Ran Salman started his career as a musician 14 years ago and in 2008 released his first album ʻLucid Dreaming'. Producing under the alias ʻEastern Spiritʻ he was originally creating world/chill out style music and as one half of a duo, received much support in this genre. The critics praised the album highly and it was from this success, that they were invited to play at some of Israel's top festivals.
After this phase in his career, Ran evolved and opted for a solo career as a DJ and producer. His sound was influenced by a broad range of electronic music styles which included house, deep house, techno and disco. Pretty soon, Ran found himself expressing his thoughts and emotions through instruments such as analog synthesizers, drum machines, bass guitar and even his own voice.
Ran's music spectrum is very broad. It can span from emotionally deep spacey melodies, (the kind that make you want to close your eyes and fly on the dance floor), to a more techy, edgier sounding vibe. Over the years, Ran has gained support from the likes of John Digweed, Noir,Hernan Cattaneo,Namito,Thomas Schumacher, Laurent Garnier, Darin Epsilon, Soul Button, Einmusik, Aki Bergen,Talul,Chris Fortier,Eelke Kleijn, Timo Garcia,Miguel Puente and many more.


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Maybe you can just stay in a bookstore for a while, then you can finish it.
It is frequently being suggesed now, by John Seely Brown and others that computer and video games,etc., are developing a young generation that is learning differently, that is very impatient with the lecture and traditional classroom This excellent book describes in detail the development of and a specific illustration of learning tools for this new generation. About leadership training for business, it neverless has important implications for all education.
I looked at this book in the store, and I have to say that I was very turned off by the poor quality of reproduction. Considering the outrageous price tag, you'd think they could spend some money on decent typesetting. It looks like someone took the first edition and slapped it on an old, fuzzy photocopier. It may be a classic, but that's no excuse for shoddy workmanship. I would get a headache trying to read this whole book, so I will vote with my dollars and find some other way to learn C. If I'm going to put up with strained eyeballs, there are plenty of tutorials I can look at online for free.
I have never coded in C, C++, or Java but come from a very solid VB background. I was looking forward to learning object oriented programming but was quite a bit nevouse. This book led me by the hand vey well. It covered the c# language in depth and I still keep it as a reference 6 mos later. It also built a foundation for the .net framework, asp.net, winforms, and ado.net. I completed the picture of winforms and ado.net using the visual studio documentation and purchased the asp.net book by the same author.
I recommend this strongly to anyone starting out on the platform. Everyone at our office agrees with this review. We cannot keep track of our 3 copies. It would be nice to have a reference copy on CD or the web.


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Just back from 4 days in Oslo working with the theater ensemble Verdensteatret. We're currently developing a new performance to be premiered at Black Box Oslo 3rd of March next year.
Rehearsals and development will go on more or less continously for three months December through February. Earlier this autumn we traveled to the west coast of Greenland to do research for the production and stayed for about 10 days in Illuliset in the Disco Bay area and then sailed southwards along the coast to Nuuk.
In September Verdensteatret did a workshop at BiT Teatergarasjen in Bergen as part of the Autunnale contemporary music festival. The workshop involved almost 40 artists and art students mainly members of Verdensteatret art students from the Academy of Fine Arts composition students from the Grieg Academy and artists connected to BEK. The workshop resulted in a two hours event. Two Tibetan monks creating a Mandala in the middle of the room became the point of gravity of the workshop and event. At the end of the event the Mandala was destroyed and the sand poured into the ocean.
Verdensteatret went on to perform Tsalal in Reykjarvik and Beograd and also did a workshop in Beograd. I did not take part on these two trips.
The different journeys and the workshops will become points of departures for the new production.
Today I received beta version of an upgrade to the Max external lp.stacey for the Litter Power Package a bundle of Max MSP (and in the near future probably Jitter as well) externals providing a number of stochastic functions. Peter Castine started developing Litter Power Package during a residency at BEK in 2001.
I've been doing a number of projects the last couple of years involving some kind of interactivity. One of the big challenges when using sensors or tracking information from video or audio is how to create a system that is able to tune itself and behave predictable from one day to the next. Sensors and analysis might depend on the physical equipment temperature humidity light sound levels etc. and all of these might fluctuate. lp.stacey provides statistical information about incoming data: min max mean value standard deviation and more. Earlier on lp.stacey provided statistical results for all data received since onset. A while ago I asked Peter if it would be possible to add a feature so that you could specify window size and get statistical information for e.g. the last 200 values received. Just in time for Christmas Peter mailed me beta version of lp.stacey with this ability added. I tried it today for scaling audio envelope tracking data and the result was beyond expectations. lp.stacey without doubt will become one of the most useful (maybe THE most useful) externals of the Litter Power Package.
Recently I started a three year Research Fellowships in the Arts. As part of the project I have to find a way to log what I'm doing. Inspired by jill/text I mean dr jill/txt I've decided to test if blogging might be useful. Gisle has been kind to install CoreBlog at the BEK servers and this is my first shot at getting it to work.


Clan Mothers Healing Village provides a holistic approach to rehabilitating sexually exploited Indigenous women and girls. In addition to using matrilineal, Indigenous healing methodologies to address trauma, the organization also provides skill and capacity building to help women prepare for a healthy future.
Despite being a well-established organization, Clan Mothers Healing Village aims to increase their own financial independence by developing a social enterprise – the Clan Mother Earth Enterprise. CESO partnered with the Village to further develop their business plan, which will help them generate revenue to become a self-sustaining organization.
CESO Volunteer Advisors worked with the leaders of the organization to enhance and launch the social enterprise business plan. As a result of their collaboration, the community now has access to a well-developed business plan for the enterprise. It outlines development of new products to help generate income for the community. These products include offering traditional Indigenous medicine, delivering activism art classes, and developing solar energy enterprise. All of which directly aligns with the holistic values and approach of the community to economic development.


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Recommended rainy day reads
It's raining. It's pouring. The old man is snoring. And you? You, my friend, are searching for a book with which to curl up by the fire. You're looking for the perfect title to alleviate the drudgery of a drizzly Oregon day, something to excite your senses and spark your synapses. And what better way to spend a day indoors than snuggled beneath a blanket, hot cocoa in hand, eyes glued to a page? I'll answer that one for you: none.
Still not convinced? Then here's some inspiration from your fellow book lovers at OSU Press. Grab your heated blanket, prepare the hot water, and read on to hear some of our staff's recommended rainy day reads.
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Trask by Don Berry
I'm a sucker for historical novels and all things Oregon, so how could I not love Don Berry's Trask? Loosely based on the life of Elbridge Trask, an early fur trapper and mountain man, the novel follows its eponymous character as he treks in the early 1850's from the Clatsop Plains, near Astoria, to the mouth of Tillamook Bay. Trask takes the form of a hero's journey, but this is not your typical myth of manifest destiny. The story is sensitive to the many complexities of native culture and has a strong spiritual thread running through it. It's full of adventure and the search for meaning at the wet edge of the continent. For best effect, read it while wrapped in a Pendleton blanket.
The Next Tsunami by Bonnie Henderson
As long as we're on the north coast of Oregon, I have to mention The Next Tsunami by Bonnie Henderson. Like a lot of other people, I have a certain… prurient fascination with natural disasters. I thought that Henderson might offer a cautionary tale, a dark vision of how our coast will look after its bays and estuaries are scoured out by the next big tsunami, with marinas reduced to match sticks, collapsed highway bridges, underwater shopping districts, and etc. Instead, I finished this book with an uncanny sense of calm and hope. Henderson tells the story of how scientists came to discover the Cascadia Subduction Zone and definitively proved the Pacific Coast's long geological history of earthquakes and tsunamis. Thanks to Henderson's skillful telling, this history of science unfolds like a mystery. Who knew that geologists could be such fascinating characters?
Up all Night by Martha Gies
What else? We have so many worthy books and authors on our list, I could go on all day, and all then all night. Which reminds me of Up all Night by Martha Gies, another personal favorite. This collection of stories about swing- and graveyard-shift workers takes readers on a guided tour of one city's nocturnal professions. That city happens to be Portland, but it could be anywhere. Night workers live in a country all their own, and Gies is a friendly, companionable guide.
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Three books that I'm likely to pull from the shelf during the dark, wet days of an Oregon winter:
Mink River by Brian Doyle
Doyle's debut novel brings to life a wet Oregon coastal town through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people. Rain, "in every form from mist to sluice," is a constant presence in the book:
"Rain slips and slides along hawsers and chains and ropes and cables and gladdens the cells of mosses and weighs down the wings of moths. It maketh the willow shiver its fingers and thrums on doors of dens in the fens. It falls on hats and cats and trucks and ducks and cars and bars and clover and plover. It grayeth the sand on the beach and fills thousands of flowers to the brim. It thrills worms and depresses damselflies. Slides down every window rilling and murmuring. Wakes the ancient mud and mutter of the swamp, which has been cracked and hard for months. Falls gently on leeks and creeks and bills and rills and the last shriveled blackberries like tiny dried purple brains on the bristle of bushes."
Martha Gies guides readers on a nocturnal tour of Portland, offering fascinating profiles of the graveyard shift workers who keep our city running after dark. I grew up here and have lived in Portland for most of my life—but Gies shows a side of the city that even longtime locals haven't encountered. It's one of the great unsung books about Portland.
Land Snails and Slugs of the Pacific Northwest by Thomas Burke, with photographs by William P. Leonard
An essential tome for understanding and identifying terrestrial slugs and snails in the Pacific Northwest. Know thy neighbor.
Faye Chadwell, Director
Breaking Chains by R. Gregory Nokes
Greg Nokes explores an important aspect of Oregon's history that I don't believe a lot of Oregonians know. That includes Oregonians who moved here like myself 20 years ago.
Ava Helen Pauling by Mina Carson
Mina Carson's biography is the first ever to reveal more of the personal side of the Paulings' life together. More importantly, she rightfully establishes or acknowledges Ava Helen's contributions to Linus Pauling's anti-nuclear stance for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Arguably many feel like this should have been his 2nd shared Nobel Prize.
I love reading and rolling along with Brian Doyle's lyrical prose. I would actually recommend reading this title and Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion. Together the two provide two worthwhile perspectives on coastal communities in Oregon albeit separated by time and imagination of their respective authors.
Still looking for the perfect rainy day read? Browse our online database, read some previous blog post synopses, or request a print copy of our Spring 2015 catalog. Questions, comments, or concerns? Shoot us an email!
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What is the meaning behind Sing a Song of Sixpence? |
Rachel Panenchko February 11, 2022 5 min read
In this episode, we explore the origins of a nursery rhyme and discuss how it has evolved with time. We also detail its connection to Shakespearean literature as well.
"Sing a Song of Sixpence" is a nursery rhyme that was originally from England. There are many different meanings behind the song, but one of the most popular is "sixpence in your pocket". The meaning behind this phrase is unknown.
Blackbeard and Blackbirds are two of the most feared pirates in the world.
The sing a song of sixpence is said to relate to the fact that Blackbird was one of the few Pirate Captains who really gave his crew mates a daily pay of sixpence, according to a very creative and detailed interpretation.
With this in mind, what does Sing a Song of Sixpence really mean?
'Sing a Song of Sixpence,' according to folklore, was a coded communication used by Blackbeard, the famed pirate captain, to recruit pirates. The weekly pirate salary was sixpence and a hipflask of rye whiskey. Blackbeard's pirates were the 'blackbirds,' and his ship was the 'pie.'
What does it mean to have four and twenty blackbirds in addition to the above? The twenty-four blackbirds are said to symbolize the hours of the day, with the king symbolizing the sun and the queen representing the moon, according to one popular theory. (It's unclear why the moon is eating bread and honey.)
Following that, what is the nursery song about blackbirds cooked in a pie?
Sing a sixpence tune, a pocket full of rye, and four and a half blackbirds cooked in a pie. The birds started to sing as soon as the pie was opened. Isn't it a delicate meal to present to the king?
When the pie was cut open, did the birds start singing?
'Sing a sixpence tune, a pocketful of rye, four and twenty blackbirds cooked in a pie,' says Roberts. The birds started to sing as soon as the pie was opened. Wasn't it a delicate meal to serve to a king? The king was calculating his money in his counting house, while the queen was having bread and honey in the parlor.
What does Jack and Jill really mean?
Jill or Gill had evolved to indicate a young lady or a lover by the end of the Middle Ages, whereas Jack was the most frequent name used in English-language nursery rhymes and represented an ideal Everyman hero by the 18th century.
Is Humpty Dumpty the King of the Jungle?
One theory, proposed by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and endorsed by Robert Ripley, is that Humpty Dumpty represents King Richard III of England, who is shown as humpbacked in Tudor histories and in Shakespeare's play, and who was defeated at Bosworth Field in 1485 despite his army.
Why did Jack and Jill travel up the hill in the first place?
Jack was knocked out. Jill came sliding after him as he shattered his crown. Because natural water sources like rivers and streams flow downwards, they are normally located in valleys rather than on top of hills, the cartoon pokes fun at the counterintuitive premise that Jack and Jill trek up a hill to gather water.
What does Baa Baa Black Sheep really mean?
The oldest known version of the English nursery rhyme "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is from 1731. Unproven interpretations have been proposed to explain the rhyme's meaning, including that it is a protest against taxes imposed on the Medieval English wool trade.
What is the value of a sixpence?
The sixpence (6d), sometimes known as a tanner or sixpenny piece, was a coin valued one-fortieth of a pound sterling, or six pence. It was initially issued during Edward VI's reign and remained in circulation until 1980. It had a value of?2 12 new pence after decimalisation in 1971.
What was Georgie Porgie's crime?
Georgie Porgie kissed the girls and made them weep with her pudding and pie. Georgie Porgie bolted as the lads came out to play.
Who was the first person to write a nursery rhyme?
Nursery rhymes from the beginning
They first appear in English plays in the mid-16th century. One of the earliest surviving English nursery rhymes is "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man." The first known version of the rhyme may be found in Thomas d'Urfey's 1698 play The Campaigners.
What is the origin of Sing a Song of Sixpence?
"Sing a Song of Sixpence" is a classic nursery rhyme in England that was first recorded in 1744. Like many other historical tunes, the origin of this rhyme is unknown. The song's earlier version did not include the allusion to blackbirds in a pie.
Little Miss Muffet sat on what?
Little Miss Muffet was sitting on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey, when a spider appeared and perched near her, scaring Miss Muffet away!
What did Little Miss Muffet have for dinner?
Miss Muffet was eating her curds and whey when a spider appeared, sat near her, and scared her away.
What is the difference between 4 and 20 blackbirds?
The term "four-and-twenty" is just a slang term for "twenty-four." It's "two dozen," which is a standard way of expressing estimated quantities of a certain size.
What is the name of the nursery rhyme about a pie?
Sing a sixpence tune, I've got rye in my pocket. Baked in a pie are four and twenty blackbirds.
Blackbirds sing for a variety of reasons.
The third reason birds sing is to establish a breeding area. Garden birds like the Robin, Blackbird, and Song Thrush sing not just to attract a mate, but also to announce their territory to other male members of their species.
What is the definition of a blackbird pie?
Pie with Blackbirds. Stuff the birds with the crumb of a French roll soaked in milk, then combine with 1-1/2 ounces butter, a chopped shalot, parsley, pepper, salt, a grating of nutmeg, and the yolks of two small eggs in a stewpan.
What is the meaning of the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence?
Many creative hypotheses about the words of 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' have been proposed, many of which are implausible. The twenty-four blackbirds are said to symbolize the hours of the day, with the king symbolizing the sun and the queen representing the moon, according to one popular theory.
What is a pie bird used for in the kitchen?
A pie bird is an utensil that helps you vent steam from your double-crusted pie, minimizing boil overs from rich ingredients and ensuring a good, crisp crust. It's commonly made of ceramic and designed like a bird. Pie vents, pie chimneys, pie whistles, and pie funnels are other names for them.
Is it possible for birds to consume rye bread?
Bread lacks the required protein and fat that fat birds need in their diet, thus it may be used as a filler. Although bread isn't hazardous to birds, don't give it to them in huge amounts since it has a poor nutritional value.
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Assoc Prof Pu Kanyi
Associate Professor, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Email: kypu@ntu.edu.sg
Dr. Pu joined the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (SCBE) at NTU as an Associate Professor in June 2015. Till now, he has published more than 144 journal papers, 3 book chapters and 6 patents. With a h-index of 60 (July 2019), his work has been highlighted by many world-renown scientific journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Nature Nephrology Review, Nature Methods, and Cell Express et al.. He has won a number of awards for his creative work, including Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Chemical Society of Japan, Wiley Award for Contribution in Bioscience, Young Investigator Travel award from WMIC, and Young Innovator Award in Nanobiotechnology by Nano Research.
Dr. Pu received his B.E. (2004) and M.S. (2007) respectively from ECUST and Fudan University in China. He then came to Singapore and did his PhD (2011) at National University of Singapore. He moved to Stanford University School of Medicine for his postdoctoral study in 2011 in the molecular imaging program at Stanford (MIPS).
Dr. Pu has made significant contributions to the development of molecular imaging probes and technologies, particularly for photoacoustic imaging, chemiluminescence imaging and afterglow imaging. He is well known for his work on semiconducting polymer nanomaterials (SPNs) for molecular imaging, phototherapy and photoregulation. He is the inventor of the polymeric nanoreporters for molecular afterglow imaging and the molecular optical renal reporters for early diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI).
Dr. Pu serves as the associate editor for ACS Applied Polymer Materials and Biomaterials Research, and as the Young Star Editor for Nano Research. He also sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of many high-impact multidisciplinary journals including Advanced Functional Materials, Bioconjugate Chemistry, ACS Applied Bio Materials, Advanced Biosystems, and ChemNanoMat.
The board research objective in my group is to develop multifunctional platform technologies for understanding, detection and treatment of life-threatening diseases. Toward this goal, we will take an interdisciplinary approach that brings together organic chemistry, nanotechnology and molecular biology to synthesize functional polymers, polish their optoelectronic and biochemical properties, and shape them into smart and biocompatible nanoagents for advanced molecular imaging and amplified therapy.
(1) Molecular Imaging: Detection and monitoring of pathological processes in disease microenvironment at the molecular level for prognosis, diagnosis and therapeutic outcome assessment
(2) Chemical Biology: Design and synthesis of activatable imaging probes to uncover how reactive radical species modulate tumor metabolism, promote metastasis and angiogenesis, and foster drug resistance phenotypes
(3) Materials Science: Development of organic semiconducting nanomaterials with state-of-art imaging modalities such as photoacoustic imaging, near-infrared fluorescence imaging and bioluminescent imaging to improve imaging penetration depth and spatial resolution
(4) Biotechnology: Development of noninvasive high-throughput technologies for drug screening with a focus on real-time in vivo imaging of drug metabolism and evolution of drug-induced toxicity
Development of Biothiol-responsive Optical Nanoprobes for In Vivo Evaluation of Drug Toxicity
Development of near-infrared fluorescence activatable probes for early diagnosis of bladder cancer
Molecular Afterglow Imaging for Ultrasensitive Detection of Lymphatic Metastasis
Organic Semiconducting Nanoplatform for Moelcular Imaging and Amplified Therapy
Organic photonic nanoprobes for in vivo imaging of neurodegenerative diseases
Ultrasensitive Nanobioimaging Technologies for Advanced Healthcare
Yuyan Jiang, Jiaguo Huang, Xu Zhen, Ziling Zeng, Jingchao Li, Chen Xie, Qingqing Miao, Jie Chen, Peng Chen, Kanyi Pu*. (2019). A generic approach towards afterglow luminescent nanoparticles for ultrasensitive in vivo imaging.. Nature Communications, 10, 2064.
Jiaguo Huang, Jingchao Li, Yan Lyu, Qingqing Miao, Kanyi Pu*. (2019). Molecular Optical Imaging Probes for Early Diagnosis of Drug-Induced Acute Kidney Injury. Nature Materials, 18, 1133-1143.
Jingchao Li, Jiaguo Huang, Yan Lyu, Jingsheng Huang, Yuyan Jiang, Chen Xie, and Kanyi Pu. (2019). Photoactivatable Organic Semiconducting Pro-nanoenzymes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(9), 4073-4079.
Xu Zhen, Chen Xie, Kanyi Pu*. (2018). Temperature-correlated afterglow of a semiconducting polymer nanococktail for imaging-guided photothermal therapy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 57, 3938-3942.
Qingqing Miao, Chen Xie, Xu Zhen, Yan Lyu, Hongwei Duan, Xiaogang Liu, Jesse V Jokerst & Kanyi Pu*. (2017). Molecular afterglow imaging with bright, biodegradable polymer nanoparticles. Nature Biotechnology, 35(11), 1102-1110.


Are police chiefs in the forefront of renewing a belief in child-centred social policy?
A strategy document published by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), which replaced the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) following its closure last October, sets out "key principles" for how officers should deal with young people. It states that in all encounters with the police "it is crucial" that under-18s "be treated as children first".
The document also calls on police to make efforts to identity the vulnerability of children and young people they deal with and respond effectively "in order to protect them from harm". It goes on to say that police should seek a "full understanding" of the circumstances behind the young people who come to their attention.
The strategy also identifies four priority work areas for the three-year period: understanding where improvements to stop and search are needed; avoiding the unnecessary criminalisation of young people; improving relationships with young people; and addressing the over-representation of looked-after children in the youth justice system.
"We need to make every effort to avoid the unnecessary criminalisation of children in care, making sure that the criminal justice system is not used for resolving issues that would ordinarily fit under the umbrella of parenting," the report states.
Thanks to Steve Case of Positive Youth Justice for this link. Perchance a breakthrough can come from an unexpected quarter. We will be posting a guest blog by Steve next week, which sheds further light on the struggle across services working with children and young people to resist and overturn the dominant ideology of 'blaming the victim'.
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The Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) is an open-country species that breeds in the northern United States and Canada, and has likely experienced a long-term, range-wide population decline. However, the cause and magnitude of the decline are not well understood. Several conservation actions have been proposed for this species (Booms et al. 2014), including: 1) better define and protect important habitats; 2) improve population monitoring; 3) determine seasonal and annual movements; 4) re-evaluate NatureServe's National Conservation Classifications; and 5) develop management plans and tools. Our program has been largely motivated by these conservation actions.
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Short-eared Owl Population Size, Distribution, Habitat Use, and Modelled Response to a Changing Climate: 2020 Annual and Comprehensive Report
Robert A. Miller (a,1), Carie Battistone (b), Heather Hayes (a), Courtney J. Conway (c), Andrew Meyers (c), Cody Tisdale (c), Matt D. Larson (d), Joseph G. Barnes (e), Ellie Armstrong (f), John D. Alexander (f), Neil Paprocki (c,g), Annette Hansen (g), Theresa L. Pope (h), Russel Norvell (h), Joseph B. Buchanan (i), Mason Lee (j), Jay D. Carlisle (a), Colleen E. Moulton (k), and Travis L. Booms (l)
a – Intermountain Bird Observatory, Boise, Idaho, USA;
b – California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sacramento, California, USA;
c – University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA;
d – Owl Research Institute, Missoula, Montana, USA;
e – Nevada Department of Wildlife, Reno, Nevada, USA;
f – Klamath Bird Observatory, Medford, Oregon USA;
g – HawkWatch International, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA;
h – Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA;
i – Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Olympia, Washington, USA;
j – Biodiversity Institute, Laramie, Wyoming, USA;
k – Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Boise, Idaho, USA;
l – Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
1 – Corresponding author: RobertMiller7@boisestate.edu; 208-860-4944
The Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) is an open-country species that breeds in the northern United States and Canada and has likely experienced a long-term, range-wide population decline. However, the cause and magnitude of the decline are not well understood. Several conservation actions have been proposed for this species (Booms et al. 2014), including 1) better define and protect important habitats; 2) improve population monitoring; 3) determine seasonal and annual movements; 4) re-evaluate NatureServe's National Conservation Classifications; and 5) develop management plans and tools. Our program has been largely motivated by these conservation actions. Population monitoring of Short-eared Owls is complicated by the fact that the species is an irruptive breeder with low site fidelity, resulting in annual shifts in local breeding densities, often tied to fluctuations in prey density. It is therefore critical to implement monitoring at a scale needed to detect regional changes in distribution that likely occur annually. We recruited more than 1,200 participants, mostly community-science volunteers to implement a survey of Short-eared Owls across eight western states over the past six years. The study sites were distributed across over 87 million hectares within the states of California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. We found that grazing negatively influenced Short-eared Owl occupancy, but grazing and Short-eared Owls are not mutually exclusive. By managing the grazing utilization rate across the pasture, the negative effect can be at least partially mitigated. Short-eared Owls favor native shrublands and grassland and avoid anthropogenic landscapes. We see no evidence that the steep decline in the species that was suspected to have occurred over the past 40 years has continued. Short-eared Owl occupancy rates were highly variable across the eight states within the program and from year-to-year. However, overall weighted mean occupancy rates were relatively stable. We are unable to answer if these spatial and temporal shifts in occupancy were the result of movement or birth/death rates. Short-eared Owls were more often found in natural versus anthropogenic landscapes, in sagebrush/hay/pasture versus marsh and row crops, and in more grass versus structured land covers. While we regularly detected owls on anthropogenic landscapes, populations in native shrubland and grasslands were more stable; possibly due to more stable prey resources, although other hypotheses exist. As expected, we more often found Short-eared Owls in less rugged areas at lower elevations. Lastly, Short-eared Owls occupied areas that were intermediate, but not too hot during the summer period, and in areas that received more precipitation in the driest season. Our modeling results indicated Short-eared Owls are under extreme threat from common projections of climate change effects. We conservatively predicted that average future viability of Short-eared Owls across our study area will decrease by 59% in the next 50 years. We predicted that the amount of "good" habitat would decrease by 76%, and the amount of "great" habitat would decrease by 60% over that period. Our results demonstrated the feasibility, efficiency, and effectiveness of utilizing public participation in scientific research (i.e., community scientists) to achieve a robust sampling methodology across the broad geography of the western United States.


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Q: Check celery config with command line I have celery running in a docker container and I want to check that the option CELERY_TASK_RESULT_EXPIRES = '3600' has been applied.
I tried using celery inspect conf and celery inspect stats but the commands never end. Other than that celery is running fine and doing its work.

A: You can get that from celery inspect. Try this
celery -A app inspect report --timeout 10

A: Found flower. It is installed with
pip install flower
flower -A celery-app-name --port=5555

And then celery can be accessed via REST API. The following will give the workers config
curl -w "\n" http://localhost:5555/api/workers

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Making Data Simple: What's next in the world of data & analytics with Seth Dobrin, part 1
January 18, 2018 | 27:47
What's next in the world of data and analytics in 2018? In part one of Al Martin's discussion with Seth Dobrin, vice president and chief data officer for IBM Analytics, explore the strategies and people your company needs to disrupt and succeed in the year ahead. Do you or your team members need new credentials to work in data? Seth also discusses what you need in your toolkit to be a data scientist at IBM.
00.30 Connect with Al Martin on Twitter and LinkedIn.
01.00 Connect with Seth Dobrin on Twitter and LinkedIn.
01.40 Read "What IBM looks for in a Data Scientist" by Seth Dobrin and Jean-Francois Puget.
06.00 Learn more about GDPR.
13.00 Learn more about master data management.
13.05 Learn more about unified governance and integration.
13.25 Learn more about machine learning.
14.00 Connect and learn more about Ginni Rometty.
14.40 Learn more about cognitive computing.
19.35 Connect with Rob Thomas on Twitter and LinkedIn.
21.00 Connect with Jean-Francois Puget on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Hungry for more? Check out our previous podcast episodes of Making Data Simple:
Season 2:
Episode 1: Making Data Simple: Machine Learning for Dummies
Episode 3: Making Data Simple: What's next in the world of data and analytics with Seth Dobrin, part 2
Episode 1: Making Data Simple: The big data problem
Episode 2: Making Data Simple: End of tech companies
Episode 3: Making Data Simple: A new definition of client care
Episode 4: Making Data Simple: Will machines take our jobs?
Episode 5: Making Data Simple: Growth hacking - not just for start ups
Episode 6: Making Data Simple: From 2D to 3D -- augmented reality data visualization
Episode 7: Making Data Simple: The 5 areas businesses MUST get right
Episode 8: Making Data Simple: How data science is helping to improve aviation
Episode 9: Making Data Simple: Making data fun & easy with Caleb Curry
Episode 10: Making Data Simple: Data movement at size and scale
Episode 11: Making Data Simple: Cloud computing, part 1
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Al Martin: Hey everyone, thank you for listening to the Making Data Simple series. I just want to let you know that this podcast was recorded in 2017 so any reference to end of year means end of year 2017 (unless otherwise stated). Just want to let you know, thanks again.
Hey, welcome to Making Data Simple. Al Martin here again. With me today, I have Seth Dobrin, chief data officer, IBM Analytics. How are you, Seth?
Seth Dobrin: I'm doing well, Al. How are you?
Al Martin: I'm doing absolutely terrific. You know, I have to say that you've been everywhere lately. Ton of events, keynotes, interviews. So I guess to start out, tell us a little bit about yourself and what you've been up to.
Seth Dobrin: Yes. So like Al said, I'm the chief data officer for our Analytics business unit at IBM. I've been here a week — I mean a year and three weeks now. I came from a client.
In my role here at IBM, I'm really responsible for three things. One is our own internal business unit transformation inside IBM. Another is working with our offering - our product management team to build offerings that as a CDO I would want to buy.
And the third is getting out, sharing my experiences with clients. Which is where I spend a lot of time — like you said — on airplanes flying around the world.
Al Martin: Great. Well, you've also done, you know, ton of speaking engagements lately haven't you?
Seth Dobrin: Yes. Yes, I've been speaking at all sorts of places. Doing some blog posts. Just had one come out on VentureBeat which was — I was really excited about. On topics ranging from data science to GDPR to unified governance in general.
Al Martin: Yes, real good. So let's start at CDO if you would. I, you know, I visit a lot of clients. I say this all the time and you know, a lot of big enterprise clients are companies.
And many of them still don't have a CDO. Which is kind of, I don't know somewhat a little bit alarming to me. But then I — that said, I visited an insurance company as of late and they actually had two in the same division. Which I — like they were doubling down.
So I guess my question to you to start. I guess it's a three-part question. Who needs a Chief Data Officer? And what is the role?
Seth Dobrin: All right, so I'll answer them one at a time. And I may need you to remember — remind me what they are after I go through them. So do I see that? Absolutely.
I see companies that are trying to go through a digital transformation and they don't have a CDO. I see lots of companies that have multiple CDOs. I think -- to be completely honest -- if a company wants to become quote unquote digital — whatever that means and we can talk about what that means if you want in my mind -- they need someone that owns data for them.
And if they're really serious about it — and maybe I'm biased — but they will name a CDO. They need someone with that title, with that weight, with that authority and that buy-in from the most senior executives in the company to go down that journey. Did I answer all three of them?
Al Martin: Yes. Maybe. So I guess, you know, what — could you go back to the definition of what you see chief data officer in terms of the role? And I think you've already answered the other two.
Seth Dobrin: Yes. And so definition of a chief data officer. mean, I think chief data officers — in my mind — are really responsible for five things.
They're responsible for the data strategy. So how do we get the company to start thinking of data as an asset in the company and stop thinking of it as a digital dropping of applications. What is your data science strategy? And so how are you going to implement data science in the enterprise?
And that's not just building data science asset machine learning models that are deployed as a CSV file. That's building machine learning models that are then integrated into applications and processes.
What's your cloud strategy? And that's not — and a cloud strategy — a perfectly legitimate cloud strategy could be we're not going to the cloud for the foreseeable future. But it's got to be an intentional decision. An actual decision. It can't just be a decision of an action.
And then what is your governance strategy? So how are you going to govern all of these different environments? So even companies that their cloud strategy is we're not going to go to the cloud. They — a public cloud. They probably have a private cloud.
They probably have multiple data centers they're operating on. Have - they definitely have different types of data — structured, unstructured — how do you govern that all proactively? And then the final piece is talent. How do we get the talent pipeline that we need to be the company of the future? And that's both from new talent as well as how do we reskill the talent we have on the ground?
And in my mind, every CDO cares about those five things. And that's from my travels as well. They — depending on the industry — they may care about them in different priority order. Yes. So that's kind of my view of a CDO.
Al Martin: Yes, but I would imagine that most companies in, you know, segments or pillars within a company view data as an asset. But I would imagine one of the biggest challenges is they don't want to give up that asset. Hence the reason maybe they don't want a CDO to come and tell them what to do.
Seth Dobrin: So I don't know that I would agree with that.
Al Martin: No?
Seth Dobrin: I think most companies still view data not as a strategic asset for the company, right? If they did they would — most companies don't even treat data security as much — as strongly as they treat laptop security or phone security, right?
And so I think companies need to start taking a lot more seriously and really start thinking of it as an actual asset. Just like they do their computers, just like they do their physical assets. Whether it's equipment or cars or financial records. I mean, it's just as important as all those things and companies just don't think of it at that level.
Al Martin: Wow. I guess that certainly explains the breaches that we see on a regular basis then.
Seth Dobrin: Absolutely.
Al Martin: Do you think GDPR is going to come in and put the hammer down? Or do you think, you know, are they going to be able to get in front of that? Or is the hammer going to come down after the fact and we're going to see a bunch of chaos as a result of GDPR?
Seth Dobrin: So I think we need to define what GDPR is, because a lot of your listeners probably don't know what that is, right? So there's a new regulation coming out of Europe called the European General Data Privacy Regulation.
And this is a regulation that is changing what the responsibilities are for companies or anyone who holds data. And it expands the rights of what they call subjects — which is any individual — to control their data and have a say over what companies can and can't do with their data.
And know what the companies, what data companies have about them. And be able to delete data that companies don't need to do business at their request.
It also expands the definition of personal data. So it includes not only things like Social Security number and birth date and address but it includes things like IP address, GPS coordinates. And so I think definitely to your point, Al. It's going to change how companies are thinking about it once they take it seriously.
I think companies in Europe are taking GDPR very, very seriously. It goes into effect — or it starts being enforced — May 25 of 2018.
Al Martin: Do they have enough runway? I mean, like, to your point, you know, if you're a worldwide company — like IBM — you know, we're doing tons and tons of compliance as you might...
Seth Dobrin: No, I think companies in Europe definitely get it. Companies that have a big footprint in Europe definitely get it. I think companies in the US weren't really sure if it was going to apply to them. And, you know, recently there's some guidance that came out from the EU and really solidified that it is going to affect them.
The date's getting closer. And, I guess, listen, right. Companies have tons of regulation they have to deal with already. And many of the larger US companies were trying to get themselves for the regulations that go into effect in December, right, at the end of this year?
And so if - they can only do so much. They only have so much bandwidth. Would I have loved for them to pull their head out of the sand six months ago, twelve months ago? Absolutely. And would I - though I think in GDPR it would have been better idea? Absolutely. But I think, you know, they all have priorities. They have limited resources. And I think GDPR is going to be the next thing on their runway.
And it's really important that they show they're making progress towards being compliant. I don't - you know, I'm not a lawyer. I don't play one on TV, I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. I think companies just really need to show progress towards being ready for GDPR on May 25.
Al Martin: May 25, I was just going to ask you that. May 25 is a big day, right?
Seth Dobrin: Yes.
Al Martin: It's going to be like the new tax day for EU. So we'll — yes, might as well dive down just one more question on this. What are the largest changes that you see that companies have to make in response to GDPR?
And again, I go back to do they have enough runway given we're at the end of the year now and you've what, got four months after this?
Seth Dobrin: Five months.
Al Martin: Five months?
Seth Dobrin: Yes. So I think companies need to have complete lineage on all of their data that relates to an individual. That's the biggest change. So you need to know where your data is on all people that you're interacting with.
So Al, you know, as an employee IBM needs to be able to tell you — at your request — what data they have on you. As a customer of IBM, they need to tell you — need to be able to tell you what data they have on you. Most companies don't have complete lineage on individuals that they interact with.
I think another thing is, another aspect of it is it changes consent. The concept of consent. And so, you know, we all have — well we don't all have iPhones — but many of us have iPhones. And, you know, we get these updates you know, and they say do you agree?
And you kind of scroll through the 90 pages and you say yes because you want the new update. That can no longer be in the context of GDPR. GDPR needs to be understandable and it's, you know, consent under GDPR needs to be understandable and explicit.
So our — you are consenting for us to do these things, right? Track your location in order to provide this value to you. And I need — I have the ability to opt out. And so it's a good thing and it's a challenging thing. So for many companies managing consent at that granularity's going to be challenging.
But, fundamentally changes company's relationships with customers — which is really important to becoming digital — is thinking about how your customers do things. How they interact with you, what they want to do, what they think is valuable. GDPR forces that change in relationship with your customers where you need to go to them and you need to say, "Hey Al, I want to understand where you are because I want to provide this value to you," right?
And so now, if I provide some notification to you, you've asked for it essentially. So it allows companies to have this relationship with clients where something that might have been perceived as being creepy before is no longer creepy because I've asked for it. Right? We've had a conversation about it. And so that's a fundamental difference with GDPR. And that's the upside is I think it really makes — it forces that shift in conversation with your clients.
Al Martin: Hey so you've mentioned — and you started off with this — about the definition of becoming digital. And if I wanted more information on that, absolutely I do. Tell me what you see — or what's the definition or whatever, the taxonomy — of becoming digital.
Seth Dobrin: Yes. So I mean fundamentally, becoming digital — you know, from a corporate culture — the most important thing is that everything a company does they do through the eyes of their customer.
So every decision they make, every investment they make they ask the question, "What impact is this going to have on my customer? How is it going to make her life easier? How is going to make her more productive? How is it going to enhance our relationship with her as a customer?"
So that's the first thing. That corporate culture needs to change where that is the fundamental underlying question of every decision. The second thing that needs to happen is you change your business model.
So most companies that are analog — for lack of a better word, I'll say analog companies — have products and they interact with their customers on a kind of once a year, once every three-year basis. Where some of them will buy something and you'll get money from them, but it's not a recurring revenue.
Truly digital companies offer products as a service and offer them as an outcome. And so, for instance you know Al, here at IBM right we've changed our product portfolio in -- or our mindset around our product portfolio -- where we really don't want our sales people showing up at our client saying "Hey, you want to buy an MDM solution?"
We want our sales people showing up at clients and saying, "Hey, we want to help you unify your governance across all these different environments, across all these different data types." So we are no longer focused on selling products, like master data management, we're focused on selling outcomes like unified governance.
And that is the sign of a digital company. Now, getting there is a journey. It doesn't just happen overnight. And it starts with a data transformation. So really understanding your data, creating data assets, building these assets, understanding; the next step is really your data science transformation.
So this is kind of where you start using machine learning — AI — to drive insights. And then the next step is really where you start building these fundamentally new business models. Now things change at each of those steps. So when you go to the data step and you start having conversations with your business about okay, this is a data journey, we want you to start using your data.
I'm going to, you know, rephrase, paraphrase here. But people you talk to in the businesses are going to say get me the data I need to support my preconceived notions. So that's what they're going to ask for. And that's not ideal. But that's okay, because at least they're starting to use data to make decisions.
When you get into that data science step, that's when they start asking for data to help them make decisions and get insights that they wouldn't have gotten from their preconceived notions. So it's help me get new insights from my data. So that's really the change in your data science transformation step.
And then in the digital nirvana phase, that's where you start using the data and the machine learning models to build new business models to fundamentally change your business.
Al Martin: Well I — the more you talk I think you might actually know your CDO stuff. Hey, so that brings me almost to take a step back relative to everything you just said.
You know, (Ginni Rometty) — you know, our fearless leader — famously said we're entering into the new era of computing, and that's cognitive computing. And that was in 2015. Now we're in 2018, where are we, I guess? Are we where you would have expected us to be?
And I guess I'm looking at, you know, given everything by example you just said where are we going? I mean where — I hear what you're saying. But are we where you think we should be from a company standpoint? Or are clients confused? Do they need more help now than ever?
Seth Dobrin: You know, I think clients know now that basically every company has two choices today. They can be the company that gets — the company in their industry that gets disrupted. Or they can be the company that does the disruption in their industry.
So, you know, to be the disruptor you need to become digital. And you need to build these new business models because that's what the disruption means. And so most companies that I interact with — and literally it's been hundreds in this last year — all around the world are at some place towards the middle of that journey I just described.
And so most companies are either later in the data transformation stage or early in the data science transformation stage. And so are they aware, I think they should be? I think in some industries, probably because it's harder to transform in highly regulated industries like banking and finance.
Other industries, you know, are further along, because inherently they're science-based industries like agriculture, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas. I think they're farther ahead than the pack because they fundamentally value data because they're typically run by you know, people who grew up as scientists.
Many of those people have Ph.D.s and they've been around data and the hard sciences all their lives. And so it's kind of all over the place. But I think it's, you know, I think they're in a good place on the journey.
But right now it's honestly a fight for your life of the company. I mean, IBM was disrupted. So we were not the ones that led disruption in IT. We were disrupted. We're fighting our way back now. We don't want our clients to be in that same position.
Al Martin: So I mean — to your point — when I visit clients I often have to throw up the maturity curve to figure out exactly where they are in their own disruption. Or, you know, where their change is in a — well your — their innovation is by example you know, you figure a four-quadrant chart.
You know, the two quadrants to the left is to spend money, to save money. The two quadrants to the right are the spend money to make money and if you go from left to right you're talking about operations, cost reductions. Then you go to data warehousing, modernization. Then you start going into make money, that's self-service analytics where it's insight driven.
And then you go to the new business models. Is that kind of the same way you define it? And you figure clients are right in the middle, most of them? Is that what you were trying to say earlier when you said you think they're somewhere in the middle?
Seth Dobrin: I wish I had a whiteboard on this podcast. I'm not as smart as you.
Al Martin: Yes, whatever.
Seth Dobrin: And I can't visualize in too many dimensions. So I try and keep it two. So I just have kind of a single line where people progress from, you know, basically nothing in terms of data all the way to being truly digital.
And so by in the middle I mean they're kind of they've done most of the data transformation part. And they've — they're either almost done with that or they're starting to do the data science. So machine learning, AI type of transformation. So that's what I mean by kind of in the middle.
They're on the cusp of really starting to use machine learning to run their business. I'd say there's a small handful of companies — of large, you know, Fortune 1000 companies — that have truly become digital and started developing new business models. And they're all the companies that get talked about in all the, you know, the business journals that have gone through and done this.
Al Martin: So I want to go into machine learning, I want to go into data science. But before I do, do you have any predictions in terms of where we'll — where we will be headed in 2018? And if you had a crystal ball, what do you think the biggest changes are going to be in the field and in big data in 2018?
Seth Dobrin: So I think the biggest change in — that I hope to see by the end of 2018 is — well, there's really two of them. I think one, I think GDPR is going to help companies realize the value of governance. That it can really be an enabler or even an accelerant of change if you do it right.
So I think that's one thing. So you'll see companies start embracing governance as a way to fundamentally change how their business operates in a good way. And not in a "We're going to stop everything from happening" kind of way which is usually how people think about governance. So that's one thing.
And I think the other thing is — over the course of 2018 — companies are going to really start figuring out how to implement data science in the enterprise. So there's a — there is a big difference between data scientists doing cattle competitions and being successful at those and implementing those types of models in an enterprise. And companies are going to start doing that.
And in fact, we've formed a team.I have a team of top, some of the top data scientists in the world that their job is to sit down with our clients and help them figure out how to implement machine learning and AI into their enterprises.
Al Martin: You know, it's funny that you mention you have a team. Because...
Seth Dobrin: I had to plug them.
Al Martin: What's that?
Al Martin: Well no, good for you. And in — you know, I have — this is kind of a rhetorical question — but should all data — chief data officers — have a team? I go to — you know, the companies that do have them, sometimes they're lone wolves that I see out there. And I wonder how effective that they're actually going to be.
Seth Dobrin: You know, I really think it depends on the personality. So I mean, you know Al, I mean I've been here a year. I've just in the last few months got a team and that was intentional. When I started with IBM you know, Rob (Thomas) asked me, "What do you need for a team?" and I said I've got to figure out what the hell my job is first.
Because, you know, and what the scope is and what we need. What IBM needs. And so I think, you know, being a chief data officer is about — in my mind — is really comes down to — it's about driving change in the enterprise. And someone who's going to be good at that can do it with a team or do it without a team. You can build networks.
I mean, look how much I use your team to do changes over the last 12 months. They don't work for me, they have no accountability for me. But I convinced you that it was valuable and I convinced them that there was value in it for them. And that's really what you need. All the chief data officers that I've been — seen that have been successful can do it with or without a team.
Al Martin: Great. And you have had a huge influence on our team. Just for the listeners out there, we've got a team that we're doing kind of reactive metrics if you will. Seth comes in and really works with these folks. And I think you turned them into data engineers one way or another. Data scientists maybe even.
I want to get your thought on that because now they are leveraging models and algorithms to present or prevent or prescribe any churn that we may or could have. And we get with our client before that happens. I think that you've done some terrific work there. But that begs the question, where - can you do that? I mean what kind of education do you have to be - to drive data science?
I'm kind of going out of order here, but you went into that and I'm kind of curious. Is that possible? Can you turn existing teams over (to that stuff)? Do they got to get formal education? What are your thoughts there?
Seth Dobrin: So actually, so (Jean Francois Peugeot) and I just did a blog that was picked up by VentureBeat on what it takes for you to be a data scientist. We kind of lay out in there what we see as requirements.
And one of the requirements is that you have some kind of formal training in a hard science. And that's — but that's not a hardened — that's the only one that's not a hard and fast requirement in our mind.
The reason that I think it's important to have some kind of hard science as background is going through that process teaches you about the scientific method and how to implement it. Because fundamentally what data science is it's about applying the scientific method to solve business problems.
If you don't understand that basic scientific method, you're not going to do data science. You're going to create models that may or may not solve a problem because you're not testing a hypothesis. You don't know what you're doing, you're going all over the place.
And that was really the conversation that helped your team move forward, was me kind of guiding them and saying what's the hypothesis you're trying to test? What is the outcome your looking for? And can we prove that we're getting the right outcome? And so that's an important piece is to have that.
And so you don't need that training, it helps. You certainly need people who — in your organization — who have had that training. People can pick that up through trial and error And they can understand it with guidance of how to do that. But it takes a lot of oversight.
So actually myself and (Peugeot) sat down with your team on a regular basis and kind of kept them in those areas of are you answering the fundamental question? Are you addressing this hypothesis that you had? And that was helpful for them.
Everything else you can learn. You can learn how to do machine learning. You can learn how to do, you know, all of these other things. But it's a little bit of a whole mind shift, mindset shift to — if you're not trained in the hard sciences — to use that kind of scientific method of going through that.
Al Martin: Well I believe you. Because — as for my team — they've done amazingly under your guidance. And the accuracy in the models that they have is increasing and it's very strong right now. It's amazing what we can predict.
Hey, but keeping on data science. If you have a CDO must you have data science? I mean, is it one in the same? Do you see it one in the same? And are companies adopting data science just the way they are CDOs?
Seth Dobrin: I — well, I'm going to answer the question I want you to ask, which is...
Al Martin: OK.
Seth Dobrin: ...should CDOs be responsible for data science in the organization?
Al Martin: Fair enough.
Seth Dobrin: My answer to that is I wouldn't take the job if they weren't. Because I think it's hard to realize value from data without applying advanced analytics to it.
You can get a little bit of value from data but you're really going to see the big-ticket, the big-dollar items for the company show up once you start applying things like machine learning, operations research, decision optimization to that. Because that's when you start getting to running your business differently using data.
And also that's the fun stuff. And so I wouldn't want to take a job without it. Now, there are plenty of CDOs that are responsible more from a governance perspective. And I see those mostly in banking and insurance companies where their job is making sure that the company — that the bank or the insurance company — is compliant with regulations.
Now that's a huge job in those heavily regulated industries. So that's a perfectly legitimate way to set up the organization. And they typically do not have responsibility for the data science in those enterprises.
Al Martin: Hey, nice answer to your own question. Very nice.
Seth Dobrin: Yes, I think...
Al Martin: You could do both.
Seth Dobrin: I tossed myself a softball.
Al Martin: Yes, that's awesome. Hey, but speaking of, I don't think you went through this very clearly, but I think it was important. You did a blog on the six steps from zero to data science for the enterprise. I think now would be a good time, can you go over those six steps real quick? If you...
Al Martin: ...can remember them?
Seth Dobrin: So you know, I think the first — well, the important piece is this is really about how do you build your data strategy? And I think, I think the important part is that you start with understanding what your data assets are.
So just looking at — around the company — what are the data assets that we care about as an enterprise? And in my experience, you know, that usually revolves around a small handful of things. And you should keep the number small because you really want to rally the whole company around them.
Should be no more than six in my mind. But every company has at least three in common. Every company cares about their customers. So you need to build a customer 360 — and we'll tack 360 on it because it's trendy. So every company needs a customer 360 because they all care about their customer.
Every company has some form of product. So they need a product 360. And every company has employees. Or contractors. So they need a talent 360. So at a bare minimum, you need those three. And then I kind of sweep everything else into what I call a company 360, which is everything that doesn't fall into one of those buckets.
Now if you're a, you know, an oil and gas company or an agriculture company or a trucking company you need a location 360, so you have some geospatial context for everything. And if you're a heavy manufacturing company you probably need some kind of event 360 where you're keeping track of what's going on on your machinery.
And so you can kind of see the number is very finite. And so you take these and you map them out conceptually. And you say here's where all the data lives that would make up these assets. And you don't actually do any work at this step. This is just a conceptual exercise. And then, absent a use case, so absent an actual decision that a company makes, you don't really do any work around these 360 assets up front.
With the exception of your customers. Because everyone needs to understand their customer. Everyone needs a single version of a customer. And most enterprises today don't have a single version of a customer. Most enterprises have anywhere from five to fifty versions of a customer, unless they've built out this customer 360 asset.
And it's hard to do anything of value if you don't understand your customer, because again — you recall back what I said digital means — the fundamental basis of it is every decision is made through the eye of your customer. If you don't know who your customer is, you can't answer that question. And so that's step one.
Al Martin: Hey folks, as usual, I had more questions than time allowed for, so we split this podcast into two, so part two will be next week. So stay tuned and we'll be right back at you.
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Racial profiling might have prevented Sept. 11.
John Fund
Updated May 22, 2002 11:59 pm ET
If we're going to have an investigation to find out why no one foresaw the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, let's have one that gets at some answers rather than merely points fingers. Last week, Sen. Hillary Clinton cited a New York Post headline that claimed "Bush Knew," and asked: "The president knew what? My constituents would like to know the answer." Mrs. Clinton and other critics backed off when it became apparent that the warnings President Bush received about terrorist attacks were both general and inconclusive.


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Q: Stuck in a login loop Hey :) I think it's the most strange problem here.
actually I believe that I can never get an effect without a cause but what happened to me makes me think other way.
I'm so lost, my lap is stuck in a login loop when trying to enter my desktop. When I login, the screen gets black and the login screen comes back after 5 seconds.
I'll describe the problem: I've just installed Dr.web antivirus and everything was good then 10 hours later while updating everything becomes frozen. so I manually restart the system then got that.
I have all my staff there, it's kind of nightmare, I did verything I know, all trics... I've even upgraded to ununtu 18.04 cause I can access tty. I was running ubuntu 16.04 Dual boot with Windows 10.
Maybe it's because there's no disk space available in $HOME directory, so when I run df -hi ,  I got something like this :
Filesystem    Inodes  Used  Ifree Iuse%   Mounted on
udev            586k   846   585k   1%    /dev
tmpfs           592k   836   591k   1%    /run
/dev/sda3        90M  343K    90M   1%    /
/dev/loop0       15K   15K     0   100%   /snap/core/4206
/dev/loop1       15K   15K     0   100%   /snap/core/4110
/dev/sda5

As I can see /dev/loop0 & /dev/loop1 are both fully used but I don't understand what does it mean ... I can't blame the disk space cause I have 1000 GB HDD, 700 GB for ubuntu & 300 GB for windows, I don't know :(
please can anyone help ? you can't imagine how that can save my life.....

A: One possible cause of a login loop is a bad ~/.bashrc file ... so lets reboot into recovery mode and fix this
reboot machine then immediately upon start of boot begin to repeatedly tap shift key until the purple grub menu appears
use down arrow key to move cursor to Advanced options for Ubuntu then hit enter
choose one saying recovery mode hit enter
now at screen called  Recovery Menu use arrow keys to move down to option root   Drop to root shell  prompt then hit enter
at the terminal issue
mount -o rw,remount /

to enable write mode
at last now we will actually do the fix which is to safely remove the potentially bad .bashrc ... IMPORTANT what your normal username ?   ... lets just show all defined usernames on your machine by issuing
ls -la /home/

one of those listed must be your login username you setup ... yes ? ...  say its somename   <-- replace with your username as shown in above output
ls -la /home/somename

this should list tons of files ... ignore them we just issued this to confirm we are using correct username ... now we list your .bashrc file by issuing
ls -la /home/somename/.bashrc

in above command there is a period at beginning of .bashrc
again this should display that file ... now issue following to move the .bashrc so its ignored and the username will simply pickup the default settings
mv /home/somename/.bashrc   /home/somename/.bashrc_ignore

that should just silently return ... yes ?
DONE ... now  reboot
after reboot you should be able to login OK ... if this does fix your login loop issue that .bashrc file has some bad syntax so be careful while you piece  it apart and put it back together so you regain a sane ~/.bashrc


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Home Argentine All environment This time, the wolf is here...
This time, the wolf is here...
Accustomed to the mountains of Córdoba give us their best postcards, wonderful and green, this time we must adapt to what there is: postcards from hell.
By: Bianca Ruggia
This is the toughest images brought to us by forest fires in native Cordoba forests. While in Rosario and Buenos Aires they fight for wetland law, in Cordoba we fight for our nature reserves. They are systematically attacked, as an important heritage of the province. Behind the fires, smoke, harrowing images of injured animals and evacuated people, there are real faces . The faces of power and agribusiness. The faces that prioritize the economy rather than lives and that attack the native forest .
Prosecutors, investigators and activists argue that fires are intentional. And the statistics say it. It is not the climate, nor the drought, in Córdoba, 90% of these "accidents" are intentional. There are currently large foci that can be seen affecting the entire province. These forest fire fronts are located in Capilla del Monte, Casa Grande and Copacabana, which are the most affected areas. Each area has volunteer fire groups and organizations that are triggering this nightmare to end.
The provincial government reported that 50 firefighters are dedicated to extinguishing the flames in Copacabana, 140 in Capilla Del Monte, 40 in Casa Grande and 60 in the area of La Calera. He also reported that fires are the result of a climate that punishes us . " The weather situation complicates the work of firefighters. In the sectors affected by fires there is high temperature, low humidity and gusting winds. The fight against fire has been relentlessly for 11 days in Ischilín and the north of Punilla Valley," they updated from that institution. They also declared the affected sectors as an "agricultural disaster zone". And they arrested two people, up to now, accused of causing the fire. However, there is a whole people who argue that it is not climate, nor global warming, but only economic interest . To stop the alleged culprits is to make visible a small link in an endless chain, supported by big capitals .
Water, how i wish you
Diego Concha confirmed that they are winning this fight against fire in the center Punilla area : "In the Cosquín, Santa Maria and Bialet Massé sector is quite a lot content, as well as in the area of La Calera". But the fight continues. In the different spotlights there are staff working to rescue animals and extinguish the fire . Infants with the support of self-bombs, tankers, planes and helicopters from the Province and Nation are also moving.All at the service of this massacre, which is carried out for the benefit of a few and harm many.
Meanwhile, there are thousands and thousands of hectares affected. To be more specific, more than 40 thousand. However, with a daunting picture, the forecast also announced good news: rains that would come to calm this hell. But it did not happen, the rains were scarce and did not manage to influence the general condition of burning. In addition , 150 to 200 people have so far been evacuated and there are more self-evacuees.
The spotlights :
Chapel del Monte. 140 firefighters work at kilometer 3 and in the Tramontana area.
Big House. 40 firefighters work. It's contained and they work to extinguish it.
Copacabana . 50 firefighters work.
Rural area of La Calera . 40 firefighters work.
Dean Funes . A 2,000-metre front is still active, where firefighters work.
There are two others, new ones.
South of Achiras. Five fire stations managed to control a fire spot during the night and remain on guard from ashes. On Wednesday morning, 65 firefighters were fighting another 500-meter spotlight in the area.
The Molles. They controlled a fire that started on Tuesday afternoon in a private camp near the border with Merlo. Firefighters were keeping an ash guard.
Te sugerimos continuar leyendo las siguientes notas:
First line of fire
The wetlands speak to us and their screams stun
Do you know Cappuccino Iberá? No, it's not a coffee.
Santa Fe has a green municipality
7 endangered species in the NOA
Jujuy against animal abuse
The Sierra de San Javier Park celebrated its 47 years
Cordoba: in the eye of the storm
The bottle of love is also santafesina


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Killer Frost, Deathstorm, And Zoom: Can The Flash Gang Survive Earth-2?
Barry and Cisco were warned things were different on Earth-2 but nothing could have prepared them for what they were about to see when they arrived with Dr. Wells on last night's episode of The Flash.
The trio travels to the parallel world to try to save Wells' daughter but quickly get into trouble when some familiar faces turn out to be deadly villains, including Caitlin who makes her debut as Killer Frost. With a long blonde wig, icy blue lips and clad in leather, Killer Frost is nothing like the sweet-natured Caitlin on Earth-1. But that's exactly what actress Danielle Panabaker loves about her character's transformation.
"I'm super excited about it. When I came onto the show it was always teased, the potential of Killer Frost so I can't wait to see what happens," Panabaker says, during a break from filming The Flash.
Robbie Amell is also back as Deathstorm who teams up with his love Killer Frost (some things do stay the same apparently) to unleash fire and ice onto anyone who crosses their path.
Things are also different for Barry, who is a CSI officer on Earth-2 and is married to Iris, a police officer. (She's the Det. West in this world while Joe is a lounge singer.)
But don't expect Joe and Barry to have the same close relationship on Earth-2.
"The dynamics between Joe and Barry are very different. Actually the dynamic between all of the characters is completely different," explains Grant Gustin, who plays Barry.
"Barry's fun. Earth-2 Barry is more of the full blown Clark Kent type of guy… The way it was broken down to me is it's Barry as if nothing bad had really happened to him. But he's essentially been on the same life track otherwise, which is not that far off in some ways, almost like Barry when we first met him but magnified."
Jesse L. Martin, who plays Joe, says not only are the characters different on Earth-2, so are the surroundings. "It's as if art deco happened and nothing else happened past that. It just stayed in that era."
While the gang adjusts to the new order on this world, things go from bad to worse when they come face to face with Zoom himself.
With Barry, Cisco and Joe ruled out as being Zoom, at least the gang is getting closer to finding out who Earth-2's big bad might be. But after Barry is captured and the gang realizes they might be stuck on Earth-2 forever, it looks like that's the least of their worries.
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Krypton Recap: A Better Yesterday, A Dark Tomorrow


DEAR DAUGHTER: Wow. You all blew it, big time. First of all, your fiance's (and his mother's) desire to turn this proposal into an extravaganza seems to have clouded his (and your) judgment. Despite the current trend toward over-the-top proposals, your engagement should not be a piece of theater, and because he made it one – now you both know what it feels like when the reviews come in and you learn your show has bombed.
And what were you thinking to post a public video of your engagement without first telling your mother in person? This is NOT the way for your fiance to ingratiate himself to his future mother-in-law.
You and your fiance should apologize to your mother. In person. If she won't allow him into her house, perhaps he would like to make a production out of it and borrow a bullhorn and ask for her forgiveness from her front lawn. I envision a high school marching band playing the "classic country" song "I'm Sorry," a large bouquet of flowers, a sincere apology and a plea for her forgiveness.
As an engagement gift to both of you, she should offer her forgiveness and you should start over.
DEAR AMY: My sister, who is very warmhearted and giving by nature, has a side to her that I find next-to-impossible to tolerate. We both take on responsibilities in relation to helping our elderly parents manage their affairs. I know she has my parents' best interest at heart.
My gripe is this: It seems that every conversation we have (or email she sends to me) includes either a rebuke relative to my actions, or a suggestion she proposes I carry out.
She speaks (and phrases her emails) in a manner that makes her words feel to me like instructions, commands or demands. I don't enjoy it. My perception is that she thinks (or hopes) that she can control my actions with her directives.
I find the combination of inferred criticism/suggestions tiring and uncomfortable. What can I do? We live in different states, which makes face-to-face conversation only intermittent.
DEAR WORN OUT: Let me guess – your sister is older than you, and/or a supervisor at work, and/or a busy professional know-it-all. Birth order, profession, temperament and how you both perceive your relationship with your parents (and with each other) will dictate your respective behavior, communication style and how you respond to emergencies and directives.
You should respond to this annoyance by first realizing that it is (only) an annoyance and that overall you two are doing well. Respond to her with an honest but good-humored assessment of how her communication style affects you.
DEAR AMY: I'd like to lend my voice in support to "Emotionally Exhausted Daughter," the teenager who was exhausted and sad after dealing with her alcoholic mother. Wow. That was my life as a teenager, and my heart broke for her. I hope she finds help and support from other reliable adults.
DEAR BEEN THERE: So many children of alcoholics have written supportive messages. Thank you all.


Please join me in prayer for my husband Ignacio Calvo Checa.He lost consciousness and feel down in the bathroom. According to the doctors he has an inflammation in his brain , he has lost a bit of his speech, sight and memory. I pray for restoration and replacement in every part of his body where needed in the mighty name of Jesus Amen. Please pray that our God who is the doctor of all doctors will heal him completely for any form of inflammation, tumor, cancer or any abnormality in his brain. Also according to the doctors they cannot see any improvement in his condition, I want him to begin to respond positively with obvious results to all the treatments he is receiving . Let his case be a miracle to all men and all the doctors involved. Please pray the the Lord will remove any form of death around him.
please pray that god's will be done in my life and he will bless me with my true love, a good loving husband and friend. also pray for emile, he's a grown man attracted to little girls and is having sexual relation with a 16 years old. pray that the holy spirit will convict him and change him because only god can. also he will be save and turn from this evil before it's too late.
"have very cloged arteries & veins. Do pray for there cleansing. thanks."