Digital Marketing and social media is the Oxygen of today's business, we are now living with gadgets & technologies and now our all lives are revolving around them. With the advent of the internet and social media we humans have now got connectivity with the whole world and our transactions have started online, due to the viability and feasibility of internet services. Having said this though the social media it has made a foray to our lives,with cheaper handsets and modest internet plans we are yet to make avail of its full potential.
Here in this scenario Ami Savla Hemani steps in.– She is a Trainer in Social Media Marketing and has caught the pulse of the internet and aims to provide the social media marketing education to every corner of the world.
As rightly said by Swami Vivekananda: Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.
Today I would introduce to you my friend who is Trainer in Social Media Marketing – she is best known as Collaborate Queen in India.
Ms Ami Savla Hemani is the new age woman entrepreneur, Founder and Trainer of a Social Media Training Hub, Socialize store.
Ami has been featured in 26 newspapers and e-magazines as ab inspiring startup in their stories. Some of these include The Times of India, Mumbai Mirror, Midday, Chitralekha, Hindustan Times, DNA India, Tadpoles.in, Sheroes, Business Nonstop, Sniffer, MumbaiMag, Smart India Women, Naari Sakhi, Love Doodle, My City Woman and Storified.me.
She is a Visiting Faculty at NMIMS for the subject of Social Media Marketing and has also delivered guest lectures at reputable institutes such as SNDT, SIES and K.J. Somaiya Institute.
Ami is a very competent trainer and has successfully trained 3500+ individuals. She has also catered to the Social Media Training needs of many companies, one of the recent one being The French Tourism, Mumbai.
1) How did you start your journey in entrepreneurship?
Having realised that women in our country have some fantastic business ideas but very little knowledge of how to promote their brand effectively, Ami Savla wanted to tap into this space. With the aim of providing these women entrepreneurs a wherewithal to promote their work on the digital platform, I launched Socialize Store in September 2015.
My Parents were ready to fund for my studies but I wanted to study on my own so I took a loan for my MBA which I repaid after my job but of course, my parents and brother were very supportive.
My Fathers name is Bharat Savla ( Businessman )My Mothers name is Kokila Savla – Homemaker and Brother is also into CCTV Business having his office in Santacruz.
3) What were the initial challenges you have had to face when you started your journey in your business/ entrepreneurial venture?
This she feels has helped women realize that the myth is only in their mind and that with dedication and patience they could also easily develop the art of going hand in hand with technology.
4) What has been your most satisfying moment in business?
I have been featured in 26 daily newspapers & magazines including TOI, Hindustan Times, DNA, Mumbai Mirror, Midday, DNA, Chitralekha etc and these all are free features.
5) How has being an entrepreneur affected your family life?
Not at all, both my families have been extremely supportive.
6) What are some of the biggest mistakes you've made?
Don't do multiple tasks at one time, initially, I used to do many work and projects at once which I feel was my biggest mistakes hence always take one idea, make it a successful prototype and work on it. Like when I start teaching social media I chose women entrepreneur as niche area to work upon because I felt there are many people out there who teaches social media marketing so then how will I be different from those people hence I chose women as a market to start with.
7) What would you say are the top three skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur?
Corroborative attitude and Connecting with the right type of people.
8) What sacrifices have you had to make to be a successful entrepreneur?
Not at all, because both my families have been extremely supportive.
9) Describe/outline your routine on a typical day?
I always give priority to my family hence we always have at least one meal together.
We spend time together and in those times I put my gadget & technology aside, Also after 10:30 pm you won't find me on Whatsapp.
The morning we do meditation and prayer, We don't do breakfast prior to our 20 min prayers.
The whole day I am occupied in office ( Either at Santacruz or Andheri).
10) How do you generate new ideas?
I get Ideas randomly, but whenever I do get those ideas I put them immediately into action.
11) Do you believe there is some sort of a pattern or formula to become a successful entrepreneur?
Having initiative approach – Take the first step because many people have many ideas but are unable to convert those ideas into action hence, I feel taking action is extremely important.
Have learning attitude and ask for guidance whenever required – People hesitate to ask for help which is one of their biggest weakness as per my opinion.
Have some spiritual bend in your work as this help you to get better perspective of life and its happenings.
12) How do you define success?
For me success is when people around me, my family, my relatives, my friends are happy like recently I was featured at Magazine Chitralekha – my father mother, in-laws were so happy on me getting congratulatory calls from relatives and friends for my articles in Chitralekha. Seeing them happy makes me happier.
15) Who has been your greatest inspiration?
My Spiritual Mentor Rakesh Jhaveri – every month my husband and I spend 2 days at our spiritual retreat at Dharampur at Valsad, Gujarat, we attend satsangs, occupy ourselves in meditation and this gives us a good perspective of life. It keep us humbled and grounded.
17) How many hours do you work in a day on an average?
I work around 7 hours a day.
18) Do you feel formal education play vital role in business?
Yes, but to just give you that first entry but your skills and talent will actually take you to the top.
19) Does Master Degree in Management help in business OR you believe in real life experience as your Mentor?
I feel there has to be a balance in both formal education and experience. Education is a must but just formal education without real-time experience won't be sufficient.
20) What do you feel is the major difference between entrepreneurs and those who work for someone else?
I am my own boss, working for my passion, I don't look forward to weekends because I can take whenever I need one (people with a job have to wait for a weekend). My life is full of new excitement and challenges every day.
21) How do you build a successful customer base?
I have collaborated with many local communities in town which helps me reach to the maximum number of people.
When people who have learnt from me , give me feedback that Ami – I have take my business to the next level after learning from you, that when a 75-year-old year Uncle came to learn the basics of operating his mobile regarding how to operate it, telling me how happy he was after the session, when people reduce their dependency and start taking ownership of their digital needs, these are the things that motivate me.
23) Any moment you remember where you were broke and thought of shutting down the business but later you motivated yourself and bounced back from the situation?
Yes, while working on my concept of online barter, once I thought of shutting it down completely and resume working. I even started searching for jobs for a month but then I realized why not give it one more shot.
24) If you had the chance to start your career over again, what would you do differently?
I strongly feel for reading as a habit and hobby and my concept of books barter is still close to my heart. I might want to revive that soon again.
25) Where do you see yourself and your business in 10 years from now? 20 years?
I want to digitally empower individuals. Each and every person should have digital knowledge. I want to cover more cities and make people tech-savvy and would also want to take social media to the rural areas and the aim is to empower them by training them for online banking, how to operate mobiles, paytm etc.
What are you learning next?
28) What are the three pieces of advice you would like to give to college students who want to become entrepreneurs?


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Q: some websites not opening completely I am using bsnl broadband connection
modem: wa3002g1
os: xp(86x) / vista(64x)
A few days back I have changed the modem (don't know the previous model no) because of some issues. Since then I am not able to open most of the websites in Firefox, IE6/8, chrome, opera. If i connect with other network like reliance data card, those websites are opening, if i connect bsnl the problem will be same again. I called to customer care many times, but no use. Please help me to find the solution. Thank you in advance.

A: Sounds like you've narrowed it down to the router/modem. Loading the sites from another network works. Loading the sites from your bsnl network worked on the old modem but not the new. If you still have the old modem, try it once more. Moving from the premise that it is the new modem that's the problem...I'm assuming the modem is also a router.

*

*Start simple - reboot the modem/router. This will force the device and your broadband provider to renegotiate the connection and perhaps solidify any device updates that may have happened.

*Using the modem's web interface, turn off all firewall capability and test. If your can't find a way to turn off firewalling, look for a DMZ Host config. Set your test computer's IP as the DMZ. What you want here is to make sure your router isn't filtering or content blocking.

*Your broadband provider may have associated your connection with the hardware MAC address of your old modem. Though rebooting the modem should have reset this possible association, look for a modem config where you can specify the MAC address that the broadband provider sees. Set it to "this device's MAC" if it's not and reboot. Otherwise try setting it to the MAC of your old modem (should be written on a label on the device itself).

*Skip the router altogether (if it's a separate device) and connect a computer straight to the modem.

*Make sure the modem/router has updated software/firmware.

*Some ISP's require you run setup software. It's total BS but maybe you'll need to give it a try.

A: Can you use another network, take your laptop to a library or use a neighbours wifi (ask first).
Can you use both routers, the one that works first, then the newer one if its better, like a stronger wifi signal.

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Srinagar: Two youth abducted by unidentified gunmen from their homes in Khodwani area of south Kashmir's Kulgam district have been released after being thrashed mercilessly, sources said on Wednesday.
One of them has been shifted to SMHS hospital in Srinagar for treatment, they said.
Police sources said they have not received any formal complaint from the concerned families about the abduction.


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Bradley Joseph Davis (Saint Charles, Missouri, 8 november 1981) is een Amerikaanse profvoetballer die bij voorkeur als linkshalf speelt. Hij verruilde in 2006 San Jose Earthquakes voor Houston Dynamo, waarvoor hij vervolgens meer dan 200 competitiewedstrijden speelde.

Clubcarrière
Davis werd als derde gekozen in de MLS SuperDraft 2002 door MetroStars. In z'n eerste seizoen speelde hij 24 wedstrijden waarin hij vier keer scoorde. Na zijn eerste jaar vertrok hij naar Dallas Burn.

In 2005 tekende hij bij San Jose Earthquakes waar hij 18 keer voor uitkwam en 2 goals voor scoorde. Hij vertrok al snel weer en tekende daarna bij Houston Dynamo. In Texas vond hij zijn plaats. In 2011 gaf hij het hoogste aantal assists in MLS en was hij in de race voor de MVP Award, een prijs voor de belangrijkste speler.

Interlandcarrière
Davis maakte zijn debuut voor de Verenigde Staten op 7 juli 2005 in een Gold Cup wedstrijd tegen Cuba.

Amerikaans voetballer

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We are absolutely delighted to announce that our team has been shortlisted as finalists in the SME Northamptonshire Business Awards 2018.
The Square Metre have had the pleasure of working with Envisage Promotions who recently launched Envisage Security Staff.
In our NEW series of learner case studies, we caught up with 'IT for the Terrified' student Jess Samson, and discussed her experiences of the course.
After a successful launch back in 2016 the 2nd Annual International Crowd Safety Conference (ICSC) will take place alongside International Security Expo (ISEC) 2018 on the 28-29 November at London Olympia.


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Q: SUM data only when COUNT(*) > 0 Here is what I have so far...
SELECT pr.[name], SUM(COALESCE(qm.iscompleted,0)) count_yes,
  SUM(COALESCE(qm.iscompleted,1)) count_no,
   COUNT(p.id) AS tot
FROM   (aco.practices pr
      left JOIN aco.patients_practices ppr ON (ppr.practiceid = pr.id)
      left JOIN aco.patients p ON (p.id = ppr.patientid)
      LEFT JOIN aco.qmheader qm ON (qm.patientid = p.id AND qm.practiceid = pr.id)
)
WHERE  (pr.parentaco = 30982)
GROUP BY pr.[name]
ORDER BY pr.[name]

Here are some results

name    count_yes   count_no    tot
name1   0            1          0
name2   0            1          0
name3   0            273        273
name4   0            114        114

For the most part it is correct, the only thing I need is to not SUM on the count_no if the tot is 0.
Is there a way to do this easily?
Thanks.

A: Change your select clause to:
SELECT pr.[name],
       SUM(COALESCE(qm.iscompleted,0)) AS count_yes,
       (case when COUNT(p.id) > 0 then
             SUM(COALESCE(qm.iscompleted,1))
        else
             0 end) AS count_no,
       COUNT(p.id) AS tot

A: Use the HAVING clause:
SELECT pr.[name], SUM(COALESCE(qm.iscompleted,0)) count_yes,
  SUM(COALESCE(qm.iscompleted,1)) count_no,
   COUNT(p.id) AS tot
FROM   (aco.practices pr
      left JOIN aco.patients_practices ppr ON (ppr.practiceid = pr.id)
      left JOIN aco.patients p ON (p.id = ppr.patientid)
      LEFT JOIN aco.qmheader qm ON (qm.patientid = p.id AND qm.practiceid = pr.id)
)
WHERE  (pr.parentaco = 30982)
GROUP BY pr.[name]
HAVING COUNT(p.id) = 0
ORDER BY pr.[name]


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Les cimetières juifs d'Essaouira sont les deux cimetières juifs de la ville d'Essaouira au Maroc.

Les deux cimetières comprennent le vieux cimetière qui se trouve au bord de la mer et le nouveau cimetière situé en face de l'ancien.

Le vieux cimetière, dit aussi cimetière marin, est séparé de l'océan par un seul mur. Il comporte 2400 pierres tombales, toutes faites en pierre rocheuse et dont les plus vieilles datent de 1775. Très visité car il contient le mausolée de Rabbi Haïm Pinto, le vieux cimetière a servi jusqu'aux environs de 1875 comme le principal cimetière de la ville, qui a connu une très grande communauté juive.

Après 1875, c'est dans le nouveau cimetière, fondé officiellement le 21 décembre 1892 en face de l'ancien, que les nouveaux enterrements ont eu lieu à l'exception de celui d'Edmond Amran El Maleh, qui a demandé à être enterré dans le vieux cimetière en 2010.

Galerie du vieux cimetière

Galerie du nouveau cimetière

Références

Essaouira
Essaouira
Cimetière marin


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Black Hammock may refer to

Places
United States
 Black Hammock Island, island in Jacksonville, Florida
 Black Hammock Wilderness Area, area in Seminole County, Florida


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ClassyBuzz/World/Guaidó closer to £1.3bn in Venezuelan gold after UK court ruling | UK supreme court
Guaidó closer to £1.3bn in Venezuelan gold after UK court ruling | UK supreme court
Marathon authorized efforts by Venezuela's Juan Guaidó to achieve management over €1.6bn (£1.3bn) of gold reserves held by the Financial institution of England have come closer to success after the UK supreme court dominated that Britain unequivocally recognises him as head of state.
Though the supreme court referred the case again to the industrial court to examine the problem additional, it added that it didn't imagine the UK court may recognise rulings by Venezuela's highest court, the supreme tribunal of justice (STJ), which has already declared Guaidó's efforts to achieve management of the belongings illegal.
The STJ is underneath the management of Nicolás Maduro, who was re-elected in 2018, and the supreme court stated its judgments couldn't be recognised right here as long as the British authorities challenged Guaidó's proper to the Venezuelan presidency.
The long-running and vastly costly court battle means the reserves will stay underneath the management of the Financial institution of England till the dispute over their true proprietor is lastly resolved.
Nicolás Maduro speaks throughout a press convention in November. {Photograph}: Yuri Cortéz/AFP/Getty Photographs
The industrial court will likely be requested to resolve whether it is ready to settle for rulings of the STJ, however the supreme court in its judgement gave clear steerage saying the STJ rulings nullifying Guaidó's actions couldn't be recognised in the UK courts in the event that they conflicted with the view of the British authorities that Guaidó is president of Venezuela.
An preliminary excessive court resolution that the UK had certainly unequivocally recognised Guaidó as interim president, and so controller of the belongings, was overturned by the court of enchantment in October 2020.
In response to the supreme court ruling on Monday, largely overturning that of the court of enchantment, Zaiwalla & Co., attorneys performing for the Maduro-backed board of the Venezuelan central financial institution asserted that the UK ought to cease interfering in the inner affairs of their nation, including: "Mr Guaidó's recognition flies in the face of the truth on the bottom. His appointees don't have any capacity to act on behalf of the Venezuela central financial institution in any efficient approach, or to characterize it in any worldwide authorized proceedings."
However the ruling was encouraging for Guaidó as a result of the supreme court reinstated the overturned excessive court ruling that English courts are sure by the so-called "one voice" doctrine, a Nineteenth-century authorized idea whereby an announcement by the UK authorities as to whom it recognises as the pinnacle of state of a overseas nation have to be accepted as conclusive in the English courts.
The judgment is vital to how the UK recognises overseas powers and the extent to which UK courts can put aside what it regards as illegal rulings in a overseas jurisdiction. It additionally acts as a lift for Guaidó's sagging US-backed efforts to overturn Maduro.
The supreme court stated the enchantment court had unnecessarily sophisticated the problem by elevating points resembling a possible distinction between head of state and head of presidency, and by suggesting that the UK authorities de facto could have recognised Maduro.
The supreme court as a substitute pointed to a public statement by the then foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, in February 2019 saying he recognised Guaidó as constitutional interim president of Venezuela. As well as the International, Commonwealth and Growth Workplace had intervened in the supreme court enchantment to make it clear that the UK authorities recognised solely Guaidó as exercising the powers of president of Venezuela. Guaidó had appointed his personal board to run the central financial institution, declaring in Could 2020 that this board managed the financial institution's belongings overseas.
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Wipro Q3 net profit up 21% at Rs2,968 cr
IT services major Wipro on Wednesday posted an about 21% increase in consolidated net profit at Rs 2,968 crore for the December 2020 quarter.
The net profit attributable to shareholders in the year-ago period was at Rs 2,455.9 crore, according to a regulatory filing by Wipro.
Its revenue from operations grew nearly 1.3% to Rs 15,670 crore from Rs 15,470.5 crore in the quarter ended December 2019.
Wipro, which gets a bulk of its topline from IT services, said it expects revenues from that business to be in the range of $2,102 million to $2,143 million in the March 2021 quarter.
For the December quarter, IT services revenue grew 3.9% sequentially to $2,071 million, exceeding the forecast given by it in October. — PTI


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Nella mitologia greca, Falero, figlio di Alcone, era l'eroe eponimo del porto di Atene (il Falero), che prese parte alla spedizione degli argonauti.

Il mito
Figlio del grande arciere Alcone, Falero ebbe un giorno un brutto incontro con un gigantesco serpente, che lo avvolse completamente nelle spire fin quasi a soffocarlo. Intervenne allora il padre, che scoccò una freccia dal suo arco: la sua abilità era tale che colpì a morte il serpente senza neanche scalfire il figlio.

Ebbe una figlia di nome Calciope (o Calcippe).

Gli Argonauti
Falero prese dal padre l'abilità nel maneggiare l'arco, partecipando, in qualità di rappresentante del popolo ateniese, al viaggio verso il vello d'oro.

Elementi storici
Si presuppone che tali avventure non fossero prive di un retroterra storico: i vari viaggi dovrebbero rappresentare gli antichei tragitti dei mercanti e Falero, al pari di altri eroi, dovrebbe appunto rappresentare i mercanti ateniesi.

Note

Bibliografia
 Robert Graves, I miti greci
 Valerio Flacco, Libro I
 Apollonio Rodio, Le Argonautiche, canto I, vv. 96-100

Voci correlate
Argonauti
Giasone (mitologia)
Eracle

Argonauti
Personaggi attici della mitologia greca


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Q: Wordpress blog in a subdomain of a Rails app - Downloading files and not rendering them I have a rails app hosted on www.figurella.com.do, and Right now the wordpress blog is hosted at blog.figurella.com.do everything seems fine, right?
Well if you go to blog.figurella.com.do/wp-admin it'll download wp-login.php instead of actually rendering it?
Any ideas of what's going on?

A: Sounds like you don't have PHP installed (or working) on the server hosting blog.figurella.com.do, so the server is treating *.php files as unknowns and serving them as downloads.


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![Alt text](https://raw.github.com/skooter500/BGE/master/Logo/BGE_Logo_01.png)

My scene graph based, C++ 3D engine that makes use of:
* OpenGL 3 with shaders
* GLEW
* SDL
* SDL_ttf
* Bullet Physics
* GLM
* The Kinect SDK
* FMOD
* The Oculus Rift SDK

The engine supports:

* A C++ API inspired by XNA
* A component based scene graph inspired by Unity
* Load simple 3D models, textures and sounds through a content pipeline
* An API for drawing lines and text
* Physically simulated rigid bodies and a factory for making them
* Kinect Skeletal tracking
* Output to the Oculus rift

To build:

* Download the dependencies from here: https://testmydit-my.sharepoint.com/personal/453315_dit_ie/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?guestaccesstoken=VYaKgdwwTdOi9fWEXqDj2KxDqT59tZnwvaMqutcZEx4%3d&docid=2_1091ea1da840d459bb3e81f6359fc8db4&rev=1
* Unzip to the folder Dependencies in your project
* Use the included Visual Studio 2013 project files

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Margaret Cox is an American singer. She is best known as the lead singer of the Minneapolis sound band Ta Mara and the Seen, and for her work with Prince.

Early life and career

Cox was born in Kenitra, Morocco, and moved to Minneapolis with her family when she was seven years old. She learned to play several instruments, including piano, guitar, and drums.

Cox attended Southeast Alternatives Free School, graduating from Marshall-University High School and sang in the nightclub Bootlegger Sam's in Dinkytown when she was in ninth grade. Influenced early on by R&B and rock icons of the era like Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, and Led Zeppelin, she became known for her soulful, powerful vocals, and soon graduated to other bands, including Raggs in 1980, the Doug Maynard Band, the T.C. Jammers, the Peterson-Cox Band (with Patty Peterson), Rupert's Orchestra and, in 1987, Dr. Mambo's Combo (often referred to simply as "the Combo"). She has won numerous Minnesota Music Awards for her contributions to the Twin Cities music scene.

She also sang on a local Bar Wars compilation LP and on the final Lipps, Inc album, 1983's 4.

Ta Mara and The Seen

In 1985 Cox formed a band called The Seen and was noticed by Jesse Johnson, guitarist with Minneapolis band The Time. Johnson renamed Cox "Ta Mara" and helped the band sign a deal with A&M. He also produced their first album, Ta Mara and the Seen, and co-wrote all of the songs. The band had one major hit with "Everybody Dance" but in 1989 they broke up after releasing their next album, Blueberry Gossip.

Work with Prince

Cox was a long-time associate of the singer Prince and his band The New Power Generation. In the early 1990s, she recorded more than 25 songs with Prince for a band to be called M.C. Flash, although the album was never released. She also covered Prince's "Standing at the Altar" for his 1994 compilation album 1-800-NEW-FUNK, and the song was released as a single.

Later work

Cox co-wrote "I Need You" with Johnson, which appeared on Paula Abdul's 1988 album Forever Your Girl.

In 2003 she released her first solo album Margie's Little Demo.

She currently still sings with Dr. Mambo's Combo every Sunday night at Bunker's in downtown Minneapolis.

References

See also
 Her website.

American women singers
Musicians from Minneapolis
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Singers from Minnesota
People from Kenitra
21st-century American women


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///===- MachineOptimizationRemarkEmitter.cpp - Opt Diagnostic -*- C++ -*---===//
///
///                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
///
/// This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
/// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
///
///===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
/// \file
/// Optimization diagnostic interfaces for machine passes.  It's packaged as an
/// analysis pass so that by using this service passes become dependent on MBFI
/// as well.  MBFI is used to compute the "hotness" of the diagnostic message.
///
///===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//

#include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineOptimizationRemarkEmitter.h"
#include "llvm/CodeGen/LazyMachineBlockFrequencyInfo.h"
#include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineInstr.h"
#include "llvm/IR/DiagnosticInfo.h"
#include "llvm/IR/LLVMContext.h"

using namespace llvm;

DiagnosticInfoMIROptimization::MachineArgument::MachineArgument(
    StringRef MKey, const MachineInstr &MI)
    : Argument() {
  Key = MKey;

  raw_string_ostream OS(Val);
  MI.print(OS, /*IsStandalone=*/true, /*SkipOpers=*/false,
           /*SkipDebugLoc=*/true);
}

Optional<uint64_t>
MachineOptimizationRemarkEmitter::computeHotness(const MachineBasicBlock &MBB) {
  if (!MBFI)
    return None;

  return MBFI->getBlockProfileCount(&MBB);
}

void MachineOptimizationRemarkEmitter::computeHotness(
    DiagnosticInfoMIROptimization &Remark) {
  const MachineBasicBlock *MBB = Remark.getBlock();
  if (MBB)
    Remark.setHotness(computeHotness(*MBB));
}

void MachineOptimizationRemarkEmitter::emit(
    DiagnosticInfoOptimizationBase &OptDiagCommon) {
  auto &OptDiag = cast<DiagnosticInfoMIROptimization>(OptDiagCommon);
  computeHotness(OptDiag);

  LLVMContext &Ctx = MF.getFunction().getContext();

  // Only emit it if its hotness meets the threshold.
  if (OptDiag.getHotness().getValueOr(0) <
      Ctx.getDiagnosticsHotnessThreshold()) {
    return;
  }

  Ctx.diagnose(OptDiag);
}

MachineOptimizationRemarkEmitterPass::MachineOptimizationRemarkEmitterPass()
    : MachineFunctionPass(ID) {
  initializeMachineOptimizationRemarkEmitterPassPass(
      *PassRegistry::getPassRegistry());
}

bool MachineOptimizationRemarkEmitterPass::runOnMachineFunction(
    MachineFunction &MF) {
  MachineBlockFrequencyInfo *MBFI;

  if (MF.getFunction().getContext().getDiagnosticsHotnessRequested())
    MBFI = &getAnalysis<LazyMachineBlockFrequencyInfoPass>().getBFI();
  else
    MBFI = nullptr;

  ORE = llvm::make_unique<MachineOptimizationRemarkEmitter>(MF, MBFI);
  return false;
}

void MachineOptimizationRemarkEmitterPass::getAnalysisUsage(
    AnalysisUsage &AU) const {
  AU.addRequired<LazyMachineBlockFrequencyInfoPass>();
  AU.setPreservesAll();
  MachineFunctionPass::getAnalysisUsage(AU);
}

char MachineOptimizationRemarkEmitterPass::ID = 0;
static const char ore_name[] = "Machine Optimization Remark Emitter";
#define ORE_NAME "machine-opt-remark-emitter"

INITIALIZE_PASS_BEGIN(MachineOptimizationRemarkEmitterPass, ORE_NAME, ore_name,
                      false, true)
INITIALIZE_PASS_DEPENDENCY(LazyMachineBlockFrequencyInfoPass)
INITIALIZE_PASS_END(MachineOptimizationRemarkEmitterPass, ORE_NAME, ore_name,
                    false, true)


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High impact data visualization: EarthVO
Simon Keeble, (Blue Lobster IT Limited)
EarthVO (Earth Virtual Observatory) is a platform independent data visualisation tool that allows users to analyse integrated data in a flexible and rapid way.
The tool was developed with the end user and the device they use, as the highest priority. Given the rapidly increasing use of tablet, mobile and now also wearable devices, the biggest challenge was to develop an application that would be capable of running on any device.
Maps and plots can be embedded simply onto any webpage (or device) by the installation of a small piece of parameterised code, or a deployment of the whole application for a specific task or project, which is very quick.
For the FixO3 project, individual plots have been embedded into the observatory pages and a 'light' version of the full application has been implemented into the website
FIGURE 1 Screenshot of FixO3 EarthVO main screen
The full version has a large number of other datasets outside of the FixO3 observations and a number of additional features such as login integration with Facebook / Twitter / Google+, additional map types / layers and plot types, saving settings etc. The future development list is quite extensive and we hope for further suggestions from the community.
After listing as many different types of plots we could think of, we had to find some way to produce them on as many devices as possible. By utilising the d3js (Data-Driven Documents) JavaScript library, we were able to take full creative control over the design of the plots and all of the code would be valid across all devices we expect to encounter.
We decided to use GeoServer with OpenLayers for map generation. Map technology has been around for a while and has matured well over the last few years and this combination has proven excellent over many projects.
The application has already been developed for iPad (using Swift) for the FixO3 project data and once the Apple review process has been completed, we expect to produce an Android version shortly afterwards.
A self-maintaining repository of JSON files provides the data behind the plots. These are pre-processed text files of data that can be plotted rapidly and don't rely on any complicated methods for connection. This means that performance of the plots is dependent solely on the users Internet speed and not the application server or the device it's running on. The files are updated under a number of conditions to ensure integrity and availability of the data.
A central database (PostgreSQL / PostGIS) was selected as an appropriate spatial database to use and store data to be visualised. The application is not dependent on this specific database and can be adjusted to fit other databases.
Fortunately, a much greater compliance with data formats and standards in the last few years has meant that only a few import scripts had to be developed to bring data in, predominantly NetCDF & ODV formats. Other data formats have been catered for by the development of bespoke interfaces but a generic CSV import facility is also available, which allows users to describe the data being imported via an import wizard. All of the import scripts have been developed using Python.
There is continued work planned for the application. Further details will be provided in the applications documentation and at the EarthVO website.


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Arrested Ear Syndrome (AES) also called Blunt Ear Syndrome, a relatively unknown phenomenon in South African maize production, has stuck its head out in isolated areas this past season. Some farmers have realised only half of their yield expectation in certain fields due to high incidence of AES.
While largely unreported in South Africa, this phenomenon has been reported sporadically from the USA corn-belt since the late 1990s. AES is not caused by a pest or disease. It is linked rather to plant stresses at a sensitive stage of ear development causing partial or complete abortion of the ear. This occurs during the late vegetative growth stages of the maize plant. See Photo 1a - 1d.
Showing the effect of and various degrees of ear arrest resulting from AES. In Photo 1a the ear has arrested completely and is undeveloped. Photo 1b has partial arrest. The base of the ear is normal but the top two-thirds of the ear are absent. Note the arrested primordial remnant on the tip of the ear in photo 1b. Photo 1c shows a close up of this remnant ear tip. Photo 1d shows an array of AES symptoms observed in a land – from almost normal ears to cobs without kernels to complete arrest.
In all other aspects the maize plant with an arrested ear appears normal. As the season progresses stems and leaves of plants with severe ear arrest will often colour red or purple due to sugar deposition in these organs. The stunting or absence of the ear has a direct impact on the yield potential of the affected land. In lands with a high percentage of arrested ears one would expect the yield loss to be in a similar proportion to that of the AES.
One of the most common theories proposed to explain AES in the USA is cold stress. In particular when associated with a sudden drop in average temperature. Due to the unpredictability of AES the exact cause and timing of the stress event that results in ear arrest has been difficult to determine or replicate, despite various studies that have been undertaken.
In 2007 numerous reports of AES emanated from the Midwest corn-belt in the USA. Researchers from Purdue University investigating some of these incidences noted that a common thread linked many of the reported cases. In nearly all of these cases of AES a pre-tassel application of crop protection chemicals, often including adjuvants, had been applied. In 2008 these researchers designed some demonstration plots to test if these sprays could have increased the incidence of AES. In their demonstration they included three fungicides sprayed alone and in various combinations with insecticides, adjuvants, spray additives and herbicides. The different treatments where then assessed for AES and compared to an unsprayed control block.
From Graph 1 it would appear that the more components that are added to the spray mix, the higher the rate of AES. Fungicides alone or fungicides plus an insecticide were no different to the unsprayed control from an arrested ear perspective. AES appears to be linked to the presence of non-ionic surfactants (NIS) and crop oil concentrates (COC), both of which are common ingredients in adjuvants, and to multi chemical tank mixes.
Abide rigorously to crop protection chemical labels.
V10 - VT growth stages of the maize plant. If a spray is vital within this window, apply only the chemical required for the intervention. Do not include additional adjuvants or extra crop protection chemicals/ foliar fertilisers to the spray mix.
A final thought: Crop protection chemicals, by design, are applied to protect the crop and maintain its yield potential and, therefore, can be construed as a good thing, however the old adage: 'You can't get too much of a good thing', does not necessarily apply in this instance.
Article submitted by Grant Pringle, Agronomist: Pannar Seed.


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Nantwich celebrates winning three awards in Community Pride Competition
NANTWICH is celebrating after winning a hat-trick of awards at the Community Pride Competition.
Rhiannon Hilton
Following on from its success last year, Nantwich was given the Championship Award for being the overall winner and was crowned the best town with a population of 10,001-30,000.
The town was also one of 30 entrants to be given a Little Gem award, which was created to show support to the work of volunteers or individuals who look after their environment.
The competition, which is in its 54th year and is sponsored by Shell UK, was celebrated at Nantwich Civic Hall in the presence of civic leaders, parish councillors and competition judges.
Nantwich in Bloom chairman Doug Butterill said: "I think it's absolutely fantastic that we've won these awards. We weren't really expecting anything as we won last year.
"There is a real sense of warmness in Nantwich and a lot of people get involved and make an effort in the competition including many businesses and shops."
"We want to keep Nantwich town centre looking attractive and encourage more people to shop locally so that the money goes back into the local economy.
"Next year we'd love to be able to win the award for best town in the North West overall."
Audlem was also successful in the competition and received the award for the best town with a population of 1,0012,500 as well as the Best Village Website Award.
Crewe and Nantwich MP Edward Timpson said: "The awards were great and a double success for Nantwich in not only hosting the event with aplomb but also being crowned as overall winner.
"Congratulations to all those involved."
Audlem
Nantwich in Bloom


Clearly the Fed and other central banks are aware of this. This is why we could see an attempt by the Fed to substantially devalue the dollar by say 90% and back it or tie it to gold and maybe also oil. That would give gold a value of around $14,000?They could do this combined with Special Drawing rights or a new Cryptodollar. They will thus try to make the market believe that the new currency is the solution to the US debt problem.


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Send2Press › Wire › Entertainment › Books and Publishing › New Thriller Author to Donate 50 Percent of Book Sales to Help Stop Human Sex Trafficking
New Thriller Author to Donate 50 Percent of Book Sales to Help Stop Human Sex Trafficking
Source: Razor Sharp Publishing | Mon, 12 Oct 2020, 10:00:36 EDT
HUGO, Minn., Oct. 12, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — In this first book of a new five-part series, "La Familia: Loose Ends" (ISBN: 978-1735416007), author Corey Cepeda of Razor Sharp Publishing, introduces readers to a ruling family reigning terror over Mexico – the De Los Santos cartel dynasty. Filled with political intrigue, murder and family drama, the twists and turns take readers on a page-turning ride they're not soon to forget.
Each book in this five-part series will have a portion of sales donated for different issues including cancer and dementia / Alzheimer's research. 50 percent of the proceeds from the first book will go to organizations in Minnesota that are working to fight human sex trafficking.
"La Familia: Loose Ends" starts with the attempted murder of the country's most powerful drug lord, Vicente De Los Santos, who also happens to be the nation's ruler. It all happens at his 10-year old daughter's birthday party and in the wake, innocent children and women are killed, quickly leading to a national Armageddon. Severely injured, Vicente, "The Boss of Bosses," is out for blood. His eldest son, Ignacio, joins his avenging father while he carries secrets of his own and Ignacio's brother, Santino, returns home to help his family, but becomes suspect that something deeply sinister is afoot.
Vicente's brother, Aurelio, an honest and fierce lieutenant in the Sinaloa State police, opens an investigation and quickly pieces together a frightening enemy. Gabriella, Vicente's wife, is a cunning business woman and mother. She works to keep the family, including her young daughter, Lucita, together while she continues to support the efforts of her ruthless husband.
"I've had the story in my head in for a few years," Cepeda says. "After a recent career break from working in the pharmaceutical industry, I decided it was time to put pen to paper. The words poured out effortlessly."
Inspired by TV shows such as "Breaking Bad" and "Sons of Anarchy," Cepeda says he wanted to write something that showed true conflict between characters.
"I wanted to create a series that I'd want to read – something engaging, gripping, dark and conflicted," he says. "This series is the end result."
"La Familia: Loose Ends" is a phenomenal introduction into the underbelly of the De Los Santos cartel dynasty. It exposes a highly complex and powerful family who are destined for a tragic end.
Cepeda captures this spectacularly uncompromising fictional account of a complex and merciless family that struggles with two things: How to maintain their chokehold on the drug empire they have created; and the bloodlines that bond them.
The book is available in print and digital format on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and from all other major book retailers.
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First-time Minnesota author, Corey Cepeda, nails his epic introduction to the De Los Santos Family. With no formal education or background in writing, Cepeda wrote "La Familia: Loose Ends" in three short months.
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Bali Zoo Park is one of the zoo's tourist attractions that is very popular with tourists who come with family and students to get to know various species of animals more closely. Having a cool and pretty beautiful environment for us to visit while on vacation in Bali. This place has an area of about 12 hectares, is very suitable to be visited with family, especially children, because children will recognize various types of animals that they may not have seen before. The zoo is inhabited by more than 100 species of rare animals which are divided into 3 categories: reptiles, mammals and birds.


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Q: Are there any standard library analogues: While coding some algorithm problems, I've used these functions, and I wonder if there are any standard library analogues implementing their functionality:
Maps a list of functions to one value:
mapX :: a -> [a -> b] -> [b]
mapX _ [] = []
mapX x (f:fs) = [f x] ++ (mapX x fs)

Maps a binary function to two lists:
map2 :: (a -> b -> c) -> [a] -> [b] -> [c]
map2 _ [] [] = []
map2 f (ax:axs) (bx:bxs) = [f ax bx] ++ map2 f axs bxs

To me, it's kinda weird that all [] == True :(
all' :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> Bool
all' _ [] = False
all' f l  = all f l

Does the ^ operator implement fast exponentiation?
fastPow :: Int -> Int -> Int
fastPow x 0 = 1
fastPow x a
    | even a     = exp2 * exp2
    | odd a      = exp2 * exp2 * x
    where
        exp2 = fastPow x (div a 2)

A: Maps a list of functions to one value:
map ($x) fs

$ is the function application operator, so ($x) is a function that applies its argument to x.
Maps a binary function to two lists:
zipWith. You can find this even if you don't know the function name by searching for the type signature on Hoogle.
Does ^ operator implement fast exponentiation?
Yes.


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The March 1618 fire in the Delft Stadhuis destroyed most of the building as well as much of the municipal archives stored there. This loss included the real estate records that contained at least the names of the owners of the Gulden Hoofd before Leeuwenhoek.
At that point, Delft had avoided any disastrous fires for over 80 years. The image on the left sidebar shows what happened in 1536. Most of the houses, made of wood, burned to the ground. Left standing were the structures made of stone. The fire had destroyed the most valuable homes, along the Oude Delft and Nieuwe Delft grachts. The citizens of Delft decided to rebuild, this time of stone and brick. Within ten years, most of the lost housing had been replaced.
We don't know exactly when the Gulden Hoofd was built, but it was probably around 1540. Even then, it was known by that name, though some alternate spellings include Ghulden, Vergulden, Gouden, and Hooft. According to the Delft archival records, the house had half a dozen owners before Leeuwenhoek and several residents who may or may not have been paying rent.
The table below has all of the references I could find in the Delft archives, though very few of the actual documents have survived. When Delft recovered after the fire, the clerks assembled the salvagable records in the order that they found them, not by date. Thus the inventory and bundle numbers don't follow a strict chronology.
1604-10-30 Huijch de Cramer, living Voorstraat, child buried DTB inv. ??
co-heir, loaner to Gijsbrecht Jansz.
March 3, 1618 Delft Stadhuis burned down.


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5 Intriguing Takes on Gender in Science Fiction
by Jeff Somers/
Science fiction is a genre of ideas, and a lot of world-building in sci-fi starts with tweaking one small part of our universe and extrapolating from there. Gender seems like one of those unquestioned aspects of existence, until you pause and actually question it—are there just two genders? Do they have specific roles?—so it shouldn't be surprising that gender often plays a role in science fiction. John Scalzi did something subtly amazing in his most recent novel, Lock In. It's a great book about a future where a virus has caused a portion of the population to be "locked in," awake but unable to move or use their bodies in any way. People called Integrators can take on the consciousness of those afflicted, and the story centers on a murder of a locked-in person using one such Integrator.
So far so intriguing, and the book works wonderfully as a sci-fi procedural. But what makes this book amazing is the fact that the point of view character, Chris, is a consciousness housed in an android body, raised in machine environments with the ability to switch aspects of perception at any moment, and thus has no gender whatsoever. The greatest part of this trick is that Scalzi doesn't make note of it—he draws no attention to it whatsoever. The reader might notice something slightly off about Chris's perspective, but it's often only on a second reading that you'll notice Chris offers zero gender perspective at all, and that any perceived gender bias most likely comes from a reader's own experience and expectations.
Lock In is the most recent in a slow wave of sci-fi novels that explore gender in unexpected and challenging ways. Here are some other notable stops along the way.
Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin
Any discussion of gender in sci-fi generally starts with this classic 1968 novel. First-time readers in the modern day might not see the big deal, but 46 years ago LeGuin's concept of a race of people who spend the majority of their time as sexless "potentials" and only take on sexual characteristics (either male or female) once a month for breeding purposes—and who are all referred to as "he" regardless of their nature—was kind of mind-blowing. LeGuin has stated that the book began as a thought experiment about what a society would be without gender, and it sometimes has the stiff feel of experiment. To the modern reader the book can seem much less daring—the POV character is a heterosexual male, and while he forms a deep emotional bond with one of the planet's inhabitants, sexuality is not explored directly in the book—and LeGuin herself later expressed regret that she defaulted to the pronoun "he" instead of "she," or some other alternative (such as Spivak pronouns).
Everything he's written, by Jack L. Chalker
It's hard to pin down a single book from Chalker's bibliography to discuss gender with. His writing had its limitations, but just about every book he wrote dealt with gender switches and other body modifications. Chalker ultimately viewed physicality as the ultimate determinator; identity in his books had everything to do with the brain chemicals and sexual organs you were wearing at the time, not any sort of "core" or true self. While the gender issues in Chalker's books were a bit more on the squicky side of things, he's one of the few sci-fi writers of any era that consistently looked at gender as something other than a fixed binary code of nature. The characters in Chalker's books often moved from one gender to another (often involuntarily), making their sexual characteristics less important than their actions and reactions.
Shadow Man, by Melissa Scott
In this fascinating novel, Scott creates a universe with no less than five genders, caused by a drug given to people to mitigate the deadly effects of faster-than-light travel. On one colonized world that was cut off from the rest of human society, a strict binary gender culture is enforced despite the presence of Fem, Herm, and Mem genders. An explicit exploration of two systems—one where additional genders are forbidden, one where they are rigidly (perhaps too rigidly) supported—is interesting, and refreshingly dealt with straight on, without any winking, wordplay, or copping out.
Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
Another obvious choice for this subject, Ancillary Justice again plays with gender in a very straightforward way: the POV character in the book comes from a society without gender, and is forced to interact with a gendered society, referring to everyone they meet as "she" internally and making some occasionally dramatic incorrect guesses about the gender of others. Perhaps the greatest power of the novel in regards to gender is that it isn't really treated as a subject to be discussed. The genderless society just is, where a lesser writer might have made it the whole point.
What's your favorite sci-fi story that tackles gender in interesting ways?
Tags: ancillary justice, ann leckie, gender, jack l. chalker, john scalzi, lock in, melissa scott, sci-fi, science fiction, ursula k. le guin
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Reinventing the city: An interview with architect Rem Koolhaas
'What I see more than anything is the inability of almost every political system to anticipate, mobilize, and take precautions for the future, even when it is obvious that cities will grow or shrink rapidly.' At the same time, 'The reinvention...of cities is taking place all over the world.'
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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas designed Nexus Housing, pictured here in Fukuoka, Japan. In an interview, Mr. Koolhaas says 'creative flexibility allows us to design buildings that are more versatile, which can be successful in new economies and in new contexts.'
By Paul Fraioli
Rem Koolhaas is a leading urban theorist and a Pritzker Prize-winning architect who is engaged in building projects around the world. He co-founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), which is receiving international attention for its recent completion of an enigmatic new headquarters for China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing.
In an interview with Paul Fraioli for the spring/summer 2012 issue of Columbia University's Journal of International Affairs, Mr. Koolhaas discusses how the economic and cultural changes of the 21st century are transforming world cities as well as the practice of architecture. (The full interview can be found here.)
Paul Fraioli: Do cities around the world, whether they are well established or just emerging, share common challenges? Are they finding common solutions?
Rem Koolhaas: What I see more than anything is the inability of almost every political system to anticipate, mobilize, and take precautions for the future, even when it is obvious that cities will grow or shrink rapidly. It doesn't take particular expertise to deal with these challenges. However, this inability to plan ahead is widespread, and it is always shocking when it happens in individual cases.
It seems as if our ability to respond to advance warnings has eroded. In Europe there used to be politicians who were able to think 20 years or 50 years ahead, but now the political horizon is four years, if that. This is a global phenomenon, and as the issues become bigger, perspectives become shorter.
Fraioli: Many architects are designing and building "green" structures around the world. What impact will this have on the sustainability of cities?
Koolhaas: What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.
The "Spaceship Earth" concept that emerged in the 1960s had a visionary awareness of the interdependency of things, and also of the need to be systematically frugal. I have more affinity with this tradition than with the current "greenness." At the same time, there is now strong pressure on buildings to function better, and there are finally clients willing to pay for it and the engineering needed to realize it. The exciting thing is not green buildings, it is that buildings are built better.
Fraioli: Has the future, so to speak, already arrived in today's modern cities? Will the biggest change in the coming century be the diffusion of modernity to new places in the world rather than the reinvention of modernity?
Koolhaas: I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies. But this question makes me think: Since global economics is the dominant influence on the well-being or degeneration of cities, one can make predictions about where urban development will take place. My limited prediction is that great expansion will take place in some part of the world. I see this happening not only in China, but also in places like Iran or Turkey, where cities of the future will be made in great quantity.
Fraioli: Do you think about the future when you design particular projects? So many things can change from design to completion to the end of a building's life cycle, including politics, economics, culture, and architecture itself.
Koolhaas: Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it. You must make a judgment about whether the client's project will create value for society because you must always answer that demand through your work. There is something in every project we do that goes beyond how it was initially defined. We try to discover potentials that the client did not or would not realize.
For example, with the Rothschild Bank building we just completed in London, we discovered that if we lifted the building off the ground, it would reveal quite a bit about London's past. The developer was adamant against it, but we were able to do it.
This creative flexibility allows us to design buildings that are more versatile, which can be successful in new economies and in new contexts. At OMA we try to build in the greatest possible tolerance and the least amount of rigidity in terms of embodying one particular moment. We want our buildings to evolve.
However, if you look back in history, you also see that almost any building is able to accommodate almost any kind of activity. Something that was built as a home becomes an office building and then becomes a housing block. A building has at least two lives – the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward – and they are never the same.
Fraioli: There has been a shift in your client base in the last 20 or 30 years: Fewer architectural commissions come from city governments and public agencies, and more come from multinational corporations and developers. How is this changing the field of architecture and cities that become home to these projects?
Koolhaas: This has been an enormous shift, and it has been very bad for architecture. At OMA we have tried to resist this trend, so only about a third or a quarter of our projects are developers. The rest are for public clients. I have been dealing with this problem in my writing more than in my architectural practice. The fact is that architecture is losing sight of the collective good by cutting off its connection to the public sector. To put it differently, the public sector has become so weak that it cannot afford to take the initiative on these projects. It is surrendering to private forces.
My newest book, "Project Japan," is an oral history about a Japanese avant-garde movement called "metabolism" that emphasized public projects and preserving a traditional style that rejected the uniformity of modernism. My conversation with the pioneers of metabolism reaffirmed this point again and again: The public client is an inspiring definer of what architecture should be.
The biggest difference between working for private clients and public clients – although it is becoming less and less pronounced – is that private developers are extraordinarily good at maximizing profits. They see everything that does not contribute to those profits as incidental, as a sacrifice that preferably should be avoided. The public sector is able to understand why a certain generosity is important.
Fraioli: Globalization is making it easier for corporations and developers to do business in cities around the globe. Is this having an effect on the practice of architecture in cities or on the kinds of projects that cities are demanding?
Koolhaas: The question is so pertinent that it is almost unanswerable. Things are changing enormously in almost every sense. The effects of globalization have been positive and negative. My generation of architects is the first that could work almost anywhere in the world. We had the option to repeat the same building and the local culture.
This has been incredible for OMA because we have had a deep encounter in China creating the CCTV building and another in Qatar. It is a three-dimensional anthropology lesson, and I think our office has been transformed by these encounters. If you take architecture seriously and assume your responsibilities, exchanges can be a very rich thing. The downside is that profit-driven repetition is so common.
Fraioli: How do major urban architectural projects impact the national and cultural identity?
Koolhaas: This repetition I just mentioned causes anxiety about identity. There is a natural reaction from citizens and from governments when their cultures are not reflected in urban building projects. This often comes up in the Middle East. So many international architects make it their business to be contextual; as a result, their projects will feature doves, camels, falcons and other first-degree symbols of local history.
This issue is fascinating because if you look back a hundred years, you find that there was still such a thing as an Indian architecture, a Thai architecture, a Chinese architecture, an African architecture, a Dutch architecture, a Russian architecture. But now, almost all of these languages have disappeared and are subsumed in a larger and seemingly universal style. The process has been like the disappearance of a spoken language.
Remnants of these differences still exist. For example, a high-rise in Singapore is inhabited in a very different way from a high-rise in the suburbs of Paris or a high-rise in China. Each of these cultures, which once had its own form of speaking, is not trying to resurrect old language, but is interested in defining and asserting its uniqueness again.
On the other hand, some cultures have managed to maintain their distinctiveness. It still is meaningful to say that someone is a Japanese architect, but relatively meaningless to say that someone is an American or a Dutch architect. The Dutch happily subsumed their identity into international modernism and found international resonances and connections. In Japan, however, there has always been an insistence that even a modern thing should respect tradition. Japanese forms are still particularly careful, particularly well made, particularly intricate; they do not surrender to a large or brutal scale.
It is actually a paradox that Japan has maintained its style. I discovered in Project Japan that the Japanese have a philosophy of impermanence. They rebuild the sacred Ise Grand Shrine every 20 years. They do not hang onto things. They have a totally different attitude toward preservation than we do in the West and yet have preserved a lot more.
Fraioli: Where in the world is urban transformation happening most intensely? Is it in China?
Koolhaas: Two experiences come immediately to mind. One was in Largos, Nigeria, in the mid or late 1990s. The city was in a deep state of urban regression. It was going backwards, not forward. But this regression imposed a form of creative, self-organization improvisation on the population. This gave me the feeling that the city was being reinvented in front of my eyes. Elements of the city were being used in completely unfamiliar ways that I never could have imagined. For instance, clover-leaf highway interceptions moved so slowly that the whole thing became a slow-moving drive-through market.
You also see the city being reinvented in China – or maybe not reinvented but reproduced at an enormous scale and speed. You also notice that things are changing by default. It is similar to the Roman system in which the elements and topology of a city are replicated in a new place and adapted around local conditions. I have seen cities there begin from scratch.
Shenzhen, north of Hong Kong, was a fishing village in the 1980s and is now a city of over 10 million people. Shenzhen has become a unique city even though there is nothing physically unique about it. It is unique because it is next to Hong Kong; it acts [as] a counterpart, since it is also in a special economic zone with special emigration statues. Therefore, it attracts a lot of Chinese companies hoping to access a more reliable legal system.
Fraioli: In your first book, "Delirious New York," you write that "Manhattan is the 20th century's Rosetta Stone." What city is playing that role for the 21st century? Is it a city in the Middle East or in Asia?
Koolhaas: It is too early to tell. During its rise in the 20th century, Manhattan was incredibly preoccupied with its own uniqueness, and very few cities right now are focusing on that. I am not even sure that the 21st century will have an equally pertinent or key city. I don't think that anything is happening in Lagos or China that rivals the importance of Manhattan's rise in the last century.
I am now working in Doha, in Qatar, which is a city-state reinventing itself on every level – education, politics, culture, entertainment, and sports – and somehow our office, OMA, is participating in this transformation in a particularly active way. For instance, we are working on the national library, on the transformation of the country through sports, on all kinds of things that gave us an opportunity to help formulate what the future there can be.
The reinvention and the reimagining of cities is taking place all over the world. The energy that inspires reinvention either comes from pressure – when negative forces lead to a breakthrough, which is what I noticed in Lagos – or cities get this energy from striving. Cities are machines for emancipation. When the striving for emancipation is at its most intense, when there is the clearest promise of success, change is at its most intense.
That is why cities in the West are so morose. We can strive until we're blue in the face, but we have nothing to change, at least not in the way that other parts of the world will change. In these places – particularly in the Middle East and Africa – real change is happening now.
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For those who aren't aware, I'm getting married in 8 days 😀 June 20! Yay! So, of course, I'm planning very special outfits for the whole weekend. And to keep myself organized (and entertained at work a little) I've decided to put together looks, similar to how they do in some magazines, for the weekend's outfits. I tried to use as much of the actual outfits I've got as possible, but it didn't always work out.
I wanted to look special, but not too dressy. I fell in love with the dress when I found it and knew it was perfect–easy to dress up or dress down. I wanted this outfit to sort of have my own flair to it though. I think it works really well all put together, and isn't too dressy or too casual. It doesn't scream "I'm the bride!" but I didn't really want it too.
The dress I bought was an off-season one I found at TJMaxx. It's Calvin Klein, and is actually the one I shot in with Mariah Carle, pictured in the previous post. Frustratingly enough, there wasn't a single dress similar to it anywhere online (that I was able to find), so I had to substitute something of similar color and general shape. It works to get an idea of the look. Everything else is pretty much spot on, minus the fact that I need to find myself a cute shrunken blazer to go over the dress. That's my task tonight (along with getting flip-flops for our groomsmen and ushers).
Calvin Klein gold pleated A-line dress. Black Wild Diva gladiator heels. Kathy VanZeeland motorcycle purse. Belt & earrings from Express.
The day after the wedding my grandma is hosting a brunch, and then the other half has a race (which I'll be attending after the brunch). So I wanted something fun, easy to layer up or down, and pretty. I wanted it to say "I'm ready to relax and have fun" without being frumpy, boring, or too everyday. Perfect opportunity for the maxi dress! I opted for a solid one and went with some fun accessories. My favorite one is the big bag I found, which will be great for a book, some extra layers (like my jean jacket), a bottle of water, and any other necessities I might need that day. There's definitely more to this outfit than the rehearsal dinner one LOL!
This one was a bit easier to find things similar to what I had. The dress (also found at TJMaxx) is solid green instead of patterned, but looks pretty much the same. The bag I've got is way cute, because instead of just being plain straw, it's got multi-colored strands woven in it, which tie in great to the colors of the scarf (which my friend Lonni spotted for me last night–good eye Lon!–I had something else before that oh-so-perfect one). I've got pretty dangly silver and shell earrings to wear, and a cute fitted cardigan in case it's just a little chilly out. I went with flats in case my feet hurt from dancing all night 😉 And a roll-up straw visor in case it's really sunny.
Green Max Studio maxi dress. White V-neck cardigan from H&M. Denim jacket, also Max Studio. Gladiator sandals by A.N.A. Rosetti hobo tote. Butterfly scarf from Charlotte Russe. Aviator shades from Express. Earrings from Target (I think–they're old). Roll-up visor from Target.
So those are the planned outfits for the weekend. Minus, of course, the wedding ensemble 😉 That's kinda top secret until afterwards though. Not sure if the other half reads this or not haha!


How are our children doing right now, and how is this changing over time? The MDI tells us so much, but what else is there to learn? Who can we learn it from? How can we be more effective in our goals of enhancing children's social and emotional wellbeing?
We think the time to answer these questions is now!
Register today for Collaborative Action: A National Symposium for Child Well-being in the Middle Years and help us answer them.
This special, two day HELP event – hosted at the University of British Columbia August 20 & 21, 2018 – is designed to inspire, motivate and strengthen participant's leadership skills by focusing on child well-being through a systems-thinking lens.
We are excited to gather together leaders in the field of child well-being from across Canada including Dr. Jean Clinton, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behaviourals Neurosciences, McMaster University, Dr. Mark T. Greenberg, Edna Peterson Bennett Endowed Chair in Prevention Research, Professor of Human Development and Psychology, Penn State, Dr. Michael Ungar, Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University, and our own Dr. Kimberly Schonert-Reichl.
We are also excited to share that we have added Author, International Speaker and Consultant Monique Gray Smith, Superintendent of Schools with the Vancouver School District, Suzanne Hoffman, award-winning television producer and interviewer, and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC, Maria LeRose, Max Bell Foundation Senior Policy Fellow and Executive Director of the Comox Valley Child Development Association, Joanne Schroeder and Tracy Smyth, owner and consultant with Ready to Raise and Senior Editor for Heart-Mind Online with the Dalai Lama Centre for Peace + Education, to our incredible line up.
Day One - Monday, August 20th - focuses on Child Social and Emotional Well-being, generally, providing current research and information about initiatives to promote child well-being, with a particular focus on the middle childhood years.
Day Two - Tuesday August 21st - takes a practical focus, with an interactive workshop demonstrating strategies and tools for using data from the MDI and other sources, as a basis for local decision-making and engagement for child well-being.
• Those with some interest in and/or familiarity with the MDI who may have experience of working with MDI data; or who may have an intention to start using MDI Data in cross-sectoral local decision making.
• Those who come from locations implementing MDI in British Columbia, The Northwest Territories, and MDI National sites, as well as those who have advised us on the MDI National Scale-out Project 2015-2018.
Information to date, including schedule overview, registration fees, registration link and location, can be found HERE.
Posted:May 23, 2018, 12:46 p.m.


A $2 win ticket returned $223 to those who bet this 2-year-old filly, owned and bred by Terry Westemeir of Broken Arrow.
Remington Park is seeking 10 Oklahoma charities to partner with for the next two years.
Danny Caldwell of Poteau is the first owner to have horses win 300 races at Remington Park in Oklahoma City.
Remington Park will debut a new wager on its racing program on Friday. The Sooner 6ix will challenge horseplayers and offer a jackpot payoff if there is only one ticket with six of six correct.
Remington Park's 12th annual Riders Cup Golf Tournament on Sept. 24 will benefit 15 charities.
When Welder was a yearling, owner Clayton Rash of Claremore and trainer Teri Luneack weren't sure he would amount to much. They changed their minds in a hurry and winning the $70,000 Remington Park Turf Sprint Stakes on Friday night did nothing but solidify their opinion.
Remington Park's contribution to the state's education fund surpassed the $200 million mark this month.
The annual thoroughbred horse racing season at Remington Park will include the Remington Bark charity dog event and the Oklahoma Derby Hat & Bowtie Contest.
Remington Park has scheduled a job fair Aug. 6 to fill positions for the upcoming thoroughbred season.
Horses continue to arrive and take up their seasonal residency at Remington Park for the upcoming 2018 thoroughbred season.


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Do You Know Whats Bitcoin and Who Created it?
A pseudonymous software developer going by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto proposed bitcoin in 2008, as an electronic payment system based on mathematical proof. The idea was to produce a means of exchange, independent of any central authority, that could be transferred electronically in a secure, verifiable and immutable way.
What is Bitcoin? Who created it?
Bitcoin can be used to pay for things electronically, if both parties are willing. In that sense, it's like conventional dollars, euros, or yen, which are also traded digitally.
In what ways is it different from traditional currencies?
Just like bitcoin, litecoin is a crytocurrency that is generated by mining. Litecoin was created in October 2011 by former Google engineer Charles Lee. The motivation behind its creation was to improve upon bitcoin. The key difference for end-users being the 2.5 minute time to generate a block, as opposed to bitcoin's 10 minutes. Charles Lee now works for Coinbase, one of the most popular online bitcoin wallets.
Cryptographic keys in the hands of individuals allow for new ownership rights and a basis to form interesting digital relationships. As we've discussed in our guides "What is Blockchain Technology?", "How Does Blockchain Technology Work?" and "What Can a Blockchain Do?", blockchains provide an opportunity to establish a strong system for digital identity.
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The idea of analytics is the gathering, processing, and interpreting of data. The concept of analytics is not new (consider any program you have used that asked to send data back to the developers), but the ready capability to do analytics with web services and cloud computing has made it now more easily available to anyone.
We will focus on the Firebase Analytics (https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/) platform today, specifically looking at some example Android code.
Let's start by trying to create some data. Download the Android Studio project AnalyticsExample, run it, and press some buttons!
Now that you've seen the system in action, what sort of thing can and should we record about our apps?
There are two vectors to consider: who is using the app and what are they doing in the apps.
Let's start with the what. Software engineers call a profile and likelihood of how often certain features are used an operational profile. Operational profiles are incredibly important to manage how you build and maintain an application. Consider features like print and save in a word processor versus mail merge. Some features simply require more attention because they are going to be used extensively. How do you know what parts of your app people use the most? Wouldn't you want to know that? How would you use that data?
Then there's the who. If you could pair the operational profile with info regarding your users, then your development could be even more targeted. What aspects of a person would you be most interested in?
What pieces of data would you want from your app to make it successful?
Between the information we gather through sensors and also through analytics procedures, we need to be fully transparent regarding what we do with users' data.


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The GrindMarch 14, 2017
A Canadian golf boom, kids interrupting things, and Sergio Garcia sings while going wedding cake tasting
Alex Myers
Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we work hard to find a golf angle in things every week -- but sometimes, they just fall right in your lap. Take that viral video of the father being interrupted by his kids while giving a serious interview on BBC:
There's no possible way to relate news of the South Korean President being ousted to golf (Well, actually, one good thing Park Geun-hye did during her time in office was to lift a golf ban involving high-ranking officials…), BUT just a few hours after that made the rounds, this happened on the PGA Tour:
https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/840264604747943936?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
Thank you, universe. And social media. Anyway, here's what else has us talking.
Adam Hadwin: Less than two months after becoming just the eighth man to shoot 59 on the PGA Tour, Hadwin notched his first tour title at the Valspar Championship. He joins fellow countryman Mackenzie Hughes in the winner's circle, and it will be the first time since 1968 that three Canadians (Mike Weir is the other) will play in the Masters.
Mike Lawrie
And yes, Hadwin will play despite that being the week he was supposed to be in French Polynesia for his honeymoon. Hadwin also qualified for the WGC-Dell Match Play, but he'll skip that event for his wedding. Sounds like a fair compromise.
Patrick Cantlay: Cantlay was a can't-miss prospect (He's the guy who shot 60 – yes, 60! – during a PGA Tour event as a 19-year-old amateur) until back problems derailed his career. But after sitting out for 27 months (a full year longer than what Tiger Woods sat out before returning in December), Cantlay, who turns 25 on Friday, finished second in just his second event back. He was disappointed to bogey the final hole, but he'll be back -- especially after earning enough money to earn his PGA Tour card.
Keith Mitchell: Another great story involved the PGA Tour debut of this 25-year-old University of Georgia product. The Web.com Tour pro Monday qualified for the event (actually getting into the field through a Tuesday morning playoff), eagled his first hole and never looked back, tying for 11th. The only negative? The cameras didn't catch that eagle.
Arnold Palmer tributes: There will be more this week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, but what we've seen so far is fantastic. A mural being painted at the Valspar:
https://twitter.com/GolfweekBRomine/status/839964043079266304
A statue being unveiled at Bay Hill:
https://twitter.com/JasonSobelESPN/status/841297997443059712
And how about this MasterCard commercial?
https://twitter.com/Mastercard/status/841295620375736322
Sorry, we should have warned you to have a box of tissues handy.
WE'RE SELLING
Players not at Bay Hill: Only 10 of the top 25 in the Official World Golf Ranking are teeing it up this week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Less than six months after The King passed away. "Disappointing," is the way Billy Horschel described it and I agree. Yes, the schedule is busy, but guys couldn't fly in for just a day to pay their respects? Sorry, but it doesn't look good.
Masters Par 3 getting selective: According to the Associated Press, honorary invitees (past champs of other majors more than five years removed from their wins) will no longer be allowed to tee it up in Wednesday's Par 3 Contest. This is not that big of a deal -- except to those who usually play like Ian Baker-Finch, who called it his "favorite day of the year." How can they say no to this face?
Chris Condon
This golf fight: Or rather, this golf "fight."
Not that we needed another reminder, but golfers are lovers, not fighters.
The PGA Tour finishes the Florida Swing with its first trip to Bay Hill since Arnold Palmer passed away in September. It promises to be a somewhat somber occasion, but it's also a chance to reflect on the life of golf's greatest ambassador.
Random tournament fact: Arnold Palmer never won at Bay Hill. Make that, he never won a PGA Tour event there. The King – and everyone there – won every time he set foot at the club.
RANDOM PROP BETS OF THE WEEK
-- A Canadian will win the Masters: 100-to-1 odds
-- The winner of the Masters Par 3 will win the Masters: 1 MILLION-to-1 odds
-- Somewhere Arnie is pulling for Wake Forest in the NCAA tourney: LOCK
VIRAL VIDEO OF THE WEEK (TRICK SHOT DIVISION)
Watch this dude smash a drive 276 yards – with his PUTTER:
https://twitter.com/theclub/status/841220783347245056?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
Probably puts your "career drive" to shame, huh?
"How am I going to drink and smoke if I don't play golf?" – Charles Barkley on why he doesn't quit the game. OK then. . .
https://twitter.com/littleJRmaza/status/841492626352168960
Psst: You can afford another TV, Jon.
THIS WEEK IN DUSTIN JOHNSON-PAULINA GRETZKY SERGIO GARCIA-ANGELA ATKINS PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION
These two lovebirds managed to turn wedding cake tasting into an impromptu music video:
THIS WEEK IN BELEN MOZO MAKING US FEEL BAD WITH HER TRAINING
Another day, another crazy exercise routine for this LPGA Tour pro:
And apparently, she also has a professional photographer following her at all times:
Muirfield's second vote to allow women members passed, meaning the course is part of the Open rota again. Welcome to the 21st/20th century, guys! . . . A new beer bong in the shape of a golf club is now available:
I haven't had the opportunity to test the product yet, but the "Big Beertha" is a fantastic name. . . .
And as per tradition, my wife made me this incredible cake for my birthday. This year I also took a photo of all the candy wrappers used to create it:
She also got my hopes up and nearly convinced me I was only turning 34. But I did the math and 1982-2017 comes out to 35. Oh well.
RANDOM QUESTIONS TO PONDER
Will more Big Berthas or Big Beerthas be sold in 2017?
When will I toss my bracket in the trash?
How many calories are in that cake?


And this is how Price has entered the pantheon of design, taking cups and embellishing them with snails, making them look like turtles or other creatures. Price had brought clay into new horizons, creating abstracted, geometric sculptures that are brilliantly glazed and painted, result of labor intensive, involving multiple firings and layers of glazed color that became his signature. The installation of this show was designed by one of Price's closest friends, Frank O. Gehry, who worked closely on the show with the artist.


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Prepare a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
Add the peanuts, sugar, corn syrup and water to a heavy bottomed pot and heat over medium-high heat.
Heat, stirring constantly until the sugar and peanuts are a caramel brown.
Remove the pot from the heat and add the butter and vanilla extract, stirring until the butter is fully incorporated.
Pour the mixture onto the prepared baking sheet, and spread it out so there are no mounds of peanuts.
Let this cool completely and then sprinkle with the salt.
Break up the peanut brittle, and store it in an airtight container.


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