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Repairing filesystem issues at Boot in CentOS/RHEL 7 and 8
This post focuses on manually repairing the file-system configuration or corruption issues that stop the boot process.
Diagnosing and fixing file system issues
Errors in /etc/fstab and corrupt file systems can stop a system from booting. In most cases, systemd drops to an emergency repair shell that requires the root password. The following table lists some common errors and their results.
Common File System Issues
Corrupt file system systemd attempts to repair the file system. If the problem is too severe for an automatic fix, the system drops the user to an emergency shell.
Nonexistent device or UUID referenced in /etc/fstab systemd waits for a set amount of time, waiting for the device to become available. If the device does not become available, the system drops the user to an emergency shell after the timeout.
Nonexistent mount point in /etc/fstab The system drops the user to an emergency shell.
Incorrect mount option specified in /etc/fstab The system drops the user to an emergency shell.
In all cases, administrators can also use the emergency target to diagnose and fix the issue, because no file systems are mounted before the emergency shell is displayed.
How to Boot into Rescue Mode or Emergency Mode Through Systemd in CentOS/RHEL 7 and 8
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CentOS / RHEL 7 : How to boot into Rescue Mode or Emergency Mode
Note: When using the emergency shell to address file-system issues, do not forget to run systemctl daemon-reload after editing /etc/fstab. Without this reload, systemd may continue using the old version.
The nofail option in an entry in the /etc/fstab file permits the system to boot even if the mount of that file system is not successful. Do not use this option under normal circumstances. With nofail, an application can start with its storage missing, with possibly severe consequences.
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Q: how to use eval() in python mako templating In python it is possible to dynamically create variables names using eval('dyn_var_name').
I want to do this in my mako template but the example code below:
from mako.template import Template
print Template("hello ${eval('data{}'.format(0))}!").render(data0="world")

returns with a NameError: name 'data0' is not defined, ie. the variable name is still a string 'data0' and doesnt correspond to the appropriate keyname data0; eval() hasnt done its job. How to go about accomplishing this?
thx in advance

A: You could do this using the pageargs dictionary rather than eval:
from mako.template import Template
print Template("hello ${pageargs['data{}'.format(0)]}!").render(data0="world")

However, from your example it sounds like you might have a bunch of variables each named like data0, data1, data2, etc. Why not pass them to render as a list rather than as many similarly named variables? Something like:
`Template("hello ${data[0]}!").render(data=["world"])`)

Also see keep data out of your variable names.

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Such was the case with a pit bull mix brought in recently to an animal shelter in Omaha, Nebraska. "We scanned the dog for a microchip and found one, which matched to her owner in New Mexico," says Pam Wiese, spokesperson for the Nebraska Humane Society. "This sweet dog had been missing for two years. If not for the microchip, she never would have been reunited with her owner."
How the dog journeyed from New Mexico to Nebraska is a mystery. "If only dogs could talk," says Wiese. "Unfortunately, this story is far too common."
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For the physicist, see David Charlton.
David William Charlton (27 October 1936 – 24 February 2013) was a racing driver from South Africa.
Charlton was born in Brotton, Yorkshire. He participated in 13 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 1 January 1965. He scored no championship points. He competed in many non-World Championship Formula One races, winning the South African Formula One Championship six times in succession from 1970 to 1975.
Charlton died in Johannesburg, South Africa on 24 February 2013, aged 76.
Charlton drove the McLaren M23 of car number 23 during the 1974 South African Grand Prix.
^ a b c IOL Motoring Staff. "Dave Charlton - The end of an era - IOL Motoring Motorsport". IOL.co.za. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
^ "Drivers:Dave Charlton". GrandPrix.com. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
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Obama asks Spain to convey message urging Cuba to reform and improve human rights.
Obama reportedly told Zapatero that he understood that not everything could be changed overnight, but that Cuba should realise that now is the time to make changes.
"Have [Moratinos] tell the Cuban authorities we understand that change can't happen overnight, but down the road, when we look back at this time, it should be clear that now is when those changes began," Obama told Zapatero, according to diplomatic sources quoted by El Pais.
"We're taking steps, but if they don't take steps too, it's going to be very hard for us to continue."
The US and Cuba have had no diplomatic relations for almost 50 years.
Obama signalled a thawing of ties with Cuba when he removed limits on Cuban-Americans travelling and sending remittances to the island.
He also started talks on migration issues and the resumption of direct mail services broken off in 1963 between the two countries which are just 145km apart.
He has however said that the 47-year-old US trade embargo against Cuba, the main point of contention between the two countries, should stay in place until Cuba releases political prisoners and improves human rights.
Spain, one of Cuba's biggest trading partners, has highlighted improved ties between the European Union and Cuba as one of its priorities when it takes over the rotating EU presidency in January.


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Israel: lesbian couple refused surrogacy procedure
By Ayesha Ahmad
A court in Israel has rejected a lesbian couple's request to undergo a surrogacy procedure in the country. Liat Moshe and Dana Glisko, who have been in a relationship for ten years, rejected a proposal to have only part of the procedure performed in Israel, saying that the law is discriminatory.
The couple wanted Glisko to be implanted with Moshe's fertilised eggs. However, current law in Israel only allows heterosexual couples to undergo surrogacy procedures. Homosexual couples wanting surrogacy are required to go overseas.
A seven-justice panel of the High Court of Justice rejected the couple's petition to have a child by surrogacy without having to go overseas for the procedure. It ordered that the couple could have the egg extracted in Israel but that it must be implanted overseas, in accordance with a proposal made by the health ministry, reports Haaretz.
'Everyone understands that the health ministry has taken a very significant step considering the law's provisions', the Supreme Court's President, Justice Asher Grunis, said. 'Therefore, it's worth seriously considering the proposal'.
However, Moshe is a career official in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and claims that, as an officer, she is forbidden from having surgery abroad.
'For a whole year now it's been hard for me to come and wear a uniform and represent the state, because I'm fighting the state today', said Moshe. 'Aside from all the treatments I'm undergoing, which are hard to bear, I'm here because I feel I'm being discriminated against'.
Moshe added that the IDF would not pay for the procedure abroad, which lawyers representing the State said would cost around $3,000.
The couple is also concerned that going overseas for the implantation procedure would significantly decrease their chance of a successful pregnancy. 'Taking a frozen embryo abroad isn't the same as implanting it here while it's fresh', said Moshe.
A public committee headed by Professor Shlomo Mor-Yosef in May 2012 recommended that the law should be changed in order for single people and homosexual couples to have complete surrogacy procedures performed in Israel.
The Israeli Government has indicated that legislation on the issue will be presented in the coming months but it is not yet clear what changes will be put forward.
Moshe and Glisko have appealed against the court's order and await its final decision, due at a later date.
Israeli court urges lesbian couple to go abroad for birth by surrogacy
Haaretz | 21 August 2013
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Israel court postpones judgment on 'discriminatory' surrogacy law
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A woman has been jailed for fraud after cheating couples out of thousands of pounds by pretending to act as a surrogate mother for them...
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9 June 2014 - by Patricia Cassidy
A bill permitting same-sex couples and single men and women to use surrogacy in Israel has been approved by the Israeli Cabinet. The bill now needs to be passed by Israel's parliament, the Knesset, before it can become law...
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Israel has issued its first passport to a baby born to a Thai surrogate, after the intended parents protested against the Government's refusal to grant the child Israeli citizenship...
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Supporters of the parents of 65 babies born to surrogate mothers in Thailand have gathered outside the home of Israeli interior minister Gideon Sa'ar to protest the Israeli Government's refusal to accord citizenship to the children...
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Скрябино — деревня в Кольчугинском районе Владимирской области России, входит в состав Раздольевского сельского поселения.

География
Деревня расположена на берегу реки Вольга в 30 км на юго-запад от центра поселения посёлка Раздолье и в 36 км на юг от райцентра города Кольчугино.

История
По переписным книгам 1678 года сельцо Скрябино принадлежало Михаилу Григорьевичу Вешнякову, в нем тогда были 1 двор крестьянский, 2 двора бобыльских с населением в 11 душ мужского пола.

По данным на 1860 год деревня принадлежала Александру Дмитриевичу Рогозину.

В конце XIX — начале XX века существовало 2 деревни Верхнее Скрябино (на восточном берегу речки Черненькая) и Нижнее Скрябино (на западном берегу), которые входили в состав Фуниково-Горской волости Покровского уезда, с 1926 года — в составе Овчининской волости Александровского уезда. В 1859 году в обоих деревнях числилось 50 дворов, в 1905 году — 76 дворов, в 1926 году в объединенной деревне Скрябино было 67 дворов.

С 1929 года деревня являлась центром Скрябинского сельсовета Кольчугинского района, с 1940 года — в составе Вауловского сельсовета, с 2001 года — в составе Завалинского сельского округа, с 2005 года — в составе Раздольевского сельского поселения.

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LRO 294: The Body Marked by Language
When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender
This I could not do
(Leonard Cohen, The Partisan)
LRO 294
The Body Marked by Language [1]
Alexandre Stevens
In his last Seminar, The Moment to Conclude, Lacan says the following: "The Symbolic is language: we learn to speak and it leaves traces […], consequences that are nothing other than the sinthome and analysis consists […] in realising why we have these sinthomes […][2]" That is to say, language has an effect on the body, marking it with traces that impede the speaking being, that confuse it and that are the sinthome. It is a real effect of language on the body. The speaking being is struck by the language into which it enters, and this leaves a real mark, an effect of jouissance. It's not like in the classical period of Lacan's teaching where the subject is caught up in the signifier and its effects of signification; here it's a corporeal effect of language, a strike of the signifier on the body. This is the position of the last Lacan.
From the imaginary to the symbolic
In Freud there are some remarks on the body as an organism, for example when he says that "anatomy is destiny". But fundamentally the body of organs is not what comes to the fore when we speak of the body in psychoanalysis. In the very first stage of Lacan's teaching, the body is essentially grasped as a unifying image that constitutes a first identification. The real body is then the fragmented body stemming from before this capture in the idealising image. This image is already what forms the Ego in Freud, which is certainly very heterogeneous, but which is "above all a corporeal Ego." [3]For Freud, it is "the projection of a surface". This is the image of the body that Lacan will develop in The Mirror Stage, adding an alienating character to it since it is constructed from another image, in the mirror. Jouissance is narcissistic then, since the subject jouits his own image.
From the classical Lacan, who advances the pre-eminence of the signifier, this imaginary is regulated by the symbolic. It is the iron law of the signifier that imposes itself as a real, what Jacques-Alain Miller calls the 'real-order'[4] and of which the diagrams in The Purloined Letter give us the concept. It is the body mortified by the signifier that has this double effect of symbolic death in life and symbolic life in death. Empedocles committing suicide on Mount Etna will remain forever present in the memory of mankind.
Bits of the real
However, Lacan takes a further step: from Seminar XI onwards another signification of the real appears. With the distinction between two types of repetition, αυτοματον and τυχη, he gives a new meaning to the real. The automaton is the signifying repetition that obeys the symbolic order; the tuche is the repetition of a trauma. It is the real that is at the root of this repetition which occurs as if by chance. We pass from a real order to a real-trauma. The body no longer appears only as an image or caught up in a symbolic order, but also as the site of another jouissance of the body, partial, linked to morsels of the real.
This is what gives the little object a its legitimate place: bits of the real, bits of jouissance. The body is now caught in the series of its objects. Éric Laurent argues that burial, by which the body remains body and does not become carrion, is a writing by which "the body becomes inscribed absence, around which the objects of jouissance are arranged and deposited."[5] "Alongside the void of which the set of bones is the correlate, there remain the instruments of jouissance which present themselves as so many sub-sets around the subject. […] The instruments of jouissance thus always overflow the extensions of organs that they can incarnate; they are always in excess"[6].
But this "logical moment" of Lacan's development "finds its stopping point […] in Seminar XX Encore, chapter VIII, when Lacan throws his hands up […] and formulates that the object a cannot "sustain itself in approaching the real"[7].This is where Jacques-Alain Miller commences on the last Lacan. "There is a second version of the real, not the end version. There is the version that Lacan calls the sinthome. […] it is really something else, since the sinthome is a system. It is well beyond the bit of the real […] it is the real and its repetition."[8]
Read the full text here.
Translation by Raphael Montague
Reviewed by Joanne Conway
[1] This text is an excerpt from the full Orientation text for the upcoming NLS Congress: Bodily Effects of Language, 22-23 May 2021. For more information, go to the Congress Blog. Text based on a course at the Brussels Clinical Section and two lectures given in November 2020, one in Ghent, the other at the Lacanian Compass (USA).
[2] Lacan, J., The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, The Moment to Conclude, Lesson of the 10th of January 1978. Unpublished.
[3] Freud, S., [1923], The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIX, The Ego and the Id, London: Hogarth Press, 1961, pp. 19-27.
[4] Miller, J.-A., Being and the One, Course of the 2nd of February 2011. Unpublished.
[5] Laurent, E., L'envers de la biopolitique, une écriture pour la jouissance, [The Other Side of Biopolitics, A Writing for Jouissance], Paris: Navarin ◊ Le Champ freudien, 2016, p. 39. Unpublished in English.
[6] Ibid. p. 41-42.
[7] Miller, J.-A., Being and the One, op. cit., Course of the 3rd of March 2011. Lacan, J., The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book e XX, Encore, London and New York: W.W. Norton & Co. p. 95.
[8] Miller, J.-A., op. cit., Course of the 9th of February 2011.
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The Exelon Patch has been evaluated for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's dementia in several different studies. These studies showed that people using the drug often experience significant improvements in cognitive function ("thinking" functions, such as memory, language, and social interaction), compared to people taking a placebo (a patch with no active ingredients).
The patch can be worn on the upper or lower back, upper arms, or chest. Choose an area of skin that is clean, dry, hairless, and free of irritation or cuts. Do not apply lotions, creams, powders, or makeup on the skin before or after the patch is applied. Rotate the application sites so that you do not use the exact same spot twice within two weeks.
The Exelon Patch can be worn while swimming, showering, bathing, or exercising. However, do not expose the patch to excessive sunlight, saunas, or other heat sources.
Unlike some other skin patches, it is okay to write on the Exelon Patch with a thin ballpoint pen (for instance, you might want to write the day of the week on it, so you can remember if you changed the patch or not).
Don't flush a used Exelon Patch, as it still contains some medication that can get into the water supply Dispose of it by folding it in half on itself, returning it to its original pouch, and throwing it away, out of reach of children or pets.
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news, local-news, coronavirus, COVID-19, Tasmania, Peter Gutwein, North West Regional Hospital
Two health care workers at the North West Regional Hospital have been furloughed out of caution after a COVID-19 case was diagnosed at the facility on Tuesday. A man from Northern Tasmania in his 60s tested positive for COVID-19 at the NWRH after he returned from receiving medical treatment in Victoria. He had returned two negative tests while he was in hospital in Melbourne before he travelled via a medical transfer between the two states. The man is in a stable condition. Public Health director Mark Veitch said a total of 25 staff at the NWRH had been involved in the man's care. "Two people when asked to reflect on their encounters with the man reported they may have touched their mask," Dr Veitch said. "That doesn't constitute a particularly high risk but nevertheless the hospital made the decision out of an abundance of caution to furlough those staff for two weeks. "The land and air ambulance staff have been contacted and they used sound PPE in the transfers. "There are no family or community contacts who were exposed when this man was potentially infectious." Dr Veitch said the man had significant medical issues for which he was receiving treatment in Melbourne. He said there was no public interest in revealing which hospital the man was in during his time in Melbourne but said this was the likely source of his infection. Premier Peter Gutwein backed the hospital's decision to furlough the workers. He said almost 76,000 Tasmanians have now been tested for COVID-19.
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North West Regional Hospital staff furloughed after COVID-19 diagnosis
Emily Jarvie
Premier Peter Gutwein addresses the media. Picture: Matt Maloney
Two health care workers at the North West Regional Hospital have been furloughed out of caution after a COVID-19 case was diagnosed at the facility on Tuesday.
A man from Northern Tasmania in his 60s tested positive for COVID-19 at the NWRH after he returned from receiving medical treatment in Victoria.
He had returned two negative tests while he was in hospital in Melbourne before he travelled via a medical transfer between the two states.
The man is in a stable condition.
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Public Health director Mark Veitch said a total of 25 staff at the NWRH had been involved in the man's care.
"Two people when asked to reflect on their encounters with the man reported they may have touched their mask," Dr Veitch said.
"That doesn't constitute a particularly high risk but nevertheless the hospital made the decision out of an abundance of caution to furlough those staff for two weeks.
"The land and air ambulance staff have been contacted and they used sound PPE in the transfers.
"There are no family or community contacts who were exposed when this man was potentially infectious."
Dr Veitch said the man had significant medical issues for which he was receiving treatment in Melbourne.
He said there was no public interest in revealing which hospital the man was in during his time in Melbourne but said this was the likely source of his infection.
Premier Peter Gutwein backed the hospital's decision to furlough the workers.
He said almost 76,000 Tasmanians have now been tested for COVID-19.


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People buy cheap land in the rural West, then live unsheltered on their own property
Published November 28, 2021 at 7:03 AM CST
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America's affordable housing crisis looks different in different places. In the rural West, it often hides along the back roads of sparsely populated counties, where land is still cheap and people live in whatever makeshift dwellings they can put together. Dan Boyce of Colorado Public Radio has this report about people living undersheltered in their own property.
DAN BOYCE, BYLINE: In many American cities, dire poverty is visible - right? - like this prominent bike trail I'm on in downtown Colorado Springs. Across Fountain Creek for me, I see a homeless encampment, several tents and scattered trash. Now, for years in his 40s, Jim McKinney was living on and off the streets in Denver just like this. He says he was what they call in Alcoholics Anonymous a low-bottom drunk.
JIM MCKINNEY: They say you have to hit rock bottom. I kept breaking through bottoms.
BOYCE: He's been sober for a decade now, but a life roughly lived left him all broken up. He's too disabled to work. There's no way he could afford living in the city. So a few years ago, he scraped together $13,000 with help from his parents and bought five acres way up in the mountains, about 120 miles from Denver.
MCKINNEY: I can flip this on first thing in the morning, and it'll take the chill out of the air because I don't run the heat all night.
BOYCE: His house, if you can call it that, is a dirt pit dug into a hillside fronted by two walls of sun-bleached aspen logs.
MCKINNEY: I've got aspens right on the other side of the hill here.
BOYCE: The roof is nothing but canvas tarps and blankets. He has little windows cut into the logs, a wood burning stove inside. It looks surprisingly similar to a 19th century Western homestead, with the life style to match.
MCKINNEY: I mean, honestly, yeah, I'm definitely scratching out a living.
BOYCE: McKinney's income consists of $800 a month in disability payments from the federal government. And many of his neighbors have it much worse.
TOM MCGRAW: A lot of people are out here solely because of the fact that they're broke.
BOYCE: Park County Sheriff Tom McGraw sees a lot of that. He patrols this rugged and empty country. It's about 9,000 feet above sea level. Housing in his jurisdiction is a tale of extremes. Existing homes are very expensive. Construction costs are some of the highest in the state. But there are many small, remote plots of land that are extraordinarily cheap.
MCGRAW: Out here where we're going to, you can probably buy an acre of property for $5,000 to $10,000.
BOYCE: Not far from McKinney's homestead, McGraw points out places people try to shelter themselves.
MCGRAW: See - over here you got pallets set up. This was probably some sort of a campsite at one time.
BOYCE: We see across the landscape rusted RVs, teepees, shipping containers and unfinished one-room shacks. McGraw says desperate people are pulling together whatever they have, buying these cheap, barren plots of dry grass without understanding what it is they now own.
MCGRAW: When people move out here to this area and they're not totally prepared, they're not going to make it.
BOYCE: Miles from cell phone service or utilities, no electricity, no running water, no sewer.
MCGRAW: We've had so many examples, so many cases where we go out to these places, and they've got 5-gallon buckets sitting all over, and they're filled full of human waste - or 55-gallon drums filled with it.
BOYCE: McGraw says it's not only disturbing and unsanitary. It can be really dangerous. This time of year, temperatures regularly drop into the double digits below zero. His deputies responded to a call of a woman beaten by her husband last winter. They found him living in a garden shed from Home Depot.
MCGRAW: When we got there to arrest him, there was two babies, you know, sitting in cribs right next to the fireplace. I mean, he was keeping them warm, but the conditions were just horrible.
BOYCE: None of this is legal, even if the property is legally owned. County ordinance prohibits living any longer than a couple weeks on private land without a residence that meets basic building codes, in the colder months anyway. But Park County is far too cash-strapped itself to keep up with the violations out here. Jim McKinney is still not taking any chances. Inside that homestead, in that hole dug into the hill, right by the front door, he keeps a stack of papers, signed permits and schematics for the small, permanent home he's slowly building on his land.
MCKINNEY: You know, this comes from the engineer here with his stamp.
BOYCE: He looks for the best deals he can find on materials. He works on the house for as many hours as his back will allow, finishes the day in a plastic lawn chair on the hill.
MCKINNEY: It's peaceful and quiet and - I mean, the sun sets right between the - that's the divide, all these peaks way out there. I mean, it's just beautiful.
BOYCE: It is a million-dollar view, and it belongs to him.
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Mike Pence Blames Donald Trump's Problems on The Media
By Philip Elliott / Manchester, N.H.
Republican vice presidential nominee is diagnosing the problem with his running mate. What ails Donald Trump is the news media.
After three weeks of public and messy struggles, the Trump-Pence ticket is returning to a favorite tactic of failing campaigns: blame the woes on those who are chronicling it in real time. Throughout a town hall-style meeting in Manchester, the Indiana Governor kept returning to his grievances about coverage. Left unsaid: Trump, the former reality television star, is largely a creation of the media.
"Just about every day, the national media latches onto some issue about my running mate. It really does," Pence said at a conference center in suburban Manchester, N.H. "I mean, the media is so busy parsing every word that Donald Trump said in the last 30 minutes, they don't have time to cover what the Clintons have been up to for the last 30 years."
Pence went on to cite news coverage of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's emails, her aides' ethics and foreign donations to her family's foundation. "While the media was focusing on word choices by my running mate," Pence said, "we that learned the FBI discussed opening a public corruption case against the Clinton Foundation, but the Obama Justice Department shut it down." He was citing unnamed officials quoted by The Daily Caller, a conservative website.
To be sure, distrust of the media runs strong, especially among conservatives. New Hampshire voters are notoriously late to make up their minds, and relish a chance to prove outsiders wrong. Blaming journalists for a sinking campaign is nothing new. Usually, it's coupled with complaints about polling methods, too. But it typically comes later in the campaign, not mid-summer, and not so strongly. American voters don't like whiners or losers.
Pence seemed certain that his message to supporters, that the deck is stacked against them, could help energize allies. "It's pretty rough out there. It's like 2-on-1 most days with the media doing most of Hillary's work for her. The good news is Donald Trump is still winning hearts and minds," Pence said. "The most powerful media in America is you. Word of mouth has always—and will always be—the most powerful form of communication." It's good spin as to why the Trump campaign has yet to spend a dime on traditional general election television ads.
Pence, a dutiful running mate, kept the focus mainly on Trump and his slogan to Make America Great Again. He gamely turned questions from the audience into laudatory statements about Trump and brushed past questions from voters whom he didn't fully understand.
At no point did Pence nod to the problems of Trump's own making: his sloppy language, controversies over his policies that seem to shift with his mood, a campaign at war with itself. Trump's polls are sinking, and Clinton is widening her advantages in a number of states. Privately, Republicans are groaning that the coming weeks will be marred by Trump's stumbles and will drag with them local candidates.
Pence's message to New Hampshire voters was a candid pay-no-attention-to-the-implosion and a dismissal of the staff shake-up this week that elevated an online provocateur to campaign CEO, a pollster to campaign manager and the sidelined of a veteran lobbyist who retains the title of campaign chairman. It was all the product of media lashing out, Pence said. The campaign was actually winning because, after all, that's what Trump does.
"Donald Trump gets it, right? He's a genuine article. He's a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers. When Donald Trump does his talking, he doesn't go tiptoeing around the thousands of rules of political correctness that the media and the elites impose," Pence said. "He tells it like it is. And the American people hear him loud and clear."
Trump's poll numbers have slumped in the weeks after his nominating convention in Cleveland, and Republicans grouse that the campaign badly lags the offices and staffers that the Democrats have had in place. Instead, Pence said, the Establishment is conspiring to keep Trump down.
"It's pretty amazing. The party in power, and their allies in the media, all think the usual things will work against him, right? You can just see it on their faces. They keep thinking they finally got him this time. They (have) finally done him in," Pence said. "Donald Trump is still standing stronger than ever before and fighting for the American people. The man never quits."
Write to Philip Elliott at philip.elliott@time.com.


Looking at the world's gorgeous lady, Aishwarya Rai her struggle is quite evident from being Miss World to Mrs. Bachchan.
Even after her come back after marriage she is grabbing a lot of appreciation for her poetess role in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. So what is the news here??
I tell you Aishwarya Rai just made a recent photoshoot for Harper's Bazaar India, where she looks like an eternal dream.
She all went experimental; moving away from her otherwise tried and tested looks. She was styled by Manish Malhotra, Shot by great photographer Farrokh Chothiya. The makeup was done by none other than Mickey Contractor.
If we speak in bollylanguage the trio makes magic always.
The actress will appear on the cover of the magazine's November issue for which she even gave an interview too.
When the actress was asked about character when people potentially dissing her Ae Dil character as a cougar, Aishwarya said, "If you see the response online to trailers (for the movie wasn't released at the time of writing), you'll see most responded to my character Saba, with excitement, love, and positivity. She's strong and radiates individuality...so the response has been gratifying."
Seriously she look stunning. Loved all look.


The recognized and major web browser Opera has decided to launch a new browser that will have a built-in cryptocurrency wallet. The information was released by Cointelegraph a few hours ago. This will help users have a more crypto-friendly web-browser.
The new web browser is called Opera 60 and it will allow users to use an embedded cryptocurrency wallet. Moreover, Opera 60 will let users interact with the blockchain-based internet, a service that is known as Web 3. Users' privacy will also be improved with a virtual private network (VPN) feature to enhance users' privacy while surfing the web.
The Opera Wallet will be synchronized with the Opera browser's wallet that users could have in their smartphones. That means that the wallet keys will never be leaving users' devices. This provides an increased level of security for the crypto wallet.
The VPN also protects users' privacy with an encrypted tunnel that hides users' data from other parties. It also secures the geographical location in which users operate. As Krystian Kolondra, the executive vice president of Opera explains, distributed ledger technology (DLT) brings control back to the people.
This is not the first time that Opera offers a virtual currency wallet for users. In 2018, Opera released a built-in crypto wallet for Android browsers. The company wanted to accelerate the transition of cryptocurrencies from speculation to actual payments.
Opera has also been protecting users from crypto jacking attacks. In January 2018, the firm announced that they've implemented ant-cryptocurrency mining feature. When a user activates the ad blocker on Opera Mini and Opera for Android, the anti-crypto mining feature will be enabled.
Brave is another web browser that blocks ads and also website trackers. At the same time, Brave works with the Basic Attention Token (BAT) virtual currency. Users that enable ads will receive rewards for the time they use to watch and interact with these ads. The Brave web browser has already been selected as the default browser on the Exodus smartphone created by HTC.


UPDATE: SIAM AG17 just posted a video of my talk.
In machine learning, you hope to fit a model so as to be good at prediction. To do this, you fit to a training set and then evaluate with a test set. In general, if a simple model fits a large training set pretty well, you can expect the fit to generalize, meaning it will also fit the test set. By conventional wisdom, if the model happens to fit the training set exactly, then your model is probably not simple enough, meaning it will not fit the test set very well. According to Ben, this conventional wisdom is wrong. He demonstrates this by presenting some observations he made while training neural nets. In particular, he allowed the number of parameters to far exceed the size of the training set, and in doing so, he fit the training set exactly, and yet he still managed to fit the test set well. He suggested that generalization was successful here because stochastic gradient descent implicitly regularizes. For reference, in the linear case, stochastic gradient descent (aka the randomized Kaczmarz method) finds the solution of minimal 2-norm, and it converges faster when the optimal solution has smaller 2-norm. Along these lines, Ben has some work to demonstrate that even in the nonlinear case, fast convergence implies generalization.
How do you reconstruct a function over given a collection of noisy translations of the function? Intuitively, you might use one of the noisy translations as a template and then try to find the translation of best fit for each of the others before averaging. Perhaps surprisingly, this fails miserably. For example, if you find the translation of best fit for a bunch of pure noise functions, then the average appears to approach the template, thereby demonstrating so-called model bias. Another approach is to collect translation-invariant features of the functions. For example, you can estimate the average value of the function with samples, the power spectrum with samples, and the bispectrum with samples. It turns out that the bispectrum determines generic functions up to translation, but is there an alternative that provides smaller sample complexity? Afonso's main result here: No. In fact, there are two functions that are confusable unless you see enough samples. I wonder what sort of improvements can be made given additional structural information on the function.
Given a graph, color the vertices so that adjacent vertices receive distinct colors. The chromatic number of the graph is the smallest number of colors you need to accomplish this task. Here's another way to phrase the coloring task: Put Alice and Bob in separate rooms, and simultaneously ask them the color of certain vertices. If the vertices you ask about are adjacent, Alice and Bob must report different colors. If the vertices are identical, they must report the same color. The chromatic number is the smallest number of colors for which Alice and Bob have a winning strategy without communicating. If you allow Alice and Bob access to a common random source, then this smallest number of colors does not change. However, if you allow them access to entangled particles, then the smallest number of colors frequently does change. This suggests a new graph invariant called the quantum chromatic number. Interestingly, the quantum version is sometimes much smaller and much easier to calculate than the classical version. For example, the Hadamard graph of parameter , the classical chromatic number is only known to be somewhere between and , whereas the quantum chromatic number is known to be exactly . Developing a quantum protocol for any given graph amounts to finding interesting arrangements of subspaces, which I think would appeal to the frame theory community.
The top left illustrates how the data points were generated from the unknown true archetypes, the top right shows the output of a method that assumes separability, the bottom left assumes each archetype lies in the convex hull of the data, and the bottom right gives the regularized reconstruction, which is closest to the ground truth. Figure 3 of the paper illustrates how they can robustly reconstruct molecule spectra from mixtures better than the competition.
where each and each . How can we certify whether is nonnegative for every ? In the special case where the 's have nonnegative integer entries, then can be expressed as a polynomial of for , and so we can show that is a sum of squares. Instead, Venkat's paper provides an analogous decomposition: He uses the AM-GM inequality to certify the nonnegativity of certain signomials with at most one negative , and then he provides a tractable routine for testing whether a given signomial is a sum of such functions, i.e., a sum of AM-GM exponentials, or SAGE. Interestingly, testing for SAGE is often faster than testing for SOS. In fact, if you want to test whether a polynomial is nonnegative over the positive orthant, this suggests that changing variables to signomials and testing for SAGE might be a better alternative.
In the real world, when you're asked to do matrix completion, the matrix entries you're given are far from uniformly distributed, and you don't have time to run an SDP. Yaniv investigated how one might get around both of these bottlenecks. First, in the uniform case, instead of running an SDP, you get decent performance by just grabbing the top singular vectors of the incomplete matrix. As such, for runtime considerations, it makes sense to replicate this spectral-type approach in the non-uniform case. For the non-uniform case, notice that if you don't see any entries of a given row or column, then the singular vectors will zero out that row/column. The quality of reconstruction should therefore be measured in terms of how well a given row or column is sampled. To quantify the extent to which a row/column is sampled, just grab the top left and right singular vector of the 0-1 matrix with 1s at the sampled locations. This weighting actually serves two purposes: It helps to evaluate the quality of reconstruction, and it also allows one to "de-bias" the matrix samples before running the spectral matrix completion method. In particular, if we suppose that the weighting corresponds to a probability distribution over which the samples were drawn, then if we entrywise divide a random incomplete matrix by the weighting matrix, the expected quotient will be the desired completed matrix. As such, one should divide by the weighting and complete with the top singular vectors, and then the weighted Frobenius norm of the error is guaranteed to be small.
Compressed sensing tells us that you can reconstruct any sparse vector from its product with a short, fat matrix that has incoherent columns. But what if the columns are coherent? Of course, if columns and are identical, then you won't be able to tell the difference between vector supports that include from those that include , but in applications like radar, it is permissible to confuse certain entries. For example, suppose you are willing to confuse entries whose indices are at most away from each other. Then we can get away with having nearby columns of being coherent, as long as the distant columns are incoherent. In particular, the support of any vector can be recovered to within a tolerance of provided the sparse vector's nonzero entries are sufficiently spread apart. This reminds me a lot of the CLEAN algorithm that's commonly used in radar, and I find it interesting that you can get a guarantee that allows for tolerance in the support recovery. For this reason, this seems fundamentally different from the superresolution work that concerns conditions for exact recovery. I wonder if it's possible to accommodate more nonzero entries with the help of randomness (a la RIP).


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Die Abkürzung JACDEC, oder auch J.A.C.D.E.C. steht für Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre. Die Autoren Jan-Arwed Richter und Christian Wolf bieten unter diesem Namen ein Flugsicherheits-Ranking von Fluglinien als Dienstleistung an.

Geschichte und Angebot

Das in Hamburg beheimatete JACDEC wurde 1989 als Projekt zweier Studenten ins Leben gerufen. Der Schwerpunkt ihrer Datenerhebung und -interpretation ist die Sammlung und Aufbereitung von Flugunfallinformationen in der zivilen Luftfahrt. Sämtliche Totalverluste () und kritische Zwischenfälle beim weltweiten Flugbetrieb werden dort aufgeführt. Unter anderem leiten sie Auskünfte zur Flugsicherheit aus ihrer seit 1991 aufgebauten Datenbank ab.

JACDEC liefert auch Hintergrundinformationen für Journalisten und Redakteure bei aktuellen Recherchen zu Themen der Flugsicherheit. Der Autor Jan-Arwed Richter arbeitet unter anderem als freier Mitarbeiter für das Luftfahrtmagazin Aero International und liefert Textbeiträge, Bilder und Illustrationen zu Flugunfällen für Tageszeitungen und Verlagsredaktionen.

Auf der englischsprachigen Homepage finden sich Airline-Rankings und Unfallstatistiken zu einzelnen Fluggesellschaften, Ländern und Flugzeugtypen. Gegen eine Gebühr kann man dort auch tiefergehende Sicherheitsexpertisen zu bestimmten Fluggesellschaften erhalten.

Statistiken
Die JACDEC-Datenbank dient als Basis für Statistiken zur Häufigkeit der Verluste bei den verschiedenen Flugzeugtypen und Fluggesellschaften. Eine JACDEC-spezifische statistische Maßzahl war der bis 2017 bestehende JACDEC Safety Index (bis 2005: JACDEC Safety Rating), der den Vergleich der Flugsicherheit von Fluggesellschaften ermöglichen sollte. Die Grundidee des Indexes war es, Todesfälle und Flugzeugtotalverluste seit 1973 mit den geflogenen Kilometern mit ertragbringenden Passagieren (Revenue Passenger Kilometers, RPK) in Relation zu setzen. Eine Fluggesellschaft ohne tödliche Unfälle und ohne Flugzeugtotalverlust hatte den Indexwert 0,00 bzw. 0,01. Je höher die Dezimalzahl, desto schlechter der Indexwert.

Dieser Index wurde im Jahre 2010 modifiziert und um eine Nachkommastelle erweitert. Sämtliche Unfalldaten waren nun auf die letzten 30 Jahre vor Berechnung des jeweiligen Jahresindexes beschränkt. Die vorherige Festlegung auf das Jahr 1973 entfiel. Außerdem floss die Mitgliedschaft einer Airline im weltweiten Sicherheitsprogramm IOSA der IATA mit in die Sicherheitsbewertung ein. Der Sicherheitsindex sollte dem Passagier als Anhaltspunkt dafür dienen, welche Unterschiede der Unfallbilanz unter den Fluglinien existieren. Daher beinhaltete der JACDEC Safety Index nur Flüge, bei denen sich zahlende Passagiere an Bord befanden. Fracht-, Trainings-, Test- und Überführungsflüge wurden nicht berücksichtigt. Ebenfalls nicht berücksichtigt wurden Unfälle am Boden, bei denen keine Passagiere an Bord waren.

2013 wurde der Index erneut modifiziert. Als neue Faktoren kamen die Nummer der ernsten Zwischenfälle (serious incident) gegenüber Totalverlusten sowie die Bewertung der Transparenz der länderspezifischen Behörden für Flugunfalluntersuchung hinzu.

Im Jahr 2017 wurde der bisherige Index verworfen und mit dem JACDEC Safety Risk Index eine neue Grundlage für die Bewertung der Sicherheit von Luftfahrtunternehmen geschaffen, die nicht mit den vorhergehenden Indizes vergleichbar ist. In den nun prozentual auf zwei Nachkommastellen genau dargestellten Indexwert fließen 33 Parameter ein, die sich auf die drei Kategorien Unfälle und Zwischenfälle, Umgebungseinflüsse (z. B. Infrastruktur und Wetter) sowie betriebsbezogene Faktoren (z. B. Flottenalter) verteilen. Der bestmögliche erreichbare Wert wäre somit 100,00 %.

JACDEC-Statistiken werden von Zeitungen und in der Werbung zitiert. Ausführliche Sicherheitsbeschreibungen einzelner Fluglinien sind kostenpflichtig zu beziehen.

JACDEC veröffentlicht das jährliche Sicherheitsranking im Luftfahrtmagazin Aero International. Bis 2017 wurden die 60 größten Fluggesellschaften nach Passagierkilometern veröffentlicht, ab 2018 die 100 größten.

Kritik

Anmerkung: Die Kritik bezieht sich teilweise auf den bis 2017 gültigen Safety Index, teilweise auf den seit gültigen. Umweltfaktoren und Streckenprofile werden beispielsweise im neuen Safety Risk Index berücksichtigt.

 Der JACDEC-Index lässt nur begrenzt Aussagen über den aktuellen Sicherheitsstandard einer Fluggesellschaft zu. So besaß beispielsweise die Fluggesellschaft Adria Airways mit einem Safety Index von 15,721 einen sehr schlechten Wert, obwohl sie seit über 30 Jahren unfallfrei flog.
 Der JACDEC-Index berücksichtigt keinerlei Schuldfrage bei Unfällen. Die statistische Unfallhistorie differenziert nicht nach Unfallursachen. Ob technisches Versagen, menschliche Fehler, Wettereinflüsse oder Terrorismus, alle Unfälle werden als gleiches Risiko für den Fluggast erfasst.
 Auffällig ist, dass die Emirates Airlines mehrfach auf Platz 1 als sicherste Gesellschaft aufgeführt wird, obwohl sie einen Unfall mit Totalverlust einer Boeing 777 und einem Todesopfer im Jahr 2016 verzeichnet hat sowie 2 schwere Beschädigungen von Flugzeugen und mindestens 3 schwere Zwischenfälle. Von den zehn größten Fluggesellschaften weltweit (zu denen Emirates nicht zählt) hatten sechs seit mindestens 10 Jahren keinen einzigen Totalverlust, nämlich Ryanair, United Airlines, China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines (bis 21. März 2022), Easyjet und Lufthansa. Außerdem hatten davon folgende keinerlei Todesopfer im Zusammenhang mit Flugunfällen: American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Turkish Airlines. Dennoch werden sie alle von JACDEC als weniger sicher eingestuft als die reiche, kleinere Emirates Airlines. Es gibt noch weitere Dutzende von Airlines, die keinen einzigen solchen Zwischenfall oder gar Totalverlust zu verzeichnen hatten, die aber allesamt angeblich unsicherer sein sollen als Emirates.
 Das von JACDEC für den Index gewählte Berechnungsverfahren bringt es mit sich, dass eine Fluggesellschaft, die ein schwer beschädigtes Flugzeug nach einem Flugunfall ohne Todesfälle als Totalverlust verschrottet, einen schlechteren Safety Index erhält als wenn die beschädigte Maschine instand gesetzt und weiter betrieben worden wäre.
 Wird eine Airline von einer anderen übernommen, wie es z. B. mit Lauda Air und Austrian Airlines der Fall war, fällt die Unfallbilanz der übernommenen Airline komplett weg. Der Absturz von Lauda-Air-Flug 004 hatte daher keine Auswirkung auf den Index der Austrian Airlines.
 Der Safety Index berücksichtigte nicht, ob eine Fluggesellschaft überwiegend Kurz- oder Langstrecken fliegt. Während eine Langstreckenmaschine täglich viele Stunden im statistisch sicheren Reiseflug verbringt, führt eine Kurzstreckenmaschine im gleichen Zeitraum zahlreiche Starts und Landungen durch, die ein ungleich höheres Unfallrisiko bergen.
 Der JACDEC-Index berücksichtigt nur Flugleistungen und Unfälle der letzten 30 Jahre. Alle früheren Totalverluste bzw. Todesopfer der Fluggesellschaften entfallen.
 Neu gegründete Gesellschaften erhielten automatisch den Bestwert 0,000, was Vergleiche mit etablierten Fluggesellschaften erschwerte.

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website von JACDEC (englisch)

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Abkürzung


2011 Hugo Awards: who do voters say they will vote for?
Back in the days when the internet was less than half its present size, ie the mid-noughties, I did an annual survey linking to online reviews of all the Hugo nominees in the written fiction categories (see my efforts for 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006). It would be very difficult to repeat such an exercise now; a lot of online material is difficult to search, locked behind the walls of Facebook or indeed in podcasts.
However, it is still feasible to survey how bloggers have announced their intentions of voting, and therefore I have done so. This is of course not a scientific poll: it's a snapshot of the preferences of a few individuals who have bothered to broadcast their thoughts. There may be grassroots majorities in favour of "Ponies", ""The Jaguar House, In Shadow", "The Maiden Flight of McCarthy's Bellerophon" and (very probably) Blackout/All Clear who will vote for their preferred stories but don't see the need to tell the internets all about it.
There are two or three times as many surveys of the short fiction categories this year than when I last did this exercise, five years ago. No doubt this is partly due to the excellent practice of making all the short fiction available in the Hugo Voter Packet. (Most are also available online separately, links here.) On the other hand, I had to scrabble a bit to find rankings of the novels this year (no doubt partly because of the awful length of one of the nominees), and in the end several of the lists I post in the category are more my reading between the lines of individual reviews of the novels than a formal ranking.
If any of those linked to below feel that I have mischaracterised them (or even worse, mis-identified them) in any way, please get in touch; I will attempt to alert all to this post by email and blog comments.
I have not tried to carry out this exercise for the other Hugo categories, and won't, though I very much encourage others to try.
A fairly clear aggregate here: eight out of sixteen favour "The Things", and five of the other eight put it second. In the middle, ten out of sixteen put "For Want of a Nail" ahead of "Amaryllis", and on first preferences the score is five to three for Kowal. Nine out of sixteen put "Ponies" last, and four of the other seven put it second last. I'm in a minority in putting "For Want of a Nail" first, but "The Things" will be a decent winner.
This is the most open of the short fiction categories. "Plus or Minus" is the front runner, ranked top or equal top by seven of the fourteen. "That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made" gets first preferences from four, but is a polarising story with another four (myself included) ranking it last. Taking all preferences into account I think "Eight Miles" is probably in second place; it got only one first preferemce (cough) but second preferences from six. "The Emperor of Mars" is possibly also ahead of "That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made". "The Jaguar House, in Shadow" is definitely in the rearguard, ranked fourth or fifth by six of the ten who went that far down their ballot paper.
A clear front runner, with "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window" ranked top by five out of eleven and second by another two. Second place fairly clear as well: The Lifecycle of Software Objects gets two first preferences and five second preferences. It's more difficult to tell after that. "Troika", a polarising story, is ranked top by three and second last by four. I think "The Sultan of the Clouds" nudges ahead of "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" at the end.
The Dervish House is a clear winner, rated top by seven out of twelve (and two of the other five had not actually read it). The ordering of the rest is pretty clear too: The hundred Thousand Kingdoms in second place, Feed third, Cryoburn fourth and Blackout/All Clear ranked last by three of the five who ranked it at all.
I have found this an interesting exercise (and I hope you did too): it is surprising and sometimes enlightening to see how intelligent people can react completely differently to the same texts. All but three of the nineteen nominees found someone who was prepared to put them top of their ballot paper; all have their detractors as well. If you have time I encourage you to read some of these posts, particularly the ones you may disagree with.
I couldn't get into The Lady Who Plucked at all, and the same with Dervish House, actually - I think because both of them had writing styles that struck me as LOOK HOW FOREIGN WE ARE. Might have to look at my own language-related xenophobia there, I don't know!
Thanks for pulling all that together.
The Dervish House is by far the best novel of the bunch.
I only count three: The Gregarious Loner, Elitist Book Reviews and Stefanie S. I specifically checked for that story because I wanted to see what people who liked it said about it. "Just a couple guys with much better taste in books than you." Hmm.
Thanks, I got it wrong. I was vaguely counting both "guys with much better taste" since they both put it first, but if I was being systematic I should have given them only one vote.
For what it may be worth, my votes (after Alan Heuer finally teased them out of me) went to The Dervish House in novel, "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" in novella, "Plus or Minus" in novelette, and "The Things" in short story.
Novella was the only category to give me ranking trouble -- I could easily have switched the order of the Hand, Swirsky, and Landis novellas.
Yes, not a huge surprise!


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Polls have recorded a consistently high level of trust of Russians to Putin
February 2, 2017 RR Russia
The level of approval of activity of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin with citizens of the country remains high. This is evidenced by the results of the three weekly polls, which were conducted by the all-Russia centre of studying of public opinion (VTSIOM) in January and published on the organization's website Thursday, February 2.
According to VTSIOM, in the period from 9 to 15 January has commended the work of the head of state 85.3% of respondents, and two weeks later — 85.6 percent.
Rating metric Putin in comparison with other civil servants in the last week (23-29 January) was nearly three percentage points higher than in the first — 54.3 percent. In the top three rankings endorse politicians also joined Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (18.2 percent) and defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (17.7 percent).
The activity of the chief of the government in the first month of the year positively evaluated about 60 percent of respondents (60.7 per cent according to data for January 9-15 and 59.7 percent during 23-29 January). The work of the Cabinet in the last week of January was approved by 61.6% of respondents.
Research poll was conducted by telephone interviews. Daily interviewed 600 respondents of no less than 80 Russian regions.
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Local authorities are working on a range of initiatives to remove vehicles from city centres as they look to improve air quality, remove congestion and make the roads safer for vulnerable users.
With road speeds in urban areas reducing by almost 5% over the past four years to an average of less than 20mph, cities must address the key challenges by improving accessibility and tackling the issue of overcrowded public transport, according to Cathy Miller, deputy director north and devolution division at the Department for Transport (DfT), and the person responsible for the Transforming Cities Fund (TCF).
The fund, which has £1.7 billion to invest over four years in improving travel infrastructure, particularly for commuters, has already started to be allocated to the six mayoral city councils.
Miller, speaking at the Westminster Transport Forum on developing the UK's transport networks, believes the cities have "an opportunity to be test beds for innovation" with their young populations, driving economic growth, changes in travel behaviour and the future of mobility.
The future, she added, was where "people drive cars less and where people are less likely to take up a driver licence".
The mayors have decision-making powers over local roads, bus franchises and place-specific deals, such as Merseyrail in Liverpool or trams in the West Midlands.
"They are having a huge impact – it matters what they are saying," Miller said.
Half the TCF is provided without ring fencing to local authorities in cities with populations above 200,000 with the aim of boosting productivity and reducing congestion.
"We are trying to do something different with the TCF; we are trying to instigate innovation," Miller said.
The TCF needs to deliver in three areas, according to Helen Wylde (below), chief engagement office at Transport Systems Catapult.
It needs a data platform to ensure journeys are interconnected which will led to multi-modal travel.
It needs to bring together connected and autonomous travel (CAT), as opposed to connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV), following the examples of "forward-thinking councils" such as Oxford and Milton Keynes.
And, it must exploit new mobility services, such as ticketing platforms like Oyster in London.
She told Fleet News: "I'll paint a picture where in 30-40 years' time no one owns a car. We are on dial-a-ride where you use an app to call a car and it turns up to take you where you need to go.
"This changes the use of car parks, it reduces congestion and increases the utilisation of cars which today spend 95% of their time parked up.
Jon Lamonte, chief executive, Transport for Greater Manchester (TGM), predicts an increase in daily journeys of 600,000 by 2035 due to the creation of jobs and housing in the region, adding to the existing 5.8 million.
The authority, which has ruled out introducing a clean air zone to reduce traffic levels, has a long-term vision that incorporates more cycling and walking, adding to the growth in Metrolink trams and guided bus lanes.
TGM is working with Salford University on autonomous transport solutions and is trailing ride-sharing with Manchester Metropolitan University as part of a project called City Verve (see panel).
The big challenge faced by Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) is last-mile transportation.
Oxford, which has already outlined plans to begin banning petrol and diesel vehicles from the city centre starting in 2020, faces population growth and vehicle growth from both businesses and tourists which requires new forms of transport, such as bikes, electric vehicles, rail links and park-and-ride schemes.
By 2031, it will have an app comparing different journey options on time and cost and by 2050, it will be using autonomous vehicles to ferry people to and from transport and amenity hubs.
Llewelyn Morgan, OCC service manager for infrastructure, innovation and development, said the council was also looking at narrow bore tunnels under the city, dubbed 'micro-metro', in a joint working arrangement with Cambridge and Milton Keynes councils.
He added: "Zero emission zones will put a lot of pressure on delivery companies and small businesses.
"We're looking at providing a licencing system during different hours, which will allow the small businesses to get in and out of the zero emission zone, and now we're talking to fleet companies as well.
"We've also got a European Investment Bank-funded project, which is looking at bulk buying electric vehicles and passing the savings onto fleet operators.
OCC has been working with Oxford Bus Company to solve the issue of commuting from the busy residential areas to the east of the city.
It has launched the PickMeUp service, an app-based on-demand ride-sharing minibus service that collects from a virtual bus stop on any street within the travel zone within 10 minutes of the booking.
The council has committed to allow concessionary fares on the service, which costs £2.50 per journey.
Greg McClymont, cities and urban transport lead at the National Infrastructure Commission, believes city infrastructure needs additional investment of £43bn by 2040.
He also believes Government needs to prioritise the cities requiring the greatest support based on growth forecasts and congestion levels, pointing to Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and Brighton as the likely candidates.
Through the use of technology, including location-based services and mobile apps, bus stops will deliver location-relevant content.
People will be able to 'check-in' to their bus stop and to let bus operators know they are waiting for their service, leading to a more responsive service.
Using mapping data down to street furniture level, this wayfinding service will integrate transportation and visitor services to allow users to make informed choices about the way they travel. City Concierge will bring together all transport modes.
Through telematics, Transport for Greater Manchester is working to implement deployments which can improve the road safety of drivers of all ages, as well as cyclists and community transport.
Through connected sensors, it also hopes to improve the performance and efficiency of emergency services fleets across Manchester.
Real-time data collated via the tram network will measure occupancy and provide information to citizens and tourists, as well as ensure the tram network can be a demand-responsive operation.
Cameras will be linked up to the Internet of Things (IoT) to gain a better understanding of the type of vehicles moving around the city and how congestion points can be addressed.
Different modes of transport are being analysed to assess whether the city is successful in moving people from private to public transport and bicycles.
Drivers will be notified of parking spaces which are close to public transport such as buses and trains, to help reduce congestion by encouraging them to continue their journey on such modes of transport.
This project will also look to implement a booking system for specific-use parking spaces, for example allowing EV recharging spaces to be monitored so drivers can check availability and book spaces.
It's an exceptional period of change for our industry and, for some fleets, this brings uncertainty.
That's where we have a responsibility to provide robust, expert, timely guidance to fleet decisionmakers so they can make good choices.
Changing market conditions, tax implications and advances in technology bring a new level of complexity.
It can seem difficult to select the right vehicles and a bad choice could be costly.
That's why we've revised the way we calculate wholelife costs, started testing hydrogen vehicles and launched a suite of new mobility alternatives like vehicle sharing and our electric vehicle package.
We've also introduced the Arval SMaRT methodology. It uses five simple steps to help our customers look at their fleet differently, and supports them in transitioning to new, more sustainable energies.
These are just some of the things we're doing to support fleets, and whether you're an Arval customer or not, it's a great time to be assessing the new vehicle and mobility options at your disposal.
In many cases doing nothing simply isn't an option, and with the right information, it's never been a more exciting time to be evolving your fleet.


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Buying a residential property, whether as a home or as a business opportunity can be a significant financial commitment. Ensuring the property is of a suitable type and condition makes sense and may help to avoid a costly decision.
Did you know that a mortgage valuation is only commissioned to satisfy your bank or building society of the financial viability of the loan decision? It does not provide adequate advice and reassurance to you as a purchaser.
By using an established and award-winning business such as Countrywide Surveying Services to undertake a property survey on your behalf, it could save you many thousands of pounds whilst providing you with peace of mind about your new property.
Countrywide survey reports are designed to provide home buyers and renters with information on the condition of a property, plus repairs and maintenance advice to assist in making a decision on whether to purchase the property or not.
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3DPCase mobile application developed by French 3D-printing company Sculpteo lets users design or customize their unique iPhone case. This is the first ever app for customizing, manufacturing and ordering 3D printed iPhone cases, thanks to the magic of cloud & 3D printing technology.
Sculpteo is awarded the Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering Awards Best of Innovations by the Consumer Electronics Show.
3DPCase by Sculpteo demonstrates how the digital world is now entering the real world, with digital files manufactured on demand just with a few simple clicks from a Smartphone. Anyone has the ability to create a unique 3D printed object just using the '3D printing factory' they have in their pocket.
On the 3DPCase interface people can choose from a range of designs which can be customized including a case which incorporates your profile pictures, cases with different 3D printed text, textures and patterns and the opportunity to integrate your own name or message.
Recently Sculpteo launched a new feature in 3DPcase called Photo Background and users can now choose any picture and have it 3D printed directly in the case. For now you can get it with the most popular Curves and Shadow Profile cases. The new Background Option gives you access to more than a hundred design possibilities for your iPhone case, and you can also add your own image.
3DPCase is free from the Appstore on iOS devices and a 3D printed iPhone case costs from $24 / €24.


Kemtron values its staff and the important role each employee plays in its everyday manufacturing. To further this excellent performance, Kemtron gave its employees the opportunity to develop themselves and their career.
Five of the Kemtron team were enrolled onto a higher management course, each employee based from a different department within Kemtron; Accounts, Production, Engineering, Planning, and Customer Services.
The course is provided by one of the leading accreditation institutions in its sector, lasting 6 months, the course focused on many aspects of management, with a broad range to consider, practice and develop.
Regular seminars, training sessions, and group debates kept the team occupied, and despite the arduous coursework and days spent out of the office, all of the enrolled staff passed the course and have gained a vast set of fresh skills and a certification in management.
The skills acquired from this course will enable greater efficiency within each department, breeding good management and positivity, benefitting both Kemtron and its employees.


SWIFT India Domestic Services Pvt Ltd ("SWIFT India") celebrated its go-live ceremony. SWIFT India is a joint venture created by SWIFT SCRL (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), the global banking cooperative, and nine partner banks to address domestic market needs of the Indian financial services industry.
After receiving formal approval from the Reserve Bank of India in April 2015, the new service has now enabled harmonised exchange of structured financial information between domestic participants in the domestic Indian community, while keeping the same level of pliancy and security that SWIFT offers at a global level.
The nation is on the ride of transitioning to a truly digital economy. The national communications infrastructure is one of the pillars on which the foundation of this growth and innovation is built. To support and strengthen this foundation, SWIFT is laying the financial rails on which the financial sector too will grow and innovate.
"We are excited to see the Reserve Bank of India now live on SWIFT India. Eleven banks already signed up and are live on the SWIFT India network. These are now able to exchange financial information domestically in a fast and secure manner. SWIFT is glad to be one of the early FDI pioneers and make India our home", said Alain Raes, Chief Executive APAC and EMEA, SWIFT.


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Smart renovation reaches goals of its 4-foot-6 owner
This article originally appeared in the Commercial Appeal on Oct. 10, 2008
Judy Bookman comes from a long line of cooks — "my grandmother, mother and aunt regarded cooking as a competitive sport," she said — so it's not surprising that she, too, loves to cook.
Bookman, however, stands only 4-foot-6, and she has always found conventional kitchens difficult to manage, though she has coped and accommodated for most of her life.
In conventional kitchens, countertops are too high for her; wall-mounted cabinets are out of reach; using the back burners on the stove requires a stretch; moving heavy pots around can be awkward.
So Bookman, 61, called in designer Leslie Shankman-Cohn to redo the kitchen of her 45-year-old house in East Memphis. Shankman-Cohn specializes in environmental and universal design, a concept whose goal is accessibility and usability for everyone.
Shankman-Cohn produced a kitchen for her client that, while it uses the same footprint as the previous
kitchen, through eliminating a pantry and a back entry, is very different. The new kitchen is open and airy, well-lit, crisply architectural and attractive. With its ash-blond wood cabinetry (made of Baltic birch), celadon tile backsplashes and collection of colorful contemporary glass vessels placed high in special compartments, "it doesn't look like a kitchen made for a specific user," Shankman-Cohn said.
The kitchen conceals a number of devices intended to make Bookman more comfortable and more efficient when she works at her hobbies of cooking and baking.
"When Judy called me, I asked her what her wish list would be," said Shankman-Cohn. "From that point, we worked as a team. Judy had a lot of input, though sometimes I had to exercise veto power."
"The biggest issue was reaching things," said Bookman.
To solve that problem, Shankman-Cohn had counters made that are 34 inches high, 2 inches lower than the standard counter. Then she lowered the wall cabinet height by 2 inches and installed Rev-A-Shelf pull-down units that come down 10 inches and out 143/4 inches, bringing items stored on shelves to within Bookman's grasp.
To get Bookman right up to the sink and the stove, built-in platforms slide out from underneath. The platforms lock in place and can hold up to 300 pounds.
"I could use two more of these," Bookman said, demonstrating their function.
Sometimes simple details make a huge difference in how Bookman works in the kitchen. For example, dishes are stored in lower cabinets, in wide, deep drawers, at her level, so she doesn't have to lift them down from an upper cabinet.
Bookman, a corporate trainer for employee assistance programs and a licensed (but nonpracticing) clinical social worker, has had both hip joints replaced, and while she gets around with no problems, her mobility is somewhat limited. Who knows what may lie in the future?
"We had to consider the possibility that Judy might be in a wheelchair some day," said Shankman-Cohn. "We wanted to make sure that the kitchen could still work for her."
To that end, the opening from the living room to the kitchen is wide and has no threshold. The space between counters on opposite sides of the kitchen is broad enough that a wheelchair can easily turn around. Toe-kicks at the base of the cabinets are higher and deeper than normal, so foot-rests on a wheelchair won't bang against the cabinet doors.
Shankman's nod toward environmental concerns comes in the form of renewable bamboo floors, double-pane windows, long-lasting and low-wattage xenon lighting and a composting unit built-in under the prep sink.
"The main concern," said Shankman-Cohn, "was meeting Judy's requirements, but we wanted to make sure that we addressed some environmental issues, too."
Bookman has lived in the house, a modern 1960s design with an open floorplan, since 1989. She is divorced.
"When we started the redesign," she said, "my idea was just to remodel a small, old-fashioned kitchen, regardless of accommodations, but Leslie asked me how long I intended to live here. I don't have any plans for selling this house and moving, and I realized that this was the chance to get the kitchen I really needed and could work in for years. Anyway, if I put the house on the market, I would have to sell it to a family of munchkins."
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DotNetNuke CMS Infused With Extra Cash
By Jason Harris | Dec 1, 2008
CHANNEL: Open Source CMS
DotNetNuke Corporation, the commercial entity behind the popular free and open source DotNetNuke CMS, has announced a new infusion of Series A Capital. The amount of funds raised is not being disclosed at this time, but the two organizations behind the new cash infusion are August Capital and Sierra Ventures.Called the most widely used .NET-based CMS, the DotNetNuke Web application platform system has been downloaded more than 5.6 million times. DotNetNuke is built upon Microsoft's .NET Framework and the engine itself is written in VB.Net.
Successful For a Reason
As noted in a blog post, DotNetNuke has found success in the small, medium and large business markets. Of course, DotNetNuke's pricing model (free) is a reason for this, but also because of how the Web framework is built. DotNetNuke was engineered in such a way that third parties can develop and implement their own plug-ins, further enhancing the DotNetNuke offering. The DotNetNuke developer community is strong with over 630,000 registered members on the community Web site. Developers are attracted to DotNetNuke because it is written in VB.NET (a language and framework many of them are already familiar with) and the product can be customized quite easily. Many companies have built their businesses around offering add-ons for DotNetNuke. SnowCovered is one of note and offers very attractive themes to instantly reskin/brand your DotNetNuke site in an easy way. Vivek Mehara, partner at August Capital, had this to say about the new relationship with DotNetNuke: "We have seen that open source software is changing the face of the established business applications industry. It is clear to us that DotNetNuke has the right team, the right product and the market momentum to become a dominant company. We are excited to work with them as they take the next step on their journey."
The new Series A Funding will be used to strengthen an already strong Web application framework that many companies use as a content management system, e-commerce Web site engine and application framework. We are happy to see an open source project be so successful, especially in the Web CMS arena.
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The SBI Show: Episode 308 (Talking USMNT Gold Cup lineup options, Americans Abroad transfers, and more)
July 9, 2021 July 9, 2021 by Ives Galarcep
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With the U.S. men's national team learning the opponent for its Gold Cup opener on Sunday, Episode 308 of The SBI Show goes into detail regarding the starting lineup options USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter will consider.
Host Ives Galarcep discusses Gianluca Busio's rapid rise, and his prospects of playing a key role at the Gold Cup, as well as the decision Berhalter will have to make at the striker position.
Episode 308 of The SBI Show also discusses Americans Abroad transfers, including rumored links as well as the recent moves made by Sebastian Soto and Alex Mendez to Portugal.
MLS topics are also discussed, including the recent firing of Chris Armas by Toronto FC, and Charlotte FC's recent coaching hire.
You can listen to Episode 308 of The SBI Show on Spotify and the Apple Podcast app, and you can also listen to it here.
The SBI Show · Episode 308 (Talking USMNT Gold Cup lineup, Americans Abroad transfers, and more)
Gary Page
Regarding the GC squad, I think that given the players Berhalter has to work with and their qualities, the US should go with a 4-4-2 for this tournament. Maybe add Busio or Arriola to the midfield and then pair Zaqrdes and Dike up front with one group, and Giochini and Hoppe with another.
Johnnyrazor
I don't think you'll see that early on but Gregg has shown his willingness to adapt the formation. I think he'll give players chances to show how they operate in the 4-3-3 that the main group uses and then adapt if he thinks it necessary in the knockout stages.
I hope you're right, johnny, because a good coach should adjust his team to fit his players and their strengths. While winning the GC isn't paramount, I think it would be helpful to be able to play a formation with 2 strikers if that is what works best for a particular situation. We don't know, but in the future having two strikers may be our best offensive formation. I have no problem with the lone striker we've been using heretofore, but flexibility is a good thing.
Ives Galarcep
While the USMNT has a lot of interesting striker prospects, the reality remains that there aren't at present two top-end, un-benchable strikers so only playing one striker isn't the problem some people seem to think. The two best attacking players in the setup happen to be wide players in Pulisic and Reyna, so the 4-3-3 suits them perfectly. And look, Berhalter doesn't play the 4-3-3 because he has Pulisic and Reyna, but right now the USMNT plays a preferred system that happens to put their best attackers in good positions to impact the game.
And as for being able to play two forwards, that isn't really a problem, but what I don't think we are going to ever see much of is two true strikers playing together. You can see a Sargent/Dike striker and a second forward who is more mobile and creative, but I'm just not really sure we'll ever see a ton of Sargent/Dike or Altidore/Sargent or Dike/Altidore.
Playing two pure strikers together means having one less player in central midfield, and increasingly in the modern game you're just not seeing teams make that sacrifice. Sure, if you have a dominant central midfield with the likes of Kante or Casemiro then maybe, but even France and Brazil don't currently deploy two strikers that way. The reality is deploying two strikers makes it easier to defend two attacking players given they will tend to operate in the same space. A three-forward setup, with the solitary striker and wide forwards, is better for stretching defenses and being able to shift into a stronger defensive shape when you don't have the ball.
What's kind of hilarious is the idea that now some people want to see a two-forward setup, when the biggest complaint years back was when the team played the 4-4-2 "empty bucket".
Of course, if and when the USMNT has the centerbacks and midfielders to play a 3-5-2, it would make it a bit easier to try and play two strikers, but even then I think you'd be more likely to see one true striker and one more mobile forward option playing underneath, like a Weah or a Reyna.
Lastly, I don't really see the two-striker system ever being the best offensive formation for the USMNT, not just for the reasons mentioned above, but also because I'm not all that convinced the actual strikers in the current pool would operate all that well in tandem alongside a similar player. That's why I don't have nearly as much of a problem with Berhalter experimenting with Hoppe and Gioacchini in wide roles, because ultimately finding strikers who can play wide is what is going to help alleviate the potential logjam of strikers.
I asked Berhalter if we might see a two-forward setup and he made it clear he prefers going with three across the top, but did point out that if we see two up front, it would be as part of a three-centerback formation, so a 3-5-2. That said, it didn't sound like it was something we'd see that much off, probably just later in any match where the scoreline allows for some experimentation.
Reg Chapman
Ives, any idea why Qatar got invited the Gold Cup?? Makes sense when CONMEBOL (10 members) has guests teams to make up the numbers for 12, but CONCACAF has plenty of other teams actually part of the confederation that were eliminated trying to qualify for the tourney.
Feels like a favor among confederations. Qatar gets some needed variety in international competition, and the top teams in Concacaf get a chance to see a team they could potentially face at the World Cup. The consolation is Concacaf built in some Gold Cup preliminary rounds, so more Concacaf teams were able to get competitive matches.
And it should be noted the Gold Cup has had guest teams in the past, with Brazil, Colombia, Peru, South Korea and Japan among the countries to be guest participants. Not really a bad thing to throw one into the mix, especially a team you know is going to be in the World Cup.
Reg, I don't know if Ives has any info but Qatar is rated 58th in the world and just won the Asian Cup in 2019 (they beat South Korea and Japan in the knockout rounds). The highest rated Concacaf team not in was Guatemala at 127 but they've replaced Curaçao due to Covid. It's also just doing a solid to the WC hosts who won't have the benefit of competitive qualifying matches this fall.
Yeah, Ives I guess what I was trying to say was if the Hoppe/Giaocchini wing experiment isn't working I could see Nico operating as a 2nd strike underneath Dike/Zardes but I'm not sure that's really a space Hoppe would work in.
I think most of the 2 forward crowd are also 3-5-2 fans so you'd still have numbers in the midfield. I think people get too caught up in formations on the lineup sheet anyway. Berhalter seldom attacks and defends in the same set up anyway. People were excited the US was playing a 3-5-2 against Mexico and Berhalter was like what do you mean we were defending in a 4-4-2.