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01 SEAFDEC Publications
10 Institutional and Annual Meeting Reports
Anniversary Highlights
A Half-century Journey of SEAFDEC
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Secretariat, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
Having been established on 28 December 1967, SEAFDEC would celebrate its Golden Jubilee by December 2017. With the compelling mission that seeks "to develop and manage the fisheries potential of the region by rational utilization of the resources for providing food security and safety to the people and alleviating poverty through transfer of new technologies, research and information dissemination activities," SEAFDEC puts its faith in its Secretariat and five Technical Departments with the guidance of the SEAFDEC Council of Directors representing the Fisheries Agencies of its eleven Member Countries. As SEAFDEC now enters the threshold of its fifty years in the Southeast Asian region, it nurtures its efforts in promoting sustainable fisheries and in majestically attaining monumental technological advancements that veered the course of the region's fisheries development towards sustainability. Through diligence and perseverance, SEAFDEC has been able to reap the fruits of its hard work obtaining greatness in terms of the quality of its achievements and is committed to sustain such efforts in the years ahead. In fact, the impacts of such efforts on the sustainability of the region's fisheries have been chronicled through the various publications of SEAFDEC including the Special Publication, Fish for the People. Considering therefore the significance of the 50 years of existence of SEAFDEC in the region, the Information Program Coordination (IPC) Office at the SEAFDEC Secretariat commemorates this significant year of continued quest for progress and growth in sustainable fisheries development in Southeast Asia with this special Coffee Table Book. The main intention of coming up with this Coffee Table Book is to portray the 50-year journey of SEAFDEC in sustainably revolutionizing the region's fisheries, a quest which should go on beyond its Golden Jubilee. It is hoped that this Coffee Table Book would inspire our audience and enhance the visibility of SEAFDEC as an important contributor to the integration of the fisheries sector into the ASEAN Economic Community. As fourth in the series of Coffee Table Books produced by SEAFDEC, the first when SEAFDEC celebrated its 20th year in the region in 1987, the second during its silver jubilee in 1992, and the third on its 30th anniversary in 1997, this Golden Jubilee version is a special one as it reflects SEAFDEC's achievements during the past 50 years and portray some foresights for the coming years. Although spearheaded by the IPC Office, production of this special Coffee Table Book also involved all the SEAFDEC Technical Departments, especially in terms of their respective historical information and accomplishments with photographs. Responses from those people who had once worked with SEAFDEC were valuable to complete the saga of SEAFDEC through the years and what is expected from the Center in the future.
This Coffee Table Book contains important historical facts that led to the establishment of SEAFDEC as well as those of the Technical Departments. Milestones of the Technical Departments are also chronicled to see how far SEAFDEC has gone in terms of technical advancements. However, considering that it was not all "beds of roses" for SEAFDEC as there were indeed "ups and downs," this version therefore embraces not only the achievements but also the "misfortunes" and the hardships encountered along the way. Also included is a recollection of the assistance endowed by people who had served as its "bridge over troubled waters," for SEAFDEC to overcome the adversities making the Center much stronger, deeply rooted and invincible. Thus, from a mere cocoon that went through sacrifices, a butterfly has been released and ready to soar high and sail into the wind, and that is what SEAFDEC is all about through the 50 years of its existence and beyond.
A Half-century Journey of SEAFDEC [1]


Operating as a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) in Egypt is no mean feat. Aside from the fear of further crackdowns following last week's raids and what civil society groups are calling a government-led "smear campaign," advisory council spokesperson Mohamed El-Khouly on Wednesday urged Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to issue a law further regulating the already carefully monitored activities of NGOs. Most groups are on guard.
The fear of investigation is so keenly felt that Ahram Online has received several reports of civil society groups sending staff members home for the week, encouraging workers to remove all personal belongings from offices, and duplicating and securing key files and documents.
Many groups who initially spoke out against the police raids on NGO offices are now declining to comment. On Tuesday, the German government announced it would send a special envoy to Egypt because the German Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Foundation had been raided.
In the latest development, prominent civil society workers and activists (including some whose offices were raided) are set to take legal action against Egypt's Al-Wafd newspaper following unfounded allegations published in its online edition that the groups had received American funding. The offending article referenced a US diplomatic cable, recently published by online whistleblower Wikileaks, which documented several meetings between Egyptian NGO activists and American diplomats.
Daily News Egypt reported on Tuesday that the editor of Al-Wafd's online news portal, Adel Sabry, had admitted to inaccuracies in the article on a television talk show. Nevertheless, the piece, entitled ''Wikileaks announces the names of those who got American funding", remains online.
Interestingly, the Egyptian police website ( www.egypolice.com), an informal webpage run by the media office of the Ministry of Interior, picked up the Al-Wafd story and – despite both parties having access to a translation of the Wikileaks document – simultaneously published a post entitled, "Urgent and surprising… Wikileaks announces on its website the activists and politicians that had American funding." The fact that a website claiming to represent one arm of the Egyptian security apparatus is taking the (factually incorrect) state party-line of a supposed "opposition" party newspaper is concerning.
Ali believes the action taken against NGOs is likely to escalate. "They may even take some groups to court and imprison NGO workers," he told Ahram Online. Ali also fears his organisation will be targeted as it is mentioned in a recent government fact-finding report.
The list includes the three American NGOs – the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the International Republican Institute (IRI) and Freedom House – that were raided last Thursday.
Foreign funding has also been another reason to target NGOs, which, again, must be approved by the Ministry of Social Solidarity. In August, the Supreme State Security Prosecution launched investigations into foreign funding allegations, warning that groups could be charged with high treason, conspiracy against the state and compromising national security through the implementation of foreign agendas.
This is despite the fact that the Egyptian Armed Forces receive $1.3 billion in annual military aid from the US in an agreement that links Egypt to Israel's US aid package.
Bypassing legal means of funding can sometimes be the only way to work effectively on the ground, civil society workers say, forcing NGOs to violate the law and encouraging corruption. The legal situation for these NGOs leaves them in a precarious position, as outlined in a complaint letter written by civil society groups to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCR) following the recent crackdown on NGOs.
The 2003 legislation, which the letter says is systematically vague and has not been updated since the fall of the Mubarak regime, states that NGOs can only be created with approval from the Ministry of Solidarity (see Article 6). Article 17 of the law confirms that all receipt of funds must go through the ministry, while articles 34 and 42 give the Ministry of Social Solidarity and the security apparatus the right to object to board elections and disqualify candidates from the board. It also gives them extensive rights to dissolve civic associations.
The document cites the treatment of the New Woman Foundation as a recent example of ministry interference in the work of NGOs. The ministry was able to reject a prestigious international award the foundation had received on the grounds that the foundation was advocating for a new law conforming to international standards, which the ministry claimed was outside the remit of NGOs.
The purpose and details of last week's raids on NGO offices remain unclear.
Abu El-Naga, who appears to be the spokeswoman for the crackdown, gave no clear explanation as to why this particular group of civil society organisations had been chosen. The initial number of offices targeted was set at 17, but was then reduced to ten in the national and international media. Until now, Ahram Online has only been able to confirm seven. No official list has been issued.
Ahram Online can confirm that the targeted organisations are the NDI, the IRI, Freedom House, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Foundation, the Arab Centre for Independence of the Judiciary and Legal Profession (ACIJLP), the Budgetary and Human Rights Observatory and the Future Centre of Judiciary Studies.
There are some obvious political motives behind the choice. The three American organisations are on the NGO hit-list drawn up by the Ministry of Justice. The Budgetary and Human Rights Observatory has been campaigning against the secrecy of the military budget – a controversial topic and one of the main features of the SCAF's supra-constitutional proposal. Nasser Amin, ACIJLP director and Helwan parliamentary candidate, recently filed a court case because of potential vote rigging.
Civil society groups also question the use of paramilitary troops rather than normal police officers and the bizarre behaviour of the security forces, which included confiscating a water boiler, inspecting bathrooms and looking at a roof. Several of these groups have been operating since 2005 – so why raid them now? Then, in a televised interview with Abul-Naga, the government claimed the SCAF had no knowledge of the raids.
Why no investigation into Salafis once again? Official government figures show they got the most money of all from foreign organisations. Yet again SCAF siding with the Islamists - but you can't reason with a mad dog. He'll bite you eventually. The main winners from American money? SCAF! Billions of dollars. Investigate yourself! Promotion of extremists and assaults on democrats. And the Prime Minister wonders why the West and the Arabs haven't funded Egypt. Would it not have been better to side with the liberals and the revolutionaries from the start? Where do SCAF think turning away from democracy into extremism will place Egypt? Do they really want civil war so they can have another Mubarak? Would that really be worth all this?
The cable in question, where the American embassy writes that it supports Egyptian NGOs, is from 2010, when Mubarak ruled. Does SCAF see the toppling of its former leader, the dictator Mubarak, as treason?
Yes of course all Scaf generals were happy with Mobarak.Did any generals resign? or even thought about that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


any major changers out there?
I am definitely a non-trad and have changed my major once in the past.
I don't see any reason for it to look bad. I've changed my major twice from bio, biochem, to chem.
You're just figuring out what you really want to do and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Major doesn't really matter to med schools. You can change it a billion times and likely they won't care that much. All you have to do is show good academic performance and take the prerequisits.
Just to clarify, are you changing careers or have you been out of school for a while (a non trad)? Or are you talking about going to medical school and not having a traditional pre-med degree (bio, chem, etc)?
The explanations are very different.
I changed my major and no one has cared. I've gotten accepted to all the research projects I want anyway.
I define myself as a non-trad because I have been going to college since 2005. I worked 50 hrs/week during my first 2.5 years at a community college so I never went full time. At that point I was an English major. I switched to Anthropology during my last semester at CC. I was about to move across the state and go to my dream university but my financing (IE my dad) fell through. So I just transferred to a local state university. I have been taking 15+ units per semester since I got here. I recently began my pre-med reqs so I have another 2 years to go due to all of the chemistry requirements.
Thus I am a non-trad. I worry about my major change counting against me since I have already taken so many years to obtain my undergrad degree. I do have a 3.8 GPA however.
But thanks for all the insight. Apparently its not as big of a deal as I thought.
Your GPA is great. Switching your major is no big deal if you keep your grades up.
Also, you really wouln't be considered non traditional by the classical definition. Most non trads are career changers, significantly older, or have been out of school for a while (multiple years). Since you have been in college since '05, I would consider you traditional. However, your experience may give your application more "depth," which med schools view favorably.
I would assume as long as what you were doing made sense (working during school therefore not taking as many hours, transferring schools) you would be fine. I've been in college since 2005 as well. I'll graduate in the fall of 2011 with 2 degrees, and everything I did has a rational explanation behind it.
As long as you didn't take a semester off to use/deal cocaine or something equally crazy, I think people like us would be slightly better candidates than some younger bright eyed, bushy tailed kids. You've had the responsibilities of having a job, you poked around for awhile trying to figure out what you wanted to do. You got older and wiser, realized you wanted to do something that mattered.
My transcript shows above every semester what my major was at that time. Like the first semester it says "undeclared".
My major change is also listed on my transcript though unless your familiar with my school it will probably make no sense. They use some of the weirdest abbreviations known to man.
My community college has this obnoxious practice of making you designate your "objective". So on those transcripts it lists ridiculous things like "English Major seeking AA with transfer to 4 year college"
Agreed. Med schools like people with depth of character and breadth of experience vs single, laser focus and sheltered life. At least I think they accept more people like this. They also accept incredibly focused people who are brilliant, especially for research.
So plan to play up your experiences as a bonus and your coursework and real work as self-supporting intellectual curiosity. supporting your own education is impressive. let them know it. Do it baby!
I am really uplifted by all these comments. I felt my "experience" was a detriment. I've never wanted to be a cookie cutter 4 year pre-med but I've always felt like my major change would demonstrate indecisiveness. But basically I became a pre-med after one year of working in a health care related agency so its pretty easy for me to explain why I had a change of heart.
i was premed in college and then flew airplanes for 10 years. no trouble explaining it when you wrap a good life story around it.


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title: Extended support to optimal planners: CForest + tree pruning
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The OMPL has extended its capabilities regarding optimal planning by implementing the CForest parallelization framework and the RRTstar (RRT*) tree pruning option. Both of them work under the same assumptions:
- The configuration space obeys the triangle inequality.
- There exists an admissible heuristic (for the optimization objective!).

We are looking forward you to use these new features and hear your feedback!

## RRTstar tree prunning

Pruning was implemented as a tool for the CForest parallelization framework. However, as it is a useful tool (that other RRT* versions also use) we decided to implement it as an independent feature.

Every time RRT* finds a new, better solution, it is possible to discard those nodes of the tree that surely will not lead to a better solution. Moreover, it is also possible to immediately discard those samples that will not be useful, thus saving tons of time.

Therefore, the search tree will focus on those zones in which the solution can be only improved. This implies a speedup in the convergence rate since the probability of sampling states close to the optimal path is increased.

### How to use it?

To use this feature just use the RRTstar planner as always and add a call to its setPrune() method with a true argument.

### Results

These two images correspond to benchmarks carried out in the alpha 1.5 puzzle and with the kinematic chain problem using 10 links, respectively.

![RRTstar vs pruned RRTstar in alpha 1.5 puzzle]({{ site.url }}/files/alpha_rrt_prune.png){: width="80%"}

**RRT* vs pruned RRT* in alpha 1.5 puzzle**

![RRTstar vs pruned RRTstar in a 10-links kinematic chain]({{ site.url }}/files/kinematic_rrt_prune.png){: width="80%"}

**RRT* vs pruned RRT* in a 10-links kinematic chain**

We highly recommend to benchmark whether the prune utility is interesting for the problem you aim to solve. We never found standard RRT* to outperform pruned RRT*, however for some specific (usually easy to solve) problems the gain is too little. For the general case, the convergence towards the optimal path is greatly improved.

## CForest parallelization framework

Now, let's move to the next level. What if instead of one single random tree we grow many of them in parallel?  Probability of finding a better solution increases. But now, going a bit further, what if we allow the trees to communicate each other, so they share the best paths found so far? Then, we would be thinking in the CForest parallelization framework.

This very simple, yet powerful idea is already implemented in OMPL! CForest expands many trees in different threads (running underlying planner instances of regular planning algorithms, such RRT*). Every time a new, better solution is found by one of the trees, it is shared to all other trees. Also, trees are pruned according to the new shared path.

### How to use it?

CForest has been included as a new geometric planner, in order to make it easier for the user. Create it as any other planner. By default, it will expand as many trees as available cores in your machine. However, you can configure it to any number of threads and also you can decide if you want to prune the trees.

New demos have been included into OMPL that show how to use and configure it.

Currently, RRT* is the only underlying planner for the CForest available in OMPL. However, any incremental, optimal planning algorithm could be intergrated into CForest. Check the code documentation to learn how.

### Results

CForest implies a huge performance improvement in most of the problems. The convergence towards a path with optimal cost is much faster, as the following images show, running CForest with 4, 8 and 16 trees (in independent CPUs):

![CForest vs RRT* in alpha 1.5 puzzle]({{ site.url }}/files/alpha_prune.png){: width="80%"}

**CForest vs RRT* in alpha 1.5 puzzle**

![CForest vs RRT* in the circles grid benchmark]({{ site.url }}/files/circle_prune.png){: width="80%"}

**CForest vs RRT* in the circles grid benchmark**

![CForest vs RRT* in a 10-links kinematic chain]({{ site.url }}/files/kinematic_prune.png){: width="80%"}

**CForest vs RRT* in a 10-links kinematic chain**

### Only 1 cpu available?

Do not worry! Take a look at the following picture. There, CForest expanding 2, 4 and 8 threads in a single core is being compared to standard RRT* and pruned RRT* pruned in the alpha 1.5 puzzle. Even this way, we are getting an important speedup! This is what CForest authors called sequential CForest. In this case, we built it implicitly as each tree is running in a separate thread, but all threads are running in the same CPU.

Be careful, if you increment the number of threads too much, it could happen that CForest introduces too much overhead and it can result in a performance worsening.

![Single core CForest vs RRT* in a alpha 1.5 puzzle]({{ site.url }}/files/alpha_1thread.png){: width="80%"}

**Single core CForest vs RRT* in a alpha 1.5 puzzle**

### Important Notes

CForest is designed for single-query, shortest path planning problems. This does not restrict it to path length optimization. Optimizing path execution time or energy consumed can be treated as shortest path length.

If you want to push CForest to its limits, please read carefully the API documentation and the optimal planning section. There are many differences with the paper version that you could take into account. We aimed to keep the code as simple as possible.

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Pakistan: NGO joint alternative report denounces ongoing torture in Pakistan ahead of UN review
Geneva, 18 April 2017 – Ahead of today's review by the United Nations torture watchdog today, a new civil-society report denounces that Pakistan must do much more to ensure that children, women and prisoners are free from torture.
As the State's own report failed to do so, this so-called alternative report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) draws attention to several of Pakistan's glaring violations of the Convention Against Torture ahead of the first review of Pakistan by the Committee Against Torture's experts during its 60th session.
Pakistan, which ratified the Convention in 2010 and submitted its own report last year, more than four years behind schedule, failed to take the necessary steps to prevent torture, punish torturers and protect victims. Quite the contrary, Pakistan has lifted the moratorium on the death penalty and executed hundreds including detainees who were tortured for confessions.
In addition, most of Pakistan's criminal law, inherited from the British rule, is outdated and doesn't specifically define and criminalize all forms of torture. Several anti-torture draft bills are pending in Parliament for several years already but have not received the necessary support from the government or the majority of parliament. In addition, corporal punishment and other forms of violence against children – whether in educational institutions, at work, or at home – are not absolutely prohibited in the country.
Those responsible for violence against women in Pakistan – especially crimes of 'honour' – are still able to walk free. For instance, according to the Punjab Commission on the Status of Women, there were 6505 violence against women cases registered in Punjab in 2015 whereas in only 81 cases a person was convicted. Finally, little has been done to protect the rights of prisoners.
"Pakistan has made little progress and has still a long way to go to bring itself in line with international standards," said Hina Jilani, OMCT's newly elected President and a prominent Pakistani human rights proponent. "We count on the CAT to shed light on the many issues that still keep it from becoming safe for our children, women and prisoners."
Prisoners at risk
As in most places, prisoners are most at risk in Pakistan. Yet, the overcrowding of prisons, the ongoing use of fetters and solitary confinement, and the limited access to medical treatment make their situation particularly worthy of attention. This is all the more true in the case of suspected terrorists. A new law has been introduced in 2011 to fight terrorism, retroactively allowing Pakistan's military to detain suspects incommunicado. In addition, in 2015, Pakistan has created military courts that have sentenced 274 people between 2015 and 2016 including people who have not committed any terrorism related crimes.
NGOs at the CAT
NGOs provide direct country-specific information to the members of the Committee Against Torture. They share this data through private NGO briefings with the CAT that take place prior to the examination of the State party's report by the Committee.
As coordinator of civil-society presence at the CAT, OMCT:
communicates ahead of time with national NGOs warning them that their countries will be reviewed in an upcoming session,
builds the reporting capacity of NGOs on the Convention Against Torture through legal trainings in their home countries;
provides administrative, logistical and financial support to NGOs to enable their programmed attendance of CAT sessions and private briefings;
provides technical, information-gathering and editorial support to effective country reporting;
moderates the NGO private briefing sessions reserved for NGOs to jointly bring their concerns to the Committee;
recommends visibility opportunities for advocacy messaging during CAT sessions;
About OMCT
OMCT brings together an international network of over 200 NGOs fighting torture and protecting human rights all over the world. Among the activities organized from their headquarters in Geneva, Brussels and Tunis, OMCT provides medical, financial and legal assistance to torture victims as well as technical, financial and strategic assistance to anti-torture NGOs in its capacity as civil society coordinator before the UN Committee Against Torture. The organization also defends human rights and works towards the enforcement of the prohibition of torture.
More information on our website: www.omct.org
Join our fight against torture on www.joinhat.org by sharing #HumansAgainstTorture
OMCT Media contact: Lori Brumat lb@omct.org
For more information on the Pakistan review, please contact: Nicole Bürli (OMCT, Geneva) nb@omct.org +41 22 809 49 26
Type: Statements
Country: Pakistan
Subjects: Arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances, Justice system, Police, Military and Paramilitary, Summary executions, extrajudicial killings, Torture and violence, Women's rights
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White Supremacist Queens Man Impeached Twice, Can't Tweet Through It
Not once but two times the loser.
Written By Robert Longfellow
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Donald Trump has more impeachments than terms as a President. Today (Jan. 13), the House of Representatives voted to impeach the lame-duck leader of the free world, again.
This time, Trump got reprimanded inciting an insurrection since he directed minions to storm the Capitol last week to try to overturn an election he resoundingly lost.
The New York Times has the specifics:
Reconvening in a building now heavily militarized against threats from pro-Trump activists and adorned with bunting for the inauguration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., lawmakers voted 232 to 197 to approve a single impeachment article. It accused Mr. Trump of "inciting violence against the government of the United States" in his quest to overturn the election results, and called for him to be removed and disqualified from ever holding public office again.
The vote left another indelible stain on Mr. Trump's presidency just a week before he is slated to leave office and laid bare the cracks running through the Republican Party. More members of his party voted to charge the president than in any other impeachment.
Not only was Trump the first POTUS to be impeached twice, he also has the distinction of it being a bipartisan effort thanks to the 10 GOP members who showed some sense.
Since the vote, the slander on Twitter has been absolutely delightful, unless you're a MAGA cult member. Oh well.
It's especially delightful considering Cheeto can't tweet more lies since his account has been suspended indefinitely. Peep some of our faves below.
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Yesterday was my third time fishing with Billy and it was nothing short of amazing. After meeting Billy and his son Daniel (first mate) at the dock we were loaded up and ready to go. Daniel rigged up some sabiki's, and in an hour we had enough bait to fish all day! Billy pointed his 40′ Seahunter west and in no time we were fishing.
What Billy called a "slow day", to me was very impressive. While my crew and I would drop baits to the bottom, Daniel would pitch out flat line baits. The tunas and kings were tearing up the surface attacking his baits! When the day was done we met up at the dock with Ralph Delph, Billy's father, who had an impressive catch of his own. Billy and his son Daniel are courteous, knowledgable, and as professional as can be. Daniel carry's himself like a lifelong pro, I believe he's 11 years old! I can't wait for the next one.
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I have had the pleasure of fishing with Billy Delph on several occasions while visiting Key West. I frequent Captiva Island and fish in multiple professional tournaments there annually including The Professional Tarpon Tournament Series (PTTS). I usually back water fish in the flats so deep sea fishing is both different and a new challenge for me.
Billy Delph is a true professional in terms of both fishing and family. I enjoy his first mates (his sons) when the accompany dad on charter.
I can say that anyone whether novice or professional would enjoy a day with Billy.
I have always caught a lot of fish including multiple species of Grouper and Snapper. My most recent trip was to the Dry Tortugas and we caught several very large Amber Jacks. They were a great fight and a great dinner!!!!
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i seen on forums a long time ago some one fitted an intank fuel pump onto the XD fuel pick up, and how do i search the forum cant remember.
Try using the tank and pump from an XE or XF EFI.
Hey Boss... I've cut it three times and it's still too short..!
XD had a unique fuel tank.
the XE XF efi tanks had bigger openings for the fuel pump and swirl pot than the carby ones also just incase anyone finds this thread again.


Iasa Global hosts a quarterly Virtual Conference that runs on a real-time schedule featuring highly recognizable IT Professional experts in Architecture.
August eSummit: Engineering and Architecture.
Join us for an interactive webcast that is offered in real-time, while speakers present visual aids utilizing PowerPoint slides and desktop applications.
Attendees have the opportunity to interact with presenters in real time. Please see below for this month's speakers and topics.
Cecilia Nordén practices management consulting at IRM in Stockholm, Sweden.
She has an M.Sc. in engineering physics and has worked with business development, innovation, start-ups and holistic enterprise architecture since 1997.
Her experience is wide: from leadership, strategy development, start-ups, enterprise architecture, requirements and IT development to economics and marketing. She has a sound overview of how the various parts of an enterprise collaborate and influence one another. Cecilia is passionate about taking complex situations and making them comprehensible, understandable and accessible.
Since 2014 she has worked with and helped develop the Milky Way Method and is the author of the book The Milky Way – Map, Navigate and Accelerate Change (available October 2018).
As architects working in the technology space we have a tendency to look forward at the ever changing world of tech. However the ancients spent much time thinking about the nature of reality and our position in the world. In this talk we'll explore this relationship and what we can learn about the practice of architecture.
Gar Mac Críosta is the founder of Business Model Adventures and leads IASA Global – Next Architecture Practice Group. Gar Mac Críosta is He has facilitated development of change programs with C-level executives, senior managers, technology leaders and executives in areas of business model innovation, digital strategy, architecture and organizational effectiveness (lean/agile) across a variety of industries. Gar Mac Críosta is a certified architect professional (IASA CITAP), a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society and Lego Serious Play Practitioner (LSP).
"Low-hanging fruits", "Simplicity" and "Agile" are terms used frequently by leadership teams in the financial industry. The cloud promise helps to reinforce this desire, and the competition with fintechs and startups put pressure on the traditional players regarding time-to-market and market share. At the same time, business reference architectures have been evolving and should be used to provide order into the possible chaos of just implementing systems in an isolated way. In this session, we´re going to present a business reference architecture for banking and an example of how it could be adopted while keeping the simplicity, TTM and agility.
Responsible for supporting the creation and implementation of the digital transformation strategies of financial sector customers in Latin America. With more than 27 years of experience in the IT market, having occupied several positions, in recent years has led initiatives with the business areas of customers focused on innovation and the use of disruptive technologies to create new business models and process optimization. CITA-P and TOGAF certified, holds a PhD in Computer Science from USP/Brazil, where he also teaches in the MBA in IT from the continuing education program of the Polytechnic School.
There really is no 'silver bullet' when it comes to approaching the modernization of legacy Software Architecture. Technology leaders involved in modernizing technologies and applications need first to evaluate legacy systems, looking at both the business and IT drivers behind the modernization goals. Choosing the right approach with the highest effect and value while also considering the cost and risk is paramount. In this webinar we will discuss both the demand side of the reasons to modernize, the main business drivers, where new requirements cannot be met or stakeholder concerns or desires addressed sufficiently by the current application/s estate and business value, where the current system lags in terms of data, and the support it offers. We then demonstrate the consideration on the supply and their associated drivers, which will include cost and complexity. Such as the cost of operating and changing the current application may be simply be too high in relation to its value? Is the sheer complexity an issue for users? Risk is also a key consideration and we will examine some of the more compelling reasons for modernizing legacy architectures.
Wayne has over 27 years of experience in Strategy, Technology Research, Management, Development, and Delivery.
In his 27 years of IT industry experience, Wayne has become a board-certified Enterprise IT Architect, and has earned an industry wide reputation as a cloud and technology expert. Prior to joining Accenture's CMT division, Wayne was the Microsoft engineering interface for Data Sciences as well as the consultancy services Architect and Consultant role owner, where he drove the strategy for the role of the Architect within Microsoft.
In Addition to his focus on client value delivery Wayne is also an active member of the British Computer Society (Fellow), helping them drive stands in members globally.
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The future could hold a bio-based economy in which biorefineries outcompete petrochemicals by transforming waste products and other biomass into fermentable sugars to make energy as well as products that are currently made from oil.
A new WWF report concludes that industrial biotechnology can provide dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and provide strong progress toward a green and sustainable economy.
Industrial biotechnology could generate between 1 and 2.5 billion tons of greenhouse gas reductions per year by 2030, as well as build a new green economy, according to the group. "WWF sees industrial biotech as an industry that can play a very significant role in the development of a new, green economy if developed in the right way. The world cant afford to ignore this opportunity," says John Kornerup Bang, Head of Globalization Programme for WWF.
Industrial biotechnology is currently used to produce hundreds of everyday products, including detergents, textiles, bread, wine, beer, and bioethanol. For example, the use of modern enzymatic detergents has reduced washing temperatures from 60 to 30 degrees Celsius, saving millions of tons of CO2. The future could hold a bio-based economy in which biorefineries outcompete petrochemicals by transforming waste products and other biomass into fermentable sugars to make energy as well as products that are currently made from oil. This could include everything from diapers to plastics.
"In a few years sugar will be the new oil. Already today close to 200 biorefineries are operating in the U.S. and yet we have only seen the beginning. Industrial biotechnology today is a sector with a number of pioneers who are demonstrating that this is technically feasible," says Steen Riisgaard, CEO of Novozymes, who provided research for the study.


Yesterday and today, we spent some time sorting out our pile of timber to bring out the 95mm by 45mm treated timber and reorganise the other timber pieces that we are not using straight away and have access to the 63mm CLS timber. We then picked out nine length's of the 63mm CLS timber that were pretty straight and not warped.
We got out our heavy duty planer machine and vacuum waste collecting unit, brought them out to our house so we could plane the nine lengths and have room to get each plank in and out of the machine (each plank is 4.8metres – 16feet long so you need 32 feet of space!). We sliced off about 1.5mm off to remove the rounded edges and then cut them into various length pieces so we could put together two sets to make the two separate halves of the ridge beam (one piece about 6 metres and the other one being 7 metres long) with a "finger" joint in the middle (overlapping by 150mm) in the mid-point.
We also used our biscuit machine to help us align the three layers so that they all lock together and pull straight out any slight bow in the length.
We managed to get one set all glued and fitted together, tightly clamped with a dozen clamps before the end of the day.
Today, before the rain came, we dealt with the second set of timber pieces to create the other half of the ridge beam, doing all the biscuit joints and then gluing all three layers together and clamping it down tight.
We covered it up with a tarpaulin to protect them (we moved the other beam we did yesterday to be near our new one) from drips from our roof.
On Saturday, we will start processing all the other timber to make the rafters and the rim structure (using our 95mm by 45mm treated timber) and cutting and slicing various angles etc.


Lovely home in Maderis Canyon. Come see your new home. Home is beautiful maintained. Parks in the area. Backyard is a blank slate for you to customize to your dreams.
The average asking price of a 3 bedroom Henderson home in this zip code is $397,818 (4.7% more than this home).
This home is priced at $200/sqft, which is 0.8% less than similar homes in the 89044 zip code.


Same issue here I have tried several heart rate monitors and straps and none will pair to include Jabra pulse, Bragi Dash, ticr x. Using pixel 3 with latest updates to app and phone.
I'm having the same problem. I just bought the CooSpo HR Monitor. It works fine with the Wahoo Fitness app on my Samsung S7 but when I try to pair it with the Companion App, it tells me the connection is rejected by the HR monitor. Same on the Zwift AppleTV4K app - it connects but doesn't receive a signal. I'm using a Wahoo Snap trainer plus Duotrap which registers fine on the TV app.
I bought this unit based on amazon reviewers stating they were using it with Zwift.
Installed Zwift beta on Samsung A5. HR will not connect. I also have Roovy and Garmin on the phone, both of which have no issue connecting to Garmin HR 2662. Rest of software seems to run ok. Also, I run the app on my phone and cast it to PC. This is because phone is Ant+ and PC isn't. Using windows Connect seems to crash the software on the phone periodically.
Back to Roovy till you get these fixed.
Not resolved yet I'm guessing?
I'm new to Zwift but no joy connecting a generic bluetooth HRM on either the android app (beta) or windows 7, despite it working fine with Strava.
Occasionally Zwift manages to discover it if I switch to "use built-in bluetooth (beta)" but drops the signal shortly after.
Hi, my laptop performed some updates for Zwift yesterday, and now even though my Ant + Minoura HRM pairs the same as before, no HR data is displayed or recorded. The pairing displayed a brand name I had never heard of. I unpaired and searched again. It then said I was using a Stages HRM, does a thing exist? But still no HR data. I loaded up another training programme on the laptop and the HR data was displayed. Any ideas how to resolve this please?
I will say that right now ANT + is not officially supported with the Beta. So there could be some possible issues.
Is this on a laptop running Windows or Android? On Android, as Vincent mentions, ANT+ support is not official (which reminds me, I should try it again on my tablet).
I have exactly the same thing like in subject, since the update (27.02) on my laptop (windows), with Polar H7. Pairs, but never picks up HR and displays No Signal soon after. I checked heart monitor with Strava/Tacx and works without any problem.I also connect Tacx cadence via bluetooth and works perfectly.


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SI31 | Boué Arquitectos
SI31 Mexico City / Mexico / 2018
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This architecture revitalization project by Boue Arquitectos is located in the heart of Mexico City´s historic center, right on San Ildefonso Street. It is a four-level building that has been intervened with the purpose of reactivating its ground floor, rehabilitating exhaustively its interiors, rescuing its façade and integrating —with its use and the floating population that it will attract— new dynamics to its immediate context, which is characterized by its high commercial and tourist activity, an extraordinary cultural offer and an unprecedented historical relevance.
The project, by reappearing and resuming its housing vocation, seeks to contribute to the revaluation of its urban landscape and the strategic initiatives that have been taking place in it, through pedestrianization, mobility and public space recovery projects. Its privileged location, filled to the brim with an endless number of buildings belonging to different architectonic styles adds to the national monument archeological sites and "must see" tourist sites that recount the identity of our country over time. The gastronomic offer, museums, bookstores and the atmosphere of a unique historical center frames the experience of inhabiting it to feel the pulse of a great city.
However, it is the duality between trade and tourism the most challenging condition for this sector, since a large part of the architectural wealth is threatened by being underutilized as commercial safe spaces. Gradually this logic has just recently begun to reverse and this is part of the commitment of this project that has returned its ground floor to the street activity of San Ildefonso by enabling two new commercial spaces and three housing levels with different types of apartments. Each unit has the essential sparing no expense in well-being: one or two bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, living and dining room.
Under the main idea of optimizing the space without making any comfort sacrifices, the project has a main lobby on the ground floor, a central courtyard with a fountain that goes through all the building levels following the vertical circulation core (lift and main stairs).
In this way all the apartments are connected and isolated from the outside noise, making the fountain the sound element settles in all the interior spaces. The project is crowned on the top by an open terrace and an amenity center with gym, services, grill, a main hall and the roofgarden with a privileged view of Mexico City, this is without doubt the most attractive co-habitation space of the project.
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This architecture revitalization project by Boue Arquitectos is located in the heart of Mexico City´s historic center, right on San Ildefonso Street. It is a four-level building that has been intervened with the purpose of reactivating its ground floor, rehabilitating exhaustively its interiors, rescuing its façade and integrating —with its use and the floating population that it will attract— new dynamics to its immediate context, which is characterized by its high...
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CVForward > Physician Alignment: "WIIFM"
There is no doubt about it—physicians can make or break your initiative. Whether they are employed by a hospital/system or an independent private practice, physician alignment is essential. According to Nolan, the key to getting them on board is, "It's everyone's favorite radio station: WIIFM. What's In It For Me."
Communicating what's in it for them is a must if you want to achieve alignment.
If you want to ensure failure, tell physicians "It's the right thing to do" or "It's the best thing for the hospital" and expect them to accept that.
If physicians are not on board, they are letting their colleagues know it. They are telling other physicians, nurses, and extended staff all the reasons they feel the initiative is not a good idea.
After a certain amount of passive physician resistance, a more "active" resistance begins to occur. Many CVSL leaders have seen physicians threaten to leave (and take their patients with them) because of initiatives they do not support. Physicians have also been known to go around administration and express dissatisfaction to a contact on the hospital board.
After enough physician resistance, the initiative often gets deprioritized or funding is reduced.
CVSL leaders know this story all too well. With physicians working against you, the success of your initiative is in jeopardy. However, when your initiative has physicians who are actively engaged and pulling for your initiative, it is a different experience altogether.
You want to be sure to point out what's in it for the physician. Make it clear how they will benefit. Will they get access to new equipment? Greater capabilities of square footage? Will they get additional staff? Will they make more money? Reinforce those things when you speak to physicians about the initiative.
Reach out to key physicians, present the basic idea you are considering, and get their thoughts. Ask if they have any experience in the area. Listen to what observations they have on the subject.
Get a small working group of physicians together to discuss the initiative. Show them the data. Gain their opinions on the opportunity, the required investment, and how they think it compares to competitive offerings. Find out what questions they have and what data they'd like to see moving forward.
Present your physician team with the outline of a business plan for the initiative. Get their buy-in on timing, implementation, and stakeholder responsibility. Get their feedback and build it into the business plan—with physicians as co-champions.
Once the initiative is underway, do regular check-ins with your physicians. Ask them how it's going. Find out what's not working and where alterations need to be made. Keep them engaged and use them as part of the ongoing solution.
Whether you're developing a clinical comanagement agreement, establishing satellite cath labs, or standardizing on a single vendor—be sure that all your physicians are tuning into that most important "radio station": WIIFM.
This article discusses the use of a comanagement system as a strategy to achieve physician alignment.
This article analyzes the hospital-physician partnerships that focus on the economic integration of hospitals and physicians and the goals they are designed to achieve.
Are Cath Labs Immune to Hospital Consolidation?
An interesting and somewhat surprising hypothesis.


[StarCityGames] Pro Tour Guilds Of Ravnica Preview!, by VS Live!
Todd Anderson and Ross Merriam are excited to pick up six of the big contender decks many expect to see at the top tables on the Pro Tour Guilds of Ravnica stream! Will this new installment of VS Live! show us the top strategies?


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Q: What is the best generic class or package to use for input validation? What is the best, most secured and user-friendly easy to use validator class or plugin we can use in PHP coding to validate the common user inputs like e-mail addresses, URLs, integers, etc.?
e.g. http://code.google.com/p/owasp-esapi-php/. Is there a better way?
Or is using filter_input the best way? e.g.
$value = filter_input(INPUT_GET, "value", FILTER_VALIDATE_INT,
        array("options" => array("min_range" => 15, "max_range" => 20)));

Or custom coding? e.g.
if (isset($_GET["value"])) {
    $value = $_GET["value"];
}
else {
    $value = false;
}
if (is_numeric($value) && ($value >= 15 && $value <= 20)) {
    // run my code
}
else {
    // handle the issue
}

Any expert views on this? I prefer a lazy style, like:
filer_input($POST);

Is there something like that?

A: If you're not familiar with such libraries it may be not user- (developer-) friendly, but I think you should really look at Symfony2 Validator Component. It is easily installed throught Composer, can be used standalone and has excellent documentation here: http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/validation.html , GitHub repository can be found here: https://github.com/symfony/Validator .

A: If input validation was one-size-fits-all, there would be a whole lot less XSS and SQLi attacks :)
It's a good practice to set up explicit rules using either filter (advantage is that it ships with php) or a similar third party library (filter does have some quircks). Rules can be reused when you use them in array syntax (like filter_input_array or filter_var_array) for those that are used more often (custom regex, etc.)
Compared to custom coding, using a filter library reduces code and therefore potential bugs.

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The ski trip to Dachstein West in Austria over February half term was a fantastic success.
Sixty four students enjoyed six days in the mountains of Austria, with local ski instructors. All students made great progress with their skiing and were off exploring the various ski runs in the different mountains.
Whilst in Dachstein, there were extremes of weather ranging from hot, sunny and bright blue skies to snow blizzards. Students have described the visit as the "best week of my life", "amazing"and "exhilarating".
The evening activities also enabled students to see the cultural side of Austria too with a visit to the local town, Austrian skittles, a sleigh ride and swimming.


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No Move To PSL's Big Guns As Wits Tie Down Defender
13 Aug 10, 2018 - 04:48 pm
By Soccer Laduma
A sought-after Bidvest Wits defender has been tied down on a new contract at the club to fend off interest in him from some of the PSL's big guns.
Read: Chirambadare Finally Signs Deal After Chiefs Exit
Following months of negotiations, the Students have finally secured the future of Sifiso Hlanti who is one of the club's prized assets.
Hlanti has put pen to paper on a new and improved deal with the Sturrock Park outfit, as reported in the latest Soccer Laduma, edition 1085.
A number of clubs, including the PSL's big guns of Kaizer Chiefs, Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates have been interested in the defender in recent seasons, following his impressive performances for Wits under coach Gavin Hunt.
As a result of his high work-rate and consistency, Hlanti has had his deal extended at the Clever Boys by two more years, as confirmed by Siya sources close to the Braamfontein-based club.
Read: PSL And African Interest In Bucs Defender
The 28-year-old left back's deal with Wits was expected to expire in 2019, and with the new deal in place, the KwaZulu-Natal-born player will now be under contract until 2021.
"It is true that Sifiso Hlanti is one of the players that are on new deals at Wits. I have been told that he has signed a new two-year contract with an option for another year. The new deal will start in July next year, at the end of his existing deal, which will end in June," said the source.
Hlanti is the reigning Players' Player of the Season and Player of the Season at the club. He has played in both of Wits' matches so far this season, which ended in victories against Free State Stars and Kaizer Chiefs respectively.
Ex-PSL Keeper Enjoying New Role After Retirement, While Others...
Chirambadare Finally Signs Deal After Chiefs Exit
Mourinho Furious With Pogba's Agent


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You are here: Home / Latest News / Locals call for more regulation in retail sector
Locals call for more regulation in retail sector
May 8, 2019 by Thiha
As foreign retailers enter the domestic market, the government should work to ensure a level playing field, said local retailers.
During the Private Sector Development Committee meeting with President U Myint Swe on April 27, Daw Su Hlaing , Secretry of Myanmar Retailers Association, voiced concern for the survival of local retailers in the face of foreign competition.
She said the government should have a plan to protect local retailers before allowing foreign companies to compete in the market, adding that local companies face challenges such as a lack of funds, high interest rates and expensive rental, making it hard for them stay profitable.
In comparison, foreign retailers enjoy many incentives under the Myanmar Investment Law that make it easier for them to do business in the country, she said.
At the meeting, U Phyo Min Thein, Yangon Region Chief Minister, said: "Local businesses worry about the government allowing foreign companies to do business here. But they should not be fearful as they have a better understanding of Myanmar markets and culture."
This comes after the Ministry of Commerce announced a list of 11 local and foreign companies that will be allowed to operate retail and wholesale businesses in Myanmar on April 3.
Among those on the list, DKSH, which is wholly foreign-owned company, has been granted permission to retail and distribute wholesale foods, household utensils, medicines and medical products, hospital equipment, animal foods and medicines, industrial chemicals, and machines and other goods.
Local retailers are claiming the government is creating opportunities for foreign companies that could put local companies at a disadvantage.
"We welcome foreign companies as their entry will help develop the whole retail market and the country's economy. However, as the competition becomes fiercer, the country would make better progress if there is regulatory oversight to ensure a level playing field," said City Mart Holding Ltd chief executive officer Daw Win Win Tint.
At present, local many local business owners say they are facing challenges such as gaining access to capital, high operational costs, and high rents. Under such conditions, the government should supervise the foreign retail businesses within the framework of the Investment Law, Daw Win Win Tint said.
"It is necessary for the government to supervise both local and foreign businesses within the framework so they can equally compete in the market. For instance, leasing a state-owned land to a Thai company without offering other businesses any chance the same opportunity is not fair and it can affect the opportunities for business expansion for the local business owners," said Daw Win Win Tint.
Locally, retailers City Mart, Ocean, Market Place, Capital, and Orange are successful businesses with a large market share and stand out as strong local players. As foreign retail companies enter the market now, local businesses will need to change and adapt, she said.
"The retail sector contributes up to 18 percent of the country's GDP and this contribution will grow if the market grows. To compete with big foreign companies, only a few local companies have the capacity to transition to 'omni-channel' retailing," said Daw Win Win Tint.
At present foreign retail companies are still finding their way locally, so that provides some breathing room for local players, say local businesspeople.
Currently, the government is prohibiting the opening of new retail and wholesale stores that have floor areas of less than 929 sq m. Effectively, no new convenience stores are allowed to open for now, but there is no similar kind of regulation for larger retail businesses such as shopping centres.
"As foreign firms enter the local retail and wholesale market, there is more competition, but everything is not permitted and there are some restrictions. So, despite competition, it won't immediately impact small local businesses," said Dr Sai San Tun, chair of Loi Hein, a big local wholesaler of soft drinks.
When allowing foreign investments in the wholesale and retail there should be stipulations that a certain amount of local products have to be carried, said U Wai Phyo, vice chair of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry. In this way the import surge can be controlled and local manufacturing can be promoted, U Wai Phyo said.
The Ministry of Commerce said part of its goals in inviting foreign retailers into Myanmar is to reduce prices for consumers, promote the quality of goods and services and technologies, and to grow the market for local products.
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Huxley's Paley, Part 2
Thomas Henry Huxley's admiration of William Paley's Natural Theology (1802) is relatively obscure, at least in comparison to that of Charles Darwin (who wrote to a friend just before the Origin was published, "I do not think I hardly ever admired a book more than Paley's Natural Theology. I could almost formerly have said it by heart.—"). Yet Huxley's admiration seems to have started earlier and continued later. In part 1, I quoted passages from Huxley (above) and his sometime student Henry Fairfield Osborn that together suggested that Huxley was a fan of Paley's when he was a boy (regarding Natural Theology as a Sabbath treat) and when he was a middle-aged scientist at the height of his powers (keeping the book at his bedside). But Huxley invokes Paley for a specific purpose: to defuse the complaint that Darwin's views "abolish Teleology."
In "On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species'" (published in volume 2 of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin [1887]), as I mentioned in part 1, Huxley cites Paley as authority for the proposition "that the 'production of things' may be the result of trains of mechanical dispositions fixed beforehand by intelligent appointment and kept in action by a power at the centre." A footnote attached to "centre" refers to the twenty-third chapter of Natural Theology, "Personality of the Deity," where Paley argues that establishing the existence of design serves to establish that the designer is a person, a conscious agent with beliefs and desires, not a mere impersonal principle of nature, and indeed the section of the passage from "the result" to "the centre" is, though unenclosed by quotation marks, a verbatim quotation from Paley.
In the Rede lecture as reported by Nature, Huxley quoted exactly the passage from Paley that he deemed relevant. I'll reproduce it here, adding the sentence before and the sentence after (in boldface) for the sake of context.
There may be many second causes, and many courses of second causes, one behind another, between what we observe of nature, and the Deity: but there must be intelligence somewhere; there must be more in nature than what we see; and, amongst the things unseen, there must be an intelligent, designing author. The philosopher beholds with astonishment the production of things around him. Unconscious particles of matter take their stations and severally range themselves in an order so as to become collectively plants or animals, i.e. organised bodies with parts bearing strict and evident relation to one another and to the utility of the whole; and it should seem that these particles could not move in any other way than they do, for they testify not the smallest sign of choice, or liberty, or discretion. There may be particular intelligent beings guiding their motions in each case, or they may be the results of trains of mechanical dispositions fixed beforehand by intelligence or appointment and kept in action by a power at the centre. But, in either case, there must be intelligence.
(The quotation is accurate, except for minor details of punctuation, which I'm not bothering to correct here, since I don't know what edition of Natural Theology Huxley was reading: there have been a lot.)
Paley is not conceding anything here that was not conceded earlier in Natural Theology. In the second chapter, continuing his discussion of the famous example of a watch found on a heath, he supposes that it is discovered that the watch is capable of reproducing itself. The lucky finder of the watch would, Paley says, acknowledge that a parent watch was "in some sense" the maker of the child watch, yet in no sense would it be "the author of its contrivance, the cause of the relation of its parts to their use" in the same way that a carpenter is responsible for the functional organization of a chair (or, of course, a watchmaker is responsible for the functional organization of a watch). The novelty in the twenty-third chapter is the generalization of the point: the fact of design, for Paley, isn't committed to any particular account of how the design is effected.
That's the crucial principle, as far as Huxley is concerned: if the fact of design isn't committed to any particular account of how the design is effected, as in effect recommended by what he calls "the wider teleology," then it presents no obstacle to the acceptance of evolution. (Significantly, though, Huxley never seems to comment on the antecedent issue of whether it is possible, as Paley alleges, to detect design in the natural world. The fact that he refers to the explananda in such vague terms—"the phenomena of the universe"; "things"—suggests to me that he was unimpressed.) In part 3, I want to say a word about the importance of Huxley's attributing the principle to Paley (of all people) before I turn, at last, to the question of whether Paley, as Huxley claims, "proleptically [i.e., in advance] accepted the modern doctrine of Evolution."
Glenn Branch is Deputy Director of NCSE.
branch@ncse.ngo


If your muscles feel sore after a session of physical therapy, it is likely you're experiencing Delayed Onset Muscular Soreness (DOMS). According to Moveforward PT, muscular soreness peaks about 24 – 72 hours after physical activity. If you're experiencing DOMS, your muscles may feel tender, tight, or even achy after exercising. As mentioned previously, these sensations should disappear within a few days of the activity. However, if you're experiencing pain, you will likely feel a sharp sensation during or after the activity which will continue past the 72-hour mark. Try these following suggestions for relief from DOMS.
Water energizes your muscles, helps ease movement of your joints, and can speed up your recovery time.
When exercising, your muscles are mainly contracting, which means the muscle fibers become shorter. Stretching can help lengthen them to alleviate that "tight" feeling.
Continue to stay active in order to increase your personal activity threshold and minimize DOMs in the future.
Try icing the area for 20 minutes to help alleviate the inflammation which can reduce that feeling of soreness and aching.
If you would like, you can take notes on location, longevity, and intensity of soreness. This feedback for your physical therapist could help guide future sessions.
Try these tips for relief if you are experiencing DOMS. Once again, your soreness should naturally begin to fade after 72 hours. However, if your pain continues to last beyond seven days, consult with a medical professional. If you have any questions following a session, you can easily contact your physical therapist in between sessions through our KeetHealth app, or by calling the clinic.


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Horia mira es una especie de coleóptero de la familia Meloidae.

Distribución geográfica
Habita en Queensland (Australia).

Referencias

Mira
Coleópteros de Australia

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    // Find app files matching the specified pattern
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    // First find the most complete path without any matching patterns
    var idx = firstWildcardIndex(solution);
    tl.debug('Index of first wildcard: ' + idx);
    var findPathRoot = path.dirname(solution.slice(0, idx));

    tl.debug('find root dir: ' + findPathRoot);

    // Now we get a list of all files under this root
    var allFiles = tl.find(findPathRoot);

    // Now matching the pattern against all files
    filesList = tl.match(allFiles, solution, {matchBase: true});

    // Fail if no matching .sln files were found
    if (!filesList || filesList.length == 0) {
        tl.error('No matching files were found with search pattern: ' + solution);
        tl.exit(1);
    }
}

var result = Q({});
filesList.forEach((fn) => {
    result = result.then(() => {
        return runnuget(fn);
    })
})

result.then(() => {
    tl.exit(0);
})
.fail((err) => {
    tl.error(err);
    tl.exit(1);
});


Spotted this 3 legs lizard behind my house kitchen. I'm not sure it was born like that or is after a fight and lost its foreleg but whatever is that I think its was rare to see like this. Normally we heard is got 2 split tails one but this is 3 legs only. I saw it move very slowly on the wall and try to eat an insect but didn't got it! I wander how it can survived with 3 legs until now!!! At first I feel like wanted catch it but after the second thought I drop it coz I think it will die early than I feed him nothing!!!
I see this day many people started love to keep reptile as their pets maybe for them could be they know how to keep it lah!!!


Some of you may know me from religiousforums.com where I use the same user name.
I'm a pantheistic Satanist, a transguy, in my mid-twenties, and I live in Germany.
Since I noticed that this forum has become a tad more lifely I thought I might just join the fun!
How would "black music" sound like if the African Americans hadn't adopted Christianity as their religion but instead inverted it?
Re: "The Myth of Disenchantment" Well, in my family and among most people I know in real life at least that myth seems to be not false. If someone here states their belief in anything paranormal whatsoever that is a huge exception. If people do believe in such, they are very good at keeping it to themselves, probably because they can expect to get ridiculed. But, well, religion/spirituality is also nothing that gets normally talked about much anyway.
As I mentioned before elsewhere, I'm probably the most religious person in my social environment, and that as an agnostic.
Re: Where are good sources that will help to learn how to identify trees & plants Seconding this question - being able to identify plants is a skill I'd love to have but don't really know where to start. From what I know about it, it's something best learnt by practice, but how to practice without someone telling you whether you got it right?
Any recommendations focusing on European flora?
Re: Need Opinions: Anti-Cosmic Approach to LHP Anti-cosmic Satanism is probably the first kind of Satanism I really learnt about in a more in-depth way.
I have my metaphysical problems with it - basically because I don't believe in body-mind duality, but in awareness-information duality. All these things that anti-cosmic Satanists tend to say would be the work of our origin in chaos seems to have utterly natural causes. But it's still a beautiful approach, so full of hope. I even enjoy using its religious hymns myself as, even though I believe that Satan very much is also a deity of the cosmos, the aspects of Satan which they praise are the same ones I would.
Also, much of it can be also taken metaphorically/psychologically.
One of the theories is that to become one with the chaos, you have to sacrifice yourself three times. The first time you do this. I can't recall the order of the first two but it's human and animal selves. This leads to deification and you will have to sacrifice your God self to achieve the goal of anti-cosmicism. It seems counter-intuitive but the previous self-sacrifices do gain in power.
That notion of self-sacrifice is not new to me, but do you remember where you found this three-part version of it? I don't think I encountered it before.
You become independent (LHP goal) & You merge with something greater (RHP goal).
Best of both worlds, eh?
Not to bring up that discussion here, but basically one of the reasons why I don't use that criterion to distinguish between the paths.
Also the Indian LHP's goal could basically be summarized (in a very simplfying manner) as consisting of these two parts.
Mind expanding more on this? Do you believe that we are all expressions of an infinite awareness, each and every one of us. Our individual consciousness being a point of focus, and that our brains decode the information around us, thus perceiving the world around us? That the world doesn't really exist, but it's just a product of us decoding information?
If not, I'd like to know more on this approach.
If so, that view doesn't necessarily contradict the anti-cosmic approach. It can still be reconciled.
Not like I'd describe it, but that goes at least in the right direction.
Basically I believe that there are only 2 things one can know: One's own awareness, and the stuff one is aware of.
And awareness in and of itself seems to be so utterly different (if just by being without any real attributes) from what it is aware of, that I don't think it could in any way be a result of that which it's aware of. In other words, I don't believe consciousness is caused by matter but instead is its own something. Since there seem to be many conscious beings I would assume that their consciousness has some common origin, and maybe is still interrelated on some level. It possibly also means that consciousness is a general property of everything in the world, not just of living organisms - but I'm unsure about that point.
However, the rest, i.e. stuff one can be aware of, would include both the mind and the outside world. Whether that means that it doesn't "really" exist, is a matter of definition. But one's thinking seems to be based on the same laws/mechanisms that also rule the physical world, just in a much more complex manner, and viewed from a different perspective.
Because of this belief of mine I have my issues with claims found in anti-cosmic texts like if someone has anti-social or perverted or in any other way anti-nomistic urges or simply a tendency for critical thinking then that would be caused by our origin in chaos.
Sure we can attribute all this to Satan, and sure we can decide to make use of it and enjoy it instead of suppressing it. Doesn't make it unnatural, though.
@Liu I read it in either Gap: A Left Hand Approach to Odinism or Myrkthursablot: The Nightside of Norse Mythology. Books sold by Fall of Man.
This model is inspired by the rune old english rune for Eihwaz which makes sense given the rune's associations.
Ah, thanks - those two are new to me.
But I agree, that fits Eihwaz not too badly from what I recall. Especially considering its Skandinavian shape ᛦ (with completely different sound value but etymologically the same name).
The Draconian Path is very much connected with our path, so I recommend checking that out. The books "Apophis" & "Aegishjalmur The Book of Dragon Runes" seem worth looking into, especially if you're interested in Norse Magic, which I know you are.
Seconding this, I read Apophis and the beginning of Aegishjalmur a couple years ago, and they have some pretty sound practice recommendations. I was too much of a beginner at that time to get myself to actually do much of it at all, but I kinda want to start working through Aegishjalmur once I'm done reading a couple other books I have on my list.
Still not sure how to reconcile this, though.
Reading your last post I kinda think I know which solution you mean, but it's quite a bit different from what I normally associate with the anti-cosmic approach, so I'd like to ask you to explain that more specifically.
Re: Styxhexenhammer666 I once watched some vids by him and didn't like his approach much. But maybe it was just the topics I found boring.
Also, anyone having an idea why his channel is blocked in my country (Germany)? I can see his vids, but not his channel.
I'm currently starting to work through Apophis and Aegishjalmur: The Book of Dragon Runes at the same time. I really enjoy it. I should defer to the Book of Apophis at one point but I've been reading theory and stuff for so long than I need to take a break and actually practice again.
I'm tired of being an armchair occultist. I lost my passion for it somewhere and could never get back in the groove til now.
Same here. Started with the first 70 pages or so of Aegishjalmur yesterday and intend to read the corresponding chapters of Apophis when I'm done with reading chapter 3.
The main mistake I seem to make with these kinds of books is that I read them once from front to back and then never do anything but the most easy exercises from them. You can't learn for example programming from just reading textbooks on it from front to back, why do I then do so for this kind of topic? Even on the previous similar such book I read, Kali Kaula by Jan Fries, I at least made myself an overview of which pages include interesting practices to try, but still didn't get myself to actually do much.
So, since I already read the whole of Apophis some few years back I suppose this time I'll not read any further than chapter 3 of Aegishjalmur and the corresponding one of Apophis and only read on once I've already at least started with all the practices suggested that I would intend to try anytime soon. Allowing me to skip some, though, of course, if they don't seem useful to my situation.


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Q: Alfresco Solr Querying for Contents We are working on Integrating a search application[Custom Java aplication] with Alfresco Solr. This application will have to provide users to search against contents indexed by Alfresco Solr.
Question:

*

*Can we copy the Solr Index on to another Solr core and use the app against the new core.
Or

*Can we query directly against the solr services directly in Java?
Any references to WIKI or source code for either option is greatly appreciated.

A: I do not think there is any issue if you directly read solr indexes created by alfresco.
You can normally find solr indexes of alfresco under
/alf_data
You can refer these articles to get more idea on how alfresco use solr
Solr in alfresco
Alfresco and solr


Tom Shepley's Band were a four piece band who played the North West and Cheshire folk clubs back in the 1970s and 80s. The band's name came from a street in Hyde called Tom Shepley Street.
Fiddle player Jamie Knowles researched the songs and tunes of the north of England looking for "new" material for the band to play that wouldn't conjure up that stereotypical image of tripe and hotpot. Before Jamie's research (much of his research was later to be published in the book Northern Frisk) the band played mainly celtic music and although they never abandoned their first repertoire, the act was to firmly root itself into the tunes and songs of the Lancashire and Cheshire areas that their research revealed. Indeed, the material on this album ranges over a repertoire that includes Ireland, Scotland, Cheshire, Lancashire and Northumbria and some of the collections researched were The Walsh Collection, Roy Palmer's Poverty Knock, the Charlton Memorial Tune Book, McFadyen's Bagpipe Music and old broadsides.


For our second course I prepared a tried and tested dish that didn't require too much attention from me as well. Pork belly was the obvious choice when I was doing my last minute shopping on Christmas eve as everything else was either sold out or way out of my budget. The pork belly turned out extremely moist and tender after 2 hours of slow cooking in the oven and I was relatively pleased with the resulting golden crackling. Everyone was satisfied and happy after the dishes were cleared but wait we still have our third course coming! Please come back tomorrow to check out our third course and my very first pudding for the blog.
P.S We are moving to Carlton North after more than 10 years in Fitzroy. I am extremely excited about the move; a new suburb (only a block away :)), a bigger garden, a much larger living area and a brand new kitchen. Excitements aside; packing will be my new best friend for the next 2 weeks but I will continue to have regular posting and will visit all my favourite blogs whenever I need a break from my new friend. I hope you are enjoying the holidays as much as I have been so far.
Wash and dry the pork thoroughly with kitchen towel. Score the rind with a very sharp knife (or get your butcher to do that) at 1cm intervals but do not cut all the way to the flesh. Lightly oil the pork rind and rub with sea salt. Season the meat side with sea salt, pepper and fennel seeds.
Place onion halves in a roasting pan and place the pork belly on top, this will stop the pork from burning and drying out during the long cooking process. The onions will caramelized and also absorb all the juices and fat rendering out from the pork belly. These can be served with the meat later. Place the roasting pan into the hot oven at 200C for 20 minutes before turning the oven down to 160C and continue to roast for another hour and 40 minutes. If the crackling is browning too quickly, loosely wrap a foil to cover the pork.
While the pork belly is roasting - saute chopped vegetables with a little olive oil until soften then add in the soaked lentil, stock, wine and bay leaves. Mix well and simmer gently for 20 to 25 minutes or until the lentils are tender.
When the lentils are ready throw in the butter and combine well. Do a final seasoning with salt and pepper.
After 2 hours - remove pork belly from the oven, cover loosely with foil and rest for 25 to 30 minutes before carving. While the pork is resting saute spinach with a little olive oil and season well.
Serve pork belly on a bed of braised lentils with the sauteed spinach and caramelized onion. We served this with a beautiful rosé that one of the tummy had brought over.
Your rost pork looks perfectly crackled. It looks wonderful. Looking forward to try this recipe in the new year. Happy New Year to you.
I know you are excited about the new kitchen! Did you say dessert...I can't believe it...Have you ever posted a dessert before? The pork belly looks great.
Happy New Year Suresh! & Happy Moving!
Your pork belly looks perfect and I am looking forward to the pudding post!
Hi 3HT. I see you had a great Christmas lunch. Here's to a great year ahead !
What a great Xmas meal! I love it. I can smell it from here.
I wish you and yours the best of everything that you so well deserve!
Oh wow!! Crackling... nomz! Happy New Year!
It looks gorgeous; pork is such a great match with lentils. I'd be interested as to why you specify female pork?
Good luck with your moving and Happy New Year to you all. May I know does it taste different between a male and female pork belly?
superb roasted pork belly....n wish u a very happy new year ahead..
The pork belly is perfect. I'm ready to roast me some pork! Love it over the braised lentils. Need to catch up and see what else you had in store this week. Happy 2011! May the New Year bring you all good things.
It looks perfect! Now if you had black eyed peas instead of the lentil, it would be perfect for New Years Day meal here in the south. We always eat black eyed peas, greens and pork on New Year's Day, so pass it on over...hahaha!
Good luck on your move, you'll have a nice big kitchen and room to grow your own herbs. I know you'll be smiling for sometime to come. Have a great new year!
I would rather have this than turkey anytime! The pork belly looks awsome!
You cooked a winner as usual, my friend!
That looks awesome! I love pork belly, but I need to experiment with lentils more.
Curious, why "ask for female pig"...is there a difference in flavor/texture?