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On Thursday the 16th of November 2017 we held our annual prize giving ceremony for the Credit Union Art competition and the draw for the coveted John Gaynor Memorial Student Scholarship Scheme. We would like to thank everybody who came out for what was a fantastic evening.
On Thursday the 10th of November 2016 we held our annual prize giving ceremony for the Credit Union Art competition and the draw for the coveted John Gaynor Memorial Student Scholarship Scheme. We would like to thank everybody who came out for what was a fantastic evening.
Congratulations to James Carrabine winner of our September Member's Car Draw! If you haven't signed up for the member's car draw yet, simply call to any of our branch offices and fill out the Car Draw form.
Join in the fun – Tipp Mid West Radio will be broadcasting live from our Head Office 2-4pm.
As part of our 50th Celebrations and to launch the new Saturday opening hours of our Cappawhite branch office, Tipperary Credit Union will be holding a member's open day on Saturday the 19th of August from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
Congratulations to Mary Crowe winner of our August Member's Car Draw!
Tipperary Credit Union held their annual Transition Year Bursary Awards as part of their Youth Program. The cost of putting a child through Transition Year can range from €500 to €1,000 depending on the school.
Congratulations to the winner of our June Members Car Draw Philip Ryan! If you haven't signed up for the Members Car Draw yet, simply call to any of our branches and fill out the Car Draw form.
Congratulations to Michael O'Shea winner of our latest month's car draw!
Please note our Head Office (Tipperary Town) and Bansha Branch will be closed on Saturday April 8th 2017 to allow us to upgrade our computer system.
Thank you soo much to everybody who entered our Mother's Day Facebook competition. I am delighted to announce that the winner was Annemarie Karolis who received a bouquet of flowers from Flowers by Dorothy. Please continue to follow us on Facebook as we have loads more competitions coming up throughout the year!! Happy Mother's Day from all at Tipperary Credit Union.
Tipperary Credit Union has been operating a Friday evening only service (6.30pm to 8.00pm) to members at its current location in Emly for over thirty years. As part of ongoing reviews of our operations, it has become necessary to take the difficult decision to cease services from our office in Emly.
To celebrate the fact that Tipperary Credit Union has been servicing the community for fifty years we asked our members to design a flag to mark this wonderful achievement.
Congratulations to our four Car Draw winners from our Christmas Car Draw. In our Christmas Car Day Draw three bonus cars were up for grabs.
The rain held off and the festive spirit was out in all its glory at our annual Members Day this year. Our Members Day is the highlight of our events calendar every year and we all look forward to the big day. With Christmas jumpers and Santa hats adorned this year was no exception and we weren't disappointed. We would like to thank all our members who came out on the day to help us celebrate what was a lovely end to a great year.
Congratulations to Helen Ryan, winner of this month's car draw.
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International Credit Union Day has been celebrated on the third Thursday of October since 1948. The day is recognized to reflect upon the credit union movement's history and to promote its achievements. It is a day to honour those who have dedicated their lives to the movement, recognize the hard work of those working in the credit union industry and show members our appreciation.
Congratulations to Michael and Fiona Carey, winners of this month's car draw!
Congratulations to Simon Ryan of Doon, Limerick, winner of this month's car draw!
Congratulations to Kathleen O'Doherty who was the winner of our Membership Records Update Draw.
Thank you to all who visited Beanie and the staff at the Tipperary Festival Food and Craft Fair on Saturday.
Congratulations to our two winners of the Bicycle Draw which ran from the 13th of May to the 30th of June.
This is the first year we held the Transition Year Bursary Awards. The cost of putting a child through Transition Year can range from €500 to €1,000 depending on the school. As a result of this very costly expense the Transition Year Bursary was created.
This year Tipperary Credit Union decided to run a Digital Media Competition for students. Our goal was to engage with our younger members in a medium that they can relate to. Their task was to create a 30-60 second advert about Tipperary Credit Union using the theme "The Credit Union Difference".
Tipperary Credit Union is delighted to announce our sponsorship of the Tipperary Tornadoes Ladies Basketball Team. We would like to wish them all the best for their season.
Congratulations to Kathleen O'Dwyer, Limerick, winner of this months car draw. If you haven't signed up for the member's car draw yet, simply call to any of our branches and fill out the Car Draw form. For just €4 per draw you could be like Kathleen and driving off in a brand new car!!!!
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Please note that all of our branches will be closed Thursday March the 17th for St Patrick's Day. Happy St Patrick's Day from all at Tipperary Credit Union.
All Ireland Art Competition Awards and Exhibition.
Each year in February the Irish League of Credit Unions hosts the annual All Ireland Art Competition Awards and Exhibition. The event recognises aspiring artists from all over the country.
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.. _mixture:

.. _gmm:

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Gaussian mixture models
=======================

.. currentmodule:: sklearn.mixture

``sklearn.mixture`` is a package which enables one to learn
Gaussian Mixture Models (diagonal, spherical, tied and full covariance
matrices supported), sample them, and estimate them from
data. Facilities to help determine the appropriate number of
components are also provided.

 .. figure:: ../auto_examples/mixture/images/sphx_glr_plot_gmm_pdf_001.png
   :target: ../auto_examples/mixture/plot_gmm_pdf.html
   :align: center
   :scale: 50%

   **Two-component Gaussian mixture model:** *data points, and equi-probability
   surfaces of the model.*

A Gaussian mixture model is a probabilistic model that assumes all the
data points are generated from a mixture of a finite number of
Gaussian distributions with unknown parameters. One can think of
mixture models as generalizing k-means clustering to incorporate
information about the covariance structure of the data as well as the
centers of the latent Gaussians.

Scikit-learn implements different classes to estimate Gaussian
mixture models, that correspond to different estimation strategies,
detailed below.

Gaussian Mixture
================

The :class:`GaussianMixture` object implements the
:ref:`expectation-maximization <expectation_maximization>` (EM)
algorithm for fitting mixture-of-Gaussian models. It can also draw
confidence ellipsoids for multivariate models, and compute the
Bayesian Information Criterion to assess the number of clusters in the
data. A :meth:`GaussianMixture.fit` method is provided that learns a Gaussian
Mixture Model from train data. Given test data, it can assign to each
sample the Gaussian it mostly probably belong to using
the :meth:`GaussianMixture.predict` method.

..
    Alternatively, the probability of each
    sample belonging to the various Gaussians may be retrieved using the
    :meth:`GaussianMixture.predict_proba` method.

The :class:`GaussianMixture` comes with different options to constrain the
covariance of the difference classes estimated: spherical, diagonal, tied or
full covariance.

.. figure:: ../auto_examples/mixture/images/sphx_glr_plot_gmm_covariances_001.png
   :target: ../auto_examples/mixture/plot_gmm_covariances.html
   :align: center
   :scale: 75%

.. topic:: Examples:

    * See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_mixture_plot_gmm_covariances.py` for an example of
      using the Gaussian mixture as clustering on the iris dataset.

    * See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_mixture_plot_gmm_pdf.py` for an example on plotting the
      density estimation.

Pros and cons of class :class:`GaussianMixture`
-----------------------------------------------

Pros
....

:Speed: It is the fastest algorithm for learning mixture models

:Agnostic: As this algorithm maximizes only the likelihood, it
  will not bias the means towards zero, or bias the cluster sizes to
  have specific structures that might or might not apply.

Cons
....

:Singularities: When one has insufficiently many points per
   mixture, estimating the covariance matrices becomes difficult,
   and the algorithm is known to diverge and find solutions with
   infinite likelihood unless one regularizes the covariances artificially.

:Number of components: This algorithm will always use all the
   components it has access to, needing held-out data
   or information theoretical criteria to decide how many components to use
   in the absence of external cues.

Selecting the number of components in a classical Gaussian Mixture Model
------------------------------------------------------------------------

The BIC criterion can be used to select the number of components in a Gaussian
Mixture in an efficient way. In theory, it recovers the true number of
components only in the asymptotic regime (i.e. if much data is available and
assuming that the data was actually generated i.i.d. from a mixture of Gaussian
distribution). Note that using a :ref:`Variational Bayesian Gaussian mixture <bgmm>`
avoids the specification of the number of components for a Gaussian mixture
model.

.. figure:: ../auto_examples/mixture/images/sphx_glr_plot_gmm_selection_001.png
   :target: ../auto_examples/mixture/plot_gmm_selection.html
   :align: center
   :scale: 50%

.. topic:: Examples:

    * See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_mixture_plot_gmm_selection.py` for an example
      of model selection performed with classical Gaussian mixture.

.. _expectation_maximization:

Estimation algorithm Expectation-maximization
-----------------------------------------------

The main difficulty in learning Gaussian mixture models from unlabeled
data is that it is one usually doesn't know which points came from
which latent component (if one has access to this information it gets
very easy to fit a separate Gaussian distribution to each set of
points). `Expectation-maximization
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%E2%80%93maximization_algorithm>`_
is a well-founded statistical
algorithm to get around this problem by an iterative process. First
one assumes random components (randomly centered on data points,
learned from k-means, or even just normally distributed around the
origin) and computes for each point a probability of being generated by
each component of the model. Then, one tweaks the
parameters to maximize the likelihood of the data given those
assignments. Repeating this process is guaranteed to always converge
to a local optimum.

.. _bgmm:

Variational Bayesian Gaussian Mixture
=====================================

The :class:`BayesianGaussianMixture` object implements a variant of the
Gaussian mixture model with variational inference algorithms. The API is
similar as the one defined by :class:`GaussianMixture`.

.. _variational_inference:

Estimation algorithm: variational inference
---------------------------------------------

Variational inference is an extension of expectation-maximization that
maximizes a lower bound on model evidence (including
priors) instead of data likelihood. The principle behind
variational methods is the same as expectation-maximization (that is
both are iterative algorithms that alternate between finding the
probabilities for each point to be generated by each mixture and
fitting the mixture to these assigned points), but variational
methods add regularization by integrating information from prior
distributions. This avoids the singularities often found in
expectation-maximization solutions but introduces some subtle biases
to the model. Inference is often notably slower, but not usually as
much so as to render usage unpractical.

Due to its Bayesian nature, the variational algorithm needs more hyper-
parameters than expectation-maximization, the most important of these being the
concentration parameter ``weight_concentration_prior``. Specifying a low value
for the concentration prior will make the model put most of the weight on few
components set the remaining components weights very close to zero. High values
of the concentration prior will allow a larger number of components to be active
in the mixture.

The parameters implementation of the :class:`BayesianGaussianMixture` class
proposes two types of prior for the weights distribution: a finite mixture model
with Dirichlet distribution and an infinite mixture model with the Dirichlet
Process. In practice Dirichlet Process inference algorithm is approximated and
uses a truncated distribution with a fixed maximum number of components (called
the Stick-breaking representation). The number of components actually used
almost always depends on the data.

The next figure compares the results obtained for the different type of the
weight concentration prior (parameter ``weight_concentration_prior_type``)
for different values of ``weight_concentration_prior``.
Here, we can see the the value of the ``weight_concentration_prior`` parameter
has a strong impact on the effective number of active components obtained. We
can also notice that large values for the concentration weight prior lead to
more uniform weights when the type of prior is 'dirichlet_distribution' while
this is not necessarily the case for the 'dirichlet_process' type (used by
default).

.. |plot_bgmm| image:: ../auto_examples/mixture/images/sphx_glr_plot_concentration_prior_002.png
   :target: ../auto_examples/mixture/plot_gmm.html
   :scale: 48%

.. |plot_dpgmm| image:: ../auto_examples/mixture/images/sphx_glr_plot_concentration_prior_002.png
   :target: ../auto_examples/mixture/plot_concentration_prior.html
   :scale: 48%

.. centered:: |plot_bgmm| |plot_dpgmm|

The examples below compare Gaussian mixture models with a fixed number of
components, to the variational Gaussian mixture models with a Dirichlet process
prior. Here, a classical Gaussian mixture is fitted with 5 components on a
dataset composed of 2 clusters. We can see that the variational Gaussian mixture
with a Dirichlet process prior is able to limit itself to only 2 components
whereas the Gaussian mixture fits the data with a fixed number of components
that has to be set a priori by the user. In this case the user has selected
``n_components=5`` which does not match the true generative distribution of this
toy dataset. Note that with very little observations, the variational Gaussian
mixture models with a Dirichlet process prior can take a conservative stand, and
fit only one component.

.. figure:: ../auto_examples/mixture/images/sphx_glr_plot_gmm_001.png
   :target: ../auto_examples/mixture/plot_gmm.html
   :align: center
   :scale: 70%

On the following figure we are fitting a dataset not well-depicted by a
Gaussian mixture. Adjusting the ``weight_concentration_prior``, parameter of the
class:`BayesianGaussianMixture` controls the number of components used to fit
this data. We also present on the last two plots a random sampling generated
from the two resulting mixtures.

.. figure:: ../auto_examples/mixture/images/sphx_glr_plot_gmm_sin_001.png
   :target: ../auto_examples/mixture/plot_gmm_sin.html
   :align: center
   :scale: 65%

.. topic:: Examples:

    * See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_mixture_plot_gmm.py` for an example on
      plotting the confidence ellipsoids for both :class:`GaussianMixture`
      and :class:`BayesianGaussianMixture`.

    * :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_mixture_plot_gmm_sin.py` shows using
      :class:`GaussianMixture` and :class:`BayesianGaussianMixture` to fit a
      sine wave.

    * See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_mixture_plot_concentration_prior.py`
      for an example plotting the confidence ellipsoids for the
      :class:`BayesianGaussianMixture` with different
      ``weight_concentration_prior_type`` for different values of the parameter
      ``weight_concentration_prior``.

Pros and cons of variational inference with :class:`BayesianGaussianMixture`
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Pros
.....

:Automatic selection: when ``weight_concentration_prior`` is small enough and
   ``n_components`` is larger than what is found necessary by the model, the
   Variational Bayesian mixture model has a natural tendency to set some mixture
   weights values close to zero. This makes it possible to let the model choose
   a suitable number of effective components automatically. Only an upper bound
   of this number needs to be provided. Note however that the "ideal" number of
   active components is very application specific and is typically ill-defined
   in a data exploration setting.

:Less sensitivity to the number of parameters: unlike finite models, which will
   almost always use all components as much as they can, and hence will produce
   wildly different solutions for different numbers of components, the
   variantional inference with a Dirichlet process prior
   (``weight_concentration_prior_type='dirichlet_process'``) won't change much
   with changes to the parameters, leading to more stability and less tuning.

:Regularization: due to the incorporation of prior information,
   variational solutions have less pathological special cases than
   expectation-maximization solutions.

Cons
.....

:Speed: the extra parametrization necessary for variational inference make
   inference slower, although not by much.

:Hyperparameters: this algorithm needs an extra hyperparameter
   that might need experimental tuning via cross-validation.

:Bias: there are many implicit biases in the inference algorithms (and also in
   the Dirichlet process if used), and whenever there is a mismatch between
   these biases and the data it might be possible to fit better models using a
   finite mixture.

.. _dirichlet_process:

The Dirichlet Process
---------------------

Here we describe variational inference algorithms on Dirichlet process
mixture. The Dirichlet process is a prior probability distribution on
*clusterings with an infinite, unbounded, number of partitions*.
Variational techniques let us incorporate this prior structure on
Gaussian mixture models at almost no penalty in inference time, comparing
with a finite Gaussian mixture model.

An important question is how can the Dirichlet process use an infinite,
unbounded number of clusters and still be consistent. While a full explanation
doesn't fit this manual, one can think of its `stick breaking process
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet_process#The_stick-breaking_process>`
analogy to help understanding it. The stick breaking process is a generative
story for the Dirichlet process. We start with a unit-length stick and in each
step we break off a portion of the remaining stick. Each time, we associate the
length of the piece of the stick to the proportion of points that falls into a
group of the mixture. At the end, to represent the infinite mixture, we
associate the last remaining piece of the stick to the proportion of points
that don't fall into all the other groups. The length of each piece is random
variable with probability proportional to the concentration parameter. Smaller
value of the concentration will divide the unit-length into larger pieces of
the stick (defining more concentrated distribution). Larger concentration
values will create smaller pieces of the stick (increasing the number of
components with non zero weights).

Variational inference techniques for the Dirichlet process still work
with a finite approximation to this infinite mixture model, but
instead of having to specify a priori how many components one wants to
use, one just specifies the concentration parameter and an upper bound
on the number of mixture components (this upper bound, assuming it is
higher than the "true" number of components, affects only algorithmic
complexity, not the actual number of components used).

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ARCHIVE PHOTO: Parents hoping to enroll their children in LCUSD schools camped outside district headquarters.
Out-of-district families hoping to get their students into La Cañada public schools can leave their sleeping bags, ear warmers and jugs of hot cocoa at home.
The La Cañada Unified School District on Monday announced the introduction of a lottery system that will mean certain categories of permit students will no longer be given priority. As a result, families will not be camping out for a weekend in front of the district office to get to the top of the list, as has been the practice in recent years. Instead, those hoping for a coveted interdistrict permit can bank on one thing only — the luck of the draw.
Board president Scott Tracy agrees.
Parents who work full time within district boundaries, families who reside in the "Sagebrush" area of western La Cañada, or those applying under "open enrollment" provisions will no longer receive priority. Instead, their interdistrict permit applications will be accepted at the district office from March 11 through April 30. Afterward, the district will conduct a lottery to rank student priority by category.
Students of full- and part-time school district employees and siblings of continuing permit students will not have to depend on the new lottery system. They will continue to receive priority for interdistrict permits.
Fewer than 50 permits are expected to be given for the 2013-14 school year. Last year, the school board voted to decrease the interdistrict permit percentage caps to 15% total districtwide and 25% per grade level. The district's permits are nearly at their limits because of the large number of permit students accepted during the last few years.
"The caps are the same as last year," Blumenfeld said.
An increase in kindergarten enrollment has increased the demand for space in local schools, according to Tracy.
While getting a child into the district may not always be easy, the challenge demonstrates the high quality of education in La Cañada, according to Blumenfeld.
The district decided to try the new lottery method after receiving the suggestion from an engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Blumenfeld and Tracy passed along the suggestion to Supt. Wendy Sinnette, who helped draft the official policy change.
District officials are optimistic that the new lottery system will be an improvement on the old camp-out-all-weekend method. Later this spring, they will review how the new permit procedures fared.


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The economics of shipping costs : with particular reference to Tasmanian exporting industries.
Haddon-Cave, Charles Phillip 1946 , 'The economics of shipping costs : with particular reference to Tasmanian exporting industries.', Research Master thesis, University of Tasmania.
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The following study is a revised version of the
report of an examination of shipping costs and their
relation to the cost structure of specific industries
conducted for the Department of Economics and Commerce
of the University of Tasmania in 1945(2)
~ It was decided to conduct this examination for two
main reasons. First, the financial history of Tasmania
since Federation has emphasised the cost of Bass Strait to
the community (Vide Chapters I and II),. Secondly, the
survey I conducted for the University, in 1944 of the
gross and net labor absorptive capacity of Tasmanian
secondary industries suggested that the level of shipping
costs was a determining factor so far as the location
choice and the planning of output policies were concerned.
The analysis in Chapters VII and VIII seems to throw considerable
doubt on the applicability of theories currently
held regarding the factor of transportation cost.
Grateful recognition is made of the co-operation
and assistance in the collection of data received from
both business men and public servants. I desire to
mention particularly the Deputy Commonwealth Statistician
(Mr. R.J. Exley), the Chairman of the State Finance
Committee (Mr. R. G. Osborne), the Director of Industrial
Development {Col. H. B. Bennett), the Commonwealth Actuary
(Mr. W. C. Bamford), the Secretary of the Commonwealth
Department of Supply and Shipping (Mr. G. T. Chippindall),
and, finally, Miss E. S. Lewis for undertaking the preparation
of the typescript.
Haddon-Cave, Charles Phillip
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Copyright 1946 the Author - The University is continuing to endeavour to trace the copyright
owner(s) and in the meantime this item has been reproduced here in good faith. We
would be pleased to hear from the copyright owner(s).

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ASPI's Risk and Resilience Program invites you to a public address by Dr Robert Glasser, ASPI Visiting Fellow & Former Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).
Australia is on the cusp of a new Era of Disasters that will have profound implications for how we organise ourselves to defend Australian lives, economic interests and our way of life. The early warning of this new era is arriving almost daily in news reports from around the world of record-setting droughts, bushfires, floods and storms.
In his address, Dr Glasser will describe the main features of this emerging Era of Disasters. He will argue that it is becoming increasingly problematic for Australia to base its disaster management strategies, policy assumptions, operational arrangements and funding on our historical experience of disasters in a stable climate.
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The Crusades stimulated trade by introducing Europeans to many desirable products.
Trade promoted frequent contacts with the Byzantine and Muslim Empires.
New economic institutions developed.
Economic effects of the Crusades
· Increased demand for Middle Eastern products
· Stimulated production of goods to trade in Middle Eastern markets
· Encouraged the use of credit and banking
Important economic concepts
· Church rule against usury and the banks' practice of charging interest helped to secularize northern Italy.
· Letters of credit served to expand the supply of money and expedite trade.
· New accounting and bookkeeping practices (use of Arabic numerals) were introduced.
Italian City-States and The Prince
Wealth accumulated from European trade with the Middle East led to the rise of Italian city-states. Wealthy merchants were active civic leaders.
Machiavelli observed city-state rulers of his day and produced guidelines for the acquisition and maintenance of power by absolute rule.
Florence, Venice, and Genoa
· Had access to trade routes connecting Europe with Middle Eastern markets
· Served as trading centers for the distribution of goods to northern Europe
· Were initially independent city-states governed as republics
Machiavelli's The Prince
· An early modern treatise on government
· Supports absolute power of the ruler
· Maintains that the end justifies the means
· Advises that one should not only do good if possible, but do evil when necessary
Mona Lisa by da Vinci
The Renaissance produced new ideas that were reflected in the arts, philosophy, and literature. Patrons, wealthy from newly expanded trade, sponsored works that glorified city-states in northern Italy. Education became increasingly secular.
Medieval art and literature focused on the Church and salvation, while Renaissance art and literature focused on individuals and worldly matters, along with Christianity.
Artistic and literary creativity
· Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
· Michelangelo: Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and David
· Petrarch: Sonnets, humanist scholarship
· Celebrated the individual
· Stimulated the study of classical Greek and Roman literature and culture
· Supported by wealthy patrons
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Page from a Gutenberg Bible
With the rise of trade, travel, and literacy, the Italian Renaissance spread to northern Europe. The art and literature of the Italian Renaissance changed as people of different cultures adopted Renaissance ideas.
· Growing wealth in Northern Europe supported Renaissance ideas.
· Northern Renaissance thinkers merged humanist ideas with Christianity.
· The movable type printing press and the production and sale of books (e.g., Gutenberg Bible) helped disseminate ideas.
Northern Renaissance writers
· Erasmus: The Praise of Folly (1511)
· Sir Thomas More: Utopia (1516)
Northern Renaissance artists portrayed religious and secular subjects.
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Crown Court acquits Klarius directors
Date: 4th December 2019 Author: Chris Anthony Comments: 0
Manchester Crown Court cleared five current and past directors and managers of Klarius Products Ltd of charges of selling non-typed approved catalytic converters on 3 December. The case, which was brought by the DVSA, had alleged that between 01/02/2013 and 30/08/2015 the business of Klarius Products Ltd, carried on for fraudulent purposes, the marketing, distribution and sale of counterfeit and non-type approved catalytic converters.
However, after the Department for Transport investigated the claims made by competitors and investigated by the, all were formally acquitted before the trial even started. The Crown Court Judge is reported to have referred to a "shambolic failure" and ruled that no member of the team should stand trial.
Klarius self-reported problems in 2014 and worked with the VCA through to the end of 2015 to rectify production and administrative issues. The VCA found no intentional misconduct and praised Klarius for its co-operation, openness and unfettered access at all levels. In his ruling the Judge referred to individuals from two competitor companies who sought to make commercial gain from the situation.
The Department for Transport indicated that it could not pursue the case and invited the Judge to acquit all five defendants.
Paul Schofield, solicitor acting for Tony Wilson commented: "Today's ruling marks the end of a case we have always maintained was completely misguided, unfair and inappropriate."
Anthony Barnfather, a leading Manchester lawyer, also instructed in the case commented: "This is one of the most unjust prosecutions I have ever come across. After years of being wrongly accused the directors can now get back to business without a stain on their characters."
Klarius Products manufactures Emission Control Products primarily the UK and EU markets. The business supplies type approved exhausts, CATs and DPFs designed, developed and manufactured in the UK and delivered via its own logistics operation. Klarius Products operations are centred on the manufacturing, R&D, test track, logistics and stock facility hub based in Cheadle. Other group companies include KMT machine tools and Emissco engineered fluids.
A month ago similar cases were successfully brought by the DVSA against different exhaust component manufacturing firms in the UK.
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Or… Investing in Your Players So That They Invest in the Story
One of the biggest keys to understand playing a tabletop roleplaying game and specifically, the Cypher System, is the fact that it's a collaboration between players and GM. In a previous post we discussed Character Arcs and how to use them to increase how you roleplay. In this post I'm going to discuss how a tool you can use to help you to create a cohesive group of players, and then discuss immersion.
Party Cohesion
Your Best Game Ever by Monte Cook talks about the concept of Player Character Bonds, which are pre-conceived, intentional story links between Player Characters. This is one way to create cohesion among Player Characters with buy-in from each player.
"Working with the GM, players can choose any bond they wish. PC bonds should be developed in character creation, but with each respective player involved. Obviously, players should agree on their characters' relationships with one another. Character bonds assume that the PCs have known each other since well before the first session. Most bonds are intended for two characters, but most befit a group of more. Three or more characters could be linked with the Close Friends bond, for example. Most characters should have only one PC bond to start the game. It's possible to develop a bond later in the narrative using the Develop a Bond character arc."
Your Best Game Ever, page 86
Every bond offers a benefit and a drawback, but that's part of the charm of working together. Players and player characters along with the GM should be focused on working and having fun together. A group that has fun together will stay together more than a group that becomes a chore for people to play in. Party cohesion by design also helps with maintaining a forward movement in a campaign.
There will come times where issues rear their heads while you are gaming together. Sometimes someone's character will do something somebody else doesn't like. When that happens, it's important to clearly communicate. Not just what they did and that you didn't like it, but also why you didn't like it. Sometimes people do things in the heat of the moment without thinking about it. "Hey, you attacked this really important NPC for no apparent reason… why did you attack them?" Clear communication is always important.
Creating Immersion
Creating Immersion with props and handouts can be difficult, particularly on a Virtual Tabletop, however it can be done to a certain extent. Handouts can be created and uploaded digitally on Roll20 to give your players something to read or look at. Images of NPCs or monsters can give them visual cues. Maps help them remember where they are, where they've been, and what they're doing. Many VTT's allow you to create audio playlists which can be music (which I don't personally recommend) or ambient sounds (which can be excellent to set a mood as long as the volume level is kept under control). Whispers, or direct messages between the GM and the player can give the illusion that they're by themselves when they're separate from the party, gathering information for example.
If you are playing in person, you have a much wider range of choices. There are other props, many of which I can remember from our D&D days. The faded letters written with a fountain pen, or printed on a printer with aged parchment, then water glasses dripped on them to give that blotched look. Fancy invitations, and bottles filled with red or green liquid with wax seals (don't actually drink the liquid, unless it's deemed safe) or if you're a big LARPer full costume. One of the recent excellent examples of this is the included handout packet (and supplementary purchasable one) from Invisible Sun. Immersion is about letting the story take you, letting your mind believe, for a little while anyway, that you are inside the world of the story. There's a reason why so many videos, games and tv shows focus so much on the little details, because if they don't, then it's lost.
Recently (or… within the past year or so), several memes have gone around about the Game of Thrones scene in the final season where you see a Starbucks cup in front of Daenerys Targaryen. Many television shows and movies have had things, seemingly little things, cause people to come back to reality as their brain questions – the story is no longer believable. Having things out of place in a game setting, unless it's also part of the setting means that immersion gets broken. Make sure, no matter what game you're playing, you take the time to think of what the setting is, the time period and what is happening both to the players and around them. This is just as important for the players as the GMs as players can and do break the immersion for other players.
Your session zero should include plans to build in both party cohesion and immersion in the story, by getting everyone at the table to agree on expectations and buy in to the basic premises of the game. The more you take the time to do so up front, the smoother your storytelling will go in-game, and the more vivid and memorable your sessions and stories will be. I hope this information was helpful and that you enjoyed it. Happy gaming!
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Web application security for the most vulnerable layer
Web application security was one of the themes at Boston's SecureWorld, but both security tools vendors and attendees stress more education is needed among developers.
Colleen Frye
Applications are today's corporate treasures -- they represent an organization's intellectual property and competitive advantage. It's no surprise, then, that application security is emerging as one of the next major frontiers of security, with a variety of new techniques and tools targeting the software developer as well as the software development life cycle (SDLC).
But according to both vendors and attendees at last week's SecureWorld Expo in Boston, it's not a software problem alone -- education and security awareness throughout organizations are also key.
"The threat environment has changed -- attackers have gone pro," said Ted Julian, vice president of marketing at Application Security Inc. in New York. "There's money to be made turning data in cash, like Social Security numbers. And there's no question organized crime has gotten involved, so there's a more determined attacker. It changes the nature of what they're trying to target. Most Web servers don't have a whole lot of data, but they're connections to the back-end systems with the data."
While most organizations have taken steps to secure their networks, Julian stressed that "important data lives on the system. It's only on the network for fractions of seconds."
Chris Strand, subject matter expert for security solutions at Compuware Corp. of Canada in Richmond Hill, Ontario, agreed. "A lot of risk resides at the application layer," he said.
Organizations should encourage review of architectural design and do threat analysis at a high level. We need to train developers to think like security people.
George F. Johnson
Software engineerEMC Corp.
As a result, the push is on to build security into the entire application life cycle -- something developers have not traditionally been responsible for. "One first reaction from developers is, who cares?" said Roger Thornton, founder and chief technology officer of Fortify Software Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif. "The business risk makes us care. We're so dependent on software [to run the business]."
Thornton, Strand and Julian were all panelists in the session "New Tools and Techniques to Discover Software Security Flaws" at the conference. According to Julian, there are two vulnerability classes in software applications:
Flaws in the software that create a security condition
Application Security offers a range of products targeted at database security and application vulnerability assessment. The company's vulnerability assessment scanner, AppDetective, locates database applications within the infrastructure and reports and fixes security holes and misconfigurations.
Compuware and Fortify both target application developers. The companies offer tools for finding, tracking and fixing code that has security flaws or vulnerabilities.
"The single most important benefit from looking at code is the code exists before the application," Thornton said. "Once you get more adept at doing code reviews, you can make fixes before you're done. Today, development teams do nothing and fail [penetration] tests."
"Inject the security process into what [the developers] do; they already do code analysis. The potential market is huge," Strand said. "We've taken the security approach and rolled it into the process, building a repeatable process, to carry security across the life cycle."
Making security part of the application life cycle is going to be critical, the panelists stressed, and the earlier in the cycle the better. Thornton recommends introducing application security to the development team at the requirements stage.
Strand recommends bringing security in at the modeling stage and assigning risks and measurables. "Insert the risk of security flaws into best practices," he said. However, it's impossible to eliminate all flaws, so a risk assessment is key. "You can't inundate developers with thousands of violations. You need to filter high-risk areas. Have measurables in best practices first, then use an automated tool to filter the high-risk areas."
SecureWorld attendee George F. Johnson, a staff software engineer at EMC Corp. in Hopkinton, Mass., said organizations should "encourage review of architectural design and do threat analysis at a high level -- what are the assets I'm protecting? We need to train developers to think like security people."
Even with automated tools to make the job easier, it's a mindset change that may not be easy, said Charlie Brooks of Charles L. Brooks Consulting in Belmont, Mass. "I don't think the lines [between developers and security professionals] will ever blur. It's like taking a Mercedes off-road -- they're not built for that," he said.
Application security throughout the SDLC
Secure SDLC: Integrating security into you software development life cycle
Baking security into the SDLC better than bolting on later
Threat modeling key to pro-active security
Organizations can find a balance, though, Thornton said. "Most successful companies have a security lead with the development team," he said. "I believe a security organization can have an overlay in the development organization. It's a balance. There's a certain mindset to be a good security person, and it's critical to pull the developers along."
Today, Strand said Compuware is spending a lot of time educating developers on this topic. "I see a need to educate the community, about how threat analysis and best practices can be inserted into the process. This market is starting to accept this. We're on the edge of something great."
Tools alone won't solve the problem, though. Thornton recommended getting started by "understanding the risk and threats, at least at the same time you're looking at tools. There's a lot of noise out there, a lot of network vendors that are just putting the word 'application' onto their offerings. Get the playing field figured out. Bite off a small piece, maybe with one development ream that's motivated."
Summed up Application Security's Julian: "This will be the most significant wave of the security rollout so far. [Applications] are where the crown jewels are."
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The Ten Hottest Medical Technologies in 2019
Medical technology has come a long way since the invention of eyeglasses and the stethoscope. The broader availability of mobile internet, the expansion of a more affluent middle class, and an aging global population are all driving change in the healthcare industry, and the associated technology is changing faster than ever before. According to a profile of the healthcare industry by the World Economic Forum, more than half of the medical industry's workforce is projected to need at least some reskilling in the near future.
Many of the most interesting new technologies in medicine need to be used together, and integrated attempts to do so already exist. Some tech-inspired clinics, such as Forward and One Medical, take a concierge-like approach to primary care, putting technology to use in a way that providers get more quality time with their patients. But that is just the beginning.
You will recognize a lot of the tech on this list because most of the important technologies changing healthcare are the same technologies changing other industries. The difference, though, is in the application, and the genius is in the details.
Read on to learn about the ten hottest medical technologies for 2019.
1. Personalized Medicine
If there is one overarching trend to all the advances in medical technology, it is the personalization of medicine and treating individuals as such. While this is occurring at several levels, it is most readily apparent in biotechnology and pharmacology.
One area of application is pharmacogenomics, which is seeing rapid development as a possible method of abating the opiate crisis in America. Scientists and doctors can study an individual's likely responses to drugs and doses and select personalized regimens accordingly so that they avoid some of the dangerous side effects of overprescribing a scheduled drug.
The second application is in RNA-based therapeutics, which seeks to "interfere" with genetic data at the RNA level and intercept a genetic abnormality before it gets translated into functioning (or non-functioning) proteins. The more successful methods of personalized RNA therapy (e.g., antisense nucleotides and RNA interference) are looking to combat rare genetic conditions such as Huntington's Disease, neurologic disorders, and forms of cancer.
2. Telehealth
Advances in video conferencing technology, combined with the expansion of mobile internet and the proliferation of wearable devices, have made telehealth is one of the most important trends in medical technology in 2019. Utilizing a mobile device and a two-way camera, care providers can have one-on-one encounters with patients from a distance. These patients are usually either in rural areas or unable to secure transportation to a physical facility.
Health monitors such as wearable devices can check for heart rate, blood pressure, and blood oxygenation. Web-enabled and app-enabled supplements can filter patient requests accordingly and save both providers and patients critical time and energy. Even the most routine telehealth visits can save lives. They reduce barriers to care such as transportation, language, and geography.
For older people living alone, regular checkups can help avoid strokes, heart attacks, and other adverse events, and, logistically, there is less risk of exposure to other diseases. As the technology improves and incorporates augmented and virtual reality, usage could graduate from simple virtual check-ups to a whole fleet of medical procedures performed remotely, even including, with the aid of robotics, full-fledged surgical operations.
3. Blockchain
Data breaches cost companies globally on average $3.86 million annually, and the healthcare industry suffers the highest cost per individual breach. Combine that figure with the fact that medical facilities are data goldmines that contain some of the most private and valuable information about an individual, and you have a huge security risk that grows as fast as technology does.
Compounding the problem is the idea that sharing medical data between facilities, and between scientists, could vastly quicken the development of effective treatments, but the propensity to share such data is dampened by the fear of a security breach. The magic bullet for all these concerns, many experts think, is blockchain technology.
Built around a system of currently unhackable cryptography, blockchain tech keeps a distributed ledger of vast amounts of information. This not only securely stores data, but it cuts out the middleman and saves costs for providers and patients alike. Blockchain can also reduce the possibility of fraud—Medicare fraud alone costs the US about $60 billion a year. One early blockchain system seeking to solve all this is ALLIVE, which consists of an entire healthcare ecosystem, including an encrypted health profile and even an AI doctor. More such systems will be sure to follow.
4. AI & Machine Learning
Humans and computers are good at different things and need to work in tandem to deliver top quality medical care. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are at their best when supplied with vast amounts of raw data, much as one would find flowing in and out of a medical facility. From there, they help physicians and care providers by taking the uncertainty out of image scan analysis, reducing burnout, and giving decision support in non-absolute diagnoses and treatment options.
Algorithms and virtual assistants enable physicians to see more patients a day and use the time with each patient more effectively. AI is increasingly being used in remote monitoring and telehealth applications. Future revolutions in computing power, such as quantum computing, could make it possible to analyze millions of CAT scans (or, with secure sharing infrastructures and pooled datasets, practically every CAT scan in existence). From that could come major revelations for medical science, as detected patterns could be used to treat, prevent, or predict diseases. AI and ML are, like many disruptive technologies, ones that get better with use.
5. Cancer Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy is changing definitions in the medical world, primarily by curing previously un-curable diseases. The premise of immunotherapy is to genetically alter a patient's cells to work in tandem with the body's immune system to fight cancer. Unlike chemotherapy, immunotherapy does not destroy healthy cells as collateral damage. By altering the immune system, one can "teach" it to detect and destroy more cancerous cells and reduce tumor growth.
A promising area of medicine for almost a decade, immunotherapy continues to highlight new immunotherapeutic targets and biomarkers. New treatments in combination with joint therapy and engineered T-cells can create what will ideally be effective therapies for a wide range of tumor profiles.
6. 3D Printing
The first ever 3D-printed object was a piece of low-grade medical technology, an eye-wash cup, and has come a long way since. Medical devices can now be perfectly matched to the exact specifications of a patient, and be compatible with their natural anatomy. A patient's body is more likely to accept implants, prosthetics, and devices when they're perfectly aligned and customized, and the patient often expresses greater comfort and improved performance outcomes as a result.
The most significant developments in 3D printing have come in external prosthetics, cranial or orthopedic implants, and custom airway stents. But it has also proven helpful in surgical planning and has been used in complex open heart surgeries, and even Cleveland Clinic's total face transplant. Talks of printing human tissue have suggested that organ transplants may one day be obsolete.
7. Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality
Augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) have several applications in the medical world. Simulated and hybrid environments have found a natural fit in medical education, providing simulation training that enhances and works alongside traditional school. Immersive learning with AR and VR headsets can cater to several different learning styles at once by engaging the full range of senses: audio, visual, and kinesthetic.
VR can be used in physical therapy to help patients recover from complex limb injuries and even has applications in areas like mental trauma where it can alleviate phobias and PTSD through customized exposure and treatment. In the surgical theater, Cambridge Consultants developed AR glasses that let surgeons see the inside of a patient's body by superimposing data from 3D scans and CAT scans. This provides a revolutionary level of visibility into minimally invasive "keyhole surgeries," and requires practically no additional training to use.
Based on the low learning curve and relatively low cost of use, further developments should see the medical landscape further merge with augmented and virtual reality.
8. Robotic Surgery
Robotics has been making an impact on medical care since the 1980s, but as the technology behind it has improved, the applications have increased exponentially. Nanobots in the bloodstream can diagnose and prevent disease. Exoskeletons can assist with physical therapy and counteract movement disabilities. But perhaps the most visible (and multi-armed) application for 2019 is robotic surgery.
Robotic surgery is minimally invasive, more precise, less prone to infection, and quicker to heal. Image-guided robots can now investigate lesions on the brain without damaging any of the surrounding tissue. They can shape a bone to precisely fit a prosthetic with the accuracy a human never could. The da Vinci robotic surgical system is already used in 200,000 operations a year but the onset of superfast 5G connections will soon allow remote surgery, and what once was considered a novelty could quickly become standard practice.
9. Quantum Computing
We are still in the early stages for quantum computing, but this technology has already been used in combination with machine learning to quickly recognize medical tools and annotations during cataract surgery—the most commonly performed surgery in the world. While much of quantum computing's potential is still to be actualized, past performance has already caused significant optimism for applications in medical imaging, genomics, and drug discovery.
A revolutionary amount of computational power may soon make it viable to consider all possible outcomes of incredibly complex scenarios, such as drug interactions and comparisons, or more rapidly and cheaply sequencing human genomes. The deluge of data that comes with such discoveries can be quantumly computed to further other discoveries. Already, some tech giants like IBM offer quantum cloud computing as a means for people to familiarize themselves with the format and capabilities of such technology.
That said, the real applications and heavy lifting will require substantial development and investment. There may not be significant concrete gains in quantum computing for 2019, but there will be lots of investment and boardroom discussions about it.
10. The Internet of Things (IoT)
Medical facilities are brimming with gizmos and teeming with data, but the internet of things (IoT) is getting all those separate elements to talk to each other, and the results have had an immediate impact.
New York City-based Mt. Sinai Medical Center cut its emergency room wait time by 50 percent through a partnership with GE Healthcare to use an IoT software called AutoBed. The program tracks the occupancy of 1,200 beds and processes up to 80 bed requests at a time, solving the puzzle-like logistics of who to place where and when. It does so with greater efficiency and transparency than staff members would by taking into account nurse proximity, granular demographics, and over a dozen other metrics to better assess and serve the patients' individual needs.
IoT can also be used to monitor a facility's medical technologies and issue performance alerts when they fail or are about to fail, as is the case of e-Alert, a Philips product designed to monitor MRI system performance. By issuing mobile updates and performance reports to staff, a relatively low-intensity failsafe is put in place, saving money and time in the process. Further applications of IoT can be used to track staff, patients, devices, and other assets in a critical setting. With big players like Microsoft serving up enterprise-level healthcare IoT packages, it is poised to become an integral part of a medical facility's infrastructure.
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Cahiers (CIMAGL)
Fondée en 1969
Gérant responsable: Sten Ebbesen
CIMAGL publishes 1 to 3 issues per year of varying length.
Issues 1-40 each DKK 50; Issues 41-50 each DKK 75; Issues 51-60 each DKK 125; Issues 61- each DKK 200.
CIMAGL publishes work done in the Department of Greek and Latin at the University of Copenhagen, or in collaboration with the Department. The research presented mainly has to do with the Latin trivium and quadrivium, and with Byzantine music. CIMAGL publishes no book reviews.
Vols. 6, 8, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 22-23 are no longer available.
Éditeur/Editor:
Maître de conférences Sten Ebbesen
Institut de Grec et Latin
Université de Copenhague
Karen Blixens Plads 8
DK-2300 København S
e-mail: se@hum.ku.dk
Maison d'édition/Publisher:
Ordre: order@mtp.dk
CIMAGL may be obtained in two ways:
1. By purchase. Standing orders and orders for single issues should be addressed to the bookseller, Museum Tusculanum Press.
2. By exchange with other scholarly periodicals within the fields of medieval philology, medieval history, history of medieval learning, or history of music. Proposals for exchange arrangements should be addressed in writing to the editor, Sten Ebbesen.


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2017 Riesling Grand Cru "Brand"
Brand is an imposing grand cru, standing steep and proud above the town of Turckheim, exposed due south and planted in pure granite. Hot stone is a theme in this wine, not unlike Rangen, although less peaty, and similar in style to Ostertag's Heissenberg terroir, if you are familiar with that wine. Brand is Boxler's most powerful Riesling—deeply flavored, colored, and structured, built to age. These vines work hard to make a living, and the intensity of that struggle shines through magnanimously.
—Dixon Brooke
Wine Type: white
Blend: Riesling
Appellation: Alsace Grand Cru
Region: Alsace
Producer: Albert Boxler
Winemaker: Jean Boxler
Vineyard: 40 years
Soil: Granite
Aging: Vinified in stainless steel
Farming: Organic (practicing)
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Tragically, Alsace might be the most misunderstood wine region of France. In spite of its long history of viticulture and tremendous diversity of pedigreed terroirs, a past fraught with marketing mishaps has left consumers baffled as to what exactly to expect inside one of these mysterious tall, thin bottles.
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