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Vertebrate Zoology: more books (100)
Vertebrate Life (8th Edition) by F. Harvey Pough, Christine M. Janis, et all 2008-09-15
Hyman's Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
Vertebrate Zoology: An Experimental Field Approach by Nelson G. Hairston, 1994-06-24
Vertebrate Endocrinology, Fourth Edition by David O. Norris, 2006-12-11
The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates, 3 Volume Cased Set With Poster Book by R. Niewenhuys, 1998-01-15
Analysis of Vertebrate Structure by Milton Hildebrand, George Goslow, 1998-03-13
Functional Morphology of the Vertebrate Respiratory Systems (Biological Systems in Vertebrates, Vol. 1) by J. N. Maina, 2002-08
Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates by George Kent, Robert Carr, 2000-08-21
What Is a Vertebrate? (Big Science Ideas) by Bobbie Kalman, 2007-10-15
Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates: An Evolutionary Perspective by Karel Liem, William Bemis, et all 2000-12-18
Labs for Vertebrate Zoology: An Evolutionary Approach by Erik W. Gergus, Gordon W. Schuett, 1997-08-01
Illustrations of Comparative Anatomy, Vertebrate and Invertebrate, for the Use of Students in the Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy by University of Cambridge. Zoology, 2010-01-09
The Development of the Vertebrate Skull by Gavin, Sir De Beer, 1985-07
Major Transitions in Vertebrate Evolution (Life of the Past)
Museum Of Vertebrate Zoology
Research institute holding large research and teaching collection of terrestrial vertebrates, including Category Reference Museums Science BiologyFounded in 1908 by a gift to the University of California from Miss Annie MontagueAlexander, the Museum of vertebrate zoology is a center for research on
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/mvz/
Extractions: F ounded in 1908 by a gift to the University of California from Miss Annie Montague Alexander, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology is a center for research on, conservation of, and education in terrestrial vertebrates. Our collections of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals are among the largest in the United States and our University setting has made the Museum one of the premier centers for the education of undergraduate and graduate students in vertebrate biology throughout our 90-year history. Under the successive leadership of eminent naturalists and evolutionary biologists, starting with Joseph Grinnell, the Museum's program has focused continually on evolutionary biology from the perspective of ecology, behavior, morphology, population biology, and genetics. B ecause the Museum was founded with the philosophy that organisms should be studied in relationship to their natural environments, the specimen collections are supplemented by extensive field notes, maps, photographs, and correspondence which enhances their value to researchers. The Museum's collections thus grew as a direct, material manifestation of the activities of its students and staff, academic and nonacademic. Field activities of those associated with the Museum over the decades have extended to the far-flung corners of the globe, but have primarily centered in western North America, Mexico and Central America, western South America, central Asia, and east Africa. The collections reflect this geographic scale.
Museum Of Vertebrate Zoology Data Access
Museum of vertebrate zoology Data Access. University of California, Berkeley
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/mvz
Extractions: This site provides access to data and images in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology collections. Data are refreshed weekly. We are constantly updating taxonomy and checking specimen identifications and associated information, but outdated names, mistaken identifications, and erroneous localities inevitably occur. We urge investigators to verify all data by direct examination of the specimens, and we appreciate notification of discrepancies. MVZ data records may be used by individual researchers or research groups, but they may not be repackaged, resold, or redistributed in any form without the express written consent of a curatorial staff member of the MVZ. If any of these records are used in an analysis or report, the provenance of the original data must be acknowledged and the MVZ notified. The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology or its staff is not responsible for damages, injury or loss due to the use of these data. Questions and comments about this site should be sent to mvz@elib.cs.berkeley.edu
Museum Of Vertebrate Zoology - Collections
Searchable database of specimens, including over 50000 tissue samples for use in molecular analyses.Category Science Biology Zoology ChordatesSpecimen and archival collections of the Museum of vertebrate zoology,University of California, Berkeley. The MVZ collections
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/mvz/collections/
Extractions: T he MVZ collections form the core of the Museum's research, conservation, and education programs. The collections, which number approximately 630,000 specimens, constitute a unique and permanent record of the past and present distributions of many terrestrial vertebrate species. Taxonomic and geographic representation of specimens reflects current and past research interests of the Museum's faculty, staff, and students. The historic emphasis on collecting series of specimens that serve as the bases for studies in evolution, morphology, behavior, ecology, and population genetics continues to the present. T he Museum also houses a collection of over 40,000 tissue samples for use in molecular analyses. The majority of these were taken in conjunction with voucher specimens which can be referred to for verification of results. C omplementing these collections is an extensive archive of photographs, correspondence, and field notebooks that date to the Museum's founding in 1908. These materials contain information about specimens and changing environmental conditions, primarily in California and the western United States, that is not recorded on specimen labels or catalog cards. Click here for MVZ collection policies and documents.
Zoology Lab
Photographs taken during vertebrate zoology Laboratory class at Saint Leo University, by Dana Groulx, a biology major.
http://home.earthlink.net/~llama
Extractions: Saint Leo University Vertebrate Zoology Lab Fall 2001 My name is Dana Groulx and I'm a Biology Major at Saint Leo University I took some pictures to remember the fun I had in lab. Here I am removing a dead kitten fetus from our cat. We named our cat Lucy. The other cats were male. Dr. Schneider asked me to cut out the fetus to show to the other students. I gladly complied. I love dissection lab. I love it a little too much. I scare the other students. Click here for miscellaneous lab photos. Click here for more photos of Lucy. God Bless Us, Every One.
Vertebrate Zoology Home Page
Offers links to both course specific materials and a selection of related resources.
http://www.lions.odu.edu/~kkilburn/vzhome.htm
Extractions: Organizations To understand vertebrate evolution we must also have at least a basic understanding of how the earth itself has changed over geologic time. And that's easier with pictures to accompany written descriptions. So, to help you acquire a good set of mental images as well as the written material, check out UCMP Web Time Machine from UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology provides easy navigation and good background on what was happening at different times during the erath's history.
AMNH : Division Of Vertebrate Zoology
Division of vertebrate zoology Mammalogy Herpetology Ichthyology Ornithology
http://research.amnh.org/vertzoo
Vertebrate Zoology (BSCI 4/5/70556)
vertebrate zoology (BSCI 4/5/70556) Instructor Dr. Mark W. Kershner Room 251 Cunningham Hall; Phone 6722738 Office hours Tuesday 200-330pm; Wednesday 1100am 1230pm; or by appointment.
http://dept.kent.edu/biology/courses/40556.htm
Extractions: Vertebrate Zoology (BSCI 4/5/70556) Instructor: Dr. Mark W. Kershner Room: 251 Cunningham Hall; Phone: 672-2738 Office hours: Tuesday 2:00-3:30pm; Wednesday 11:00am – 12:30pm; or by appointment. Required Text: Vertebrate Life th Edition) by Pough, Janis, and Heiser Click here for lab syllabus Jan 19 – Feb 7 Lecture Text, Part 1 – Vertebrate Diversity, Function, and Evolution; pp. 2-153 Feb 9 Discussion To be announced… Feb 11 EXAM 1 Part 1 Feb 14 – Mar 3 Lecture Text, Part 2 – Aquatic Vertebrates: Fishes; pp. 154-261 Mar 6 Discussion To be announced… Mar 8 EXAM 2 Part 2 Mar 10 – Apr 5 Lecture Text, Part 3 – Terrestrial Ectotherms: Amphibians and Reptiles; pp. 262-485 Apr 7 Discussion To be announced… Apr 10 EXAM 3 Part 3 Apr 12 – May 1 Lecture Text, Part 4 – Terrestrial Endotherms: Birds and Mammals; pp. 486-733 May 3 Discussion To be announced… May 5 EXAM 4 Part 4 This course will introduce you to the evolution, systematics, physiology, anatomy, ecology, and behavior of vertebrate organisms, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds. (Note: our coverage of birds will be limited given that Ornithology is taught each Spring at Kent State.)
Marietta College - Vertebrate Zoology
vertebrate zoology Homepage
http://www.marietta.edu/~mcshaffd/vert/vert.html
Extractions: Vertebrate Zoology Homepage Vertebrate Zoology Biology 222/223 Syllabus (pdf) Schedule (pdf) Zoology Home Page Lab exercises Note: Some of the documents available on this page are provided in 'pdf' format. If the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in is not installed on you computer, it can be obtained from the following web site. Learn about the Zoology/Ecology lab and field facilities here.
NMNH Vertebrate Zoology Page
vertebrate zoology is the study of animals with backbones.
http://nmnhwww.si.edu/departments/vert.html
Extractions: Vertebrate Zoology is the study of animals with backbones. Research in the department covers fishes amphibians, reptiles birds , and mammals The department holds the largest collection of vertebrate specimens in the world, including historically important collections from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Research in the department provides a solid foundation of understanding for government agencies, conservation organizations, and individuals involved in fish and wildlife management. Zoologists from two other federal agencies work so closely with colleagues and specimens at the Museum that they are permanently stationed in the building. Specialists from the National Marine Fisheries Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce focus primarily on commercially important fishes, while those from the Geological Survey of the U.S. Department of the Interior focus on amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Since 1972, the department has also included the Marine Mammal Program , which focuses on whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, and sea lions. Working closely with federal, state, and local governments, Museum staff study stranded animals as well as those taken by commercial fisheries. These observations help shed new light on the population sizes, distributions, eating habits, and reproductive patterns of these rare animals. Director: James Mead.
vertebrate zoology is the study of animals with backbones. Research in thedepartment covers fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/vert/
Vertebrate Zoology At The Smithsonian Institution
vertebrate zoology at the Smithsonian Institution.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/gopher-menus/VertebrateZoologyattheSmithsonianInstitution
Summary For Mvz
Monthby-month Summary for Museum of vertebrate zoology. Back to DatabaseQuery Statistics. Last updated Sun Mar 16, 2003 014542 PST,
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/webstats/mvz/summary.html
Welcome To The Australian Museum Research Library
Vertebrate and invertebrate zoology and taxonomy, anthropology, earth and environmental sciences, materials science and museology.
http://www.austmus.gov.au/research_library/index.htm
Dynamic Directory - Science - Biology - Zoology - Chordates
Museum of vertebrate zoology Collections Searchable database of specimens, including over 50 000 tissue samples for
http://www.maximumedge.com/cgi/dir/index.cgi/Science/Biology/Zoology/Chordates
Extractions: Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates - A major educational and research resource with more than 1.5 million specimens. Sections on ichthyology, herpetology, ornithology, and mammalogy. Infrared Zoo - Uses infrared photography to show the differences between warm and cold blooded animals and how animals use fur, blubber, and feathers to insulate themselves. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Collections - Searchable database of specimens, including over 50,000 tissue samples for use in molecular analyses. The Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology - The oldest scientific association devoted to the study of terrestrial vertebrates in the Pacific Northwest. Organization information, online publications, and reference material about biota of the region. UC Berkeley: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Data Access - Provides access to data and images in the collections.
http://shanana.berkeley.edu/mvz/
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Zoology
FAQs vertebrate zoology Kids' Castle web site for ages 816. Arctic Wildlife Portfolio,Birds, Mammals, Sea Mammals. Department of vertebrate zoology at NMNH.
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmnh/zoology.htm
Extractions: about Arctic animals Careers in Biology, Conservation, and Oceanography ... Magazine Birds: Suggested Reading on Birds Passenger Pigeon Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History ... On A Wing and A Prayer: Migratory Birds of the Americas Canines (Family Canidae): Wolves, Reading List Cats (Family Felidae): Cheetah Conservation Station at the National Zoo Great Cats at the National Zoo Tigers, Reading List Fishes Aquaria and Goldfish Culture Reading List Fishes: List of References on Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History Expedition to Galápagos! ... Spencer Baird and Ichthyology at the Smithsonian 1850-1900 Giant Mammals Elephants Asian Elephants at the National Zoo Suggested Reading List The Malaysian Elephant Satellite Tracking Project Horses: Famous Horses Marine Mammals Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses, Reading Lists
The Milwaukee Public Museum - Vertebrate Zoology
vertebrate zoology Department. vertebrate zoology is the study ofanimals with backbones. The Museum has collected these animals
http://www.mpm.edu/research/vertzoo/vertzoo.html
Extractions: Contact Us Vertebrate Zoology Department Vertebrate zoology is the study of animals with backbones. The Museum has collected these animals since the late 1800s to document the tremendous variety of animal life on our planet. Today, Museum vertebrate zoologists center their research on the classification, evolution, natural history and ecology of animals with an emphasis on documenting biological diversity. Allen M. Young Ph. D.
Milwaukee Public Museum - Vertebrate Zoology Section
vertebrate zoology Section. VZ Section Staff. Birds. Fish. Reptilesand Amphibians. Mammals. MPM Home Page Collections and Research.
http://www.mpm.edu/collect/vert.html
B3405 Vertebrate Zoology - TAMUK
Biology 3405 vertebrate zoology. Here are a few of the more important Internetresources for vertebrate zoology. Texts Pough, Janis and Heiser, 2002.
http://users.tamuk.edu/kfjab02/Biology/Vertebrate Zoology/b3405.htm
Extractions: Biology 3405 - Vertebrate Zoology Course description : Anatomy, classification, and natural history of the vertebrates; methods of collecting, preserving, and identifying local vertebrates. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the identification, systematics, life history, anatomy, and adaptive strategies of the vertebrates and to expose them to field techniques used in their study. Office Hours: 2-4 W; 10-11, 2-3 TTh; or by appointment. University duties, such as committee meetings, may prevent me from being in my office. I will also usually be available in the laboratory (BES 103) 2-4 M and 2-4 F. If you have any questions or concerns, please talk to me before or after class or phone me at the office for an appointment. THE INTERNET: You should visit this website regularly for further information, outlines, handouts, and links to other sites of interest. Here are a few of the more important Internet resources for vertebrate zoology Texts Pough, Janis and Heiser, 2002
Vertebrate Zoology Fall 1999 Test 1
vertebrate zoology Fall 1999 Exam 1 Darwin's finches represent a good exampleof convergent evolution; punctuated equilibrium. sympatric speciation.
http://users.tamuk.edu/kfjab02/Biology/Vertebrate Zoology/b340599t1.htm
Extractions: Vertebrate Zoology Fall 1999 - Exam 1 Darwin's finches represent a good example of convergent evolution punctuated equilibrium. sympatric speciation. adaptive radiation. phyletic gradualism. homologous, analogous homologous, homologous analogous, analogous analogous, homologous Production of uric acid by many reptiles and birds is advantageous because uric acid can be secreted via salt glands. uric acid can be excreted with less water loss. uric acid is very soluble in water. uric acid may be derived from metabolic water. Production of uric acid by many reptiles and birds is advantageous because uric acid is more easily produced in vertebrates that have long Loops of Henle. uric acid requires much less energy to produce than urea uric acid requires much less energy to produce than ammonia uric acid can be stored safely within an egg According to the binomial system of nomenclature, the Aedes in Aedes vexans refers to the species. genus. family. class. The goal of systematic studies is to arrange animals into monophyletic groups polyphyletic groups paraphyletic groups outgroups Tunicates or sea squirts are members of the chordate subphylum Urochordata Cephalochordata Enteropneusta Pterobranchia Hemichordata The thyroid gland of humans is homologous to the of members of the subphylum Cephalochordata.


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Kishi Bashi
Omoiyari
On Omoiyari, Kishi Bashi presents us with one of the most captivating concept albums of the decade.
Perhaps I am very biased since I'm Asian-Canadian, a violinist and can personally connect with this album, but I do think the subject matter that an album like Omoiyari deals with is not something you see or hear from often.
So my late grandfather had always been an important figure to me while growing up. Though he was a very flawed man, the memories I share with my grandpa are everlasting and I keep them all deep inside my heart! He had a short temper, but he was a very happy old man. I didn't realize just how much he loved and cared for me until he left my life.
He would tell stories about his childhood, and hearing these stories always made me feel bad and grateful for what I have. My great grandparents moved to Canada in the 1910s. For them to even immigrate to Canada, they had to pay a head tax and Chinese immigrants were the only people in Canadian history to have to pay this tax. My grandfather was born in Canada and only learned how to walk when the Great Depression hit, putting him and my great grandparents in the streets. He never went to school and was occasionally beat up by other kids in the streets for his race, culture and skin tone.
Things ended up getting better. My family made enough money in their small fishing business by the Pacific Coast to sustain themselves. Then, with the outbreak of WW2 and the Americans declaring war on the Japanese, in 1942, my grandfather and his parents were mistakenly identified as Japanese immigrants. They were all detained and sent to a concentration camp. My grandfather was celebrating his 14th birthday when this all happened and everything was taken away from him.
They spent the next 7 years working in the unsanitary and rough conditions of the camps and in eastern farms. In the end, they learnt that the little business property they had once owned was no longer theirs, and nothing could be done to get it back. My grandfather also never got to see his sister ever again.
I was 7 years old when my grandfather told me all about this. I asked him how he ever managed to cope with this harsh reality. He told me, in Mandarin Chinese, "The chances that a human would take to find beauty in the worst of circumstances is what makes it all worth it. In the end, I learned to accept the reality and move forward." Then, he told me another story.
On the same night that he found out his younger sister was raped and killed by another detained Japanese man in the camp, he befriended a little cockroach that he found lurking in his tent. As a child who was still finding out the realities of the world around him, he imagined that his younger sister came back to him cause she loved him so much. As a 15 year old who had to work long shifts in the camp, he brought his cockroach friend along and sang old Chinese folk songs while working. When food was served, he saved the last few tastiest pieces for his little critter friend. At night, he put his cockroach in a little glass jar and sang until it looked like it was well rested/asleep to the naked eye. He promised his little pal that if they never see each other again, they would at least be better off. My grandfather and his family were forced to relocate several times. One day, my grandfather, at the age of 21, received the news that they were no longer being detained and hurried excitedly to tell his parents and his cockroach friend that he left in the jar earlier. The cockroach was gone.
Omoiyari's subject matter deals with the infamous history of Japanese internment in North America. However, rather than highlighting the horrific, dark and stomach-churning aspects of this cruel part of history, Kishi Bashi instead takes a more captivating, admirable approach, referencing the great achievement of resilience during times of suffrage. Omoiyari showcases colorful, gorgeously assembled instrumentation alongside well crafted songwriting and an atmosphere of beauty. Some tracks may outshine others instrumentally or in Kishi Bashi's songwriting, but it's an album that flows effortlessly.
It's quite a cute album too. In a way, it's like the childhood innocence that lays hidden underneath the realities of human cruelty. Perhaps this is how my grandfather dealt with the horrors. He let his innocence roam free in a world that was actually physically and mentally tearing him down.
I do think this is an important album. In a world filled with cruelty, where people bring each other down and there's little room for sympathy, it's great to hear exceptional gems like this from time to time. It really reminds us that our world, no matter how flawed, is a good place and we should cherish it.
Thank you Kishi Bashi. Thank you grandpa. These are the moments I will never forget.
ACreativeName
rly cute review tbh
Shit, this made me cry a bit. Wow. Bit lost for words after reading
KIDWITHGUNs
My god. You are on fire
*sniff* Oh my gosh, I could just hug you right now. It's so effing beautiful how much music impacts us like this.
Kengoji Ultam
Thanks for the comments everyone! I was debating on whether or not I should review this for a while now. It really struck me personally.
@thomasny18 Sorry I made you cry
@Plats you can give me a virtual hug if you want. :)
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What Writing Can Tell Us About the Arabs before Islam
Posted on April 27, 2016 by Christopher Rose
Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Guest: Ahmad al-Jallad, University of Leiden
http://dase.laits.utexas.edu/media/not_even_past/mp3/100531801.mp3
In most world history survey courses, Arabia is introduced for the first time only as backstory to the rise of Islam. We're told that there was a tradition of oral poetry in Arabic, a language native to central Arabia, and that the Qur'an was the zenith of this oral tradition. New evidence, however, suggests that Arabia was linguistically diverse, that the language we've come to know as Arabic originated in modern day Jordan, and that the looping cursive writing system that's become the language's hallmark wasn't the original system used to write it. What to make of all this?
Guest Ahmad al-Jallad has spent the past several summers digging in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, uncovering new inscriptions thousands of years old, and shares his research that's shedding new light on the writings of a complex civilization that lived in the Arabian peninsula for centuries before Islam arose.
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Denver, CO — If you're over 65 and notice that you're trekking to doctor appointments more frequently than you used to or your medicine cabinet is growing increasingly crowded, you're not alone.
Most of us have accepted the reality that our bodies need more care and attention as we age, and so we dutifully do all the things we think we should to help maintain our health and independence for as long as possible: see our doctor regularly, take our medications as prescribed, try to eat a healthy diet and so on. The hope, of course, is that choosing a healthy lifestyle will let us do more of what we love and also avoid the fate so many of us dread: winding up in the hospital hampered with a serious health condition.
But according to new research, steering clear of the hospital could have a lot to do not just with your lifestyle choices but also your Medicare choices. Turns out, if you opted to sign up for a Medicare Advantage plan last fall during the Annual Enrollment Period, your odds of being hospitalized or needing care in the emergency room are significantly lower than if you chose Original Medicare.
Here's how the study worked: Researchers with health care consulting firm Avalere Health set out to directly compare people enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, which are offered by private health insurance companies, with those who enrolled in Original Medicare.
Because more than half of people enrolled in Medicare have four or more chronic conditions, they were especially interested in understanding how people with chronic conditions fare under each type of Medicare coverage. So they assembled a group of people with at least one of three of the most common chronic conditions in older adults: high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. About half the group were enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans. The other half chose Original Medicare.
The study found that people with chronic conditions enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans had 23 percent fewer inpatient hospitalizations and 33 percent fewer emergency room visits. Not only were they less likely to wind up in the hospital, but they were also more likely to get the preventive care services they needed. Compared to the people in Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage members had higher rates of preventive screenings and tests, including 5 percent higher rates of LDL cholesterol testing and 13 percent higher rates of breast cancer screenings.
The results were particularly promising for people with diabetes. As compared to the study participants with diabetes who chose Original Medicare, those enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans had a 52 percent lower rate of complications and a 73 percent lower rate of serious complications such as leg or foot amputation.
What makes the study findings even more impressive is that people who are at higher risk of being in poor health are more likely to choose a Medicare Advantage plan. The study showed that Medicare Advantage plans had higher proportions of minorities, people of low income and people with disabilities as compared to Original Medicare. People who chose Medicare Advantage also had a 57 percent higher rate of serious mental illness and a 16 percent higher rate of substance abuse disorders.
At this point you might be scratching your head, wondering how exactly Medicare Advantage has such an impact on health outcomes for people with chronic conditions. The Avalere Health researchers chalked the findings up, in part, to Medicare Advantage plans' focus on preventive care, management of chronic conditions, and coordination of care for their plan members. Many Medicare Advantage plans offer extra benefits not available with Original Medicare that are designed to enhance people's health and quality of life, such as disease management and wellness programs, gym memberships and in-home health care.
In short, Medicare Advantage plans tend to put more emphasis on ensuring their members are receiving appropriate care and support when they're healthy and their conditions are under control, which in turn appears to lower the risk of needing more intensive care in the hospital down the line.
Intrigued? You're in luck. Your opportunity to make a change to your Medicare coverage is right around the corner. Let this latest research serve as your motivation to check out all the options available in your area this fall during the Annual Enrollment Period, which begins on Oct. 15. The findings indicate that it would be well worth your time to consider whether a Medicare Advantage plan could be the right choice for your coverage, and your health, in 2019.
Efrem Castillo, M.D., is the chief medical officer of UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement. Serving more than 12.3 million people enrolled in Medicare, UnitedHealthcare is the largest business dedicated to the health and well-being needs of seniors and other beneficiaries.
If you're over 65 and notice that you're trekking to doctor appointments more frequently than you used to or your medicine cabinet is growing increasingly crowded, you're not alone.


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Clark Clifford
American Secretary of Defense
Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford was born on December 25, 1906, in Fort Scott, Kansas, and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He obtained a law degree in 1928 and practiced law in St. Louis, joining the Naval Reserve during World War II. He became assistant naval aide to President Truman in 1945. After the war, Truman appointed him general counsel, in which position he helped draft the legislation which created the Department of Defense in 1947.
In 1950, Clifford left the White House to establish a private practice, representing many large corporations and continuing to advise government officials. He was President-Elect Kennedy's liaison with the Eisenhower administration, and performed many special assignment duties for the Kennedy and Johnson administrations before he was appointed Secretary of Defense in 1968. When Clifford became Secretary of Defense, he supported US involvement in the Vietnam War, advising Johnson against a moratorium on bombing North Vietnam. Once he became Secretary of Defense, however, he publicly called for an end to American involvement in the war, backing Johnson's bombing halt in November of 1968. In 1969, he returned to private legal practice in Washington. Clifford was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor awarded to civilians.


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  line-height: 14px;
}

input[type=checkbox]:invalid + label { color: red; }

input[type=checkbox]:invalid + label::before {
  border-color: red;
}

input[type=checkbox]:checked + label::before {
  content: "✓";
}
<input class="checkboxes" type="checkbox"
 id="capital" name="cap" value="cap" required />
Capital

In the example I'm using the required attribute to make an unchecked checkbox :invalid. Feel free to adjust to your needs, for example with a CSS class instead of :invalid.

A: As connexo mentioned, checkboxes are hard to style and you can replace them entirely. You can also use outline if you really want to keep the actual checkbox but style it red.
Personally, I would use a CSS class and the classList.add or classList.toggle methods rather than styling the elements directly.

const input = document.getElementById('email-input')
input.classList.add('error')

const checkbox = document.getElementById('capital')
checkbox.classList.add('checkboxError')
.error {
  border: 1px solid red;
}

.checkboxError {
  outline: 1px solid red;
}

<input id="email-input" class="account-input"
 type="text" placeholder="Enter Email"
 name="email" required />

<input class="checkboxes" type="checkbox"
 id="capital" name="cap" value="cap" disabled />
Capital

A: Thanks for all your answers. I've manage to fix it!  I discovered that I had deleted several lines in the CSS regarding the label part. Now everything works fine, many thanks!

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MARVEL'S LUKE CAGE Netflix Season 2 Review & Running Episode Commentary Thoughts Breakdown
Posted by Anthony Mango Friday, June 22, 2018
Season 2 of Marvel's Luke Cage is set to premiere at 3am EST on Netflix, and per usual, this post will be documenting my running commentary of thoughts as I binge-watch every episode. I'll be adding notes almost as a stream of consciousness and when everything has concluded, I'll be wrapping everything up with a full season recap and review to see just how good or bad the overall package was and the hits and misses in a Reviewpoint podcast video.
I invite you to follow along and to leave your thoughts in the comments below just the same!
Marvel's Luke Cage (Season 2 - 2018)
SHOWRUNNER: Cheo Hodari Coker
STARRING: Mike Colter (Luke Cage), Rosario Dawson (Claire Temple), Simone Missick (Misty Knight), Alfre Woodard (Mariah Dillard), Theo Rossi (Hernan "Shades" Alvarez), Mustafa Shakir (John McIver / Bushmaster), Gabrielle Dennis (Tilda Johnson / Nightshade), Ron Cephas Jones (Bobby Fish) and Reg E Cathey (James Lucas)
*WARNING: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS BELOW!*
Episode 1 - "Soul Brother #1"
So Luke Cage is a ninja now?
Directed by Lucy Liu? Weird.
LOL at the breakdown of the whole "he's a dark roast" and whatnot
"The selfies, the groupies, the dick pics" - LMAO
He came back again, too. Who is he? I'm guessing Danny Rand. I'm probably wrong.
Shades was one of my favorite characters last season. I hope he keeps up that trend.
LOL at the plastics exchange.
Shades and Mariah are so gross together. Exactly what they should be. Good job, Theo and Alfre.
It's good to see Claire again after missing her for a season. Even though I'd be okay with her getting killed off in order to make room for Jessica Jones and merging the shows to not have a full Jessica Jones season, I do like Claire.
Who is this dude with the car? I can't remember. Am I supposed to be able to remember him?
I really hope this exposition-heavy episode means there's less of a lag for this season. I don't want to be saying AGAIN that 13 episodes should have been cut down to 10....but I'm probably going to have to.
Stephanie's cute.
This young kid working at Pop's is so, so dead.
Cockroach's pitch to Mariah was basically "I'm Black Ya'll" from CB4
"I need my cape." / "Whatever, Power Man." - I liked that
Shades always looks like he's trying so hard to be cool and failing. It makes me laugh.
He fucking dabs!! LOL
Well I'm turning on the subtitles to understand Bushmaster, that's for sure.
Oh fuck. That knife to the eye part was pretty damn brutal.
Episode 2 - "Straighten It Out"
I hope this whole "Judas bullet doesn't matter anymore" thing isn't as cliche as them creating a new thing just the same
"I will deal with him when I'm ready." aka "I will give some resolution to this plotline at least a few episodes in the future. We need to stall.
THE SHORT ARM OF THE LAW. ARTURO IS THE MAN.
The Incident, eh? Yaaaaaaaaay reference! It's sad how little they give us to show connectivity.
Aw :( I wanted more of Arturo.
Old woman wants to give Luke Cage some coffee hahaha.
Obeah Man. Now I want to watch Meet Joe Black.
I feel like if we cut out all the musical performances and lingering shots of Mariah looking at the musicians, we'd cut out a full episode of stalling.
Oh my god, this scene has been like 5 minutes of nothing. It could have been accomplished in 30 seconds. We're only on episode 2 and I'm starting to feel the drag. Pleeease don't be one of those seasons.
Episode 3 - "Wig Out"
Even with the subtitles, I'm having trouble understanding the Jamaicans. I'm glad Shades said the same thing before. Rhaatid.
Whoa. Seet.
Headed elsewhere. Nice.
MORTY. LMFAO. DIP DIP YOUR TOES IN THE CONVERSATION? WTF?!
Worldstar!
I'd eat some piranha.
I heard that Claire's place was a real hole in the wall, but c'mon.
Episode 4 - "I Get Physical"
This show relishes in itself too much and spends WAY too much time taking something that could be done in a minute or so and dragging it out just so the music can tell you what you're supposed to be thinking. When done right, it can be really effective, but this is overboard.
Totally thought the bad news was going to be that Nike dropped the deal because of the Bushmaster video.
Wait a fucking minute, I'm still on episode 4???? This feels like it's not too far off from ending. Are they actually going to have a season where it has multiple mini-arcs instead of one big, over-elongated one? Probably not.
Aaaand this whole legal drama is going to tie up a bunch of time.
Episode 5 - "All Souled Out"
Please don't be what I think you're going to be. Please don't be an unnecessary side story that takes up like 3-4 episodes' worth of time for no reason other than to stall.
Hey there Foggy.
At least they acknowledged that Danny could pay the 100 grand.
You're on time out? Really? Fuuuuuuuuck this dude.
"Who's tougher, you or the green monster?" / "That's not his name." - I appreciate the reference, but why can't you say Hulk?
Episode 6 - "The Basement"
It's 7:45am. I'm starting to get really tired. I hope this picks up and keeps me entertained, because right now, I'm thinking I've got this episode and maybe one more before I start falling asleep.
Hey, Warriors reference.
Shades is the man. Just give him the keys to the kingdom.
I don't know if it's because I'm getting sleepy, or because this is in a real lull, but I have pretty much nothing to comment on.
Episode 7 - "On and On"
Ha. Piranhas. I get it.
Alright, so, theories on Tilda's dad? Seems too easy to go with the cop.
Oh great, let's have the same "You should stop being so focused on Mariah" speech again. It's not like we didn't get the gist of this the last time.
Also, that teeth sucking thing is always on the captions.
That's cold, Shades. Not cool, man.
If you're going to do this shit with the music taking focus and playing full songs every single episode, can you not pick songs that repeat the same goddamn line over and over again? Jesus that got annoying.
Episode 8 - "If It Ain't Rough, It Ain't Right"
Zzzzzzzzz
Wait, did I really just go through a whole episode with nothing at all to say?
Episode 9 - "For Pete's Sake"
Holy shit. I'm actually excited to see Danny Rand. After that terrible season of Iron Fist, it shows how boring this season of Luke Cage has been that I'm excited to see Rand of all people. I'm really disappointed with how slow this is. If it were just a few episodes, I feel like it would be great, but it's just going at a snail's pace.
Oh my god. Can something happen? I hate to sound like someone who comes off wanting action 24/7, but it's not even like these conversations are going anywhere but in circles!! How many times can we have the SAME conversation?
I'm really struggling here. This isn't a show you can binge from 3am until 4pm, and I'm the type of person who usually doesn't struggle too much to stay awake for 24 hours straight.
Black Mariah. Finally, the name pops up.
Way to go both sympathetic and horrible with Mariah. I both feel bad for her and want her to bite the dust.
Here we go again with a repetitive song. Bushmaster. Bushmaster. Bushmaster. Bushmaster. Bushmaster. I get it. His name is Bushmaster. They've said it a million times each episode.
Episode 10 - "The Main Ingredient"
I'm taking a break before this episode begins. I need it. Sorry.
"Power Man and Iron Fist, that's got a good ring to it." - Ha. I get it. References.
Convenient that they just dropped the whole being broke thing out of nowhere. Lame.
TURK! I was waiting on him.
Episode 11 - "The Creator"
So it turns out I actually fell asleep during this episode and had to go back and get caught up. That's how boring I've been finding this. A good way for me to sum things up this season is that while they might do something and then do another thing, almost none of it leads anywhere that couldn't have just been a much straighter line.
Also, fuck yeah, Shades. Take down Mariah. You deserve to rule Harlem.
Episode 12 - "Can't Front On Me"
I really just want this to end. Sorry for not having anything to say. It's the same stuff over and over and over again.
Episode 13 - "They Reminisce Over You"
How is there still a whole episode left?
Oh my god, it's nothing but the resolution of the stuff that should have been solved a long time ago.
How is there still 25 minutes left?
So we just left the whole Bobby thing, and ugh, you know what, screw this. This season was awful. I'm so ready to put it behind me.
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Nag Champa has a sweet, slightly woodsy smell that many people describe as calming, warming, and moist. For some, the smell is reminiscent of jasmine or magnolia flowers, the forest, or even tea.
Long popular as an incense in India, the scent made its way to the U.S. and Europe in the 1970s, when large numbers of Western travelers began to explore that country. Bob Dylan is said to burn Nag Champa at his concerts, as is the Grateful Dead. The smell will be familiar to anyone who's ever set foot into a head shop--or who has hippie parents.
The most famous component of Nag Champa is the champa flower, from the Magnolia champaca tree. Prized in India for its bright yellow color and delicate fragrance, the tree is often planted near ashrams. Indian women have been known to tuck a champa blossom behind their ear, letting the scent escape as their body heat warms the petals. According to some botanists, the tree is so fragrant that its aroma can be detected from several blocks away.
The ingredients of Nag Champa vary by manufacturer. The best-known is produced by followers of the guru Satya Sai Baba in Bangalore, India. The precise ingredients of Satya Sai Baba's Nag Champa aren't available, but the formula is said to include a base of sandalwood and resin from the Ailanthus malabarica tree, known as halmaddi, which gives the incense its distinctive grayish color.
Nag Champa formulas have changed over time as certain ingredients, including Ailanthus malabari resin, have gotten more expensive. Some perfume experts today doubt that Nag Champa actually contains much champa flower, which has become prohibitively expensive.
Nag Champa blends may now include vanilla, cardamom, orange flower, or other scents. The smell has also proved so popular that is available as a perfume oil and in bubble bath, lotion, and candles, all from a variety of manufacturers.
In the West, Nag Champa incense is frequently burned during meditation, or other forms of spiritual practice, perhaps because of its link with ashrams.
The scent is neither masculine or feminine, and so can be a great addition to a personal fragrance. It mixes well with other warm, spicy, herbal or woodsy aromas. Try it as a perfume oil, or in a solid beeswax base blended with other scents.
Nag Champa isn't the only scent to contain champa flowers -- some sophisticated Western fragrances, such as Jean Patou's Joy, contain champa flowers as a major ingredient.
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The proliferation of sensors, smart-connected products (Internet of Things), the measurements they generate (big data), on-demand computing (the cloud), and pattern-finding software (AI) are changing how individuals and organizations interact. New distributed structures challenge established centralized organizations. Boundaries between inside and outside are blurring. And everywhere, more and more of what we do is recorded.
As we design with these new technologies, they offer new tools and new materials on which to work, but they also change the design process and the roles designers play in it.
The information revolution emerged over the last 50 years, as a series of technology waves transformed the way we communicate, do business, and organize our lives. Computers evolved from rarified research tools, to corporate mainframes, to department mini-computers, to personal computers for individuals. The PC made business digital. The Internet connected everything. And smartphones made computing ubiquitous: always on and always connected.
Now we are on the cusp of another technology wave at least as large as the previous waves of the PC, the Internet, and the smartphone. Surprisingly, this new wave does not yet have a commonly agreed upon name. Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls it "AI First," building on the mantra "mobile first" and suggesting that the focus of software design and development, which moved from desktop to mobile, is now moving to AI.2 Siri cofounder Dag Kittlaus has called it the era of "assistants."3 Tech marketers have promised "digital transformation," "social business," and "a smarter planet." The Economist has proclaimed that data will be for the twenty-first century what oil was for the twentieth century—an enabler of new technologies, new products, and new businesses.4 Each of these terms is a lens on the new wave, though none fully describes it.
The new wave is driven by five core technologies, each combining with the others and reinforcing them all.
Sensors — In 2016, about 1.5 billion smartphones were sold, each chock-full of sensors: a touch screen, a camera or two or three, a microphone, moisture sensor, proximity sensor, light sensor, motion sensor, and more. That's a lot of sensors. The huge volumes drive down costs, and the race for features drives up innovation. Most sensors are printed on chips, making them very small, leading to sensors being installed all around us (e.g., 400,000 CCTV cameras in London alone), on us (e.g., activity trackers and smart fabrics), and even in us (e.g., ID chips for pets and blood glucose sensors for people).
IoT — The Internet of Things (also GE's Industrial Internet and Cisco's Internet of Everything) refers to sensors and machines connected to the Internet—everything from your home thermostat to private satellites to your car. In addition to sensors and communications chips, IoT devices contain microprocessors, making them "smart." These "smart-connected products" communicate via the Internet with centralized services, sharing local data with "headquarters" and receiving instructions in return. The centralized services often support continuous monitoring, remote diagnostics, process control, predictive analytics, and soon autonomous operations. Along the way, they also generate a flood of data.
Big data — Measuring has become big business (see also Trend: Resilient Organizations). Three examples: 1) A Nest Learning Thermostat (a special purpose computer) records every change you make to its settings. 2) In the last five years, ~500 satellites were launched; in the next 5 years, ~5,000 will be launched. Currently, each pixel in Google Earth is updated, every ~2 years; in the next 5 years, it may be every 20 minutes. In addition to increasing the frequency of observations, satellite resolution is increasing, too, from 15–30 meters per pixel to 10–30 cm and higher. Satellites generate petabytes of data per year (a million gigabytes). 3) Closer to home, the average car contains roughly 30 microprocessors, 80 sensors, and 100 million lines of code. Each car may generate a terabyte of data per day. With 1 billion cars in the world, that's about a zettabyte of data per day (one million petabytes). Not all of it goes to the cloud. Not yet.
In addition to physical sensors, "virtual sensors" collect oceans of data, too. Pretty much every action anyone takes online is logged. What did you search for? Which link did you click? How long did you stay on a page? That's oceans of data about customers' aggregate choices and your particular activities; all of it, just begging to be analyzed.
The cloud — On network diagrams, engineers represent connections to the Internet as lines to a cloud icon. "Cloud computing" refers to the massive processing and storage resources offered as on-demand Internet services by Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others. Yet again, increases in scale have reduced unit cost—this time driving the marginal cost of computer processing to almost nothing—and have turned processing into a "utility" much like electric power. What this means is that even the smallest startup can spin-up a super-computer-in-the-cloud (i.e., a distributed system with thousands or tens of thousands of cores).
And in turn, it means Amazon, Facebook, Google, and a few others have become "data refineries," with processing power rivaling the U.S. intelligence agencies. All this processing power can be brought to bear to find patterns in big data—if you have the right software.
AI — Artificial intelligence refers to a range of software technologies from common statistical methods to convolutional neural networks, sometimes called machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL). What AI systems are learning is to see and speak—computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP). At heart, AI systems find patterns. That is, they match chunks of data. Recent advances have come not so much from improved algorithms as from the huge amounts of data now available to the algorithms. Self-driving cars work largely because Google and others have collected tons of data on driving, not because of significant breakthroughs in AI software.
All five technologies— sensors, IoT, big data, the cloud, and AI—work together in a larger system, what we might call an "AI platform" or, more prosaically, a "data refinery." Sensors in smart-connected products collect data on their environment, users, and usage. They send data to servers in the cloud. There, vast server "farms" offer high-volume computer processing on demand—low-cost, distributed super-computers that apply software algorithms to find patterns in the data—and improve daily operations.
All of this has changed how individuals and organizations interact.
Such data refineries have been evolving on the web for more than 10 years. Amazon predicts which books you will buy. Facebook predicts which posts you will read. Google predicts which ads you will click. Netflix predicts which movies you will watch. Palantir predicts whether you belong to a gang (and notifies your local police). And a host of finance companies predict the likelihood they will be paid for each transaction, before deciding to approve or decline your next purchase.
Scores — Influence scores abound, not just "likes," "up-votes," and "page-rank," but also your "Klout Score" (aggregated social media status), FICO score (credit rating), "airline miles" (your value to the airline, determining where you sit and when you board), "h-index" (how widely an academic author is cited), and more. Companies even have scores: for example, "Net Promoter" (how likely customers will recommend it to a friend). Now China is taking measurement to the next level, implementing a social credit system, what The Atlantic calls an "algorithmically determined . . . index of [every citizen's] trustworthiness and virtue," which will determine their access to, "well, everything."6 While the system is still in development, already, Chinese authorities are using the social credit score to limit travel.
Digital twins — Data refineries aren't just for tracking consumers (or citizens). They're also for running big businesses. GE has built "digital twins"—software models of its jet engines and steam turbines—using sensor data to predict faults and head off potential trouble with preventative maintenance. GE's smart-connected product systems even enable its customers in the electric power business to "arbitrage" maintenance. A utility may decide to defer maintenance (recognizing an increased cost later) in order to keep a generator online for an impending heat wave (which will raise electric power demand and spike spot market prices)—calculating that the value of the power generated in the heat wave will more than offset the higher maintenance costs. Siemens has a similar platform. IBM is attempting to build one for healthcare. Satellite companies are teaming with commodities traders to monitor the global network of supply chains in order to predict changes in supply and demand—in real time. Of course, governments are interested, too. The U.S. Department of Defense is building One World Terrain, "a single 3D geospatial database for use in next-generation simulations…"—and as a "comprehensive synthetic training environment" (STE).
Smart-connected products — Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter has described "how smart, connected products are transforming competition" among existing businesses—"and creating entirely new industries."7 Porter also explains how individual smart-connected products can link with other smart-connected products in what he calls "product systems," and how product systems can link with one another in "systems of systems." As an example of a smart-connected product, Porter offers a farm tractor (an almost self-driving vehicle). The tractor forms the hub of a farm equipment system, including tillers, planters, harvesters, and more. The farm equipment system is itself part of a large farm management system, which also includes systems for seed optimization, irrigation, weather, and perhaps hedging and trading.
Carnegie Mellon University computer science and HCI professor Jodi Forlizzi has called such systems "product-service ecologies," emphasizing their organic nature and the interaction of many actors in complex networks (see also Trend: Aggregation and Curation).
Platforms — Product-service ecologies, smart-connected product systems, and the larger data economy are built on platforms—systems that leave room for others to add functionality and create value. For example, Apple sells its iPhone platform to customers who download and run apps made by third-party developers. Successful platforms nurture reciprocal relationships. Apps attract users, users attract developers, and developers make apps. More users means more developers, which means more apps—reinforcing the cycle by attracting still more users to the platform.
Platforms often rest on other platforms in a "stack." A Facebook app runs on Facebook, which runs on browsers, which are themselves apps running on an OS, which runs on microprocessors. A Facebook app may also run on phone operating systems, which run on phones. And a Facebook app also runs on a cloud-based "back-end," which has its own stack of platforms (server, database, OS, hardware). All these elements together (and even more to support advertising) comprise the Facebook product-service ecology.
Blurring boundaries — In the data economy, boundaries are not always clear or fixed. Competitors may also be collaborators. Suppliers may also be customers. Employees may also be constituents whose wishes matter. And vice versa.
In an earlier era, producers and consumers exchanged goods for money. Little else was involved. Transactions were mostly anonymous, one-time events. Now, anonymity is disappearing as businesses collect data on every interaction with customers, and one-time transactions give way to ongoing relationships. At the same time, new communications technologies are giving consumers more access to one another and to the people who run businesses, further blurring boundaries between inside and outside. In many cases, a purchase becomes membership in a brand—a decision to join a tribe.
University of California, Berkeley linguistics professor George Lakoff has described two ways of explaining change: "direct causation" and "systemic causation."8 Direct causation focuses locally. Change in X causes change in Y. Much of science and engineering is built on understanding direct causation (e.g., bacteria cause sickness). Systemic causation looks more globally. Change in X may lead not only to change in Y but also to change in Z and A and B and C and a "cascade" of other changes (e.g., trophic cascades, cell-signaling pathways, quorum sensing, and what philosopher Gilles Deleuze calls "rhizomes" of thought and culture). Also, the change in X that led to change in Y may lead back to change in X, in a feedback loop (e.g., penicillin may kill bacteria and increase the resistance of bacteria). Increasingly, the data economy requires us to think systemically and holistically (see also Trend: Complex Problems).
Designer Manuel Lima has described a similar shift in structures of knowledge—from hierarchies (trees) to networks (webs).9 For example, we used to think in terms of org charts (a tree showing who works for whom); now we think in terms of social networks (webs showing the many ways people are connected). We used to think of the "tree of knowledge" (a taxonomy classifying everything we know); now Google is building a "knowledge graph" (a web defining relationships between concepts). Increasingly, the data economy requires us to think in terms of networks and relationships.
Science itself—our preeminent way of explaining things—is undergoing a shift. Sensors, IoT, big data, the cloud, and AI are changing science, too. Data, once scarce, is now super-abundant. Extrapolating from small samples is becoming continuous measurement of everything. Answering simple questions has become multivariate analysis.
The "new science" is less about discovering "universal" laws and more about building models that evolve in real-time as ever more data becomes available. The new science is emerging first in large organizations, because it requires infrastructure. Yet the infrastructure of the cloud will make the new science accessible to small teams and even individuals. In fact, "citizen scientists" have a bigger role to play than ever before (see also Trend: Aggregation and Curation).
What's more, we will all become "Sunday scientists"—performing millions of little experiments on ourselves, as we use the super-abundance of data, cloud computing, and AI-as-a-service to find patterns and improve our health, finances, and happiness.
On the one hand, these tools promise more access more quickly (e.g., as peer review becomes publishing preliminary results). On the other hand, the challenge to central authorities by distributed networks will make discerning fact from fiction increasingly difficult.
The changes in technology that are changing the economy—and changing how we communicate and what it means to make sense—are also changing both what we design and how we design.
We are also grappling with new opportunities. Data is becoming a fundamental resource—a material of design. Software architect Tim Misner has suggested that defining what data will be needed (in order to design the next generation of a product or to evolve a product during operation) will become a key part of the design process. Likewise, AI is becoming a fundamental resource—a material of design. Finding opportunities to find patterns and build models will become a key part of the design process, as well. One result will be new modes of interacting with computers, including interfaces that are more collaborative and more like conversation with people.
How we design — Designers are also recognizing they are enmeshed in the systems they are trying to design. Like natural ecologies, product-service ecologies cannot be "designed" in the traditional sense—they cannot be planned completely in advance by someone at "the top." Rather, designers (and software developers and product managers) must create conditions from which successful platforms and ecologies may "emerge," enabling them to grow over time as many factors interact.
Going forward, designers also face a number of issues related to ethics. We are already grappling with safeguarding data and privacy. What is "informed consent" in this context? Should individuals own all the data their actions generate? Recently, preventing "theft of attention" (incentives that addict users to services) has become something of a cause. Yet, among some designers, "behavior change" is still discussed as an aspiration. Bias in algorithms has also been in the press, along with questions about transparency. What exactly are the algorithms doing? What factors are they using to make decisions? Questions about the consequences of automation and AI rise up occasionally, but with little serious debate. In the United States, 13 million people earn their living by driving. What happens when their jobs are replaced by self-driving vehicles? The need for augmentation (increasing abilities, instead of efficiencies) deserves much more attention.
These and other issues related to ethics will challenge designers in the data economy and require new competencies.
Ashby, W. R. (1956). An Introduction to Cybernetics. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
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On the ergodic capacity of NOMA-based cognitive hybrid satellite terrestrial networks
Xiaojuan Yan, Hailin Xiao, Cheng-Xiang Wang, Kang An
Institute of Sensors, Signals & Systems
The cognitive hybrid satellite terrestrial networks (CHSTN) is regarded as an effective way to enhance the spectrum efficiency as well as mitigate the spectrum scarcity problem. In this paper, we introduce a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme, which has the ability to simultaneously serve multiple users, in the cognitive network to further improve the utilization of radio spectrum. With the help of Meijer-G functions, the analytical expression for ergodic capacity of the considered system is derived. Simulations are provided to show the advantage of introducing the NOMA scheme in the cognitive system and the effects of some parameters on the performance of the considered network.
2017 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC)
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCChina.2017.8330454
Cognitive hybrid satellite terrestrial networks
ergodic capacity
non-orthogonal multiple access scheme
10.1109/ICCChina.2017.8330454
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Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Computer Science 100%
Terrestrial Network Computer Science 66%
Multiple Access Scheme Computer Science 66%
Networks Computer Science 66%
Ergodic Computer Science 66%
Spectrum Efficiency Computer Science 33%
Cognitive System Computer Science 33%
Simulation Computer Science 33%
Yan, X., Xiao, H., Wang, C-X., & An, K. (2018). On the ergodic capacity of NOMA-based cognitive hybrid satellite terrestrial networks. In 2017 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) [8330454] IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCChina.2017.8330454
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Oct 1, 2006 | Africa, Simon and Baker Travel Review, South Luangwa, Zambia | 0 comments
We observed them for over a half hour as they gingerly started to stir and contemplate the need to come down from their perch!
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Overall Impression Tucked in the shade of ancient ebony trees at the apex of a permanent oxbow lagoon, Chindeni was a verdant oasis in the parched immensity of the South Luangwa National Park when I visited in the final weeks of the dry season. Everything about the camp exuded welcoming abundance, from the warm reception of the staff to the comfort of the tented accommodations and the profusion of game around the lagoon. Superb vistas of the Nchendeni Hills filled the horizon. The inviting common areas consisted of spacious, thatch-roofed platforms, raised high above the lagoon, and cleverly designed around the trunk of a giant ebony tree that contributed both a sculptural quality and cooling shade to the structure. It included a long viewing deck that was a perfect place to enjoy an early morning breakfast while contemplating the spectacular sunrise over the hills.
Game viewing at and around Chindeni was exceptional, even within a park reputed for the density of its wildlife. This was in part attributable to the resident guide, James Chabbuka. A Tonga tribesman born on the banks of Lake Karriba, James was a quiet, unassuming man with an intuitive knowledge of the bush. He delighted in uncovering for his guests the most astounding sights that the park had to offer. On my first night's game drive near Chindeni, I was treated to the sight of a rare Pel's fishing owl diving for its supper, then soaring to a nearby tree-top, a sizeable pray firmly clutched in its implacable talons. Shortly after that, we came upon a young female leopard stealthily on her way to her nightly errands.
Then James pointed up to the tree-tops, where two hundred feet above us, a bushbaby, one of the tiniest of primates, barely the size of a squirrel, was traveling through the branches in acrobatic leaps and bounds. But the most thrilling moment of my Chindeni experience was a sight so unusual that it startled even the otherwise unflappable James: in the heavy late afternoon heat, we came across an entire pride of lions sprawled high in the branches of a huge winter thorn tree, obviously in search of a cooling breeze. We observed them for over a half hour as they gingerly started to stir and contemplate the need to come down from their perch!
Class Of Accommodation Upscale tented camp
Handicapped Access No
Length Of Stay Two nights
Location Chindeni was located in the South Luangwa National Park, a three-hour drive from the Mfuwe entrance to the park, on the bank of a permanent oxbow lake.
Manager John Clark
Owners Bushcamp Company, owned and operated by Andrea Bizzaro and Andy Hogg
Size Chindeni occupied approximately five acres within the 3,500 square mile, South Luangwa National Park. It could accommodate up to eight guests in its four guest tents, and employed a staff of eleven.
Transportation Mfuwe could be reached by air from Lusaka and Livingstone. Road transfers to and from the airport were arranged by the Bushcamp company, who owned and operated the camp.
Year Open-Renovated Originally opened in 1998, Chindeni is closed and dismantled each November at the start of the green season. It is rebuilt prior to re-opening in May at the start of the dry season. Building materials and furniture are replaced or refurbished as needed at that time to ensure that the camp remains in perfect condition.
Common Areas The common areas were located in a multi-leveled, thatch-roofed structure built on stilts high above the edge of the water. It included a circular dining space centered on a large round dining room table that could comfortably accommodate eight to ten people. A small bar was tucked to the side. Slightly sloping wooden walkways on either side led to the seating area a few feet to the right and to a long viewing deck to the left. Both offered a panoramic view of the lagoon and the active game population it attracted.
Bathroom The private bathroom occupied the rear quarter of the tent. There was a mirrored vanity with double sinks, a flushing lavatory and a roomy shower stall with hot and cold running water. There were ceramic pump bottles of biodegradable hair and body care products by the sinks and in the shower area, four large dark green bath towels on a wrought iron stand and a laundry hamper.
Room My tent (Number One) was a comfortable 260 square foot walk-in tent built on a hardwood platform, with a front balcony overhanging the bank of the lagoon. Three large screened openings on either side of the tent supplemented the floor-to-ceiling screened opening to the balcony to provide a cooling cross ventilation. A beautifully crafted mahogany partition with built-in storage including an open wardrobe on one side and a dressing table on the other side separated the sleeping area from the private bathroom at the rear of the tent. Other furniture included two queen-size beds canopied with mosquito netting, separated by a bedside table and a large storage chest. The balcony featured a writing desk, two sturdy white director's chairs, and a rocking chair. A small on-site gas generator produced sufficient electricity to operate an electric outlet that could be used to recharge camera batteries as well the electric lanterns that provided lighting inside the tent at night.
Food Meals were timed to accommodate the scheduled game hikes and drives. The food was excellent and varied, with portions generous enough to satisfy the most robust appetite. Early morning breakfast was served on the observation deck prior to the morning hike. It included hearty home-made breads, toasted on-demand over a coal brazier, muffins, several types of jams, juice, coffee and tea. The two main meals were served at the large common table in the dining area: the midday brunch was buffet-style, offering a variety of salads, quiches, and meat dishes. Dinner was around 8:30 pm, served upon return from the nighttime game drive. It was plated and formally served. In addition to the three main meals, mid-morning tea and home made cookies were a welcome break during the morning hike. The sundowner break was a traditional feature of the late afternoon excursions, with a choice of soft drinks, alcoholic beverages and light hors d'oeuvres.
Amenities Chindeni amenities and services included daily laundry. A thermos of hot water and a complete tea and instant coffee service were always available in the room. There were complimentary bottles of water, smoke coils and spay cans of insect repellent in the room. Freshly brewed coffee and tea, soft drinks, local beers and wines and other alcoholic beverages were available in the common areas.
Game Viewing During my stay at Chindeni, I saw: elephant, buffalo, leopard, hippo, Thornicroft's giraffe, Crawshay's zebra, warthog, spotted hyena, yellow baboon, vervet monkey, bushbaby, impala, puku, great kudu, waterbuck, civet, genet, banded mongoose, bushy-tailed mongoose, slender mongoose, Nile crocodile and that amazing pride of tree-climbing lions! Bird sightings included: yellow-billed stork, saddle-billed stork, grey heron, crested crane, red-billed ox pecker, Cape turtledove, red-billed buffalo weaver, Egyptian goose, fish eagle, tawny eagle, Pelt's fishing owl, African hoopoe and black-headed oriole.
Activities Chindeni offered early morning and sunset walks, as well as evening drives in an open-top all-wheel drive vehicle, using a powerful spotlight to view nocturnal animals. Morning and sunset drives could be substituted for the walks by consensus among the guests. In addition to our guide James, all excursion were accompanied by one armed ranger and one assistant carrying a large backpack (if on foot) with bottled water, beverages and snacks.
Other Due to the proximity to wild game, children had to be at least 12 years old to visit the camp.
Cleanliness Excellent
Date Of Last Visit October 2006
ReviewersArticle and photographs by Josette King
Service Excellent. The staff never failed to be on hand with a warm smile, chilled towels and glasses of cool fruit juice to greet the arrival of the Land Rover, whether it brought arriving guests or returned from an excursion. The room was serviced twice a day. Any laundry left in the basket in the morning was returned freshly laundered and ironed in the evening.
Would You Stay There Again? Yes
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