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Adobe DITAWORLD 2019 – Day 1 Summary by Danielle M. Villegas
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tl;dr The first day of Adobe DITAWORLD 2019 started with the Welcome Note from Michael Fritz, managing director of tekom, the world's biggest association for technical communication drawing our attention to iiRDS and Intelligent Information. Cruce Saunders, CEO of [A], delivered an inspiring keynote about the next generation of Intelligent Customer Experiences, and Divraj Singh from Adobe talked about how to make content channel-agnostic, search friendly and highly relevant for your end-users. Andreas Wolf, Head of Technical Documentation at HOMAG, presented together with Markus Wiedenmaier from c-rex.et on how they integrated HOMAG's Machinery Documentation into SAP workflows with Adobe FrameMaker and DITA. Matthew Christoforo from MSXI and Bernard Aschwanden from Publishing Smarter took us on a journey about how and why global automotive manufacturer MSX International migrated to DITA. Ulrike Parson, CEO at parson AG, took up on Michael Fritz' Welcome Note and dived deeper into why DITA and iiRDS area perfect fit and will become the information backbone of Industry 4.0 and IoT. How the FDA (U.S. Food & Drug Administration) moved from Word to FrameMaker and DITA was the topic of Tom Aldous' presentation. The first conference day closed with the Keynote from Michael Priestley from IBM and with a wake-up call: Why you need to break down content silos and coordinate content across every department.
Greetings to all! I'm Danielle M. Villegas, the "resident blogger" at Adobe DITAWORLD 2019. The first day of this year's DITAWORLD kicked off! It started with the well-known theme music, and the bright welcomes of our expert hosts, Stefan Gentz, Adobe's Senior Worldwide Evangelist, and Matt Sullivan, CEO of TechCommTools. In this blog post, I will sum up the presentations of Day 1 of the conference. We kicked off this year's DITAWORLD with several information-packed talks. Let's review the day's events.
[Welcome Note] Fritz (tekom): Intelligent Information for an Intelligent World
[Keynote] Saunders ([A]): The Next Generation of Intelligent Customer Experiences
Singh (Adobe): This is not content. This is an experience.
Wolf (Homag), Wiedenmaier (c-rex): Connecting Technical Documentation with SAP
Cristoforo (MSXI), Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter): Driven To DITA: A Case Study
Parson (parson AG): From DITA to iiRDS
Aldous (The Content Era): Cooking with Gas – How the FDA moved from Word to FrameMaker and DITA"
[Keynote] Priestley (IBM): Put your Customers First!
Intelligent Content for an Intelligent World
Dr. Michael Fritz, Managing Director at tekom, started the day off, introducing the audience to tekom, a European organization with about 9,500 technical communication professionals. Tekom supports many activities, but mostly focuses on education and training, promoting technical communication job profiles, especially in Europe, and lobby the EU on tech comm issues.
Also, tekom promotes international and national standardizations for technical writing and tries to have an influence on how that works. Part of that includes the eDoc standard and the iiRDS standard (the latter which can be found at https://iirds.org/).
Tekom's goal is to promote the business case for Intelligent Information. According to Dr. Michael Fritz, tech products are highly developed, but the product performance ROI often is low, yet information performance ROI is generally higher.
Dr. Fritz wanted to speak particularly about iiRDS, which is a new open-source standard for "intelligent information request and delivery." It was developed by tekom between 2016–2018 and can be used in commercial settings, so it's open to all companies for free! They are working on making it an ISO/IEC standard right now.
The idea behind iiRDS is that when information needs to be accessed, an XML request would be sent to the cloud. The results would be sent back in iiRDS format to see it in a standardized way. This is a standard that's intended to prepare for use with Industry 4.0. Fewer R&D efforts would be needed because all companies can use the iiRDS ontology for free.
We'll be learning more about iiRDS from some of the other presentations from today, but this is where Dr. Fritz's talk ended.
If you are interested in becoming a member of the iiRDS Consortium, you can find more information here: https://iirds.org/iirds-consortium/
The Next Generation of Intelligent Customer Experiences
Are you ready to take off into a new orbit of opportunity?
When Cruce Saunders, CEO at [A] speaks, he has a calming, soothing way of explaining how Intelligent Content works and weaves a narrative that is compelling as you listen to it. Today's talk weaved in a nautical theme to creating Intelligent Content. According to Cruce, we are all creators and communicators of customer experiences. We need to create more content, which is an ocean of opportunity in a complex environment! To do so, we need to be adaptable like an octopus!
Customer usage of information flows with the current, along the path of least resistance. Customers will always follow the path of least resistance, so content needs to provide fluid experiences that live and breathe in fluid content across channels.
Smart businesses are always tapped into where the customer will go for minimal effort. For example, Blockbuster video stores didn't initially have Netflix on their radar. But now Blockbuster is nonexistent, and now Netflix is dominant. Why? Netflix removed the obstacles so that customers could remove friction points. With Netflix, customers didn't need to go to a store, not having enough choices, time choosing, driving home, then watching, and then returning video. While initially, Netflix mailed movie rentals to you, it's even faster to provide those services now digitally. Netflix took that mailing friction point out eventually, too! We all want less friction!
The Customer Journey is the Customer Experience, and content is at each step along the journey. Customer experiences are getting smarter, as smart companies and adaptive organizations are starting with the power of strategy, engineering, and operations to bring it to life.
Another example provided is Disney, as it's driven by omnichannel and omnisensory content experiences. In fact, they've been doing it since the 1950s! (Cruce showed a diagram for Disneyland from that time!)
Smart organizations realize that content is part of the Customer Experience. They look at content as the core business driver for the future of their organization. They understand that customer experience drives business. We can't put customers through hunting and pecking to find what they need. It has to be done in a conversational way.
Cruce quoted David Bowie speaking about web content in 1999, saying, "It's going to crush our ideas of what mediums are all about … The gray space in the middle is what the 21st century is going to be all about."
We need context for the customers and understand their intent. Modular Content is essential in Customer Experience as it completes the trifecta of customer, content, and context—creating an exceptional customer experience. It's all about relevance.
It's a mess everywhere—some of the biggest, smartest organizations on the planet are facing huge problems. Those who see the scalability of advancing ahead get ahead. The problem is that customers buy and experience horizontally in any order they want, but we create content vertically. Enterprise publishing and brand publishers face massive technical debt. A cluttered IT landscape and disconnected content silos make it hard to create new experiences.
Intelligent Customer Experience (ICX) asks us to evolve people, processes, and technology to move from one-off page design to the assembly of fluid experience using fluid content. We need a middle path—a master content model that will watch customer movement, listen to customers, and guide us in gathering and understanding customer intent.
ICX uniquely assembles interactions between an organization and a customer in which the content RESPONDS to the customer's specific context. In this way, ICX is:
Channel agnostic—It facilitates customer journeys across more channels, devices, and platforms while decreasing per channel production costs
Contextual—It targets structured content to a customer's changing needs and context, and anticipates needs and recommend solutions
Fluid—It assembles unique experiences by moving beyond page-based thinking and towards modular content as a service, flowing intelligent content into many views and containers
Automated—It personalizes at scale, streamlining content production and publishing while adapting for an uncertain future
Conversational—It listens to customer intents and delivers relevant content responses with real-time semantic matching, reducing friction, and building loyalty.
The Master Content Model® (MCM) promoted by [A] provides a representation of content that can be mapped to the different representations across the content lifecycle, entirely from end to end. The significant shift will happen when the content assets are valued as intangible intellectual property on the corporate balance sheet. It will happen when C-suite executives understand the value of content assets as a significant strategic drive of market value.
The Five Steps in Realizing ICX:
Start with a vision for ICX. Get customer experience stakeholders together, build a vision, and know the goal.
Understand the content ecosystem. Map the content process today and where it needs to go. Assess talent, bandwidth, and capabilities and know the content.
Build content orchestration by building a content model. Develop structural and semantic standards and share them.
Upgrade and align content technology. Integrate tech platforms and content templates to use standards. Map context data to structured content using shared tags. This is a process that doesn't happen overnight!
Update organization and operations. Build new patterns around content development and management to support the creation and use of content fragments.
We need to invest in more than technology—we need to invest in the people and process. Creators who build the future of CX have the power to make the world more beautiful, humane, and inclusive!
Intelligent CX can be:
Cruce closed by letting the audience know that if you want to learn more about the Master Content Model, you can start at simplea.com/academy. If you want to learn how to adopt an octopus consciousness, he recommended the book, Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery.
This is not content. This is an experience.
How to make content channel-agnostic, search friendly and highly relevant for your end-users
What does content mean? Divraj Singh, Senior Solutions Consultant at Adobe says: Content is the essence of expression.
We've traveled on a journey as content has evolved, from:
Page-based to component-based to modular
Static to dynamic to personalized
Hosted (restricted access) to syndicated (delegated) to content-as-a-service (CaaS)
Unstructured to structured
Single-channel to multi-channel
IT-managed to business-operations-managed to easily-managed
Content Maturity is based on the progression of content that is:
Basic—Authored with focus on a single website
Tactical—Meeting line of business needs by providing mechanisms to manage and reuse content,
Enterprise-level—Consolidating web initiatives and offering content across the enterprise (such as CaaS),
Engaged—Providing a framework for marketing, e-business, and operations to use online channels to achieve business goals that are structured and context-aware.
Factors that affect great content experiences are when content is:
Findable
Socially enabled
Currently, content is either created as structured authoring or as CaaS. If you bring the best of both those methods together, you get the best situation for content modeling. We need a central repository for both.
The optimal, one-stop solution is:
combining a hybrid CCMS for its efficiency, ease of use of over a traditional CMS,
flexibility, and scalability of a headless framework,
the power of DITA due to its structured authoring, multiformat delivery, and metadata at a granular level.
The result is single-source, search, distribution, and context-aware outputs through the best of both hybrid CMS and DITA for a combined advantage with analytics integration.
Divraj showed how this all integrated into Adobe Experience Manager during a live demo. He showed how reference files can be used, how tasks can be assigned to topics, then concept files, each with different topic types, content classification with conditional attributes, and content tagging. He was able to show search results based on metadata, and contextual content could become intelligent and more accessible than APIs, provide personalized content delivery that could be user profile-based and platform-based, and provide consistent content delivery across platforms.
Connecting Worlds
How HOMAG integrated Machinery Documentation into SAP Workflows with Adobe FrameMaker and DITA
HOMAG is the largest global manufacturer of woodworking machines used for both big industry and small shops. The company needed to get documentation in many languages that would be easily accessible for findability. Their objective was also to be able to provide appropriate output on the machines themselves.
Andreas Wolf, Head of Technical Documentation at HOMAG Group, explained that the situation HOMAG dealt with was complicated. They created their documentation in Microsoft Word and translated it into up to 33 languages. The Word documents for the components were stored in a file system and organized by numbering systems. The translation of Word docs was time-consuming and laborious. The effort for administering documents was very high, as each site has its own local storage space. Half a million Word documents were available and needed migration.
For the publishing process, they had a solution to generate documentation for completed machines from individual documents automatically. PDFs were mapped to parts list items of different components of a machine. The machine would configure the composition of the document. In context, any document content would be used by the machine as help text, warnings, or maintenance instructions directly in the machine control for users to interface with. There were about 20 document types to deal with that, in turn, had to be translated into 33 languages, mostly in Word, and published as PDFs for digital and print.
HOMAG's main issues were that they had to maintain the publishing process as-is. The translation had to be simplified and optimized, and there needed to be an integration of external translators in the workflow, and documents required versioning.
Why SAP? The structure of their machines was mapped entirely in SAP and integrated well with the machines' SAP Document Management System.
Why DITA? It's a global standard, media neutral, topic-oriented documentation method. It optimally works with third-party data exchanges, is flexibly open for future scalability, and it's easy to integrate content provider information. This would allow maintenance and machines to be connected. Both types of work and interval are described in the documentation and can be transferred to machine control as XML, where the information is processed in the machine controller.
To create the right system and environment, Markus Wiedenmaier, CEO of c-rex.net, came in and helped set up component-oriented documentation, which was the key to success. The components make up part of the component hierarchy. The top component is the machine, the machine is connected to order, then the documents are mapped to another component. All the documents are one "Macro-Topic," and the "Macro-Topic" is managed in SAP. Markus's advice: Don't try to manage single DITA topics in SAP!
Integration was about the big picture. The process is straightforward from a CMS perspective. You check out SAP information into Adobe FrameMaker (using a custom plug-in), edit the document in FrameMaker, and finally check in the document again to SAP. The document would be saved back to SAP and released for further usage. This also made translation work on XLIFF files with SAP more manageable, as the data could be converted into SAP, and the process can be checked out to FrameMaker the same way. So, if a new order comes in for a machine, there's a built-in composer that knows how to pull all the needed components for that specific machine and published instantly to the machine.
C-Rex created a plug-in called HOMAG DITA eXchange Package (HDXP), which is a zip file to make the conversions to several formats. This was customized to reduce complexity. Its purpose was to keep it simple! They added special semantics for technical data, utilities, step groups, etc. Topic types were specialized, such as enhanced concepts with software domain, preview images to integrate into software, resource ID, distinguish dialog, and parameter descriptions. It allowed outputs to be published to PDF and context-sensitive QT help as well as PDF slides, Slides with notes to PDFs, handouts, and HTML5 slides. Markus demonstrated how it looks in the HTML5 slides output.
The way the documentation connected to the machine was that on the screen of a machine, it would display the output of the documentation to show maintenance messages. Originally written as a machinery task in Word formatted in a way to show the component of the machine, the chapter title, comments for authors, machine-control information which includes the name of the task, and the maintenance tasks trigger code that goes to the compiler interface so that the machine knows what it needs to do based on the XML file.
The next steps for HOMAG include the integration of feedback from users, services, and machines into the documentation. They are working on live connections from the machine to the documentation to be available on mobile devices. Topics are linked dynamically via metadata, such as machinery events, to solutions. They also are working on an "Intelli Advice System." A service that will be sold to clients to allow them to get information about various events for the machines to the cloud and can alert the client before the machine breaks down.
Driven to DITA: A Case Study
How and why Global Automotive Manufacturer MSX International Migrated to DITA
Matthew Christoforo, Account Director at MSXI and Bernard Aschwanden, CEO of Publishing Smarter, were tasked with helping one of the "Big Three" automotive manufacturers move to a structured solution. The client was working with the various user manuals that come with the vehicles they manufactured, which included some federally mandated information. It had to be global for translation and distribution, and the client needed a secure CMS and authoring system as they had to author content regarding vehicle safety and features.
The client was impacted mostly by the collaborative review process and publishing composition. They had specific yet undefined requirements that had to scope on multiple users and reviewers. They also needed to publish with complex layouts and multichannel output with reduced staff with conditional content upon publish.
The project centered around the Owner's Information Program, which published just about any output that could help a customer see how to use and understand your car, such as owner manuals, user guides, Quick Reference Guides, etc. They had to deal with 31 vehicle lines, 15 publications, 13 markets, 28 languages—hundreds of possible, and subject to approval on a market-by-market basis. In context, they produced 197 unique US publications annually alone, plus 121 unique international publications annually.
The main issues and concerns were that they couldn't come up with a "one size fits all" solution. But with the right vendor and enterprise-level planning, they found the help they needed with Adobe, and Publishing Smarter.
The business concerns were that there was no authoring/review/publishing system in place. Challenges were multiple program scope changes, undefined publication styles, demanding review system requirements, onboarding timing, the need for matched quality. And MSXI had only 6 months to pull this all together!
The concerns focused on data migration, DITA transformation, capturing publication styles and specifications, identifying author tools to create/preview/publish DITA, automating publishing and composition, being able to publish quickly and be server-based, have translation and multilingual capabilities, and work within time and budget constraints.
MSXI decided to use Adobe Adobe FrameMaker in combination with XML Documentation for Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe FrameMaker Publishing Server. Adobe FrameMaker is ideal as a full-featured XML/DITA authoring tool.
You can see the content structure and have a full WYSIWYG experience.
The rendering of DITA XML while authoring, is precisely what you will get when publishing to PDF. FrameMaker also allows authors to preview conditional content, review a preview of markets and measurement (think miles versus kilometers), and a thorough review process. Authors and reviewers can see the layout, all content in context, and use the same templates with a mix of the content of TOC, Text, Images, Tables, etc.
Quality was achieved as reviewers could see all content in context, publishing used the same template and rich mix of content. They worked with undefined publication styles and matched quality by creating a style guide that worked with what they had, and created a basic template within DITA. This yielded to automated templates once they were created. Even adding watermarks was simple when setting up properly!
As another part of the review process, if errors were found, it was consistent across outputs, so if changes were made, it worked across the board. The final part of the puzzle was creating templates and documenting the templating process.
Next steps: MSXI is looking to reduce overall page counts, address review system feedback, and address conditions utilizing a holistic approach. Publishing Smarter will be there to support them in those goals. Ultimately, the goal is to have MSXI be independent of Publishing Smarter, and have Publishing Smarter be solely supporting instead.
From DITA to iiRDS
Why DITA and iiRDS area perfect fit and will become the information backbone of Industry 4.0 and IoT
Content delivery and intelligent information are about delivering smart content that's safe, searchable, modular, linked, dynamic, contextual, variant-specific, and retrievable, especially for use with AR and VR. It's for right-here-right-now information, said Ulrike Parson, CEO at Parson AG in Germany.
Intelligent information is made up of content modules that can be reused for different target audiences and scenarios. The content is structured, format-neutral, and enriched with metadata, making it suitable for automatic processing and display on different devices—for people AND machines.
Content delivery is the delivery and the supply of comprehensive content assembled from different sources. We use this term as we don't say "publishing" anymore.
From multichannel to omnichannel content, all of it is coming from multiple sources, authored by different groups that get mixed on online platforms. Reuse and consistency are expected. Content must be findable and discoverable. The harmonization of formats and content models is required.
Omni-content and metadata are what the user sees. It's a puzzle that is built together from different pieces to create something comprehensive. The puzzle pieces need to have the same shape and content model so they can fit into each other. And they need metadata. There are three main puzzle pieces to fit together:
Harmonized content types
Consistent terminology
Common taxonomy (metadata)
This can be a challenge!
This is where standards help us. International standards facilitate the orchestration of content within and across organizations and are essential for the connectivity of technical components and the associated product information. In this way, DITA and iiRDS can work together in the industrial world.
Requirements can vary since we have to accommodate different scenarios. For example, if an error message displays on a machine, an administrator is notified of an error. The administrator wants information about how to fix the problem to put the system back into operation without losing data. Another example is information for maintenance. A service technician needs to find the necessary information required for the scheduled maintenance fast. Which tools and supplies are necessary for the scheduled maintenance? Technical documentation provides this information.
There are two primary components of iiRDS:
Package format for delivery—it's a structured zip file
Standardized metadata—a vocabulary for technical documentation which describes what the output is; the labels for the content with standard terminology
The metadata format is delivered as RDF (Resource Description Framework) XML.
The metadata provided in iiRDS includes the following:
I-class Information Unit types—representation of metadata for technical documentation content
P-class Product metadata—marketing info, product variance, component variances, uses
Administrative metadata Governance information—who owns the content and content originators
Functional metadata: Supports specific content delivery needed, like the output list for tools required for maintenance
Not all of it is mandatory, as it's dependent on the delivery format, but it's also useful for company-specific taxonomies.
iiRDS can be extended by company-specific metadata. DITA and iiRDS supplement each other. The general process of using both follow this process:
Author (author > classify) using a CMS and an authoring tool
Transform using an iiRDS generator, such as CMS or DITA plug-ins
Publication and use (import > use) by the iiRDS consumer, such as a content delivery portal or web app
Benefits of DITA + iiRDS include:
Established standards developed by experts
Open sources with active communities
Supplement each other
Together they cover the complete process from authoring to publication
Provide machine-readable formats and mechanisms for extension and specialization
As mentioned by Dr. Michael Fritz in his Welcome Note, iiRDS is an open-source standard with an industry consortium of 33 members. The Consortium includes working groups for technical tasks of developing the standard and coordinating with other standards groups like OASIS. They promote international standards, reference implementation, and tools. Check out iirds.org. New members are welcome!
Cooking with Gas
How the FDA (U.S. Food & Drug Administration) moved from Word to FrameMaker and DITA
This year's talk from Tom Aldous, CEO of The Content Era, appeared to be the sequel to his presentation at last year's DITAWORLD: "How the US General Services Administration (GSA) uses DITA and the flexibility of Adobe FrameMaker to deliver content faster."
The FDA's goals were simple enough. They needed to know how to make a move from Word to DITA, but they didn't know how to get started.
The FDA's business drivers:
Government-wide initiative to streamline tasks and improve process efficiency
Speed up the release of emergency regulatory content
Too many human touchpoints before change approval, slowing the release of Food Code (FC) content
Growing unstructured content becoming harder to manage under tight release schedules
Needed to be implemented in phases—never to miss a release
Government efficiency initiatives:
They recognized the need for automated practices that have historically lengthened content release schedules.
Needed to introduce standardization (DITA) to comply with future trends toward global document standards within the government,
Emergency release schedule issues:
Food Code versions of emergency and non-emergency content releases happen at different times.
The process was getting harder to manage in Word as content grew.
Supplemental sections of the Food Code are released to get vital content out sooner until the larger version is published.
Human intervention was an issue, too:
Approval of changes to regulatory content is a significant component of the government content lifecycle.
Needed to eliminate any accidental formatting changes—streamline the process.
Need to reduce the number of human touchpoints.
There were growing content and concerns:
The content was created and edited in Word.
Multiple style tags with duplicate formatting.
The process was prone to accidental deletions and errors from too many hands on the content.
With content growing, it was becoming hard to keep track of and maintain in an unstructured environment.
Everything was manually created.
It was "managed" in SharePoint.
There were limited ways to share the content downstream.
The Content Era's solution was rolled out in phases. Project Phase 1 included:
Conversions to DITA composite topics
Built conversion utilities within Adobe FrameMaker to convert each chapter and annex into its own topic/content.
Separations of code into chapter and annex topics.
Creation of a composite book of a DITAMAP and Adobe FrameMaker-generated navigation components (TOC, Index, etc.)
Saved the DITAMAP as an Adobe FrameMaker Composite book.
Creation of a customer FrameMaker template, EDD, and other specializations.
Customization of the attribute functionality to target user needs.
Preservation of the original food code formatting by mapping style tags for authoring continuity.
Training for users and administrators to use the new workflow
Trained in DITA concepts themselves; web-based training with labs to show the workflow and administrative training for workflow
The transition from adobe FrameMaker (2017 release) to Adobe FrameMaker (2019 release) went flawlessly—no transition issues.
Made a smaller alternative version by creating a secondary template; they only needed one or two people to manage the book in FrameMaker.
Tom then showed what the original document looked like in Word, and how it looks now in a Framemaker DITA conversion. Big improvement! It's now searchable, automated content, and adaptable.
Phase 2 plans for fuller implementation. The plan is to integrate this project into a fuller digital repository for all the federal regulatory codes.
In the end, it's really about being a business to market issue. You need to decide what the main drivers are, and move from there on items that you can implement in phases.
Tom relayed that there is a seven-part video series on the Content Era website on making the conversion from unstructured to structured content for anyone easy.
Put your Customers First!
Why you need to break down content silos and coordinate content across every department
Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, was one of the original pioneers and creators for DITA from way back with the first iterations while at IBM, and he's now in marketing analytics related to Information Architecture (IA).
Information Architecture reinforces and enables the DITA portability of content that ties together analytics, IA, and content engineering into a cohesive framework, each supporting the others.
Interest-driven, IA asks, "What do customers want?" The answer stems from search data and leads to content taxonomies and lists. "What objects should we organize around?" We should focus on primary objects that have a direct and persistent interest and secondary objects that have an indirect or transitory interest.
We should have primary pages with governed taxonomies that match values in taxonomies. This can vary depending on the perspectives on product objects. From there, we need to link secondary pages to primary pages and variants. This ties everything together in an object-oriented way to connect most of the content on our site.
Relationships follow metadata through links from topic pages to topic-specific pages in each category and back. Selective links between pages share a relationship with a common topic. Links tied to metadata are controlled by taxonomies—products, topics, audience, etc. To summarize, primary pages inject structure into the site.
Relationship-driven reuse follows the content relationship. Subjects and sources are shared across audiences and throughout the journey and across formats/channels/apps. This provides excellent reuse in the journey when classified and shows reuse opportunities.
Reuse follows organizational relationships by focusing on customers, metadata, and relationships. It also creates common priorities and common data.
Reuse breaks boundaries! Some barriers do exist, but using any connections where possible is good. LwDITA (Lightweight DITA) has changed things because it is closely aligned to Markdown and allows for more flexibility as a standard with both XML and DITA and allows for reuse.
Will it Work? It might. The steps would:
Bake rules into the tools
Report on conformance
Show effect on performance—quantifies the value
Provide ongoing governance
(You may have to repeat this process a few times.)
At a higher level, try to move from a vicious cycle to the virtuous cycle. Instead of bloating your website by adding competing and irrelevant content, consider fixing what's there before creating new. Collaborate, don't just innovate (What do customers want? Do we have it? Update, or create and relate. Did it work?)!
Put customer interests first—Deliver value through relationships.
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Jsaria writes about her transition to Tuskegee University and explains how she has secured multiple internships to supplement her education and college experience.
As winter break arrived, Jailen Young reflected on the transition from high school to Berea College, where he is now a sophomore. With his hope to attend college coming to fruition, he now seeks to help others reach their goals.
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Mental health support for families of veterans
Mental wellbeing is an important part of family life, as it can affect everyone in the household. Veterans in particular may experience mental health concerns, and partners, children, or other family members may find themselves in a changed environment.
It can be a difficult topic to speak about honestly, however there is support available for veterans and their family members. Alongside help from organisations like the NHS, there are behaviours that loved ones can look out for. With care and support, families can overcome the challenges associated with mental health.
How do I know if a member of my family needs mental health support?
Veterans experiencing mental health issues will often display common tell-tale signs. If you notice frequent examples of these behaviours, they may need support with their mental health:
ISOLATE themselves from family and friends.
RECLUSIVE - avoids noise, crowds or shopping.
QUIET and non-communicative.
HEAVY DRINKING and/or smoking.
AGGRESSIVE towards spouse.
ANGRY, irritable and bad tempered with children.
NIGHTMARES or insomnia.
WORKING excessively to avoid issues.
What should I do if I think my family member needs mental health support?
Although it may seem like a difficult situation, there are steps you can take to begin addressing the problem:
YOU'RE NOT ON YOUR OWN - help and support is available.
RECOGNISE THE SIGNS that your partner or family member may be suffering in silence.
TALK to your partner or family member.
GET HELP - don't be embarrassed to share your concerns or be worried about what others may think.
SPEAK to your GP for local help such as family therapy. You can also contact The Ripple Pond who support families directly and Combat Stress.
CONTACT Veterans' Gateway to get support from our specialist partners who can help safeguard you and your family and give you advice on how best to support your partner.
READ more detailed information on help available to spouses on Veterans' Gateway website.
What if families of veterans need mental health support?
Although veterans themselves may face many challenges associated with mental health, the mental health of everyone around them is just as important. If you, as a spouse, partner, child, or other family member feel that you need help, the first step is to recognise the problem.
There is support available, and organisations such as Combat Stress are working on initiatives to get help to the families of veterans through discreet channels such as skype discussions.
For help from our partners, see our guides below:
Mental health support for spouses and dependants in England
Mental health support for spouses and dependants in Wales
Mental health support for spouses and dependants in Scotland
Mental health support for spouses and dependants in Northern Ireland
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Graphical user interface (MATLAB) for plotting exported data (TIC and MS) from GCMS Postrun Analysis (Shimadzu)

EXPLANATION OF THE GUI

 1. USE OF THE APPLICATION

 The this tool can be used for plotting exported TIC or spectrum data from
 GCMS Postrun Analysis (GCMS Solution, Shimadzu)

 2. IMPORTANT HANDLING PRIOR TO LAUNCH GUI

 Make sure the .m and .fig can both be found by MATLAB. The GUI will
 not launch when the .fig file cannot be found. In case the file has
 not been found, the following error message will show up in the
 command window:

              Error using load
              Unable to read file 'TIC.fig'. No such file or
               directory.

 The .fig file can be found at: https://github.com/jorismeurs/TIC_MS_plot

 3. EXPORTING DATA FROM GCMS SOLUTION

 - TIC data
 Choose 'File' in the topbar menu and then click on 'Export data'. A new
 screen will appear. Select 'Output File' and specify the location where
 the file should be saved. !!! IMPORTANT: data should be saved as .txt!!!
 After, tick the 'Chromatogram (TIC/MIC)' box and select 'Tab' as
 delimiter. Finally, click on 'Ok'.

 - MS data
 Select in the chromatogram the data point(s) from which the mass spectrum
 has to be obtained. Next, right click on the mass spectrum and select
 'Mass table'. After, a screen will be appear with intensities at
 different m/z. To copy the data to clipboard, click on the right on the
 third button from above (Copy to Clipboard). Then, open an empty .txt file
 and paste the data. Finally, save the data on a desired location.

 4. INPUT ARGUMENTS

 - Plotting TIC data
 To plot the chromatogram, select in the top menu 'Total Ion Chromatogram (TIC)'.
 After, the following input arguments HAVE TO BE set: desired color of
 the plot and in case of peak detection specify a minimum peak height.
 Axis labels, graph title and axis limits are optional. To find the .txt
 file click on browse and find your file. Click on 'Load data' to generate
 a plot of the chromatogram. If you want to allow peak detection click 'Yes'
 in the pop-up messages, else click 'No'.

 - Plotting MS data
 To plot the chromatogram, select in the top menu 'Mass spectrum'.
 After, the following input arguments HAVE TO BE set: desired color of
 the plot. Axis labels, graph title and axis limits are optional. To find the .txt
 file click on browse and find your file. Click on 'Load data' to generate
 a plot of the mass spectrum.

 5. OUTPUT

 - TIC
 Loading the data will give a plot of the data from the .txt file. After a
 message will show if you want to save the plot. In case of peak detection
 a plot will be generated showing peaks and peak widths (FWHM). Further a
 table is generated in which data is shown in retention time, peak
 intensity and peak width (FWHM).

 - MS
 Loading the data will give a plot of the data from the .txt file. After a
 message will show if you want to save the plot.

 6. FURTHER INFORMATION

 For contact: j.meurs@student.vu.nl

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Austria to turn refugee reception centres into departure centres
By Emma R.	 1 March 2019 No Comments
There will no longer be initial reception centres for refugees in Austria, but there will be centers of departure. That's what Austrian Interior Minister Herbert Kickl of the national-conservative FPÖ said at a press conference.
According to the minister, the centres will be carefully checking the identities of people applying for asylum.
"We will study the trip routes of the newcomers and, of course, predict the potential threat from them, cooperating with the police and, when necessary, with experts from the regional and federal agencies for the protection of the constitution and the fight against terrorism", he said.
In addition to travel routes, the centres will also quickly find out the reasons for seeking asylum, and in the absence of the grounds to stay in Austria, migrants will be given advice on how to return to the country from which they came.
The minister made it clear that the real goal of the move is to dissuade people from applying for asylum in Austria.
Asylum-seekers will also be expected to "voluntarily" adhere to a night time curfew, meaning they wouldn't leave the center between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
"For those who don't want that, we'll find a place for them where there is little incentive to hang around", Kickl added.
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Is Dr. Dre Living or Dead?
Has American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur Dr. Dre died? Or is he still alive?
American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur
Dr. Dre is ...
Born 18 Feb 1965 in Compton
Age 56 years, 11 months
Dr. Dre is dead
The Beats By Dre logo.
About Dr. Dre
Andre Romelle Young born on 18 February 1965 in Compton. He is a citizen of United States of America. Dr. Dre was educated at John C. Fremont High School and Centennial High School. He lives at Beverly Hills.
Dr. Dre plays sampler, keyboard instrument, synthesizer, drum machine, voice and guitar. He is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur.
He has three children Hood Surgeon, La Tanya Danielle Young and Truice Young.
Dr. Dre has worked as an actor, audio engineer, film producer, composer, entrepreneur, rapper, screenwriter, film actor, music executive, television producer and film director. He has been a member of World Class Wreckin' Cru. He has has won California Hall of Fame and Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Artist. He owns Aftermath Entertainment.
He is also known as Andre Romelle Young, The Mechanic and Brickhard.
Dr. Dre has worked on the following films:
2015 film directed by F. Gary Gray
2001 film by Antoine Fuqua
1996 film by F. Gary Gray
1992 American crime drama film
2003 film by Ron Shelton
Murder Was the Case
1994 film by Dr. Dre
2015 film by Shaun Monson
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
The Wash
2001 film by DJ Pooh
Tupac: Resurrection
2003 film by Lauren Lazin
LA Originals
2020 documentary film directed by Estevan Oriol
50 Cent: The New Breed
2003 film by Damon Johnson
Niggaz4Life: The Only Home Video
1992 film by Mark Gerard
Dr. Dre has been involved with:
album by Dr. Dre
The Chronic
second studio album by Dr. Dre
movie soundtrack album


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package io.undertow.servlet.test.listener.request.async.onError;

import java.io.IOException;

import jakarta.servlet.AsyncContext;
import jakarta.servlet.ServletException;
import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

public class AsyncServlet2 extends HttpServlet {

    @Override
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException {
        AsyncContext ctx = req.startAsync();
        ctx.addListener(new SimpleAsyncListener());
        ctx.addListener(new AsyncEventListener());
        Thread thread = new Thread(new AsyncTask(ctx));
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Q: Land Cover Dataset I'm interested in implementing some data visualizations as map layers. But I'm interested in generating data layers only above land area (land cover). A good example would be to plot population density over a coastal city. What is a good approach for this, when it comes to the data source and how to actually display layers with such detailed boundaries?
Technically, so far I'm using Leaflet.js and tiles based on OpenStreetMaps, but the question is not necessary technology specific. Also, I'm not interested in plotting this for the whole planet, but for areas of a few hundreds square kilometers (for e.g. a coastal city).
To better give an idea of what I'm interested in, this Koordinates map is something that is similar to what I'm interested in. However, I need something a bit more detailed on the borders.

A: Usually you need a desktop or server based GIS such coverage, but not JS to do the processing on the client side.
How you do the mapping (here: linking statistical data and land areas) depends on your data itself. You can load OSM based shape files into QGIS and do some python scripting or using the PostGIS commands to link your data and choose a map style.
Another idea would be http://geocommons.com that allow easy visualization if you upload CSV files.

A: Depending on your area of interest, you can obtain some highly detailed shapefiles from numerous sources.  Especially if the local area provides GIS data to the public (many larger coastal cities do, e.g. New York, London).  From there, you can create a GeoJSON text of the geometries (here's a free tool for that).  Parsing the JSON is very simple and it's very easy to add it to leaflet maps.  You can even get creative and add more keys to each geometry object with the data you want to visualize.

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Police investigating shooting
RANTOUL, Ill. (WCIA) — Police are investigating a shooting after receiving multiple calls reporting shots heard.
They say it happened in the 1200 block of Aspen Drive.
A gunshot victim was transported by a private vehicle to the hospital.
That vehicle was involved in a traffic crash on Route 45 North of Urbana.
The victim was then transported by another, uninvolved person to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
If anyone has information on the identity of the suspect, they are encouraged to call the Rantoul Police Department at (217) 893-5600 or Champaign County Crime Stoppers at (217) 373-TIPS.
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY (WCIA) -- An emergency hearing has been called for Wednesday morning.
The Champaign County Clerk's Office said John Bambenek filed to be a write-in candidate for county treasurer on the March ballot, but missed the deadline per Illinois Election Code and is now challenging the law. The clerk's office said it is coordinating with the State Board of Elections and State's Attorney's Office.


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from __future__ import annotations

import json
from datetime import timedelta as td
from unittest.mock import patch

from django.test.utils import override_settings
from django.utils.timezone import now

from hc.api.models import Channel, Check, Notification
from hc.test import BaseTestCase

@override_settings(TRELLO_APP_KEY="fake-trello-app-key")
class NotifyTrelloTestCase(BaseTestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        super().setUp()

        self.check = Check(project=self.project)
        self.check.name = "Foo"
        self.check.status = "down"
        self.check.last_ping = now() - td(minutes=61)
        self.check.save()

        self.channel = Channel(project=self.project)
        self.channel.kind = "trello"
        self.channel.value = json.dumps(
            {
                "token": "fake-token",
                "board_name": "My Board",
                "list_name": "My List",
                "list_id": "fake-list-id",
            }
        )
        self.channel.save()
        self.channel.checks.add(self.check)

    @patch("hc.api.transports.curl.request")
    def test_it_works(self, mock_post):
        mock_post.return_value.status_code = 200

        self.channel.notify(self.check)
        assert Notification.objects.count() == 1

        args, kwargs = mock_post.call_args
        params = kwargs["params"]
        self.assertEqual(params["idList"], "fake-list-id")
        self.assertEqual(params["name"], "Down: Foo")
        self.assertIn("Full Details", params["desc"])
        self.assertEqual(params["key"], "fake-trello-app-key")
        self.assertEqual(params["token"], "fake-token")

    @patch("hc.api.transports.curl.request")
    def test_it_does_not_escape_name(self, mock_post):
        mock_post.return_value.status_code = 200

        self.check.name = "Foo & Bar"
        self.check.save()

        self.channel.notify(self.check)

        args, kwargs = mock_post.call_args
        params = kwargs["params"]
        self.assertEqual(params["name"], "Down: Foo & Bar")


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This is a pre-pre-warning so don't get too excited.
I've been discussing with the forums hosting provider and I am going to move the board over to a new Virtual Private Server when I have a chance.
This should make things a lot quicker and stop the double-posting problem, etc.
I don't have a date for when this will happen as yet. Some details will need to be firmed up and I'll need to allow the time in my schedule to sort it out. Its probably going to mean the board going down for a day or so while everything is transferred over but ultimately it should be worth it.
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Kevan Christie: Red Clydesiders would despair over Edinburgh-Glasgow rivalry
Do Glaswegians have a better sense of humour than people from Edinburgh? (Picture: Allan Milligan)
Kevan Christie
Small-minded nonsense about the supposed differences between people in Glasgow and Edinburgh are getting out of hand. We should always remember the words of Ian Brown, of the Stone Roses, that "It's not where you're from, it's where you're at", writes Kevan Christie.
I took a jolly boys' outing with my best mate to Glasgow last week.
A big deal this for a couple of dyed-in-the-wool Edinburghers, both born at Elsie Inglis maternity hospital in the late 60s, a stone's throw from our beloved Easter Road Stadium and fully-paid-up members of the "you'll have had your tea ... party".
I was keen to make the pilgrimage west from my current home in the Kingdom of Fife – Scotland's Texas as I like to call it – to the land of the spearmint chew and macaroon bar for a number of reasons.
I'm currently reading a book about socialist revolutionary John Maclean, a hero of the Red Clydeside movement, aware that the spotlight will firmly fall on Glasgow at the end of this month when the 100th anniversary of the Battle of George Square will be commemorated.
I won't go into any great detail on this, suffice to say it was a pivotal moment in the history of the labour movement in Scotland and woe betide any hack who gets their facts wrong writing about it. Good luck with that one.
The second reason was the recent two-part documentary about Sir Billy Connolly's life with Parkinson's disease, which sparked a fanboy desire to check out his old haunts like The Saracen Head pub in the Gallowgate.
I also wanted to visit as I pretty much know "hee-haw" about the place, save for going to the football and a couple of gigs, three to be exact spanning 30 years, with the last one being Prince at the Hydro. Granted, I did work for the Daily Record for six years but that was in their Edinburgh office.
Anyway, everything was going well as my friend and I took a stroll with our bellies full of coffee and cake through the leafy west end, past the Kelvingrove Museum and into university land. I was fair enjoying the architecture in this dear green place and a general sense of well-being prevailed.
Then, my mate brought up the Connolly documentary, more specifically the bit in part one where Sharleen Spiteri takes a random pop at Edinburgh, even attempting a posh accent and my mood started to resemble Tony Montana's in the final scene of Scarface.
The Texas singer said and I quote - "Glasgow was the arse end of Scotland because Edinburgh always got (attempts Miss Jean Brodie accent) 'oh it's lovely in Edinburgh – we've got a castle and it's all fabulous'." Really Sharleen?
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The gist of what she was saying plays on the tired old notion of Edinburgh punters being "stuck up" and Glaswegians being a friendlier bunch.
This is what happens when you're forced to drive to letter of the law – Vladimir McTavish
I've listened to that type of inverted snobbery my whole life and feel it's time to consign this dreary inter-city rivalry to the dustbin of history where it belongs.
It's bordering on sectarianism and works both ways with Edinburgh people giving it "Weegie this and Weegie that" – there's no way the Capital gets off the hook here.
I understand football rivalry and a bit of light banter and I don't mind being called a "spoon burner", as Rangers supporters have taken to calling Hibs fans, based on their outdated perception of Leith based on Trainspotting.
But it's gone way beyond banter and has no place in a modern progressive Scotland.
This patter is in the same ballpark as "thieving Scousers" and saying that Geordies are Scotsmen without the brains. According to this mindset – and it afflicts the whole of Scotland – everyone from Aberdeen has had sex with a sheep, Fifers are fly and Dundee folk live on a diet of "pehs" ... yawn.
I've never understood how you can generalise the personality of a whole city, surely it's about individuals and how you find them?
I believe it was the great philosopher Ian Brown, lead singer of Stone Roses, who once said: "It's not where you're from, it's where you're at."
This small-minded nonsense has gone on way too long and has got nastier over the years. Even the city's slogan "People Make Glasgow" – what, as opposed to "Robots Make Glasgow"? – seems to suggest Glaswegians are somehow better than the rest of us. How about, "People Make Scotland"?
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The way I see it there's no difference between the so-called working class in any part of Scotland but there's a certain type of Glaswegian who'll claim ownership of poverty and, with it, humour and pathos. They tend not to chat but rather make speeches.
It's like factories or dockyards never existed outside of Clydeside but we're now more than two generations past the shipyards and you're more likely to find your latter-day working-class hero in a call centre, tweeting about munchy boxes or chips 'n' cheese in their spare time.
There's friendly, then there's the standard Glasgow request about where you went to school. This academic question is a loaded one, often asked in Edinburgh as well but there it is to find out if you are posh enough to chat to, as opposed to which brand of Christianity you belong to.
The less said about religious bigotry the better and, of course, it still exists to a lesser extent in other cities including Edinburgh – move the carpet while I sweep it under. Cheers.
Now, don't get me wrong, Glasgow has punched above its weight in terms of producing great comedians, artists and singers, which makes the need to belittle Edinburgh, home of the Bay City Rollers, even more bewildering and chippy.
I wonder what the Red Clydesiders would have made of all this garbage? I imagine the likes of John Maclean, Willie Gallacher and Helen Crawfurd would despair if they could see the state of a country which can't even get the trains to turn up, let alone run on time.
They would have wanted people to unite, not be at each other's throats, especially given that the gap between the least and most deprived is growing in Scotland. It would be good if our principal cities could work together.
Maybe, rather than competing against each other, they could help stage a national festival?


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Entering the Sixth Mass Hysteria
Meanwhile, Paul R. Ehrlich—notorious doomsayer and anti-Cassandra, predestined to be wrong but believed, famous for inaccurately foreseeing all manner of catastrophes, who predicted in the '60s (in The Population Bomb) that "[t]he battle to feed all of humanity is over" and that we'd all die of starvation in the '70s—has co-authored "Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction".
Hysterical, credulous, unsceptical journos naturally cover such stories as, for example, "Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction Has Begun, New Study Confirms" [using the word "confirms" in its rare meaning of "asserts"]; note the cool, unemotive, scientific language:
This latest research tells us what we already knew. Humans have in the space of a few centuries swung a wrecking ball through the Earth's biosphere. Liquidating biodiversity to produce products and services has an end point. Science is starting to sketch out what that end point could look like but it cannot tell us why to stop before we reach it.
If we regard the Earth as nothing more than a source of resources and a sink for our pollution, if we value other species only in terms of what they can provide to us, then we we will continue to unpick the fabric of life. Remove further rivets from spaceship earth. This not only increases the risk that it will cease to function in the ways that we and future generations will depend on, but can only reduce the complexity and beauty of our home in the cosmos.
UPDATE (21 June): the BBC has uncritically reported the alarmist findings of the "sixth mass extinction" paper—disingenuously describing it as "a study by three US universities"—and, of course, the awarmist, misanthracist, duplicitous misanthropes who infest the "progressive" movement are incoherently wishing that mankind perish very soon whilst simultaneously lamenting all the other species whose final days are supposedly nigh.
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Cybercrime can cripple the economy, NITDA warns
•Alerts organisations, public on increasing cybercrime
By Collins Nnabuife - Abuja On Oct 31, 2019
Kashifu Inuwa
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has alerted organizations and the public on the increasing rate of cybercrime which it said could cripple the economy of a country.
The Director-General of NITDA, Kashifu Abdullahi while speaking at the opening ceremony of the Information Assurance Workshop in Abuja, said the threats from cybercrime could bring organizations and nations to their knees if unchecked.
He said NITDA had embarked on education and training at the Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and security agencies to create the awareness of the threat of cybercrime and how to combat it.
"The increasing use of digital technologies is continually exposing sensitive information and critical systems to risks and threats in the cyberspace. Cybercriminals not only try to gain
control over our infrastructure, they also try to steal personal information, official data and mislead citizens with fake news.
"The boom in the digital economy is delicately balanced with equivalent threats that could bring organisations and nations to their knees with colossal damage arising from financial and reputational losses to cybercriminals; hence government and industries need to enhance their cybersecurity in the wake of these evolving threats to online activities.
"Every day, malicious cyber actors infiltrate computers and accounts of individual citizens, businesses, the military, and all sectors of government and most of which we are not even aware of.
"The digital economy leverages on cyberspace, characterized by evolving cyber threats. Thus, cybersecurity is key to enable the growth and progress of the digital economy. Security privacy and trust are critical issues for a thriving digital economy", NITDA boss said.
A Cybersecurity Expert, Dr Kenneth Okereafor said the programme is a proposal to the government to implement to make our cyber space more secure.
According to him, "the reason is because in other climes, it is very easy to detect when attacks are coming in. We are looking at a situation where Nigeria as a country has a framework in place to detect cybersecurity breaches. Beyond that to also respond proactively.
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"One of the ways to do that is to have a single coordinating unit. Though, we may be having an agency regulating IT and Cybersecurity, it is also important to have people we can hold accountable such that these bodies can help in the operationalization around him.
"People are not aware of the various exposures that we have in terms of cybersecurity. And the only way to do that is to have constant training and retraining in cybersecurity.
"Agencies of government need now to take cybersecurity education and awareness more seriously because of the complexity of the data space that we operate in and enlargement and embrace of tech in so many areas, it now beco0mes imperative for agencies of government to be aware of the exposures and then take proper actions".
"We also as a country need to look into legislation to legitimize all the regulations that need to be applied in cybersecurity. To that extent, it is necessary for government to consider having more legal frameworks to backup other areas of cybersecurity.
The Head of CyberSecurity Unit of NITDA, Dr. Wariowei Dimie the Information Assurance Workshop jointly organized by Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and NITDA
His words: "The workshop is that the information we keep should be kept confidentiality and the integrity preserved as well as the availability of information whenever and whoever that intends to have access to it.
"We discovered that in public service the world over, cybercriminals are working very very hard to steal information because there is value attached to data. Because the value of data is so important, we are putting up this workshop to make sure that whatever data generated and made available in public service is kept safe from hackers.
"We would make sure that there are certain regulations put in place are adhered to by MDAs, as stated in the circular circulated by the SGF. On implementation, there is plan for monitoring and evaluations. Circulars generated by SGF and Head of Service are usually structured in such a way that compliance can be monitored from the end of the organization and as well as the generating agency".
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Many healers and lightworkers believe we are currently living in a time where more and more people are waking up and expanding their conscious awareness. This includes children who are born during the last several decades.
These children are often referred to as indigo, crystal, and rainbow children. Kids in these groups are thought to be spiritually evolved, many of them having unique talents, including a strongly developed sense of intuition.
Opening up to psychic gifts can be a complicated and confusing time for anyone, but for children, this is magnified. Kids are still discovering how to interact with the world around them. The way you help guide your child through their psychic discovery can have a big impact on how they cope with this awakening. Letting your child know that he or he is safe and supported banishes fear and empowers your child while he or she is further developing these intuitive gifts. Crystals provide positive energy and the right sense of security for children with advanced psychic skills. The following five crystals are great starter stones for indigo, crystal, and rainbow children.
When giving crystals to your children, be sure that they are old enough to know not to place them in their mouths if left unattended with the stones. Crystals can pose a choking hazard, and some are even toxic. Please be sure to click here to check out our list of toxic stones.
Amethyst is strongly connected to the Third Eye Chakra as well as the Crown Chakra. It is known for its ability to promote psychic awareness and develop intuition. For a child who is just opening up to their psychic skills, Amethyst can provide some support for further developing these gifts. Amethyst helps you determine that which is coming from guides or the higher self (i.e. true guidance) vs. thoughts that are just mind chatter. It provides an inner knowing about the information being received and is especially good for aiding clairvoyance and clairaudience. Give your child an Amethyst pendant to wear to help him or her tap into the messages being received from the Universe.
Azurite is a powerful Third Eye stone and works to keep the pineal glad free from calcium deposits. As you age, the pineal gland begins to calcify. many people believe this calcification of the pineal glad is responsible for the loss of psychic skills in adults who showed some intuitive ability as children. Place an Azurite crystal in your child's bedroom or play area (somewhere he or she will spend a good deal of time) to help keep the pineal glad free from calcium deposits. Additionally, Azurite aids in the connection to spirit guides, ascended masters, and archangels, so if your child shows a talent for connecting to these beings (or even just to "imaginary friends"), this may be a good crystal to keep around.
Charoite is a soothing and gentle stone for psychic skills. It allows you to feel the support of your angels and guides so that you know you're never alone. This crystal is a powerful one for intuitive children. It helps them to feel safe and secure when tapping into their inner guidance or in messages from the universe. Further, it generates a powerful auric shield and is great for psychic protection. Give a stone to your child to carry in his or her pocket for gentle, yet effective, psychic protection. It's like having a guardian angel in crystal form.
Labradorite is one of the best stones for intuitive kids. It's highly protective while allowing children to explore their psychic gifts. Labradorite has a very playful energy. It's rainbow shimmer attracts children, even those who are not usually drawn to crystals. The rainbow colors in this healing stone help keep the aura healthy and the chakras aligned. With a healthy energy body, intuitive children are able to explore their psychic gifts more deeply, while staying healthy and balanced. This stone is best used to talk to spirit guides, fairies, or angels. Give a piece to your child and ask them to hold it to hear the messages these beings have for them. This is best done in nature in a place that feels happy to your child (like under a big tree or in a meadow of flowers).
Quartz is often called the "Master Crystal" because of its diversity and ability to amplify energy. For children who are ready to start co-creating with Universal energy, this is one of the best stones to use. Quartz crystals take in the positive thoughts from those around them and amplify these messages to manifest things into being. Give your child a Quartz "wishing" crystal and encourage them to tell their wishes to the stone, then place it beneath their pillow. Explain that these wishes may take a short time, or a long time to come true, but that they must believe that the Universe is listening with open ears to what they have to say.
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Not a bad idea for us grown Indigo, Crystal or Rainbow children to utilize and work with these stones, too! Great information and suggestions. Love the "wishing stone" idea! I will be doing that myself!
My boy has already his own little collection… It includes a sodalite (that was my first ever crystal), a bloodstone, a green moss agate, a rose quartz, a black Tourmaline, a citrine and a smoky quartz! ?
These are all wonderful! But please know that ANY copper-bearing stone such as azurite/malachite are poisonous. So don't allow them to play with them unless hands are washed afterwards, and do not let them put in mouth. I saw the raw azurite crystal and cringed just thinking about it going in some young mouth.
Thank you Ashley, really great information!
That's awesome!! I kinda wonder about it. I think I start to introduce to my whole house family and friends. Thank you for sharing…. love and light!!


SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A federal judge dealt multiple blows to Waymo's trade secrets case against Uber ahead of its December trial, weakening allegations that Uber stole its driverless car technology.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup struck one trade secret Waymo had planned to try for misappropriation, and threw a second one to the jury. In a separate order unsealed Monday, Alsup also excluded Waymo's damages expert, a significant setback for its case.
The judge also removed Otto Trucking from the trial, ruling that it did not misappropriate any of the nine trade secrets Waymo claims. The holding company for driverless trucks was started by Waymo's former engineer, Anthony Levandowski, whom Waymo has accused of stealing its trade secrets to design driverless cars for Uber. Ottomotto, which Uber bought from Levandowski for $680,000 in stock, remains in the case.
Google's Waymo sued Uber, Ottomotto and Otto Trucking in February, claiming Levandowski downloaded 14,000 trade-secret files from its server just before resigning last year. It claims Uber promptly struck a deal to buy the fledgling company from Levandowski and that it hired him to lead its driverless car efforts using Waymo's technology.
Waymo asserted 121 trade secrets at the outset of the case, but whittled its list to nine after Alsup ruled that some of them were public knowledge and not in fact trade secrets.
The judge announced a similar conclusion Thursday, striking Waymo's trade secret 96 – related to a laser circuit board design – as overbroad and a rehash of a trade secret he had earlier struck as public knowledge.
"Other than grade-school arithmetic, however, he did not apply any coherent principle, methodology, theory, or technique, much less one possessing any discernible indicia of reliability," Alsup said of Wagner in a 16-page order.
Uber was optimistic about the rulings Friday.
Waymo, however, said its case remains strong.
In removing Otto Trucking from the case, Alsup rejected Waymo's attempt to hold it liable for misappropriation based on evidence of misappropriation by Levandowski, whom it chose not to sue in order to avoid arbitration.
But he maintained jurisdiction over Otto Trucking in order to award injunctive relief if Waymo prevails at trial. The company may also be included in a subsequent trial if Waymo is allowed to add claims for misappropriation of software-related trade secrets, according to the ruling.
Neel Chatterjee, an attorney with Goodwin Procter who represents Otto Trucking, declined to comment on the ruling.
Also Thursday, Alsup granted in part Waymo's motion for partial summary judgment on two affirmative defenses, striking Uber's failure to mitigate defense from trial but allowing its unclean hands defense.
Charles Verhoeven with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan represents Waymo. He did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
Michael Jacobs with Morrison & Foerster represents Uber and Ottomotto. He directed a request for comment to Uber's Kallman.


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Woodworking for Women improves creative self -care, grows confidence and innovation.
We offer learning skills and experience in more supportive and low-pressure atmosphere. And, once you get the basics, you can easily create fun projects yourself!
Our bodies are different, our backgrounds are likely different, and so we need a class just for ourselves! This class is intended to get ladies up-to-speed on basic building skills, working with wood, and using hand-tools as well as power-tools.
Join us for this hands on, skill-building, tour-de-tools, and de-mystify all those DIY project instructions you've seen. You will take from this class a bunch of new skills, a head full of confidence, and an itch to make stuff! You will hopefully complete your beautiful bird box to take home too!
Additional Notes: All woodworking tools and materials will be provided. Price includes materials. Bring: Bring a notebook and pencils.
The workshop is located on ground floor which provides full accessibility to the premises including toilet provisions. We would advise wheelchair users to contact the workshop provider on the sale of the ticket to arrange a parking bay.
Ongoing classes: Hear about new class announcements or check out all currently scheduled classes by getting in touch with us at healearthuk@gmail.com or through www.healearth.co.uk and facebook page.
Refunds will be offered only in the event of the event being cancelled, alternative dates will be offered if appropriate. If for any reason you find you are unable to attend then please get in touch and a refund can be offered up to 14 days before the workshop. After this date we can only offer a refund if your space is able to be filled.
We currently do not offer refunds or transfers between classes. You may, however, transfer your ticket to another person who is 18 or older. If you need help finding someone to take your spot, you are welcome to post in the class event on our FB page, or ask us to share your email address with the class waitlist.
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My Saturday mornings consist of teaching piano lessons to two very cute little girls. This morning as I was teaching Ysabelle, her little brother (about four or five years old, I think) came running downstairs and declared, "I just filled your tires with air!" I was a little bit unsure what to make of this statement, due to the very young age of the little fellow, but sure enough - he and his dad had kindly filled my tires (which were a little low) with air!
The world is full of such very nice people.


Join DJ Charlee Brown and DJ Mz Rico for a special edition of Antidote on Main on a Thursday. Houston MC Rocky Banks is stopping by to perform a special set to thank his fans who voted him into the A3C Music Festival in Atlanta. Live music + good drinks = a great time for all!


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package org.apache.helix.recipes.rabbitmq;

import org.apache.helix.manager.zk.ZKHelixAdmin;
import org.apache.helix.manager.zk.ZNRecordSerializer;
import org.apache.helix.manager.zk.ZkClient;
import org.apache.helix.model.IdealState.IdealStateModeProperty;
import org.apache.helix.model.StateModelDefinition;
import org.apache.helix.tools.StateModelConfigGenerator;

public class SetupConsumerCluster
{
  public static final String DEFAULT_CLUSTER_NAME = "rabbitmq-consumer-cluster";
  public static final String DEFAULT_RESOURCE_NAME = "topic";
  public static final int DEFAULT_PARTITION_NUMBER = 6;
  public static final String DEFAULT_STATE_MODEL = "OnlineOffline";

  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    if (args.length < 1)
    {
      System.err.println("USAGE: java SetupConsumerCluster zookeeperAddress (e.g. localhost:2181)");
      System.exit(1);
    }

    final String zkAddr = args[0];
    final String clusterName = DEFAULT_CLUSTER_NAME;

    ZkClient zkclient = null;
    try
    {
      zkclient = new ZkClient(zkAddr, ZkClient.DEFAULT_SESSION_TIMEOUT,
          ZkClient.DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT, new ZNRecordSerializer());
      ZKHelixAdmin admin = new ZKHelixAdmin(zkclient);

      // add cluster
      admin.addCluster(clusterName, true);

      // add state model definition
      StateModelConfigGenerator generator = new StateModelConfigGenerator();
      admin.addStateModelDef(clusterName, DEFAULT_STATE_MODEL,
          new StateModelDefinition(generator.generateConfigForOnlineOffline()));

      // add resource "topic" which has 6 partitions
      String resourceName = DEFAULT_RESOURCE_NAME;
      admin.addResource(clusterName, resourceName, DEFAULT_PARTITION_NUMBER, DEFAULT_STATE_MODEL,
          IdealStateModeProperty.AUTO_REBALANCE.toString());

      admin.rebalance(clusterName, resourceName, 1);

    } finally
    {
      if (zkclient != null)
      {
        zkclient.close();
      }
    }
  }
}


Why does The Medical Center/Commonwealth Regional Specialty Hospital need the Hospitality House on its campus?
Nearly half of The Medical Center's patients travel from outside of Warren County and, on average, spend nearly five days in the hospital.
Patients of Commonwealth Regional Specialty Hospital have complex medical conditions that require extended stays of 18-35 days.
Having loved ones close by is often an important factor in the recovery and recuperation process of critically ill patients, including open heart surgery patients at The Medical Center.
The Hospitality House is also for the parents of a premature baby who want to stay close to their child who must remain in the hospital long after the mother has been discharged.
The Hospitality House is also for cancer patients who must undergo radiation therapy but don't have the means to travel back and forth to Bowling Green - five days each week, for several weeks of therapy.
How did you determine what the Hospitality House will look like and the number of guest rooms?
Our Hospitality House is based on the National Association of Hospital Hospitality House standards.
It has 12 private Guestrooms, each with a private bath, large Community and Dining areas as well as a full Kitchen, a Prayer Room for quiet meditation and a Business Center with computers and internet access.
The Hospitality House is designed to allow for future expansion.
The House complies with all ADA requirements, features a sprinkler system, and has paid staff on-site 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Will guests be charged to stay at the Hospitality House?
There is not a charge to stay at the Hospitality House; however, donations to help support the operation of the Hospitality House are gratefully accepted.
No one will be turned away from the Hospitality House because of an inability to pay.
What are the criteria to stay at the Hospitality House?
Guests of the Hospitality House will be adult family members or caregivers of seriously ill patients receiving inpatient hospital care at The Medical Center at Bowling Green or Commonwealth Regional Specialty Hospital, or outpatients receiving active medical treatment.
Children are not allowed to stay at the Hospitality House. It has been determined that allowing children to stay is not in the best interest of the guests or the hospitalized patients. Guests of the Hospitality House need to be completely focused and available for their loved ones who are battling illness or recovering from surgery.
Potential guests will be evaluated based on the following criteria: distance from home, acuity of patient in the hospital, transportation difficulty, lack of local support system and financial difficulty.
Guests will be referred through the hospital's Social Services Department based on the need for a family member or caregiver to remain close to the patient.
The House will serve all who need it regardless of religious belief, race, or economic status.
Now that construction of the Hospitality House is complete and you are already serving guests, is there still a need for fundraising?
Absolutely. While our campaign goal is to raise $1 million to begin an Endowment Fund specifically for the Hospitality House, we need an estimated $5 - 6 million in the Hospitality House Endowment Fund to cover the operating costs associated with the House.
Additional operating funds will be generated through guest donations and specific fundraising events for the Hospitality House.
Gifts of $10,000 or more (payable over five years), will be recognized on the donor wall within the Hospitality House. Naming opportunities for The Hospitality House begin at $50,000.
All donations are very much appreciated.


America's Story 2 brings history alive through a Charlotte Mason approach as it teaches upper elementary students (grades 3-6) the amazing history of the United States of America. O'Dell's lively storytelling brings the settings and characters to life as students study American history from the Civil War through the early 1900s.
O'Dell's lively, storytelling style interacts with students and draws them in to imagine the adventures, hardships, failures, and triumphs of the incredible characters who shaped American history from the Civil War through the early 1900s.


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Portavogie
Portavogie is one of the main fishing ports in the province and is a seafood lovers paradise. The town is famous for its prawns and herrings, which have given rise to a fish processing industry as well as boat building.
The village's history can be traced back to the late 16th and early 17th century when a settlement was established North of the present village at a sheltered bay called Stablehole.
The village has become an important maritime centre because of its location and the rich supply of superb seafood in local waters. In fact, seafood is one of County Down's most highly-prized exports. The celebrated Portavogie prawn features on many restaurant menus, locally and globally.
McCammon Rocks is a reef that lies just out to sea from Portavogie and in low tide you can walk to them. Historically, fishermen anchored their boats on the rocks, today it is very common to see seals gather.
A little inland is Kirkistown Race Track. This is a former RAF airfield and now the venue for regular car and motorcycle races that draw crowds throughout the summer season.
To the right of Portavogie harbour, there is a George Best mural. The famous footballer lived in Portavogie in the years before his death and locals remember him well. Villagers also celebrate Eileen Palmer, who set up the Fishermen's Choir, which still thrives today. The founding fishermen in the choir all wore black sweaters, knitted by relatives. Poignantly, each garment had a unique pattern, ensuring that the wearer could be identified if they were lost at sea.
For information on the fishing heritgae of Portavogie, download our guide, available; here
For further information you can download our Portavogie Heritage Trail leaflet, available; here
You can also select Portavogie town in our Strangford Heritage Trail App available on the Google play store; here or from the iTunes library; here
To find out more contact
Ards Visitor Information Centre
Regent Street, Newtownards, Co.Down, BT23 4AD
Email ardsvic@ardsandnorthdown.gov.uk
Bangor Visitor Information Centre
Tower House,34 Quay St, Bangor, Co. Down, BT20 5ED
Email bangorvic@ardsandnorthdown.gov.uk
Museums and Heritage
Historic Environment Tours
A series of tours of some landmark sites within the Borough of Ards and North Down
Caravanning and Motorhome
Visit the birthplace of Amy Carmichael
Learn more about the fascinating life of a famous missionary and writer in India
Panoramic Wheel
The BIG Wheel returns to Bangor's seafront - get a birds eye view over the town and coast


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Altum Technologies is very proud to introduce a one-of-a-kind new generation of Power Ultrasound fouling cleaning devices. The first product of this new generation to see the light is AltumPI Mark III. Back in June 2017 we released the 2nd generation of AltumPI (the 1st one was our prototype in 2016).
The launch event was held in Brussels, Belgium today February 15th. CEO Matias Tainela and Marketing Director Esteban Soto presented our technology and new product to a selected audience of more than 15 global process industry companies.
Now is time for a more powerful device, robust Central Unit, updated software and a completely new clamp-on attachment.
Altum Technologies has put a lot of effort in improving its software to be able to meet the growing market demand and customer need for larger cleaning systems. For this Mark III release, the software features new ways we can tackle different fouling types, more spread-out systems and ease-of-use. Hardware is a big part of how our device can be easily implemented in an industrial facility but the most important part of our solution is in the software.
"Our software is the brain behind the technology needed to effectively remove fouling with Power Ultrasound, the magic happens in there. Without the software, it would be impossible to control the Power Ultrasound to do exactly what we want, when we want and where inside the structure we want to clean." -Timo Rauhala, CTO.
We are leading the charge in an era where fouling is a major problem for many industries, entire economies and our environment. We'll continue to develop our technology and make it accesible to every country in the world.
If you have any fouling issues and want to tackle them with our expertise, we'll be more than happy to hear from you, contact us and we'll be in touch!