Hey Mrs. Houseful, This is Your SoFab Life!
Hello there, I'm sure you're wondering what's going on around these parts, and it seems that the hosts of Social Fabric are up to some good in blog land. They have been offering those of use who are a part of their community bloggy scholarships to attend their #SoFabCon14 conference is a couple of months.
I would like to be one of those bloggers.
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As a central feature on the face, the smile is a significant representation of our personality. Research has demonstrated the immense value of attractive teeth. More than affecting biting and chewing abilities, teeth are also now regarded as an important asset to professional and personal success. This is because people judge character traits, in part, solely on appearance. Studies also suggest that consumers realize this value, and that they want to maximize it at every age.
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The romance with the legendary nuanced cuisine from the North West Frontier Province is never ending at the Frontier, The Ashok.
The North West Frontier Province (NWFP) by now has passed on into history, but the cuisine of the region known for it's mild aromatic spices and relatively less oil is legendary. Thankfully, Frontier, The Ashok, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi keeps the flag flying loftily.
For first timers walking into Frontier, it can be quite baffling at the first glance at the spacious restaurant. The décor is ultra sleek, dominated by black on the walls, ceiling, furniture, linen and cutting edge lighting. The all pervading black is balanced by well lit white paths trailing all around, an enormous open kitchen, a bar and a huge, funky electric blue light mural blazing across one wall. It is like Gothic transported into a very, very futuristic world and bizarrely, after a point it seems perfectly in tune to be sitting down to dine on a cuisine from a region associated with romantic folklore, tales of valour and the sport of Buzkashi.
The evening begins with another unusual opening – a delicate light pink mocktail, delightfully named Pink Panther redolent with guava juice, salt, pepper, black salt and a dash of Limca. Like the ambiance, the refreshing drink grows on one. The punch comes later with another mocktail Kala Noor of Sprite spiked with Frontier's secret Kala Noor spice. The drink is earthy, robust and a perfect accompaniment for the hearty yet delicious and somewhat delicately treated dishes. Every fine dining has its signature dishes and Pathar Kabab here leads the way, gently beaten squares of lamb rubbed with spices and cooked on hot stones takes succulence to another level. With Pudina Parantha, Keema Nan and crisp Tandoor Roti, it is a dish that evokes much heartfelt sighs of pleasure.
The happy feasting continues with Kabab-e-Bannu, a name that immediately connotes playful aspects. It's all about tender chicken pieces marinated in egg, vinegar and pepper and cooked in a tandoor. This is simplicity and sophistication at its best, no overpowering spices but subtlety all the way. And when that is combined with Dal Dera Ismail Khan, it is a potent combination. The dal once again reaffirms that that slow cooking deserves its place of pride. Dal Dera Ismail Khan is just black lentils with just regular seasonings and butter cooked for hours until the final outcome is a rich, luscious blend that one eat spoonfuls by itself.
The second chicken dish, Murgh Daraanpur was another excellent example of how not to swamp the meat with overloads of spices and kill its basic character. Tender pieces of chicken breast packed with cheese, minced chicken and subtle spices and cooked in a tandoor, Murgh Daraanpur can easily be culinary elegance with the perfect texture and taste. Standing alongside the array of non-vegetarian fares was Moti-e-Zameen! If the name sounds lyrical, the tandoor salad really lived up to it. Onions, capsicum, tomato, pineapple and cottage cheese slices, shaped like a loaf, treated with Frontier's spice dressing and gently roasted , the salad is a complete meal by itself and not just delicious but wholesome and healthy. The two other signature vegetarian dishes – Bharwan Aloo and Khatte Baingan – the first with whole potatoes filled with delicately flavoured cheese and cooked in a tandoor and the latter a perky dish of eggplant with special spices (and an option of gravy) certainly proved that NWFP cuisine has more than what it takes when to comes cooking vegetarian fares too.
The lyrical overtones carried over to the desserts too sectioned as Shireeni, both in taste and delivery. Intekhaab Sheer-e-Barf or the chef's special kulfi was rich and creamy while the Sheer-e-Murmuri (phirni) had that slight gritty texture which enhanced its flavor.
It was an evening of discovering nuanced cooking and the impact of subtle aromatic spices in a cuisine that has its roots in rugged mountain region. And something that calls for repetition, over and over!


Dr Martin Zebracki is a cultural geographer whose research sits at the crossroads of the geographies of public art practice, sexuality and (queer) citizenship with recent special interest in their digitally networked dimensions. He has been awarded a grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to lead the project Queer Memorials: International Comparative Perspectives on Sexual Diversity and Social Inclusivity (QMem) from 1 January 2018. Zebracki is Equality and Inclusion Leader in the School of Geography and Secretary of the Royal Geography Society (RGS-IBG) Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group.


The minute bog beetles, a small family of coleopteran insects in the suborder Myxophaga.
a family of small hemispherical beetles measuring 0.6–1.0 mm in length. The hind wings have a fringe of long hairs, and the elytra are not reduced. The beetles live along shores in sand and flotsam. One species occurs in the USSR. The family has not been widely studied.
Glossiphoniidae Bare banks Sphaeriidae Sphaerium sp.
Role of the Unionidae and Sphaeriidae (Mollusca Bivalvia) in eutrophic lake Zbechy and its outlow.
Family Trigonioidadae (3) V-S Order Veneroida, Family Sphaeriidae (4) V-N o.
Otras familias cuyos representantes estaban presentes fueron Asellidae (8%), Chironomidae (7%), Tipulidae (4%), Tubificidae (4%), Physidae (3%) y Sphaeriidae (2%).
Christian Albrecht) Sphaeriidae 107 Eupera ferruginea -- x (Krauss, 1848): Under limestone rocks in small river.
A nonnative species of Sphaeriidae was found in five stream sites of 3rd, 4th, and 7th order.
Other groups (Ceratopogonidae, Hirudinea, Hydrachnidia, Sphaeriidae, Asellus aquaticus, Sialis lutaria, Caenis sp.
Ja no canal de drenagem, a comunidade de macroinvertebrados bentonicos foi constituida por Oligochaeta, Hirudinea, Nematoda, Sphaeriidae, Planorbidae e alguns Chironomidae (Tabela 1).
237,04 Glossiphoniidae Predador Sphaeriidae Raspador Total 12.
Las familias que presentan mayor riqueza especifica son Lithoglyphidae (22) y Sphaeriidae (25), respectivamente.
Our results also demonstrated a trend in summer benthic macroinvertebrate community composition where dominance by the class Oligochaeta and the Family Sphaeriidae declined and the proportion of Chironomidae increased with increasing use of no-till systems (Figure 2).


I am using an avr to read the ntc thermistor, but the problem is sort of general electronics... I have tried a couple of online applets where you type in t1 t2 and t3 in C, and r1 r2 and r3 of the thermistor at these temps, and it spits out a,b,c coeffs for the steinhart eqn. Prob is my data gives a negative value for coeff c.... all manufacturers tables have a,b and c positive. Cornerstone sensors has eqns for a,b,c coeffs, and that gave - numbers too, so I thought they had a typo. Guess I'll take the temp data again tomorrow with a diff thermometer.... but this is really GIGO... when I was calculating temp using the bad coeffs, 212 on the 'real' hw thermometer was calcing as 176 from the eqn. Anyone have a favorite way to get the steinhart coeffs for your NTC temp sensor?
I always relied on what the manufacturer provided and never bothered to try to measure.
Lucas stuff. Best electrical hardware that ever fell off a car!
Bob, check my mini tutorial about temperature measurement at the tutorials forum. If you have the DS of the NTC, then it would be quite easy.
Thanks for that idea Klave. I put my temp/resistance data into a couple of java applets, but they kept spitting out a negative value for the c coeff, and all mfgr data has positive coeffs. I have a call in to Wells Mfg Co to get the data for the particular sensor I was trying to characterise, but will try your excellent excel suggestion. You Canucks from the Great White North all seem pretty smart to us dull old boys down south here. Must have a lot of time to think during the long cold winters?
Just some stupid question from an electron pusher like me, that is a noob in soft questions: why use Steinhart&Hart equation (with logs?) when a simple LUT and some linear interpolation can give you the same results (with less computational resources)?
How many line segments do I need to get within 1 deg F? I guess the max error is right between data points? I already have the fp stuff in the rom, so thats not the show stopper. Lets say I have a dozen points in the table. How do I index into it? Do I need to start at the beginning and compare values until I find an x that is between two x[i] and x[i+1] values? So A dozen fp compares has a cost of 12.... still less than two lns and a pow I assume, but there is a point that the search cost equals the direct solve cost.
I suggest a quadratic fit or cubic spline, both work ok with integers and fill the curve nicely between points, especially at the one end where the rate of change increases.
The linear fit can be done with non equal steps so that you get more steps where the line curvatue is greater. Of course with unequal steps you now have to store both the co-ordinates.
I haven't tried to calculate the amount of flash used in one method over the other but I imagine the linear fit, with more points, is the smallest flash size.
1)Model the circuit (resistor and thermistor) in excel over your full temperature range. I go the whole way, calculating ADC value for any temperature reading.
4) Implement the equation directly.
This will give you accuracy better than 0.2degrees C. You will have to calibrate at some temperature. You only store 7 FPt values and it's good for the whole range. You may find a polynomial of lower order is accurate enough.
Very simple, but might not be accurate enough for your application.
Table is about 12 points (from -40 to 80 in 10 ºC steps), and accuracy is well below 0.5ºC, resolution in 0.1º for the central range. With some oversampling it can be improved to 0.1º from 0º to 80º, depending on your bias resistor. This with linear interpolation.
Adding some calibration and regression, you can achieve 0.1ºC accuracy (0.18ºF), but this is out of that little tutorial.
I had used this technique with about 30 point to 'linearize' a K type TC, with 1ºC (16bit ADC, though)precission from -150ºC to >1200ºC, and 0.1ºC resolution.
How do I index into it? Do I need to start at the beginning and compare values until I find an x that is between two x[i] and x[i+1] values? So A dozen fp compares has a cost of 12.... still less than two lns and a pow I assume, but there is a point that the search cost equals the direct solve cost.
Instead of searching through the table, if your points a equidistant, transform (chosen such that each point is 1 unit apart) your input into the index value (char i= x/34 for eg.) then grab y(i) and y(i+1) and do your interpolation then.
No compares then but a transformation, which can be quick if it's just a shift.
The Hart-Steinhart equation is what I used for a battery charger application, but I crunched it externally in VB, and generated lookup tables for the AVR. WAY faster, if you can afford the space.
I've done quite a bit of thermistor work, and have never done the whole equation bit.
With a known thermistor and an "area of interest" in the curve, using a bias resistor can pull the area of interest to linear (or close enough). With a bias resistor and many thermistors a fraction of a degree F can be obtained with just straight linear interpolation--the max error at any point on the linear area is less than 1/2 degree F.
We've got one app where we switch bias resistance values to get two linear ranges--it works pretty cool.
I also like the bias resistor 'cause even with the equations the raw curve gets quite flat/steep at the ends and accuracy (the A/D reading) is suspect anyway--you can't get sub-1-degree when 1 A/D count might be multiple degrees.
A fairly thorough discussion of the bias resistor method.
Steinhart Hart equation is a mathematical model that was found by fitting a curve to the data.
You can roll your own model.
-Although it requires equally spaced co-ordinates, this means you only need to store only half of the co-ordinate pair so less flash (or eeprom) is used.
Identifying whether the lookup failed above or below, this allowed me to identify hardware failures and maybe even which component.
My temperature range is very wide, a single resistor did not cover the range on its own and it loses accuracy at one end or the other. I used two resistors. To select the high temperature range the IO port is set to output and a 1 is written to the port. To select low temperature range the port is set to high impedance input.
There is discussion on that in my link above. It [two bias values] worked quite well for me in an app--the primary bias gave me a linear curve over the range needed for fine control in the app. The secondary bias value gave me a coarse range (for overtemp--precision not needed) at the high end that was close enough to linear (no more than a couple degrees off) that I could just use linear.
In many apps, it isn't the absolute temperature reading that is important, but rather the change from a desired value or range. As long as you aren't at the flat/steep ends of the curve it works pretty well in practice.
Now, Bob is in the instrument game so he may need "real" readings.
How do you calibrate with your tutorial method? Do you recreate all the calculations inside the controller, or do you read the values manually, recalculate in your PC and then program the new ADC values in the uC?
I had a calibration tool, that plugs three different known values to the input, I measure the ADC values obtained, and then I applied a regression curve calculated from two points (at 25 and 75% of the measuring range). If this regression curve fits for the third value (at 50%) within a certain margin (0.1ºC), then it passes the test, I save the regression values calculated into the EEPROM, and the calibration is finished.
This worked very well, but it only accounts for the load resistor (thus you would need two sets for two different load resistors) and any ADC and VAcc deviation. This way, I could assure about 0.5% precission in the central range, that is 0.3% gave to me by the NTC manufacturer, plus 0.2% due nonlinearities and other variables. After about 500 tests performed on the whole range, we find that it is better than 0.1% due nonlinearities and other variables, and that regular manufacturer is about 0.2%.
But I'm talking from top of my head, and I didn't work for this company for many months now. The calibration process is a subject of another possible extensive and advanced tutorial, that will include real temperature calibration, that is how one can achieve <0.1ºC precission along a good temperature range (with >10 bits ADC, though).
Bob, see ILX Lightwave's application note Thermistor Calibartion and Steinhart-Hart Equation available in PDF from this link.
Also, you can download STEIN3.EXE from ILX Lightwave's website which will do a least-squares-fit for 4 or more data points. See this link.
Bob, just re-read your post and noticed that you're entering the temperature in Centigrade. The Steinhart-Hart equation is for temperature in Kelvin. Are the applets you're using converting from Centigrade to Kelvin?
I'm using a 3x3 solver that wants a1x + b1y + c1z = d1, a2x + b2y + c2z = d2, and a3x + b3y + c3z = d3. I use 1/Tk1,2,3 for the d1,2,3 on the right hand side, I use 1.0 for the a1,2,3, lnr1,2,3 for the bs, lnr1,2,3^3 for the cs, and hit the solve button. It spits out x,y and z which I guess are the Steinhart coeffs for that sensor. Now here is the part that might take some EE intuition: I'm computing the resistance of the sensor like this: I have a 220 ohm R from 5V to the sensor, other end of sensor to gnd. So I read the V between the 220 and the sensor, calc the I=(5-V)/220, then calc Rntc=V/I, which I use in the Steinhart eqn to get 1/Tk. Problem: if the sensor is cool and about 5K, the V is real close to 5V... might be losing sensitivity... only have 5mv per step on the a/d. Seems like if I use a 1 or 2k sense resistor, I lose even more res on the a/d. So what value of sense R should I use?
Lee Theusch has posted a nice applet to calculate the resistor value. Anyway, the ballpark figure that I use is the sensor resistance at the temperature in the center of the range that you want to measure with bigger accuracy. So, if you want to measure, let's say 0-50º, and your sensor is 10K at 25º, then the load resistance should be 10K. Hope this helps.
 Dont need to redo all the calculations with ln or log. Just check if your numbers are different by a factor of about 2.3 .


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Q: Pivot table where columns have a multilevel index I can't seem to figure out how to pivot a data frame with columns with a multilevel index.
I have seen this related post, but can't seem to figure out how to apply it to my problem.
If I Have df:
df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict({('Mule Creek', 'ATI'): {5: 5.0, 6: 6.0, 7: 7.0, 8: 8.0, 9: 9.0},
 ('Mule Creek', 'ATIMR'): {5: 0.04115419564079352,
  6: 0.04115419564079352,
  7: 0.04115419564079352,
  8: 0.04115419564079352,
  9: 0.04115419564079352},
 ('Saddle Mtn.', 'ATI'): {5: 5.0, 6: 6.0, 7: 7.0, 8: 8.0, 9: 9.0},
 ('Saddle Mtn.', 'ATIMR'): {5: 0.05260285024705004,
  6: 0.05260285024705004,
  7: 0.05260285024705004,
  8: 0.05260285024705004,
  9: 0.05260285024705004},
 ('Calvert Creek', 'ATI'): {5: 5.0, 6: 6.0, 7: 7.0, 8: 8.0, 9: 9.0},
 ('Calvert Creek', 'ATIMR'): {5: 0.0068488368752893354,
  6: 0.0068488368752893354,
  7: 0.0068488368752893354,
  8: 0.0068488368752893354,
  9: 0.0068488368752893354}})

I want to create a pivot table where ATI becomes the index and use `aggfunc='mean'.
I have tried:
df= df.unstack(level=-1)
df =df.pivot_table(values=tmp[0],index='level_0',columns='level_1',aggfunc=np.mean)

But I get:
KeyError: 1.0

Desired result:
         ATI  ATIMR
5        5.0  0.0335353
6        6.0  0.0335353
7        7.0  0.0335353
8        8.0  0.0335353
9        9.0  0.0335353

A: Is this what you need ?
newdf=df.stack(level=0).mean(level=0)
newdf
Out[886]:
   ATI     ATIMR
5  5.0  0.033535
6  6.0  0.033535
7  7.0  0.033535
8  8.0  0.033535
9  9.0  0.033535

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Project: United States Naval Academy Chapel Restoration
Construction Dates: 1996 - 1998
This project included extensive granite and limestone repair, repointing, patching and reseting. Concrete demolition and installation work was also performed during this project. Selective concrete demolition was performed on the massive chapel dome while new side walk sections and curbs were formed and poured around the Admirals residence. The elaborate decorative stone cornice in the upper drum was extensively repaired and patched using Jahn Restoration Mortar. Several replica castings and
freezes were fabricated and set in place, one of which was located in the tomb of John Paul Jones.
Waters' skilled craftsmen completed work on a three million dollar contract to restore and preserve the exterior of the Naval Academy's Chapel in Annapolis, Maryland. Approaching Annapolis, one is greeted by a panoramic view absent the modern highrise buildings one would expect to find in the state's capital. But rather dominating this panorama of steeples, spires and Maryland's own capitol building cupola is the imposing tiered dome of the United States Naval Academy Chapel, rising 210 feet above sea level. In 196l, the U. S. Naval Academy was designated as a Registered National Historic Landmark. The Academy Chapel is in the Category I; a property of major historic importance, in the National Architectural and Engineering Record. This multi-faceted project required a complete exterior make-over of an elaborate stone structure. But in some form or fashion, it also covered the three other critical areas of restoration involving wood, metal and stained glass. From doorknobs to catwalks,
copper to lead caps, Tiffany windows to skylights, terra cotta to granite to limestone, and from repointing to re-sculpting, the vast majority of work involved stone repair and restoration. Using a computer-generated critical path method of planning and scheduling restoration projects, Waters was able to manage multiple subcontracts. In this case, each of the seven subs were required to follow the project timeline which defines activity relationships for those tasks that were contracted out, e.g. gilding; metal restoration, asbestos removal, copper and modified roofing, exterior lighting, replacement of sound system, and plumbing. Waters performed all of the masonry work, including the repointing and resetting of limestone and the massive blocks of granite. One element was the restoration of an elaborate decorative stone cornice on the upper drum. This work involved extensive patching and re-sculpting of stone using Jahn restoration mortar. The craftsmen took extra care to protect the site and the historic structure. The Chapel houses a collection of some of the finest Tiffany stained glass windows known to exist. During the stone restoration, these magnificent windows were protected at all times.
According to Site Foreman Frank Camden, "There's nothing easy about this job but that's okay, because it keeps us on our toes. We've had to correct a lot of things that weren't in the specs." From the beginning, Camden has faced the challenge of overcoming the rapidly deteriorating condition of the building which has created much more work than was envisioned five years earlier when the architect designed the project. The Navy drawings detailed a design of eight skylights and eight accessory
matching copper clad panels in between. A closer look revealed that the skylights were much larger than originally thought with as much as a 4 to 5 inch variance in each opening size. To make matters worse, few or no as-built drawings existed. The almost century - old skylights had been concreted over; removal was tedious and laborious as they were literally busted out with sledge hammers. Waters' redesign eliminated the copper clad panels and the elaborate framing grid that would have eventually been lifted into place by helicopter. This new simple design saved the Navy thousands of dollars. The Navy contract was completed ahead of schedule in January of 1999, with no cost overruns in spite of delays that were caused by numerous redesigns during the first six months. The Navy presented Waters with a Safety Standown Report stating that no safety violations were noted for this project.
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY CHAPEL RESTORATION
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CASTILLO DE SAN MARCO
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY CHAPEL
MERIDIAN HILL PARK
FORT JEFFERSON
ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH
CATHDRAL OF THE SACRED HEART
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As one of the world's leading manufacturers of dental amalgam filling materials we have heavily invested in our production department, which is one of the core areas in our company.
At our factory we produce some of the highest quality dental materials using advanced technology and the latest in machinery development.
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Published by the Harvard University Art Museums. Distributed by Yale University Press.
Jean Fautrier, one of France's most important interwar and postwar artists, is perhaps best known for the Otages (Hostages), his series of semi-abstract paintings evoking partially obliterated or disfigured faces and bodies—victims of Nazi atrocities in France during World War II. This landmark book, the first major English-language publication on Fautrier, discusses his significance to the history of avant-garde aesthetics and modern art.
Essays examine the critical reception of Fautrier's work in the United States; the philosophical and historical context of the Otages paintings; the significance of Fautrier's Originaux multiples, painted reproductions that question traditional notions of the unique art object; and the relation of Fautrier's still lifes to both kitsch culture and the memento mori tradition. The book also includes new translations of critical essays on Fautrier by leading French literary figures, including André Malraux, Jean Paulhan, and Francis Ponge, as well as of a selection of letters, many never before published, from Fautrier to Malraux and Paulhan.
This important book accompanies an exhibition jointly organized by the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University (September 19–December 29, 2002); the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University (January 28–March 29, 2003); and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (April 26–July 20, 2003).
Curtis L. Carter is director of the Haggerty Museum of Art and professor of aesthetics at Marquette University; Karen K. Butler is a scholar of postwar French art and co-curator of the exhibition.


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Takeda's Zero Trust Mindset Enables Digital Growth
A zero trust security architecture helps users to more efficiently navigate Takeda's complex technology environment and facilitates systems access without multiple firewalls and VPNs, among other benefits.
Like many global pharmaceutical companies, Takeda Pharmaceuticals supports better patient outcomes by innovating and collaborating across a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders—including, in its case, more than 52,000 employees and thousands of research partners, logistics partners, and other third-party service providers as well as patients, physicians, and other health care providers. The ongoing need to extend access to applications and systems to its broad external ecosystem spurred the Tokyo-based pharmaceutical giant to begin a journey toward a zero trust security architecture.
"We realized that the demarcation between internal and external was no longer relevant or scalable," says chief information security officer Mike Towers. "The zero trust mindset—assuming that every request to connect is coming from an unknown access device on the internet that can't be predicted or controlled—is a much better way to move forward."
Previously, access to an internal application would require granting access to the Takeda network, which inherently enabled access to a number of additional, unrelated services. "We could have tried to manually manage and restrict this additional system access but, invariably, things will be missed over time," says Scott Sheahen, global head of information risk management. "With the zero trust approach, we eliminate superfluous system access and thereby reduce the avenues that could be exploited in a future cyberattack. Now we have granular, policy-based controls so that people have access only to needed resources."
"We realized that the demarcation between internal and external was no longer relevant or scalable. The zero trust mindset is a much better way to move forward."
This approach provides users with a more efficient way of navigating Takeda's complex technology environment—a mix of cloud-based applications and services and legacy systems residing on internal servers and in data centers—and eliminates the difficulty of accessing systems via multiple firewalls and VPNs. The transition to zero trust, well underway before COVID-19 struck, helped the company securely manage the sudden shift of its global workforce to a work-from-home model. "Our China workforce, the first affected by the pandemic, had less experience and comfort with work-from-home, so it was really important for us to get it right," Towers says. "By having shifted to zero trust-based access, we were able to aggressively and quickly move China to the work-from-home model."
Setting clear expectations with business partners is critical during the transition, says Thomas Likas, global head of security architecture and engineering. He recommends that security and IT organizations planning a zero trust migration engage with business partners from the beginning of the journey. "The business—not IT—has the best understanding of how people access and use their applications," he says. "In the zero trust world, the business will need to determine who should have access to their systems and data."
Indeed, Likas continues, "this knowledge needs to be baked into the access model from the very beginning. To business partners, this might seem like a lot of work but, as a bonus, the organization gets a solid understanding of their application landscape."
Towers believes that once leaders understand the numerous benefits, most companies will inevitably adopt the zero trust mindset. "Frankly," he says, "I don't think that businesses can digitally or technologically scale in any other way."
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Alibaba pledges overseas e-commerce focus as its China growth slows
...business into separate China and international divisions, with the latter to be led by Jiang Fan, head of Alibaba's flagship Taobao and Tmall marketplaces.Alibaba Deputy CFO Toby Xu, making his first major public r...
Alibaba splits up Chinese and international businesses to tap new growth opportunities
...previously held the role of president industrial e-commerce and community e-commerce. The division includes Tmall, Taobao and Taobao Deals, community marketplace Taocaicai and B2B website 1688.com.The Alibaba headq...
L'Oreal offers vouchers to end spat with China's "lipstick brother"
...China and how retail companies are relying on them to market products.Li, 29, who counts 47 million followers on his Taobao livestream room and Viya, 36, who counts 92 million, have risen to become two of the count...
Alibaba sees annual growth slowing sharply as consumption lags
...growth during its annual Singles' Day online shopping fest, said it will continue to invest heavily in areas such as Taobao Deals, an e-commerce service targeting lower-tier cities, and offline retail initiatives.A...
Brands rake in millions as Alibaba's toned-down Singles' Day enters last stretch
...with flashy deals and livestreamers hawking products from skincare to sports shoes on Alibaba's platforms, including its Taobao and Tmall marketplaces.Last year, it stretched the original one-day event into an 11-d...
From splurge to 'common prosperity': Alibaba tones down Singles Day
...100 billion yuan ($16 billion) by 2025 in support of "common prosperity", while in October it launched a version of its Taobao e-commerce platform tailored for senior citizens.For this year's Singles day, it also s...
China tells Alibaba, Tencent to open platforms up to each other
...gradually considering opening up their services to each other, such as by introducing Tencent's WeChat Pay to Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall e-commerce marketplaces.
China's market regulator proposes amendments to e-commerce law
...for platforms found to have commited less serious infringements.China's largest e-commerce platforms include Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall marketplaces, JD.com and Pinduoduo.
Chinese flock to home-grown brands in golden opportunity for investors
...in southwest China during the pandemic, has added more than 300 domestic brands to her list of favourites on Alibaba's Taobao online mall.Like with He, Chinese brands are hot with most shoppers and have spurred bil...
Alibaba's Taobao unveils livestreaming innovations
...Alibaba's Taobao Live is investing more heavily in livestreaming, a step that should boost its revenues and increase pressure on other e-tailers around the world to increase their livestreaming offers.


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We are the Law Enforcement Action Partnership
We have some very exciting news to share. As many of you may already know, in January 2017, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition became the Law Enforcement Action Partnership.
For more than a year, our board and staff worked to expand into the broader field of criminal justice reform while maintaining a keen focus on our drug policy work. Not only is this expanded scope a natural fit for our speakers' criminal justice expertise, but it's also helping us to become even more effective at moving the drug policy reform conversation forward. And, as I wrote on the Huffington Post earlier this year, when you care about something, you want it to be the best it can be. With the right criminal justice reforms, we can do better, for ourselves and for our communities. Our new name reflects the core of our organization:
Law Enforcement: Our commitment to addressing criminal justice issues from a law enforcement perspective and restoring trust between police and the communities they serve remains steadfast.
Action: Working toward real, tangible solutions to justice and public safety issues has never been more important.
Partnership: We will continue to build our internal network of criminal justice experts speaking out for more practical, ethical criminal justice policies: our speakers, who are the heart of the organization. And we will continue to build on our invaluable alliances with fellow drug policy and criminal justice reform organizations, working together for a better criminal justice system and improved public safety.
By highlighting our positions on issues such as police-community relations, incarceration, harm reduction, and global issues, in addition to our longstanding work in drug policy, we are opening new doors and increasing our reach as the voice of law enforcement officers working for criminal justice reform.
Please visit our new website to read all about the issues we're working on.
This was a huge step for our organization, and we couldn't have done it without you. Thank you for your continued support – through your activism, encouragement, and investment in our efforts. We look forward to working with you as the Law Enforcement Action Partnership grows!
Major Neill Franklin (Ret.)
Executive Director The Law Enforcement Action Partnership
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Press Release: LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION (LEAP) ENDORSES FL MEDICAL MARIJUANA INITIATIVE
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LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION (LEAP) ENDORSES FL MEDICAL MARIJUANA INITIATIVE
Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice Experts Support Amendment 2 to Protect Patient Rights
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a nonprofit group of police, judges, prosecutors, and other criminal justice professionals advocating for marijuana reform, endorses Amendment 2 as a means of protecting the rights and safety of sick, elderly, and disabled patients. Amendment 2 will allow patients with debilitating conditions, as outlined by the bill, to purchase marijuana from licensed, regulated dispensaries.
"Florida is known as a comfortable place for retirees, many of whom battle with painful and debilitating conditions," said Special Agent Ray Strack (Ret.), a veteran U.S. Customs agent and speaker for LEAP. "Passing Amendment 2 will be fantastic for people, no different from our parents and grandparents, who are suffering and will benefit from safe and regulated access to medical marijuana."
Amendment 2 is endorsed by The Miami Herald and other major newspapers, ACLU of Florida, Florida NAACP, Teamsters 2011, Palm Beach County Democratic Black Caucus, United Teachers of Dade, and U.S. Reps. Corrine Brown, Joe Garcia, Alcee Hastings, and other state legislators.
Twenty-five states and D.C. have legalized some form of medical marijuana access. Florida is one of four states voting to reform medical marijuana laws this election.
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Press Release: LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION (LEAP) ENDORSES QUESTION 2, THE INITIATIVE TO REGULATE MARIJUANA LIKE ALCOHOL IN NEVADA
For Immediate Release: October 27, 2016
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION (LEAP) ENDORSES QUESTION 2, THE INITIATIVE TO REGULATE MARIJUANA LIKE ALCOHOL IN NEVADA
Criminal Justice Experts Say Question 2 Will Promote Public Safety
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a nonprofit group of police, judges, prosecutors, and other criminal justice professionals, today announced its endorsement of Nevada's ballot Question 2 to regulate marijuana as a means of refocusing the justice system on more pressing crimes and improving the relationship between communities and police.
The proposed initiative would allow adults 21 and older to possess up to one ounce of marijuana and up to one eighth of an ounce of marijuana extract. Question 2 would also establish the framework for a responsibly regulated system of licensed marijuana retail stores and cultivation, manufacturing, and testing facilities. The initiative would place a 15% excise tax on wholesale marijuana sales.
"Responsibly regulating marijuana will help to drive out the risky and untaxed illegal marijuana market – thus reducing the power of gangs and improving public safety for Nevada's residents and law enforcement officers," said Maj. Neill Franklin (Ret.), LEAP's executive director. "Police will then be able to refocus valuable resources to help bring justice to victims of serious crimes."
If passed, Question 2 will ensure protection for patients enrolled in Nevada's medical marijuana program. Consuming marijuana in public and driving while impaired on marijuana will remain illegal. Taxes and fees will first be used to pay for state and local implementation and enforcement, and all additional money will support K-12 education. According to a Suffolk University poll, 57% of Nevadans support the measure.
California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Arizona are also voting to legalize marijuana for adult use through the ballot initiative process this November. Marijuana is legal for adult use in Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, and the District of Columbia. Twenty-five states and D.C. have legalized some form of medical marijuana access.
PRESS RELEASE: LEAP endorses MA marijuana legalization, Question 4
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION (LEAP) ENDORSES MA MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION, QUESTION 4
The Massachusetts Secretary of State has announced that an opportunity to legalize marijuana, Question 4, will be on the November ballot. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a nonprofit group of police, judges, prosecutors, and other criminal justice professionals advocating for marijuana legalization, endorses the measure as a means of refocusing the justice system on more serious matters and improving the relationship between communities and police. Question 4 will allow adults 21 and older to possess up to one ounce of marijuana and grow up to six plants in a secure area of the home.
"Just because fewer people are arrested for marijuana in Massachusetts now doesn't mean the illegal market disappeared," saidOfficer Patrick Heintz (Ret.), a retired corrections officer, substance-abuse counselor, and LEAP speaker. "Underground marijuana dealers are still out there – profiting from a product we relegated to their control. Regulation ensures profits are directed to licensed business owners who pay taxes instead of potentially dangerous criminals. I'm voting Yes on Question 4."
Question 4 is endorsed by Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing, ACLU of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Moms for Regulation and Taxation, and Union of Minority Neighborhoods, and assorted state legislators, doctors, nurses, academics, and faith leaders.
Marijuana is legal for adult use in Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, and the District of Columbia. Twenty-five states and D.C. have legalized some form of medical marijuana access. Measures to legalize marijuana for adult use are also on the November ballot in Maine, Arizona, California, and Nevada.
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Press Release: LEAP Declares Support for Maine Marijuana Legalization Initiative
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For Immediate Release: Thursday, July 14, 2016
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION (LEAP) THROWS SUPPORT BEHIND MAINE MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION, BALLOT QUESTION 1
Criminal Justice Experts Endorse Maine Campaign to Legalize Marijuana to Promote Public Safety
Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap has announced that Question 1 on Maine's November ballot will be an initiative to legalize marijuana. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a nonprofit organization of police, judges, prosecutors, and other criminal justice professionals advocating for marijuana legalization, endorses the measure as a means of refocusing the justice system on more serious matters and improving the relationship between communities and police. As summarized by the Maine Secretary of State, Question 1 will "allow the possession and use of marijuana under state law by persons who are at least 21 years of age, and allow the cultivation, manufacture, distribution, testing, and sale of marijuana and marijuana products subject to state regulation, taxation and local ordinance."
"Legalizing, taxing, and regulating marijuana is already proving successful in other states," said Maj. Neill Franklin (Ret.), LEAP's executive director. "We have a duty to ensure law enforcement prioritizes public safety above the responsible behavior of otherwise law-abiding adults."
The campaign collected more than the 61,123 signatures required to qualify for the ballot.
Question 1 would allocate marijuana taxes to Maine's General Fund to bolster local budgets.
Marijuana is legal for adult use in Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, and the District of Columbia. Twenty-five states and D.C. have legalized some form of medical marijuana access.


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Air Force's Rembert make 3rd team AP All-American
By on	 December 14, 2010 Air Force, Football
Air Force cornerback Reggie Rembert is gonna need a bigger trophy case. On top of other accolades he's already received this year, the senior has now been voted to the prestigious Associated Press All-America Team. Rembert was selected to AP's third team along with Stephon Gilmore, a freshman at South Carolina. TCU's Tejay Johnson and Quinton Carter, both seniors, were the first-team All-America pics. Virginia Tech's Jayron Hosley and Oregon's Cliff Harris, both sophomores, made the second team at cornerback. In November, Rembert was voted first team All-America by the American Football Coaches Association. That was the first time any…
Army's McNary picked to SI All-America team
By on	 December 17, 2009 Army, Football
Army defensive end Josh McNary has been selected as an honorable mention member of the Sports Illustrated All-America team. Only a junior, McNary has rewritten the Army record book since making the switch from linebacker to end during the 2008 season. With 18 sacks already in his career, he's Army's all-time leader in that category. Twelve of those sacks came this season, which set Army's single-season record. He also holds the team record for sacks in game, compiling four in the Black Knights' loss to Temple earlier this season. In addition to the SI honor, McNary was also selected to…


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Horizonte Minerals PLC Announces Notice of Investor Presentation
All conditions precedent for first utilisation under the Senior Debt Facilities have been satisfied, a major milestone to de-risk the Araguaia Nickel Project and satisfy all Senior Lender requirements;
First tranche of funds received from the Senior Lenders and both Export Credit Agencies ("ECA") guarantees now in place; and,
Horizonte has also satisfied all conditions precedent in relation to the previously announced Cost Overrun Debt Facility (the "COF") and has accordingly received all COF funds from OMF Fund III ("Orion").
Horizonte Minerals Plc (AIM:HZM)(TSX:HZM) ("Horizonte" or the "Company")is pleased to announce that it has satisfied all conditions precedent for the first utilisation under the senior secured project finance debt facilities of US$346.2 million (the "Senior Debt Facilities"), as previously announced in March 2022. Importantly, the Company is now in receipt of the first tranche of funds from the Senior Lenders. This important milestone unlocks the balance of the funding required to complete construction, commissioning and ramp-up at Horizonte's 100%-owned Araguaia Nickel Project ("Araguaia" or "the Project") in Brazil, where construction is underway and progress remains on schedule
In addition, Horizonte has also satisfied all of the conditions precedent in relation to utilisation of the COF and has fully drawn down the US$25 million of COF funding from Orion.
Jeremy Martin, CEO of Horizonte Minerals, commented:
"This significant milestone for Horizonte is the culmination of a multi-year effort to sufficiently de-risk the Araguaia Nickel Project to access low-cost debt funding from a syndicate of leading international financial institutions. The rigorous due diligence process, and the extensive list of obligations that Horizonte was required to meet to access this funding, should provide all our stakeholders with confidence in the robustness of Araguaia.
"This milestone demonstrates that we have made significant progress on construction and have been able to satisfy the Senior Lenders that we have, among others, i) shown that Araguaia is fully funded through to completion and first cash flows; ii) made significant progress with construction, and in line with the schedule; iii) awarded all of the key material contracts, including equipment supply, Engineering Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM), port access and power supply; iv) have a long term offtake in place for 100% of Araguaia's production from line 1 with a high quality counterparty in Glencore; and lastly, v) have built out a high quality team to deliver the Project.
"Our team continues to make solid progress on site as we work to deliver our objective of becoming a low-cost nickel producer."
About the Senior Debt Facilities
The Senior Debt Facilities were executed between Araguaia Niquel Metais LTDA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Horizonte and a syndicate of international financial institutions (being BNP Paribas, BNP Paribas Fortis, ING Capital LLC, ING Bank N.V., Natixis, New York Branch, Société Générale and SEK, Swedish Export Credit Corporation) (together the "Senior Lenders"). The Senior Debt Facilities comprise a commercial tranche of US$200 million and an ECA tranche of US$146.2 million which is being guaranteed by two export credit agencies (being EKF, Denmark's Export Credit Agency and Finnvera plc, Finland's Export Credit Agency).
For the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055 (as transposed into the laws of the United Kingdom), the person responsible for arranging for the release of this Announcement on behalf of the Company is Simon Retter, Chief Financial Officer.
For further information, visitwww.horizonteminerals.comor contact:
Horizonte Minerals plc
Jeremy Martin (CEO)
Simon Retter (CFO)
Patrick Chambers (Head of IR) info@horizonteminerals.com
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Ross Allister
David McKeown +44 (0)20 7418 8900
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About Horizonte Minerals
Horizonte Minerals plc (AIM/TSX: HZM) is developing two 100%-owned, Tier 1 projects in Pará state, Brazil, the Araguaia Nickel Project and the Vermelho Nickel-Cobalt Project. Both projects are large scale, high-grade, low-cost, low-carbon and scalable. Araguaia is under construction with first metal scheduled for early 2024, when fully ramped up with Line 1 and Line 2, is forecast to produce 29,000 tonnes of nickel per year. Vermelho is at feasibility study stage and is expected to produce 25,000 tonnes of nickel and 1,250 tonnes of cobalt to supply the EV battery market. Horizonte's combined near-term production profile of over 60,000 tonnes of nickel per year positions the Company as a globally significant nickel producer. Horizonte's top three shareholders are La Mancha Investments S.à r.l., Glencore plc and Orion Resource Partners LLP.
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Except for statements of historical fact relating to the Company, certain information contained in this press release constitutes "forward-looking information" under Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to, the ability of the Company to complete the acquisition of equipment as described herein, statements with respect to the potential of the Company's current or future property mineral projects; the ability of the Company to complete a positive feasibility study regarding the second RKEF line at Araguaia on time, or at all, the success of exploration and mining activities; cost and timing of future exploration, production and development; the costs and timing for delivery of the equipment to be purchased as described herein, the estimation of mineral resources and reserves and the ability of the Company to achieve its goals in respect of growing its mineral resources; the realization of mineral resource and reserve estimates and achieving production in accordance with the Company's potential production profile or at all. Generally, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Forward-looking information is based on the reasonable assumptions, estimates, analysis and opinions of management made in light of its experience and its perception of trends, current conditions and expected developments, as well as other factors that management believes to be relevant and reasonable in the circumstances at the date that such statements are made, and are inherently subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to risks related to: the inability of the Company to complete the acquisition of equipment contemplated herein, on time or at all, the ability of the Company to complete a positive feasibility study regarding the implementation of a second RKEF line at Araguaia on the timeline contemplated or at all, exploration and mining risks, competition from competitors with greater capital; the Company's lack of experience with respect to development-stage mining operations; fluctuations in metal prices; uninsured risks; environmental and other regulatory requirements; exploration, mining and other licences; the Company's future payment obligations; potential disputes with respect to the Company's title to, and the area of, its mining concessions; the Company's dependence on its ability to obtain sufficient financing in the future; the Company's dependence on its relationships with third parties; the Company's joint ventures; the potential of currency fluctuations and political or economic instability in countries in which the Company operates; currency exchange fluctuations; the Company's ability to manage its growth effectively; the trading market for the ordinary shares of the Company; uncertainty with respect to the Company's plans to continue to develop its operations and new projects; the Company's dependence on key personnel; possible conflicts of interest of directors and officers of the Company, and various risks associated with the legal and regulatory framework within which the Company operates, together with the risks identified and disclosed in the Company's disclosure record available on the Company's profile on SEDAR atwww.sedar.com, including without limitation, the annual information form of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2021, the Araguaia Report and the Vermelho Report. Although management of the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.
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Julie von Massow (24 November 1825 – 5 March 1901) was a Prussian woman who started a movement, Ut Omnes Unum, "that all may be one", which promoted reconciliation between the Christian churches, a policy known as reunionism.

Biography
Julie von Massow, née von Behr, was born in Pinnow, district of Greifswald (today part of Murchin) into a Pomeranian noble family, which held high positions in the court and government of Prussia. The visitors to her salon came from the highest echelons of society, and included Bismarck, Alexander von Humboldt, and members of the noble Stolberg family. She was originally Lutheran, but converted to Catholicism in 1885.

Ut Omnes Unum
Von Massow's prayer society came about in a cultural atmosphere so divided by confessionalism that it prompted calls for reunionism (as it came to be called) from both Protestant and Catholic sections. One development was the so-called Erfurt Conference of 1860, a somewhat impromptu gathering of Catholic and Protestant scholars and dignitaries. Such a meeting, however, was so controversial that when the organizer of the conference, the Catholic priest Friedrich Michelis, was seen after the conference riding the train from Erfurt to Halle with Protestant historian and conference participant Heinrich Leo, newspapers in Berlin and Rome reported the news, prompting speculation that the Jesuits were trying to forcefully convert Lutherans. As a result, Michelis was sued for holding an unauthorized assembly, and Leo (a professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg) was forbidden to examine future high school teachers. Another signal of reunionist sympathy came in 1861, when Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler, Bishop of Mainz, published a book on reconciliation, Freiheit, Autorität, und Kirche, in which he proposed the founding of a prayer society "for the Reunion of Christendom". Von Massow, who counted popes, bishops (including von Ketteler), and cardinals among her friends, can be said to have answered that call.

In 1862, von Massow and her husband (a member of the Prussian House of Lords) began a program of organized prayer, "praying the Psalter according to a fixed schedule, as in the Roman Breviary". The idea was to establish a unity of sorts between the denominations. The von Massows' influence was such that friends soon did the same, and quickly a movement (organized as Psalmenbund in 1862) swept Germany, before it spread to Greece, Sweden, and even the United States (among a Lutheran congregation in Allentown, Pennsylvania). In 1878, von Massow added a prayer society, the Gebetsverein, which prayed a number of prayers (including "Veni Creator Spiritus" by Rabanus Maurus) "with the intention that all may be one". A journal based on the movement was founded (also named Ut Omnes Unum, published from 1879 to 1901 in Erfurt), and weekly calendars were printed. In 1883, von Massow endowed a yearly mass ad tollendum schisma, "to bring schisma to an end", to be said at the grave of Saint Boniface in Fulda.

Catholic organizations sprang up mirroring the originally Lutheran organization—the Petrusverein, the Gebetsverein für Deutschland, and the Canisiusgebetsverein. In 1888, Pope Leo XIII offered indulgences for the daily prayer of the "reunion rosary". He received von Massow in a special audience and awarded her a medal with the inscription Ut Omnes Unum on the one side and a likeness of Saint Boniface and the text ein Volk, ein Glaube on the other. During the movement's heyday, their journal was produced by Lutheran and Catholic contributors, working together to further the reunification of Christianity in Germany. However, von Massow converted to Catholicism in 1885 and the Catholic editor of the journal censured a number of Lutheran contributions; this caused most of the Lutheran contributors to the journal and the movement to desert the movement. Von Massow founded a new journal, Friedensblätter, which for a while competed with Ut Omnes Unum. The two journals merged in 1900, and the ensuing journal was published until World War I. The Psalmenbund and Gebetsverein became affiliated with the 15th-century Brotherhood of Our Lady of Sorrows in Rome.

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1825 births
1901 deaths
People from the Province of Pomerania
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Documentary film of civil rights murder investigation shown Oct. 24 at SU College of Law; victim's brother discusses case
Tuesday, October 23, 2007, By News Staff
Documentary film of civil rights murder investigation shown Oct. 24 at SU College of Law; victim's brother discusses caseOctober 23, 2007Jaclyn D. Grossojgrosso@law.syr.edu
Forty-three years after the brutal killing of his brother by members of the Ku Klux Klan, Thomas Moore will talk about the events surrounding the murder, the documentary film that was made about the case, and why his family never rested until the killer was brought to justice. Moore, along with Canadian documentary filmmaker David Ridgen, will present the film and discuss "Mississippi Cold Case" on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 6:30 p.m. in Room 104 of E.I. White Hall. The event is sponsored by the Syracuse University College of Law.
Moore is the brother of Charles Edward Moore, who, with Henry Hezekiah Dee, was abducted, tortured and drowned by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964. State authorities brought and then dropped murder charges against reputed Klan member James Ford Seale for the murders of two 19-year-olds. Moore and his family never rested in their quest for justice in their brother's killing. With documentary filmmaker Ridgen, they pressed the federal government to reopen the case and bring federal charges. In June 2007, James Ford Seale was convicted on federal charges in relation to the murders of Moore and Dee.
As part of the film viewing, Moore and Ridgen are guest speakers in the course "Unsolved Civil Rights Murder Cases" taught by College of Law professors Paula C. Johnson and Janis L. McDonald. This course focuses on efforts to investigate and reopen decades-old civil rights murder cases to bring public attention, honor and justice to the many lives that were taken
The event is free and open to the public. For further information, call (315) 443-9991.


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Bringing a franchise to the UK - questions to ask an international franchisor
Article by Farrah Rose
The Franchising Centre
If you are looking to buy an international franchise to launch in the UK, there are many issues you need to look into. Below is a list of questions you need to ask the franchisor.
1.	How well established is the franchisor - what is its track record in its owned and franchised operation, what are the split between owned and franchise units (territories)
2.	How many franchisees has the franchisor got - are the franchisees all domestic franchisees? Is the franchisor franchising internationally if so, which countries are the international franchisees based in?
3.	How many franchisees has the franchisor got domestically? How are they doing? Are they operating profitably, how long have they been a franchisee of the franchisor.. Have there been any franchisee resell and why .. Get to talk to one or two of them with the permission of the franchisor a
4.	Has there been or are there any franchisee dispute or legal suit pending and if so why?
5.	Has the franchisor got a domestic or international Franchise Disclosure Documentation or some form of details Information memorandum adapted for the UK Market
6.	Look at how transferrable the franchise concept is to the UK Market – Please do your homework well - what works in one country may not work in the UK in its entirety – you need to assess if the concept and/ or the business operating format requires modification, would those modifications be significant to the point of diluting the concept beyond recognition and /or could the modification make the proposition financially unviable and impractical
7.	Will the Franchisor commit you to a strict and unrealistic development schedule for an unrealistic period of time
8.	How large would you territory be.
9.	Will you be a sub franchisee of a local Master Franchisee or will you be the regional or country franchisee with or without the right to sell franchises on.
10.	Is the franchise a product driven franchise? If so what is the supply logistics
11.	Would the implementation of the system and business format require any form of certificates, permits etc. In the UK, if so what sort of support will you get from the Franchisor
12.	What is the price parity between UK and domestic markets
13.	Are the tradename and marks registered for the UK
14.	Are there any legal requirements for entry of the brand in the UK
15.	How long is the contract and is it renewable automatically
16.	What are the key terms and conditions of the agreement and are they in line with British Franchise Association Guidelines – does the franchisor buy into BFA code of ethics
17.	What sort of one off and ongoing support will the franchisor give you and who pays for what
18.	How are the support delivered
19.	Has the franchisor done its research for the UK market
20.	Does he have modified operation manual to suit the UK market (which will necessitate the franchisor to have done its UK market study)
21.	Are the rights granted to you for one unit or one territory or is it for a larger area with a tight development schedule
22.	What is your fee structure to the Franchisor. Are there any hidden costs or fees you have to pay
23.	How long is the training
24.	Key terms of your agreement
25.	What are the termination terms
26.	Talk to their local franchise association and find out if they are a member of that association
27.	Get yourself some decent one day advice from British Franchise Consultants who can review all the above information with you to see if anything looks out of the ordinary or not in line with franchise practices in the UK.
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#technology|17 April, 2018
Taklimakan CEO and Co-Founder: Dubai is poised to be world blockchain leader
UAE is a rapidly developing tech economy and blockchain is at its core in both the public and the private sectors.
Dubai: The UAE is ahead of the global pack in its adoption of blockchain and cryptocurrencies., according to Mr. Rashid Yusup, the CEO and Co-Founder of Taklimakan, the global leader in crypto education, analytics and social networking.
Speaking at the sideline of Global Blockchain Forum, the longest-running crypto and blockchain conference being held at Madinat Jumeirah on April 16-17 with the theme "Investments and ICOs", he said, "The Dubai Blockchain Strategy launched by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai, aims to position Dubai as a leader in this global technology. Dubai is on course to become the first economy to operate its own cryptocurrency by the year 2020 and the Dubai Land Department is possibly the world's most advanced use of blockchain by any government entity."
'The UAE is a rapidly developing tech economy and blockchain is at its core in both the public and the private sectors. The Global Blockchain Council was established in Dubai with 46 leading members including government entities, international companies, top local banks and international tech firms including Microsoft and IBM", he added.
Highlighting his expectation on when the UAE will regulate the ICO, Mr. Yusup said, "The UAE is a global financial center and ICOs are the most successful global financial instrument over the past two years. In 2017 token sales raised nearly $4bn and this figure spiked to nearly $6bn in the first quarter of 2018 alone. As a truly global financial instrument, the rules for regulating ICOs also need to be fully global. While the United States has stricter rules than anywhere else, any ICO needs to follow global best practices on issues like Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML). Regulators are rightly watchful on these questions."
Given this year's WBF theme, Taklimakan Network will likely be of interest to many attendees. The platform was developed as an all-in-one app that provides educational materials, a moderated news aggregator, exchange analytics, along with crowdsourced portfolio capabilities and more. The web- and mobile-based app is built to appeal to anyone with an interest in crypto trading, from beginners to experts.
According to Yussup, the UAE market is an important one, especially for Taklimakan, because there is a strong appetite in the country to expand into the crypto sphere. Yussup estimates that WBF will attract an audience who together manage up to US $100 billion in assets, and Taklimakan Network intends to be their go-to platform to learn more about the cryptocurrency markets, access trading tools, and analyze exchange metrics. "We've built a tool that aims to demystify the world of crypto trading, so that anyone can have open and reliable information and access to up-to-date tools, analysis, and even crowdsourced prediction services,"
Taklimakan Network also launched their public ICO last week. It runs until June 9, 2018, and will offer various purchase bonuses in the coming weeks. The TKLN is available at US $0.05. For more details, please visit www.taklimakan.io
For more media information, please contact:
Mohammed Zain
Mubadra PR
m.zain@mubadra.com
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Ionski kanalček, tudi ionski kanal ali membranska pora, je transmembranska beljakovina, ki skozi plazmalemo oblikuje odprtino, ki omogoča transport ionov iz zunajceličnega prostora v celico in obratno. Ionski kanali so na primer bistvenega pomena pri prevajanju impulza s pomočjo akcijskega potenciala po nevronu.
Obstajajo aktivni in pasivni ionski kanalčki. Prvi se odpirajo in zapirajo, drugi pa so ves čas odprti.

Biofizikalne lastnosti

Pomembna lastnost ionskih kanalčkov je večja ali manjša selektivnost, kar pomeni, da niso prepustni za vse ione enako. Obstajajo ionski kanalčki, ki so zelo specifični za kalijeve ione, drugi za natrijeve, kalcijeve ali za kloridne ione. Tako imenovani nespecifični kationski kanalčki izražajo manjšo specifičnost in prepuščajo tako kalijeve kot natrijeve in kalcijeve ione.
Za odprtje aktivnega ionskega kanalčka je potreben ustrezen dražljaj; često se ionski kanali odprejo zaradi spremembe membranskega potenciala - to so tako imenovani napetostni ionski kanali. Na primer kalijevi kanalčki, ki so napetostno odvisni, so v primeru mirovnega membranskega potenciala zaprti, odprejo pa se, ko nastopi depolarizacija (membranski potencial postane manj negativen). Druga večja skupina ionskih kanalčkov se odpre zaradi vezave ustreznega liganda - ti se imenujejo receptorski ionski kanalčki. V tem primeru predstavlja določena molekula, ki se veže na vezavno mesto na kanalčku, stimulus, ki povzroči odprtje in posledično prepustnost kanalčka. V to skupino sodi na primer nikotinski receptor (na sliki), ki se odpre po vezavi acetilholina na zunanji strani kanalčka.
Ionski kanalčki se lahko odprejo tudi zaradi mehanskega dražljaja, na primer vibracije ali pritiska.

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Elektrofiziologija
Nevrokemija
Biologija membran


Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 –1894) was a German physician and physicist who made important contributions in many areas of science. One of these areas was acoustics, where he published the famous book "On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of music" in 1863. There he described his invention of a special type of resonator, which is now known as Helmholtz resonator. These resonators were devised as highly sensitive devices to identify the harmonic components (partial tones) of sounds and allowed significant advances in the acoustic analysis of vowel sounds and musical instruments.
Before the invention of Helmholtz resonators, strong partial tones in a sound wave were typically identified by very thin, elastic membranes that were spanned on circular rings similar to drums. Such a membrane has a certain resonance frequency (in fact multiple frequencies) that depends on its material, tension, and radius. If the sound field around the membrane contains energy at this frequency, the membrane is excited and starts to oscillate. The tiny amplitudes of this oscillation can be visually detected when fine grained sand is distributed over its surface. When the membrane is excited with its lowest resonance frequency, the sand accumulates at the rim of the membrane or along specific lines on its surface, when higher order modes are excited. With a set of membranes tuned to different frequencies, a rough spectral analysis can be conducted.
It was also known that the sensitivity of this method could be improved when the membrane was spanned over the (removed) bottom of a bottle with an open neck end. The key idea of Helmholtz was to replace this bottle by a hollow sphere with an open neck at one "end" and another small spiky opening at the opposite "end" (Fig. 2a). The spiky opening had to be inserted into one ear canal. In this way, the eardrum was excited similarly to the membrane with the sand of the previous technique. However, due to the high sensitivity of the ear, partial tones could be detected much more easily. A further advantage of these resonators was that their resonance frequencies can be expressed analytically in terms of the volume of the sphere and the diameter and the length of the neck. Hence these resonators became important experimental tools for the subjective sound analysis in the late 19th century and the early 20th century.
The HAPS at the TU Dresden contains three sets of Helmholtz resonators, one of which is shown in Fig. 2a. This set contains 11 resonators, which are tuned to frequencies between 128 Hz and 768 Hz. A related kind of resonators by Schaefer (1902) is shown in Fig. 2b. These resonators are tubes with one open end and one closed end. The closed end also has a small spiky opening that has to be inserted into the ear canal. These resonators maximally respond to frequencies of which the wavelength is four times the length of the tube.
Helmholtz used his resonators not only for sound analysis, but also for the synthesis of vowels. Therefore, he first had to analyze the resonances of the vocal tract for different vowels. He did this by means of a set of tuning forks, which he placed and excited directly in front of his open mouth when he silently articulated the different vowels. When the frequency of a tuning fork was close to a resonance of the vocal tract, the resulting sound became much louder than for the other frequencies. For each of the vowels /u/, /o/, and /a/, he was only able to detect a single resonance of the vocal tract at the frequencies 175 Hz (note f), 494 Hz (note b') and 988 Hz (note b''), respectively. For each of the other investigated German vowels, he detected two resonances, which are given in Fig. 3 in terms of musical notes. The single resonances detected for /u/, /o/ and /a/ probably correspond to the clusters of the nearby first and second resonances of the corresponding vowels. Obviously, his method of analysis was not sensitive enough to separate the two individual resonances of each of the vowels.
To synthesize the vowels /u/, /o/, and /a/ with a single resonance, he simply connected a reed pipe to Helmholtz resonators tuned to the corresponding frequencies. For the vowels with two resonances, he selected a Helmholtz resonator for one of the resonances and attached a 6-10 cm long glass tube to the outer opening of the resonator to create the second resonance. These experiments showed that Helmholtz had surprising insight in the source-filter principle of speech production, which was fully elaborated by Gunnar Fant and others 100 years later.


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Donald Moffitt () a fost un autor american care a scris o serie de povestiri și romane științifico-fantastice. Cele mai faimoase dintre acestea sunt The Genesis Quest și Second Genesis. În timp ce a publicat multe lucrări sub propriul său nume, el a folosit și pseudonimele Paul Kenyon, Victor Sondheim și Paul King. În anii 1950, Moffitt a publicat aproximativ 100 de povestiri sub 15 sau mai multe pseudonime (Wilson MacDonald, James D'Indy și altele), în reviste precum Man's Action, Wildcat, Gent și Monsieur. Cunoscut mai ales pentru operele sale științifico-fantastice, Moffitt și-a îndreptat mai târziu atenția asupra misterelor istorice.

Bibliografie (incompletă)

Ca Donald Moffitt

Ficțiune scurtă
 The Devil's Due (Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, mai 1960; republicată în Strange Fantasy, toamna 1969)
 The Scroll (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, mai 1972)
 The Man Who Was Beethoven (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, dec. 1972)
 Literacy (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, aprilie 1994)
 The Beethoven Project (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, aprilie 2008)
 Feat of Clay (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, sept. 2008)
 The Affair of the Phlegmish Master (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, iunie 2009)
 Deadly Passage (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, nov. 2009)
 A Death in Samoa (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, oct. 2011)
 A Snitch in Time  (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, ian.–ferbr. 2011)
 The Color of Gold (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, martie 2015)
 A Handful of Clay (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, iul.–august 2015)

Romane
 The Jupiter Theft (1977)
 Jovian (2003)
 Children of the Comet (2015, publicat postum)

Seria Genesis
 The Genesis Quest (1986)
 Second Genesis (1986)

Seria Mechanical Sky
 Crescent in the Sky (1989)
 A Gathering of Stars (1990)

Ca Paul Kenyon
De asemenea, ca "Paul Kenyon", un pseudonim comun al editurii Book Creations, Inc., a scris The Baroness, o serie de thriller de spionaj pentru adulți.

 The Baroness: The Ecstacy Connection (Pocket Books, 1974, #1)
 The Baroness: Diamonds are for Dying (Pocket Books, 1974, #2)
 The Baroness: Death is a Ruby Light (Pocket Books, 1974, #3)
 The Baroness: Hard-core Murder (Pocket Books, 1974, #4)
 The Baroness: Operation Doomsday (Pocket Books, 1974, #5)
 The Baroness: Sonic Slave (Pocket Books, 1974, #6)
 The Baroness: Flicker of Doom (Pocket Books, 1974, #7)
 The Baroness: Black Gold (Pocket Books, 1975, #8)
 (nepublicat) The Baroness: A Black Hole to Die In
 (nepublicat) The Baroness: Death is a Copycat

Ca Victor Sondheim
 Inheritors of the Storm (1981)
 (nepublicat) Swimmers in the Tide

Ca Paul King

Trilogia Dreamers
 Dreamers (1992)
 The Voyagers (1993)
 The Discoverers (1994)

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Legături externe
 http://www.donaldmoffitt.com

 Donald Moffitt Papers, MS 360 at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

Nașteri în 1931
Decese în 2014
Scriitori de povestiri americani
Scriitori americani de literatură științifico-fantastică
Oameni din Massachusetts
Oameni din Boston, Massachusetts