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Short term memory loss can be extremely difficult for care givers.
Short term memory is memory we are currently, or actively, thinking about. It is also referred to as working memory, although the two types of memory are somewhat different.
This type of memory is often limited to around seven items and lasts about 20 - 30 seconds. A great example is when mom asks what day it is, you tell her Saturday. Less than a minute later, she asks you again what day it is. And a few minutes later --- she asks again.
This can cause frustration and anger with care givers and is difficult to deal with. There are some great management tips that we often used in our Dementia Unit that helped significantly in lowering frustrations of early dementia patients.
Although most people automatically think of Alzheimer's, or other Dementias, when they think of this condition, there are actually several other causes that may be the root cause or may be aggravating the memory loss associated with the Dementias.
Some of the other causes are listed below, along with a few things you can do to help prevent or eliminate them. Always check with your doctor before you make changes in medications, diet and routines, as these changes can possibly affect your loved one's current treatment.
Infections: Any infection can cause problems with memory in the elderly, but the most likely infectious cause is a UTI Early detection and treatment is vital. The best way to prevent UTI's is to keep your loved one adequately hydrated.
Alcohol Abuse: More elderly than you would imagine have an alcohol dependency. Alcoholism can lead to memory issues. Monitor your loved one to determine if this may be a contributing factor.
Medication Reactions: Any time your loved one has a change in medications, either an addition of a new medication or stopping an existing one, and develops worsening memory issues, you should notify their doctor immediately.
Vitamin Deficiency: There are a few vitamin deficiencies that can lead to memory loss. Review the article of the best memory vitamins for more information on this potential cause.
Drug Abuse: Overtaking prescribed medications or the use of medications not prescribed can lead to this issue as well. It is especially important to be aware of all medications your loved one is taking.
Fatigue and Stress: Lack of sleep, combined with high stress levels, can lead to memory issues as well. The elderly do best with a set routine so if things all of a sudden change, like where they live or a change in daily routine, you can expect to see some memory issues for a short time. If they continue, it is best to look for other causes.
Try to understand that short term memory loss can be just as frustrating to the person suffering from it as it is on you. Try not to become angry or frustrated, because they will pick up on those feelings and the stress can lead to worsening symptoms.
Eliminate as many reversible causes as possible first. Then, when you know you have done everything you can, it is time to start learning some management techniques to help you all live with short term memory loss.


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AlphaSparse: Generating High Performance SpMV Codes Directly from Sparse Matrices

                    Zhen Du, Jiajia Li, Yinshan Wang, Xueqi Li, Guangming Tan, Ninghui Sun.

                    The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC). <time>2022</time> (To Appear)

BALA-CPD: BALanced and Asynchronous Distributed Tensor Decomposition

                    Zheng Miao, Jiajia Li, Jon Calhoun, Rong Ge.

                    The 24th IEEE Cluster (CLUSTER). <time>2022</time> (To Appear)

DRIPS: Dynamic Rebalancing of Pipelined Streaming Applications CGRAs

                    Cheng Tan, Nicolas Bohm Agostini, Tong Geng, Chenhao Xie, Jiajia Li, Ang Li, Kevin Barker, Antonino Tumeo.

                    28th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). <time>2022</time>

A High Performance Sparse Tensor Algebra Compiler in MLIR

                    Ruiqin Tian, Luanzheng Guo,  Jiajia Li, Bin Ren, Gokcen Kestor.

                    The International Conference for High
Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), the Seventh Annual Workshop on the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure in HPC (LLVM-HPC) <time>2021</time>

A Survey: Handling Irregularities in Neural Network Acceleration with FPGAs

                    Tong Geng, Chunshu Wu, Cheng Tan, Chenhao Xie, Anqi Guo, Pouya Haghi, Sarah Yuan He, Jiajia Li, Martin Herbordt, Ang Li.

                    IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC). <time>2021</time>

DynPaC: Coarse-Grained, Dynamic, and Partially Reconfigurable Array for Streaming Applications

                    Cheng Tan, Tong Geng, Chenhao Xie, Nicolas Bohm Agostini, Jiajia Li, Ang Li, Kevin Barker, Antonino Tumeo.

                    The 39th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD). <time>2021</time>
                    Best Paper Award

Athena: High-Performance Sparse Tensor Contraction Sequence on Heterogeneous Memory

                     Jiawen Liu, Dong Li, Roberto Gioiosa, Jiajia Li

                    International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS). <time>2021</time>

[paper]
                     [bib]

Efficient Parallel Sparse Symmetric Tucker Decomposition for High-Order Tensors

                     Shruti Shivakumar, Jiajia Li, Ramakrishnan Kannan, Srinivas Aluru

                    SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA). <time>2021</time>

Sparta: High-Performance, Element-Wise Sparse Tensor Contraction on Heterogeneous Memory

                     Jiawen Liu, Jie Ren, Roberto Gioiosa, Dong Li, Jiajia Li

                    Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP). <time>2021</time>

[paper]
                     [bib]
                     [code]

A Sparse Tensor Benchmark Suite for CPUs and GPUs

                    Jiajia Li, Mahesh Lakshminarasimhan, Xiaolong Wu, Ang Li, Catherine Olschanowsky, Kevin Barker

                    IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC). <time>2020</time>

[paper]
                     [bib]
                     [code-PASTA]

Sparsity-Aware Distributed Tensor Decomposition.

                    Zheng Miao, Jon C. Calhoun, Rong Ge, Jiajia Li

                    ACM/IEEE International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC). <time>2020 (Poster, Accepted)</time>

High-Performance Sparse Tensor Algebra Compiler.

                    Ruiqin Tian, Jiajia Li, Bin Ren, Gokcen Kestor

                    Women in High Performance Computing Workshop (WHPC), in conjunction with ACM/IEEE International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC). <time>2020 (Poster, Accepted)</time>

Generic, Sparse Tensor Core for Neural Networks.

                    Xiaolong Wu, Yang Yi, Dave (Jing) Tian, Jiajia Li

                    1st International Workshop on Machine Learning for Software Hardware Co-Design (MLSH), in conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT). <time>2020 (Accepted)</time>

Programming Strategies for Irregular Algorithms on the Emu Chick.

                    Eric Hein, Srinivas Eswar, Abdurrahman Yasar, Jiajia Li, Jeffrey S. Young, Tom Conte, Umit V. Catalyurek, Rich Vuduc, Jason Riedy, Bora Ucar

                    Transactions on Parallel Computing. <time>2020 (Accepted)</time>

On the Feasibility of Using Reduced- PrecisionTensor Core Operations for Graph Analytics

                    Jesun Sahariar Firoz, Ang Li, Jiajia Li, Kevin Barker

                    The IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC). <time>2020 (Accepted)</time>

A Parallel Sparse Tensor Benchmark Suite on CPUs and GPUs

                    Jiajia Li, Mahesh Lakshminarasimhan, Xiaolong Wu, Ang Li, Catherine Olschanowsky, Kevin Barker

                    Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP). <time>2020 (Poster, Accepted)</time>

[paper]
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                     [code-PASTA]

An Efficient Mixed-Mode Representation of Sparse Tensors

                    Israt Nisa, Jiajia Li, Aravind Sukumaran-Rajam, Prashant Rawat, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, P. (Saday) Sadayappan

                    ACM/IEEE International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC). <time>2019</time>

[paper]
                     [bib]

Efficient and Effective Sparse Tensor Reordering

                    Jiajia Li, Bora Ucar, Umit Catalyurek, Jimeng Sun, Kevin Barker, Richard Vuduc

                    International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS). <time>2019</time>

[paper]
                     [bib]
                     [code-ParTI v1.1.0]

A Microbenchmark Characterization of the Emu Chick

                    Jeffrey S.Young, Eric Heinc, Srinivas Eswar, Patrick Lavin, Jiajia Li, Jason Riedy, Richard Vuduc, Tom Conte

                    Parallel Computing (ParCo). <time>2019</time>

[paper]
                     [bib]

Load-Balanced Sparse MTTKRP on GPUs

                    Israt Nisa, Jiajia Li, Aravind Sukumaran-Rajam, Richard Vuduc, P. Sadayappan

                    IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). <time>2019</time>

[paper]
                     [bib]
                     [code]

Programming Strategies for Irregular Algorithms on the Emu Chick

                    Eric Hein, Srinivas Eswar, Abdurrahman Yaşar, Jiajia Li, Jeffrey S. Young, Thomas M. Conte, Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Rich Vuduc, Jason Riedy, Bora Uçar

                    ArXiv. <time>2019</time>

[paper]
                     [bib]

Evaluating Modern GPU Interconnect: PCIe, NVLink, NV-SLI, NVSwitch and GPUDirect

                    Ang Li, Shuaiwen Leon Song, Jieyang Chen, Jiajia Li, Xu Liu, Nathan Tallent, and Kevin Barker

                    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). <time>2019</time>

[paper]
                     [bib]

PASTA: A Parallel Sparse Tensor Algorithm Benchmark Suite

                    Jiajia Li, Yuchen Ma, Xiaolong Wu, Ang Li, Kevin Barker

                    CCF Transactions on High Performance Computing. <time>2019</time>

[paper]
                     [bib]
                     [code]

A Pattern Based Algorithmic Autotuner for Graph Processing on GPUs

                    Ke Meng, Jiajia Li, Guangming Tan, Ninghui Sun

                    Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP). <time>2019</time> Best Paper Award Finalist

[paper]
                     [bib]
                     [code]

An Autotuning Protocol to Rapidly Build Autotuners

                    Junhong Liu, Guangming Tan, Yulong Luo, Jiajia Li, Zeyao Mo, Ninghui Sun

                    ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing. <time>2019</time>

[paper]
                     [bib]

Scalable Tensor Decompositions in High Performance Computing Environments

                    Jiajia Li

                    PhD Dissertation. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. <time>July 2018</time>

[paper][bib]

HiCOO: Hierarchical Storage of Sparse Tensors

                    Jiajia Li, Jimeng Sun, Richard Vuduc

                    ACM/IEEE International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC). <time>2018</time> Best Student Paper Award

                     [paper]
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                     [code]

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Optimizing Sparse Tensor Times Matrix on GPUs

                    Yuchen Ma, Jiajia Li, Xiaolong Wu, Chenggang Yan, Jimeng Sun, Richard Vuduc

                    Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Special Issue on Systems for Learning, Inferencing, and Discovering)

[paper]
                    [bib]
                    [code]

An Initial Characterization of the Emu Chick

                    Eric Hein, Tom Conte, Jeffrey Young, Srinivas Eswar, Jiajia Li, Patrick Lavin, Richard Vuduc, Jason Riedy

                    2018 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW). <time>2018</time>

[paper][bib]

Bridging the Gap between Deep Learning and Sparse Matrix Format Selection

                    Yue Zhao, Jiajia Li, Chunhua Liao, Xipeng Shen

                    23rd ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP). <time>2018</time>

[paper][bib]

Design and Implementation of Adaptive SpMV Library for Multicore and Manycore Architecture

                    Guangming Tan, Junhong Liu, Jiajia Li

                    ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software. <time>2018</time>

[paper][bib]

Model-Driven Sparse CP Decomposition for Higher-Order Tensors

                    Jiajia Li, Jee Choi, Ioakeim Perros, Jimeng Sun, Richard Vuduc

                    31st IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). <time>2017</time>

[paper][slides][code][bib]

Bridging the Gap between Deep Learning and Sparse Matrix Format Selection

                    Yue Zhao, Jiajia Li, Chunhua Liao, Xipeng Shen

                    The 26th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT). <time>2017</time>

[poster][bib]

Non-Negative CP Decomposition on Distributed Clusters

                    Jiajia Li, Jee Choi, Xing Liu, Richard Vuduc

                    (To be submitted). <time>2017</time>

Understanding the GPU Microarchitecture to Achieve Bare-Metal Performance Tuning

                    Xiuxia Zhang, Guangming Tan, Shuangbai Xue, Jiajia Li, Keren Zhou, Mingyu Chen

                    22nd ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP). <time>2017</time>

[paper][bib]

ParTI!: a Parallel Tensor Infrastructure for Data Analysis

                    Jiajia Li, Yuchen Ma, Chenggang Yan, Jimeng Sun, Richard Vuduc

                    Tensor-Learn Workshop, co-located with NIPS'16. <time>2016</time>

[poster][code]

Optimizing Sparse Tensor Times Matrix on multi-core and many-core architectures

                    Jiajia Li, Yuchen Ma, Chenggang Yan, Richard Vuduc

                    The sixth Workshop on Irregular Applications:
Architectures and Algorithms (IA^3), co-located with SC'16. <time>2016</time>

[paper]
                    [code]
                    [bib]

Model-driven Sparse CP Decomposition for High-Order Tensors

                    Jiajia Li, Ioakeim Perros, Jimeng Sun, Richard Vuduc

                    The fifth international Women in HPC workshop, co-located with SC'16. <time>2016</time>

[poster]

Tensors in Data Analysis: Methods, Applications, and Software

                    Casey Battaglino, Jiajia Li, Ioakeim Perros, Jimeng Sun, Richard Vuduc

                    (To be submitted). <time>2015</time>

An Input-Adaptive and In-Place Approach to Dense Tensor-Times-Matrix Multiply

                    Jiajia Li, Casey Battaglino, Ioakeim Perros, Jimeng Sun, Richard Vuduc

                    The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC). <time>2015</time>

[pdf] [slides] [code] [bib]

Introducing high performance computing concepts into engineering undergraduate curriculum: a success story

                    B. Neelima, Jiajia Li

                    Proceedings of the Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC), co-located with the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC). <time>2015</time>

[pdf][bib]

SMAT: A Cross-Platform Input Adaptive Auto-Tuner for Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication

                    Jiajia Li, Zhonghai Zhang, Guangming Tan, David Bader

                    Technical Report. <time>2014</time>

The Study of Choosing the Best Storage Format of Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication

                    Jiajia Li, Xiuxia Zhang, Guangming Tan, Mingyu Chen

                    Journal of Computer Research and Development. Vol 51. (IN CHINESE). <time>2014</time>

Research on Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication Auto-tuning Method

                    Jiajia Li

                    PhD Thesis, The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China <time>2013</time>

SMAT: An Input Adaptive Auto-Tuner for Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication

                    Jiajia Li, Guangming Tan, Mingyu Chen, Ninghui Sun

                    Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). <time>2013</time>

[pdf]
                    [slides]
                    [code]
                    [bib]

An Optimized Large-Scale Hybrid DGEMM Design for CPUs and ATI GPUs

                    Jiajia Li, Xingjian Li, Guangming Tan, Mingyu Chen, Ninghui Sun

                    International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS). <time>2012</time>

[pdf] [slides] [web] [bib]

Algebraic Multi-grid Optimization Study on GPU

                    Jiajia Li, Xiuxia Zhang, Guangming Tan, Mingyu Chen

                    HPC China (IN CHINESE). <time>2011</time>

[pdf]

Memory Accessing Analysis of Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication and Optimization

                    Xiuxia Zhang, Mingyu Chen, Jiajia Li, Guangming Tan

                    HPC China (IN CHINESE). <time>2011</time>

[pdf]

Automatically Tuned Dynamic Programming with an Algorithm-by-Blocks

                    Jiajia Li, Guangming Tan, Mingyu Chen

                    16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS). <time>2010</time>

[pdf] [bib]


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20 Careers That Will Make the Future Less Dystopian
Charlie Jane Anders| July 5, 2010 July 9, 2020
The future is a beautiful place — and you can help keep it that way, while picking up a paycheck at the same time. Here are 20 jobs that will help the human race avoid dystopia… and perhaps even take a step or two closer to a Shareble future! So next time you're between jobs and reskilling or retraining, you might look into these possibilities, which we've divided into a few basic categories:
Beekeeper: Even the Doctor is concerned about Colony Collapse Disorder. Bees are essential to the world's food supply, but they're disappearing at an alarming rate. The Telegraph recently took up the call, urging Britons to begin keeping bees again.
Water purification expert: One of the worst dystopian scenarios for the 21st century is "water wars," in which the supply of potable water shrinks just as the population grows. Greedy corporations and governments stand to make the situation worse by trying to restrict the water supply to just the chosen few. Even in America, the growing water shortage is obvious — the Rio Grande isn't so grande any more, and is only nominally a river. And that's just traditionally arid areas. And as climate change starts to take hold, previously green areas are going to face problems. So we'll need people who know how to reclaim water that's poisoned or desalinate sea water.
Seed-bank staffer (or organic farmer): As biodiversity narrows and big agriculture encourages farmers to use fewer types of seeds, the world's crops are more vulnerable to some sort of shock. Everyone grows similar types of wheat or grain — and then a particular blight hits, and we get major food shortages. People in places like Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in the Arctic, are collecting the world's seeds for preservation. And anyone who grows a wider variety of plants is helping stave off a future where Monsanto completely controls and homogenizes crop production.
Environmental lawyers and non-profit workers: Yeah, we know. Lawyers. But seriously, the best way to make a company stop polluting or otherwise turning the world into a polluted, dystopian pit is to hit them where it hurts: their bottom line. With environmental regulation being somewhat uneven at best, we need people who will step in and represent the public interest. Attorneys help to do this, and so do the tireless workers at environmental organizations.
Environmental cleanup technician: Long before the BP oil spill, this was already a fast-growing field, requiring a huge amount of nerdy expertise. When awful spills and contaminations happen, these guys swoop in and actually clean it up. According to this site, this line of work requires expertise in physics, chemistry, fluid dynamics and other sciences. And as the BP spill proved, we're still learning how to clean up these types of messes, so this is an area where you can be an innovator.
Car sharing service engineer: Green cars are good…but sharing cars is better. GPS and mobile technology made ridesharing services like Zipcar, RelayRides, Avego, Carticipate, and Weeels possible, and all these rapidly growing companies are hiring software and transportation engineers help make car sharing easy and convenient–which has the added bonus of taking cars off the road and hopefully helping mitigate the nasty effects of climate change. Another growth industry you might look into: bikesharing!
Biologists: If you're concerned about the future biodiversity of our planet, then this is a great field to go in. Biologists are often focused on a particular segment of the ecosystem or a specific animal, but biologists, with all their knowledge, work very hard to prevent some sort of terrible post-environmental-collapse future. For example, biologist Dee Boersma studies penguins, but her work is relevant for anyone interested in biodiversity:
As director of the the Wildlife Conservation Society's Penguin Project, she has dedicated almost three decades to tracking them in the South Atlantic. Using "nametags" — numbered metal bands — Boersma and her team follow hundreds of individual penguins to learn where they go, what they eat and how they survive to the next breeding season.
There are plenty of dystopias in which everybody suffers from horrible diseases, from apocalyptic plagues to intractable illnesses to incurable sterility. And in the real world, we've got a few doozies on the horizon, from a new wave of drug-resistant viruses to rising rates of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. But there are a few careers in which you can contribute to helping save humanity.
Stem cell researcher: Early indications are that stem cells could have a huge impact in treating conditions as diverse as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Just today, researchers found that 82 out of 107 patients who'd been blinded by chemical burns recovered their full sight after stem-cell treatment. We may just be scratching the surface of what stem-cell treatments can do to prevent future pandemics.
Epidemiologist: These guys are the resident experts on any given disease, and so they're often called in the first stages of an outbreak to figure out how to contain it. They're the people who understand disease vectors and the ways in which an outbreak can spread. You don't need an M.D. to become an epidemiologist, and a growing number of universities offer degree programs. Here's a list of places you can obtain a degree in epidemiology.
Drug researcher/pharmaceutical pirate: We're going to need more people to discover new drugs to combat these new pandemics — not to mention stopping rejection of our awesome artificial organs and helping to make us smarter. And then we'll need fearless people to help get cheap versions of these drugs to people in the Third World who can't afford the full-price versions. There are a lot of careers in the pharmaceutical industry where you can help develop new medications, including the fast-growing Clinical Research Organization (CRO) sector, which runs human clinical trials.
Bioinformatician: The more we understand about DNA and protein sequences, and the field of molecular biology in general, the more we'll need people who can manage the sheer amount of data we're generating. You could help develop new gene therapies, and possibly help humanity advance to the next stage of evolution. Here's a great FAQ on bioinformatics, including a list of places where you can study it. Here are some online courses you can study.
Let's face it: When people think of dystopias, they think of a repressive regime that stifles dissent and keeps the people brainwashed, like in 1984 or Brave New World. Obviously, your political views may differ from mine as to the direction an overwhelming statist regime might come from, but here are some careers that might be helpful either way.
Hacker/Cyberactivist: Want to avoid an evil cyberpunk dystopia? Or, for that matter, a 1984-style dystopia where all information and exchange of ideas is strictly controlled by the government or an oligarchy? Brushing up your hacker skills, or agitating for cyber-liberties, are two ways to go about that. Keeping the internet free and open, and keeping spaces open for anonymous discussion, have never been more important — there are a lot of people who'd like to put a V-chip on the Internet.
Debt counselor: For people who are mired in tons of credit card debt or abusive mortgages, the world is already a very dystopian place. And it's easy to imagine a future where scores of millions of people are virtual serfs, unable to pay off their debts in their lifetimes. So working to help people claw their way out of debt is a huge, important undertaking.
Teacher: This one's a little touchy-feely, but teaching people to read is still important. (In fact, the text-heavy nature of the Internet probably makes it more important than ever, if we're going to keep the Internet fairly open and democratic.) History teachers are important, math and science teachers are important. They're a guard against two types of dystopia: The Idiocracy scenario, and a stratified class system that funnels the elite into power and keeps everyone else uneducated and in line.
Artists and citizen journalists: As George Orwell demonstrated, artists can speak the truth to power and sound the alarm when a society goes on the road to dystopia. Of course, Orwell would also be the first to argue that artists can just as easily participate in the construction of a dystopia — think Leni Refienstahl. And as old-school print journalism gets more atrophied, we'll need citizen journalists who have nothing to lose and a determination to present the facts that might otherwise get ignored.
Translators: There's one thing that's antithetical to dystopias, and that's understanding of other cultures and viewpoints. In particular, people who translate literature into other languages can do a lot to open us up to other perspectives. But any kind of translation helps to allow knowledge to circulate and spread from one culture to another. Plus, learning a language is fun.
General quality of life
Aerospace engineer: At some point, human quality of life is going to depend on colonizing space. As long as we're confined to one biosphere, we're just asking for some planetary catastrophe to come along and reduce our standards of living, as a species, drastically. As people often say, it just takes one bad day. Also, at some point, the human population on Earth will finally reach saturation levels — Malthus was way too pessimistic, but it's patently true that every closed system has an upper occupancy limit. So you can contribute meaningfully to your descendants' happiness by helping to find ways for people to live on the Moon, on Mars, and beyond.
Everyone on NASA's Near Earth Object Program: These guys are the first line of defense against astroid impacts. Which is more of an apocalyptic scenario than a dystopian one, but the aftermath would be pretty darn dystopian.
Urban planner: There are lots of ways urban planners work to make the word less dystopian. Some work to make cities greener or more sustainable, while others focus on urban renewal. Either approach helps prevent cities from degenerating into some sort of cinderblock nightmare or dilapidated hellscape. Architects: This is who decides what buildings look like and how they can function. If you want to make human habitation more sustainable, this is another great choice.
Archivists/Librarians: Between European monks and Arab scholars, a surprising amount of Greek & Roman knowledge survived the Middle Ages. The Internet is great and all, but in the event of some massive technological failure, it's going to be up to those who keep up with the books to make sure we don't lose the sum total of the world's technical and cultural know-how.
If you go into any one of these careers, we can't guarantee that you'll be bringing about a utopia any time soon. And of course, "dystopia" is ultimately in the eye of the beholder. But the more people go into these careers, the brighter the future is likely to be. Feel free to suggest careers we might have missed in the comments.
This was revised from a piece that originally appeared on the blog iO9, where I serve as managing editor. Additional research and reporting by Kelly Faircloth. (I also got some ideas from this career site.)
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A credit cycle follows the direction of the broad economy and is generally considered to have four distinct phases: expansion, downturn, repair and recovery.
We are currently in the expansion phase and Western Asset believes there is continued runway.
There have been three credit cycle downturns in the past 30 years, and each was associated with either a Fed that tightened policy too much, a bursting market bubble or both.
Currently, there is no apparent sector of the credit market that in order to avoid failure requires an increase in asset valuations or revenue streams to sustain business.
Expansion phases are generally supportive of credit markets and underlying corporate bond valuations, however note that it is not the intent of this paper to opine on the relative attractiveness of any of the various credit asset classes.
In our view, if investors run for cover now, they risk foregoing the incremental return which credit risk provides.
This expansion phase will end one day but it won't pass because of old age; there have to be catalysts and as of now, no trigger characteristic is in play nor do we see one on the near horizon.
At various times over the past few years a number of fixed-income strategists, columnists and commentators have sounded the alarm about an imminent downturn in the credit cycle. The arguments for a turn in the credit cycle include slowing global economic growth, weakening fundamentals, poor market technicals, a belief that the current cycle had gone on too long, a breakdown in cross-asset correlations and risks associated with the Federal Reserve (Fed) normalizing interest rates while reversing quantitative easing. Many strategists believe that we are experiencing the last gasp of expansion. Western Asset disagrees with these statements today, just as it has disagreed with pundits who have been forecasting downturns for the past few years.
We appreciate that at some point such forecasts will be right and this credit cycle will end, but not likely in the next six to 12 months. In general credit fundamental conditions are solid and market technicals are supportive. In our view, reducing credit risk in a portfolio now due to fear of a looming cyclical downturn is not supported by the current environment and available data.
The purpose of this note is to discuss why we believe the sky is not going to fall any time soon and the key factors at play that provide the basis for our view that the current expansion phase of this credit cycle has continued runway. Before we discuss these factors, let's take a look at what we mean when we describe a credit cycle, and also identify where we are today.
The expansion period is generally associated with relatively easy lending standards, availability of capital, increased borrowing and rising leverage metrics. A downturn starts when companies struggle to meet the resulting increased financial obligations due to stalled or negative growth. Lending standards tighten and borrowing costs rise. Available capital is reduced and is accessible only by top-tier entities. As liquidity diminishes, companies start to fail and default rates rise. The repair phase is noted when companies are able to stem the decline in fundamental credit conditions by adding liquidity and stabilizing their balance sheets. Liquidity is enhanced and leverage reduced by various measures including cost cutting, issuing equity and asset sales. As free cashflow starts to grow and margins increase, companies enter the recovery stage. Having navigated the cycle, companies remain cautious and maintain a focus on conservative balance sheet management until such time that solid and sustainable growth is achieved ushering in another expansion phase.
There have been three credit cycle downturns in the past 30 years: 1989-1990, 1999-2002 and 2007-2008. Each downturn was associated with either a Fed that tightened policy too much, a bursting market bubble or both. Each of these credit cycle downturns was closely accompanied by an economic downturn during which default rates rose sharply.
Although these factors are not necessarily the only catalysts that can trigger the next credit cycle downturn, it's worth noting that they are not in place today. The Fed has begun to normalize interest rates and it is expected that it will be doing so gradually, as inflation has remained below the Fed's official target. The Fed has warned that its rate normalization efforts will be "like watching paint dry." This stands in contrast to the late 1980s and late 1990s when the Fed was battling inflation pressures and aggressively tightened to such a degree that it choked off economic growth, which precipitated recessions.
Currently, there is no apparent sector of the credit market that in order to avoid failure requires an increase in asset valuations or revenue streams to sustain business, as was the case with technology companies and the tech bubble in 2000, telecom companies and the telecom bubble in 2001, and homeowners and the housing bubble in 2008.
The housing bubble is often cited as the catalyst to the last credit downturn, the great financial crisis (GFC) of 2008. However, there's a strong case to be made that the seeds of a downturn were planted years earlier. The Fed had begun raising rates in 2004, banks began to tighten lending standards aggressively in 2006 and by 2007 available capital had become scarce. By the time the housing bubble burst in 2008, corporate leverage ratios were already elevated and when credit market liquidity dried up corporate defaults skyrocketed. Repair began in 2009 as equity issuance soared, cost cuts were implemented and asset sales completed.
By 2010, the credit markets entered the recovery phase as leverage ratios peaked and began trending lower, and interest coverage had troughed and was headed higher. Since 2011 we have been in the expansion phase. Lending standards have eased, capital is plentiful, corporate borrowing has set new highs and leverage has risen. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) reports that there have been 11 credit cycles since World War II with an average length of 69 months. The current run of 76 months in the expansion phase tops the average length of an entire cycle. Though the current expansion phase is long by historical standards, it is not unprecedented. From 1963 until the end of that decade (approximately 84 months), the US economy experienced its longest period of economic expansion fueled by huge productivity gains. Today, there are factors in place that we believe will provide a runway for the current expansion phase to continue.
We remain alert for warning signs that could portend a turn in the cycle and the beginning of a downturn. These signs include weakening earnings, elevated levels of M&A as well as highly leveraged LBO transactions, tightening lending standards, over-levered balance sheets and an aggressive Fed tightening policy. In our view, none of these indicators is flashing yellow at this time.
There are several reasons supporting our perspective that the current expansion phase of this credit cycle has not yet run its course, including 1) changed corporate treasury behavior, 2) an unusually low economic growth rate during an expansion phase, and 3) legislative and regulatory changes.
Many companies failed during the GFC because the capital markets had seized up. At the time, cashflow supported expenses but paying off a large maturity was a different matter. Corporations with debt obligations coming due historically waited between one and three months (before their existing debt matured) to refinance. To avoid the possibility of a systemic issue impacting an issuer's ability to refinance, companies en masse have changed their behavior and now look to refinance debt obligations that mature as far as two and three years out.
For example, in December 2015 the loan market had $194 billion in maturities coming due in 2018 and 2019. As of January 5, 2018, that amount had shrunk to $44 billion, approximately an 80% decrease in debt maturing obligations due within the next two-plus years. High-yield bond issuers have demonstrated a similar change in behavior. Refinancing early eliminates the risk that credit markets will be closed in the month a deal matures and extends the runway of an issuer's debt obligations. This behavior should have the effect of limiting corporate failures which in turn should help extend the expansion phase.
Right now corporations are utilizing a higher level of liquidity than seen before the crisis. In the wake of the GFC, corporations have notably increased cash on their balance sheets. Corporations remember how fickle the commercial paper (CP) market became as the crisis unfolded. Companies that believed they had sufficient liquidity because of their ability to access the CP market found out in 2008 that in fact they had significantly less ability to access capital through CP issuance than they thought. Corporate behavior thus changed. The result has been a significant reduction in the issuance of CP and a comparable increase in actual cash on the balance sheet. This reduction in CP availability also reduces risk that a market disruption could negatively impact business operations. Having cash on hand greatly improves the liquidity profile of the broad corporate market, enhances its ability to withstand periods of brief market disorder and thereby helps extend the expansion phase.
In the three previous credit cycles annual GDP growth in the expansion phase averaged over 4%. However, annual GDP growth has averaged approximately half that during the current expansion (Exhibit 7). A contributing factor to the low-growth environment of the past seven years has been corporations' reluctance to invest back into their businesses. Capital expenditures (capex) data measured by fixed business spending as a percentage of GDP show that corporate expenditures are well below those of previous expansion periods. It appears that businesses have chosen to sacrifice a level of growth for maintaining an elevated level of liquidity. From 1980 to 2007 the average annualized quarterly capex reading was 13.0%. Since then the reading has averaged 12.3% with the most recent data point, 3Q17 reported at 12.6%, below the long-term average and well below the readings recorded at the end of a number of previous expansion phases.
Capital expenditures are an investment. Investment influences the rate of economic growth. To the extent that there is spare capacity, increased investment will boost the rate of economic growth. During previous expansion phases capacity utilization averaged well above 80%. In this expansion phase the rate has been well below that, averaging approximately 75%. As the extra slack in capacity is absorbed it's likely that companies will look to increasingly reinvest back into their businesses in the form of buying new equipment, building larger factories and investing in research and development. While companies have remained cautious, which has resulted in economic growth well below that of other expansion periods, an increase in investment down the road could be a source of future growth helping to further sustain the current expansion.
In the wake of the GFC, significant legislative and regulatory changes have been ratified and implemented with regard to the operations of the financial system. These changes address the issue of leverage and overall business risk across the banking industry. From a legislative perspective, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act which clamped down on higher-risk banking activities including proprietary trading and investments in hedge funds. From a regulatory perspective, Basel III was adopted which included strict capital and liquidity standards. The new capital requirements mandated that banks maintain a higher amount of common equity, which has the effect of limiting banking leverage. Liquidity requirements were enhanced as well. Since implementation of the Volcker Rule in July 2010 and as Basel III is phased in, daily corporate bond inventories across the banking industry have plummeted as the cost to inventory a high level of risk assets has become uneconomic.
A financial system that caps the allowable level of leverage for banks and requires plentiful liquid assets may dampen their ability to generate profits but it also provides much-improved protection for when a downturn occurs. A healthy banking system should have the effect of helping to sustain the economic expansion which in turn should provide further runway to the credit cycle expansion phase.
In our opinion the current credit expansion phase is generally in solid condition. Corporations have managed their balance sheets conservatively since emerging from the GFC and we don't see signs that they will change direction in the near future. While the broad expansion cycle remains intact, certain industries moved into the downturn phase at various times over the past few years. The commodity sector did so in 2014, retail in 2015 and the wireline industry in 2017. However, downturns in these areas were specific to their underlying businesses or business practices. Fracking technology greatly enhanced the ability of exploration and production companies to extract a greater amount of crude oil, upsetting the supply/demand dynamic. Shoppers now make over 50% of their purchases online according to Fortune magazine, threatening the business model of brick and mortar retailers. Wireline companies favored equity owners with large cash distributions over the past few years—a strategy that looms disastrously as they've lost market share to cable companies while struggling to meet their elevated debt obligations. These industries face risks that are unique and do not threaten the broad economy. In addition, they may stand to benefit when the overall credit cycle does move into a downturn as they will be better prepared having already experienced their own. But for now and for at least well into 2018, we expect the broad expansion cycle to continue.
Probably the greatest risk to the expansion phase centers on how the Fed navigates normalizing short-term rates and the quantitative easing unwind. With inflation below the Fed's stated target and economic growth below that of previous expansion phases, we believe there's low probability of a Fed policy mistake that could strangle the expansion within the next 12 months. Should inflation move materially above the Fed's 2.0% target and economic growth rises considerably above the anemic level of the post-GFC era, we would revisit our view. But as of now we are satisfied that Fed policy presents little risk to the expansion cycle remaining on track.
Expansion phases are generally supportive of credit markets and underlying corporate bond valuations. It is not the intent of this paper to opine on the relative attractiveness of any of the various credit asset classes. However, we also want to be clear that because we believe the expansion phase has continued runway that should not be taken as an indication that we expect valuations to continue to tighten. That discussion is beyond the scope of this report. Though expansion phases are generally associated with tightening credit spreads, we note that there have been periods during expansion phases in which spreads experienced periods of temporary widening.
Ultimately, we at Western Asset believe that the forces listed here are the key components providing further runway for the expansion cycle. In our view, the sky is not falling and to run for cover now may mean that investors risk foregoing the incremental return which credit risk provides. This expansion phase will end one day but it won't pass because of old age. There have to be catalysts and as of now no trigger characteristic is in play nor do we see one on the near horizon.
Thomas McMahon is a Product Specialist and has been at Western Asset since 2001; he has more than 38 years of experience. Previously, Mr. McMahon was a Corporate Bond Specialist and Vice President at Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation. He served for several years as Vice President of Fixed-Income Sales at J.P. Morgan Securities and at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He worked for E.F. Hutton & Co. as a Fixed-Income Sales Executive after graduating from the University of Richmond.


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IBM UK Survey: How Security and Compliance Impact Modernization
By Charles King, Pund-IT® February 2, 2022
Many consider regulations a bane to business. After all, can't companies be trusted to do the right thing? Why behave foolishly or unlawfully if such actions endangered customers or investments? These points might seem reasonable to anyone not well acquainted with human foibles, but they can be harmful or dangerous when it comes to organizations that are vital to the wellbeing of individuals and communities, like banks and financial services.
In those cases, the value of industry and government regulations is clear. However, it's worth asking a larger question: How can organizations following complex regulations also stay competitive and transform to address modern business requirements and opportunities? A new Consensuswide study sponsored by IBM queried over 600 UK-based IT decision-makers and professionals in financial services, telecommunications and the public sector about how they view regulation, compliance, security and digital transformation. Let's review the study's findings.
Compliance-sensitive industries meet modern clouds
Drivers for conducting the survey included proposed new regulations, such as the European Commission's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority's effort to seek more oversight of third-party cloud computing service providers. These are notable considering that a large majority of survey respondents have already adopted or plan to adopt hybrid multi cloud IT architectures (87%) and have already adopted or plan to adopt industry-specific cloud platforms to accelerate digital transformation (88%).
The finding on industry-specific cloud platforms is particularly interesting since it bolsters the value proposition of established solutions, like IBM's Cloud for Financial Services. However, it also highlights a key differentiator for industry specific clouds – they require vendors to have a thorough understanding of and affinity for customers' existing and emerging business and regulatory needs.
That is no small thing in industries, like financial services where processes, regulations and compliance requirements vary substantially or even radically from country to country and between geographic regions. Plus, it is also where the importance of IBM's position as a fully global enterprise, with operations in 171 countries, comes in to play.
It is not simply that IBM is present in nearly 90% of the world's 195 countries or that it has spent decades as a trusted IT vendor for many of the world's largest financial institutions. It is that those widespread locales and years of experience have provided deep insights into financial customers' businesses that few other vendors share, let alone equal.
It should also be noted that the company is actively building-out these solutions through both organic and external investments, including the acquisition of 15 companies in 2021 that will help IBM Consulting expand customers' hybrid cloud and AI capabilities.
Compliance and security concerns meet industry-specific clouds
One of the more interesting points found in the survey results was a dichotomy about how security and compliance impact business modernization. A third (33%) of respondents cited security threat risks as drivers of IT transformation and nearly 9 in 10 (87%) said their organizations had invested or intended to invest in the latest enterprise grade cloud security and encryption solutions. Plus, 40% said that new regulations and compliance policies were acting as a catalyst for decision making and modernization projects.
But at the same time, substantial numbers of respondents considered digital security concerns (43%) and regulation and compliance requirements (45%) as the leading barriers to pursuing IT modernization. Similarly, nearly a quarter (22%) of participants noted that compliance concerns inhibited their companies from working with third party vendors, thus stifling access to potential innovations offered by category experts and consultants.
Do survey participants see a way to overcome these challenges and barriers? Absolutely. Almost half (49%) said that platforms featuring integrated, automated regulatory compliance controls designed for their specific industries would help accelerate innovation the most. That underscores responses of the 88% who said that their organizations were either using or planning to use industry-specific cloud platforms.
While the value of industry-specific platforms and hybrid clouds were prominently underscored in the Censuswide survey results, they were not the only technologies that respondents valued. For example, almost half (46%) of participants in financial services plan to use artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics to speed modernization over the next five years. Plus, nearly as many (41%) are planning to expand their use of AI solutions to personalize and enhance customer service.
For these and other emerging offerings, robust hybrid multicloud platforms and industry-specific solutions will provide elemental foundations. As Howard Boville, SVP of IBM Cloud noted in the survey announcement, "Highly regulated industries are feeling pressure to transform with an ever-increasing rate and pace. But they must not move security, resiliency and compliance to the backburner on their mission to modernize. This is especially critical for financial services, telecommunications and government, where regulations are changing rapidly as exposure to cyberthreats have escalated to unprecedented levels."
Overall, IBM appears well-positioned to develop and deliver innovative solutions designed specifically for banks and financial services, as well as organizations in other highly regulated industries.
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In 2009, the Walt Disney Company revived their formerly extinct 2D animation department and made The Princess and the Frog. The stunningly rendered fairy-tale, directed by Disney stalwarts Ron Clements and John Musker, is a lavishly told, very funny and deeply moving story that deserves its place among the upper echelons of the studio's classic movies. While it garnered strong critical praise and was nominated for an Oscar, it signaled the end of an era. To this date, almost ten years on, Disney have yet to make another 2D animated feature film, even as their iconic studio enters a new era of cartoon acclaim. Lower than expected box office returns were blamed for the decision, although Princess Tiana still has pride of place in Disney's princess canon and remains popular with their growing audiences. For animation fans, it was a disappointing step for the company that has the greatest stranglehold on the medium in American cinema. However, at least it was a more dignified conclusion for 2D than the film that had preceded it.
It's been fifteen years since Home on the Range limped into theatres and put the nail in the coffin of Disney's hand-drawn animation studios. This story of three cows who decide to go on a quest to capture an infamous cattle farmer in hopes that the reward will save their small farm was viewed with cynicism upon release and derided as one of the studio's worst films. It was the inevitable ending to a slow decline the cartoon titans had experienced since the dawn of the new millennium, but that didn't make the final result sting any less. Directed by Will Finn and John Sanford, the 45th Disney animated feature film grossed around $14 million domestically in its opening weekend, landing in fourth place behind Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Walking Tall, and Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy. It was a moment of real indignity for a company used to being the cream of the crop, and a moment in recent entertainment history that feels curious in a world where Disney now seem to own or are on their way to owning everything.
The '90s were a moment of pure glory for Disney animation. After fighting off fears of bankruptcy and the major flop of The Black Cauldron threatening the closure of the animation department altogether, the studio was saved from doom thanks to The Little Mermaid. It made money, becoming the 9th highest grossing film of 1989, but the real success for Disney was in how the movie managed to out-gross their rival Don Bluth's latest title, All Dogs Go to Heaven. After splitting from Disney to make his own animated films with the help of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, Bluth had found success filling the hole left by Disney on the entertainment landscape, as the studio struggled to find an identity. The Black Cauldron, their attempt to make something a little darker and edgier, was such a notorious flop that it was beat at the box office by the bloody Care Bears. That's one of the reasons the success of The Little Mermaid proved so tantalizing: It brought them back to the forefront of audiences' minds as the animation giants and reinforced what they did well, mainly princesses and re-imaginings of classic stories.
The Disney Renaissance of this decade is defined by this mould of storytelling. They were always a studio known by their fairy-tales, their childlike wonder, their happy-ever-afters, but seldom had it been so refined until the boom of the '90s. They landed the first-ever Best Picture Oscar nomination for an animated film with Beauty and the Beast, and major critical and commercial hits followed. Princess movies were working out pretty good and so was that hero's journey formula, modulated to fit unexpected source material like Victor Hugo and the pantheon of Greek gods. When a formula works, you stick to it, and nobody did that better than Disney, especially when said formula was crucial to them strengthening their watertight corporate branding. However, a Renaissance cannot last forever, and refusing to evolve with the times was what did Disney in the first time around, so change that formula did. And their first effort was a success.
Tarzan is widely considered to be the end of the '90s Renaissance. The 1999 film wasn't a musical, although it did prominently feature music by Phil Collins, and its story deviated from the narratives of films that preceded it. The villain was far less prominent in this story, which was an intriguing development given how the baddies are as big an icon of Disney as their princesses. Tarzan is a weird Disney film: It's visually astounding and, similarly to The Hunchback of Notre Dame, represents a major step forward in terms of dealing with more adult themes and narratives, but it's also straining to be more family-friendly with the tired talking animal tropes and strained slapstick. Still, it became the studio's biggest financial hit since The Lion King, so on with the post-Renaissance vision they went.
Watching Home on the Range now, especially after you've seen all the middling efforts that preceded it, is a weird experience that's also kind of sad. It's one of those movies you can't help but be confused about. It doesn't seem to have a target demographic in mind and, despite some pretty visuals and a couple of fun songs, feels like it was made by people who didn't care all that much about the end product. The project was originally conceived in the mid-'90s during the Renaissance, with the story focusing on a cowboy who has to deal with an undead cattle rustler in a ghost town. When that idea was scrapped, the story was changed in hopes of retaining all the hard work already done in pre-production, but it faced story problems for years. You can sense the discord in the finished product, which tries to tell a traditional Disney story of friendship and earnestness but is forced to throw in wise-cracking one-liners for Roseanne Barr to spew. Even at 76 minutes long, the film feels overstretched. Moments that would otherwise sing in other Disney films fall flat, like the moment when it's revealed that the bad guy's talent is yodeling (and the whole scene evolves into a much less interesting version of Pink Elephants on Parade). The only moments where it truly comes to life are when Alan Menken calls in Bonnie Raitt and kd lang to sing, but the songs themselves bring nothing to the narrative.
Home on the Range cost $110 million to make and grossed around $104 million worldwide, signaling the end of an era. It's not a film Disney are keen to memorialize in any way and it's experienced none of the nostalgic revival that titles like Treasure Planet have. You won't find any reference to it in any of their many theme parks. Nowadays, it's a curiosity at best and an oopsie at worst. In the age of Disney's seeming invincibility, their animation department is back on top, winning Oscars and, with Pixar's might, dominating the market in ways only Minions can keep up with. Still, they have only returned to 2D animation once since The Princess and the Frog for various scenes in Mary Poppins Returns. The studio that seemingly has the money, the clout and the fervent fan support to create whatever they want have abandoned the thing that made them in the first place. 2D animated film doesn't really exist in Hollywood anymore. The medium may have ended up getting a somewhat more dignified conclusion than Home on the Range would have presented, but it's still a waste that it had to end at all.


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A350-900 lands in Chile for FIDAE Air Show
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World's most modern airliner on static and flying display during Latin America's iconic air show
The A350-900 flight test aircraft arrived in Santiago's Arturo Merino Benitez Airport for the 20th edition of the FIDAE Air Show, where it will be on static display and take part in flying demonstrations between 2-5 April.
The A350-900 displayed in Santiago, MSN002, first made its debut at FIDAE in 2016. MSN002 is one of the five original development test aircraft, fitted with a two-class cabin with 42 lie-flat, business-class seats in a four-abreast configuration and 210 economy-class seats in a nine-abreast configuration. This aircraft was especially used for testing all cabin related systems which then demonstrated high level of maturity since its entry into service in 2015.
The A350-900 is a member of the A350 XWB Family, an all-new family of mid-size wide-body long-haul airliners shaping the future of air travel. Since its launch, Airbus has captured nearly 50 percent market share of net orders of widebody aircraft in Latin America.
In 2016 LATAM Airlines Group became the first operator of the Americas to fly the A350 XWB when it started operating its first of 27 on order. Other A350 XWB customers in the region include Synergy Aerospace, Avianca's main shareholder and owner of Avianca Brasil, which has ordered 10 A350 XWB.
The A350 XWB features the latest aerodynamic design, carbon fiber fuselage and wings, plus new fuel-efficient Rolls-Royce engines. Together, these latest technologies translate into unrivalled levels of operational efficiency, with a 25 per cent reduction in fuel burn and emissions, and significantly lower maintenance costs. More than 26 million passengers have already enjoyed the absolute comfort of the A350 XWB Airspace cabin which, on top of the aircraft spaciousness and quietness, provides better ambience, design and services.
Currently operated by 17 airlines, the A350 XWB has flown more than 100,000 flight cycles over more than 200 routes.
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Deer's symbolize softness and gentleness and a huge storage of quite inner strength. That is why deer's have been a prominent fixture in art and literature for ages now. These gentle creatures effectively inspire us to be soft, gentle and kind to our fellow beings and it is for this reason that deer's have found a place of pride in tattoo art. These top ten deer tattoo designs are sure to inspire you enough to start searching for the tattoo expert nearest to you.
This deer tattoo in the form of a deer skull has a definite gothic edge to it. Make a note of the use of psychedelic colors that are merged together like a perfect collage. Perfect for the upper or lower back, this deer skull tattoo is best replicated as it is depicted here.
This deer tattoo is almost like a piece of jewelry for your upper arms. Look closely and see the regal looking deer that is accentuated by the embellishments around it. The little sparrow at the bottom only adds to the overall beauty of this piece of art.
This tribute deer tattoo stands out for its brilliant use of shading that gives it a realistic look that would be a hard job to replicate. Make a note of the shading used to give the deer its furry coat and brilliant details of the foliage in the background. This is indeed a fitting tribute for someone whose memories you cherish deeply.
Another deer skull tattoo with a definite gothic edge, this deer skull tattoo is created using black as the only primary color and stands out for its outlining and shading that is apparently the work of a true artist.
This ornate deer tattoo has a definite feminine twist to it that perfectly adds to a woman's persona. Make a note of the ornate design surrounding the tattoo, the kettle and the cup, the little bunny and the sparrow. Truly the art of a master, this tattoo stands out for execution and brilliant use of color.
This tattoo depicting a doe or a little deer is noteworthy for its delicate use of shading and miniature size. If you are looking for a deer tattoo design that is subtle yet enthralling here's the perfect design for you to look out for.
Deer's have always held a special place in tribal art and this deer tattoo is an effective example of that. This tattoo stands out for its use of bold black lines and is best replicated as it is depicted here. Make a note of the impressive antlers that cover the whole neck and effectively giving off the impression of a unique ornament.
This tattoo has a definite feminine angle to it and stands out for its perfect execution and charming conceptualization. However, there is room to experiment with color or size here provided you seek out the services of a seasoned tattoo artist to replicate this piece of art.
This vibrantly colored deer tattoo has a tragic twist to it with the arrows sticking in to the deer's neck. However, this does serve as a message against illegal hunting of exotic animals. Make a note of the realistic shade of fawn used to color the deer and the dark expressive eyes that effectively depict deep pain.
This deer tattoo stands out for its use of floral collage work that is best suited for the female gender. Look out for the vibrant shades of orange and green used to create this masterpiece.
Hope this article on top ten deer tattoos was interesting enough. Do send your feedback on which one is your pick.
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Pustak Mahal Publishers is a family-owned company incorporated in 1974. , Ram Avatar Gupta is the Chairman of the company. With headquarters at New Delhi, it has branches at Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Patna. It publishes mainly low cost paperback editions on subjects like English learning courses, dictionaries, astrology, palmistry, numerology, beauty care, self-improvement books, books for children, cooking guides, Hindu Mythology, text books etc. and participates in Books fairs arranged in cities like Prayagraj, Visakhapatnam, Beijing  etc. Pustak Mahal joined other Indian publishers to protest against scanning and uploading of books by Google under the provisions of Google Book Settlement and filed objections with a New York court during  2010.

Guide to English Language
Pustakal Mahal's publication "Rapidex English Speaking Course" was much sought after  by common man of India, who wanted to learn basic English speaking. First printed in 1976 with 3,000 copies, it ran several into reprints and became popular with Indians such as Bank employees, house wives, students trying to learn English, which has become link language of India after its independence.

Indian cricketer Kapil Dev had endorsed the "Rapidex English Speaking Course" in the 1980s.His rustic accent endeared him to Indians who didn't speak the language and wanted to learn it to get ahead in life. His faith in Rapidex showed them the way. Years later, the cricketer said: "My interest at that stage was not promoting or learning English, But I realised that it inspired many like me to learn a new language."

World Famous Series
Pustak Mahal published a series of titles under the "World Famous" series, covering a spectrum of topics of general interest and curiosity. Some of the noteworthy mentions are World Famous Discoveries, World Famous Unsolved Mysteries, World Famous Adventures, World Famous Ghost Stories, World Famous Scientists, World Famous Escapades, World Famous Treasures, World Famous Supernatural Mysteries. During 1990's around 48 titles under the series were in print in English and Hindi. Subsequently some of the titles were withdrawn while some were reprinted.

Imprints
Pustak Mahal has two imprints.
Cedar Books is dedicated to publishing fiction and majority of the authors of Cedar Books are from India. Hindoology Books is another imprint of the company which publishes books on Hindu Mythology, prayer systems and mythology for children.

Kindle books

The company is one of the first publishers in India to digitalize its publications and more than 300 of titles are in the form of Kindle books.

References

External links
 Pustak Mahal official site

 Companies based in New Delhi
 Book publishing companies of India
 Publishing companies established in 1974

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The junction of the Nottingham Canal with the Cromford Canal at Langley Bridge. The houses on the left are long gone, but the canal toll-office on the right and the house on the right still remain. Although the Nottingham and Cromford Canals are no longer in use, the Langley Mill basin still attracts many visitors along the Erewash Canal. The public house at the side of the basin, the Great Northern, was, before the coming of the railways, called the Junction Navigation.
Almost 12 miles away from Langley Mill, Trent Lock, near Long Eaton, is the start of the Erewash Canal. This postcard is dated 1906, but many of the buildings appear the same today. The Erewash Canal, completed in 1779, was joined along its length by several other canals: not only the Cromford (1794), and the Nottingham (1796), but also the Nutbrook (1795) and the Derby (1796). The Erewash Canal was bought up by the Midland Railway Company fairly early on (as was common practice for the early railways, so that they controlled their opposition), but it remained in use for longer than any of the others in our area - it was bought by the Grand Union in 1932 and was still in use after the war. The last commercial narrow boat unloaded for the final time in 1952, and the northern part of the canal was formally closed in 1962. That, however, was not the end of the story.... In 1973, following the tireless efforts of the Erewash Canal Preservation Association, the canal re-opened, and it gained full "cruising waterway" standard in 1983.
Just as the Erewash Canal was re-opened and preserved, so now too there is a major campaign to re-open the 14 miles of canal between Langley Mill and Cromford. This will be a mammoth task, as part of the old canal route has been opencast, the Butterley tunnel has been out of use for a century, and there are now demolished aqueducts to be rebuilt. The campaign goes on, though, and the Friends of the Cromford Canal are fighting hard for this route to be developed.
Coal being loaded onto a barge at Beggarlee Wharf, on the Cromford Canal, in the 1930s.
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Q: How to hide empty UITableViewCells showing in UITableView with plain style - IOS? UItableView is showing with empty rows like below...

how to hide it without changing the tableview style. Do I need to resize the table View, if so how can I know the height exactly to set.

A: self.tableView.tableFooterView = [[UIView alloc] init];

A: you add UIview in footer of uitabeview use of  xib or tableview delegate method
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A: What I had done in one of my projects was to set the tableview's background color to clearColor and separator to none.

A: Just drag and drop a view from object library to the TableView empty shell in storyboard. Make the view as footer of the table view (in document outline drag it below the cell's if it is not already at below) make the height of the view '0'. You will not see the view in storyboard because its height is '0' but when its runs it will hide the cells. I think that should work.

A: Why don't you put some logic into your
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Just return the number of cells which are really filled with data

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AFL 'gets it right' with eight-week punch verdict
Sport AFL AFL 'gets it right' with eight-week punch verdict
10:16pm, Aug 7, 2018 Updated: 10:05am, Jan 13
Andrew Gaff says the past 48 hours were the "toughest of his life" after copping an eight-week ban. Photo: AAP
Rohan Connolly
The AFL is having trouble pleasing anyone these days, and there's sure to be enough people unhappy again with the eight-game suspension meted out to West Coast star Andrew Gaff for breaking the jaw of Fremantle opponent Andrew Brayshaw.
But the rulings of the AFL's judiciary arm are probably the most hotly contested of all the league's decision-making processes. And I think this is one the tribunal got right.
Eight games ends Gaff's season, and any hope of being part of a 2018 West Coast premiership team. It might be the push that tips the Eagles' flag hopes over the edge, too. Tough calls on both player and club.
Anything less than a seven-game penalty could have potentially had Gaff back this season were the Eagles to lose a home final first-up and recover to reach the premiership playoff.
And that plainly would have caused a major outcry given Brayshaw will not only be missing the rest of the Dockers' season but eating through a straw for several weeks.
The heavier penalties being called for from various quarters – ranging anywhere from 12 games to an entire year – I believe, would have been too harsh on a player clearly shattered by his own actions.
Such a lengthy ban would also cause damage to the very promising young footballer Gaff was too only a few years ago.
As it is, Gaff will have to cool his heels for the early going in 2019 as well, anything up to a month if West Coast ends up making an early exit from the finals.
Fremantle's Andrew Brayshaw is helped from the field after the punch. Photo: AFL Media/Getty
Gaff, as far from the definition of a football thug as is humanly possible, was clearly genuine in his remorse, from shortly after the end of Sunday's game, when he sought permission from his club to make a public, televised apology, through Tuesday night's tribunal hearing, and again publicly immediately afterwards.
Should that be a mitigating factor? I think so, given his unblemished record and until now scrupulously fair playing reputation. As for the remorse, well, I can't think of another occasion when I've seen a player on the interchange bench in tears at what he'd done to an opponent.
"So what?" many will respond. But if the courts are prepared to take character evidence into account when it comes to sentencing, why shouldn't a football tribunal?
Some historical context is also important. Gaff's eight-game suspension is the heaviest applied by the AFL tribunal to any single incident since Fremantle's Dean Solomon also was rubbed out for eight games in 2008 for striking Geelong's Cameron Ling.
It's one game more even than Barry Hall received the same season for his infamous KO of West Coast's Brent Staker. And while Fremantle coach Ross Lyon drew upon that very example last Sunday night, does anyone seriously believe Gaff had the same degree of malicious intent as Hall did that evening?
Of course community standards have changed even since then. The "one punch can kill" campaigns and repeated tragic stories about the victims of those punches on the street have clearly had a profound impact on society's tolerance of violence of any sort, which is welcome.
The enormity of his actions hits Andrew Gaff on the bench on Sunday. Photo: Getty
But the drawing of direct parallels between violence on the street and in an AFL game never sits comfortably with me. They are completely different environments, the latter one of expected and usually warranted physical contact and at least a degree of constant aggression.
The Gaff report and suspension has predictably also reignited debate about the introduction of a "send-off" rule. That is another whole Pandora's box waiting to be opened, with as many potential problems as justifications for its institution.
It's a debate we probably need to have, too, given how dramatically attitudes to the use of physical force on the football field have changed.
But Gaff doesn't deserve to be the "poster boy" for an example of football thuggery. He's not one, and no one who knows him or has ever seen him play for more than five minutes would dare suggest he is.
He's just received the heaviest penalty AFL football has dished out to a reported player for 10 years. It has ended what had been a brilliant individual season, ruined his dreams of being part of a premiership side, and will inevitably be part of his CV for the rest of his career. That's probably enough punishment, isn't it?
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Q: What is best practice design for internal traffic between microservices? I have two PHP written microservices A & B. Endpoints are a.example.com and b.example.com. Both services need to be public accessible. In addition, service B makes a lot of curl requests to a.example.com while processing.
Both services are running on same AWS VPC (within same private network). I also have an external CDN (eg, Akamai) for each endpoints.
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*Complexity of maintaining two a. and a-internal. endpoints

Question, Are these correct designs for microservices inter-connections? If not, what's the common design for microservices inter-connections?
Bonus question, is split DNS (eg, AWS Route 53 private zone) a good use case if I want to maintain the single endpoint a.example.com instead of two (a. & a-internal.).


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Q: PHP for loop generating the radio buttons and I want just one selected from those buttons I have this for loop and I want just one radio button to be selected from all of this 99.
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I can select multiple radio buttons, but I want to enable user to select just one of them.
Could anyone help me with this ? Could I do this using radio buttons or I need to use something else ? Checkboxes ? Could I do this without using javascript or I have to use it ?
Newbie in frontEnd stuff.

A: add name of the radio button to group these button
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Küllike Jürimäeová (* 1962) je estonská právnička a soudkyně Soudního dvora Evropské unie.

Mládí a vzdělání
V roce 1981 se Jürimäeová zapsala na právnickou školu na Tartuské univerzitě, kde v roce 1986 promovala.

Kariéra
Po ukončení univerzity vstoupila Jürimäeová do veřejné správy. V letech 1986 až 1991 byla asistentkou státního zástupce v Tallinnu. Od roku 1991 navázala na studium na estonské diplomatické škole, odkud získala diplom v roce 1992. Kromě toho byla od roku 1991 právním poradcem a generálním poradcem od roku 1992, a to jak v obchodní, tak průmyslové estonské komoře. V roce 1993 se stala soudkyní odvolacího soudu v Talinnu. Funkci zastávala do roku 2004. V letech 2002 až 2003 navázala na studium na Padovské a Nottinghamské univerzitě a promovala s evropským magisterským titulem v oblasti demokratizace a lidských práv.

Dne 12. května 2004 se Jürimäeová stala soudkyní Tribunálu Evropské unie. Dne 23. října 2013 odstoupila. Dne 1. dubna 2015 byla jedním ze šesti nově jmenovaných soudců Evropského soudního dvora v Lucemburku na šestileté funkční období začínající 7. října 2015. V roce 2021 byla znovu jmenována na další funkční období do roku 2027.

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