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Advance care training for EMTs
By Gazette-Tribune • November 15, 2013 10:46 am
NORTH COUNTY – Area residents will receive advanced emergency medical care after current EMTs graduate from a specialized from a course that is being taught for the first time in the state of Washington.
Tonasket EMS Director Michael Greene, a paramedic, petitioned the state to teach the course that will certify current Tonasket EMTs to start IVs, administer numerous medications and advanced procedures. In addition to new EMT students from Tonasket, current and new EMTs from Ferry County and Oroville will be joining the class.
Greene received approval for the course from the Department of Health and County Medical Program Director after convincing them that providing advanced emergency care at the scene and during lengthy transports, rather than at the hospital, will help save lives.
Greene said he is honored to be teaching the new course to current Tonasket EMTs "They are the most motivated and dedicated group of volunteers I have ever had the honor to work with," he said.
Almost all of the current Tonasket EMTs are taking the advanced training course.
The class will be held mostly on weekends and include 10-hour days and travel to western Washington to work in busy emergency rooms and taking a national certification exam.
Students are paying for the class themselves but books are being paid for with a $3,000 donation from the Okanogan Family Faire and a private donation from local community supporter Peter James.
Greene says part of the reason the county medical program director and Washington State Department of Health approved the new course was the lengthy ambulance transport times for the 1,600 square mile ambulance district.
"I explained to the county medical program director that the Tonasket EMS District is larger than the entire state of Rhode Island (1,254 square miles)," he said. "What makes the class unique is the combining of basic and advanced students in the same training course. By allowing new EMTs to take the class alongside the current Tonasket EMTs both groups will benefit. The new EMT students will learn from the experience and knowledge of the current EMTs. The current EMTs learn by teaching others. It is also more cost effective for the students to combine two classes into one."
The class size is limited to 20 students, with about five spots remaining. The registration deadline is Nov. 24. The advanced course is open to currently certified EMTs with at least one year of experience. The basic class is open to anyone over age 18 that are either high school graduates or have obtained their GED.
The course will begin Jan. 4 and run Saturdays and Sundays for 10 hours, plus numerous Tuesday and Wednesday classes, for a total of 210 hours.
For additional information, contact Greene at (509) 560-0080.
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For fans of the Mortal Kombat franchise - or, heck, fighting games in general - today was a day-long looked forward to. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios gathered fans and press alike to reveal brand new gameplay footage and characters for their upcoming blood-soaked fighting game.
You can watch the entire presentation here, but we'll give you the rundown after the jump.
Host Joshua Grey came out to welcome the crowd, then introduced MK co-creator Ed Boon to the stage. Boon would then introduce some brand new game footage, including seven characters that would be included in the game. Much like NetherRealm's previous game, Injustice 2, players will be able to customize characters and preset different loadouts to their liking.
After demonstrating new moves and the always entertaining fatalities, we got our first look at the opening cinematic to the game. You can watch it yourself in the video, but let's just say it's as dark and bloody as you would expect from a Mortal Kombat game.
New character Geras was also revealed, who appears to have some array of time manipulation powers. Other characters confirmed are Scorpion, Sub Zero, Sonya Blade, Skarlet, Baraka, Raiden, and the aforementioned Geras. Those who pre-order the game will get to play as Shao Khan, as well, bringing the current total to eight.
Speaking of Sonya Blade, it was announced that her character will be voiced by UFC Hall of Famer and current WWE Raw Women's Champion Ronda Rousey. This will be the first time that Rousey has been involved in a video game that didn't feature herself as a playable character.
While we got plenty of new information and footage, there's plenty more to be revealed before the April 23rd release day. Keep your eyes right here at Sportskeeda for any new additions to the game, and use the comments below to tell us what you're looking forward to.


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Niche has released its 2020 school ratings, and the highly regarded Lake Travis Independent School District serving Sweetwater scored an A+, ranking as the No. 1 Best School District for Athletes in the Austin Area, and the No. 2 overall Best School District in Travis County.
The Nelson family finds higher ground in Sweetwater
Meet the Nelson family, who sought higher ground in Austin after Hurricane Harvey struck Houston in 2017. With two young children, the sterling reputation of Lake Travis ISD drew them to Sweetwater, where they've made many new friends and enjoyed numerous community events since moving in.
Moving from California to Austin, Texas? This guide is for y'all
Texas has welcomed nearly a million former Californians in the past decade, with many moving to Austin. To help Golden State transplants learn more about the Lone Star State, we've created this guide to explain kolaches, the Silicon Hills, why we're willing to wait in line four hours for barbecue, and much more.
Back-to-School Guide for the Lake Travis Independent School District
Students head back to the highly regarded Lake Travis ISD schools serving Sweetwater on August 14. From enrollment information to after school programs, our blog has all the links you need in one convenient place.
Love bats? 15th Annual Bat Fest set for August 24 in Downtown Austin
Live music, arts and crafts vendors, delicious food and drinks, kids' activities and much more highlight this annual celebration of Austin's famous Congress Avenue bat colony.
Austin is a top city for "Baby Chaser" grandparents
Grandparents across the U.S. are moving closer to their grandchildren, and Austin is the No. 2 "Baby Chaser" city in the nation, according to Meyers Research. Communities like Sweetwater are adding new low-maintenance home choices to give Baby Chasers exactly what they're looking for.

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Q: Is there a better way to check file size using SCP before downloading? I have this code to download a file from a remote machine, but I want to limit it to files that are less than 5MB.
So far the code works. but is there a better way to check the filesize before downloading?
Net::SCP.start(hname, uname, :password => pw ) do|scp|
fsize=scp.download!("#{remdir}/#{filname}").size;puts fsize
  scp.download!("#{remdir}/#{filname}",  "#{filname}") do |ch, name, sent, total|
  File.open(lfile, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "#{name}: #{(sent.to_f * 100 / total.to_f).to_i}% complete"}
  #puts "Sending : #{(sent.to_f * 100 / total.to_f).to_i}% complete"
  #puts "#{name}: #{sent}/#{total}"
  #print "\r#{name}: #{(sent.to_f * 100 / total.to_f).to_i}%"
  end
end

Does this cause any problem if I am use it for large files?
fsize=scp.download!("#{remdir}/#{filname}").size;puts fsize

This page says the file will be returned as a string:
http://ruby.about.com/od/ssh/ss/netscp_6.htm
Update:
I tried SFTP aswell. first it did not work for full path to file. and secondly it did not do what i wanted. so was using scp.download!().size. i know i am doing the download twice :(
require 'net/sftp'
# did not take full path "/user/myname/filename"
remote_path="somefile.txt"
 Net::SFTP.start(hname, uname, :password => pw) do |sftp|
   attrs = sftp.stat!("rome_desc.txt") ; puts attrs  # gave   #   ☼     ↨?%  (?  '→  ??Q{ ?Qt;?
     sftp.stat!(remote_path) do |response| puts response   #returned no such file (2)
 # but did not do below upload operation.
      unless response.ok?
    sftp.upload!("#{filname}", remdir)
  end
end
end

Update:2 Solution
found the solution using the the comments provided from below users and after searching the net.
    Net::SFTP.start(hname, uname, :password => pw) do |sftp| #, :verbose => Logger::DEBUG
        sftp.dir.glob("./#{remdir}", "#{filname}") do |entry| p entry.name
        file_size=entry.attributes.size;   file_size = '%.2f' % (("#{file_size}").to_f / 2**20)    ;  File.open(lfile, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "File size is #{file_size} mb"}
            if file_size < file_size_param then
                sftp.download!("#{remdir}/#{filname}", filname)
            else
            File.open(lfile, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "File size is greater than #{file_size_param} mb. so can not Download File"}
            end
        end
    end

used .attributes.size to obtain the file size and perform the download operation by checking the filesize.
 sftp.dir.glob("./#{remdir}", "#{filname}") do |entry| p entry.name
        file_size=entry.attributes.size

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Does this cause any problem if I am use it for large files?

We don't know because we don't know how fast your internet connection is, how much RAM you have, how fast the pipe is from the host you're downloading the file from?
Basically though, you are reading the file twice, once into memory to see how big it is, then again if it meets your requirement, which seems really... silly.
You're doubling the traffic to the host you're reading from and on your network connection, and, if the file is larger than RAM on your local machine, it is going to go nuts.
As Darshan says, look at using Net::SFTP. It will give you the ability to query the file's size before you try to load it, without pulling the entire thing down. It's a bit more complicated to use, but that complexity translates into flexibility.

"/user/myname/filename"

(S)FTP might not necessarily have its base path where it can see that file. To probe the system and figure out, ask the system, via the SFTP connection, what its current directory is when you first login, then ask it for the files it can see using something like this example from the Net::STFP docs:

sftp.dir.glob("/base/path", "*/**/*.rb") do |entry|
  p entry.name
end

That will recursively look through the "/base/path" hierarchy, searching for all "*.rb" files.

A: Your current code downloads the file, checks the size of the downloaded file (presumably to check if it is less than 5MB, but you don't actually do that), and then downloads it again.  Even if you did something with fsize, it's too late to have not downloaded it.
I'd look into the sftp gem rather than scp; it should be pretty straightforward to do what you want with sftp, but not with scp.

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Yvonne Abraham
Sweet deal for soda
By Yvonne Abraham Globe Columnist,June 7, 2012, 2:09 a.m.
He's the Felix Unger of Beacon Hill.
Like the neat-freak half of The Odd Couple, House Speaker Robert DeLeo has a severe allergy. One whiff of anything that could be construed as a tax increase — no matter how sensible or popular the measure — and he starts honking.
The latest source of his hypochondria? A measure to end the tax exemption for soda.
There's no good reason for soda to be sales-tax free. It's not an essential item, like milk or clothing. Whether we drink it or not, soda is bad for us: Sugary drinks are one of the biggest single sources of calories in American diets, fueling the obesity growing at horrendous rates across the country, an epidemic that costs the health system a whopping $147 billion a year. In Massachusetts, the obesity rate rose from 16.7 percent in 2000 to 23.6 percent in 2010, the latest year for which state figures are available. It contributes about $2 billion a year to our health care costs — costs we all bear.
And yet our state is one of only 12 in the country that essentially subsidize soda, forgoing sales taxes to make it cheaper than it should be — and thus easier to guzzle in huge quantities. Removing the exemption would raise at least $50 million a year for prevention and wellness programs in this state. It would also make soda a slightly less appealing buy, a good thing for both wallets and waistlines.
Before people start baying "nanny state!" this isn't New York mayor Michael Bloomberg outlawing Big Gulps: Ending the exemption on soda merely makes state tax policy, which currently favors an unhealthy product, neutral.
That makes plenty of sense to me. And I'm not the only one. A poll commissioned last year by The Boston Foundation found that more than two-thirds of Massachusetts voters support ending the exemption and devoting the funds raised to health programs. Corporate types have joined the cause, including the Alliance for Business Leadership, a group of local executives.
"We have a great interest in this," says Alliance member Philip Edmundson, CEO of insurance broker William Gallagher Associates. "We're paying a lot more for our health care, and our employees are, too."
And yet, when Representative Kay Khan and other supporters attempted to end the soda exemption this week, the Speaker sneezed. Khan and her cosponsors attached the measure to the health cost containment bill passed on Tuesday night, a laudable piece of legislation that aims to rein in runaway health costs. Khan's amendment, and another which would have expanded the excise tax on cigarettes to other tobacco products, were both consistent with the aims of the legislation, and yet were ruled out of order.
The soda measure never really had a chance. It's an election year, and DeLeo wants to protect Democratic incumbents. As he has demonstrated time and again (poor Bottle Bill!) he believes voters will toss out incumbents if they dare speak the dreaded T-word.
It's true we're in a period of virulent anti-tax hysteria in this country — including in Massachusetts. "Americans want, at every level of government, a helluva lot more services than they're willing to pay for," says David Brunori, editor at the non-partisan, Virginia-based Tax Analysts.
But in this case, most people agree the exemption should go. So what gives? Are the voters not telling pollsters the truth, or is DeLeo underestimating them? Brunori says it's the latter, that jumpy politicians "are not listening very well."
Look, DeLeo is a decent guy, and he has done a lot of good things as Speaker. And there's no doubt that some legislators, including Senate President Therese Murray, are vulnerable this year, to Republicans who would seize any opportunity to call them tax-happy.
But the voters are smarter than DeLeo and others give them credit for. They understand that when the Speaker snuffs out a sensible measure like this one, we all have good reason to feel a little sick.
Yvonne Abraham is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at abraham@globe.com


In the midst of America's longest government shutdown, some voices—particularly those of freshmen members of Congress—enthusiastically call for radical environmental change, with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (NY-14) Green New Deal drawing a mix of virulent criticism and fierce support. With Fox News hailing it "the most radical and destructive policy proposal offered by a member of Congress in decades," members from all sides of the political arena have spoken out.
No matter one's stance on environmental issues, there are various ways to contribute to the legislative process. For example, students unable to vote can call their local politicians or attend protests. There are also myriad ways to help the environment here in South Florida, from planting trees to participating in beach cleanups. The best thing for Pine Crest students to do in light of the environmental debate is to get involved and speak out, regardless of party affiliation.
Type One reached out to members of two Pine Crest political clubs, Teenage Republicans and Young Democrats, for their opinions on Cortez's radical Green New Deal. Below are their opposing takes on the issue.
Citing her proposed 70% marginal tax rate as radical and socialist, conservatives largely believe that Representative Ocasio-Cortez's proposal is too drastic for the American economy. However, America's history is littered with examples of high marginal tax rates, with rates even reaching 94% for families making more than $200,000 during World War II. In fact, tax rates did not lower drastically until the Reagan administration, which saw a noticeable drop from 70% in 1980 to 50% in 1982. The hands-off approach to the economy thrived during Reagan's presidency, as did the national debt. Reagan's laissez-faire economic style has remained a defining attribute of the American economic system. Supporters typically cite a correlation between lower tax rates and economic growth to argue against tax rate increases, although this correlation has since been proven statistically insignificant. Knowing that the tax rate is not related to economic growth, lawmakers arguing that Ocasio-Cortez's 70% tax rate would devastate the economy are clearly mistaken, as the Green New Deal would likely improve the American economy by increasing the abundance of employment opportunities and decreasing the $240 billion spent annually on adapting to the consequences of climate change, from natural disasters to diseases caused by air pollution.
Beyond the economics, a glance at the current state of American environmentalism leaves much to be desired in terms of legislation and social progress, with only 58% of Americans believing that climate change is real and mostly caused by human activities. Despite what a minority may claim, climate change is real and has caused an abundance of economic and social issues, costing Americans billions of dollars annually. A serious response is needed, and little has been done, so I have to believe in Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal because no one else is putting forth legislation to deal with this serious problem.
Although renewable energy should be the future, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's aspirations, as outlined in the Green New Deal, are not feasible in the timeframe she proposes. Currently, the United States gets roughly 11% of its energy from renewable energy sources. Cortez is proposing that by 2030 we would be able to run on 100% renewable energy. This timeline is very unrealistic, as the technology to store energy (after its production and before distribution) is inadequate for a project of this scale. Additionally, Cortez's resolution does not include using hydropower as a means of renewable energy production, which is quite startling seeing that it is currently the nation's largest source of renewable energy.
Furthermore, the project would be exorbitantly expensive at a time when the national debt is reaching 22 trillion dollars. Expert scientists and policy advisors state that the plan may be too ambitious. The generating capacity alone of this quantity of renewable energy would cost upwards of 2 trillion dollars. Skeptics include the president of the Institute for Energy Research, who contended that the Green New Deal "would be impossible to achieve." The Green New Deal still lacks a clear explanation of execution. Although the idea of renewable energy is enticing, the plan should be further developed before tax dollars are spent on the project.


As my graduation project I created modern illustrations of the novel »Steppenwolf« by the german author Hermann Hesse who is known for his surreal and fantastic style. His successful novel »Steppenwolf« revolves around the life of an antisocial stranger named Harry Haller who not only has to deal with his split personality but also with his fundamental rejection of the society. I ended up with ten abstract risographs based on acrylic scetches which I edited digitally.


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#include "TcpClient.h"
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class CTcpUploadFileThread : public CTcpClient
{
protected:
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	UINT m_uMsg;
	int m_iTimeout;
	CString m_strDest;
	CString m_strFile;

	std::vector<BYTE> m_vData;

	virtual void Execute();
	void ReportProgress(int iCur, int iTotal);

public:
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		if( m_vData.size() == 0 )
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	CTcpUploadFileThread(void);
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Bucharest, 21st of April 2004 - Taking into account that CERF is a major event for Romanian IT&C market, SIVECO Romania presents at this edition the flag products of the company: AEL eLearning platform, SIVADOC - a system for document and work flow management and SIVECO Application Integrated Information Package.
The diversity of the solutions and the attractive presentations at SIVECO stand draw the attention of the personalities that visited the exhibition in the opening day.
"The star" of the stand was the AEL product, an eLearning platform used in all high schools in the country within the SEI Program, developed by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research and implemented by an IT consortium made up by HP, IBM and SIVECO Romania.
The AEL platform received praises from President Ion Iliescu and Prime Minister Adrian Nastase who came at CERF together with Minister Dan Nica and all declared themselves very pleased with the new process of teaching/learning used today in AEL laboratories.
"We are touched and honored that, within a few hours, the most important people in the country appreciated the performances of the AEL educational platform. The praises of the President and of the Prime Minister shows that we are on the right track" declares Mr. Alexandru Radasanu, Vice President and Technical Manager of SIVECO Romania.
The company's Book of Honor is now richer with two precious references for SIVECO Romania's team.
President Ion Iliescu wrote "Congratulations, especially for the application concerning education and school programs. This is the most important field for the future"


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Sure, it had problems, but overall it was a good course correction for the franchise that came before under Micheal Bay – and we're not hating on Bay, we liked some of those movies – as Bumblebee focused on story and character more than any of the movies that went before.
Now, it seems Bumblebee, despite being tipped as the last of the Transformers franchise, is actually a fresh start for the universe.
It seems Hasbro, during the fourth quarter earnings conference call, has been confirmed as happy with Bumblebee's performance and it has opened the door to new adventures.
And, if they all have a great a premise and quality as Bumblebee, then bring it on!
Hasbro's Brian Goldner confirmed what we heard before, which was that other movies in the Transformers universe, related to Bumblebee will go ahead if the movie performs well enough.
And perform well enough it has: "On Transformers, in the fourth quarter was up both in the US and internationally, so up overall. We really successfully reengaged fans and families with Bumblebee. It's done over $450 million globally," Goldner said.
"The early indications as we enter the New Year are for a strong ESP and home entertainment window, and we believe that the enterprise for Bumblebee, including the film, is profitable for Hasbro go forward.


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Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor has offered his take on Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston's potential suspension.
Speaking to TMZ Sports, Taylor noted Winston needs to be smarter about the choices he makes.
"Especially with the problems he's had you'd think he'd make better judgments than that."
ESPN.com's Adam Schefter reported Winston will be suspended for the first three games of the 2018 season for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy, stemming from a 2016 incident in which he was accused of sexually assaulting a female Uber driver.
Taylor also addressed Winston's accuser, saying he hopes "it's not a situation where someone wants to be in this #MeToo genre."
A woman, identified as Kate, told Buzzfeed's Talal Ansari last November that Winston "reached over and he just grabbed my crotch" after she picked him up around 2 a.m. outside of a nightclub in Arizona.
Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Ronald Darby, who played with Winston at Florida State, said in a statement after the allegations came out that there were "three of us in the car, not just one as has been reported," and he was "confident that nothing inappropriate in nature happened" between Winston and the Uber driver.
Per NFL Network's Mike Garafolo, the league's investigation found Darby's statement flawed because he wasn't in the car the entire time.
If Winston serves a three-game suspension, he will be eligible to return for Tampa Bay's Week 4 matchup against the Chicago Bears on Sept. 30.


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    {
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        // see if it needs transforming
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            foreach ($this->transformers as $transformer) {
                if ($transformer->needsTransforming($resource)) {
                    $resource = $transformer->transform($resource, $this);
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            $this->transformed[] = $hash;
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Bold: How To Go Big, Create Wealth And Impact The World
Author: Peter H. Diamandis
Narrator: Steven Kotler
Good-bye, Linear Thinking . . . Hello, Exponential
Birth of a Behemoth
The year was 1878. George Eastman was a twenty-four-year-old junior clerk at the Rochester Savings Bank in need of a vacation. He chose to go to Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. At the suggestion of a coworker, Eastman bought all the requisite photographic equipment to make a record of the trip. It was a lot of equipment: a camera as big as a Rottweiler, a massive tripod, a jug of water, a heavy plateholder, the plates themselves, glass tanks, an assortment of chemicals, and, of course, a large tent—this last item providing a dark place in which to spread emulsion on the plates before exposure and a dark place to develop them afterwards. Eastman never did go on that vacation.1
Instead, he got obsessed with chemistry. Back then photography was a "wet" art, but Eastman, who craved a more portable process, read about gelatin emulsions capable of remaining light-sensitive after drying. Working at night, in his mother's kitchen, he began to experiment with his own varieties. A natural-born tinkerer, Eastman took less than two years to invent both a dry plate formula and a machine that fabricated dry plates. The Eastman Dry Plate Company was born.
More tinkering followed. In 1884, Eastman invented roll film; four years later he came up with a camera capable of taking advantage of that roll. In 1888, that camera became commercially available, later marketed under the slogan "You press the button, we do the rest."2 The Eastman Dry Plate Company had become the Eastman Company, but that name wasn't quite catchy enough. Eastman wanted something stickier, something that people would remember and talk about. One of his favorite letters was K. In 1892, the Eastman Kodak Company was born.
In those early years, if you would have asked George Eastman about Kodak's business model, he would have said the company was somewhere between a chemical supply house and a dry goods purveyor (if dry plates can be considered dry goods). But that changed quickly. "The idea gradually dawned on me," Eastman said, "that what we were doing was not merely making dry plates, but that we started out to make photography an everyday affair."3 Or, as Eastman later rephrased it, he wanted to make photography "as convenient as a pencil."
And for the next hundred years, Eastman Kodak did just that.
The Memory Business
Steven Sasson is a tall man with a lantern jaw. In 1973, he was a freshly minted graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His degree in electrical engineering led to a job with Kodak's Apparatus Division research lab, where, a few months into his employment, Sasson's supervisor, Gareth Lloyd, approached him with a "small" request. Fairchild Semiconductor had just invented the first "charge-coupled device" (or CCD)—an easy way to move an electronic charge around a transistor—and Kodak needed to know if these devices could be used for imaging.4 Could they ever.
By 1975, working with a small team of talented technicians, Sasson used CCDs to create the world's first digital still camera and digital recording device. Looking, as Fast Company once explained, "like a '70s Polaroid crossed with a Speak-and-Spell,"5 the camera was the size of a toaster, weighed in at 8.5 pounds, had a resolution of 0.01 megapixel, and took up to thirty black-and-white digital images—a number chosen because it fell between twenty-four and thirty-six and was thus in alignment with the exposures available in Kodak's roll film. It also stored shots on the only permanent storage device available back then—a cassette tape. Still, it was an astounding achievement and an incredible learning experience.
Portrait of Steven Sasson with first digital camera, 2009
Source: Harvey Wang, From Darkroom to Daylight
"When you demonstrate such a system," Sasson later said, "that is, taking pictures without film and showing them on an electronic screen without printing them on paper, inside a company like Kodak in 1976, you have to get ready for a lot of questions. I thought people would ask me questions about the technology: How'd you do this? How'd you make that work? I didn't get any of that. They asked me when it was going to be ready for prime time? When is it going to be realistic to use this? Why would anybody want to look at their pictures on an electronic screen?"6
In 1996, twenty years after this meeting took place, Kodak had 140,000 employees and a $28 billion market cap. They were effectively a category monopoly. In the United States, they controlled 90 percent of the film market and 85 percent of the camera market.7 But they had forgotten their business model. Kodak had started out in the chemistry and paper goods business, for sure, but they came to dominance by being in the convenience business.
Even that doesn't go far enough. There is still the question of what exactly Kodak was making more convenient. Was it just photography? Not even close. Photography was simply the medium of expression—but what was being expressed? The "Kodak Moment," of course—our desire to document our lives, to capture the fleeting, to record the ephemeral. Kodak was in the business of recording memories. And what made recording memories more convenient than a digital camera?
But that wasn't how the Kodak Corporation of the late twentieth century saw it. They thought that the digital camera would undercut their chemical business and photographic paper business, essentially forcing the company into competing against itself. So they buried the technology. Nor did the executives understand how a low-resolution 0.01 megapixel image camera could hop on an exponential growth curve and eventually provide high-resolution images. So they ignored it. Instead of using their weighty position to corner the market, they were instead cornered by the market.
Back in 1976, when Steven Sasson first demonstrated the digital camera at Kodak, he was immediately asked for a ready-for-prime-time estimate. How long, frightened executives wanted to know, until his new invention posed a serious threat to the company's market dominance? Fifteen to twenty years, Sasson said.8
In arriving at this answer, Sasson made a quick estimation and did a quick calculation. He estimated the number of megapixels that would satisfy an average consumer at two million. Then, in order to figure out the time it would take for these two million megapixels to become commercially available, Sasson relied on Moore's law for his calculation—and that's where the trouble started.
In 1965, Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel, noticed the number of integrated circuits on a transistor had been doubling every twelve to twenty-four months. The trend had been going on for about a decade and, Moore predicted, would probably last for another.9 About this last part, he was off by a bit. All told, Moore's law has held steady for nearly sixty years. This relentless progress in price and performance is the reason the smartphone in your pocket is a thousand times faster and million times cheaper than a supercomputer from the 1970s. It is exponential growth in action.
Unlike the +1 progression of linear growth, wherein 1 becomes 2 becomes 3 becomes 4 and so forth, exponential growth is a compound doubling: 1 becomes 2 becomes 4 becomes 8 and so on. And this is the problem: This doubling is unusually deceptive. If I take 30 large linear steps (say three feet, or one meter per step) from my Santa Monica living room, I end up 30 meters away, or roughly across the street. If, alternatively, I take 30 exponential steps from the same starting point, I end up a billion meters away, or orbiting the Earth 26 times. And this was exactly where Kodak went wrong—they underestimated the power of exponentials.
The Six Ds
Underestimating the power of exponentials is easy to do. We hominids evolved in a world that was local and linear. Back then, life was local because everything in our forebears' lives was usually within a day's walk. If something happened on the other side of the planet, we knew nothing about it. Life was also linear, meaning nothing changed over centuries or even millennia. In stark contrast, today we live in a world that is global and exponential. The problem is that our brains—and thus our perceptual capabilities—were never designed to process at either this scale or this speed. Our linear mind literally cannot grok exponential progression.
But if the goal is to avoid Kodak's errors (if you're a company) or to exploit Kodak's errors (if you're an entrepreneur), then you need to have a better understanding of how this change unfolds—and that means understanding the hallmark characteristics of exponentials. To teach these, I have developed a framework called the Six Ds of Exponentials: digitalization, deception, disruption, demonetization, dematerialization, and democratization. These Six Ds are a chain reaction of technological progression, a road map of rapid development that always leads to enormous upheaval and opportunity.
So let's follow the chain reaction.
The 6 Ds of Exponentials: Digitalization, Deception, Disruption, Demonetization, Dematerialization, and Democratization
Source: Peter H. Diamandis, www.abundancehub.com
Digitalization. This idea starts with the fact that culture makes progress cumulative. Innovation occurs as humans share and exchange ideas. I build on your idea; you build on mine. This type of exchange was slow in the early days of our species (when all we had as a means of transmission was storytelling around the campfire), picked up with the printing press, then exploded with the digital representation, storage, and exchange of ideas made possible by computers. Anything that could be digitized—that is, represented by ones and zeros—could spread at the speed of light (or at least the speed of the Internet) and became free to reproduce and share. Moreover, this spreading followed a consistent pattern: an exponential growth curve. In Kodak's case, once the memory business went from a physical process (that is to say, imaged on film, stored on paper) to a digital process (imaged and stored as ones and zeros), its growth rate became entirely predictable. It was now on an exponential curve.
Of course, it's not just Kodak. Anything that becomes digitized (biology, medicine, manufacturing, and so forth) hops on Moore's law of increasing computational power. Show more
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Australia mulls a republic as Jubilee celebrations spread Down Under
he Sydney Harbour Bridge has been illuminated in purple to mark the Platinum Jubilee, just days after the appointment of the country's first minister tasked with overseeing a transition to a republic.
Matt Thistlethwaite was sworn in by the newly elected Labor government as assistant minister for the republic on the eve of the Jubilee and said the occasion gave Australians food for thought about the country's future.
"Firstly, I'd like to congratulate the Queen on her Jubilee and her reign, I think she's been a fantastic Queen and leader of the Commonwealth," Mr Thistlethwaite told Sky News Australia.
Do we want King Charles or are we mature enough and independent enough to look to appoint one of our own as our head of state?
"But as she comes to the twilight of her reign, I think Australians are naturally beginning to ask themselves what comes next for Australia: Do we want King Charles or are we mature enough and independent enough to look to appoint one of our own as our head of state?"
The new government has informally pledged for a referendum on a republic in its next term if it wins a second election, with the new prime minister, Anthony Albanese, prioritising a referendum for constitutional recognition of the country's Indigenous peoples.
The Australian Jubilee events were kicked off by Mr Albanese on Thursday when he lit a beacon to the Queen in the country's capital, Canberra.
It is one of more than 2,000 beacons lit around the UK and Commonwealth for the Jubilee and symbolically led by the Queen, who lit the Buckingham Palace beacon.
Mr Albanese, whose party secured a slim majority to form government earlier in the week, hailed the Queen's visits to Australia and said she had been "a rare constant, an enduring, inspiring… presence of calm, decency and strength".
But he also said the relationship between Australia and the UK "is no longer what it was at the dawn" of the Queen's reign.
"No longer parent and young upstart, we stand as equals. More importantly, we stand as friends," he said in his Jubilee speech.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese said the relationship between Australia and the UK 'is no longer what it was at the dawn' of the Queen's reign (Rick Rycroft/AP) / AP
The harbour bridge is among more than 80 famous landmarks, which also include the Melbourne Cricket Ground, lit up in purple for the length of the Jubilee celebrations.
In Sydney, the bridge, Luna Park and other buildings around the harbour were synchronised in a lighting display on Thursday as ferries on the water sounded their horns in "seven minutes for seven decades" to commence the illuminations.
On Saturday, Aspen Island on Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin will be renamed to Queen Elizabeth II Island in a ceremony which will also include the opening of the new Queen Elizabeth Water Gardens.
A Royal Australian Airforce flypast and a 21 gun salute will accompany the ceremony.
While the Australian Republic Movement welcomed the creation of Mr Thistlethwaite's new position, the Australian Monarchist League criticised the move and complained about the Jubilee celebrations.
In a post on Twitter, the group said it showed a "a clear lack of respect for the Australian people" and, amid a notable lack of community-hosted Jubilee events, accused the new government of banning the public from the official events.
The beacon lighting and Queen Elizabeth II Island ceremonies were made official invitation-only events, while members of the public were invited to view the flypast and 21 gun salute.
"That the Australian people have been excluded at the last minute from celebrating their sovereign's Platinum Jubilee at the heart of these national events is shameful," the group said.
In New Zealand, prime minister Jacinda Arden attended a state church service and beacons were lit in Wellington and Auckland.
The New Zealand Defence Force sent a 42-person contingent to participate in the Jubilee Pageant at Buckingham Palace.
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Q: Share raw resources Xamarin Android I'm trying to add the possibility of sharing files through other applications, but I can not do it.
I am interested in being able to do it through Whatsapp and telegram, but when I try it says "unsuported format" or similar errors.
            System.IO.Stream inputStream= data.context.Resources.OpenRawResource(data.context.Resources.GetIdentifier(path, "raw", data.context.ApplicationContext.PackageName));

            var sharingIntent = new Intent();
            sharingIntent.SetAction(Intent.ActionSend);
            sharingIntent.PutExtra(Intent.ExtraStream, ReadFully(inputStream));
            sharingIntent.SetType("audio/*");

            data.context.StartActivity(Intent.CreateChooser(sharingIntent, "Share..."));

And the conversion to  byte[]
     public static byte[] ReadFully(System.IO.Stream input)
    {
        byte[] buffer = new byte[16 * 1024];
        using (System.IO.MemoryStream ms = new System.IO.MemoryStream())
        {
            int read;
            while ((read = input.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
            {
                ms.Write(buffer, 0, read);
            }
            return ms.ToArray();
        }
    }

Thank you!

A:
I am interested in being able to do it through Whatsapp and telegram, but when I try it says "unsuported format" or similar errors.

From your codes, you are trying to share a big byte array, which is neither supported nor recommended. The correct way to do that is to copy the audio file from internal storage to external storage and share the Uri of it to other app:
protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle)
    {
        base.OnCreate(bundle);

        // Set our view from the "main" layout resource
        SetContentView (Resource.Layout.Main);

        //Create a new file in the exteranl storage and copy the file from assets folder to external storage folder
        Java.IO.File dstFile = new Java.IO.File(Environment.ExternalStorageDirectory.Path + "/TestSound.mp3");
        dstFile.CreateNewFile();
        var inputStream = new FileInputStream(Assets.OpenFd("fileName.mp3").FileDescriptor);
        var outputStream = new FileOutputStream(dstFile);
        CopyFile(inputStream,outputStream);

        //to let system scan the audio file and detect it
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ActionMediaScannerScanFile);
        intent.SetData(Uri.FromFile(dstFile));
        this.SendBroadcast(intent);

        //share the Uri of the file
        var sharingIntent = new Intent();
        sharingIntent.SetAction(Intent.ActionSend);
        sharingIntent.PutExtra(Intent.ExtraStream, Uri.FromFile(dstFile));
        sharingIntent.SetType("audio/*");

        this.StartActivity(Intent.CreateChooser(sharingIntent, "Share..."));
    }

    public void CopyFile(FileInputStream inputStream,FileOutputStream outputStream)
    {
        //FileChannel inChannel = new FileInputStream(src).Channel;
        FileChannel inChannel = inputStream.Channel;
        FileChannel outChannel = outputStream.Channel;
        try
        {
            inChannel.TransferTo(0, inChannel.Size(), outChannel);
        }
        finally
        {
            if (inChannel != null)
            {
                inChannel.Close();
            }

            if (outChannel != null)
            {
                outChannel.Close();
            }
        }
    }

Update:
If the audio files are in Resources/raw folder, you can use following codes to get the FileInputStream:
//My_Heart_Will_Go_On.mp3 in Resources/raw folder
AssetFileDescriptor descripter = this.Resources.OpenRawResourceFd(Resource.Raw.My_Heart_Will_Go_On);
var inputStream = new FileInputStream(descripter.FileDescriptor);

Notes: if Visual Studio didn't update Resource.Designer.cs for Resource.Raw.resourceName, you can manually update the Resource.Designer.cs like below:
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks", "1.0.0.0")]
public partial class Resource
{
   ...
   public partial class Raw
    {

        static Raw()
        {
            global::Android.Runtime.ResourceIdManager.UpdateIdValues();
        }

        private Raw()
        {
        }
    }
}

Partial class Raw won't get overrided when rebuild the project.


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Ентомопатогенні гриби (від  — комаха + патоген) — паразитичні гриби, що вражають  комах. Види, патогенні для шкідників сільського господарства, а також кровосисних та інших шкідливих комах, можуть використовуватися для контролю їх чисельності, тобто як  Біопестициди.

Також відомі види, які крім комах вражають і інших  членистоногих:  павуків і  кліщів або спеціалізуються на останніх, але не на комахах. Ці види входять в ту ж  екологічну групу, що й ентомопатогенні та розглядаються спільно з ними.

Роди
До патогенів комах належать:

 Isaria
 Lecanicillium
 Кордицепс
 Beauveria
 Metschnikowia
 Lagenidium
 Coelomomyces
 Septobasidium
 Laboulbenia
 Metarhizium
 Entomophaga
 Pandora
 Entomophthora
 Ascopolyporus
 Akanthomyces
 Gibellula

Галерея

Див. також
 Біотехнологія
 Біологічні пестициди

Джерела
 Евлахова А. А. Энтомопатогенные грибы. Систематика, биология, практическое значение. — Л.: Наука, 1974. — 260 с.

Екологія комах
Екологія грибів

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The Golden Calf
32 Now when the people saw that Moses (A)delayed to come down from the mountain, the people assembled around Aaron and said to him, "Come, (B)make us [a]a god who will go before us; for (C)this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we do not know what happened to him." 2 Aaron said to them, "(D)Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." 3 So all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. 4 Then he took the gold from their [b]hands, and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a (E)cast metal calf; and they said, "[c]This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt." 5 Now when Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of it; and Aaron made a proclamation and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord." 6 So the next day they got up early and (F)offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and (G)the people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up (H)to engage in lewd behavior.
7 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, "Go [d]down at once, for your people, whom (I)you brought up from the land of Egypt, have (J)behaved corruptly. 8 They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. (K)They have made for themselves a cast metal calf, and have worshiped it and (L)have sacrificed to it and said, '[e](M)This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!'" 9 (N)Then the Lord said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, they are [f](O)an obstinate people. 10 So now (P)leave Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and (Q)I will make of you a great nation."
Moses' Plea
11 Then (R)Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said, "Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should (S)the Egyptians talk, saying, 'With evil motives He brought them out, to kill them on the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your burning anger and relent of doing harm to Your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You (T)swore by Yourself, and said to them, 'I will (U)multiply your [g]descendants as the stars of the heavens, and (V)all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your [h]descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'" 14 (W)So the Lord relented of the harm which He said He would do to His people.
15 (X)Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, (Y)tablets which were written on both [i]sides; they were written on one side and the other. 16 The tablets were God's work, and the writing was God's writing engraved on the tablets. 17 Now when Joshua heard the sound of the people [j]as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is a sound of war in the camp." 18 But he said,
"It is not the sound of the cry of victory,
Nor is it the sound of the cry of defeat;
But I hear the sound of singing."
Moses' Anger
19 And it came about, as soon as [k]Moses approached the camp, that (Z)he saw the calf and the people dancing; and Moses' anger burned, and (AA)he threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them to pieces [l]at the foot of the mountain. 20 Then (AB)he took the calf which they had made and completely burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it over the surface of the water and made the sons of Israel drink it.
21 Then Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you, that you have brought such a great sin upon them?" 22 And Aaron said, "Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, (AC)that they are [m]prone to evil. 23 For (AD)they said to me, 'Make [n]a god for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we do not know what happened to him.' 24 So I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off.' Then they gave it to me, and (AE)I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."
25 Now when Moses saw that the people were [o]out of control—for Aaron had (AF)let them [p]get out of control to the point of being an object of ridicule among [q]their enemies— 26 Moses then stood at the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is for the Lord, come to me!" And all the sons of Levi gathered together to him. 27 And he said to them, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: 'Every man of you put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his [r]neighbor.'" 28 So (AG)the sons of Levi did [s]as Moses instructed, and about three thousand men of the people fell that day. 29 Then Moses said, "[t]Dedicate yourselves today to the Lord—for every man has been against his son and against his brother—in order that He may bestow a blessing upon you today."
30 And on the next day Moses said to the people, "(AH)You yourselves have [u]committed a great sin; and now I am going up to the Lord; perhaps I can (AI)make atonement for your sin." 31 Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, "Oh, this people has [v]committed a great sin, and they have made a (AJ)god of gold for themselves! 32 But now, if You will forgive their sin, very well; but if not, please wipe me out from Your (AK)book which You have written!" 33 However, the Lord said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against Me, (AL)I will wipe him out of My book. 34 But go now, lead the people (AM)where I told you. Behold, (AN)My angel shall go before you; nevertheless (AO)on the day when I [w]punish, (AP)I will [x]punish them for their sin." 35 (AQ)Then the Lord struck the people with a plague, because of (AR)what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.
Exodus 32:1 Or gods
Exodus 32:4 Lit hand
Exodus 32:4 Or These are your gods
Exodus 32:7 Lit go down
Exodus 32:9 Or a stiff-necked
Exodus 32:13 Lit seed
Exodus 32:15 Lit their sides
Exodus 32:17 Lit in its shouting
Exodus 32:19 Lit he
Exodus 32:19 Lit beneath
Exodus 32:22 Lit in evil
Exodus 32:23 Or gods
Exodus 32:25 Lit let loose
Exodus 32:25 Lit go loose
Exodus 32:25 Lit those who rise against them
Exodus 32:27 Or kin
Exodus 32:28 Lit according to Moses' word
Exodus 32:29 Lit Fill your hand
Exodus 32:30 Lit sinned
Exodus 32:34 Lit visit
Exodus 32:34 Lit visit their sin upon them
Exodus 32:1 : Ex 24:18; Deut 9:11, 12
Exodus 32:1 : Acts 7:40
Exodus 32:1 : Ex 14:11
Exodus 32:4 : Deut 9:16; Neh 9:18; Ps 106:19; Acts 7:41
Exodus 32:6 : 1 Cor 10:7
Exodus 32:6 : Ex 32:17-19; Num 25:2
Exodus 32:7 : Ex 32:4, 11; Deut 9:12
Exodus 32:7 : Gen 6:11f
Exodus 32:8 : Ex 20:3, 4, 23
Exodus 32:8 : Ex 22:20; 34:15; Deut 32:17
Exodus 32:8 : 1 Kin 12:28
Exodus 32:9 : Num 14:11-20
Exodus 32:9 : Ex 33:3, 5; 34:9; Is 48:4; Acts 7:51
Exodus 32:10 : Deut 9:14
Exodus 32:10 : Num 14:12
Exodus 32:11 : Deut 9:18, 26
Exodus 32:12 : Num 14:13-19; Deut 9:28; Josh 7:9
Exodus 32:13 : Gen 22:16-18; Heb 6:13
Exodus 32:13 : Gen 15:5; 26:4
Exodus 32:13 : Gen 12:7; 13:15; 15:18; 17:8; 35:12; Ex 13:5, 11; 33:1
Exodus 32:14 : Ps 106:45
Exodus 32:15 : Ex 31:18
Exodus 32:19 : Ex 32:6; Deut 9:16
Exodus 32:23 : Ex 32:1-4
Exodus 32:24 : Ex 32:4
Exodus 32:25 : 1 Kin 12:28-30; 14:16
Exodus 32:28 : Num 25:7-13; Deut 33:9
Exodus 32:30 : 1 Sam 12:20, 23
Exodus 32:32 : Ps 69:28; Is 4:3; Dan 12:1; Mal 3:16, 17; Phil 4:3; Rev 3:5; 21:27
Exodus 32:33 : Ex 17:14; Deut 29:20; Ps 9:5; Rev 3:5
Exodus 32:34 : Ex 3:17
Exodus 32:34 : Deut 32:35; Rom 2:5, 6
Exodus 32:34 : Ps 99:8
Exodus 32:35 : Ex 32:4, 24


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By Meagan Simpson Canadian Startup News August 12, 2022
Talk of regulation, market conditions collide with glitzy behaviour at Blockchain Futurist Conference
Blockchain Futurist Conference, Toronto, 2022.
At the crypto cabana there was no sign of a downturn.
"I know there's inflation at like eight and a half percent and gas prices are going up, but here, gas prices are going down."
Those were the words spoken by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin at the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Toronto on Wednesday.
Buterin was teasing the upgrade to Ethereum, which is meant to bring about Ethereum 2.0 and make it easier and cheaper to transact.
Beyond those words, there was little discussion from Buterin about the current market conditions that have affected crypto, and the tech sector more broadly. However, a variety of on-stage discussions touched on the state of crypto and reflected a current focus on regulation and compliance.
Buterin's words point to a unique balance that was struck at the Blockchain Futurist Conference, which was hosted at a nightclub and pool bar in a remote area of Toronto's waterfront.
The setting allowed attendees to rent company cabanas, lounge by a pool, park their yachts outside, and use a local helicopter service to fly in (yes, one of the stipulations on the event's website read: "If you plan to bring a yacht, boat or helicopter to the conference please contact us directly," and yes, you could use crypto to pay for those helicopter rides). Overheard by one of the conference's global attendees was a boast that they had recently rented a $5 million Airbnb for their company.
But, while outwardly some behaviours at the conference didn't match the current crashing market conditions, the hype wasn't overboard, and there was a mix of optimism and reality about the future of the market.
The crypto market crash that has taken place this year has seen more than $2 trillion USD in value wiped out, leaving many retail investors in the lurch. It's also had a heavy toll on crypto lenders in particular, spanning insolvency and bankruptcy filings.
While there were some discussions of the market conditions at the event, the talk of the town was regulation, compliance, and what that future of the sector might look like. This was an apt topic as experts have forecast that the crypto crash and some of the activity leading up to it could spur regulatory backlash. And, in Canada in particular, regulation has become an increasingly popular topic in the crypto space.
Case in point, one talk on the second day of the conference was titled, 'Are we still talking about regulation? (Yes, and we are going to keep talking about it).'
Speaking to the current state of compliance and regulation, Coinsquare's chief operating officer, Eric Richmond, noted: "it really is truly progress."
RELATED: Coinsquare lays off 24 percent of staff amid turbulent crypto market, shifted focus to regulation
Having been in the crypto space for a number of years, Richmond recalled "the wild west" that was the 2017/18s. Noting limited guidance on things like initial coin offerings (ICOs), Richmond pointed to the progress that has been made since. He discussed the increase in investor protection as well as increased guidance from regulators that has made it easier for crypto players to operate in the space.
Member of Parliament Michelle Rempel Garner also spoke on stage and noted a bipartisan interest for the sector to succeed. Rempel Garner, who tabled a bill earlier this year calling for a national crypto regulation framework, expressed the need to balance over—versus under-regulation—in order to ensure the sector does not become polarized.
Tanya Woods, co-founder and advisor to the Chamber of Digital Commerce, argued it took more than five years to get to a place where a federal member of parliament would table such a bill. She noted that industry stakeholders have been engaging with government in a number of ways for many years, hoping to get better clarity on regulation.
But even as regulators have been working with industry players and handing out increased guidance, challenges still remain.
Multiple speakers on stage spoke to the need to balance a government versus industry-led approach to regulation. Even Rempel Garner pushed for private sector participation in discussions. "This community has to drive the bus or the bus will be driven over it," she said.
"Sometimes we swing that pendulum too far and I think it's important for the regulators to find that balance," said Richmond, who added, "We're not fully there and … [we're] making it sound like everything makes sense and it's peachy, but it's not. There is still work to be done. But I think if you zoom out, it looks pretty good."
While the glam of the pool bar and yachts off-stage may not have matched the on-stage conversations, it seems clear that the next generation of crypto is going to include the less sexy realm of compliance.
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Meagan is the Senior Editor for BetaKit. A tech writer that is super proud to showcase the Canadian tech scene. Background in almost every type of journalism from sports to politics. Podcast and Harry Potter nerd, photographer and crazy cat lady.
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People are Funny war eine langjährige US-amerikanische Spielshow, die von John Guedel (1913–2001) entwickelt wurde.

Am 10. April 1942 sendete die NBC People are Funny zum ersten Mal in ihrem Hörfunkprogramm. Moderator der Sendung war Art Baker. Am 1. Oktober 1943 übernahm Art Linkletter die Show. Die Radiosendung war so erfolgreich, dass unter dem gleichen Titel 1946 ein Musical ins Kino kam. Mit Linkletter als Moderator wurde die Spielshow 1954 vom Fernsehen übernommen, wo sie bis zum 1. April 1960 lief.

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THE RISE OF THE LABOUR PARTY.
Modern History Review (1998) 10(1): pp.22-24.
Reviews various interpretations of the rise of the British Labour Party.
THE GENESIS OF THE 1906 TRADES DISPUTES ACT: LIBERALISM, TRADE UNIONS, AND THE LAW.
Twentieth Century British History (1998) 9(2): pp.175-200.
The Trades Disputes Act of 1906 reversed the Taff Vale Decision of 1901 and restored trade unions' immunity from action for damages. The Liberals dropped own bill in favour of Labour's indicating an expression of support for the new Labour Party representation after the 1906 election.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH SOCIALISM, 1900-1918.
Parliamentary History (1997) 16(1): pp.48-66.
Conventionally, most early-20th-century Labour politicians were nonideological liberals with an indigenous trade-union, Nonconformist, or "ethical socialist" background. In fact, prominent Labour figures such as Ramsay MacDonald, Philip Snowden, and George Lansbury developed intellectual constructs owing much to revisionist Marxism and other continental socialist influences. Labour Party intellectuals participated fully in the contemporary exchange of socialist ideas throughout the Western world. They were in the forefront on many issues, such as the changing nature of capitalism, the impact of technology, the role of voluntarism, and participatory citizenship. The Labour Party was in many ways more eclectic and adaptable than its European counterparts, which were more inhibited by entrenched Marxist positions.
WEALTH VERSUS WELFARE: THE BRITISH LEFT BETWEEN FREE TRADE AND NATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
Historical Research (1997) 70(171): pp.70-98.
While leaders of the Labour Party opposed tariff reform based on concerns over its effect on food prices they did not share the optimistic Liberal view of free trade.
SOCIALISTS, LABOUR AND THE LAND: THE RESPONSE OF THE LABOUR PARTY TO THE LAND CAMPAIGN OF LLOYD GEORGE BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
Twentieth Century British History (1997) 8(2): pp.127-144.
The land question occupied a central place before 1914 in the policies of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Socialists in these parties idealized the virtues of rural life, were concerned about rural depopulation, and viewed "smallholdings" as a partial solution to unemployment. The PLP, however, resisted the ILP's "state-based" demand for outright land nationalization, preferring a system of devolved public ownership exercised democratically through district and parish councils.
THE RISE OF LABOUR AND THE DECLINE OF LIBERALISM: THE STATE OF THE DEBATE.
Liberal revisionists have attempted to explain the demise of the Liberal Party and the rise of the Labour Party in terms of the cultural and social change wrought by World War I. They thus challenged the older class-based explanation, which held that the working class attached itself to the political ambitions of the Labour Party before 1914 via the trade union movement. The author suggests a balanced approach, one that acknowledges that the war was responsible for significant political and social change but recognizes that the Liberal Party was finding great difficulty in containing Labour's prewar challenge. The Liberals failed to appreciate the discontent that had existed among trade unionists from the mid-1880's. This neglect, combined with working-class anger and frustration, helped to produce an independent Labour movement.
NO COMPROMISE: NONCONFORMITY AND POLITICS 1893-1914.
Baptist Quarterly (1995) 36(2): pp.56-69.
Examines nonconformity and the rise of Labour suggesting the link with theology is tenuous.
RAMSAY MACDONALD, THE LABOUR PARTY, AND CHILD WELFARE, 1900-1914.
Twentieth Century British History (1993) 4(2): pp.105-125.
Ramsay MacDonald, an evolutionary socialist, viewed the family as crucial to the development of socialist society. He saw capitalism as undermining both the family and the social discipline the latter inculcated. MacDonald criticized the Social Democratic Federation's policy of state-provided child maintenance as supplanting family responsibility with state control - a policy also playing into the hands of socialism's capitalist enemies. Consequently, MacDonald and most of the Parliamentary Labour Party leadership supported various legislation aimed at strengthening the working-class family as an accountable social unit.
WIDENING HORIZONS? BRITISH LABOUR AND THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL 1893-1905.
Labour History Review (1993) 58(1): pp.8-13.
OSBORNE: A JUDGMENT GONE TOO FAR?
English Historical Review (1988) 103(406): pp.21-39.
Examines the history of the 1910 law suit brought by Walter V. Osborne, railway porter and branch secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, to prevent union levies for political campaigns.
WHY WAS THERE NO MARXISM IN GREAT BRITAIN?
English Historical Review (1984) 99(391): pp. 297-331.
KEIR HARDIE & THE 1907 CONFERENCE: CRISIS IN THE LABOUR PARTY.
History Today (1983) 33 (June): pp.12-15.
The decision in favour of universal suffrage at the Labour Party conference in 1907 ran into practical political problems involving Keir Hardie's leadership.
THE POLITICS OF THE OSBORNE JUDGEMENT.
Historical Journal (1982) 25(4): pp.889-909.
Considers some aspects of the judgments in and consequences of the Osborne case, concerning the political levy in trade unions, between 1907 and 1913.
GEORGE LANSBURY AND THE MIDDLESBROUGH ELECTION OF 1906.
International Review of Social History [Netherlands] (1973) 18(3): pp.333-352.
The election of 1906 examined in relation to the problem of electoral alliance with Liberals and risking alienation of ILP.
BRITISH POLITICS AND BLACKBURN POLITICS, 1900-10.
Historical Journal 1969 12(2): 302-327.
Reveals that the Gladstone/MacDonald Pact also at work at the local level.


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Brendan Farrington
Updated: November 8, 2022, 10:39 PM
Tags: Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio, politics, Patrick Murphy, Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, Charlie Crist, Government, Val Demings, Joe Biden
Florida's Marco Rubio wins 3rd Senate term, defeats Demings
Published: November 7, 2022, 1:15 PM Updated: November 8, 2022, 10:39 PM
Sen. Marco Rubio, left, R-Fla., celebrates with his family as he talks to supporters during an Election Night party, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2012, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has won a third term, defeating U.S. Rep. Val Demings and holding a key seat as the GOP tried to regain control of a closely divided Senate.
Rubio, 51, faced perhaps his toughest battle since he was first elected in 2010 after serving as the Florida House speaker. Once a presidential hopeful in 2016, Rubio's name is less often mentioned as a potential 2024 candidate.
Rubio ran a campaign pulled from the Republican playbook, tying Demings to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Joe Biden and hammering her on issues like spending, rising inflation and a crisis at the southern border.
The Republican was helped by shifting voter registration numbers in Florida. The last time Rubio ran for reelection, Democrats had about 327,000 more registered voters than Republicans. That has since flipped, with the GOP now having a nearly 300,000 advantage over Democrats.
Demings, 65, outraised Rubio and built a national profile by playing a prominent role in then-President Donald Trump's first impeachment and being on then-candidate Biden's list of potential running mates. But it wasn't enough, and Rubio acknowledged that in his victory speech in Miami-Dade County — a traditionally Democratic stronghold that he won Tuesday.
"They wasted a lot of money, and I'm glad they wasted it here and not in these other states where we have a chance to win," Rubio said. He continued: "I knew that no amount of money — no amount of money — was gonna convince convince people that escaped Marxism and socialism that America should embrace Marxism and socialism."
Much of Demings' criticism of Rubio centered on a poor attendance record, his backing of a national abortion ban and questioning his honesty. She accused him of lying about her record and using GOP buzzwords like "socialist" and "radical" to condemn her.
Demings is finishing her third term in the U.S. House, but focused most of her campaign on her career in law enforcement, which included serving as Orlando's first female police chief.
Rubio had relatively easy paths to his first two Senate victories, winning a three-way race in 2010 when sitting Republican Gov. Charlie Crist ran as an independent and peeled away votes from Democratic U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek. Rubio then defeated U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy in 2016 by nearly 8 percentage points.
Rubio ran for president in 2016, winning the Minnesota primary before dropping out of the race eventually won by Trump, who mercilessly mocked Rubio as "Little Marco." Rubio initially said he wouldn't seek a second Senate term, which led to a scramble of GOP candidates looking to fill his seat. But Rubio changed his mind just before candidate qualifying ended and easily held onto his seat in 2016.
As vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and a member of the Committee on Foreign relations, Rubio has pushed for taking a harder line against China and returning manufacturing of critical supplies like prescription drugs to the U.S.
During his first Senate campaign, Rubio repeatedly reminded voters of his working class background and "only in America" story as the son of Cuban immigrants who became a U.S. senator. His father was a bartender and his mother a hotel maid.
Demings, who was hoping to become Florida's first Black senator, used a similar "only in America" story. She grew up in Jacksonville, where segregation was still an issue, as the daughter of a janitor and maid. She was the first in her family to graduate from college and began her career in social work before becoming a police officer.
Demings mentioned her parents in her concession speech, saying they used to grow food, hunt and fish to feed the family, but always reminded their children that whether rich or poor, your vote counts the same.
"Today you all know our constitutional rights are under attack, costs are way too high and working families are wondering if they can still believe in the American Dream, wondering if our democracy can still deliver the safety and prosperity on which we all depend," she said. "Yes, even tonight, I still believe in America, and I still believe in our democracy."
The economy weighed heavily on the minds of Florida voters. Three-quarters of them believe things in the country are heading in the wrong direction, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 3,300 voters in Florida. About half rank jobs as the most important issue facing the country.
Almost 8 in 10 voters say the nation's economy is not so good or poor. When looking at their own family's financial situation, about half describe it as holding steady while almost 4 in 10 say they are falling behind. However, 6 in 10 voters say they are confident they can keep up with their expenses and find a good job if needed.
For an overwhelming majority — roughly 9 in 10 voters — inflation was a factor in the election. For about 6 in 10, inflation was the single most important factor.
Meanwhile, nearly 7 in 10 voters say the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision on abortion was an important factor in the election. About 6 in 10 say they favor a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide and a third opposed it.
Learn more about the issues and factors at play in the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections.
And follow the AP's election coverage of the 2022 elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections.


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Q: Preflight request to Jira REST API failing due to missing headers I'm trying to build an Angular 6 application that will interact with the Jira REST API.
My POST call for authentication fails on the preflight request (OPTIONS), according to the console due to a missing header (Access-Control-Allow-Origin).
Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:5555' is therefore not allowed access.
I think I'm not adding the headers correctly.
Here is my code:
export class AuthenticationService {

  readonly headerDict = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Access-Control-Allow-Headers': 'Content-Type',
    'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*'
  };

  readonly baseUrl: string = 'https://jira.domain.com'; //not the actual domain, duh

  constructor( private http: HttpClient ) {
  }

  login( username: string, password: string ): Observable<any> {
    const token: string = window.btoa( `${username}:${password}` );
    window.localStorage.setItem( 'currentUser', JSON.stringify( { authtoken: token } ) );
    const _headers: HttpHeaders = new HttpHeaders( this.headerDict );
    _headers.append( 'Authorization', JSON.stringify(token) );
    const requestOptions = {
      headers: _headers
    };
    return this.http.post<any>( `${this.baseUrl}/rest/auth/1/session`, {}, requestOptions );
  }

  logout() {
    localStorage.removeItem( 'currentUser' );
  }
}

I think I'm adding the Headers wrong because when I put a breakpoint on the requestOptions in the actual POST, I'm seeing the following:

That doesn't really look like proper headers to me.

A: try to append new header this way:
const _headers: HttpHeaders = new HttpHeaders( this.headerDict );
_headers = _headers.set( 'Authorization', JSON.stringify(token) );

hope this helps.


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This Week in Digital 4.20.12
From Klout launching brand pages to data on how children use Facebook, this edition of This Week in Digital underscores the importance of targeting the appropriate audience through social media to communicate a message. We hope you enjoy this round-up of digital news and how it relates to communications between brand and consumer.
Over 35% of Children on Facebook are Younger than 12
MinorMonitor, a dashboard that allows parents to monitor their children's Facebook activity, compiled data on how kids are using the top social media platform. Through a survey of 1,000 parents, the survey found that 38% of the children on Facebook were 12 and under, even though it's against Facebook's policy. Over half of surveyed parents log into their children's accounts to monitor their use, and the second top concern of parents (behind sexual predators) was that their children were sharing too much information. As overall Facebook use grows, it's important to look at segmented use by age to optimize participation in campaigns. Many Facebook applications require users to share personal information like email, age and location so that brands can stay compliant with Facebook policy. Although Facebook is appealing to a younger audience, running campaigns on the platform may not be the most effective way to reach them.
Klout Launches Brand Pages
Klout, the popular site that measures social media influence with a score from 1 to 100, has launched "Brand Squads," its version of brand pages. Red Bull has signed on as the first brand to participate in the program, which highlights the top 10 and top 100 influencers as well as the conversations those influencers are having about the brand. These new pages givecompanies a quick way to see who their top influencers are and reach out to them with unique perks to retain them as brand advocates. cebook use grows, it's important to look at segmented use by age to optimize participation in campaigns. Many Facebook applications require users to share personal information like email, age and location so that brands can stay compliant with Facebook policy. Although Facebook is appealing to a younger audience, running campaigns on the platform may not be the most effective way to reach them.
Screenfeeder App Displays Social Media On-Screen
Screenfeeder, a new app available for iPhones, iPads and Apple TV shows social mediaupdates one by one, in real time, on a custom background. While theservice wouldn't beusedfor everydaysocial mediaactivity,the app can stream updates from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Foursquare at eventsand conferencesthrough an attractive and easy-to-read interface. For example,Screenfeeder could deliver livehashtag updates at an event, giving attendees the ability to view their tweets on a screen. As brands are looking to increase their online presence, Screenfeeder may be another way toencourage social conversationsand connect the offline and online worlds at events. ion in campaigns. Many Facebook applications require users to share personal information like email, age and location so that brands can stay compliant with Facebook policy. Although Facebook is appealing to a younger audience, running campaigns on the platform may not be the most effective way to reach them.


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Q: how to improve orb feature matching? I am trying to register two binary images. I used opencv orb detector and matcher to generate and match feature points. However, the matching result looks bad. Can anybody tell me why and how to improve? Thanks.
Here are the images and matching result.

Here is the code
OrbFeatureDetector detector; //OrbFeatureDetector detector;SurfFeatureDetector
vector<KeyPoint> keypoints1;
detector.detect(im_edge1, keypoints1);
vector<KeyPoint> keypoints2;
detector.detect(im_edge2, keypoints2);

OrbDescriptorExtractor extractor; //OrbDescriptorExtractor extractor; SurfDescriptorExtractor extractor;
Mat descriptors_1, descriptors_2;
extractor.compute( im_edge1, keypoints1, descriptors_1 );
extractor.compute( im_edge2, keypoints2, descriptors_2 );

//-- Step 3: Matching descriptor vectors with a brute force matcher
BFMatcher matcher(NORM_L2, true);   //BFMatcher matcher(NORM_L2);

vector< DMatch> matches;
matcher.match(descriptors_1, descriptors_2, matches);

vector< DMatch > good_matches;
vector<Point2f> featurePoints1;
vector<Point2f> featurePoints2;
for(int i=0; i<int(matches.size()); i++){
    good_matches.push_back(matches[i]);
}

//-- Draw only "good" matches
Mat img_matches;
imwrite("img_matches_orb.bmp", img_matches);

A: ORB descriptors are, unlike SURF, binary descriptors. The HAMMING distance is suited for binary descriptors comparison. Use NORM_HAMMING when initializing your BFMatcher.

A: Some answers there may be helpful:
Improve matching of feature points with OpenCV
It's for SIFT descriptor, but we can also use them for ORB matching:)


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Q: How can I improve on reducing a "scanline" noise in an image? I have an image with scanline noises. The noise is probably simulated with some sinusoid functions. I want to remove the noise, and so what I did was to transform the image with fft2, pick out the coordinates of the peaks in the spectrum. The peaks turn out to have a conjugate pair.
So, I took their coordinates (the conjugate pair), set its surrounding pixels to zero in the frequency domain, and the did a ifft2 to get back the image. I was pretty much trying to do a band rejection on the frequency of the peaks. The scanline noise is reduced by a lot with this method.
But I thought, how else can I improve on this method to get better results?