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ROV stands for: "Remotely Operated Vehicle". The ROV is a underwater robot that is connected to the surface by an umbilical and operated via a joystick by the operator aboard the diving vessel. To the ROV several items can be connected like pincers, drills, sonar equipment, cameras etcetera. As we will show you later ROV's can be small and can be large. The large ones can even perform underwater jobs with large equipment like plows to dig trenches for underwater cable. The main task for ROV at this moment however is still to perform observation jobs with the build in video cameras. The crew watches the result aboard the vessel. Can you remember the many spectacular views of the Titanic that appeared on TV ? Without the help of ROV's this could not have been possible.
Basic ROV system with umbilical and operator console The big advantages compared to underwater vehicles carrying personnel are the compact measurements and the small weight. For instance, they can perform their job from a rubber boat and some ROV's even fit in the back of a car. The depth they can reach depends on the housing construction. Some can go to 75 meters, some to 4000. In large depths it can be too risky to let divers do the job. Also in extremely contaminated waters it is better to put the ROV to action instead of divers. ROV's are suitable for inspecting holes, trenches, wrecks, pipelines, cables, cooling water systems. bridges and offshore islands. The ROV does not mind to dive for 8 hours or more at the time, also it doesn't mind working in bad weather.
The umbilical provides the electricity for the engines, tools, lights and cameras and is used to send the digital video signal back to the diving vessel where it can be viewed and taped. ROV's have at least 4 engines: 2 to control the depth and 2 to control the direction. The sonar equipment can be used to spot obstacles on the bottom or for bottom distance control. The ROV is operated by one or more joysticks.
ROV operator training
Although it seems rather simple to control the ROV (like making it perform a 360 degrees turn on the spot...) many manufacturers offer operator training. By the way: There are over 200 ROV manufacturing companies in the world (!). ROV's are expensive. Noboby would like to run the risk to destroy one (e.g. end of career...). Although operated by joystick, it's NOT a videogame.
The diving industry would like to implement an industry standard called "Certificate of Competence for ROV Personnel". It is based on basic blocks of minimum requirements. It features minimum entry qualifications and a minimum time required between grades. In this way companies can be assured of operator competence and ROV personnel receive professional recognition. The whole training sequence is as follows:
Induction course For trainees (novice ROV operators) with at least NVQ 3 level.
Submersible Technician (ST) course At least 100 days offshore experience and 12 months in the industry. Successful completion of competence assessments.
Submersible Engineer (SE) course At least 200 days offshore experience as ST and 30 months in the industry. Successful completion of competence assessments.
Supervisor (SV) course At least 200 days offshore experience as SE and 48 months in the industry. Recommendation for SV course and exam.
Senior Supervisor (SSV) course At least 200 days offshore experience as SV and 60 months in the industry. Recommendation by management.
Contact SubServ management in London for further information 015394-44027
Different kind of ROV's
As you have seen above ROV's can be trained to perform several jobs.
You can find:
Observation ROV's
Drill support ROV's
Construction support ROV's
Pipeline survey ROV's
Pipeline plow ROV's
Hydrovision's Hyball observation ROV for depths up to 300 meters. It has 360 degrees vision, auto heading, auto depth, an electronic compass, a high resolution color video camera, variable intensity mainlights and camera tracking lights and several interfaces, for instance for sonar or a manipulator. Courtesy of Hydrovision.
Hyball observation ROV on his way to work
A problem in operating ROV's is the umbilical drag. The weight of the cable hanging down will influence the movement of the ROV and makes it harder for the operator to control it. In strong currents sometimes a bottom weight is attached to the umbilical to make bottom jobs easier. A cable hanging down 100 meters will catch a lot of current ! Stronger engines are needed for current operation. The umbilical is kept as thin as possible and lightweight materials are used.
A small observation ROV being trained for cutting jobs. It is fitted with a hydro-lek cutting tool that can cut cable, pipe or hose up to 3 inches in diameter. Courtesy of Hydro-lek.
Subsea Offshore's eagle eye ROV
The SeaRover is a modern high performance low cost ROV. It is easy to use and can perform several duties like mine countermeasures, harbor security surveillance, exploration and inspection. Several special options can be fitted like: ultra-short baseline tracking system, high resolution scanning sonar, an altimeter, articulator arms or photo cameras. It is propelled by two horizontal thrusters, one vertical and one lateral. It can reach depths up to 300 meters. The SeaRover can be launched from boats, docks or helicopters and is designed for military and commercial use. Courtesy of Bethos USA.
The SeaRover is used by the US Navy
The ROV fleet of GB-diving Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Videoray 2000 was build for recreational use. It can reach depths of 75 meters and provides real time color video of it's surroundings. It features two halogen lights to illuminate dark waters. As you can see it can be carried by hand. Like all it's big brothers it is connected to a monitor or TV by an umbilical and is operated by joystick. Courtesy of Videoray.


Hari ini saya tak berapa sihat.
i can't sleep for the past 4 nights, my nose can't seem to 'unblock' itself, batuk-batuk, and migraine.
To make things worse, i was wheezing last night. Seems like asthma. Ya Allah, tolong la jangan datang balik asthma. I had very bad asthma when i was little. Sampai tahap makan ubat and pakai asthma pump tu takde effect dah. Papa had to put the oxygen gas machine thingy in the house coz i need it everytime asthma attacks. Lucky for me, the asthma magically disappeared when i was about 16. So memang tanak dah kene asthma balik! Nauzubillah.
So anyway i went to the doctor and got tons of asthma meds, and an MC. i need rest, he said. And my insomnia is not helping at all.
Hurm... i realized that i get sick easily. Maybe i should start taking supplements. Vitamin C ke?
i'm a sucker for babies and romantic comedy. i soooooo wanna watch!!
Dunno when it'll be out in Malaysian theatre though.


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FDA Approves First-Ever RNAi Drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first-ever drug based on RNA interference, or RNAi. The drug targets a rare genetic disease, which impairs heart and nerve function.
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a bit of an anomaly . Nearly a generation passed between the promise of a drug therapy that muted specific disease-causing genes and an actual example of one that works in humans.
The latter came last week when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first-ever drug based on RNA interference, or RNAi. The drug, patisiran, was developed by Cambridge-based biotech Alnylam and targets a rare genetic disease, called hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis, which impairs heart and nerve function.
The landmark approval is a culmination of nearly two decades' worth of research and has been described as one that will surely rewrite pharmacology textbooks. Research into RNAi grew in the early 2000s after two U.S. geneticists discovered the mechanism in 1998 and subsequently won a Nobel prize in 2006. In the years following, however, despite a rise of RNAi-based biotechs like Alnylam, no tangible treatments surfaced. Eventually, the field saw a domino effect of lost interest from investors and, eventually, the drug research community.
The main problem that Alnylam and others had to solve was one of delivery. Getting RNA to a specific organ meant protecting it from degrading in the bloodstream and being filtered out by the kidneys or liver so it can go on to exit the blood vessels and spread through tissue.
Here's Heidi Ledford, reporting for Nature:
But gradually, some RNAi companies began to iron out the kinks in their delivery systems, and Tenthoff started to encourage investors to buy stock again. Alnylam experimented with a number of delivery routes and target organs, encasing some of its RNA molecules in fatty nanoparticles orchemically modifying the RNAs to help them survive the perilous journey through the bloodstream.
RNAs protected in this way and injected into the bloodstream tended to accumulate in the kidneys and liver. This led the company to look at transthyretin, which is produced mainly in the liver. In a clinical trial in 225 people with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis who showed signs of nerve damage, average walking speed significantly improved in those who received the treatment. Walking speed declined in the placebo group.
Questions remain about whether the technique will work in other parts of the body. But, according to Alnylam company officials, the liver is just the starting point; the company is working to develop ways to target the brain and spinal cord. Other companies are also looking at RNAi therapies that target the kidneys, eyes, and lungs.
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Танцы с бубном которые решаю уже 4 дня
параметры сервера
4 Гб оперативной памяти, 4 ядра, 120 Гб диска
Установил max_execution_time 6000
пробовал и max_execution_time 0 ставить (неограниченно)
пробовал в самом скрипте set_time_limit(0);
Сам парсер работает корректно, даже успевает спарсить товаров 50-800, но по 504 ошибке отключается.
На старом сервере (параметры те же) скрипт работал корректно и до конца, парсил все цены для 60 000 товаров
но скрипт отрубается уже на 10-й секунде и выдает 504, что еще увеличить чтобы продлить время работы скрипта
Мистика в том что если задан max_execution_time по идее скрипт должен выполняться в пределах этого лимита а он у меня падает раньше времени с 504 Gateway Timeout
Сервер после задания настроек перезапускал
даю в студию параметры моего php ini и сам парсер
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max_execution_time  6000
max_file_uploads    500
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max_input_time  60
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Charter Schools that Recruit, Skim, Flunk Out the Weak, and Refuse to 'Backfill'
In his blog, Gene Glass, co-author of 50 Myths & Lies that Threaten America's Public Schools, a professor at Arizona State University, and senior researcher at the National Education Policy Center, declares: They Recruit, They Skim, They Flunk Out the Weak… They are Arizona's Top Charter Schools.
He describes the 20 so-called "best" charter schools as identified by the Phoenix Business Journal: "The 20 'best' charters in Phoenix serve White and Asian children… almost exclusively. 13,452 students go to these charter schools: Asian 17%, Black 2%, Hispanic 11%, and White 66%. Free Lunch—only Paragon has free lunch students. ELL—None. Special Education 4%… There is not a single public district with demographics like these and almost no districts outside of Reservation schools that have 11% or less Hispanic students. There are thousands of minority students who could do well in these college prep schools—if their parents had the skills to wade through the enrollment process—if they had transportation—if these schools really wanted to recruit them… These schools assure that they only serve successful students… One truly weeps."
And in a fine new piece for the Albert Shanker Institute, Leo Casey explains exactly how, across the United States in New York City, Eva Moskowitz and her Success Academy Charter Schools engineer the charter chain's high test scores through a scheme that winnows out students unlikely to post high scores: "Success Academy Charter Schools has made a conscious decision to not fill seats opened up by student attrition in the upper grades of its schools. And this is a deliberate, network-wide practice…. In New York City, the policy of refusing to fill seats vacated by student attrition is known by the unfortunate construction metaphor of failing to 'backfill.' On a number of occasions, Moskowitz has forcefully defended Success Academy's refusal to 'backfill' the upper grades in which students take the state's standardized exams. The full effect of this policy to not 'backfill' can be seen in the only Success Academy cohort in the data that completed all eight primary school grades: the graduating class of Harlem Success Academy I had 32 students, less than half of the 73 students who started in the cohort eight years prior."
Casey explains parents can tell which grades are accepting students at Moskowitz's schools because on its website, Success Academy posts only the grade levels for which each particular school is accepting students, while at the same time the New York City Charter School Center "lists all the grades currently being provided under the school's charter." Casey also provides a series of graphs of enrollment by grade at seven of the Success Academy schools in Harlem and the Bronx and for the network as a whole. Only Harlem Success Academy I has all eight grades; others are adding grades over the years. Three of the schools now offer six grades and three others offer only four grades, but in each case, enrollment drops off significantly between second and third grade, the first year in which standardized testing is required and schools are rated by their students' scores. Falling enrollment continues as students move into higher grades. Moskowitz has defended the practice as a way to ensure that her schools can enforce the particular no-excuses culture for which they are known.
Casey notes that punitive discipline and push-outs at Success Academies are one strategy that shapes the charter chain's student body. (This blog has recently covered punitive discipline and push-outs at Success Academy Schools here, here, and here.) He adds that a policy of refusing to "backfill" also ensures that the schools serve fewer very poor students: "Transience is a central feature of poverty, and the greater the intensity of the poverty in which a student lives, the greater the transience she will experience: Homelessness is the ultimate expression of this reality. The poorest students are thus significantly overrepresented among school 'leavers,' as are students who score poorly on high-stakes standardized exams. Indeed, the two phenomena are related." Casey pushes his analysis further: "In response to criticism that the success Academy Charter Schools 'cream' their student populations to boost standardized test scores, Eva Moskowiz has argued that the attrition rates in her schools are lower than the average attrition rate for both NYC district schools and other charter schools. But the attrition rate is not the fundamental issue here; rather it is the policy choice to not fill the empty seats left by student attrition. To the extent that leaving students are not replaced with similar students, the student population will have fewer students living in poverty, fewer high needs students, and fewer students who score more poorly on standardized exams. Other schools may well have higher rates of attrition, but if they 'backfill' their empty seats, the profile of their student population remains essentially the same."
Casey believes Moskowitz and other charter school proprietors will strongly resist changing their policies but that society and the U.S. Department of Education will eventually be forced to face up to the ways that charter schools are quietly screening students: "To resolve these issues, Success Academy and similar charter school chains would have to make changes in policy and practice that would strike at their ability to engineer student populations to achieve high test scores. And this would put the charter school brand itself at risk. Do not look for Eva Moskowitz, the New York City Charter School Center and the National Association of Public Charter Schools to willingly travel down that road. A major political battle is in the making."
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4 thoughts on "Charter Schools that Recruit, Skim, Flunk Out the Weak, and Refuse to 'Backfill'"
In actual construction failure to backfill usually leads to collapsing foundations. In this case, what is really collapsing are the moral foundations of our country.
Rich TenEyck says:
We are involved in a game called "schooling." We have demonstrated repeatedly that whenever the stakes are sufficiently high, there will be folks who decide to "game" the system. Kids have gamed the system for years (see The Shopping Mall High School, by Powell, Farrar, Cohen written in 1985). We have now expanded the gamification concept to include those adults whose "game" involves the use of public money to replicate models previously found primarily in private schools.
When we, as a nation, sat quietly by as we were bombarded with "data" about the deplorable state of our educational system and the need to "fix" this with ever-increasing commitment to common standards and large-scale assessments, we accepted the notion that test scores provide a sufficient picture of student (and teacher) performance, school/district quality. In this environment, the "winners" are those who can produce the best test results. The fact that some can accomplish this by misusing the notion of "public" school should come as no surprise.
Perhaps a deeper question might be, "How do the voices who are declaring that the emperor is underclothed can gain sufficient traction to make a difference?" Thank you for attempting to do this.
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Evaluation of Poison Baits and Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki Against Spodoptera litura in Tomato
Anurag Sharma, Rajeev Raina, Renu Kapoor and Kehar Singh Thakur
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Spodoptera is a polyphagous and most destructive pest of most of crops including tomato. The bioefficacy of poison baits with Methomyl and Bt formulations was observed along with male flight activity of the tobacco caterpillar in tomato open field crops. The study was conducted in three villages of Chamba district viz. Sahu, Bhanauta and Kiri during 2019-2020. Tomato is one of the important cash crops in many parts of district Chamba and a source of livelihood of small and marginal farmers of the district. It is cultivated in an area of about 294 hectares with the annual production of 11,410 MT. Tobacco caterpillar, Spodoptera litura (Fab.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a polyphagous and sporadic pest and is nocturnal pest in nature. The bioefficacy results revealed that the % mortality of baits with insecticide (ranging from 10.24% to 83.24%), baits with BT formulation (15.64% to 81.06%) and spray of Bt formulations (14.10% to 85.60%) in fields did not differ significantly at the respective days. It was also observed that the peak activity was observed in the months of June and July (maximum 20 adult trapped trap-1) and hence capturing the male adults this time resulted in fewer larval population of the insect-pest. Thus, these practices could be included in IPM of the insect pest and confirmed the importance of eco-friendly methods against lepidopteron species.
Keywords : Adult traps, bio-efficacy, Bt formulations, poison bait, tobacco caterpillar, tomato
Spodoptera litura (Fab.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), commonly known as tobacco caterpillar is a polyphagous pest of many economically important crops such as cotton, groundnut, soybean tomato, sweet potato etc. (Senrung et al., 2014). It is a major pest of many crops because of its polyphagous feeding habit, high reproductive potential, overlapping generations, year round availability of host plants, ability of adults to migrate over long distances and frequent control failures with most of the commonly used insecticides (Muddassar et al., 2017). It is a nocturnal pest and can completely wither away the leaves from the plant. Furthermore, its broad host range also includes many vegetable crops such as tomato, Solanum lycopersicum L. (Solanaceae), which are often consumed fresh (Sobhy et al., 2015). These pests affect the crop yield and quality of fruits thereby reducing its market value (Mahapatra et al., 2018a). It is a most devastating pest of cotton, groundnut, chillies, tobacco, castor, lady finger, pulses and many vegetables (Armes et al., 1997; Kranthi et al., 2002). Out of 112 globally recorded host plants of S. litura (Moussa et al., 1960 and CABI, 2014), 60 are known only from India (Garad et al., 1984).
India is the third largest producer of tomato in the world after USA and China. Tomato is one of the most important protective food crops of India having an area of 880 thousand hectares with an annual production to the tune of 18227 thousand metric tonnes, contributing to 9.4% of total vegetable area and 11.5% of total vegetable production (Mahapatra et al., 2018b). Tomato is one of the important cash crop in many parts of district Chamba and a source of livelihood of small and marginal farmers of the district. It is cultivated in an area of about 294 hectares with the annual production of 11,410 MT. Insect pest act as a limiting factor in harvesting high yields of healthy and quality tomato fruits. Because of its fleshy nature about sixteen insects and other pest species cause damage to the tomato crop in India resulting in use of large volume of pesticides which leave their toxic residues (Bhutani, 1977).
The pressing global food crisis boosts the necessity for novel strategies to drastically increase crop productivity (Godfray et al., 2010). Effective management of insect pests should be part of such strategies as these pests cause enormous losses to crops (Bruce, 2010). Currently, chemical pesticides are being used to control this pest; however, they are not ideal because they cause environmental pollution (Gui-lan et al., 2002). Therefore, it is necessary to use methods that will not pollute the environment (Da-yong and Yong-man, 2010; Da-yong et al., 2012). Effective management of S. litura using poison bait consisting of rice bran, jaggery and monocrotophos was reported in groundnut and potato (Basavaraju et al., 2010).The use of pheromone traps for mass trapping has routinely lowered the Bacillus thuringiensis applications by 30-70%, which was otherwise required to maintain larval population at economically acceptable levels. While pheromone lures for S. sunia consistently gave high performance under field conditions, lures for S. frugiperda gave erratic field results (Dunkelblum et al., 1995).
2.1. Layout of trial
The trials were conducted during 2019-2020. Three villages of Chamba district viz. Kiri, Sahu and Bhanauta were selected for conducting the trials. Farmers of these villages were growing tomato in open fields. The mean annual rainfall of the study area was 1000 to 1200 mm. The mean annual temperature lied between 14.2-22.1 oC. The agro climatic zone was sub temperate, sub humid, mid hills and cereals, pulses, fruits and vegetables based cropping systems were predominant in this zone (Table 1). The varieties or hybrids grown in these villages and other crop plantation details are mentioned in Table 2. The seeds were sown in late March and/or early April. The flowering started in the month of Late May and early June and farmers took several harvests till the month of August or in some parts the crop was harvested till late November.
Table 1: Agro-climatic details of three villages of Chamba district selected for the study
Table 2: Crop specifications and details of plots in selected villages
Figure 1: Adults trapped in Sahu village at 10 days interval
Figure 2: Adults trapped in Bhanauta village at 10 days interval
2.2. Preparation of poison baits
Baiting is a technique that comprises an attractive food along with an insecticide to lure insect pests. Baiting tends to be more selective and less environmentally disruptive than conventional pesticide applications. Poison bait was made with these ingredients - 1 kg rice or wheat flour (as per farmers availability) + 1.2 kg jaggery + Methomyl 40SP or Bt formulation.
For the preparation of these baits 100 g of jaggery was dissolved in 500ml of water then poured on to rice or wheat flour (100g). The material is mixed thoroughly and kept for 24 hours for fermentation under dark condition. Three different treatments were made with this jaggery mixture. Chemical insecticide Methomyl 40 SP (50 g acre-1) is used in one treatment and in other Bt formulation is used as insecticide for killing the trapped larvae of insect pest. These treatments have been used to evaluate the bio-efficacy studies. Total number of larvae was counted at 10 days interval. Out of which, the number of died larvae were counted and were removed from the baits. Larval mortality (%) was recorded at 2,4,6,8 and 10 days interval. Larval mortality (%) has been calculated with Abbott's formula (Fleming and Arthur, 1985):
Abbott Corrected Mortality=(T–C)/(100-C)×100
where, T = % mortality in treatment
C= % mortality in control
These baits were used in the fields to trap or lure the larvae. Two poison baits acre-1 were used. Direct spray of Bacillus thuringiensis was also used as one treatment for the control of insect pest. Open fields of tomato in different villages were selected for conducting trails. Untreated plots with only rice or wheat flour and jaggery were used as control. The treatments were replicated thrice. Each experimental unit comprised of 30 tomato plants. The details of the treatments are as under:
T1: Poison Bait (1 kg rice or wheat flour + 1.2 kg jaggery + Methomyl 40 SP @ 50 g acre-1
T2: Spray of Bacillus thuringiensis formulation @70 g l-1
T3: Poison Bait (1 kg rice or wheat flour + 1.2 kg jaggery +5 g l-1)
T4: Control (untreated plots: Rice or wheat flour + Jaggery)
Poison baits were also used for the trapping of adults. Adult count was taken from 10 May to 30 August, 2019, at 10 days interval. For this, separate baits were kept in each field and only adults were counted in these traps irrespective of the fact that the larvae were also attracted to these baits and were also killed. Care was taken to install these traps higher in the fields at minimum 5feet height from the ground so that larvae could not reach these traps with ease. But, these baits have been used only for counting the adults trapped. The baits were replaced after 20 days. Funnel shaped traps were used for trapping these adults in which the bait mixture was placed. Adult count was taken at 10 days interval and each time the traps were cleaned and the trapped adults were removed.
3.1. Bio-efficacy of baits and Bt formulations Results ofbio- efficacy studies with baits and Bt formulations have been tabulated in Table 3.
Table 3: Effect of different treatments on larval mortality
Figure 3: Adults trapped in Kiri Village at 10 days interval
Results showed that there was no significant difference in larval mortality between the treatments at 2,4,6,8 and 10 days interval in selected three villages. But since the larval mortality ranged from 10.24 % observed at day two to maximum of 85.60 % at day 10, it could be assumed that all the treatments were effective for the control of the insect pest. Minimum larval mortality (10.24 %) was observed in village Sahu at day 2 with treatment of bait with chemical insecticide and maximum larval mortality (21.30 %) with poison bait and Bt formulation at Sahu village, but there was no significant difference between larval mortality. Similar results were also obtained on day 6 and day 10. The CDp=0.05 value of 1.76 and 1.64 was observed at day 4 and day 8, but the % larval mortality did not differ significantly among the treatments. Minimum (21.37 %) and maximum larval mortality (34.05 %) were observed at day 4 but were statistically at par with each other. Similar results were obtained at Day 8 where minimum larval mortality (62.12 %) and maximum larval mortality (78.03 %) were obtained. The results revealed that all the treatments, though, resulted in larval mortalities above 70 % at 10 days interval but all treatments were statistically at par with each other. These results are in accordance with the results obtained by Duraimurugan and Srinivas (2017) who reported that poison bait of wheat bran + sugarcane jaggery + chlorpyriphos 20EC was effective and resulted maximum larval mortality of 51.1 to 53.3% and 43.3 to 56.7% as compared to 45.6 to 50% and 42.2 to 52.2% mortality in standard check (rice bran + sugarcane jaggery + monocrotophos 36SC) against S. litura in castor.
3.2. Trapping of adults
Poison bait with insecticide and Bt formulations were also used to assess the number of adults trapped in these baits. The number of adults trapped in these baits have been shown in figure 1 to 3 for each selected village. Figure 1 depicts the adults trapped in village Sahu. The data was collected at 10 days interval starting from 10th May till 30th August 2019. It was observed that the trapping peak was observed in the months of June and July. Maximum number of adults were trapped on 30th July 2019 in both types of traps. Baits with Bt formulations recorded maximum of 20 adults whereas that of Methomyl insecticide recorded 18 adults. Thereafter, there was decline in the number of adults trapped. Maximum of 12 adults were also trapped in the control treatment with rice or wheat flour and jaggery. The results thus revealed that the insect adults were attracted to the mixture of jaggery and flour. The reason for less count in control was due to the fact that in the baits with insecticide and Bt formulations, were killed and were thus trapped in the traps, but in control since there was no insecticide and some of the adults attracted to the jaggery mixture might have flew back to the fields. Similar results were also observed in village Bhanauta where peak activity of the pest was observed at the end week of June when maximum 18 adults were trapped in baits with Bt formulations and 16 adults with baits having chemical insecticide Methomyl. Maximum of 11 adults were also trapped in control traps. Thus, peak activity of insect-pest was recorded at the end of June and after that the activity of the pest decreased. Thus, these traps were useful tool for trapping and monitoring the insect pest.
Maximum activity of the pest at Kiri village was observed in the first week of July with maximum number of 18 and 17 adults were trapped in baits with insecticide and Bt formulations, respectively. Maximum adult count of 10 was observed in control at the end of June and in the beginning of July month. The results in this study are well supported by the results of Ivan et al (2012) with the use of sex pheromone traps against S. frugiperda in maize. They reported that 54 adults were captured during 64 consecutive days with the use of pheromone traps and insecticides.
From the present study it could be concluded that poison baits can help in trapping of males which hinders mating and reproduction. Further these baits and Bt formulations can be effective in killing larvae (with maximum larval mortality of 83.24 % with poison baits and 85.60% with Bt sprays) as reported under this study. Use of Bt formulations in agriculture should be promoted for the management of the insect pest as these are safer to honey bees and pollinators, too.
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1992 American Olympic team, The Dream Team, which to this day is considered one of the greatest sporting teams ever assembled, NBA TV created this documentary to reveal how this iconic team came to be. From it's formation to the controversy that surrounded the selection of players and rivalry's that existed among those that were picked to play. The team itself consisted of Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, John Stockton, Karl Malone, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin, David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler, and the sole amatuer player Christian Laettner (of Duke University).
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly permeating many facets of our lives, raising both hope and concern about possibilities for our future. AI is transforming domains as disparate as science, medicine, commerce, government, law, the military, and the arts, and in doing so, it is forcing us to grapple with practical, political, and philosophical questions about humans and the nature of human interaction. The Harvard Radcliffe Institute Science Symposium, featuring speakers from disparate disciplines and industries, will examine AI, its impact, and its ethics by exploring current and...
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Thea Riofrancos's current project, "Brine to Batteries: The Extractive Frontiers of the Global Energy Transition," explores the politics of the transition to renewable energy through the lens of one of its key technologies: lithium batteries. Based on multisited fieldwork following lithium's global supply chains from the point of extraction in the Chilean desert, "Brine to Batteries" will be the first scholarly account of the rapidly moving processes shaping the contours of the next energy system—and those of our planetary future.
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For years I had stayed away from coin magic. It never really struck a cord with me....especially 3 fly routines. It's funny looking at it now as my 3fly routine has played a major role in helping me win The Magic Circle Close-up Magician of the Year, The IBM (British Ring) Close-up Magician of the Year, The Macmillan International Close-up magician of the Year along with my two FISM awards.
Back in 2006 when I was the Head Magician at Illusions Magic Bar in Manchester England, I decided that I needed a coin trick for my bar set and vowed that I wouldn't rest until I had developed the best coin trick in the world. In my eyes, I honestly believe that is what I have done, and now it is yours to use and take and make your own.
This specially made gimmicked Kennedy Half-Dollar coin set allows you to perform one of the fairest looking 3 flys around. You can openly show only 3 coins throughout the routine and the climax where the final coin slowly and elegantly floats from one hand to the other leaves them speechless. There is very little sleight of hand needed and you are expertly run through the moves on the accompanying DVD. The pre-show set up takes only a couple of minutes and the in-show get ready takes only a couple of seconds.
This effect is not only part of my competition act but is something I use every single day of my performing life and it never fails to get reactions.
A full instructional DVD which explains the handling of the coins, how to prepare the hook up, how to hook up during performance and different ways to store the gimiicks so that you can perform the effect mid show.
NOTE: Trailer shows the routine using Morgan Dollar coins. Morgan Dollar coins are NOT included.


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Luther Blissett's novel "Q"
Since the end of 1995, some of us have been working on a Luther Blissett's novel, which is in the press right now and will hit the bookstores on 2 March. The title is 'Q', and it's an anti-copyright 700-pages-long hard-boiled flick. We managed to impose the anti-copyright clause to Einaudi, that is one of the most prestigious and biggest publishers, comparable to Gallimard in France or Faber & Faber in the UK. We protected our work by a series of smoke-screens and rather absurd rumors, letting some mind-boggling info leak out to the media. Some hacks speculated about the "Brain" behind the renowned multi-use-name, called Umberto Eco into question (originally, it was a Neo-Fascist conspiracy theory), then alluded to some "heretic prelate" as the real author of the book. In the meanwhile, we got in touch with some serious media operators, people who were less interested in the author's identity than in the book itself. We sent them the page-proofs, and a few advance reviews appeared, one of which I've translated in order to make you grasp what the novel is about (see appendix).
Last week we issued a press release that went: 'Bourgeois narrow-mindedness encloses the field of creation then sows "Authors", "Copyright" and big "Names". This prevents people from realizing that writing is always a collective process, ideas are nobody's property, "Genius" does not exist, there's just a Great Ricombination. This is what Blissett's been trying to tell you for years, you obtuse defenders of intellectual property. "Q" is the product of an invisible insurrection of a million minds (and two million feet kicking John Paul's ass). For more than three years this large network of events poured hundreds of sub-texts and sub-plots into the novel. Even if a few individuals had made the final editing, this would not count for spit, but in case you are dying to know, keep cool, the recognition's timing will be perfect.'
When the book will be out, we'll spread the following statement: 'We are [...the names of the four editors...]. All you are going to know about us is that we are based in Bologna. We are from 26 up to 35 years old. Some of us work as bouncers at night clubs [...] We have been active in the Luther Blissett Project since its beginnings, and integral parts of the Bologna scene since the late Eighties. We had and keep having problems with the Law.
Our names are far from being important. Our biographies are even less relevant. We are the team that actually wrote "Q", and yet we are less than the 0.04% of the LBP. The fact that we are coming out does not comprise our self-spectacularization, we do not intend to give up our privacy to become (moderately) "young" fashionable novelists and talk show guests, which would be a very dishonourable end. If that ever happens we hope that other Blissetts will finish us off like wounded horses.
Quite the contrary, our move is aimed at showing that we are a collective entity, not a single "Author". Behind Luther Blissett (and behind 'Q' as well) there is no boss, no mysterious scholar, nor have we been the only Blissetts who contributed.
It is the network the future of creative writing.'
[Appendix] From "La Stampa", 25 January 1999:
A Survivor From The XVIth Century
Q: An Action Novel and A Breath-taking thriller authored by Luther Blissett
[...] 650 pages that make us sink in Sixteenth Century Europe, a continent fractured by that war of religions which generated the modern world. This is Q's historical frame (Is Q for Qoelet? Yes and no). It is an action novel and a breath-taking thriller, using a razor-sharp language and cinematic sequences in order to capture the reader and drag them into a remarkable political/theological magma. The author is unknown, except for the Luther Blissett *nomen omen*, i.e. the ineffable alias that means both everybody and nobody. And we might say that Nobody (a *sui generis* Ulysses) is the novel's protagonist for thirty years of violence, arson, heretics, the Church (Pietro Carafa, not yet Pope Paul IV), excommunications, corruption and swindles. He is The Survivor, going through the Peasants' War declared by Thomas Muenzer then strangled in blood at the battle of Frankenhausen, 1525 [...]; going through the defeat of the Anabaptists in Muenster... going through the Inquisition, till he comes to the pleasure-loving Venice of whorehouses and then to the Bosford, where the colossal duel with Q comes to an end. "Q" is as scholarly as Professors Ginzburg and Prosperi's essays, yet it is compelling and colorful [...]. The search for the anonymous has already started, although reading the novel is more amusing.'


I realized I didn't have many examples of tech packs. And so, I've created a tech pack for my tailored coat ensemble, which is also available for you to see on my website here. In this tech pack, I've included CADs made in Adobe Illustrator, callouts, color way placements, and a bill of materials. I've also included a label placement, which doesn't exist in the real dress, but demonstrates my vision for the label.


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// Non linear Shift based interpolated LMs

class shiftone: public mdiadaptlm{
protected:
  int prunethresh;
  double beta;
public:
  shiftone(char* ngtfile,int depth=0,int prunefreq=0,TABLETYPE tt=SHIFTBETA_B);
  int train();
  int discount(ngram ng,int size,double& fstar,double& lambda,int cv=0);
  ~shiftone(){}
};

class shiftbeta: public mdiadaptlm{
 protected:
  int prunethresh;
  double* beta;

 public:
  shiftbeta(char* ngtfile,int depth=0,int prunefreq=0,double beta=-1,TABLETYPE tt=SHIFTBETA_B);
  int train();
  int discount(ngram ng,int size,double& fstar,double& lambda,int cv=0);
  ~shiftbeta(){delete [] beta;}

};

class symshiftbeta: public shiftbeta{
 public:
  symshiftbeta(char* ngtfile,int depth=0,int prunefreq=0,double beta=-1):
    shiftbeta(ngtfile,depth,prunefreq,beta){}
  int discount(ngram ng,int size,double& fstar,double& lambda,int cv=0);
};

class mshiftbeta: public mdiadaptlm{
 protected:
  int prunethresh;
  double beta[3][MAX_NGRAM];
  ngramtable* tb[MAX_NGRAM];

  double oovsum;

 public:
  mshiftbeta(char* ngtfile,int depth=0,int prunefreq=0,TABLETYPE tt=MSHIFTBETA_B);
  int train();
  int discount(ngram ng,int size,double& fstar,double& lambda,int cv=0);

  ~mshiftbeta(){}

  int mfreq(ngram& ng,int l){return (l<lmsize()?getfreq(ng.link,ng.pinfo,1):ng.freq);}

};

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Q: Write text into an inputbox using buttons i'm trying to create some kind of Desktop Keyboard (using/writing kyrillic letters in my text field). I came across the Problem that i can only write the first letter because of the assignment of the variable.
can someone tell me an easy way to get around that?

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
        <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
            function rukeyboard() {
                var newtext = document.Keyboard.A.value; // <-- Problem is that newtext is only pointed to Keyboard.A but should be usable for 33 letters
                document.Keyboard.outputtext.value += newtext;
            }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form name="Keyboard">
            <input type="button" name="A" value="A" onClick="rukeyboard();">
            <input type="button" name="B" value="B" onClick="rukeyboard();">
            <input name="outputtext">
        </form>
    </body>
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A: Try this

function rukeyboard(newtext) {
    document.Keyboard.outputtext.value += newtext;
}
<form name="Keyboard">
    <input type="button" name="A" value="A" onClick="rukeyboard(this.value);">
    <input type="button" name="B" value="B" onClick="rukeyboard(this.value);">
    <input name="outputtext" value="">
</form>

A: This should solve your purpose :
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
        <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
            function rukeyboard(button) {
                var newtext = button.value; // <-- Problem is that newtext is only pointed to Keyboard.A but should be usable for 33 letters
                document.Keyboard.outputtext.value += newtext;
            }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form name="Keyboard">
            <input type="button" name="A" value="A" onClick="rukeyboard(this);">        <input type="button" name="B" value="B" onClick="rukeyboard(this);">
            <input name="outputtext">
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

Here is a fiddle : https://jsfiddle.net/wet32n06/

A: You can also try this solution.
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
        <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
            function rukeyboard() {
              //  var newtext = document.Keyboard.A.value; // <-- Problem is that newtext is only pointed to Keyboard.A but should be usable for 33 letters
                document.Keyboard.outputtext.value += document.activeElement.value;
            }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form name="Keyboard">
            <input type="button" name="A" value="A" onClick="rukeyboard();">
            <input type="button" name="B" value="B" onClick="rukeyboard();">
            <input name="outputtext">
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

But personally I will prefer using jquery to associate the functions, as there are lots of input tag and u have to manually call for each input tag.
So One good way will be using jquery.each to loop through all inputs, and bind the function using jquery on to the inputs.

A: Here is a solution using Jquery
HTML
<body>
    <button value="A" name="A">A</button>
    <button value="B" name="B">B</button>
    <input id="outputtext" name="outputtext">
</body>

JQuery
<script>
     $(document).on("click", "button", function() {
          $("#outputtext").val($("#outputtext").val() + "" + this.value);
     });
</script>


When you decide to make that big step and get hardwood floors installed in your home, it is at the same time an exciting and intimidating process. After all, the investment in new hardwood floors is a significant step in your life and in the improvement of your home. But as it true of any big investment, the process of selecting and then installing that hardwood floor takes some time to understand. Even after the installation is done, you will also seek out instruction and wisdom about how to take good care of your wood floors .
Each phase of the process from finding the right hardwood for your home, to getting the best price you can get to deciding between engineered hardwood, hardwood laminate or genuine hardwood to buying the flooring to installation is important. So its natural to have some questions about how to go about getting that wood floor installed so that it is an installation you can count on?
Is This a Project I have to get a Contractor for?
When you buy your flooring, the supplier will line you up with contractors or they will have people who work with them that can do the installation for you. If you have had success with other fairly large scale DIY projects, there is no reason you cannot succeed at installing your own hardwood floor. But you should get a good feel for the process so you know what you are getting into. If possible, help a friend install his hardwood floor. That is an excellent apprenticeship to learn the tricks of hardwood floor installation before taking on your own project.
What Things Should I Look Out for When Preparing for the Installation?
Between the time when you order your flooring and when the installation materials arrive, be sure the existing floor is clear of previous flooring. If you have carpet, linoleum or tile down, it might be a project in itself to get that material removed. If the previous flooring was laid down using adhesive, do what you can to get the reside of that adhesive cleaned so when you install your hardwood floor in place, you are covering up a well prepared floor. Also make sure that the existing concrete flooring is level and in good repair before you cover it up with a hardwood floor.
What tools should I assemble for a DIY installation?
Depending on the method you use to secure the flooring to the sub floor, you may need hammers, a carpenter's square, a pry bar, a fan, a circular saw, a tape measure, a wedge, A bar to pry up the old flooring, a vacuum cleaner, and a utility knife. You should keep a fan on hand that can be set up to blow into the room to help when you lay the adhesive and when you finish the flooring so it can dry thoroughly, evenly and quickly.
When you get the flooring, you will be cutting ends off and preparing custom sizes to fit different parts of the room. The circular saw will help with this process but you should also keep smaller saws on hand for adjustments to be made in place as well as sandpaper and files. Remember that there will be dust and fumes so plan to have coverings for your mouth and for the people who are working with you as well.
What Are the Primary Means of Securing the Floor in Place?
There are three ways that hardwood flooring is laid. It is either secured to a base of plywood using nails or it is glued down. The third way actually does not secure it at all. This is called a floating hardwood installation that sets the flooring in place without any means of holding it in place. This is an easier installation but you must order your flooring to be prepared for a floating installation. It is not the kind of installation you do at the last minute.
Which is the Better Choice - DIY or Hiring an Installation Contractor?
You know the sense of gratification you get from doing a DIY installation. It is always a great feeling to know you can perform a pretty involved installation like putting in a hardwood floor yourself. And it is a cost savings not to hire a contractor. But be honest with yourself and if you do not feel you can do the job, it is better to pay the extra to have the job done well than to have problems and possibly install your hardwood floor incorrectly which will only lead to a lifetime of problems after the job is done. There is no better choice because only you know your skills. To think it all through thoroughly and in the end you will be as happy with that installation as you will be with your beautiful new hardwood flooring.


July 21 marked five years since the Dodd-Frank law was passed.
President Barack Obama said the statute would "end banks being too big to fail, promote financial stability and lift the economy." According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, none of this has happened.
Big banks are bigger, small banks are fewer, and the financial system is less stable. Community financial institutions, which make the bulk of small business loans, are overwhelmed by the law's complexity. The country is losing on average one community bank or credit union a day.
Before Dodd-Frank, 75 percent of banks offered free checking, but now only 39 percent do so because of the "Durbin Amendment," which imposed price controls on the fee paid by retailers when consumers use a debit card. Bank fees have also increased.
Dodd-Frank's Volker rule, banning proprietary trading by banks, has drastically reduced liquidity for making markets in fixed-income assets. The corporate bond market is one of the primary channels for capital formation in the economy. Reduced liquidity in this market amplifies volatility.
Dodd-Frank's purpose is for the government to take over by regulation the financial industry just as Obamacare allows the government to take over by regulation the health care industry.
If that isn't outright socialism, what is?


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Cyber readiness: The state of play in technology, media and telecommunications
November 27th, 2020 .
Authored by Hiscox Experts .
The UK's technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector is vast – in London alone, revenue generated by companies in this sector accounts for approximately £125 billion, or 8% of national GDP (external link).
With high value comes significant potential for losses, however. This means cybercrime could be a key concern for organisations in this diverse industry, which brings together software development firms, television networks and home-based media agencies, amongst others.
When it comes to cyber security, each industry faces unique challenges, as we outlined in the Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2020.
In an accompanying table that ranked UK sectors according to cyber security, radically different levels of threat and preparedness were seen.
Here, we take a closer look at one of the nation's most valuable and forward-thinking sectors to see just how secure it is.
The landscape as things stand
Our Threat Ranking Table, published in the summer, revealed that 34% of businesses in the UK's TMT sector faced at least one incident or breach in the last 12 months.
In further analysis of UK data from our Cyber Readiness Report 2020, the most common type of incident was revealed to be phishing, which accounted for 53% of the incidents responding organisations had experienced. Phishing occurrences included email, voicemail, SMS and even postal tactics.
Website-related incidents, such as hacking attempts targeting digital vulnerabilities, came in second place – 42% took this format.
Ransomware infections were also common, with 23% of cyber events creating the need to recover data from backup systems and the same proportion resulting in a drive to rebuild datasets following an attack.
Each of these cyber security events carries a cost – whether that's from the direct need to recover control of systems or the interruption to business as usual, which in turn may impact client relationships and a firm's reputation.
In TMT, the median cost of cyber events was $75,000 globally and $39,600* in the UK. This is more than ten times the cost incurred by the UK travel and leisure sector, for instance, which lost just $3,470 according to the Threat Ranking Table.
When we consider how digitally-adept many organisations in the TMT sector profess to be, these losses may be surprising. They paint a picture of a sector that requires more heightened cyber vigilance.
So, what impact have cyber incidents had on firms in the space? We analysed UK and sector-specific responses from our 2020 report to investigate.
A quarter said security and privacy are regularly evaluated or discussed as a result of the cyber incidents they'd experienced. This was the most common form of action taken within the industry.
More than one in five (23%) said they had invested in cultural change, including employee training, while 21% purchased a cyber insurance policy to boost their resilience.
A further 21% said they had implemented additional cyber security and audit requirements. The same proportion of business representatives said they had increased spending on crisis management.
This may suggest that organisations are still more likely to prioritise direct security measures rather than working to mitigate the full range of potential impacts.
Interestingly, 30% of firms believed they were not at risk of facing a cyber incident – a stark figure considered against the backdrop of significant financial losses. More than a third of businesses in the sector experienced a cyber event within the 12-month period.
The sector acknowledges risk, with 43% of UK organisations in the sector admitted to believing they were at risk of facing a cyber incident.
These numbers suggest that the sector is mostly aware, but perhaps complacent in areas – a trend which could exacerbate problems for some firms.
Behind the sector's trends
These intriguing patterns – of sizeable losses and mixed attitudes to response – suggest the sector may be split.
Division was a key feature across this year's report, which saw cyber security spending soar by 39% globally.
This is thought to have led to a divide between the winners and losers of cyber preparedness, which is evident in the UK data. As cyber losses have grown, levels of expertise have risen to meet the challenge, meaning a small number of unprepared firms may be absorbing a higher proportion of the harm.
This is the cyber expertise model, which suggests cyber-savvy organisations are using their knowledge to carve out an advantage.
In the UK's TMT sector, 13% of firms were classified as cyber novices in the Cyber Readiness Report, alongside 16% as cyber opportunists and 21% as experts.
This means the sector is top-heavy with experts – a strong position to hold. It may help to explain why losses were not higher in a sector within which 35% of organisations faced cyber incidents.
A huge 85% of TMT companies employed a named cyber security leader or team which took responsibility for all things cyber.
More than two thirds (67%) in the sector feel confident in their cyber security readiness.
Perhaps most significantly, the Threat Ranking Table revealed that a huge 61% of TMT firms said they could clearly measure the impact of a cyber breach – a clear indicator of cyber security proficiency.
This placed the sector within a hair's breadth of the best for this indicator – and forged out a gap between TMT and some of the higher-risk sectors, such as business services and food.
This matters, since in general, experts tend to be more resilient when suffering breaches. However, the relationship between spending and resilience isn't always clear-cut.
According to the Cyber Readiness Report 2020, firms that spent double-digit percentages of their IT budget on cyber security measures were less likely to have experienced an incident or breach than those spending less than 5%.
This finding came with a note of caution, since the big spenders were often larger firms, which suffered higher-than-average costs when breaches did occur.
Since it's never wholly possible to prevent cyber attacks and breaches, this can equate to big losses for the larger organisations.
"Size brings more customers, higher notification costs and bigger ransoms," the report notes.
The cyber spend within the TMT sector has increased in recent years, which may have defended the industry against the worst impacts of cybercrime and breaches, as the graph below demonstrates.
Nonetheless, there remains great diversity within TMT – something which may be partly due to the diversity of the businesses within a sector comprising global corporations and owner-director start-ups.
It's also possible that there could be diversity between technology-focused organisations and traditional media firms. This may help explain why, despite the sector's proficiencies, just one in four TMT organisations have implemented measures such as regular security and privacy evaluation.
If the industry is divided into cyber-smart organisations and those with room for improvement, then these groups may face very different fates in the coming years.
How will the TMT sector approach the future?
Despite its divisions, this sector can serve as a positive example to others. Our data shows that TMT firms are busy building resilience in several ways. There is also a generally strong understanding of the importance of procedural reviews.
Resilience-boosting methods are reflected in TMT spending priorities. During the next 12 months, 54% of organisations surveyed plan to invest in end-user device malware detection. The same proportion intends to achieve or maintain regulatory compliance.
These plans suggest an astute understanding of the task at hand in a sector affected most by phishing. End-user device malware detection is recognised as a strong method for boosting general protection against phishing and ransomware attacks, including on business smartphones.
52% of businesses said improving the security of customer-facing services and applications was a spending priority. Since the sector faced a high number of attacks via website vulnerabilities, this suggests a move in the right direction.
More than half (58%) of firms had a cyber insurance policy in place. Despite this, only 27% enjoyed the protection of a standalone policy.
Since the Cyber Readiness Report 2020 highlighted the importance of stand-alone cover, this could create an area of vulnerability for the sector if not addressed.
The report highlighted that firms were 15 times more likely to face a cyber incident than a fire or theft, with just 2% facing the latter threat types.
Despite this, many companies – including in the TMT space – still treat cyber protection as an afterthought.
The research revealed that expertise and insurance go together – many expert firms take out insurance, perhaps because personnel have a thorough understanding of the risks. In turn, organisations with access to a comprehensive cyber policy may be able to make use of expert advice, further boosting their resilience.
It isn't possible to completely eliminate cyber risks, so this type of preparation works in areas others can't – by funding data recovery efforts following a breach, for instance.
A minority of businesses in the sector, 14%, see reviewing internal policies and procedures as a low business priority.
Adequate protection and understanding may not yet be universal, but on the whole this sector has a positive outlook.
With better insurance coverage and an increase in cyber knowledge, the future could be bright for cyber readiness within the TMT sector.
* The median cost of cyber events and figure of $39,600 was taken from the Hiscox Threat Ranking Table which can be found on the link above.
The findings from the Hiscox Threat Ranking Table were taken from their Cyber Readiness study focusing on UK data only. Risk scores were calculated using the UK average for each category as a benchmark, assigning points from 1-10 for percentage above or below this benchmark. 70 is the maximum risk score that could be obtained and seven the lowest. The lower the risk score, the less the risk.
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This columnist does not often launch into full-throated discourses to the benefit of the top 1 percent. As a staunch left libertarian with a socialist bent, the emphasis is usually on the plight of the underdog. But it is important to voice concern when the general public takes up the torch of self-righteousness and starts to march on a private residence, in an attempt to burn down, with rhetoric, a house that has not even been built yet.
Over the past couple of weeks, much has been made of a decision by the city of Ashland to allow Bryan Deboer, CEO of Lithia Motors and son of Sidney, to build a conspicuously positioned private residence on Winburn Way. (Correction: The address of the proposed home has been corrected in this story.) The home (which looks pretty magnificent in the preliminary sketches, a tribute to the inventiveness of regional architect Carlos Delgado) is aesthetically appropriate to the environment, a beautifully proportioned mid-century modern design of surprisingly modest scale, considering the fact that Mr. DeBoer took home $5.5 million in 2013, and $3.1 million the year after that, according to Morningstar, an investment research firm. The house is hardly some plutocratic ziggurat — it stands in at less than 3,000 square feet.
As usual, there has been much hand-wringing and incendiary gossip within the knee-jerk coterie. Some have implied that the City Council (once led by Alan DeBoer, former mayor and uncle to Bryan) have rolled over on permits in order to get the plans through. Others have taken to the pages of this very paper, naming DeBoer as an "oligarch" and suggesting that he is building his home as some overblown temple to his own ego; that he has little or no consideration for the construction noise and general disruption that inevitably comes when a rich man bows before his own desire for such conspicuous consumption.
Let's evaluate that, for a moment. The DeBoer family has been in Ashland since at least the 1940s. With the success of Lithia Motors, Sid DeBoer has built his company into a national juggernaut that has focused its businesses on the mid-level market. You won't find Lithia Motors making their money on Ferrari and Bentley. Indeed, it is reported that their preference for more affordable vehicles is as much about the philosophy of the family as it is about profitability. If you like your daily workout at the distinctly egalitarian YMCA of Ashland, you can thank Sid and Karen DeBoer. If Shakespeare is more your thing, you can thank them again. A fan of Lake of the Woods? The DeBoer family have restored Camp Low Echo as a haven for nonprofit groups. And before you get annoyed with young Bryan for building his house on a piece of land that has thus far been utilized as an asylum for ineptly run small businesses or perpetually unrentable commercial space, you might consider that his family has donated more than most of us earn in a lifetime to the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy. Lithia Motors also employs over 8,500 people, thanks to an $5.39 billion revenue stream.
The point of all this? To provide substance for the assertion of this columnist that DeBoer and his family might just have some other interests in mind that transcend the autocratic agenda being foisted upon them by a disproportionately hostile group of local bellyachers.
If Ashland is to be seen as legitimate in its much-vaunted reputation as an inclusive town, then we have to make sure that it's not only the homeless and the destitute that we are willing to welcome with open arms. A hometown millionaire should also be able to build his dream house and live happily at the epicenter of that town — regardless, and perhaps in spite of, what your personal opinion might be on such a decision.
Ashland resident Jeffrey Gillespie is a Daily Tidings columnist, arts reviewer and freelance writer. Email him at gillespie.jeffrey@gmail.com.


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Robert Stadler – Product Designer
Alquimista,Austria,Monochrome series,Pools and Poufs series,Robert Stadler
What would domestic interiors be like if they were deprived of furniture? This and other intriguing questions are posed by award-winning Austrian designer Robert Stadler.
Low Table
There's nothing typical or ordinary about a Robert Stadler product. Every design is a surprise. Every installation makes you think twice, look again. And even after twenty years in the business, this award-winning creative genius shows no sign of reigning in the horses of his imagination.
Stadler was born in Vienna, Austria in 1966. He studied design in Milan and Paris following which he founded the RADI Designers group in 1992. The group was active until 2008. Since then, Stadler lives and works solo in Paris. His work is represented by various international brands including Dior, Maison Thierry Costes, Nissan and Thonet.
Cheese Plate
Stadler's work encompasses very different fields ranging from art installations, product design, limited edition furniture and lighting. His furniture, for example, is perfectly functional, yet not out of place in a museum.
One of his early works, Do Cut (2000) takes the shape of an "abstract totem with no obvious purpose". The product comes with a saw so that "the user can decide which object – a stool, a lampshade, or a vase – will appear when the hollow column is cut". Do Cut gives a new meaning to DIY, for sure.
Part of the 'Plate series, the Low Table and Cheese Plate (2001) is reminiscent of traditional pottery work. Stadler and his team "distorted, cut and stuck together pressed plates–standard pottery objects – before firing them. This is the origin of a family of containers that are hybrid in terms of the way they are made: they are both 'handmade' and 'machine made'.
What would domestic interiors be like if they were deprived of furniture? The 'Pools and Poufs' series takes the traditional Chesterfield sofas and turns them into three dimensional furniture. Affixed to walls or free-standing, these pieces look like they're melting, or ready to slide off.
They look like drops of water left after a thunder shower. Similarly, the Monochrome series plays with traditional shapes as well. In this case, quilting is used only where necessary, to help the leather mould itself to the shape of the furniture.
The Cut Paste series takes discarded marble and aluminium panels and creates usable furniture from them. The console tables, bookshelves and coffee tables are geometric beauties and you'd never guess that these are recycled.
Alquimista
The re-usability of a piece is also reflected in the Apart stool/table (2015) where the table can be transformed into a stool, using the wall as a backrest.
The Alquimista is cosy and makes you want to snuggle up under its warmth. Made by Coopa Roca, an association of seamstresses in Rocinha, (Rio de Janeiro), all the materials used come from suppliers who provide material for the Carnival parades. "The gold-coloured aluminium reflector produces a particularly soft light, creating a peaceful space below it."
The EVAA lamp (2011) was created for low ceilings, in a bid to avoid in-built spotlights as they make a room look "anonymous". EVAA is inspired by metal grilles traditionally seen in front of fluorescent lights. Think of street lights in India, for example. The twist, literally, is in the shape of the grill. The EVAA is convex, "giving extra volume to the spotlight and muting the light by minimising the direct angle of vision towards the light source."
EVAA lamp
The PdT is another example of this reuse. "PdT stands for Pierre de taille (Ashlar) in French. It refers to a traditional way of making architecture following a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) process. Here blocks of stone left over from an imaginary building site seem to have worn down to new shapes on a domestic scale: melancholic traces of an architectural past. These limestone remnants are carved out by a digitally controlled milling machine."
Back in 5 min
Stadler's installations are also remarkable and full of little details. 'Back in 5 min' plays with the various time shifts and anachronisms of places which used to be full of life and are now frozen into a museum space.
1000 Jours (exhibition)
Robert Stadler's current philosophy is 'Invasive Shifting Absurd Exercise' where all his works are grouped within these four notions and appearing in different percentages. In an interview to design publication Artemest, Stadler explains, "A certain project can be 63% invasive, 11 % shifting and 36% absurd for example. This classification is an absurd exercise in itself, yet done with utmost seriousness. It's my self-portrait."
Absurd exercises can have some unusual results and one can almost guarantee that Robert Stadler's new 'self-portrait' will be as intriguing and exciting as all his previous work has been.
Text By Chryselle D'Silva Dias
Photographs Courtesy The Designer
email: info@robertstadler.net
web: www.robertstadler.net


End elections, choose leaders by lottery.
The problem with our politics is money gets people elected. Choose representatives by lottery. This new system would allow people other than rich lawyers to get into office. The corporations would not know who to bribe. A homeless congressman would be possible, or a retired teacher, unemployed car factory worker, even rich business men.
Of course meny people voted in on a lottery would be vulnerable to bribery!
And what happens when the majority of those who sign up for the lottery are uninformed yahoos who just want attention and have no intention of actually doing what the jobs entail? Can you imagine the cast of Jersey Shore running the country?
The system would change, people would be more informed because there would be no elite class controlling them and keeping them in the dark. If more than half of us are uninformed, and an uninformed person gets a leadership position, it seems fair to me. This leader will speak for the uninformed, the poorly educated, those who have never owned land or a house. Under our current system money buys education, this heeps the poor uninformed and docile. If we had to risk the least of us being in charge maybe we would invest more in education.
I don't know, Matt. I am (I would say) a little more informed than the average person, and I prefer to have more informed people representing my interests. I do agree that education should be more of a priority instead of other things (defense and so forth), but maybe that's where the spotlight should shine. Not on ending the election process, but on educating the masses a little more. If more people knew how government institutions affect their daily lives, perhaps they would be more inclined to care. For the sake of argument, what would happen if someone was chosen who didn't want to be there? Would it be compulsory? Or would there be a new drawing until someone stepped up? I have a child at home and am a full time student with a part time job... I wouldn't want the responsibility of government leadership on top of all of that.