Bangladesh's rural economy is characterised by slow growth, insufficient infrastructure and high unemployment. Due to lack of electricity supply, the rural population relies on biomass mainly from agricultural waste and wood for 70 per cent of their energy consumption. Energy consumption in Bangladesh is characterised by a low level of access to reliable electricity and a heavy dependency on biomass for cooking. The traditional stoves used by most households are energy inefficient and cause indoor air pollution leading to premature deaths. Only eight per cent of the population have access to the natural gas network and liquified petroleum gas for cooking.
EnDev Bangladesh supports the provision of efficient and clean cooking as well as the provision of modern energy for lighting and small electrical appliances. The programme supports the development of markets for modern energy facilities, especially in rural areas. Part of the programme is the training and coaching of manufacturers and retailers, for example in energy-efficient cookers and small solar energy systems.
The programme's activities focus on reliable, affordable, easily adoptable and environmentally sound energy services and resources. It supports the dissemination of solar home systems (SHS), PicoPV systems (1-10 Wp) and distribution of improved cookstoves (ICS), working with partner organisations.
People in rural areas have access to reliable and clean energy services from sustainable sources.
EnDev Bangladesh currently focuses on three areas: support for improved cooking technology, promotion of solar energy for lighting and electrical appliances, and capacity development of sustainable energy.
The improved cookstoves (ICS) component supports around 5,000 small and medium-sized local enterprises known as sanitary shops that produce and sell improved cookstoves with a chimney. The brand name is 'Bondhu Chula' (meaning friendly stove). EnDev supports the training of stove builders and sales staff, involves local women for marketing of ICS and introduces quality assurance and verifications.
EnDev supports the establishment and capacity building of the Household Energy Platform (HEP) under the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority (SREDA) to enhance coordination between stakeholders in the improved cookstove sector.
The programme is working to improve cookstove standards and testing capacity in Bangladesh in collaboration with SREDA and other stakeholders. In addition, EnDev is involved in developing the market for alternative fuels for cooking such as briquettes and pellets.
The solar energy component supports dissemination of solar home systems (SHS) including small solar home systems (SSHS). Moreover, the programme implements PicoPV systems, with the dissemination focusing on incentives through a Results Based Financing (RBF) approach for systems smaller than 1,200 lmh/day. EnDev implements activities through Collaborative Labelling and Appliance Standards Programme (CLASP) and gives incentives for outstanding DC appliances to be introduced in the market.
EnDev Bangladesh implements Lighting Bangladesh, a joint initiative of Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and International Finance Corporation (IFC) which aims to provide access to lighting in off-grid areas by catalysing the private sector driven PicoPV systems market in Bangladesh. It strengthens awareness of the benefits of high quality Pico Solar Lighting and supports the marketing processes, gives advice regarding the necessary taxation and helps to distribute the products.
EnDev Bangladesh maintains a thorough monitoring, evaluation and reporting system in order to provide reliable data and to track progress.
The improved cookstoves component has facilitated access and the sales of about 2.6 million stoves, reaching more than 5.4 million people. Studies show that 95 per cent of the users of improved cookstoves with chimneys reported a significant reduction of smoke in their kitchens and reduction in eye infections and respiratory diseases compared to when they were using traditional stoves. In average, a stove saves around 500 kilogrammes of wood per year. EnDev has disseminated about 480,000 SHS/SSHS in the country. The solar energy component has reached more than 2.4 million people with a PicoPV system. The prevalence of illnesses associated with indoor air quality and kerosene related accidents was found to be significantly lower among women and children.


Australia's Mineral Exploration: Expenditure: Existing Deposits: Victoria data was reported at 8.000 AUD mn in Mar 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 5.600 AUD mn for Dec 2017. Australia's Mineral Exploration: Expenditure: Existing Deposits: Victoria data is updated quarterly, averaging 7.200 AUD mn from Sep 2003 to Mar 2018, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 18.800 AUD mn in Mar 2010 and a record low of 2.800 AUD mn in Dec 2015. Australia's Mineral Exploration: Expenditure: Existing Deposits: Victoria data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database's Australia – Table AU.B021: Mineral Exploration: Expenditure: By Type of Deposit and State.
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Why I Believe Global Warming is being Caused by Man
Global warming is attributable to both natural phenomenon and man made causes. However, although many would regard global warming as a confirmed set of facts, others would consider it merely a theory. The customary position of these doubters is that all that is currently alleged to be global warming is plainly the effect of a normal climatic shift towards the direction of increased temperature. They allege that every existing life on Earth could not sustain without this natural greenhouse effect in view of the fact that this natural process keeps the planet's temperature warmer than it would otherwise be.
However, vast scientific studies have long-established that global warming is indeed happening, and that man-made causes contributes a significant part of this phenomenon. Human activities have made the natural temperature on Earth unbalanced, causing the noticeable warming effect of the planet. It is accepted that the planet's temperatures naturally rise and fall; however, over the past decades, human activities have drastically increased the rate of global temperature. Without a doubt, humans have caused imbalance to the natural greenhouse effect on Earth, therefore, causing the present global warming.
Overview of Global Warming
Occasionally, scientists interchange the terms "global warming" and "climate change." Global warming demonstrates the average increase in the Earth's temperature, which in turn brings about changes in climate (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2009). For that reason, the average temperature rises as ocean and wind currents move heat around the Earth in manners that can warm or cool some areas, and change the amount of snow and rain falls on others. These climate changes may cause rise in sea level and changes in weather patterns in different areas, resulting to a wide range of impacts on many living things on the planet.
Scientists agree that greenhouse gases make the Earth warmer by locking in the reflected heat of the sun in the atmosphere. When scientists discuss the subject of climate change, their concern is generally focused on how global warming is attributable to human activities. This is because of the fact that from the onset of industrial revolution, humans have tripled the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2009). Historically, it takes thousands of years for these changes to occur, but in recent times these changes are distressingly occurring over the course of decades.
Effects of Global Warming
A warmer Earth can cause changes in rainfall patterns, a rise in sea level, and a wide range of effects on plants, animals, and humans. In fact, in several parts of world, the warming effect is already causing noticeable environmental changes. In recent years, in areas where excessive wetness or drought normally accompanies La Niña or El Niño, the phenomena have been more intense. In addition, there are various evidences of intensifying drought worldwide, though there is no such evidence yet in the United States (United States National Climatic Data Center, 2008). In Eastern Asia regions, it has been found that excessive rainfall events have increased in spite of the fact that total rainfall remained constant or even decreased to some extent.
Numerous studies of different regions confirm that extra-tropical cyclone activity in the northern hemisphere appears to have generally increased over the latter half of the 20th century, which is contrasting in the southern hemisphere activity. Furthermore, since 1970, hurricane activity in the Atlantic has revealed a significant increase in number (United States National Climatic Data Center, 2008). Alarmingly, in what experts believe a disturbing warning of upcoming events is that the perennial polar ice cap of the Arctic area is diminishing at a considerable rate per decade (Jaccard, 2005, p. 176). The melting of the polar icecaps is gradually causing the sea level to rise, as a result, threatening exposed, low lying countries such as Bangladesh.
If nothing is done, climate changes will continue to unfavorably affect the Earth's natural systems, biodiversity, and human welfare. In accordance with the available data, climate change is estimated to further negatively affect the maintenance of a healthy environment; essential development challenges including the supply of food, clean water, and energy services; and conservation of the ecosystem, their biodiversity, and related ecological services and goods.
I. Humans Caused the Global Warming
The major forces of climate change are behavioral, technological, socio-political, economic, and demographic aspects (Chopra, 2005, p.376). These driving forces determine the changes in land use and future demand for energy which, in turn, influence emissions of aerosol precursors and greenhouse gases that in due course causes changes in Earth's climate. Unfortunately, these non-structured behaviors of human exploitation, together with the industrial growth, have created a situation where the planet is getting warmer by the minute.
I. Industrial Activities
Industrial activities consist of discharges of all the greenhouse gases to varying degrees; however, in most societies fossil fuel combustions for transportation and electricity are regarded as the major contributor of man-made greenhouse gases. Accordingly, such activities are tremendous indication that humans are indeed responsible for the recent increase of carbon dioxide or CO2 in the atmosphere. On the face of it, humans have harmfully disturbed the environment by a series of destructive processes that are now becoming apparent through the exponentially extreme weather changes on several different areas on the planet.
Since the late nineteenth century the greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, that have been added into the atmosphere as a consequence of human activities have now accumulated to about three-quarters of the entire atmospheric pollutants (de Leon ; Zedillo, 2007, p. 22). During the previous decade, industrial sector emissions, such as transportation, accounted for more or less one-third of overall energy-related emissions of CO2 (U.S. Office of Energy Markets and End Use, 2005, p. 17). In the United States, approximately 98 percent of CO2 emissions are instigated by the burning of fossil fuels, and automobiles are the second main source of these emissions, producing roughly 1.5 billion tons of CO2 per year (U.S. Office of Energy Markets and End Use, 2005, p. 13).
Man-made climate change occurs when humans emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. These emissions come from various sources, including power plants, factories, agriculture, as well as cars, trains and planes. Because of the enormous quantities of greenhouse gases being emitted, the average concentration of these gases in the atmosphere is significantly distorted. Carbon dioxide, together with other air pollutants, accumulates in the Earth's atmosphere resembling a thick blanket, thus trapping the sun's heat. Consequently, as humans augment the greenhouse gases additional heat is trapped by the atmosphere, and this increases the atmosphere's temperature, which in due course brings about global warming.
II. Land Conversions
Unfortunately, the woodlands and vegetations that convert the noxious CO2 to breathable oxygen are being deforested by humans for their personal use but are not adequately restored. Moreover, because of these alterations of land surfaces, immeasurable quantities of particulate are being released into the atmosphere. Because agriculture has wiped out wooded areas which, as a result, exposed the soil to several elements, there is an increased occurrence of dust being swept up into the atmosphere, more than ever during times of drought. Taken as a whole, it is estimated that the impact of changing the Earth's surface and introducing extra particulate into the atmosphere has a substantial effect on climate change (Burroughs, 2007, p. 204).
III. Population Growth
Alarmingly, at the onset of 21st century the entire human population already reached more than 5 billion, and it is expected to continually increase at approximately 1.7 percent per year (Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (U.S.), 1991, p. 4). This increasing population is one of the major causes influencing the tendencies in greenhouse gas emissions. To illustrate, more people means greater demand for shelter, land areas, clothing, energy, and food; for that reason, the production of such increasing amount of commodities correspondingly increases the amount of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.
Some climate experts, scientists and ordinary people believe that the sun is somewhat exclusively responsible for the existing changes in the Earth's temperature; therefore, opposing the theory that humans are significantly contributing to the global warming. They claim that the solar cycle has some bearing on global climate changes, and they attribute the latest warming trends to this cyclic deviation. They further argue that the climate changes are seasonal events, in view of the fact that season changes depending on the planet's inclination to the sun.
II. Humans Caused the Global Warming – Statistics
In examining global warming, how human activities modify the global climate should be measured independently from the natural causes of climatic change. With that respect, it is perceptible that as a consequence of the increasing human activities, the atmospheric concentrations of a number of greenhouse gases have greatly increased as compared to the previous decades (Chopra, 2005, p. 376).
For example, in the past half-century, the burning of fossil fuels carbon dioxide has increased by approximately 31 percent; mostly as a result of leakage from natural gas pipelines, waste disposal, rice production, and increased number of livestock, methane gas emissions has more than doubled; likewise, primarily because of the chemical industry, cattle feed lots, and agricultural soils, nitrous oxide has also increased by about 17 percent (Chopra, 2005, p. 376).
In sum, the impact of man-made greenhouse effect simultaneously develops with the natural factors that have constantly influenced the Earth's climate. However, the author strongly acknowledges that man-made causes are the major factors that inequitably changed the Earth's climate. Basically, the planet will constantly be exposed from surprising and unpleasant climate changes resulting from natural causes. However, what makes the present circumstances different is that humans are rapidly causing these intense climate changes in the planet. Although large quantity of carbon dioxide emissions comes from natural sources, it is the man-made discharges that generate the imbalance of the greenhouse gases, as a result, bringing about the irregular global warming. Without a doubt, human activities are harshly increasing the greenhouse gases concentration in the atmosphere, and if humans do not do something soon to overturn this alarming trend, future generations will pay the price.
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What are some ideas for graduation theme parties?
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Other graduation ideas include decking the party in the graduate's high school colors as one last hurrah or decking the party in the graduate's college colors as a celebration of where he will be heading.
For college graduates, one could use the college colors as a final farewell and have fun decorating with mock or real office or business items to signify his introduction into the working world.


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Q: Producing all possible permutations from a dict + list I need to generate a list of dicts that show all possible permutations of two values. (I'm testing UI components so I need to see how they render in all possible circumstances, however unlikely.) I can do it with a list comprehension:
values = [True, False]
variants = ({
    'Field X': x,
    'Field Y': y,
    'Field Z': z,
} for x in values for y in values for z in values)

to produce:
>>> list(variants)
[{'Field X': True, 'Field Y': True, 'Field Z': True}, {'Field X': True, 'Field Y': True, 'Field Z': False}, {'Field X': True, 'Field Y': False, 'Field Z': True}, {'Field X': True, 'Field Y': False, 'Field Z': False}, {'Field X': False, 'Field Y': True, 'Field Z': True}, {'Field X': False, 'Field Y': True, 'Field Z': False}, {'Field X': False, 'Field Y': False, 'Field Z': True}, {'Field X': False, 'Field Y': False, 'Field Z': False}]

This is OK as far as it goes when I have (as here) three fields and two values, but it gets hairy when I have dozens of fields with multiple values! I reckon there must be an easy way to do this with itertools but don't know what that is. Something with itertools.product() maybe?

A: Use itertools.product(values, repeat=3) to get every combination of 3 values.
variants = [{
    'Field X': x,
    'Field Y': y,
    'Field Z': z,
} for x in values for y in values for z in itertools.product(values, repeat=3)]

If you have a dynamic list of fields, you can create the dictionary dynamically using dict(zip(...))
values=[True, False]
fields=['Field X', 'Field Y', 'Field Z']
variants = [
    dict(zip(fields, values))
    for values in itertools.product(values, repeat=len(fields))
]

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NICT and Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (Furukawa Electric, President: Keiichi Kobayashi) jointly report a record SDM transmission experiment using multi-core fiber amplifier. Furukawa Electric developed a 19-core Erbium-doped-fiber amplifier utilizing cladding-pumping technology in order to share electrical power between the large number of spatial channels. The amplifier was then integrated into NICT's state of the art transmission test bed of for a record transmission demonstration. Fully decoded optical data transmission of 715 Tb/s was achieved over a distance of 2,009 km using coded polarization division multiplexed (PDM) -16 quadrature-amplitude modulation (QAM) of 345 carriers over the C and L band in a re-circulating transmission loop.
The partners have performed a record data-throughput x distance experiment using an SDM amplifier. NICT constructed a recirculating transmission test-bed around the 19-core, cladding-pumped EDFA developed by Furukawa Electric. Fig. 1 shows a comparison with a selection of existing transmission demonstrations using SDM amplifiers.
The amplifier, shown schematically in Fig. 2, was used to amplify signals in 19 cores simultaneously using two un-cooled multi-mode laser pumps per band. The combined pump power was 13.7 W and 43.5 W for the L-band and C-band EDFs respectively, equivalent to conversion efficiencies from electrical power of 40.3 % and 41.6 %.
In the experimental system shown in Fig. 2, verification throughput and quality of the received channels was determined by 3 methods. In addition to the calculation of the bit-error-rate and Q-factor, the post-FEC performance of each spatial channel was computed by decoding corresponding received signal using LDPC codes from the DVB-S2 standard to achieve a specified BER and then assuming an additional hard-decision outer code. In addition the generalized mutual information (GMI) was calculated for each received channel and used to estimate the maximum possible throughput of each channel assuming the existence of the optimum error correcting code.
Fig. 3 shows the combined data-rate for each of the 345 wavelength channels in all 19-cores after decoding together with an estimate of the theoretical maximum data throughput estimated from the GMI.


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Camden, Alabama's growth is extremely below average. 97% of similarly sized cities are growing faster since 2000.


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Democratic Party and SEIU equal voter fraud in Nevada?
Democratic Senator Harry Reid is facing a formable opponent in Republican Sharron Angle for his re-election bid. No problem because he has the backing and support of the union SEIU – Service Employees International Union. In 2008 SEIU spent $63 million on the election, and in 2010 spend $44 million, nearly all on Democrats.
Clark County, Nevada, the county with Las Vegas, has about three-quarters of the state's population. One of the county commissioners is Harry Reid's son, Rory Reid, who is running for governor. Clark County voters are reporting when they attempt to vote, the vote is already cast for Democrat Harry Reid.
The technicians who service Clark County voting machines are union members belonging to S.E.I.U. You do the math, or if it walks like a duck, etc…
Need more convincing? The White House political director Patrick Gaspard was formerly SEIU's top lobbyist. SEIU president Andy Stern the most frequent visitor to The White House last year.
Need more proof? SEIU gave $500,000 to Patriot Majority PAC, which spent $1.3 million against Democrat Harry Reid's opponent Sharron Angle – Republican.
It has been reported Democrat Harry Reid's campaign has been offering free food to voters and the unions giving away free gift cards. This a clear violation of Nevada's election law: NRS 293.700.
Historically Democrats have allowed the dead to continue to vote after assuming room temperature with six feet of dirt thrown upon their face. In the 2008 election one Democratic county counted more ballots than they had registered voters. The Presidential election in 2000 between President Bush and that snake oil salesman Al Gore, the problem with the voter ballots in Florida, took place in Democratic control counties.
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Top 5 Double-Drummer Bands of All Time, by Set and Setting
By Set and Setting | 1.23.2017
Photo: Ryan Zarra
Hailing from St. Petersburg, FL, Set and Setting write and perform instrumental music that falls somewhere between the metallic crush of Cult of Luna and the atmospheric glory of Mono. The group has previously toured with the likes of Inter Arma and Kayo Dot, and will be spending much of 2017 out on the road. On January 27, Set and Setting will be self-releasing Reflectionless, their third studio album.
In celebration of their new album, Set and Setting guitarist Shane Handal and drummer Mark Etherington have compiled a list of the Top 5 Double-Drummer Bands of All Time. The dudes know what they're talking about, since Set and Setting also features two trap-kit abusers.
1. The Melvins
Shane Handal: The truest of dudes will mention the Melvins after we play a set. The band is legendary, untouchable. One drummer or two, who cares? I'm just glad they are usable for this list. Listen to any song by them.
Shane Handal: I saw Cult of Luna about 10 years ago and they were the heaviest band I have ever seen in my life. I don't think they had two drummers then, but I saw them recently with two and they were incredible. Pretty sure the song "The Sacrifice" doesn't have two drummers, but that's the song they opened with the first time I saw them, and it changed my life. Their newer records are great, too.
3. Tortoise
Shane Handal: The two drummers in this band face each other from what I've seen in live videos. It's a pretty fucking cool and unconventional way to play a live set. It's always entertaining when a band will do something different.
4. The Allman Brothers Band
Mark Etherington: What can't be profoundly stated about the subtle yet articulate playing style of Jaimoe Johanson and Butch Trucks drumming in sync together, providing the driving heartbeat of The Allman Brothers Band? Any band with two drummers takes from their book, whether they are aware of it or not.
5. Slipknot
Shane Handal: This is a ridiculous band, but the percussion is undeniably good. I can't name a song by them, but I've watched some of their live videos a few times and it was pretty insane.
Set and Setting
Set and Setting's Reflectionless album was recorded by Ryan Haft (Torche, Wrong) at Black Bear Studios in Gainesville, FL and mastered by Ed Brooks (R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie) at Resonant Mastering. The record will arrive in stores on January 27 on vinyl, CD and digital formats. If you're a serious vinyl collector, colored options are available in both the US and Europe.
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Melanie Mitchell is an American scientist. She is the Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute. Her major work has been in the areas of analogical reasoning, complex systems, genetic algorithms and cellular automata, and her publications in those fields are frequently cited.

She received her PhD in 1990 from the University of Michigan under Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland, for which she developed the Copycat cognitive architecture. She is the author of "Analogy-Making as Perception", essentially a book about Copycat.  She has also critiqued Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science and showed that genetic algorithms could find better solutions to the majority problem for one-dimensional cellular automata. She is the author of An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms, a widely known introductory book published by MIT Press in 1996.  She is also author of Complexity:  A Guided Tour (Oxford University Press, 2009), which won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award, and Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).

Life
Melanie Mitchell was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she studied physics, astronomy and mathematics. Her interest in artificial intelligence was spurred in college when she read Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach.

After graduating, she worked as a high school math teacher in New York City. Deciding she "needed to be" in artificial intelligence, Mitchell tracked down Douglas Hofstadter, repeatedly asking to become one of his graduate students. After finding Hofstadter's phone number at MIT, a determined Mitchell made several calls, all of which went unanswered. She was ultimately successful in reaching Hofstadter after calling at 11 p.m., and secured an internship working on the development of Copycat.

In the fall of 1984, Mitchell followed Hofstadter to the University of Michigan, submitting a "last minute" application to the university's doctoral program. She earned her Ph.D. in 1990 with the dissertation Copycat: A Computer Model of High-Level Perception and Conceptual Slippage in Analogy-Making.

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While expressing strong support for AI research, Mitchell has expressed concern about AI's vulnerability to hacking as well as its ability to inherit social biases. On artificial general intelligence, Mitchell said in 2019 that "commonsense knowledge" and "humanlike abilities for abstraction and analogy making" might constitute the final step required to build superintelligent machines, but that current technology was not close to being able to solve this current problem. Mitchell believes that humanlike visual intelligence would require "general knowledge, abstraction, and language", and hypothesizes that visual understanding may have to be learned as an embodied agent rather than merely viewing pictures.

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External links
 Mitchell's professional homepage

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"Following a story is unique to us, and you can't do that with a summary": pioneer David Cohn on Circa, copycats - and Candy Crush
David Cohn is quickly becoming one of the leading names in digital media. Interested in online journalism and how citizens can engage with it, the San Francisco-based writer, speaker and academic founded Spot.Us, one of the first crowdfunding sites, in 2008. He is now Chief Content Officer at Circa, a mobile app which breaks down news into concise, "atomized" blocks of content – separating out the facts, opinions, quotes and more.
At the forefront of the movement since it began, he has been involved in a number of innovative projects such as AssignmentZero and NewAssignment.net. He has written for a variety of publications and was a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley's journalism school.
He spoke to the World Editors Forum's Nick Toner about Circa's plans for the future, how news organisations can adapt to the mobile world, and revealed his personal favourite apps.
Has anyone successfully copied Circa?
Cohn: "I've seen some organisations and some attempts…I wouldn't want to say copying but trying to sort of capture some of the same things that we're doing. A lot of the focus is on brevity. It's true that Circa is brief, but that's not what makes Circa unique or what makes Circa work. Again, from our point of view, what makes Circa different is that we structure stories. We're not doing summaries – I've seen a lot of summary apps, for example.
We make a distinction between summaries and stories. A summary of the Boston marathon bombing would be like: two brothers set off bombs at the end of the Boston marathon, there was a chase, one was killed, one was captured. And that's a fair summary. But that's not really a good story. So we tell stories by breaking down the facts, the quotes, the statistics, the events, the images, and threading them together. I've seen a lot of apps that are doing summaries, and I think they have some of the same aesthetic, maybe, as Circa, and because they're brief and short, the way Circa stories are brief and concise, people think that they're kind of the same but we make a distinction, we think they're very different.
For example, the biggest thing is you can follow stories on Circa, and to my knowledge we're still the only one that allows you to follow stories in that way, you can follow topics and hashtags in other apps, other organisations but following a story is unique to us, and you can't do that with a summary."
Does Circa have long-term plans for European expansion?
Cohn: "[Circa] is admittedly US-centric in terms of the content, and the audience - they're hand-in-glove. We try to take an international approach in that we cover a lot of international stories, but they are international stories that we think are interesting or important to an American audience. We do want to expand, though; we can very easily imagine situations where either we grow as an editorial force, or we partner with other editorial forces around the world. So we can partner with a German-speaking publication, Italian-speaking publication, Spanish-speaking etc, or I could also imagine an English-speaking partnership that is more European focused, whether it be England or something like that. Through partnership we would really create a kind of co-operative. That's something we have talked about. We're further away from that than we are from, say, launching a sponsored content kind of thing for our current American audience, but that is something we are thinking about – how does this grow globally."
What should news organisations should consider when going mobile?
Cohn: "What are the use cases and who's the competition? Because it's not actually other news organisations. I don't think that Circa's competition is NYT Now or, you know – name your mobile news app. I think it's Flappy Bird, I think it's Candy Crush. Those are the things people default to and there's been recent studies that have come in terms of the amount of time, and people spend more time now on their mobile than they do on the desktop and they really use only a handful of apps – four, six, something like that…If you're not in one of those few top apps then you're not going to be used.
The other thing that's important to keep in mind is the context in which people use mobile phones. It's very different, they touch it many times throughout the day, it's the first thing and the last thing that they usually touch, but it's very short periods of time. Their mental state is different than the mental state that they might be in when people would grab a newspaper or even go on a desktop to read news. And so we have to think about the content in that way and present it differently.
There [are] two aspects to this: one is the design and the aesthetics, which of course have to be different, but I think that there is something to be said about the form and the structure being different as well, to try and meet these needs. At Circa, there's an aesthetic to it – we're working on the 3.0 which is going to be even cleaner and crisper, but there's also a change in the structure of news for Circa. We break down stories into what we call atomic units, they come out as cards, and we tell the stories by threading those together."
What's the role of native advertising at Circa?
Cohn: "We don't do it now, and when we do roll it out it will be transparent, so people will be able to easily distinguish visually what is paid-for, sponsored content versus our editorial content. Imagine a story in Circa that is sponsored. There is another Avengers movie coming out, Avengers 2. So imagine that is a story on Circa – "Avengers 2 is going to come out in 2015". People can follow that story, the same way people can follow our editorial content, and that way when Marvel or whoever is the company behind the Avengers, want to tease and release a new image of Captain America doing something or a new video clip of the trailer, or whatever they want to do to tell the ongoing story of the release of the Avengers 2 they can do that and those updates will go right to people's phones. So that would be the way those advertisements are going to work. It would be more valuable than a banner ad because there's a relationship that builds over time with people who follow those threads."
What's your personal favourite app?
Cohn: "There's really obvious ones like Facebook, Twitter, things like that. I use Mint.com, which has an interesting app which is for personal finances. ...As a result of working at Circa, for work, I use something called Trello, they have a decent app that we use for work so I can get stuff done from my mobile phone. Quip, that's another one. Those are productivity apps, I use them a lot."
Photo credit: David Cohn
David Cohn
Spot.us
Nick Toner
E-Mail: nicktoner@live.co.uk
The World Editors Forum is the organisation within the World Association of Newspapers devoted to newspaper editors worldwide. The Editors Weblog (www.editorsweblog.org), launched in January 2004, is a WEF initiative designed to facilitate the diffusion of information relevant to newspapers and their editors.


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Q: Submit Form in Bootstrap Modal with IronRouter / MeteorJS I am trying to submit a new appetizer to a web app I am creating that resembles a cookbook.  The layout has a constant header/nav that allows the user to add a new appetizer, which triggers a modal and a form containing the appetizer name, description and a photo.  I would like the modal to close upon submission, and remain on the current page of which the modal was triggered.  Currently, my submit form is not working and I am not sure where the problem is...
The link to the current deployed version is: http://reed-cookbook.meteor.com/
My router:
// lib/router.js

Router.configure({
    layoutTemplate: 'layout'
});

Router.map(function() {
    this.route('allRecipes', {
        path: '/'
    });

    this.route('appetizers', {
        path: '/appetizers'
    });

    this.route('appetizerPage', {
        path: '/appetizers/:_id',
        data: function() { return Appetizers.findOne(this.params._id); }
    });

    this.route('desserts', {
        path: '/desserts'
    });

    this.route('mainCourses', {
        path: '/maincourses'
    });

    this.route('submit', {
        path: '/appetizerSubmit'
    });
});

My appetizer html form:
// client/views/forms/appetizerForm.html

<template name="appetizerForm">

            <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close">×</button>

Add An Appetizer

              <form>

                      Name
                      <input type="text" class="form-control" id="addNewAppetizer" name="appName" placeholder="What is the name of this appetizer?">

                      Description
                      <input type="text" class="form-control" id="addNewAppDesc" name="appDesc" placeholder="Share details about your appetizer.">

                      Add Photo
                      <input type="file" id="addNewAppPic" name="appPic">

Upload a photo of your appetizer.

              </form>

            <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="submitApp">Submit Appetizer</button>

My appetizerForm.js for this specific html feature:
// client/views/forms/appetizerForm.js

Template.appetizerForm.events({
    'submitApp': function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();

        var appetizer = {
            name: $(e.target).find('[name=appName]').val(),
            description: $(e.target).find('[name=appDesc]'),
            photo: $(e.target).find('[name=appPic]').val()
        }

        appetizer._id = Appetizers.insert(appetizer);
        Router.go('/', appetizer);
    }
});

A: Your event map syntax is wrong, it must be eventType cssSelector.
Template.appetizerForm.events({
  "submit form": function(event, template) {
    event.preventDefault();
    [...]
    template.$(".modal").modal("hide");
  }
});

If you want the modal to close upon form submission, use the jQuery plugin syntax to call the hide method on the modal.


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Singapore drops to number 18 in list of Global Fashion Capitals
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Singapore has dropped from number 8 in 2011, to number 18 this year in the list of Global Fashion Capitals according to the Global Language Monitor's annual ranking … but does this really mean we're less fashionable than we were last year?
by adminhw / September 7, 2012
What was a high in 2011 – when Singapore was placed at number 8 in the Top 10 Fashion Capitals by the Global Language Monitor's annual ranking of the Top 50 Fashion Capitals – has dropped by a 10 places; Singapore is now at number 18 in the list of top 55 fashion capitals; after Hong Kong at number 12 (down from number 6 in 2011, however) and Bali at number 14, but ahead of Tokyo at number 17.
Naturally, due to the focus of the London Olympics and the royal wedding, London has come out on top of the rankings at number 1, followed by New York (last year's number 1), Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Sao Paulo, Milano, Los Angeles and Berlin, rounding out the top 10 fashion capitals.
Other major Asian cities were also listed; Shanghai sits at number 22 (dropping from number 14 in 2011); Bangkok comes in at number 32; Seoul debuts at number 34 and Mumbai scrapes in at number 38 on the list.
Image from Blueprint 2012 fashion industry tradeshow; yes, there is still fashion happening in Singapore despite the drop in ranking.
How is this exclusive list developed? Basically GLM, using its proprietary "Narrative Tracking technology", analyses the World Wide Web, the top 250,000 print and electronic news media and social media sources like Twitter, for words, phrases and concepts related to "fashion" connected to a particular city and then calculates the list. This is how they come up with the top 55 global fashion capitals.
So, what does this mean for the growth of the fashion industry in Asia, exactly? That last year was better for the incidence of fashion related news perhaps? Does it mean that Singaporeans are any less-fashionable this year than last year? Not really.
It's obvious that London won as much because there was just so much stuff being written about the city in general that naturally the incidence of the words connected to "fashion" increased. As any fashionista worth her Hermes Birkin knows, it's not what you say (about fashion) but what you wear that really defines your style.
After all, are you going to tell the thousands of fans currently gearing up for New York Fashion Week, London Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week – let alone Tokyo Fashion Week and Seoul Fashion Week – that they're wasting their time and should be heading to Madrid, Rome, Sao Paulo, Los Angeles or Berlin?
No way! Global fashion capitals are much more than just the number of times their names are mentioned in conjunction with a particular word; it's about the history of the industry and the creativity of its inhabitants.
While the Global Language Monitor's annual ranking is interesting, it's not the definitive definition of what truly makes a capital fashionable.
Read the Global Language Monitor's full story: London Edges New York for Top 2012 Global Fashion Capital.
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US Journalist Flees Country After Government Betrays Him
(HorizonPost.com) – A month after Brazil's presidential election, supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, who still has not conceded the election, have been blocking roads and camping outside of military buildings throughout the country calling for the military to intervene to keep Bolsonaro in office.
Since his election loss, Bolsonaro has only addressed the nation twice to encourage the protesters to continue.
While most of the demonstrations have been peaceful, some of the more hardcore participants have been using tactics that are concerning Brazilian authorities. Mato Grosso state prosecutor José Antônio Borges compared the protesters' actions to that of guerilla fighters and domestic terrorists.
While Mato Grosso is the center of much of the unrest, road blockades and violence have also been reported in the Brazilian states of Rondonia, Para, Parana, and Santa Catarina.
In Santa Catarina, the protesters blocking highways have used homemade bombs, fireworks, nails, stones, and barricades made of burned tires.
Most of the violent resistance has been taking place at night by "extremely violent and coordinated hooded men," according to the federal highway police.
Since October's election, Bolsonaro has been out of public view while his daily agenda remains largely empty, prompting some to wonder whether he is pouting or plotting. The demonstrators who have been camping outside of military bases throughout Brazil believe they have Bolsonaro's tacit support.
Meanwhile, last month, Addison Basurto, a blogger from the rightwing blog The National File accused a member of the US Embassy in Brazil of "attacking" him and his bodyguard while he was in Brazil covering the ongoing protests.
Basurto claims that Miguel Contreras from the US Embassy along with an FBI agent "attacked" him after he asked them to return his backpack.
He claims Contreras "verbally" and physically abused him, prompting his bodyguard to push Contreras to the ground. Basurto then claimed to have held Contreras on the ground until he agreed to give him back his backpack.
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While not technically a cable, the Neet sleeve gets a place in this roundup because it can make any cable a little smarter.
Kind of like a knitted sweater for your cables, the Neet Cable Keeper is a fabric sleeve with a shapeable wire embedded in it. The sleeve zips open completely and lets you lay your charging cable (or earphones) inside. Once zipped back up, the sleeve not only protects your cable, it keeps it from getting tangled. Also, because of the wire that's hidden beneath the fabric, you can shape the cable to double as a stand for your smartphone.
The sleeves come in 3-foot lengths and a variety of colors that can help with identifying your cords.
There are a lot of things that my family goes through on a regular basis… toilet paper, toothpaste, shampoo, soap, pens, batteries and power cords to charge cellphones. You have no idea how many times I have had to buy replacement power cables/cords for the cellphones. My kids either lose them, they get damaged or worse yet – the cats chew them in half. After all, to a cat the power cord/cable is nothing but a fun string to play with.
I buy replacements so much that I have them bookmarked on my site so I can quickly reorder when needed. Thankfully my kids each have an iPhone 5 so they can share a power cord if need be. My husband has a 5 also (work phone) and both of us have an iPhone 4s, so we can share that cord if need be. My husband and I take better care of them then our kids do.
What if there was a solution to this problem that will not only help protect your cables/cords from cats, but also organize them, protect them and even help to identify them (so you know which one belongs to which person). There IS a solution – it's called the NEET Cable Keeper.
The NEET Cable Keeper is a fabric shell designed to protect your cables from frays and ripping (and ideally from cats chewing on them too). The Cable Keeper allows you to form your cables into compact shapes and supports your cables by bearing some of the strain when winding and bending your cables, which can lengthen the life of your cable.
There is a zipper zipper pull that helps making insertion of the cable/cord easier. It also allows for you add multiple cables together to help organize all the cords you need in one sleeve.
The NEET Cable Keeper is available in 10 vibrant colors – black, light blue, gold, green, royal blue, pink, red, silver, white and yellow. You can assign a specific color to each person in your household or organize a group of cords/cables by color.
They are available in 3ft/100 cm lengths and range in price – Universal ($12), Micro-USB to USB ($17) and MFi Apple Lightening ($30).
The cords/cables are NOT included with the NEET Cable Keeper. You need to supply your own cable/cord.
I have two of the NEET Cable Keepers. One I keep on my iPhone charging cord and the other I keep on the cord for my camera (the one I use to transfer photos from the camera to the computer). We have A LOT of cords/cables for a variety of products. It seems like everything has a power cord these days. It's hard to keep track of what belongs to what. That is why I like to be able to easily identify which cable I need by knowing the NEET Cable Keeper cover I've assigned to it. It makes finding the right cord so much easier. I can even do it without looking (just by the feel of the NEET Cable Keeper).
I found putting the NEET Cable Keeper on the cord/cable very easy to do.
I think this is the ideal solution for all your cable/cord needs. Not only does it protect them but it helps to organize them too.
This is one of those "Why didn't anyone think of this sooner" products. I wish we had NEET Cable Keepers years ago. It would have saved me a lot of money on lost, broken and cat chewed on cords for the cellphones.
If you would like to learn more about NEET Cable Keepers please visit www.NEETProducts.com. You can also find the brand on social media (links found on their website).
What do you think about NEET Cable Keepers? Is this a much needed product in your home? Feel free to share your thoughts.
Generally cables are little difficult to manage but NEET Cable Keepers possess an inner wire to hold the actual shape and it provides easy organization as well as management. You can easily wrap and wind cables with the NEET cable keeper to place them inside your computer bag and they will surely be nice and neat inside your bag unlike all other cables and cords. The concept behind the NEET Cable Keeper is really very simple. Actually this cable is a strip about three foot long of nylon mesh, a flexible wire is embedded inside this mesh which can be zipped up as needed.
Reduce Cable Chaos: This cable consists of a bendable wire inside which can be turned easily into any shape. NEET allows you to wind and bend the cable as needed so you can put them inside a small drawer as well as inside your computer bag without any trouble. You need not to worry about tangles when you are using NEET cables.
Protection: If you wind your cables tightly, surely they got damaged eventually due to stress and fatigue but when we use the NEET cable keeper for cables damage stays far away. This wire keeper possesses a nylon mesh as an extra layer so the cables stay protected even if household pets try to chew them (such as an English Mastiff or New Foundland).
You will be happy to know that NEET cable keeper is available in eleven different colours. Usually we lose our cables when working in groups (I work in education) since we all have white or black – but with the NEET wire keeper we have a unique color for our cables that can be identified easily.
Easy to use: These wire keepers are easy to use because of their slip and zip type construction. You can store more than one wire inside a single keeper depending upon the thickness of cable. It makes for a perfect casing for our cables so we can find them easily when needed.
Does your guy love his electronics but hate to keep them organized? The NEET Cable Keeper ($12) is a cable solution that will organize and protect your device cables while helping you color code them. The zipper pull allows you to install new cables or install additional/multiple cables to give you the ability to organize all the cords you need in one sleeve. The product is available in 10 colors and three styles to suit his taste and needs.


St. Luke's held it's Annual New Member Luncheon to recognize those members who have formally joined the Parish during the past year.
At the end of Liturgy Father Andrew distibuted icons to the new members. Afterwards lunch and fellowship was enjoyed by all in the church basement.
At forgiveness Sunday Vespers we begin Great Lent with the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian. After the prayer all parishioners are invited all to ask each other for forgiveness and make a full prostration ending with a mutual kiss on the cheek. Those who attended were exhausted after doing so many prostrations.
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of laziness, despair, lust of power, and idle talk (All make a prostration). But give, rather, the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to your servant (All make a prostration). O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions and not to judge my brother, for blessed are You unto the ages of ages. Amen (All make a prostration).


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Professor Emeritus of Theatre & Drama
filcur@umich.edu
Philip Kerr, who received his bachelor's cum laude from Harvard and certificate from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, has appeared on Broadway in Macbeth, Otherwise Engaged, The Jockey Club Stakes, Tiny Alice, A Flea in Her Ear, and Three Sisters, and at Carnegie Hall opposite Dame Judith Anderson in Hamlet. Off-Broadway he has appeared at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, CSC, and Roundabout Theatre. Kerr has also performed in more than 20 American and Canadian regional theatres and festivals, including seasons at the Guthrie Theatre, the American Conservatory Theatre, and the American Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford. He has appeared on NET, the BBC and network television, is the recipient of Chicago's Jefferson Award for best actor, and has directed at the St. Louis Repertory Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre, Washington's Folger Theatre, Cleveland Play House, and Connecticut's Centennial Theatre.