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Q: why does next-auth give TypeError Cannot destructure property 'manager' of 'connection' as it is null? This error happens when I connect to mongo atlas but when I use a local database it works fine. Check out the db connection image and terminal error for more info.
dbconnect.ts
import mongoose from "mongoose";

export default async function dbConnect() {

    if (mongoose.connection.readyState >= 1) {
        return;
    }

    return mongoose.connect(process.env.MONGO_URL as string, {
        useNewUrlParser: true,
        useUnifiedTopology: true,
        useFindAndModify: false,
        useCreateIndex: true,
    });
}

This is the error I am getting below
Top-level use of w, wtimeout, j, and fsync is deprecated.
Use writeConcern instead.
(node:4052) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'MongoError' of module exports inside circular dependency
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
Top-level use of w, wtimeout, j, and fsync is deprecated. Use writeConcern instead.
[next-auth][error][adapter_connection_error]
https://next-auth.js.org/errors#adapter_connection_error MongoError: Authentication failed.
    at MessageStream.messageHandler (C:\Users\Sebas\Documents\ProdCode\fitur\node_modules\mongodb\lib\cmap\connection.js:268:20)
    at MessageStream.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at processIncomingData (C:\Users\Sebas\Documents\ProdCode\fitur\node_modules\mongodb\lib\cmap\message_stream.js:144:12)
    at MessageStream._write (C:\Users\Sebas\Documents\ProdCode\fitur\node_modules\mongodb\lib\cmap\message_stream.js:42:5)
    at writeOrBuffer (internal/streams/writable.js:358:12)
    at MessageStream.Writable.write (internal/streams/writable.js:303:10)
    at TLSSocket.ondata (internal/streams/readable.js:719:22)
    at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at addChunk (internal/streams/readable.js:309:12)
    at readableAddChunk (internal/streams/readable.js:284:9)
    at TLSSocket.Readable.push (internal/streams/readable.js:223:10)
    at TLSWrap.onStreamRead (internal/stream_base_commons.js:188:23) {
  ok: 0,
  code: 8000,
  codeName: 'AtlasError'
}
[next-auth][error][session_error]
https://next-auth.js.org/errors#session_error TypeError: Cannot destructure property 'manager' of 'connection' as it is null.

A: You can check by console.log(process.env.MONGO_URL) inside the function dbConnect() to see whether it is undefined or not.
This is because I have the same problem with this same error message

MongoError: Authentication failed

I required dotenv in app.js file but when app starts, it will start with bin/www file. So I put the below code in bin/www file.
// Config
require('dotenv').config({
  path: './config/keys.env'
})

In dbConnection.js file,
// Connecting database
module.exports.connectDB = async () => {
  try {
    await mongoose
      .connect(process.env.MONGODB_URL, {
        useNewUrlParser: true,
        useUnifiedTopology: true,
        useFindAndModify: false,
        useCreateIndex: true,
      })
      .then(() => console.log("MongoDB connected..."));
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(err);
  }
};

And surprisingly everything works fine for me after that.
So you should check first. If that is undefined, it means your env file processes after bdConnect() executes.

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Q: C# Problem with Oauth I am trying to create oauth signature. But I dont know what I am doing wrong because the site giving unauthorize error. I am using oauth version 1.0. Method is HMAC-SHA1 and it is google based oauth. My base string is correct because it checked it with sample output.
My code :
string oauthSig = "";
        string baseString = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(httpMethod.ToUpper()) + "&" +
                            HttpUtility.UrlEncode(url) + "&" +
                            HttpUtility.UrlEncode("oauth_callback="+callback+"&"+
                                                  "oauth_consumer_key="+consumerKey+"&"+
                                                  "oauth_nonce="+nounce+"&"+
                                                  "oauth_signature_method="+sigMethod+"&"+
                                                  "oauth_timestamp=" + timestamp + "&" +
                                                  "oauth_version=" + version
                                                  );
        HMACSHA1 myhmacsha1 = new HMACSHA1(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(HttpUtility.UrlEncode(consumeSecret)),true);
        byte[] hashValue = myhmacsha1.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(baseString));
        oauthSig = Convert.ToBase64String(hashValue);

Please tell me if I am doing anything wrong.
Thanks

A: The key to the signature should be:
CONSUMER_SECRET + '&' + TOKEN_SECRET
And since you do not have a token secret yet, you should use CONSUMER_SECRET and an ampersand  (&) as the key to the signature.
Edit, further clarification:
HMACSHA1 hmacsha1 = new HMACSHA1();
hmacsha1.Key = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(string.Format("{0}&{1}", UrlEncode(consumerSecret), string.IsNullOrEmpty(tokenSecret) ? "" : UrlEncode(tokenSecret)));

byte[] dataBuffer = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data);
byte[] hashBytes  = hmacsha1.ComputeHash(dataBuffer);

return Convert.ToBase64String(hashBytes);

I've not tested the code but i've taken it from from oauth.googlecode.com - OAuthBase.cs. I highly recommend checking it out, it should do everything you want.


The synthesis of credible environmental sound textures such as wind, rain, fire, crowds, traffic noise, is a crucial component for many applications in computer games, installations, audio--visual production, cinema. Often, sound textures are part of the soundscape of a long scene, and in interactive applications such as games and installations, the length of the scene is not determined in advance. Therefore, it is advantageous to be able to play a given texture for an arbitrary amount of time, but simple looping would introduce repetition that is easy to pick out. Using very long loops, or layering several loops can avoid this problem (and is the way sound designers currently do this), but this stipulates that a long enough recording of a stable environmental texture is available, and uses up a lot of media and memory space.
Diemo Schwarz. State of the art in sound texture synthesis. In Proceedings of the COST-G6 Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), Paris, France, September 2011.
Current research has been going on in the PHYSIS project. Within the project, the partners tried different methods to extend a given sound texture recording for an infinite amount of time, to avoid needing to resort to looping.
Examples from 4 new algorithms developed within the project can be heard in a listenting test evaluating several texture synthesis algorithms.
This algorithm extends a given environmental texture recording for an indefinite amount of time by playing grains while avoiding repetition and artefacts such as timbral discontinuities with the help of audio descriptors.
Diemo Schwarz, Sean O 'Leary. Smooth Granular Sound Texture Synthesis by Control of Timbral Similarity. Sound and Music Computing (SMC), Jul 2015, Maynooth, Ireland. 12th Sound and Music Computing Conference, pp.6, 2015.
Hear sound examples in the ongoing listening test!
These articles present a way to make environmental recordings controllable again by the use of continuous annotations of the high-level semantic parameter one wishes to control, e.g. wind strength or crowd excitation level. A partial annotation can be propagated to cover the entire recording via cross-modal analysis between gesture and sound by canonical time warping (CTW).
Diemo Schwarz, Baptiste Caramiaux. Interactive Sound Texture Synthesis Through Semi-Automatic User Annotations. Springer International Publishing; Aramaki, M., Derrien, O., Kronland-Martinet, R., Ystad, S. Sound, Music, and Motion, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8905, pp.372-392, 2014.
Diemo Schwarz. Retexture — Towards Interactive Environmental Sound Texture Synthesis through Inversion of Annotations. Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR), Oct 2013, Marseille, France.
These examples show control of the sound character of the textures by navigation through a descriptor space. Descriptors are automatically extracted audio features like brilliance or periodicity, synthesis is granular with long grains and large overlap.
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Sunday, March 29, 2015, Chaitra 15, 1421 BS, Jamadius Sani 7, 1436 Hijr
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Nazrul -- a universal poet
Published : Sunday, 29 March, 2015, Time : 12:00 AM, View Count : 19
Maria Helena Barrera-Agarwal
In our days, so pervaded by false celebrity, how many poets can assume to be loved by their countrymen? How many can be certain that their works will inspire their fellow citizens? How many, indeed, can anticipate that their verses will be repeated, with unchanged fervor, for generations to come? Few, very few poets are able to reach such heights. Kazi Nazrul Islam can be counted among such privileged. Even today - four decades after his death, seven decades since an unknown illness brought his literary labors to an end - Nazrul's words and example remain ever important wherever the Bengali language is esteemed.
Unlike Rabindranath Tagore, Nazrul's name is not well known within Spanish-speaking circles. I happened to discover his work one day, in a cab, in New York City. The driver was listening to a tune that I could not identify - whose indelible quality continues to accompany me to this day. 'What are you listening to?' I asked. 'Ah, these are the songs of a great poet', he replied. During the rest of the cab ride, he was generous enough to instruct me in the most relevant features of Nazrul's life, quoting verses from memory in their original, harmonious Bengali, and commenting on them in English. Further exploration took place at the New York Public Library, where copies of Nazrul's works are available, including the essential publications of Dhaka's Nazrul Institute.
Nazrul's poetry was a revelation for me. His voice was different from Kobiguru's. His concerns were certainly more immediate. His passion for freedom was timeless and universal. The concepts he put forward are as valid today as they were during his lifetime, the passage of time having done nothing to diminish their original appeal. This is a poet whose strength is to combine the humblest life experiences with the most crucial ethical principles. This is a writer who proclaims the equality of human beings and condemns all prejudices caused by fortune, religious differences, and gender. This is a versatile artist, who could work with equal ease as a composer, as a filmmaker, and as a social activist. Most admirably, Nazrul was no armchair idealist. He could have sold his talent in exchange for a comfortable, bourgeois life. Instead, he chose to face imprisonment, hate and poverty for his beliefs.
1. The crucible
Nazrul lived in exceptionally hard times. English colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent was a pervasive reality, seeping through every deed and relationship. Anyone wishing to endeavor creative activities was subjected to great disadvantages: the empire did not encourage original thought which could, naturally, become subversive. Few could evade the obstacles imposed by such a reality. As the examples of Srinivasa Ramanujan and G. H. Hardy, in mathematics, and Tagore and Yeats, in poetry, demonstrate, sometimes talent and humanism were able to forge links above colonial barriers. This, however, was rare. The vast majority of intellectuals and artists endured a dual burden: their condition was affected not only by the overall prejudice, but also by the colonial policies directed to bridle freedom of expression.
Writers who harbored nationalist aspirations were forced to act with extreme caution. Some chose self censorship, limiting their works to that which could not be labeled as seditious. Others used pseudonyms to pursue dangerous career paths. A good illustration of this is the great writer Dhanpat Rai, who was forced to take the pseudonym Munshi Premchand to evade police prohibitions. The price of dissent was high: fines, confiscation and destruction of books, imprisonment, and newspaper closures were common repressive measures. Vaikom Basheer's numerous jail terms were not the exception but the rule. Paradoxically, such severity pointed to the British Crown's fear of the influence that artistes could wield in the struggle for independence.
These fears were justified. Poetry, in particular, was to play a leading role in the quest for self determination. Survival of the national spirit in the subcontinent had been, for millennia, closely linked to poetic expression. Under British rule, the work of poets such as Ram Prasad Bismil, Chinnaswami Subramanya Bharati and Ajit Singh was to kindle great pride and patriotic fervor - sentiments that could inspire action. One the martyrs of independence, Bhagat Singh, went to the gallows singing a composition of Bismil, the glorious 'Mera Rang De Basanti Chola' ('O Mother! Dye my robe the color of spring'). In Bengal, Kobiguru and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay spearheaded the patriotic lyrical dawn. Tagore conceived two poems that eventually would become the anthems of India - 'Jana Gana Mana' - and Bangladesh - 'Amar Shonar Bangla'. Chattopadhyay's 'Vande Mataram' became India's national song par excellence, used in many different contexts as a patriotic statement.
2. Freedom's poet
In that context, Nazrul's destiny was to create a special sense of patriotic yearning, predicated on an uncompromising quest for freedom. No one could have anticipated this: Nazrul started his career as a young man of twenty-three. He lacked the money and the protection that a wealthy and influential family could provide. Having lost his father at a young age, he had worked in the most diverse and humble realms. His formal studies had been frequently interrupted by the need of earning a living. These and other deep disadvantages mattered little. From his very first publications, Nazrul deployed what will be later known as his trademark virtue: he was a fearless visionary who spoke truth to power. In a word, he was Bidrohi.
His rare aptitude is already in full bloom in 1922, when he published his first few works, which were quickly suppressed by the British government. Among these is included the remarkable poem 'Anandamoyeer Agomoney' ('The Coming of the Goddess Durga'), which cost him a year in prison. It is this hardship which inspired his 'Rajbandir Jabanbandi' ('The Testimony of a Political Prisoner'), a piece of remarkable audacity and scope. Read almost a century after the facts, the testimony of Nazrul is not only a personal statement. It speaks of a mind which, even in the most critical personal situation, is able to draw abstract propositions relevant to humanity as a whole.
The poet contemplates the subcontinent's plight, and explains why justice and God are on the side of the subjugated and why imperial power is a misguided enterprise. He goes further, and dares to imagine transposing the condition of subjugated people into the colonial masters. It is a view without precedent: If India was the colonial power and Britain the colonized country, the British would revolt and fight as we Indians do now, he claims, and they would be justified in doing so. One can imagine the effect of such a comparison on the Empire's agents, educated to relish their superiority at all times. It is a direct challenge to the aberrant frame of mind inherent in colonialism and prejudice: It dwells on the common humanity shared by the oppressor and the oppressed, and calls for everybody to inhabit the place and the condition of the "other" - the foreigner, the outsider, the enemy - before assuming righteousness.
The same capacity to empathize is found in Nazrul with regard to other, equally complex subjects. Essential to the imagery of his poems and his prose is a deeply felt call to overcome religious differences. He produced a superb body of works dedicated to Islamic themes, based on a profound knowledge of his faith. Additionally, he was familiar with the Hindu tradition, used its symbolism in his poems, and expressed his belief in the need for tolerance and respect in matters of belief. Such a show of unity had to be particularly disturbing in the eyes of the British authorities. They had applied a 'divide and conquer' policy to rule India; anything that threatened the success of that system was deemed dangerous. Nazrul's views were not limited to that problem. He wrote against every symptom of oppression, including prejudices of caste and class, contempt for women, and abuse of authority, exercised as a game of narrow, personal interests. His concerns were those of humanity, unimpeded by bigotry.
3. A voice for the world
I have attempted to translate Nazrul's poetry into Spanish. It has been an enlightening task, as difficult as rewarding. From the very beginning, I have been aware that no translation can transpose the virtuosity of his style, or reflect but in a small degree the reverberation of his verses. Nevertheless, I feel it was indispensable to try and offer to the Spanish-speaking public the wonders of poems such as The Rebel - one of the pinnacles of Bengali poetry. Declaimed in its original language, it is not just a protest; it is, in itself, a cry that invokes freedom and embodies freedom. Bursting with energy, Nazrul's composition uses symbols which favor the sublime over the mundane. Religious and secular elements from various traditions are claimed to subvert the reader's expectations. Written when the poet was only twenty-two, it shows already an astonishing mastery, a mind open to the most dissimilar influences, capable of transmuting a host of varied materials into a wholly original text.
The poet's voice in Bidrohi is, at the same time, singular and collective. It incarnates itself, at times, within the individuality of ordinary beings, whose life experience is invoked in all its hidden value. In other instances, the spirit of the poet takes on mythic proportions, appropriating divine and natural forces, and inhabiting them. For these and other details, the importance of the influence of Walt Whitman on the work of Nazrul has often been stressed. There is evidence, in the writings of the Bengali poet, of his knowledge and admiration for the American. However, in light of the Nazrul's history, I believe Leaves of Grass should be considered one of the many sources of inspiration for The Rebel, not the most decisive.
It is imperative to remember, in this regard, the circumstances in which Bidrohi was created, to better appreciate its originality. Whitman produced his verses as a citizen of an autonomous country, a man who had led a life in which basic civil rights were his natural due. The circumstances were different for Nazrul. He writes in a context of unspeakable subjugation, which involves the imposition of both material and spiritual oppression by a foreign power. His rebellion projects, therefore, aspects that are nonexistent in Whitman. It is imbued with an immense anger, with desire for freedom that is not joyful, but poignant. An anger that comes from personal experience, sublimated into one of the most memorable poems ever written.
I sincerely hope that Nazrul's voice and genius reach, in Spanish as in other languages, the audience it deserves. It would be only fair. Poet Mohammad Nurul Huda has written that "Nazrul was - and remains - a poet of the world." This is a great truth, which echoes the words of the poet himself. A passionate defender of literature as a universal art, he insisted in proclaiming that "literature is for all humanity, not for a single person." He also wrote that "the heart of the literati, writers and poets should be open as the sky." His heart was certainly open to humankind; it is only fair that more people get the opportunity to dwell on his legacy.
(Maria Helena Barrera-Agarwal (born in 1971) is an Ecuadorean poet and essayist who writes on Asian and European literature for a Spanish audience. She has written about Tagore and Qurratulain Hyder, among others. She is at present engaged in translating Nazrul's poetry into Spanish.)
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We are not alone! The MPI-CBG has initiated and joined a number of networks. We have recognized that no research institution can maintain international ranking in isolation.
The MPI-CBG is member of DRESDEN-concept, a research alliance of the Technische Universität Dresden together with the four major research institutions – Max Planck, Helmholtz, Fraunhofer, and Leibniz – and the research-active museums. The alliance is aimed at the development and use of synergies in research, education, infrastructure, and administration. Partners coordinate strategies to support Dresden's leading areas and identify new emerging scientific areas. The DRESDEN-concept alliance also works on a joint initiative to attract top talents and to encourage the best to come to Dresden.
The Indo-German Max Planck Center on Lipid Research is a collaboration of the MPI-CBG with the National Centre of Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India. The center is involved in the biochemical and biophysical analysis of biological membranes and the genetic analysis of lipid metabolic processes in various animal model systems.
Core for Life was established in 2012 as an Excellence Alliance of Life Science Core Facilities in Europe. The mission of Core for Life is to explore the potential of coordinating and bundling core facility expertise and resources across institutes and countries in order to advance knowledge and to benefit the entire scientific and technological community.
Core for Life members today are the MPI-CBG, the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Spain, the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB) in Belgium, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, the Functional Genomics Center Zurich (FGCZ), and the Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC)/Campus Science Support Facilities GmbH (CSF) in Austria.
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Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity.
Columbia University Press, 1988. Paperback. 504pp.	More
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Biblical Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective: Studies in Honor of Karlfried Froehlich on His Sixtieth Birthday.
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1991. Hardcover. 367pp.	More
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Christianity and Classical Culture: A Study of Thought and Action from Augustus to Augustine.
Oxford University Press, 1957. Paperback. Fifth printing 1966. 523pp.	More
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The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant.
San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992. Hardcover. 507pp.	More
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The Shape of Qumran Theology.
Paternoster Press, 2000. Paperback. 341pp.	More
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The Rise of Christianity.
Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1984. Hardcover. 1022pp.	More
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Saint Peter: A Biography.
NY: Weidenfield, 1994. Hardcover. 212pp.	More
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La Terou`a: Analyse d'un rite biblique.
Paperback. Universite de Neuchatel, 1946. Wraps. 48pp. Ex-library with usual marks, chipping spine, text clean and sound.	More
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The Doctrine of the Communion of Saints in the Ancient Church: A Study in the History of Dogma.; Translated by John R. M'Kee.
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Кли́ффорд Фре́дерик Бо́рленд (; ) — американский легкоатлет, специалист по бегу на короткие дистанции. Выступал за сборную США по лёгкой атлетике в 1940-х годах, чемпион летних Олимпийских игр в Лондоне в программе эстафеты 4 × 400 метров.

Биография
Клифф Борленд родился 1 января 1921 года в Лос-Анджелесе, США. Его отец был американцем, а мать — немкой.

Впервые принял участие в соревнованиях по бегу в 1932 году. Занимался лёгкой атлетикой во время учёбы в старшей школе Venice High School и в Университете Южной Калифорнии, где был подопечным известного тренера Дина Кромуэлла. Побеждал на чемпионате Любительского спортивного союза США в беге на 400 метров и на чемпионате Национальной ассоциации студенческого спорта в беге на 440 ярдов в 1942 и 1943 годах.

Во время Второй мировой войны некоторое время проходил службу в Военно-морских силах США, был капитаном танкового десантного корабля.

После войны возобновил спортивную карьеру и благодаря череде удачных выступлений удостоился права защищать честь страны на летних Олимпийских играх 1948 года в Лондоне. В беге на 200 метров попасть в число призёров не смог, показав в финале пятый результат, тогда как в эстафете 4 × 400 метров вместе с партнёрами по команде Артуром Харнденом, Роем Кокраном и Мэлом Уитфилдом занял первое место и тем самым завоевал золотую олимпийскую медаль.

По окончании лондонской Олимпиады завершил спортивную карьеру, решив попробовать себя в региональной политике. Позже работал в сфере страхования и ипотечного кредитования.

Умер 1 февраля 2018 года в Санта-Монике в возрасте 97 лет. Причиной смерти послужили осложнения, вызванные пневмонией.

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Ссылки

 Клиффорд Фредерик Борленд  — страница на сайте Международного олимпийского комитета

Бегуны на короткие дистанции США
Легкоатлеты на летних Олимпийских играх 1948 года
Чемпионы летних Олимпийских игр 1948 года
Олимпийские чемпионы от США
Олимпийские чемпионы по лёгкой атлетике
Выпускники Университета Южной Калифорнии
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ARK Invest> Explore ARK's Newsletter> #245: Quibi Is Shutting Down, & More
#245: Quibi Is Shutting Down, & More
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Just six months after launching, Quibi, the mobile-only subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) service, is shutting down. What went wrong? According to co-founders Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg, Quibi's failure was "likely for one of two reasons: because the idea itself wasn't strong enough to justify a standalone streaming service or because of our timing."
While launching a new mobile–centric streaming service during the middle of a global pandemic was no easy task, Quibi failed because it seems to have been a half-baked uncompetitive service. For $7.99 a month and with no advertising, Quibi launched a tiny catalog of 'movie-quality shows designed for your phone'. As shown below, Quibi was expensive compared to other SVOD services offering much more programming.
Not only did it fail to stack up to SVOD competitors, but Quibi entered a short-form video market rife with free alternatives like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. While poor timing may have accelerated its demise, we believe that Quibi would have failed regardless because it offered little value relative to competitors.
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Scientists now can make precise changes anywhere in the human genome with CRISPR gene-editing. Previously, ARK described how CRISPR is correcting DNA mutations that are inherited and cause diseases like sickle cell anemia. Recently, researchers at Madrid's National Center for Cancer Research (CNIO) published a novel proof-of-concept study demonstrating that CRISPR also can correct mutations in cancer cells.
Cancer cells harbor spontaneous – or somatic – genomic mutations that differentiate them from healthy cells. Somatic mutations drive tumor progressions that can become lethal. Many targeted cancer therapies aim to disrupt proteins created by mutated genes, but do not attack the mutated genes themselves.
The CNIO researchers used CRISPR to delete a specific type of somatic mutation—a gene fusion. Simply, gene fusions result when two genes, often from different chromosomes, collide inside a cancer cell. Fusions create highly dangerous proteins, called chimeras, that drive tumor growth. The researchers engineered molecules, specifically guide RNAs, to bind to the left and right of the gene fusion, deleting the fusion. Conceptually, in repairing their own DNA, the cancer cells destroy the source of their growth. Because fusions occur only in tumor cells, CRISPR therapy protects healthy cells from damage.
In our view, editing pathogenic gene fusions with CRISPR could add to the growing repertoire of targeted cancer therapies.
This week Trimble formed a strategic partnership with Softbank's Boston Dynamics, giving Spot – a robot – access to the construction market. Trimble will equip Spot with sensors to scan and measure in and around construction sites, protecting construction workers from the movement of heavy machinery.
ARK believes that during the next few years many types of robots will infiltrate construction sites, both on the ground and from the air. Komatsu's drone technology, for example, works alongside its autonomous haul systems, providing images and maps of construction sites.
Drones should be able to collect job site data much more cost effectively than humans, with sensors that are less accurate and lighter than those that Trimble has mounted on Spot. Today, without Trimble equipment, Spot sells for a hefty $75,000, while Komatsu's drones cost less than $5,000 upfront plus a monthly subscription of $1,800. ARK wonders if a fleet of drones that collects massive, albeit less accurate, data will be able to compete with ground-based robot systems.
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PayPal and its subsidiary Venmo have announced plans to enable cryptocurrency purchases. Within the next few weeks, users of Paypal's Cash or Cash Plus will be able to buy, sell, and hold bitcoin, ether, litecoin, and bitcoin cash.
In June, CoinDesk surfaced rumors of PayPal's crypto plans, suggesting that its 346 million users around the world would be able to buy and sell cryptocurrencies.
Next year, PayPal plans to enable crypto purchases through its network of more than 26 million merchants and through Venmo, its P2P payments app. According to its FAQ, "Once launched in 2021, when a consumer selects cryptocurrency as the funding source, the cryptocurrency will be instantly converted to fiat currency and the transaction will be settled with the PayPal merchants in fiat currency." PayPal has not disclosed when or if it will enable cryptocurrency withdrawals, a cause for concern for the crypto community.
With 346 million active users around the world, PayPal will be the first network capable of introducing crypto to a mainstream audience.
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The theme for this year's conference is 'Positive Forces for Change'. At a time of unprecedented focus on inclusion of people with disability this event provides and opportunity to learn tested and pioneered practices that facilitate employment and innovative ways to deliver sustainable access and inclusion outcomes. The conference will connect a network of 200+ business leaders, diversity practitioners, human resources professionals and industry experts .


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Scrip is a luxurious sci-fi wallet for a cashless future
By Adi Robertson for The Verge
If you could really feel your digital money — the way you can feel the metal of a quarter or the paper of a $20 bill — would you spend it more wisely? This is the question behind Scrip, a product concept from studio NewDealDesign. As companies like Apple make financial transactions as close to invisible as possible, NDD is imagining a future where every purchase is a literally weighty decision. And to realize this dream, it's built something sleek, science fictional, and more than a little strange.
Scrip is a handsome copper lozenge that's smooth on the bottom and stippled on top, with space for a tiny numerical screen at one end. In reality, it exists as a trio of solid, non-electronic mockups. But in NDD's design, the tiny bumps on top would act like a braille display, rising and receding to create numbers. In order to buy something, you'd point the device at an NFC payment terminal, then swipe your thumb across its surface, as if peeling bills off a wad of cash. For a $26 charge (or one that rounds up to it), you'd swipe once across a 20, once across a 5, and once across a 1. The cost would be automatically deducted from a refillable online wallet, its remaining balance viewable with a long press. Friends could pass each other money by tapping Scrips, and people could set the disc to lock up if it got too far from their phone.
IT'S LIKE THE WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL SUBWAY FARE CARD
As director of experience design Jaeha Yoo describes it, Scrip isn't much more than a high-tech version of a public transit fare card. But its value lies in feeling valuable. Instead of swiping a card or hitting a button, Scrip users would be making payments using a physical object that looks like a piece of jewelry, while miming handing over each bill.
"The main thing about user interface [design], primarily, is thinking about the efficiency of the action from a system perspective, not necessarily from a visceral emotional human perspective. It's measured like, how fast can you do something?" says company founder Gadi Amit, known for his work on products like the FitBit. Even when designers do aim at triggering visceral emotions, they're usually supposed to be positive ones. Scrip, while it might be gorgeous, is meant to make you feel a little bad.
"Spending cash is actually painful to people," says Yoo cheerfully, when I sit down with him and Amit to take a look at Scrip. "It literally triggers pain receptors — the act of moving these physical things from one side to the other triggers this loss aversion." He alludes to a plethora of studies that suggest debit and credit cards promote irresponsible spending, while using cash prompts pro-social behavior. (The pain factoid is from a 2007 Montreal Neurological Institute study that asked subjects to make spending decisions in an fMRI machine.) Scrip is supposed to reproduce these effects as closely as possible without being actual cash.
NDD's most convincing case for Scrip, beyond the fact that it looks genuinely gorgeous, is that it could effectively teach children about budgeting. "I have a two-and-a-half year old kid, and I was thinking, in this age where I'm buying things with my watch now, he's going to grow up with so little sense of why it's okay to buy this $5 thing but not a $25 thing," says Yoo. "It's the same tap." Scrip could replace the refillable debit cards that some parents buy, adding features like making users swipe more slowly the more they spend.
Beyond that, though, there are obvious reasons why this is a thought experiment and not a consumer product — just as NewDealDesign's earlier Project Underskin wasn't a literal roadmap for hand implants. Over the past few years, hardware startups that aim to replace your wallet — like Coin, Stratos, and Plastc — have struggled to deliver on their promises. Outside its putative behavioral effects, cash has concrete perks. It doesn't log your transactions, rack up payment processing charges for merchants, or face the risk of disappearing thanks to a glitch or hack. Amit says Scrip wouldn't create the same kind of "paper trail" as a credit card, but it's hard to see how it would meet any of the above criteria while retaining the benefits of digital money. And cash isn't just psychologically important because it's an object, but because it's imbued with hundreds of years of history and symbolism. What would it take for a gadget to replicate that?
Above all, Scrip would be a money-saving tool that signals you have money to burn. As a concept, it doesn't have a price, but it's clearly supposed to feel precious. Rounding off transactions only makes sense if you aren't carefully counting pennies in your bank account. Scrip would be a fantastic set piece in a '70s sci-fi film, and the idea raises interesting questions about the effects of tactile sensation, the psychology of user interfaces, and where exactly we situate the value of money. But in real life, it would feel like the monetary equivalent of upper-class minimalism: virtuous thrift as an ostentatious luxury.
Like Banks, Cashless Scrip is a luxurious sci-fi wallet for a cashless future
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A group known as Bindow Youth Organisation, BYO, has endorsed Hon. Ibrahim Abdulmumini Song for chief of Staff to Gov. Bindow. The group which stormed Yola, Adamawa State capital today told newsmen that there was no alternative to Hon. Ibrahim Abdulmumini Song for the position of Chief of Staff. The youths condole with Gov. Bindow on the demise of the former chief of staff, Abba Jimeta, pray for the repose of his soul. "Appointing Hon. Song at this particular time the group said is a right step in repositioning the state to a greater height. The President of the organisation, Comrade Mohammed Yehuza, x-rayed the political strength of Song, "you see Hon. Ibrahim Song was a three time member of the Adamawa State house of assembly and currently the Director General of Team Bindow, that has put him in a right position to be appointed by the Governor, he has all the qualities of a good leader, we urged the Governor to appoint Song without delay to fill the vacuum "Song will enhance image of our dear state around the world and Nigeria. The president maintained that the group was convinced that there is no candidate at this period that can match the credentials of Hon. Abdulmumini Song and urged Adamawas, old and young, to support the Bindow re-election project for him to consolidate the successes so far made and reposition the State for the future generation. The group also commended Hon. Song, for his total support for the Bindow re-election project and threw their support for his re-election bid. According to him,"we unequivocally support the 2019 re-election bid of Governor Bindow. This will enable him to continue with the good work he has started. Worthy of a very special note is the transformation of Adamawa to paradise on earth.


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Losing even just a bit of weight can be difficult, but overriding a lifetime of bad habits that have led to obesity is a big challenge. You will be bombarded with contradictory information on how to lose weight quickly and effortlessly, but these methods are short-lived and can actually be bad for your health. This is why there is increasing evidence that the best way to approach weight loss is through wellness-focused actions that support a healthy lifestyle.
Self-care is the series of actions we undertake to improve our mental, emotional, and physical well-being. It can be a tricky balance, particularly when we are trying to lose weight. On one hand, you need to practice self-control and discipline; yet on the other hand, you don't want to develop an unhealthy fixation with your body.
This is why it is important to deal with obesity and weight loss in a way that prioritizes health and wellness, rather than quick results. This includes your mental and emotional health, which should not suffer in your endeavor to have a healthier body.
Approximately 45 million Americans go on a diet every year. Out of these, most gain the weight back. Dieting is not only grueling, it is ineffective. According to Time, this essentially comes down to the fact that our understanding of dieting, such as the "calories in, calories out" philosophy, is flawed and doesn't necessarily work in the same way for everyone.
Instead, many doctors are encouraging an approach to food that they call "competent eating." Competent eaters are flexible in their diets and well-informed about the benefits of their food. They aim to eat a balanced diet that makes them feel good and fulfills their nutritional needs, but do not punish themselves for occasional treats. For instance, if you have a sweet tooth that you tend to indulge with sugary snacks, swap out your daily dose of cookies for a nutrient-packed smoothie. It's better to make your own than purchase one, since grocery store versions tend to be packed with added sugar, and perhaps having a handy tool like a portable immersion blender to make a sweet fruit smoothie, might be a great way to ensure you can satisfy your craving at home or work. Practicing this more relaxed approach to eating will not give you the immediate results that an extreme diet would, but it will create a healthy relationship with food that will lead to slow, progressive, yet potentially-permanent weight loss.
As with eating, the secret to finding an exercise routine that you can stick to is finding one that makes you happy. You don't have to do the extreme, punishing workouts you see on TV. Instead, find an exercise that you can do for pleasure. This can be swimming, dancing, playing soccer, or participating in a martial art, or set up a home gym with basic equipment if you prefer working out in private. A few kettlebells or dumbbells, resistance bands, and a Swiss ball don't cost much and will allow you to do a wide range of fun workouts.
Exercise and diet are often the only factors people discuss when they talk about health and weight loss. However, getting plenty of rest is almost as important, and yet it often goes ignored. A good night's sleep isn't just good for our health, it's also an essential tool for weight loss.
According to Shape, how much sleep we get affects how our body stores fat. We are also more likely to overeat and less likely to exercise when we are tired. Sleeping is the body's way of restoring and is absolutely crucial to its healthy functioning. There is no point in eating well and exercising four times a week if you aren't going to get your recommended seven to eight hours of sleep a night.
Finally, make sure to address your mental well-being as well as your physical health. The two should go hand in hand, and you should never sacrifice one for the other. Go see a doctor if you have been overwhelmed with feelings of sadness or anxiety, and don't make a habit of using food to soothe negative emotions, as this can lead to a self-feeding cycle of depression and weight gain.
When trying to overcome obesity, it can seem impossible to know which of the thousands of food and exercise plans are right for you. Rather than looking for a quick fix, embrace your weight loss as an opportunity to create healthy habits that lead to long-term wellness.
Kim Thomas' mission is aligned with that of US Health Corps, and that is to triumph over chronic disease. Her mission is to advocate for those suffering from chronic disease and she enjoys writing about maintaining a healthy lifestyle.


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Newsletter - June 2017
I recently observed a 'random act of kindness' which touched me deeply; I would like to tell you about it.
I was in a supermarket, waiting to be served. As I queued I was 'people watching'. At the next checkout was a gentleman who realised that he did not have enough money for all his purchases. lle told the shop assistant that he would put some of his shopping back but a young mum behind him insisted on giving him the money to pay the difference.
I have also heard of a person waiting for her train home from London when a very distressed lady asked her if she could spare any money so that she could afford to sleep in a hostel for a few days. My friend gave her all the change that she had in her purse. The lady was obviously relieved and so grateful for the act of kindness.
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There are obviously many kind-hearted and generous people in this world and at TLC we have recently been looking, through the Paraclecsis Lent course, at how we can help those in need.
We discussed how it is easy to be kind to those who are kind to us, but what about the stranger in the street? It doesn't always mean we have to hand over money. Just giving someone the time of day, a kind word or a big smile may be all that is needed. Ofcourse, we may never know the end of the story, what effect our action has; that isn't always ours to know. Our act of kindness may not make much difference to us but could make a world ol difference to the other person.
There are so many disturbing things happening in our world and we feel we can't do anything to put it right, but we can play a small part in making a difference to the part ofthe world in which we live.
In the Bible in John chapter 15 verse 12 we read that Jesus said, "My command is this: Love each other as l have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for another".
I doubt that you or I will ever be in the position where we have to sacrifice our lives for another but we can be there for those we see in need.
At TLC we are in the process of having WiFi installed and also looking into having our services recorded and put on our website for anyone to have a listen. Have you checked our website out yet? Ilave a look. The address is www.tlcbozeat.org.uk
Jan and her team of willing volunteers would be pleased to welcome anyone on Thursday moming from 10 til 11:30 for Coffee Morning.
Open Door meets during term time on a Wednesday at TLC at 7.30, this is aimed at young people of secondary school age.
Children of primary school age are welcome to come to All:Starz. We are a lively bunch of enthusiastic children (and adults!) who meet every Thursday in term time at 6pm for 1 hour for stories, games and cralts to learn more about Jesus and living the Christian way of life. If you would like more information give Ellie a ring on 07816 145187.
Gentlemen! How do you fancy a full English 'fry-up' (and more!) with a group of friendly guys and to round the moming off, an inspirational speaker? The Men's Breakfast is just up your street then. The next 'breakfast' is provisionally booked for Saturday 24th June at TLC. Breakfast is served at 9am. Put the date in your diary.
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For the past week the Los Angeles Convention Center has been home to the biggest event in gaming, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Apart from World Cup matches I've spent this entire week looking at every piece of footage, every interview, and every demo in order to get some idea of which games were going to astound and which would disappoint.
Best RPG: Deus Ex Human Revolution On any other day I would give this to Fallout, but the variety of ways you can complete a mission and long term consequences depending on how you do is far more important to me than the name of a developer (The same reason I'm not falling all over myself about RAGE). Fallout: NV looks nice but it's the exact same engine as Fallout 3, gameplay hasn't really changed, and to me it just seems that they're playing this one safe.
Best Racing Game: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.
Ok Ok, don't shoot me, let me explain myself. The guys over at Treyarch displayed a decent amount of footage at E3, the problem I found was that none of it actually looked fun… at all. It just seemed like they were trying to one up Infinity Ward and coming up short ("Modern Warfare 2 had a nuke? Ya… well… we nuked the whole planet, this game takes place on a terraformed Mars, booya! Ya we went there!") So you've got a chopper, sweet. But I know from experience with every one of your games that the gameplay footage shown was on the easiest mode possible, and that you almost died… every time you showed it off. Anyone who's ever played World at War will tell you that Veteran mode is one of the hardest things they've ever done.
Medal of Honor footage was entirely multiplayer and frankly, 30 seconds of multiplayer footage looked a hundred times more fun than the idiotic chopper level in Black Ops. Medal of Honor seems like it will be the perfect balance between COD and Battlefield, while maintaining some of the scope of the Battlefield games they've also managed to introduce the close quarters intensity of COD. Take a look at the beta on June 21st.
Take one-part Assassin's Creed add one-part Multiplayer and you've got a winner folks. The multiplayer for AC: Brotherhood remains true to it's origins, allowing players to do all the things they would normally be able to do in singleplayer and then using those abilities to kill your friends. Scarily awesome.
Unfortunately I actually forgot to get my press registration in on time this year otherwise I would have been there, luckily I've learned my lesson and I guarantee I'll be there next year.
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A NonDisclosure Agreement (NDA) or Confidentiality Agreement is a written agreement where one or more parties agree to keep information that is disclosed confidential. Generally a NDA will be used when one party wants to disclose confidential information to a second party. Occasionally, a mutual NDA will be needed if both parties intend to disclose confidential information to each other.
Prior to the enactment of the America Invents Act (AIA), the United States provided a one year grace period which requires that within one year after certain activities, such as a public disclosure of the invention, a patent application must be filed or the inventor is prohibited from filing a patent application. The AIA made changes to the law which raised doubts about how and under what circumstances the one year grace period applies. The new AIA provisions have not yet be interpreted been a court.
Therefore, it is now best to file a patent application in the U.S. before any non-confidential disclosure. Further, most foreign countries do not provide a grace period and require a patent application to be filed before any public disclosure. Therefore, in order to best protect your ability to seek patent protection, it is a best practice to have a NDA signed by any person or party that you intend to disclose your invention to before a patent application is filed. However, if a disclosure has been made without an NDA, check with a patent attorney, as you still may have an option to file a patent application.
While the safest approach is to have a patent application filed at the earliest time before any disclosure, there may be scenarios where you believe it is necessary to disclose an invention or other confidential information to a third party before a patent application is filed. For example, it may be necessary to engage an engineer to assist in creating CAD drawings of your invention. Further, it may be necessary or desirable to work with a manufacturer or designer to develop a prototype of the invention before filing a patent application. The inventor may also need to disclose the information to bankers, venture capitalist, other financial backers, or potential business partners in order to move forward with the inventors business or to otherwise exploit the invention. In these and other scenarios it is important that the inventor or invention owner obtain a signed NDA from the party that is to receive confidential information about the invention so that the disclosure does not negatively impact your ability to seek patent protection.
A NDA generally has several components. A NDA will identify the parties to the agreement. It will identify the information that the disclosing party(ies) deem confidential. It will identify information that will not be considered confidential, if any. It will require that the receiving party maintain the information disclosed by the disclosing party in confidence and to take reasonable steps to ensure that the information is not disclosed. Often the NDA provides provisions that the information can used for (1) specific purpose, such as for the purpose of evaluating potential business and/or investment relationships with the Disclosing party or (2) more generally, only for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Disclosing Party.
Some NDAs have a specific time frame where the NDA is effective, such as for 3 years. Other NDAs provide a time frame that extents indefinitely.
NDAs are not self-enforcing. Therefore, you should endeavour to disclose confidential information only to those that are trustworthy. If the party that you are disclosing to breaches the NDA, you will be forced to hire a lawyer and take action against that person. This can be disruptive and time consuming. Therefore, it is generally worth investigating the trustworthiness of anyone you will be disclosing confidential information to under an NDA.
Having a written NDA signed is an important first step before disclosing confidential information to others before a patent application is filed.
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Q: Why don't the SPFx web parts below the first one load on a page? Is there a way to make sure all the content, or at least the first few web parts on a page load right away?
I have a SharePoint Online classic view page that has four different custom SPFX web parts. Only the first one loads on the page when you first go there. This leaves a lot of white space which gives the appearance that this is all the content on the page.

Then after you scroll a little bit the second one appears.


A Visit to King's Landing – Exploring Life..
Being a massive GOT fan, I traveled to Croatia last September to explore the locations where the show was filmed!
This ancient city brims with amazing architecture and is surrounded by the Mediterranean on the one side and amazing walls on the other .Visitors can take a walk along the city walls that surrounds the Old City. The walk takes a couple of hours and offers stunning views of the Dalmatian Coast and a bird's eye view of the city. Lovrijenac Fortress is one of the sights that can be seen from the wall, it is an impressive structure built on an outcropping rock. It is located just outside the Western wall of the Old Town and was featured in Game of Thrones.
This was infamously consumed by wildfire!
3. The walk of Atonement location!
4. My Dragons have flown away, Oops!
The Pile Gates is used on multiple occasions. Notably, when Marcella is being sent away to Dorne and Joffrey is returning to the castle by foot, only to get harassed by angry mobs.
This location doubles for Blackwater Bay and the wildfire scene. Sansa and Shae are talking on the dock before Littlefinger shows up to tell Sansa he's got an escape plan for her.


What's the idea behind this start-up?
The genesis of this business idea was simply the glaring supply chain gaps in the fresh food categories (especially fruits and vegetables). We knew that retail prices of fresh products have a 100 per cent mark-up on wholesale cost and probably 150-200 per cent mark-up on production cost, still it is not a case of super-normal profits for either the wholesaler or the retailer. Majority of this margin got eroded within the supply chain due to the perishable nature of the products. Hence, we saw an opportunity to plug the gaps in the supply chain by getting products from farm to kitchen in 12 hours, avoiding wastage and pilferage which would allow us to make decent margins while offering a fair price to the end consumer.
What's the initial investment made to launch the venture? Where did you spend the money?
Together with friends and family we initially raised over US$ 10,000, which was spent primarily on building a robust technology platform including the Android and iOS Apps. After launching the business we received seed funding from known contacts for another US$ 100,000 before we raised our Series A funding in July'15.
You are following the similar idea as floated before. How is it different from other similar platforms?
What makes iOrderFresh unique and a safe option is that we do not believe in night inventories and have only two delivery slots a day to ensure the freshest produce is being sent to consumers day after day.
How big this segment is? How many players are working out there?
It is one of the biggest consumer segments in the country currently valued at US$ 330 billion with expected market size of US$ 1 trillion by 2020. It's difficult to know that how many players are in the market right now but the important thing to remember here is that there will always be room for more players in this market.
What's the revenue model of your platform?
All sellers on our platform pay us a listing fee, which is a per cent of their gross revenue.
What's the annual turnover? What's the growth of your venture?
We serviced over 1000 orders a day in Sept 2015 and are looking at a quarterly growth of 20-25 per cent for the next 12 months.
In this segment, many online players have recently raised huge amount of funding. Are you looking forward to raise any funding for your venture?
We are focusing on unit economics and making the business self-sustainable. However, further capital will be required and we are looking to raise another round of funding in Q1 2016.
What's the growth prospect of your venture?
We have over 100k customer registrations and repeat customers account for over 55 per cent of our daily orders. We hope to cross 250k customer registrations by March 2016 in Delhi NCR only. There are no plans to expand to another city for the next 12 months. We want to consolidate our base in NCR and become the biggest player in our segment.
What lies on the product roadmap?
Currently, iOrderFresh offers an array of fresh products like fruits, vegetables, fresh organic cow milk, fresh meats, fresh poultry, fresh bakery and confectionary etc. We also want to offer iconic brands/products to our customers by forging exclusive partnerships on the same lines as Natural Ice Cream. We want to be the vendor of choice for premium quality and hard to find food and grocery items online.
We are in advance talk to enter Europe and America..