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Remi Gallego
'When I first picked up my 070 I knew I wouldn't want to play any other guitar, ever'
'Apparently I have to write something here so people have an idea of who I am. Well. My name's RÉMI GALLEGO, I'm French, I'm 26 years old, I live in Köln (Germany) and I'm mostly known for my AWARD-WINNING electronic producer name 'The Algorithm'.
So, what happened? It aaaall started during a rainy night on the first full moon of the month, a cold breeze ran into my neck as I was drinking a fine Bordeaux in front of a fireplace. Well, yeah, ok, not exactly like that. I was born in PERPIGNAN in 1989, I had a happy, normal, childhood listening to Daft Punk and Iron Maiden while studying science and guitar. I played in a few metal bands (Sons Of Chaos, DYING BREATH, FLOATING WOOD) but quit them all as I chosed to focus on my study in networks and computer science. I shortly missed playing music and this is when I began to cultivate my interest about music sequencing and computer music in general.
I started the project The Algorithm in 2009 on MYSPACE, and my inspirations at the time were mostly driven by a need for controlled chaos and randomness. 2 years and 2 demos later, I played my first live show at EUROBLAST FESTIVAL using a single midi controller APC40 and I initiated a label contract with BASICK RECORDS, which led to the release of the debut album Polymorphic Code in November 2012. I met Mike Malyan, drummer from MONUMENTS, at the same period and we played our first live show together in February 2013 at the Camden Barfly.
While progressively playing more shows more often in Europe, Australia (BIG DAY OUT), Japan, Nepal, Israel and many other countries. I also wrote music for the world's biggest sports TV channel ESPN, video games like SUPER MUTANT ALIEN ASSAULT orHACKNET, produced a lot of remixes of bands like Born of Osiris, Igorrr or Daft Punk, and helped shape the production value of musician and bands all around the world. After the release of the second full album Octopus4 in June 2014, Jean Ferry fromUNEVEN STRUCTURE replaced Mike Malyan on drums, I got endorsed by KEITH MCMILLEN,LINE 6 and I picked up an ARISTIDES guitar, all of this with a general goal to bring more musicianship and humanity to the mechanism of the computer music of the future'
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Language Group: Native American
Coushatta Tribe strives to revive native language (video)
Holly Carter / KPLC
The Koasati language of the Coushatta Indians has been a part of their culture for decades. But in recent years, it's disappeared, dissolved, English now the popular language on the reservation. Tribal leaders are trying to change that through new language classes that are aimed at preserving Koasati.
New Native Language App Starts Small, WIth Animal Names in Four Tongues
Leeanne Root / Indian Country Today Media Network.com
A new American Indian language app hit the iTunes store January 20 that features translations of animal names from English to Diné, Lakota, Mvskoke and Ponca. The menu screen offers a choice of four languages. Once a language is chosen, a short list of animals appears from which to choose.
Languages: The Digital Sounds of Bésiro (Chiquitano) (audio)
Eddie Avila / Global Voices Online
...in the city of Santa Cruz, a group of young linguists led by Ignacio Tomicha Chuve, has started a project called Monkox Bésiro as a way to put the Bésiro (Chiquitano) language on the digital map. This language is spoken the Chiquitano people in several provinces in the Santa Cruz and Bení departments with estimates that between 20,000-60,000 speakers still remain.
Ancient language controls crime rings (video)
Crystal Gutierrez / KRQE News 13
SANTA FE (KRQE) - Some gang members serving prison sentences are using an ancient language to try to keep control of their criminal organizations on the outside as corrections officers work fast to crack the code. Capt. Joe Lytle said the inmates are sending out messages written in Nahuatl, a 1,400-year-old Aztec language.
The language that became a mighty weapon
Developed by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, "Native Words, Native Warriors" shares the stories of the code talkers, U.S. military soldiers who came from more than a dozen Native American tribes.
Graduate students in linguistics leaving legacy for speakers of endangered and quirky language of Garifuna
Kathleen Maclay / UC Berkeley
Garifuna hasn't been studied extensively, and Michael said its quirkiness presents challenges. It features a vocabulary split between terms used only by men and terms that are marked for common use, and used by women, children and men. But the split doesn't affect the entire vocabulary, and the terms used by men tend to come from the Carib language influence while the common forms are largely from Arawak.
New wellness center hosts first Pomo language workshop
"Several outside factors have contributed to the historical loss of language within Pomo communities," Lim said. "The vitality of many indigenous languages was destroyed by federal policies that targeted Native peoples and cultures for extermination. The loss of tribal lands, and genocide of whole communities, disrupted the continuity of native languages and cultures."
Helping to maintain Mi'Kmaw culture
Clayton Hunt / The Coaster
"I was seeing a break in the connection between the home, parents and their children in learning the language, so I wanted to find a way to bridge that gap," Christmas said. "I wanted to make that connection between the children learning the language and sharing the language with the parents without putting any stress on them as adults have difficulty with the language themselves.
Ojibwe iPad app brings language to world
Rick Garrick / Wawatay News
Baxter originally recorded about 140 words or phrases for the app but has only made about 70 phrases available so far. "Over the next couple of weeks we will be loading up 300 to 400 words and phrases along with objects and a lot more syllabics," Baxter said. "So it's going to be a pretty intense tool, and of course we are developing it further so this could be the model for language curriculum, not only in Ontario, but throughout Ontario, Manitoba and the United States."
Fighting to keep Mohawk language alive
Steve Bonspiel / The Gazette
The Mohawk language, which is called Kanien'kéha, has been in trouble for a long time. It is still spoken among elders, but a number of factors play into the dire situation it's in today - not just in Kahnawake, but in all Mohawk communities. It's estimated only 3,000 people in the world speak Mohawk fluently.
First Complete Bible in Inuktitut Language to be Published in the Arctic
Gospel Herald
This Inuktitut Bible publication marks many firsts. For the first time in Canada, the entire translation was done by mother tongue (first language) speakers of the language rather than by missionaries. This is the first full Bible produced in Canada using the cutting edge computer tools distributed and supported by our CBS Translations office, which are transforming the way translations are being done around the world.
Legislature approves council on Native Languages
Coshocton Tribune
JUNEAU, Alaska (WTW) — Lawmakers have passed a plan creating a state-backed council aimed at revitalizing Alaska Native languages. SB130 was approved unanimously by the House on Thursday. Also Thursday, the Senate, which passed a version of the bill in March, agreed to changes made by the House.
Twitter Gets Help from SLU Prof on How to Deal With Indigenous Tweeters
Nicholas Phillips / Riverfront Times
If you're one of the five remaining speakers of "Yuchi" -- a near-extinct Native American language in Oklahoma -- your tweets will look insane, even to those within your linguistic group. That's because whenever you type in the "@" character, which is a part of your alphabet, Twitter will (wrongly) think you're trying to refer to a different user, such as @Joe_Smith.
Hishuk Ish Tsawalk: Everything is One
Anna Luisa Daigneault / The Dominion
Kathy Robinson is a language warrior. At the age of 81, she is one of the last two fluent native speakers of Tseshaht (pronounced "tsi-sha-aht"), a language once popularly spoken on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Tseshaht is not the only language Indigenous to Canada that is at risk of disappearing.
Daniel Everett: lost in translation
William Leith / The Telegraph
It's hard to describe Daniel Everett, so here are some facts about him. He's American. He was a Christian missionary. His goal in life was to tell people about Jesus. He spent 25 years, on and off, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, talking to a tribe of hunter-gatherers called the Pirahã. This is one of the most remote, undeveloped places on earth.
Tribes embrace native names to preserve culture
Dennis Wagner / AZ Central.com
Indigenous words denote a sense of culture, and their use reflects an evolving trend in Indian country. Still, as tribes attempt to resurrect history and instill pride through native place names, they face a gamut of political, practical and financial obstacles from Alaska to Arizona.
Why Should We Keep Tribal Languages Alive?
Sonny Skyhawk / Indian Country Today Media Network.com
I can't stress enough the importance of retaining our tribal languages, when it comes to the core relevance or existence of our people. Our languages can teach us many things through daily use. Language can teach us respect, for ourselves and each other, our elders, women and most importantly, the things that allowed us to exist.
Preserving Aymara language and culture on Wikipedia
Ruben Hilare-Quispe / Watching the Watchers
Among the nearly 90,000 active contributors to Wikipedia, there are many different motivations for editing. For some, it's a hobby; for others it's a mission to advance free knowledge. For Ruben Hilare-Quispe, contributing to Wikipedia is a way to promote and protect his language and culture.
Keeping languages alive: A different kind of conservation
Pete Zrioka / Mother Nature Network
Natalie Diaz, coordinator of the Fort Mojave Language Recovery Program, has been recording and transcribing the Mojave language for three years. In 2009, she contacted the CIE, which sponsored a Mojave language summit at ASU. This led to a collaborative CIE-Fort Mojave National Science Foundation grant to aid in the language recovery efforts.
Immersion students win trophies at language fair
Will Chavez / Cherokee Phoenix
"Our children at the Cherokee Nation immersion program have so much fun every year. ONAYLF has been so far the only place outside the school that offers our kids a place where they can practice their language in a public setting," said parent Andrew Sikora, whose son Sean participated at the fair with the sixth grade class. "I will not exaggerate if I say that ONAYLF is a language highlight of the year."
Bill Waterstreet / Desert Warrior
The code talkers began in early 1942, when Philip Johnston, a white protestant missionary's son, presented the idea of using the Navajo language to create a code the Japanese couldn't break. Johnston recruited 29 young Navajos to become Marines, not informing them about the plan for the code. Once the Navajo Marines had passed boot camp and combat training, they were instructed to create a code based on their native language.
American Indian students perform during Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair (video)
Ashley West / NewsOK.com
Young American Indians representing more than 20 tribes gathered at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History this week for the 10th annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair. American Indian communities place a high value on culture, oratory skills and creativity through expression, and the fair provides a venue for young people to share the knowledge of their ancestors and speak their native languages publicly.
Link to Haida culture preserved through photo, audio exhibit at Bill Reid Art Gallery
Lena Sin / The Province
There is hardly anyone speaking Haida today. Fewer than 40. And of those fluent speakers, most are over the age of 75. The youngest is 65. So when Nika Collison, the granddaughter of legendary Haida artist Bill Reid, calls the situation "right on the edge," she is hardly exaggerating. In the past four months alone, three fluent speakers died.
Cherokee translator making up for lost time
The result of her children's generation not learning to speak Cherokee is a language gap between her generation and the generation of children attending the Cherokee Language Immersion School. The future of the language may rest in the hands of the 100 or so students at the immersion school, and Edwards said she is happy to support the school and enjoys visiting the students.
Spelling policy requested
Queen Charlotte Islands Observer
School trustees have decided to turn to the Haida Education Council for guidance after receiving a request from the Skidegate Haida Immersion Program. The elders who attend the Skidegate program wrote to the school district last month, asking that it write a policy around standardizing the program's Haida orthography (spelling) for use at Sk'aadgaa Naay Elementary and Queen Charlotte Secondary schools.
A guide for Northern New Mexico diction
Tom Sharpe / Santa Fe New Mexican
Indeed, all jokes aside, people from other parts of the country often are puzzled at the esotericism of Northern New Mexico -- with place names in Spanish, Tewa and other languages, and natural, cultural or historical references unknown elsewhere. Mark Cross aims to acclimate tourists, newcomers and even people who have spent years here but remain ignorant of the finer points, with his newly published Encyclopedia of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico.
Amazing 'talking' dictionary project helps preserve Ojibwe language
Cynthia Boyd / MinnPost.com
Now, thanks to an amazing project in progress at the University of Minnesota and spearheaded by their Department of American Indian Studies, there's a new online resource called "The Ojibwe Peoples Dictionary" that opens doors to the sounds and context of the indigenous Ojibwe language and will help preserve it.
Opinion: We need to save languages as well as species
Peter Culshaw / The Arts Desk
...Abley also has some splendidly wacky encounters such as the last two surviving speakers of an Aboriginal language who are forbidden by tribal taboos from talking to each other. And the last surviving speaker of one Amazonian language, which is a parrot.
Keeping Inuit Students Engaged: School Programs Incorporate Inuktitut, Day Care (video)
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
...a video she coordinated profiles unique school programs in Nunavut that integrate Inuit culture into the curriculum to keep students engaged. Single mothers such as 19-year-old Eva Kakkik, who might not otherwise graduate from high school, are now able to finish their education thanks to on-site day-care service in one school, which enables her to see her 3-year-old son throughout the day.
Cree language being lost as people migrate to urban areas
Lenny Carpenter / Wawatay News
As more Mushkegowuk people leave their reserve to live in the city, the more the Cree language will be lost, says Anastasia Wheesk, Native Education Co-ordinator at the Ojibway and Cree Cultural Centre in Timmins. "To me, seems like the Cree language is diminishing quickly," Wheesk said.
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VetTechTrek is creating an e-learning platform to help veterans build careers in the tech industry
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VetTechTrek is a nonprofit founded last year with the goal of helping military veterans network with the technology industry.
Over the last 12 months they have worked toward this goal by hosting multiple "treks" that brought more than 180 veterans and spouses to meet with veterans who work at more than 60 technology startups in New York, Silicon Valley and Washington, DC. Some companies have included Dropbox, Twitter, Facebook and Y Combinator.
While feedback was great, the nonprofit became overwhelmed with requests from both veterans and companies wanting to participate.
So today VetTechTrek is launching Project Standard, an e-learning platform that will house a library of resources to help veterans build great post-military careers. Essentially, the nonprofit plans to help veterans with anything "that can help translate their military experiences to stories and skills that make sense for hiring managers and founding teams."
These lessons will be broken down into content based on Companies, Topics and Roles.
The Companies portion will function like video-based "treks" to replicate the experience of their in-person events. The other two sections will focus on helping veterans with things like resume development, networking and other topics relevant to transitioning service members.
https://www.facebook.com/vettechtrek/videos/278817642453129/
To build the platform, VetTechTrek just launched a Kickstarter to raise $50,000, which will be used to pay pre- and post-production crews to film about 100 "Netflix-quality" instructional videos.
But why use Kickstarter to raise funding when the nonprofit could presumably easily fundraise from the over 60 companies that have already supported the initiative?
VetTechTrek explains that they wanted to validate "without a shadow of a doubt" that they're building something that veterans actually want.
The nonprofit was started by Steve Weiner and Mike Slagh, two navy veterans who now work in the tech industry in San Francisco.
While the group will continue running a few in-person treks each year, the majority of the nonprofit's resources will be dedicated to the new e-learning platform.
You can check out their Kickstarter here, which will be live for three more weeks, and has already raised $12,000 out of their $50,000 goal.


There will be a new journal appearing early in 2015 – the International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics is the result of collaboration between leading international researchers in university mathematics.
Currently research into teaching undergraduate mathematics can be difficult to locate. Find out more about the development of this new journal in the CULMS Newsletter (Community for Undergraduate Learning in the Mathematical Sciences based at the University of Auckland).


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Giant California wildfire can now be seen from outer space
Alexandra Lasker, AOL.com
Aug 3rd 2016 11:19AM
California's Soberanes wildfire has been burning out of control since it first sparked in Garrapata State Park on July 22.
NASA has just released a particularly sobering image of the fire, which has burned more than 44,000 acres, destroyed 57 homes, and led to the death of at least one man, from a harrowing vantage point -- outer space.
NASA's Suomi NPP satellite collected the natural-color image "using the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) instrument on July 24, 2016," according to an official statement from the agency.
That means that the immense cloud of smoke produced by the sand fire grew to a size where it could be seen from space just two days after it started burning.
Even with firefighters battling the blaze around the clock, it is still currently only 25 percent contained.
"Over 2,964 firefighters are engaged fighting this fire," said NASA. "The resources that are entrenched in battling this blaze include 356 engines, 43 hand crews, 16 water tenders, 26 helicopters and 14 dozers."
Clearly, the bleak situation has nothing to do with a lack of effort on emergency rescuers' part.
Authorities now believe the blaze started from a two-by-two foot campfire that got out of control.
They are still searching for the person or persons who started the campfire.
Photos of the blaze:
Soberanes Sand Fire
A fire fighter battles the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California, United States, July 25, 2016. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
A fire fighter battles the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California, United States, July 25, 2016. REUTERS/Gene Blevins TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Embers glow during the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 24, 2016. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
A Los Angeles County Fire Department helicopter makes a water drop at night during the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 24, 2016. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
Firefighters battle the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 24, 2016. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
Flames approach a gateway during the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 24, 2016. REUTERS/Gene Blevins TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Fire burns brush on a hillside during the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 24, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn
A firefighter battle flames at the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 24, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn
Firefighters battle flames at the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 24, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn
A home that was burned is pictured in the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 24, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn
A firefighter checks a home that was burned in the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 24, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn
Fire fighters battle the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California, United States, July 25, 2016. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
A DC-10 fire fighting aircraft makes a retardant drop as fire fighters continue to battle the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California, United States, July 25, 2016. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
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43North Competition Offers Mentorship, Funding, and No State Taxes
Conor Cawley May 10th 2017 5:50 pm
Startup competitions come in all shapes and sizes. Some offer capital that will help founders acquire the resources they need to keep their company moving forward. Others offer mentorship, which is more valuable than anything for startup founders that are new to the entrepreneurial landscape. But there's one startup competition that, in addition to all those prizes, offers a chance to avoid paying state taxes for an entire decade.
43North is an annual startup competition offering $5 million to truly remarkable startups around the world. They've crowned 29 winning startups from across North America and as far away as Taiwan and Israel. In addition to the sizable amount of capital, 43North provides winning startups with incubator space and expert mentorship to help grow their company. The goal of the competition is to foster the economy of the Buffalo area, which is made apparent by the necessity for company founders, along with at least half the staff to move to the area for at least a year.
"More than half of the new jobs that are coming into the United States are coming from entrepreneurs creating new businesses," said Peter Burakowski, director of marketing at 43North. "So you're also seeing millennials want to be involved in starting companies, or are already starting companies. So when we think about today, and what's healthy for Buffalo, and for the next decade and beyond, we really need to be fostering this culture of entrepreneurship."
In addition to the plentiful resources being made available through the competition, 43North also allows the winning startups to apply to START-UP NY, which allows New York-based companies to operate without paying state taxes for ten years on or near eligible university or college campuses in the state of New York. Not a bad perk for a startup competition.
"We're honing in more on fit," Burakowski said. "If you're a startup that's really ready to grow, what do we have here in Buffalo that we can provide?"
If you're interested in applying to the competition, you can head to their website and register here. Applications for the 2017 application period are being accepted until May 24. Make sure to read the terms and conditions before applying.
This article was last updated on: 19/06/2018 - 05:36
@ConorCawley
Conor is the Senior Writer for Tech.co. For the last five years, he's written about everything from Kickstarter campaigns and budding startups to tech titans and innovative technologies. His extensive background in stand-up comedy made him the perfect person to host tech-centric events like Startup Night at SXSW and the Timmy Awards for Tech in Motion. You can email Conor at conor@tech.co.
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Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) was an early British computer. It was made by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England. EDSAC was the first stored-program electronic computer. It was also the first to run a computer game.
Later the project was supported by J. Lyons & Co. Ltd., a British company. They were rewarded with the first commercial computer, LEO I. LEO I was based on the EDSAC design. EDSAC ran its first programs on 6 May 1949, when it calculated a table of square numbers and a list of prime numbers.
Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.


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Åshammars IK ist ein schwedischer Fußballverein aus Åshammar. Die Wettkampfmannschaft spielte Ende der 1960er Jahre eine Spielzeit in der zweithöchsten Spielklasse des Landes.

Geschichte
Im April 1922 gegründet spielte Åshammars IK zunächst im unterklassigen Ligabereich. Hatte sich die Mannschaft in den 1950er Jahren in der vierten Liga etabliert, stand sie zu Beginn des folgenden Jahrzehnts mehrfach im Aufstiegsrennen zur dritten Spielklasse. 1964 holte sie den Staffelsieg in der Division 4 Gästrikland und – nach zwei Spielzeiten im vorderen Mittelfeld – stieg drei Jahre später in die zweite Liga auf. In der Svealand-Staffel war der Neuling jedoch chancenlos. Nach zwei Saisonsiegen stieg er als abgeschlagener Tabellenletzter begleitet von IF Karlskoga/Bofors und Västerås SK am Ende der Spielzeit 1968 direkt wieder ab.

Nur zwei Jahre später rutschte Åshammars IK als Tabellenvorletzter seiner Drittligastaffel wieder in die Viertklassigkeit ab. Die folgenden Jahre waren vom Wechsel zwischen den Spielklassen geprägt. Nach dem Aufstieg 1972 folgte zwei Jahre später der Abstieg, dem sich der direkte Wiederaufstieg anschloss. In der dritten Liga hielt sich der Klub anschließend zwei Spielzeiten, um nach dem abermaligen Abstieg direkt wieder aufzusteigen. Dieses Mal verpasste die Mannschaft auf Anhieb den Klassenerhalt und spielte in den folgenden Jahren viertklassig. Mit dem Abstieg in die Fünftklassigkeit 1985 verabschiedete sich der Verein vom höherklassigen Fußball.

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 Offizielle Vereinshomepage

Schwedischer Fußballverein
Sport (Gemeinde Sandviken)
Gegründet 1922

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Zomedica Announces 2021 Annual Meeting Results
ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zomedica Corp. (NYSE American: ZOM) ("Zomedica" or the "Company"), a veterinary health company creating point-of-care diagnostics products for companion animals, today announced the voting results of its 2021 Annual Virtual-Only Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") held on July 30, 2021.
At the Meeting, the Company's shareholders approved the items of business as follows:
Election of Jeffrey Rowe, Robert Cohen, Johnny D. Powers, Rodney Williams, Chris MacLeod and Christopher Wolfenberg as directors; and
Appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as the auditors of the Company and authorization of the board of directors of the Company to fix their remuneration.
Additional information regarding the voting on these matters will be filed separately by the Company on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) and EDGAR (www.sec.gov).
About Zomedica
Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Zomedica (NYSE American: ZOM) is a veterinary health company creating products for dogs and cats by focusing on the unmet needs of clinical veterinarians. Zomedica's product portfolio will include innovative diagnostics and medical devices that emphasize patient health and practice health. It is Zomedica's mission to provide veterinarians the opportunity to increase productivity and grow revenue while better serving the animals in their care. For more information, visit www.ZOMEDICA.com.
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New posts only show your unread posts. Since you are the one that wrote the post, you've already read it. If someone else responds to the thread, it will show up.
If you are on the full site, you can click the "quick links" dropdown and then click "your posts" to see all the posts you've made.
And more detailed VBulletin forum software questions can be found here under "Board FAQ"


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Interieur uit de Amaliegade. Artilleriekapitein Carl Ludvig Bendz staand en dokter Jakob Christian Bendz zittend (Deens: Interiør fra Amaliegade. Artillerikaptajn Carl Ludvig Bendz stående og læge Jakob Christian Bendz sidende) is een schilderij van Wilhelm Bendz, dat hij omstreeks 1829 maakte. Sinds 1901 was het eigendom van de tabaksmagnaat Heinrich Hirschsprung (1836-1908) en zijn vrouw Pauline Elisabeth Jacobson (1845-1912), die hun kunstcollectie in 1902 schonken aan de staat Denemarken. Sinds 1911 bevindt het schilderij zich in de toen geopende Hirschsprungske Samling in Kopenhagen.

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Wilhelm Bendz (1804-1832) volgde lessen in perspectief bij C.W. Eckersberg aan de Koninklijke Deense Kunstacademie in Kopenhagen. Het schilderij was in de eerste plaats bedoeld als een oefening om een kamer met personen en voorwerpen in perspectief en de juiste verhoudingen te tekenen en schilderen. Het resultaat geeft ook een beeld van het alledaagse leven in Kopenhagen rond 1830.

Bendz schilderde twee van zijn broers verdiept in hun bezigheden. Carl Ludvig (1797-1843), die in 1829 was bevorderd tot kapitein van de artillerie, staat aan een hoge schrijftafel waarop een schedel staat. Zijn jas hangt aan het scharnier van de deur achter hem, terwijl zijn sjako aan de muur te zien is. Jakob Christian (1802-1858), die arts was, zit aan tafel, verdiept in een boek en kauwend op zijn pen. Hij had in 1829 een aanstelling gekregen als chirurg aan het Frederiks Hospital waar hij ook woonde, in een deel van het gebouw dat aan de Amaliegade lag. Hij heeft een van zijn pantoffels uitgedaan, waardoor een bloedende wond of een gat in de kous zichtbaar wordt. Het is niet bekend of deze situatie zich werkelijk heeft voorgedaan. Het lijkt hoe dan ook te gaan om een knipoog naar het beroep van Jakob Christian, die zou moeten weten hoe een wond te verzorgen of met naald en garen een gat te dichten. De derde broer Henrik Carl Bang Bendz (1806-1882), later arts-anatoom, is niet afgebeeld op het schilderij. Hij was in 1829-1830 buiten Kopenhagen in dienst als militair arts.

Zijn eigen aanwezigheid verraadde Bendz ook. Links onderin zijn een tekenbord en een klapstoel te zien met daarboven een studentenpet. Het zijn dergelijke kleine details die het schilderij zijn levendigheid geven. Zo slingeren er papiertjes, een veer en een aantal halflege flessen in de kamer. Bij de bank staat een zilveren schaaltje met kolen om een pijp mee aan te steken. Op de boekenkast is een standbeeldje te zien van de discobolos van Naukydes.

Aan het vrijgezellenbestaan van de broers, dat op het schilderij nog te zien is, zou snel een eind komen. De kapitein trouwde in 1829 en de dokter een jaar later. Wilhelm Bendz vertrok naar Duitsland en Italië, waar hij in 1832 overleed. Het schilderij kwam in bezit van Viggo Bendz, een neef van de schilder. Hij verkocht het in 1901 aan Heinrich Hirschsprung, de grondlegger van de museumcollectie.

Literatuur
  (2011). Souvenir - 50 selected paintings. Kopenhagen: Den Hirschsprungske Samling pp. 20-21
  (2011). Rooms with a view: The Open Window in the 19th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art pp. 30-31

Externe links

Schilderij in de Hirschsprungske Samling
1820-1829


Solatorobo: Red the Hunter is a decent enough game, but not quite good enough to make me want to run through a New Game + any time soon. I guess I'd lightly recommend it?
The game is very pretty and charming. Those are the only unqualified compliments I can pay it, so I'll lead with them. Really quite gorgeous settings, and each of the islands has its own flavor. Also, every character is a loon, which I'm always okay with.
The side quests are surprisingly diverse and rather enjoyable, although there's some obvious location reskinning.
The battle system has the potential for massive funtimes, because picking up enemies or grabbing their projectiles in midair and throwing them around is a hoot, but only the boss fights really show it off. Battles against the same mooks in highly similar areas get old really fast, especially since they never at any point present a challenge because the game is so easy.
I wouldn't mind the easiness so much if Solatorobo weren't so obnoxiously handholdy too. The objectives and dungeons are almost all really straightforward, not so much about puzzles and exploration than going somewhere to do something and then being told to go somewhere else. Despite this, it'll still very helpfully point out for the fiftieth time that hey, there's a pressure switch over there, what could it possibly do?
There are a couple of good puzzle concepts in there, but as Solatorobo isn't a very puzzly game, they're not explored that deeply. The Futzu bridging puzzles in particular I may steal for myself.
The plot starts off as a duct-taped wad of JRPG tropes. I kind of feel like they were aware of that, though, and had a "yeah, we're going to do it, so let's just do it and get it over with" attitude. In one chapter past the halfway point, they throw in protagonist amnesia without having mentioned it previously, and it's resolved in the very same chapter. Solatorobo doesn't dwell on too much of that nonsense, so even though it starts off pretty slow, it keeps moving.
And the plot does eventually get better; it's still trod ground, but not as well-trod as earlier. Turns out that Solatorobo is very similar to Utawarerumono in structure, themes, and backstory. Even if you haven't played or seen that, it's not terribly difficult to figure out every development ahead of time, but I did appreciate the effort to be deeper.
This has been pretty negative, but that's mostly borne of disappointment. What's there was certainly worth playing. It just could've been a lot better, one of the best games on the system.
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Q: How using Vim alphabetically sort JS es6 imports I use vim as IDE for typescript project.
import { FlightInfo } from './FlightInfo'
import { InfoBlockProps, InfoRowProps, INavigationFlightOfferDataProps } from './interfaces'
import { getDiscountData, formatDataByServicesType, selectAdministrationFee } from './functions'

Also, I use ts-lint rule for check sorting:
 ...
 ordered-imports": [
      true,
      {
        "import-sources-order": "lowercase-first",
        "named-imports-order": "lowercase-first"
      }
    ],
 ...

And get errors:
ERROR: 11:1   ordered-imports  Import sources within a group must be alphabetized.
ERROR: 11:10  ordered-imports  Named imports must be alphabetized.
ERROR: 12:1   ordered-imports  Import sources within a group must be alphabetized.
ERROR: 12:10  ordered-imports  Named imports must be alphabetized.

I am searching for a solution or plugin for fix this sorting errors.

A: In this situation, for me very well works ts-lint --fix -c ./ts-congig.json my-file.ts command.

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Ordering data in LINQ Queries by more than one column.
By using .Orderby(x=>x.Columnname) in the LINQ query,we can easily order data of the source collection.So most of new developer make use of the same function two time as .Orderby(x=>x.Columnname).Orderby(x=>x.Columnname) and thinks that will do the ordering on the multiple columns.
But its always does the order by the column you specified in the last OrderBy() method.
Always make use of ThenBy() after OrderBy() because OrderBy() returns an IOrderedEnumerable which then exposes the Methods: ThenBy() and ThenByDescending(). This means that we can OrderBy on multiple Fields by chaining the OrderBy() and ThenBy() together.
As we can see in above statement after order by we can add the multiple columns and do the ordering on multiple columns.


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An Effect of Crucible Volume on the Microstructure and Photocatalytic Activity of the Prepared g-C3N4
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Authors: Guan, Wei; Tian, Shichao
Source: Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics, Volume 12, Number 8, August 2017, pp. 781-785(5)
Publisher: American Scientific Publishers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1166/jno.2017.2181
In this present study, graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) was prepared via a thermal condensation of thiourea and characterized by several techniques, which confirmed that the morphology, absorption spectra and recombination of electron–hole pairs for the generated g-C3N4 particles were greatly influenced by the volume of alumina crucible. The prepared g-C3N4 particles were used as potential photocatalyst for the photocatalytic degradation of nitric oxide (NO). Interestingly, it was observed that the photocatalytic performance of the synthesized g-C3N4, prepared under different alumina crucible volume, were different. The detailed photocatalytic investigations revealed that the photocatalytic performance of g-C3N4 prepared using 50 mL crucible exhibited the highest removal efficiency of NO. The detailed experiments indicated that the crucible volume had an important impact on the synthesis and photocatalytic properties of prepared g-C3N4 materials.
Keywords: G-C3N4 MATERIAL; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOTOCATALYSIS
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The Friends of the Okemos Library will host a "Breakfast with Frank Kelley" on Saturday, May 21. Former State Attorney General, Frank Kelley, will speak about his years in office and the challenges he faced, as well as the state, national and international personalities he met while in office as Michigan's longest-serving Attorney General. Mr. …
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Lansing History Librarian Heidi Butler
Lansing History Librarian Heidi Butler shared historical facts about the Greater Lansing area and the many library resources available for doing our own historical research. Attendees learned how to use the Parke Collection to discover information about our region, the city, or even a parcel of land, as well as the preservation of family audio/video documents.
P.J. Parrish
We heard from award-winning and best-selling mystery author, P.J. Parrish, the pen name for writing duo Kelly Nichols and Kristy Montee. The sisters, who are Detroit natives, divulged the secret to their long-distance writing style and how they construct the plots for their hero, Detective Louis Kincaid.


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Autauga students to get laptops
Marty Roney
PRATTVILLE — Every student in Autauga County schools now will have laptops in the coming academic year.
The board of education approved the purchase of 5,000 Chromebooks at a recent meeting. That's on top of the 4,200 laptops that had already been ordered. The system has an enrollment of about 9,200. The purchase of the 5,000 devices runs about $1 million and will come from the state funds for reaction to the pandemic.
"Every student, traditional and virtual, will be issued a Chromebook," said Superintendent Spence Agee. "Each student will get one, so there will be no sharing of devices among siblings."
The idea is to make the transition for virtual learning for periods for time, or for the entire year, due to coronavirus developments, as seamless as possible. There are several e-learning days set of the system's calendar, where all students will go virtual.
The system had previously purchased the 4,200 devices to be issued to students whose families may not have been financially able to buy new laptops. About 42 percent of the system's enrollment is on the free or reduced lunch program, which gave the BOE an idea of how many devices may be needed.
"There are several sources from the governor's office that give us funding to address how corornavirus will be affecting our schools," Agee said. "So we are able to make sure every student gets a Chromebook."
School is set to begin Sept. 8, and the devices should be delivered to the system by then, officials say.
Families will sign up for the devices and will turn them back in at the end of the school year. The devices will be re-used in coming academic years.
Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Marty Roney at mroney@gannett.com.


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Q: How to turn off yarn@2 PnP? I am using yarn 2.0.0-rc.27 + workspaces + typescript and I want to turn PnP off and use node_modules again. I tried it with following setting in package.json:
  "installConfig": {
    "pnp": false
  },

But yarn uses PnP mode every time. Is there any option to turn it off?

A: I ran into a bunch of issues with Yarn 2 as well using same stack. Solution is to create a .yarnrc.yml file with the following line:
nodeLinker: node-modules

A: Sometimes it is enough to run yarn unplug [problem package name] to get it working again with pnp mode.
For instance in case of next.js v12 pnp mode started to not work again (it worked with v10/v11) and the solution was to simply yarn unplug next -- it  remembers that you did it by adding a new dependenciesMeta entry into the package.json file.


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Gravitational Waves to Crack Neutron Star Mystery
By Ian O'Neill
(Image credit: Penn State University)
We are now in an incredible new era of astronomy where the faint ripples in spacetime caused by distant black hole collisions are being detected and studied. These are the most energetic events in the cosmos and, by "listening in" to their gravitational wave signals, these black hole mergers have finally been directly observed.
Although the first detections of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) have, so far, been exclusive to the collisions of black holes, astrophysicists have far loftier goals. The next step will be to detect the collisions of neutron stars and, hopefully, use their gravitational wave signals to crack open the super-dense husks of stellar matter, revealing what they are really made of.
RELATED: We've Detected Gravitational Waves, So What?
Gravitational waves traveling through spacetime can be imagined as ripples traveling across the surface of a pond. And, like those water ripples, gravitational waves carry energy away from massive objects that accelerate, collide or explode. The historic Feb. 11 announcement of the detection of gravitational waves that were recorded by LIGO on Sept. 14, 2015, revealed the first direct observation of two black holes, one 29 solar masses and another 36 solar masses, colliding and merging as one.
Then, on June 14, a second detection was announced, revealing yet another black hole merger. Only this time the black holes were smaller, "weighing in" at 14 solar masses and 8 solar masses.
WATCH VIDEO: LIGO Has Detected Gravitational Waves AGAIN!
Both observations revealed an astonishing amount of information about the pairs of black holes before and after their powerful collisions, including the fact they were spinning and their precise masses. What's more, the gravitational wave signals were very much in line with our theoretical predictions of what gravitational waves generated by black hole mergers should look like. These first detections are a testament to our theoretical understanding of black holes, considering that, up until Sept. 15, 2015, we'd never actually observed any kind ofdirect signal from a black hole (though we already had an abundance of indirect evidence that black holes and gravitational waves were physically out there).
So, we have direct observational proof of the existence of gravitational waves (and, indeed, black holes themselves) and we now know we can build laser interferometers sensitive enough to detect the most minuscule fluctuations in spacetime. Now astrophysicists want to probe even deeper in the hope of detecting the collisions of neutron stars, which are a few orders of magnitude less massive than black holes and their gravitational waves will be much fainter.
RELATED: Gravitational Waves vs. Gravity Waves: Know the Difference!
Neutron stars are created after massive stars run out of fuel and explode as supernovae. After the stellar fireworks, a tiny spinning mass of ultradense matter may be left behind. The intense gravity of this neutron star crushes normal matter into an extreme state governed by quantum dynamics. Thought to be a massive ball of neutrons -- subatomic particles found in the nuclei of normal atoms -- a neutron star can be thought of as a giant atom unto itself; a massive nucleus composed of only neutrons trapped in a crushing gravitational field, spinning fast and often possessing a powerful stellar magnetic field.
Some of these neutron stars can turn into pulsars, blasting intense radiation from their magnetic poles, appearing as flashing lighthouses in the universe.
However, there are many unanswered questions in the field of neutron star physics. One key question is whether neutron stars fit the "textbook" explanation of what a neutron star is -- basically a ball of neutrons -- or have the neutrons themselves been crushed into oblivion and other quantum rules are being applied? Could neutron stars actually be an ultra-dense ball of quarks, the even smaller subatomic particles that make up the neutrons themselves?
Before Feb. 11, these questions would have remained a theoretical curiosity, but now we have a natural probe into some of the most massive objects in the universe and gravitational waves could be used to reveal the hearts of colliding neutron stars, possibly cracking them open and revealing the physics that lie within.
"Ultimately, (gravitational waves) may answer the question, whether neutron stars are composed solely of ordinary atomic nuclei, or if they contain more exotic matter in the form of dense deconfined quark matter," said physicist Aleksi Vuorinen, of the University of Helsinki, Finland, in a statement.
RELATED: Gravitational Waves: Spying the Universe's 'Dark Side'
The key problem with trying to understand neutron star physics is that there is currently no way we can simulate the extreme conditions neutron star matter experiences on Earth. The closest we can come is to collide particles inside powerful accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, to produce a very short-lived,hot quark-gluon plasma. Though particle collisions may reveal some qualities of this exotic state of matter,governed by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), it comes woefully short of simulating a neutron star's dense environment.
"The quark-gluon plasma that is produced in heavy ion collisions can be thought of as a hot but not very dense soup of quarks and gluons, while quark matter is a very dense and cold, essentially solid state, of matter," said Aleksi Kurkela (from CERN and the University of Stavanger in Norway) in an interview with Phys.org. "Our work in fact bridges the gap between these two systems, as our result is applicable at all temperatures, unlike any of the previous results."
So it seems likely that the only way we can "see" what neutron stars are made of would be to try to detect the gravitational wave signals generated after two neutron stars collide. But once we do detect the first gravitational waves generated by neutron star mergers, we need to decipher what the signal actually means, and this is why Vuorinen and Kurkela are working on some pretty exciting simulations of neutron star smashups.
RELATED: Smashing Black Holes Make Gravitational Waves, Again
Until now neutron star matter has been simulated in a cold state. But if we are to understand what gravitational waves from neutron star mergers look like, we need to simulate what actually happens during a cataclysmic neutron star collision. And needless to say, things would get hot. Really,really hot.
Kurkela and Vuorinen have now carried out simulations of neutron star collisions generating temperatures up to a trillion degrees (1x1012 Kelvin) to see what kinds of gravitational wave signals these extreme collisions produce. Ultimately it is hoped that these theoretical models will help physicists understand what the first gravitational waves generated by neutron star collisions will look like and whether they will reveal that neutron stars have "textbook-like" neutron cores or "exotic" quark-filled cores.
"The hope is that the gravitational wave signal from a merger of two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole would provide detailed information about the structure of neutron stars," said Kurkela. "This in turn would enable researchers to infer the equation of state of the matter the stars are composed of, i.e., the thermodynamic properties of nuclear and quark matter."
This research has been published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Sources: University of Helsinki, Phys.org (via Science Daily)
Originally published on Discovery News.
Ian O'Neill
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Ian O'Neill is a media relations specialist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. Prior to joining JPL, he served as editor for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Mercury magazine and Mercury Online and contributed articles to a number of other publications, including Space.com, Space.com, Live Science, HISTORY.com, Scientific American. Ian holds a Ph.D in solar physics and a master's degree in planetary and space physics.
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package enmasse.mqtt;

import io.vertx.core.Future;
import io.vertx.core.Handler;
import io.vertx.core.Vertx;
import io.vertx.core.logging.SLF4JLogDelegateFactory;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;

import static io.vertx.core.logging.LoggerFactory.LOGGER_DELEGATE_FACTORY_CLASS_NAME;

/**
 * EnMasse MQTT gateway main application class
 */
public class Application {

    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Application.class);

    private final Vertx vertx = Vertx.vertx();
    private final MqttGatewayOptions options;
    private final MqttGateway mqttGateway;

    private AtomicBoolean running = new AtomicBoolean();

    public Application(MqttGatewayOptions options, MqttGateway mqttGateway) {
        this.options = options;
        this.mqttGateway = mqttGateway;
    }

    public void registerVerticles() {

        if (this.running.compareAndSet(false, true)) {

            long startupTimeout = this.options.getStartupTimeout().getSeconds();
            try {

                CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);

                Future<Void> startFuture = Future.future();
                startFuture.setHandler(done -> {
                    if (done.succeeded()) {
                        latch.countDown();
                    } else {
                        LOG.error("Could not start MQTT gateway", done.cause());
                    }
                });

                // start deploying more verticle instances
                this.deployVerticles(startFuture);

                // wait for deploying end
                if (latch.await(startupTimeout, TimeUnit.SECONDS)) {
                    LOG.info("MQTT gateway startup completed successfully");
                } else {
                    LOG.error("Startup timed out after {} seconds, shutting down ...", startupTimeout);
                    this.shutdown();
                }

            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                LOG.error("Startup process has been interrupted, shutting down ...");
                this.shutdown();
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Execute verticles deploy operation
     *
     * @param resultHandler     handler called when the deploy ends
     */
    private void deployVerticles(Future<Void> resultHandler) {

        LOG.debug("Starting up MQTT gateway verticle");

        Future<Void> result = Future.future();

        this.vertx.deployVerticle(this.mqttGateway, done -> {
            if (done.succeeded()) {
                LOG.debug("Verticle instance deployed [{}]", done.result());
                result.complete();
            } else {
                LOG.debug("Failed to deploy verticle instance {}", done.cause());
                result.fail(done.cause());
            }
        });

        result.setHandler(done -> {
            if (done.succeeded()) {
                resultHandler.complete();
            } else {
                resultHandler.fail(done.cause());
            }
        });

    }

    public void shutdown() {
        if (this.running.compareAndSet(true, false)) {
            this.shutdown(this.options.getStartupTimeout().getSeconds(), result -> {
                // do nothing ?
            });
        }
    }

    /**
     * Execute Vert.x shutdown with related verticles
     *  @param timeout   max timeout to wait for shutdown
     * @param shutdownHandler   handler called when the shutdown ends
     */
    private void shutdown(long timeout, Handler<Boolean> shutdownHandler) {

        try {

            CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);

            if (this.vertx != null) {

                this.vertx.close(done -> {
                    if (done.failed()) {
                        LOG.error("Could not shut down MQTT gateway cleanly", done.cause());
                    }
                    latch.countDown();
                });

                if (latch.await(timeout, TimeUnit.SECONDS)) {
                    LOG.info("MQTT gateway shut down completed");
                    shutdownHandler.handle(Boolean.TRUE);
                } else {
                    LOG.error("Shut down of MQTT gateway timed out, aborting...");
                    shutdownHandler.handle(Boolean.FALSE);
                }
            }

        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            LOG.error("Shut down of MQTT gateway has been interrupted, aborting...");
            shutdownHandler.handle(Boolean.FALSE);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        if (System.getProperty(LOGGER_DELEGATE_FACTORY_CLASS_NAME) == null) {
            System.setProperty(LOGGER_DELEGATE_FACTORY_CLASS_NAME, SLF4JLogDelegateFactory.class.getName());
        }

        Map<String, String> env = System.getenv();

        MqttGatewayOptions options = MqttGatewayOptions.fromEnv(env);

        LOG.info("MqttGateway starting with options: {}", options);

        MqttGateway gateway = new MqttGateway(options);

        Application app = new Application(options, gateway);
        app.registerVerticles();

        Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                super.run();
                LOG.info("MqttGateway shutdown");
                app.shutdown();
            }
        });
    }
}

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Maryland, Louisiana & South Dakota Approve Sports Betting
Bill Ordine
November 4th, 2020 , 1:00 am
Sports betting was overwhelmingly approved by voters in Maryland, Louisiana and South Dakota Tuesday, adding three new states — likely in 2021 — to the growing U.S. market.
It remains to be seen how quickly they can set regulations, approve operators and take their first bets, but the states have taken the first step with Tuesday's vote.
Although it took Tennessee about 16 months to launch its online-only, online sports betting in Colorado went live in about six months. It launched on May 1 during the coronavirus pandemic.
Two other states, Ohio and Massachusetts, are also considering legislation to legalize sports betting, and New York, which allows in-person sports betting at upstate casinos, could soon look to add online/mobile betting.
RELATED: NY Mobile Sports Betting Updates
Maryland voters easily approved sports wagering, an issue that appeared on the ballot under the heading of "Question 2." Tax proceeds will primarily go to fund education in Maryland, as does slot machine money from the state's six casinos.
The measure passed by a 2-1 margin.
The sports gambling referendum was a simple up-or-down vote and the ballot question carried no specifics about what sports wagering would look like or a tax rate. The Maryland state legislature will be tasked with hammering out details when it convenes for its normal session beginning in January.
Prior to the pandemic, both the Maryland senate and the House of Delegates held extensive hearings on the issue and at that time, it appeared that licenses would go to the state's six casinos, the state's horse racing business (Maryland Jockey Club), the fairgrounds in Timonium, perhaps some OTBs and even a Washington Football Team stadium.
Those hearings leaned toward having both retail and online sports wagering and a number of online betting operators and related interests testified. However, all that work on a sports wagering framework was shelved when some members of the House of Delegates raised concerns about the lack of diversity — minorities and women — among likely equity stakeholders. That question still remains to be resolved.
In order to get sports wagering in front of the voters, the legislature opted to simply put the bare bones yes-or-no question on the ballot.
Possibly, the work done earlier this year will provide a foundation for legislative deliberations in 2021 and speed the process of getting sports betting up and running in Maryland. Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, signaled that he would sign whatever bill the legislature produces.
This was the third time that Maryland voters have approved a gambling-related referendum question in the 21st century. In 2008, voters approved slots gambling paving the way for the state's first five casinos, and in 2012, voters also said "Yes" to table games and a sixth casino in Prince George's County.
In Louisiana, 55 parishes out of 64 approved sports betting Tuesday. In Louisiana, such questions are decided locally.
The Louisiana sports wagering question was a simple yes-or-no vote. The state legislature convenes in April and it will work out the details of how sports betting will operate in that state, such as whether it will be retail only or also include online wagering where undoubtedly most bettors prefer to place their wagers.
Determining what businesses will be licensed to have sports betting will be a key part of the decision-making process. Louisiana has land- and water-based casinos as well as race tracks. And certainly, tax rates will be important in the legislature's discussion.
While it's speculative to predict how speedy that process will go, it's relevant to note that Louisiana voters approved daily fantasy sports in 2018 and it is still not up-and-operating in Louisiana.
The vote in South Dakota was at 59% in favor of the Constitutional Amendment B allowing retail sports betting in Deadwood with 90% of the votes counted. The Associated Press called the amendment's victory Tuesday night.
With the approval of Amendment B, the 2021 legislature would be tasked with promulgating rules. Sports wagering in Deadwood could potentially debut on July 1, 2021.
The vote could possibly open the door for wagering at the tribal casinos in the state and for online/mobile betting should lawmakers include it in the legislation. Under federal law, gaming authorized by the legislature for Deadwood would also be allowed at tribal casinos after amending gaming compacts, according to the Deadwood Gaming Association.
The state constitution currently authorizes the legislature to allow roulette, keno, craps, limited card games and slot machines in Deadwood.


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A terrorist attack via computers could have a devastating effect on the nation's infrastructure. Andrew Don finds out if the industry is addressing the threat
Al-Qaeda launches an electronic strike on the West, dispatching worms and viruses via the internet. Parts of the National Grid are knocked out. Electronic Funds Transfer cannot take place; invoicing, ordering, distribution and payroll are affected. Diesel to run back-up generators is in limited supply. Food supply is disrupted and food that is on the shelves begins to spoil.
The public panics.
A far-fetched scenario? Not according to some experts and politicians who are urging retailers and manufacturers to prepare themselves not only for the possibility of an attack on their physical premises but for a cyber-terrorist attack. Many businesses remain dangerously ignorant of the threat, they warn. So how serious is it and what should businesses do?
The Home Office considers the threat of cyber-terrorism low compared with bricks-and-mortar attacks. But earlier this month we saw how the Sasser worm disrupted global banking and forced Britain's coastguards to revert to pen, paper and radios after their electronic mapping systems, e-mail and other computer functions were knocked out.
That was just one worm. A simultaneous blend of terrorist-mounted computer-based attacks could cause mayhem. And Al-Qaeda is thinking about it, according to the White House's homeland security adviser General John Gordon, who told a US security conference recently that Al-Qaeda had some expertise in the field.
Michael Fabricant, Tory shadow minister for economic affairs, believes that the UK is a prime target for cyber-terrorism and that the government is inviting trouble by not putting enough emphasis on it. He says: "Cyber-
terrorists could attack our nation's infrastructure. Our electricity and gas supplies are all computer controlled. Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations may well adopt this tactic in the future. I believe that we need to be more prepared."
Nick Ray, chief executive of intrusion prevention company Prevex, which is sponsoring the All-Party Internet Group inquiry into the Computer Misuse Act 1990, adds: "Few organisations do enough to protect themselves. The nature of the threat is shifting. Supermarkets need to try to keep abreast of the latest threat. People aren't responding quickly enough."
The statistics paint a stark picture. In the event of an attack, an alarming 13% of retailers would see their systems go down in the first hour of a blackout, according to an independent study in March by IT assurance firm CNN Group. Most systems would have crashed within 24 hours. Worryingly, far too many UK firms have a false sense of security when it comes to their disaster recovery strategy, suggests the Department of Trade and Industry's 2004 Security Breaches Survey, published last month. Just 8% of the survey's respondents had tested their disaster recovery plans.
The good news is that supermarkets are beginning to register the threat. Mike Jolley, security manager, information systems, at Co-operative Group, says it has identified the risk as high-level and Mark Trevorrow, Budgens Stores head of IT, says it is one of many real risks facing all businesses today. Some companies are beginning to put in place measures to counter the threat, although they are reluctant to go into detail.
The British Retail Consortium spokesman David Southwell explains: "The government is not happy for us or any company to talk about their prevention. The more information in the public domain, the more you are giving people who are trying to enact this. Companies will have received advice from security consultants and government not to talk about their plans."
Asda goes one step further and says that publicity about such threats could push customers into panic buying.
Tesco, however, reveals that it regularly
reviews the risks and ensures that it has controls in place to mitigate them.
Jim Murphy, managing director of Costco UK, is even more forthcoming: "We have a plan where we could be up in 24 hours. We back up everything each night on disk and it is taken off-site by an armoured car service. If we had a disaster we have a recovery process. We will go off-site to a designated area set up to handle all our business needs."
Costco has limited back-up generators and if the electricity was hit, dry ice and refrigerated trucks would keep product safe for a short time. "It would affect food supply if it went on for a long time," says Murphy.
This is not the first time that retailers have had to consider a cyber-threat to their businesses. YK2, aka the Millennium Bug, prompted the first major effort by retailers to put contingency planning into place and many have used that experience to update their protection. Spar wholesalers have recovery plans in place and back-up servers. Experience from a recent telecoms problem in Manchester taught the company valuable lessons after it could not operate its electronic funds transfer systems.
But Prevex's Ray doubts if preparations put in place for YK2 would be sufficient to handle the new threat. "Every major organisation has some kind of disaster planning but I think they would only work for a limited period."
Graham Jones, director of Northern Europe for IT security firm Intergralis, which works with some of the leading supermarket chains, claims his company discovered four vulnerable entry points in one food retailer's online service this month.
Meanwhile, the government continues to monitor the threat to the UK's national infrastructure via the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre, which the Home Office established to advise on security issues.
But the experts all agree that businesses need to realise that cyber-terrorism is a real threat and take action to ensure they are as prepared as they can be.
As Stephen Timms, minister of state for e-commerce, says: "The battle to contain the information security menace will be a long one. However, it is a battle that businesses in the UK cannot afford to lose."
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One of the issues cyclists in Kelowna bring up time and again is that the "cycling network" in this city is very disconnected.
Many cycling infrastructure projects only get built when there is a larger capital project on the table.
The "while we're at it let's slap some bike lanes in" might sound nice, but you end up with a network that only confuses people as they can't feel safe on their whole route.
A new example that really has me scratching my head is the Bernard Avenue bike lanes. This year, starting in the summer, they'll be connecting all bike lanes that currently end at Lakeview Street west to Ethel Street.
That sounds reasonable until you realize that there is a single block missing from a trip to downtown. Nothing will connect the bike lane that now ends at Ethel Street to the sharrows starting at Richter Street. Sure, you can turn right and go up to the Cawston multi-use path, go across to the lakeshore, then down to The Sails where you end up on the other end of Bernard.
It's like driving east on Harvey to get to Orchard Park mall and then having the highway stop at a farmer's field at Hardy so you have to turn up to get to Enterprise, right to Cooper, and then to your destination.
I asked the City why this block was being ignored. Their reply was that the final block was complicated and needed extra time to design. Demands that come from single family houses, multi-family housing, and housing converted to business offices require more time for planning how cycling infrastructure will be integrated with the vehicle lanes and/or parking.
But the winner is: Abbot Street from Leon Avenue to Riverside Avenue.
Abbot Street is special because the bike lane coming from Bernard Avenue at The Sails directs people up on the sidewalk after the entrance to City Park. People are expected to know that you cannot cross Harvey from the west corner, but instead must detour under the tunnel and then through the beach and down Lake Avenue to get back onto Abbot.
The only other option is to walk your bike across Abbott to the east corner where there is a pedestrian crosswalk signal which then crosses Harvey where you have to navigate a couple of tight sidewalks to get down to the multi-use path that starts at Riverside Avenue.
Kelowna seems not to value cycling as an equal mode of transportation. Thus, there is little reason for designers and planners of the city's streets and thoroughfares to consider the cycling public's needs in the same way thought is given to roads for cars.
As a city, we need to come together and change this mindset. We need to realize that cycling has benefits for health, can lessen road congestion, and have a positive effect on the environment.
We need to start treating cycling like it means something.
The alternative is the status quo which will continue to frustrate all road users alike. We must begin looking at the rides, listening to cyclists, analyzing the destinations, if we are ever to start filling in the blanks in our cycling network.


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All purchasers, including non-Texas residents, must have a valid agricultural and timber registration number (ag/timber number) issued by the Comptroller to claim exemption from Texas tax.
If you do not have a valid ag/timber number, you must pay tax to retailers on your purchases..
(3) Water, including bottled water, spring water, sparkling water, or mineral water, is exempt from sales tax.
To qualify, a home must meet the definition of a residence homestead: The home's owner must be an individual (for example: not a corporation or other business entity) and use the home as his or her principal residence on Jan. 1 of the tax year. An age 65 or older or disabled exemption is effective as of Jan.
How do we apply for an exemption? To apply for franchise and sales tax exemptions, complete and submit Form AP-204, Texas Application for Exemption – Federal and All Others (PDF) to the Comptroller's office. Include a copy of the IRS-issued exemption determination letter with any addenda.
In order to qualify for the exemption, the property must be in agricultural use as of January 1 of the given year in which the owner wishes to file. The owner will have two months to submit the application and supporting documentation to their county tax assessor – the deadline is March 1 of the given year.
The value of an ag exemption "If you average all the market values from Peaster to Millsap to Aledo, you get an average of about $5,000 per acre," he said. "The tax savings is just huge if you've got ag."
This means pastureland, mixed timber, native pasture, wildlife management or if they apply for hunting lease. There are different acreage requirements between the counties but are typically required to have at least 3 acres for goats and sheep and 20 acres minimum for cattle.
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Stocking Rates in Texas vary from 1 cow per acre on heavily managed pasture in the Eastern portion of the state to 1 cow per 150 acres (4 cows per section) in the Trans Pecos Region of the state.
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Qualifying Items During the sales tax holiday, you can buy most footwear and clothing (sold for less than $100) tax free. You do not need to give the seller an exemption certificate. The exemption applies to each eligible item sold for less than $100, and there is no limit to the number of qualifying items you can buy.
You can also apply for a Texas Sales and Use Tax Permit online at www.comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/permit/. Applicants must be at least 18 years old. Parents or legal guardians can apply for a permit on behalf of a minor.
This is based on the dairy cows being rotated such that the pasture is not depleted. Based on that, 8–10 cows could graze on five acres.
Property taxes are a large portion of the taxes that farmers and ranchers pay. … In Texas, value is assigned to certain properties based on their agricultural or timber productivity value rather than on market value.
You may have heard a rule-of-thumb is that it takes 1.5 to 2 acres to feed a cow calf pair for 12 months. That means we should be able to have 10 to 13 cows. Let's see how this rule-of-thumb holds up. It looks like our rule-of-thumb held up pretty good, 11 cows on 20 acres, is 1.8 acres per cow.
Originally Answered: How many acres qualify as a ranch? Texas Farm Bureau has defined a small farm or ranch as "a property of one hundred (100) acres or less on which the owner/operator has been an active producer of commodities for five (5) years or less." Dry land you need at least 10 acres per cow calf.
Agricultural income is not taxable under Section 10 (1) of the Income Tax Act as it is not counted as a part of an individual's total income. However, the state government can levy tax on agricultural income if the amount exceeds Rs. 5,000 per year.
The Caldwell County Appraisal District understands that other exceptions may arise and will evaluate those exceptions on an individual basis. Acreage Requirement: the State of Texas has set a minimum of 5 acres and a maximum of 20 acres to qualify beekeeping as an agricultural use.
Agricultural income is wholly exempt from tax provided that the individual's i) total agricultural income is less than Rs. 5,000 and ii) the total income, excluding agricultural income, is less than basic exemption limit.
A: Typically For native pasture (Johnson grass) it is one cow per 10 to 12 acres; for improved pasture (coastal Bermuda) it is one cow per 3 to 5 acres.
To claim a tax exemption on qualifying items, you must apply for an agricultural and timber registration number (Ag/Timber Number) from the Comptroller. You must include the Ag/Timber Number on the agricultural exemption certificate (PDF) or the timber exemption certificate (PDF) when buying qualifying items.
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Could the Olympics Help Create Peace Between the Koreas?
By Jonah Shepp
The North Korean cheerleading squad leaves a welcoming ceremony at the athletes' village of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on February 8, 2018. Photo: ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images
The Winter Olympic Games that kicked off Friday in Pyeongchang, South Korea, represent a historic moment in diplomatic relations between that country and its isolated, Stalinist neighbor to the north. Whether the Games will actually lead to a diplomatic breakthrough, however, is doubtful.
South Korean president Moon Jae-in, an advocate of reconciliation between the two Koreas, has been eager to make the Games in Pyeongchang a "Peace Olympics," and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un expressed interest in making that happen in his New Year's address. Later in January, Moon's government announced that North and South Korean athletes would march together under the Korean Unification Flag in today's opening ceremonies.
On Wednesday, the diplomatic stakes were turned up a notch with the announcement from Pyongyang that the supreme leader's younger sister Kim Yo-jong, head of the country's propaganda operations, would attend the Games, and on Thursday, Moon revealed that he had scheduled a lunch meeting with her on Saturday. Kim Yo-jong's trip to Pyeongchang makes her the first member of the Kim dynasty to travel to the South since the truce that ended the Korean War in 1953.
Two people who will not be meeting with Kim or any other members of the North Korean delegation are Vice-President Mike Pence, who arrived in South Korea on Thursday to meet with Moon and attend the opening ceremony, and First Daughter Ivanka Trump, who will attend the closing ceremonies. Pence had kept the possibility of such meetings open in statements earlier in the week, but White House spokesman Raj Shah told reporters on Thursday that there were "no meetings planned whatsoever."
The North Koreans were quick to make sure everyone knew they didn't want to meet with Pence or Ivanka either. "We have never begged for dialogue with the U.S. nor in the future, too," the KCNA news agency reported, citing a foreign-ministry official. "Explicitly speaking, we have no intention to meet with the U.S. side during the stay in South Korea." They may have an intention to upstage the U.S., however: Some observers believe the decision to send their chief propagandist was intended to create a media spectacle and draw attention away from Pence's appearance.
In opening remarks at his meeting with Moon on Thursday, Pence stressed that the U.S. would not waver from its insistence on the complete denuclearization of North Korea. He has also indicated that the Trump administration would soon announce "the toughest and most aggressive round of economic sanctions on North Korea ever." Given this government's penchant for spectacle, it would not be surprising if that announcement came right in the middle of the Games.
Since the beginning of the year, when the Koreas began exploring the possibility of coming together at the Olympics, Washington and Seoul have been on divergent paths with regard to diplomacy with the North, Moon pursuing rapprochement while President Donald Trump has sent alarming signals about the possibility of the U.S. launching a "bloody nose" strike against North Korea to take out its weapons capabilities without incurring massive retaliation against South Korea or U.S. bases in the Pacific (hopefully).
Trump insists that his bellicose rhetoric is the only reason North Korea is talking to anyone at all — an interpretation with which Moon obsequiously agreed last month — but some experts view the Kim regime's pursuit of a separate diplomatic track with Seoul with suspicion, seeing it as an attempt to drive a wedge between the U.S. and South Korea. This wedge is that much easier to drive given Trump's obsession with either revising or tearing up our free-trade agreement with South Korea, even though our trade deficit is declining. In any case, there's no reason to expect the American stance on North Korea to change, no matter what happens in Pyeongchang.
What's missing from Moon's friendlier approach, however, is a sense of what exactly he is hoping to get out of it. Critics say that by welcoming the North Koreans to the Olympics, he may be handing Kim a public relations and propaganda victory for free. Getting the delegation and their equipment across the border has been an exercise in dancing around U.N. sanctions, to the consternation of South Korean conservatives who suspect that weakening those sanctions is precisely Kim's Olympic game. Moon's popularity has taken a hit from his decision to reach out to the North at a time when support for reunification is at historic lows, particularly among young South Koreans who don't relish the thought of having to share their hard-earned wealth with their starving peasant cousins.
Dialogue, reconciliation, and peace are more popular — the two countries are technically still at war, as the Korean War ended in a truce, not a treaty — but Moon is under pressure from his conservative opposition to demonstrate that his feel-goodery has a point. If he comes out of the Games with nothing to show for it on the North Korean front, he could easily pay a further political price. The South Korean divide over Moon's overture is illustrated in these two snap editorials on Kim Yo-jong's visit, highlighted by the Associated Press's Seoul bureau chief Foster Klug:
The liberal Hankyoreh newspaper played up her direct influence on Kim Jong Un, and interpreted the trip as an attempt by North Korea to reset its international relations and improve ties with both Seoul and Washington.
Oh no, said the conservative Munhwa Ilbo: The visit is a cynical attempt to weaken international sanctions over the North's weapons programs and water down the U.S.-South Korean alliance.
As these contrasting takes suggest, how one judges the wisdom of Moon's actions depends on to what degree one is willing to give North Korea the benefit of the doubt. For the U.S., that degree is somewhere around negative 90, so Pence's glowering presence in Pyeongchang probably won't do much to help Moon accomplish whatever it is he's trying to accomplish. If his gesture of resolve and support for our ally ends up undermining the Games' magnanimous and pro-peace message, Pence might "hijack the hijacker" and make things worse, as CNN's national-security analyst John Kirby put it in an op-ed on Tuesday.
On Moon's side of the street, however, it's unclear just what his goals are here. North Korea appears unlikely to give him much in return for his benevolent gesture; the military parade Kim held in Pyongyang on the eve of the Games should put any doubts about that to rest. If Pence comes off looking like an enemy of diplomacy, that's surely what Kim is hoping for if he aims to sideline the Americans and pursue some kind of peace deal with Moon, Korean to Korean.
Or perhaps the South Korean conservatives are right: Kim has no intention of making peace at all, but wants to look like he's doing so in order to ease the pressure of sanctions and diplomatic isolation. In that case, Moon is a sucker and the political price he will pay for it is well deserved.
The upshot here is that we shouldn't expect any amazing breakthrough to come out of these Olympics. If the U.S. pushes too hard against Moon's welcoming gesture and comes off as the bad guy, that may just widen the gap between Washington and Seoul, making it even harder to coordinate a unified strategy in the future. If sports diplomacy does prove successful at easing tensions between the Koreas, whatever that might look like, that's not part of the Trump administration's playbook, either.
Thanks in part to a lack of coordination between our government and that of our ally, in part to Moon's hazy objectives, and in part to Trump's saber-rattling, the "Peace Olympics" could end up as a missed opportunity.
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