release of the album.

In 2004, Brainwashed "Marwa Blues" won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. The album was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album, as well as Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (for the track "Any Road"). That same year, Harrison's former bandmate Paul McCartney named "Marwa Blues" as one of his all-time favourites. In 2009, three of the tracks from Brainwashed were included on Harrison's career-spanning compilation album, Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison: "Any Road", "Marwa Blues" and "Rising Sun".

Track listing
All songs written by George Harrison, except "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler.

"Any Road" – 3:52
"P2 Vatican Blues (Last Saturday Night)" – 2:38
"Pisces Fish" – 4:50
"Looking for My Life" – 3:49
"Rising Sun" – 5:27
"Marwa Blues" – 3:40
"Stuck Inside a Cloud" – 4:04
"Run So Far" – 4:05
"Never Get Over You" – 3:26
"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" – 2:34
"Rocking Chair in Hawaii" – 3:07
"Brainwashed" – 6:07

Personnel
George Harrison – lead vocals (all tracks except 6), acoustic guitar (1, 3–5, 7–9, 11, 12), electric guitar (3, 4, 8, 9), bass guitar (3, 12), slide guitar (1, 2, 5–7, 12), Dobro (11), ukulele (2, 3, 10, 11), banjulele (1), keyboards (6, 11), backing vocals (2–5, 7–9, 11, 12)
Jeff Lynne – bass guitar (1, 2, 4, 5, 7–9, 11), electric guitar (2, 3, 5, 7, 12), acoustic guitar (2, 4, 6, 8, 12), piano (1, 4–5, 7, 9), electric piano (2), keyboards (3, 6, 12), percussion (3), backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 12)
Dhani Harrison – acoustic guitar (2, 4, 6, 8, 12), electric guitar (1, 3–4), Wurlitzer electric piano (5, 7), backing vocals (1, 2, 8, 12)
Jim Keltner – drums (all tracks except 6 and 10)

Additional personnel
Mike Moran – keyboards (3)
Marc Mann – keyboards (3), string arrangement (5–6)
Jools Holland – piano (10)
Mark Flanagan – acoustic lead guitar (10)
Joe Brown – acoustic guitar (10)
Herbie Flowers – bass guitar (10), tuba (10)
Ray Cooper – percussion (6), drums (10)
Bickram Ghosh – tabla (12)
Jon Lord – piano (12)
Sam Brown – backing vocals (12)
Jane Lister – harp (12)
Isabela Borzymowska – reading from "How to Know God" (The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali) (12)

Charts

Weekly charts

Certifications and sales

References

External links

 JPGR's Beatles site: George Harrison's Brainwashed

2002 albums
George Harrison albums
Albums produced by George Harrison
Albums produced by Jeff Lynne
Dark Horse Records albums
Albums recorded at FPSHOT
Albums published posthumously
Musical compositions completed by others


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La Toppserien 2010 è stata la 27ª edizione della massima serie del campionato norvegese di calcio femminile. La competizione è iniziata il 5 aprile ed è terminata l'11 novembre 2010. Lo Stabæk ha vinto il campionato per la prima volta nella sua storia.

Stagione

Novità
Dalla Toppserien 2009 erano stati retrocessi il Sandviken e il Fortuna Ålesund, mentre dalla 1. divisjon 2009 erano stati promossi il Linderud-Grei e il Donn. Prima dell'inizio della stagione il Team Strømmen cambiò denominazione in LSK Kvinner, dopo che era stata ufficializzata la sua affiliazione al Lillestrøm Sportsklubb.

Formula
Le 12 squadre partecipanti si affrontavano in un girone all'italiana con partite di andata e ritorno per un totale di 22 giornate. La squadra campione di Norvegia aveva il diritto di partecipare alla UEFA Women's Champions League 2011-2012 partendo dai sedicesimi di finale. Le ultime due classificate retrocedevano direttamente in 1. divisjon.

Squadre partecipanti

Classifica finale

Legenda:
      Campione di Norvegia e ammessa alla UEFA Women's Champions League 2011-2012
      Retrocessa in 1. divisjon 2011

Note:
Tre punti a vittoria, uno a pareggio, zero a sconfitta.

La classifica viene stilata secondo i seguenti criteri:
Punti conquistati
Differenza reti generale
Reti totali realizzate
Punti conquistati negli scontri diretti
Differenza reti negli scontri diretti
Reti realizzate in trasferta negli scontri diretti (solo tra due squadre)
Reti realizzate negli scontri diretti
play-off (solo per decidere la squadra campione, l'ammissione agli spareggi e le retrocessioni).

Al termine della stagione al Donn non venne concessa la licenza per la Toppserien 2011, venendo così retrocessa. Il Linderud-Grei venne così ripescato.

Statistiche

Classifica marcatrici
Statistiche da sito federazione

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Calcio nel 2010
2010


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Diogo Jota embodies the best of Liverpool in the Jurgen Klopp era
Graham RuthvenNovember 30, 2021January 5th, 2022
DIOGO Jota wasn't meant to be a superstar, but then few Liverpool signings are. The Anfield club have spent big on the likes of Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker, however, their current team, competing for major honours on all fronts, has been built through a process of shrewder recruitment.
Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah all arrived on Merseyside for relatively modest fees and flourished into three of the best attackers in Europe. Jota, signed for a similarly modest amount two summers ago, is on the same trajectory with the 24-year-old now viewed as one of the Reds' most important figures.
Jota embodies the best of Liverpool in the Jurgen Klopp era, and not just in the way he was scouted and signed either. The Portuguese international is as adaptable as anyone at Anfield right now, demonstrated by the number of positions he can play across the frontline. Jota is perfect for Liverpool's fluid approach.
Klopp has used Jota, who has seven goals in just 12 Premier League appearances this season, through the middle as a centre forward where he gives Liverpool more aerial threat than Firmino does. He is still capable of dropping deep to create space in behind for Mane and Salah to burst into, but the 24-year-old's natural game makes him a more orthodox option in the number nine position.
Firmino and Jota have also proved themselves as a good fit as a pairing in a 4-4-2 system, giving Klopp a different tactical option. In the past, the German has been reluctant to move away from his favoured 4-3-3 shape, but Jota has at least opened his mind to the possibility fo shaking things up from time to time.
Of course, Jota's most natural position is on the left side of the front three where he can make good use of his dribbling skills. Only Salah can claim to have the combination of physical and technical skill that Jota has, making him one of the trickiest attacking players to dispossess in the Premier League.
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"He has the technical skills, he has the physical skills and he is very smart and can learn all the tactical stuff pretty quick," Klopp explained after Liverpool's 4-0 win over Southampton, in which Jota scored twice. "On top of that, he can play all three positions in a 4-2-3-1. He could play as the 10 too. He has the speed, he has the desire to finish situations off really well."
Some fans and experts continue to argue that Liverpool need a world class number nine in the traditional mould to keep up with Chelsea, who have Romelu Lukaku, and Manchester City, who are still believed to be interested in signing Harry Kane in January or next summer. However, Jota already gives Liverpool this option, and so much more.
Under Klopp, Liverpool have been so successful because of their faithfulness to his footballing ideology. When others clamoured for it, the German recognised how dropping someone like Kane or Lukaku into his team would disrupt the dynamic of his team. Instead, he needed someone who was different enough to push Liverpool's boundaries, but comfortable enough in Klopp's system so not to change their identity as a side.
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Statistisk processkontroll eller statistisk processtyrning, förkortat SPC efter engelskans statistical process control, är ett metodpaket inom kvalitetstekniken som används för att övervaka processer av olika slag. Metoderna syftar till att övervaka huruvida processen är i kontroll eller inte och vilken förmåga den har att producera enheter (kan vara såväl varor som tjänster) som ligger inom uppsatta toleranser.

I alla typer av processer förekommer variation. I en tillverkningsprocess kan det handla om till exempel spel i lager och styrningar, varierande temperatur och fuktighet eller dåligt kalibrerade mätinstrument. Denna variation är en källa till bristande kvalitet, och måste därför kartläggas, övervakas och om möjligt reduceras. I processtudien kan kartläggningen i sig tillföra variationer, vilket måste beaktas i upplägget och tolkningen av studien.

Variation kan vara av olika slag. Ofta nämns urskiljbar och slumpmässig variation och ingenjörer talar gärna i termer av signal och brus. Syftet med SPC är att
 identifiera orsaker till urskiljbar variation och eliminera dessa,
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 fortlöpande fånga information från processen så att nya orsaker till variation kan identifieras som urskiljbara och sedan elimineras.

För detta syfte finns inom SPC en uppsättning metoder och verktyg där två av de viktigaste är styrdiagrammet och kapabilitetsindex. Teorin för SPC är nära besläktad med reglertekniken.

Många gånger saknas ett statistiskt synsätt på processer. Detta gör att slumpmässig variation ofta övertolkas och personen tror då att den är urskiljbar och försöker på olika sätt kompensera för den. Detta leder istället till ökad variation och ytterligare kvalitetsbrister. Denna typ av överstyrning av processer har getts en underhållande framställning inte minst av amerikanen Edwards Deming, se referenslistan.

Referenser
 D.C. Montgomery (1997), Introduction to Statistical Quality Control. John Wiley & Sons.
 W.E. Deming (1994), The New Economics. MIT Press.
 "Understanding Statistical Process Control" , Wheeler, Chambers, SPC-Press, Inc.
 "Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product" Shewhart, , Quality Press
 "Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control", Shewhart, , Dover Publications Inc.
 "Out of the Crisis" , Deming, MIT-Press

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The Impact of World War I on Modernist Writers
by debramoolenaar
In literary criticism, Literature, Uncategorized
'We have all had a tremendous jolt; . . . we are far more conscious of our condition than we were, and far less disposed to submit to it' (Bernard Shaw).
According to Mr Lewis in his Cambridge Introduction to Modernism, it was said that when one certain intellectual was asked why he was not fighting to save civilization, he answered that he was the civilization for which men were fighting. Pompous as that might sound to 21st century ears, there is an element of truth in the comment and in Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf explores this in some detail; civilization – or as Mr Shaw puts it, our 'condition' – as was known pre and post war was decidedly different – but whether there was anything worth saving – anything worth 'submitting to' in the words of Mr Shaw – from the earlier period was for the modernist writers, a point of conjecture.
The novel is framed around its heroine, Clarissa Dalloway's, day in London as she prepares for the party she is giving that evening. The novels develops around two seemingly unrelated plots – the shell shock and eventual suicide of Septimus, a veteran of the First World War and the fifty-two year old Clarissa's social calendar, complete with significant reminiscences of jolly pre-war house parties when she was but eighteen years old – 'hollyhocks, dahlias – all sorts of flowers swimming together with their heads cut off' – the effect was extraordinary 'coming in to dinner at sunset' – then those glorious kisses of Sally Seton whilst 'star-gazing' and Clarissa had been 'wearing pink gauze' – 'was that possible'?
Clarissa's party was to be no less splendid than those pre-war parties – populated as it would be with all those characters from the past – the once young men and women who were now the 'old guard' – the very people that postwar society was holding responsible for the war. The two different plots in Mrs Dalloway do not come together until the very end of the novel when Clarissa hears of the suicide of Septimus, a man she had never known. It seems that this knowledge has prevented Clarissa from also committing suicide although why she would want to do that – so privileged she was such – is not completely clear. If, as she believed, her life was a failure then more had to be wrong than that she had not been invited along with her husband, Peter, to lunch with Lady Bruton that day.
According to Mr Lewis, Woolf called this novel a elegy – a 'lament for the 'dead' – but was it a lament only those that had physically died like Septimus, as the result of the war or was it also a lament for the death of the pre-war civilisation of which, according to her own memoirs in Moments of Being, Woolf too had been a privileged member?
In his landmark poem, The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot also addresses the trajectory of civilizsation but seems to take a different tact than Woolf. The civilisation he appears to favour is that of the classical world of ancient Greece along with lofty personages like Tiresias – who as punishment from the goddess Hera, had witnessed life as both a man and a woman. In his notes to the poem, Eliot admits that although not a character per se, Tiresias is the 'most important personage' in the poem. But is this solely because Tiresias is able to provide a unisex description of the sad love tryst in The Fire Sermon between the 'bored and tired typist' and her 'young man carbuncular'?
I think not. I would suggest that is only part of the picture Eliot paints. Another part of that picture is rather like that presented by Woolf in Mrs Dalloway – questioning whether perseveration of pre-war civilisation – however defined – was really worth all that civilisation has paid for it. Eliot suggests that as was the case with the ancient Battle Mylae in 260 BC when Carthage was lost, the 'corpses' that had 'begun to sprout' as the result of the First World War is an equally extortionate price and worse, in What the Thunder Said we learn from the poem's speaker that regardless of that extortionate price already paid, the break with the past is firm and complete anyway – the 'lands' will be 'unable to be set in order' because 'London bridge is falling down'. All that is left to do now is to gather up those 'fragments' from the past and 'shore' them up 'against my ruins.'
In summary, as Mr Shaw points out the First War World gave everyone a tremendous jolt and made them more than aware of their 'condition' – the reality of their civilisation – and the question of whether the price paid for trying to preserve had been too high. Woolf seems to suggest that her civilisation was worth preserving at any price; certainly Clarissa and her friends in Mrs Dalloway were not about to throw away the prestige and power they had accumulated over the years. The suicide of Septimus might have dampened the mood of Clarissa's party but at the end of the novel we have been given no reason to expect that next year Clarissa would not be giving the same party all over again. In The Waste Land, Eliot seems to be suggesting that the pre-war civilisation had deeper roots than those recognised in Mrs Dalloway and that whilst it might be a good deal harder to dig out those roots, it was well worth doing.
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