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Researchers from Tel Aviv Propose Long-Text NLP Benchmark Called SCROLLS
Although lengthier texts contain a significant quantity of natural language in the wild, NLP benchmarks have always primarily focused on short texts, such as sentences and paragraphs. Short text classification has consistently been a driving force behind standard benchmarks like GLUE, WMT, and SQuAD. A considerable amount of natural language is produced in the context of lengthier discourses, such as books, essays, and meeting transcripts, as is widely known. As a result, model structures are required to address the computing constraints associated with processing such long sequences.
Researchers from Tel-Aviv University, Meta AI, IBM Research, and Allen Institute for AI (AI2) introduce Standardized CompaRison Over Long Language Sequences (SCROLLS) to tackle this issue. SCROLLS is a collection of summarization, question-answering, and natural language inference tasks that span a variety of topics, including literature, science, commerce, and entertainment.
The Transformer has recently emerged as the most popular framework for deep-learning NLP models. However, one of its flaws is that the Transformer can only handle inputs up to a specific length, and the model's memory and computational requirements increase as this length squares. To address these concerns, the fundamental Transformer has been altered from various angles, resulting in minimalist Transformers, Reformer, and Performer. However, the SCROLLS team found that the evaluation tasks and metrics for these different solutions differed widely from system to system, making it hard to compare the models' capacity to manage long-range text dependencies.
Language modeling perplexity evaluates long-context models, but this metric indicates model sensitivity to local, short-range patterns. The researchers combed through the current literature on long-text tasks. They hand-curated a subset of seven datasets, focusing on those requiring contextualizing and abstracting information from several text parts. The data is subsequently cleaned and translated to a unified text-to-text format, allowing a single model to be evaluated across all datasets. SCROLLS datasets are shown to be significantly longer than commonly used NLP benchmarks.
Hand curated datasets containing naturally long discourses:
GovReport: An executive summary can be generated from a government report
SummScreenFD: A recap can be generated from a given TV show transcript.
QMSum: A query-based summary can be produced given a transcript of an academic, business, or government meeting.
Qasper: Questions about the content of a scientific publication can be answered.
NarrativeQA: Questions regarding the subject of a book or movie script can be addressed.
QuALITY: Given a story or article, multiple-choice questions about the content can be answered.
Contract NLI: Given a legal contract, it is possible to forecast whether or not a legal statement can be "entailed" from it.
The research team then compared SCROLLS to two other basic Transformer models: BART and Longformer Encoder-Decoder (LED). They also constructed a "naive" SCROLLS heuristic baseline by just recycling the starting of the feed as the output and evaluating the outcome. The researchers noticed a few patterns in the model's performance. First, both models performed better when given larger "contexts" or input sequences. BART outperformed LED for a given context length, "suggesting that LED may be under-optimized." By "7 to 10 points," both models outscored the basic heuristic.
Initial baselines, such as the Longformer Encoder-Decoder, show that SCROLLS has much space for development. It's past time to move beyond the single-sentence comfort zone and focus more on Long-Text NLP's under-represented sector.
Details: https://www.scrolls-benchmark.com/
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Ontario School Book Drives
Caribbean Schools
No country can afford to be complacent about illiteracy but it's clear small nations in this part of the developing world are at tremendous risk. Teachers, parents and local governments tell us OneWorld Schoolhouse is making a difference.
In Canada, several well-funded organizations serve aboriginal communities, including Princes Charities Canada, Frontier College, First Book Canada and the Martin Aboriginal Education Initiative. If you are looking to support literacy here at home, we urge you to support these groups.
However, if you want to make a difference in the Eastern Caribbean, please read on.
There is a global crisis around literacy. And every country is concerned about making sure children have access to literacy. I think we have a real social responsibility… to connect as many people globally as possible to help support one another. And when you have people who are determined to make a difference, I think there is a serious chance of driving change.
Sonya White
Here, almost annual hurricanes and a stubborn recession have eliminated most libraries. Not surprisingly, among 15 – 24 year olds – absolute literacy levels have fallen from 87% to 82%.
Date source: UNESCO May 2013
In this landscape, we began in 2011 to donate relevant, recently-used storybooks to schools in St. Lucia, Grenada, Montserrat and Nevis. The goal is to create a library in every school in these countries plus Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Dominica. To date, we've donated over 250,000 books. To review shipments, scroll to the bottom of the page; you'll see both donor and recipient schools.
I think most of us accept that in today's world, knowledge is pervasive and ever expanding… what is needed increasingly more in the real world are people who can think, solve problems, create, innovate, imagine and adapt.
The Rt. Hon. Kenny Anthony, Prime Minister of St. Lucia
RAINFOREST OF READING
By 2013 we realized donated books – even recently, well-written ones – can only arrest the damage. For reading to take root, we needed a compelling idea to re-ignite a love of reading. More than philanthropy, we needed marketing.
So, with the inspiration –and permission of the Ontario Library Association's "Forest of Reading" program – we created the "Rainforest of Reading" Festival in 2013. The festival excites kids, no matter the particular level of reading proficiency. That some parents can't read has not diminish the kids' enthusiasm. In three years, participation has grown from 400 kids in one country to 11,000 in four countries.
The festival depends on three unique elements. First, a personal "passport" for every child. The passports "re-position" books as "destinations". Since most Caribbean kids can't afford to travel – even to the next island – travel has a tremendous appeal. Second, we invite Canadian and/or American authors and illustrators to come down and meet the kids. Third, we hold a massive, noisy and very engaging national, day-long celebration complete with parades and games in open air venue. The combined effect is finely-tuned fun that reverberates in memory all year long.
THE VALUE OF READING
What change can this new generation of readers offer their communities? The answer is: perspective. Research tells us fiction is indispensable to compassion-building, critical thinking, and problem-solving. But crucially, reading fiction gives children – especially those living below the poverty line – a wider view of themselves and the future.
We think our reading festivals are innovative for several reasons:
Teachers receive professional development to guide them through the process and explain best practices. Reading occurs simultaneously in every classroom.
Rainforest of Reading passports are proof that a child belongs to the world of stories. Children respond in word and pictures to 12 books. Answers enable "accountable talk".
We immerse kids in the idea of stories by bringing authors and illustrators to run workshops with kids.
Being a citizen of the Rainforest of Reading creates an immediate sense of belonging for all readers and a vital link to the wider world of other readers.
To browse all festivals by year or country click on the Rainforest of Reading logo at the top of this page.
HOW WE ARE BUILDING SUSTAINABILITY
We are building sustainability by:
working in co-operation with local governments.
identifying "champions". In St. Lucia, Governor General Pearlette Louisy, is our Patron and is an advocate for literacy renewal.
engaging business people, parents and local Peace Corps volunteer at festival celebrations.
measuring success. On Day One of the festival all teachers record an anonymous student survey to measure reading habits and attitudes. Annual results are consolidated by grade, school, and country. Data is given to all Ministries of Education.
maintaining a volunteer program that brings Ontario primary school students to help at festivals each year.
Our annual budget ($225,000) is funded through a broad base of individual charitable giving. Financial support from Caribbean businesses pays for much of our on-site expenses.
No one at the foundation draws a salary; we're 100% volunteer-based. You can view our most recent financial statements at: Canada Revenue Agency
FUTURE GROWTH
Antigua & Barbuba and St. Vincent & the Grenadines have expressed their desire to join us in 2017. We plan to invite all OECS countries by 2020 but donations dictate the speed at which we can satisfy these goals.
The capacity to be thrilled, the possibility to act on dreams – this is what donated books and Rainforest of Reading festivals bring to its "citizens." Literacy in the Caribbean is as fragile as anywhere in the world. We assume these tourist-based economies are more prosperous than they really are. But being so close to North America these islands are too easily forgotten. We hope you will recognize our work as worthy of your support.
Books Delivered
May 2018 Montserrat / All primary schools 2 Skids / 70 Boxes / 10,500 Books 2,400 lbs / 1,089 kg
May 2018 St. Kitts & Nevis / All Nevis schools 2 Skids / 70 Boxes / 10,500 Books 2,400 lbs / 1,089 kg
Dec 2017 Saint Lucia / Anse-La-Raye 11 Skids / 385 Boxes / 57,750 Books 13,200 lbs / 5,987 kg
Sep 2016 Saint Lucia / Vieux Fort 8 Skids / 280 Boxes / 42,000 Books 9,600 lbs / 4,354 kg
Sep 2015 Saint Lucia / All 13 Skids / 456 Boxes / 68,400 Books 15,634 lbs / 7,092 kg
May 2014 Grenada / All 6 Skids / 218 Boxes / 32,700 Books 7,474 lbs / 3,390 kg
May 2014 Montserrat / All 5 Skids / 180 Boxes / 27,000 Books 6,171 lbs / 2,799 kg
May 2014 Saint Lucia / All 6 Skids / 206 Boxes / 30,900 Books 7,063 lbs / 3,204 kg
Jan 2014 Saint Lucia / All 5 Skids / 187 Boxes / 28,050 Books 6,411 lbs / 2,908 kg
Jun 2013 Grenada / All 2 Skids / 84 Boxes / 12,600 Books 2,880 lbs / 1,306 kg
May 2013 Saint Lucia / All 3 Skids / 98 Boxes / 14,700 Books 3,360 lbs / 1,524 kg
Mar 2013 Grenada / All 6 Skids / 200 Boxes / 30,000 Books 6,857 lbs / 3,110 kg
Sep 2012 Saint Lucia / All 7 Skids / 240 Boxes / 36,000 Books 8,229 lbs / 3,732 kg
Numbers to Date
Total Books Delivered
Total Shipped Weight
401,100 Books 91,679 lbs / 41,584 kg
Life is too deep for words so don't try to describe it, just live it.
Author, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Philosopher, Psychologist (1842-1910)
Find 52: The Road to Reading in Grenada
In February 2015, Richard ran right around Grenada, a distance of 52 miles. 52 "Mile Captains" raised $40,000.
If we want to make this world a better place, then we have to become better ourselves. There is no easy route.
If you get the right [words] in the right order, you might nudge the world a little.
Sir Tom Stoppard
And the Winner in Montserrat is....
Marlaina White (Left) announces the Second Annual Rainforest of Reading Award to Illustrator Jan Dolby (Middle) and Author Joyce Grant for "Gabby."
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child to cross...that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
MARTIN TUPPER
Author (1810-1889)
Reading brings us unknown friends.
Novelist (1799-1850)
The future is always beginning now. Each moment is a place you've never been.
Poet (1934-2014)
Start some kind words on its travels. There is no telling where the good it may do will stop.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Humanitarian, Medical Missionary (1865-1940)
Books packed by kids in Ontario for their peers in the Caribbean travel 1,800 kilometres by road then another 5,275 kilometres by container ship.
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2006)
After reading "Postcards from Outer Space' a student in Montserrat is inspired to be the next Chris Hadfield.
Too many people grow up. That's the trouble with the world.
If you believe what you read...you can, quite literally, believe anything.
Professor, Philosopher (1912-1991)
Challenging literacy development
Although English is the official language of St. Lucia, Krewyol is spoken as much or more outside the classroom.
I read. I travel. I become.
St. Lucian author & 1992 Nobel Laureate
All I know is what I have words for.
It is by acts and not ideals that people live.
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Fidesz: More than a Million Hungarians Sign Anti-Gyurcsány Petition
MTI-Hungary Today 2021.10.04.
More than one million people so far have signed the ruling alliance's "Stop Gyurcsány! Stop Karácsony!" petition launched on Sept. 1 ahead of next year's general election, Fidesz's communications head said on Sunday.
The ruling parties aim to use the petition to reach out to everyone who believes that Hungary should not return to the politics of the past, István Hollik told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio.
Referring to the opposition primaries, Hollik said that because Democratic Coalition leader Ferenc Gyurcsány "hasn't been able to win a general election for a long time now, he's now organized himself a little house championship".
Hollik said the results of the first round of the primaries indicated that "Gyurcsány has again taken over the left", adding that Momentum Movement candidate András Fekete-Győr's last-place finish showed that "the left's attempt to reinvent itself has also failed."
"It's obvious to everyone that Ferenc Gyurcsány is the leader of the left and that there's nothing at stake anymore in the primaries," he said. "The only question is whether the left will field Gyurcsány's wife or Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony as its candidate for prime minister."
Hollik said that whereas the Fidesz-Christian Democrat government had cut taxes for businesses, the leftist governments of the 2000s had raised them. While the left scrapped tax preferences for families and home creation subsidies, the current government will refund a portion of personal income tax to parents raising children next year, he said.
Second Round of the Primaries Might See Political Maneuvering
Now that the first round of the primary elections is behind us, some political maneuvering might start in the second one.Continue reading
On another subject, Hollik said Brussels would not compensate Hungarian businesses for paying European wages. Higher wages are made possible by the performance of the Hungarian economy, through the creation of a labour-based society and only if more and more people have jobs, which leads to growth and consumption, he said.
Hollik said Gyurcsány and his party were in favour of a "united states of Europe" that would end Hungary's sovereignty.
"For us, the EU is just a means to reaching our own national goals," Hollik said, adding that this required a strong Europe made up of nation states, rather than "a new empire".
In connection with a visit to Hungary by a delegation of the European Parliament's civil liberties committee (LIBE) this week, Hollik said the delegation had included several liberal politicians "who constantly attack Hungary". He said that although the EP's rules of procedure prohibited MPs from the member state in question from being a part of such a visit, Momentum's Anna Donath had been part of the delegation.
"They should first follow their own rules before assessing the state of the rule of law in other countries," Hollik said.
Certain Aspects of Rule of Law Deteriorated in Hungary, LIBE Delegation Head Says
The members of the LIBE delegation held consultations with over a hundred people, and heard many opinions and political views, Delbos-Corfield said.Continue reading
He said the delegation had turned down an invitation from the pro-government Civic Union Forum to a presentation on rule-of-law violations during the anti-government protests on October 23, 2006.
In the featured photo illustration (from left to right): Fidesz communications director István Hollik and Fidesz MP László Böröcz. Photo by Zoltán Balogh/MTI
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Quality System Regulation, QSR, är amerikanska federala myndighetsregler som ställer krav på medicintekniska produkter som är avsedda att säljas på den amerikanska marknaden. Reglerna utfärdas av U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) och ingår i Code of Federal Regulations, titel 21.

QSR motsvaras av den internationella kvalitetsstandarden ISO 13485, men skiljer sig på detaljnivå. Den största skillnaden är att QSR är regler utfärdade med lagstöd av en federal myndighet och ISO 13485 är en standard. Det är alltså ett lagbrott att inte följa denna lag , från utveckling via tillverkning till distribution av en medicinteknisk produkt. FDA gör kontinuerliga och ibland oanmälda inspektioner av bland annat fabriker för att säkerställa att alla ingående delar i QSR-kraven uppfylls.

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QSR-reglerna har sin bakgrund i de regler gällande current good manufacturing practices (CGMP) som trädde i kraft 1978. 1990 inledde FDA en revidering av CGMP-reglerna för att lägga till regler till följd av lagen Safe Medical Devices Act. Samtidigt eftersträvades så långt som möjligt överensstämmelse med internationella standarder i form av ISO 9001:1994 och det utkast till ISO 13485 (som är ett komplement till ISO 9001) som då fanns. De nya QSR-reglerna trädde därefter i kraft 1 juni 1997.

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Immigration Issue Sparks American Racism ln Indian Country
This is worth taking the time to read...
-Patricia
Immigration issue sparks American racism
by: Editors Report / Indian Country Today
August 15, 2008.
Perhaps the flare-up of the immigration issue started out more legitimately. Certainly there are serious problems with waves of hundreds of thousands of people entering any country illegally. But like the head of a monstrous snake coming out of a thorny bush, the issue has grown its own nasty viper. Immigration has become the new magnet of American racism.
It's time to recognize this evil trend, and confront it.
From the oh-so-patriotic ''Minutemen,'' with their potential overlap to vigilante violence, to the actual rise in incidents of race crime against dark-skinned Mexican and other Hispanics, the evidence is that a climate of disdain and potential race and/or ethnic hatred is being generated in North America. This is very evident in the type of language and self-definition put up by not-so-unconsciously race-based pundits and politicians.
The issues generated by the inevitable trend to northern migration among people from Mesoamerica and South America are complicated. As usual, the North American mass media is loath to dig too deeply into its roots. Images of Mexican Indians jumping fences and crouch-running across open desert fields permeate the senses while the public is bombarded with way too many ill-informed and ill-conceived reports of major ''threats,'' all designed to keep viewers and readers titillated. Ignorant ire seems to dominate as a result. In this age of super-vigilance, the issue of Mexican Indians coming north in waves of humanity whose bottom line or social safety net has been ripped out is ripe for alarmist warnings by pundits and politicians alike, too many of whom like to charge Mexican and other Latin American migrants with causing all kinds of malignancy to America's economy, culture and social character.
Legitimate debate points include the inherent right of countries to secure their borders; reading the actual impacts of a million new Latin American immigrants per year for the next 20 years on various job sectors, on costs of additional social services, on crime rates and criminal justice systems, very specifically on border communities; and considering what would constitute a humane, fair and sound long-term solution to the situation of the many undocumented migrants already in-country. When these types of questions are thought about rationally and fairly, progress can be made toward resolutions.
Tragically, this is not the trend of the national discourse. Instead, the knives are flying. In the national discourse, the migration north is equated with the threat of terrorist violence, with crime, with all manner of potential diseases and, worst of all, with the threatened disintegration of the national culture. Thus, the proponents of the English-only movement, who perceive the English language to be under assault by, primarily, Spanish, but by extension, all other languages - Native and non-Native - spoken by families in neighborhoods across the United States. In an era when most of the world has already accepted English as the lingua franca of business and science, and at a time when all immigrants to the United States clearly understand the importance of speaking English even though it is difficult for many adults, the rising wave of anti-Spanish language hysteria is indeed troubling.
Racism within the immigration issue is primarily directed at Latin American migrants coming north in search of economic opportunity. The shorthand language used has to do with the sense by Anglo-Americans that the country is changing as so-called Hispanics or Latinos make up an ever-larger proportion of the minority population which, combined with blacks and Asian-Americans, now threatens to become established as the ''new majority'' and make the Euro-American population essentially the minority. Thus one can hear the likes of pundit and erstwhile presidential contender Pat Buchanan bemoan the fact that ''we are losing our country,'' shorthand in this case being that crucial ''we'' and all that such possessiveness implies.
Xenophobia directed at Mexicans has a long history in America. Anglo-America, after all, warred first with Spain and, later, Mexico for a century over more than a third of present-day U.S. territory. Stereotype and racial hatred, ethnic insults (Mexicans as a ''mongrel race,'' etc.) - apparent requirements of war - layered into the social consciousness of Anglo-Americans.
Salient points of this history not told by the conqueror were articulated in a recent New York Times essay by Tony Horwitz. To be faulted for too brazenly bypassing the indigenous perspective, Horwitz recounts accurately that North America's first European explorers and settlers were not English-speaking, but were from Spain. Horwitz: ''Four of the sample questions on our naturalization test ask about Pilgrims. Nothing in the sample exam suggests that prospective citizens need know anything that occurred on this continent before the Mayflower landed in 1620.''
So who led the first confirmed European landing on North America? Horwitz: ''A Spaniard, Juan Ponce de Leon, who landed in 1513,'' more than a century before the Pilgrims, ''at a lush shore he christened La Florida.'' Horwitz reminds us that ''the Spanish became the first Europeans to reach the Appalachians, the Mississippi, the Grand Canyon and the Great Plains. Spanish ships sailed along the East Coast, penetrating to present-day Bangor, Me., and up the Pacific Coast as far as Oregon.''
There is much history - centuries old and some quite recent - that does not enter the national discourse. Fast-forward to 2006, 12 years after NAFTA. It was the North American Free Trade Agreement, memory recalls, which ushered in the Zapatista Army of Indian peoples in 1994. The Zapatistas challenged even the federal army of Mexico militarily, while pointing out that loss of lands was displacing Indian peasants, who were migrating north in droves.
What's the connection? Since the advent of the lopsided, so-called free trade agreement, where U.S. corn and bean producers get to keep their government subsidies while poor and modest Mexican Indian farmers lose theirs, the bottom has fallen out of the regional and local farming villages. While these Indian villages have always experienced poverty, most have been self-sufficient, at least in producing and providing and sustaining from the basic Indian foods of corn, beans and other produce, chicken and pigs, the occasional cattle. That's the traditional Indian homestead for most of southern Mexico, Guatemala and elsewhere among agricultural communities in Mesoamerica and South America. This is the stalwart bastion of the mostly self-sufficient safety net upon which the people have depended for millennia. Indian people, real Mexican Indians - Maya, Zapoteca and other indigenous peoples, with distinct languages and varieties of ethnicity and oral tradition - have been severely displaced and dislocated over the past decade. U.S. trade policy has a whole lot to do with it.
These are the bulk of the millions of new migrants inexorably making their way north. These are the Indian refugees displaced from their lands by the destruction of the old ejido systems, the privatization of water and lands, and the demolishment of a national economy that, up to 10 years ago, could make sense of the ancient Indian agricultural and gastronomic complex of the corn tortilla and the bean, grown and consumed locally and regionally. This is the dislocation of replacing this kind of agriculture - as foundation and safety net of rural peoples - with export-oriented agri-business, such as is more possible in the north of Mexico where, generally, the mestizo and Spanish identity have rolled over most of the Indian consciousness of land self-sufficiency.
The climate of fear and loathing in the United States against this mass of dislocated humanity - a direct result of one-sided trade deals that dismiss the needs of whole regions - is presently fueled nightly most prominently by CNN's Lou Dobbs. Dobbs' program is regularly preoccupied with the troublesome illegality of the northward migration and its growing demographic. Dobbs' reporting is mostly accurate, but his tone and point of view heighten the potential for virulence. With violence against Mexicans and other Hispanics on the rise in the United States, it behooves commentators of Dobbs' caliber to provide the fullest possible understanding of the forces at work that drive so many Mexican Indian people to migrate at this time in history.
Dobbs reports on opinion and impacts in the United States but has yet to wonder on the causes of this constant northbound stream of people, how it originates in the indigenous southern region of Mexico and into Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. And, most importantly, why? Why are these American indigenous people - traditionally attached to their places of origin - so driven these days to pick up and trek north in larger and larger numbers, consistently facing violence, starvation, dehydration and death? What are the conditions they are leaving behind? Who caused those conditions that callously condemn whole peoples to severe economic misery?
We say a better understanding of this complex issue is required before we allow racists to pit good people against good people, as if different mother tongues must necessarily be a source of insult and injury.
This editorial, by Jose Barreiro, originally appeared in Indian Country Today on July 19, 2006 [Vol. 26, Iss. 6]. It received a 2007 Unity Award in Media in the Editorial Writing in the Minority Audience division. The awards are given annually by Lincoln University. The former senior editor of ICT, Barreiro is now director of the Office of Latin America at the National Museum of the American Indian.
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The department was created as part of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers in 1991.
In July 2001, the department set up a Task Force to look at the different challenges India's chemical industry faced as India opened up to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. In February 2002, the Task Force issued its report in which it stated that India faced vital issues within its chemical sector. Such areas of concern were developing infrastructure, setting up of Chemical Industry parks, investing in R&D and modernization, boosting exports and facilitating additional foreign direct investment, achieving economies of scale for increased global competitiveness, reducing energy costs, preserving the sanctity of Intellectual Properties Rights, encouraging value-added products, tackling dumping in the chemical sector, and encouraging joint ventures and collaborations.
 Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, http://chemicals.nic.in.
 Professor B.B. Mohanty, "Should be Welfare Orientated," Mouthshut.com, 2 May 2003.
 "Press Releases," Press Information Bureau, October 2002, http://pib.nic.in.
 United Nations Environment Program, www.pops.int.


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Title Lyrics to Folk Songs, n.d.
Description Miscellaneous folk song lyrics of a variety of nationalities, in particular English, Irish, Scotch, Russian, German, and Bohemian (Czech).
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← 6.7.6 Bug - Move multiple files from one to another directory.
to get rid of problems that my have acculated over the last updates, I built my b2e now totally new - exept the DB, _basic_conf.php and my nn.php files in the root to address the right blogs. No up to then used skins, no up to then used plugins.
Nevertheless my 6.6 Version differs obviously from the demo 6.6. version.
When trying to adapt the bootstrap, delivered in the update package, I could not find a Google Plus fild to add to my user profile. In your demo version there is one entry.
Is this a matter of DB and do I have to manually update DB in certain demands?
@saunders: the screenshots in this page: http://b2evolution.net/man/editing-your-identity are still showing the Chicago skin of version 5, but there you can edit your profile and add as many fields as you need, as is shown in the screenshot attached above.
@mgsolipa thanks for your information. I tried it that way, but I did not get the option "Google Plus" in the drop down list. And checking the `evo_users__fielddefs` I could not find "Google Plus" neither.
Could you please export the actual `evo_users__fielddefs` including "Google Plus" from your DB and post it. So I can import the dump.
Google+ is in there. You can see it listed at 'Users | Settings | User Fields'. It's got an 'optional' setting on it, but I've not got quite far enough into it to understand how you make it appear in the drop-down.
Edit: I just realised why. In my plain vanilla installation, the Google+ field is already on the screen, hence it doesn't appear in the list. Presumably, if I removed it from the page (not yet sure how), it would re-appear in the list.
@chris_of_arabia Thanks for your reply and setting me up to fix it. There really was no entry, neither at Users|Settings|User fields, nor in the Table. But you nudged me to add a new userfield. To do it right I copied the field params from the demo. So now this is fixed.
I was using a clean install of 6.5.0 upgraded to 6.6.0 on my test machine, so all the tables were fresh, complete with the demo data. I'll be curious to see how it goes as soon as I get around to migrating my production site over.


A new project #PRODIGY.kids starts at Helikon-opera. Now young talented artists will perform on Sundays in Pokrovsky hall. Among them there are laureates of such famous competitions as The Nutcracker, The Blue Bird, Grand Piano Competition, students of the best special schools in Moscow.
The support of young talents has always been a priority for our theatre. We are so glad to start the new project, where young artists - pianists, violinists, cellists, clarinetists and many others will participate. We are sure that future stars will be among them, and the stage of "Helikon-opera" will be felicitous and lucky for them.
Especially that young talents have always found appreciation and support in this historical place. The host of the mansion where the theatre is located, Princess Evgeniya Glebova-Streshneva-Shakhovskaya has always paid great attention to the support of the education and to the charity. Story goes that after her travel in England where the Princess got wise to the organization of summer camps she organized the same camps for talented children aged from 9 to 17 in her estate Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo.
The participants in the project # PRODIGY.kids are not ordinary children. They live for music, they aspire to become professional musicians, they devote many hours to studies and to hard work, with great responsibility they perform at competitions and festivals. But nevertheless they stay children, sincere in their hobbies and impulses, spontaneous and trustful, revealing and jolly. The performance in this historical hall with unique acoustics is an excellent opportunity for young musicians to try their hand.
We invite you to meet future stars! We are sure that every concert will be memorable both for them and for those who will come to our theatre on these Sundays.


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Flintridge Prep softball dominates Providence in league action
By Charles Rich
BURBANK — It's been a struggle this season in the Prep League for the Flintridge Prep and Providence High softball teams.
Flintridge Prep has been a mainstay in the league for many years, while Providence joined the league this season after previously competing in the Liberty League.
With both squads looking to get on track, the Rebels and Pioneers met Tuesday in the first of two head-to-head meetings.
Behind a huge performance from catalyst Melissa Grande, who finished with two hits, four runs batted in and four runs scored, visiting Flintridge Prep rolled to a 17-4 win at Olive Park. The game was called after the fifth inning.
"Coming into the game, we thought we had the potential to come in and dominate," said Grande, a reigning All-Area and All-CIF honoree who helped Flintridge Prep advance to the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division VII playoffs last season. "I knew I just needed to be confident at the plate and just help set the tone.
"I thought we got off to a very good start and we were able to go from there. It's just nice to get a win."
Flintridge Prep (3-9, 2-6 in league) scored three runs in the first inning, followed by two in the second, six in the third, one in the fourth and five in the fifth to topple Providence (1-11, 0-8).
While the Rebels have more depth and experience than the Pioneers, there's potential for the teams to build a rivalry in future seasons.
"It's nice to be able to go out there and play new competition and have a new team like Providence in the league," Flintridge Prep coach Julie Mejia said. "Providence is a quality school."
Libby Penn gave Flintridge Prep a first-inning 2-0 lead with a two-run triple and Yasmine White followed with a single to extend the lead to 3-0.
Grande hit a two-run inside-the-park home run in the second to give the Rebels a 5-0 lead.
"Melissa is an excellent lead-off hitter and she really helped set the tone early on," Mejia said. "She's just a fabulous athlete and she can do so many things well out there."
Grande had a two-run single in the third to make it 9-0 and Olivia Stevens had a two-run triple later in the inning to make it 11-0.
Providence scored all of its runs in the third to cut the deficit to 11-4.
Rebecca Cox had a bases-loaded infield single to make it 11-1. Kayla Viteri followed with an RBI-single to pull the Pioneers to within 11-2.
After a bases-loaded walk to Gabriella Martinez, Providence made it 11-4 on a ground-out by Hailey Jackson.
"I liked the way we were able to battle with our at-bats in the third inning," Providence first-year coach Frankie Garcia said. "It was just nice to see them come through and show some resiliency like that.
"We're working hard at trying to get better and I do see our players making improvements. It's a young team and we have just one senior. I think we have a good future and I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do."
Georgina Yamamoto drove in a run with a double in the fourth to make it 12-4.
The Rebels, who took fourth in league last season, received run-scoring hits in the fifth from Penn, Emma Stellar and White to seal the victory.
Flintridge Prep got three hits and three runs batted in apiece from Penn and White.
Providence received two hits from Martinez.
Providence and Flintridge Prep will meet again at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Flintridge Prep.
charles.rich@latimes.com
Twitter: @TCNCharlesRich
Charles Rich
Charles Rich is a sports writer for the Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader and La Cañada Valley Sun. He started covering area high school and college sports in 2000. Rich grew up in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., and graduated from California State University Northridge.
News-Press Sports Roundup: Glendale girls' basketball bests Burbank
News-Press Sports Roundup
Staunch defense lifts Flintridge Prep girls' basketball past Westridge
Girls' Basketball: Rebels record 24 steals on their way to 65-17 Prep League victory over Tigers.
St. Francis basketball comes up short in league battle against Chaminade
Boys' Basketball: Led by senior Andre Henry's 27 points, Golden Knights see final shot go wide, falling to Eagles, 67-64, in Mission League showdown.
St. Francis soccer left frustrated following league tie against Chaminade
Boys' Soccer: Golden Knights can't covert on several scoring chances in scoreless Mission League road tie versus Eagles.
News-Press Sports Roundup: Flintridge Prep girls' water polo upends Chadwick
Burroughs girls' water polo rolls past Glendale in league contest
Girls' Water Polo: Indians score six straight goals in the second quarter to record 16-6 win over the Nitros for Pacific League victory.
Glendale Community College men's basketball falls to L.A. Valley
Men's Basketball: Late rally by Vaqueros not enough in 59-56 loss to Monarchs in Western State Conference South Division game.
News-Press Sports Roundup: Glendale boys' basketball shuts down rival Hoover
Providence girls' basketball not able to stop streaking Flintridge Prep
Girls' Basketball: Rebels run Prep League unbeaten streak to 48 with 75-34 victory against host Pioneers.


I want to thank Elgato for sending me a device to test early and only wanting feedback in exchange. All expressed opinions below are my own.
The Elgato HD60 Pro is an internal video capture card to grab HDMI Material (without HDCP) of a Console, Computer or Camera for example. Resolutions up to 1920×1080 with 60hz and recording at 60fps are supported. It requires a free PCI Express x1 slot , but similar to other PCIe devices it can also be used on a larger slot.
Elgato has also made sure that the latency is extremely low, so there is no delay as you get with USB3.0 devices . It comes with the Elgato Game Capture software that includes different options for both recording and streaming to twitch or a similar service. You can also tag your recordings or even give them a description to later find them more easily.
While streaming you can, at the same time, save a "master copy" up to 1080p / 60fps / 60mbit on the hard disk. Furthermore, images, or a Webcam can be added to up to 9 different scenes and of course your microphone can be recorded. A screenshot function and the possibility to upload your recordings to Youtube, Facebook is also included.
Especially if you may want to capture a console like the Xbox One or Playstation 4 the pass-through is interesting for you. It allows you to connect your TV to the output of the HD60 Pro without the need of a further video splitter. The video signal is then of course also passed, without delay, to your TV and you can play as usual while you record it. Your recording PC has to be turned on for the Passthrough to work though.
Last but not least the HD60 Pro can be used in programs like OBS or XSplit to get even more options for your scenes and sources.
The card itself has a black PCB, a black cover with ventilation openings and a likewise black front. It is relatively small and there is a cover to exchange for installation in particularly small cases that have only half the height.
First, the test setup, I have tested the HD60 Pro in my main rig and my streaming PC to test it under different configurations and operating systems.
Mainly the card will work in my streaming rig, an i5-2500K without overclocking along with a HD 7850 from ATI. It ran under Windows 8 (.1) and Windows 10 on this Machine. Linux drivers are currently inofficially created by volunteer users but I kept to Windows for this Test.
The second computer is my main gaming rig, an i7 4770 with a GTX 970. Running Windows 8.1, 10, and even Windows 7 for testing purposes.
In both configurations, and among the 3 different operating systems, I could not notice any problems. Both in their own software, as well as under OBS and XSplit the card works perfectly.
Using the included Elgato Game Capture software the recording performance is very good. CPU load is pretty low and you mainly need a HDD that can write at 60mbps. A 1080p/60fps recording on my i5 ate about 25% of my CPU resources while on the i7 it was below 10%.
In OBS and XSplit the card worked flawlessly, not dropping any frames. CPU performance using a capture card is in general slightly higher than using the included capture methods but its barely noticeable.
When streaming the Elgato software has to compress the video similar to OBS or XSplit. CPU load then depends mainly on your settings. However, the software warns you in case of too high settings and provides you alternatives. The CPU utilization is very comparable to that of OBS or XSplit. Since practically any software probably uses the x264 encoder at the moment.
The color output and image quality are as expected excellent (digital input). You can choose between partial and full color space support, but it's best to take a look at some examples.
The screenshots were taking directly with the screenshot function of the Elgato software. Only in the test images you can notice a change especially in the red and magenta range. The conversion to YUV typically produces this difference.
In my tests, the unit was only slightly warmer than the ambient temperature of my case. Even after several hours of recording it did not get hot. In most cases, a graphics card sits near the device also providing some airflow . But even for a small housing it seems the Elgato HD60 Pro will not introduce any heat problems.
Currently I have no exact information on the price , so I'll probably have to adapt the conclusion soon again slightly . Basically the HD60 Pro has surprised me. Elgato's first internal, and therefore not dependent on USB, video capture card makes a good impression.
Both the design and performance specifications and are currently perfect for a streamer or youtuber. Higher resolutions will become more interesting in the next years. But it will take quite some time until 4K will be a standard. Full HD at full 60 frames per second is currently likely the optimum for video recording and streaming. 4K is an expensive gimmick that requires not only expensive recording hardware but also enormous computing power. Not thinking of the bitrate and upload speed needs.
While working with a console you will love the pass-through. It removes the need of a splitter when recording a PS4 or Xbox One for example. Of course you can also connect your Camcorder with HDMI output and use the PC as a recording device for this purpose.
Anything with an HDMI output and no HDCP protection can be recorded and streamed!
Link to the Elgato HD 60 Pro Homepage.
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Q: Array access through a list My question is more of a quest for confirmation that the conclusions I have drawn are correct and to see if anyone has any smart "work-arounds".
My problems starts with a friend wanting to use maxloc to extract the location of the maximum value of an array and then use this result to read a corresponding element of an other array. I.e in pseudo code:
c = b(maxloc(a))

This however returns the error
Error: Rank mismatch in array reference at (1) (1/2)

(He is working with (N,N) arrays.)
I did some tests and I found that this does indeed not work.
My conclusion is that you need to do something like this:
program h
    integer :: a(2,2)
    integer :: id(2),id2(2)
    a(1,1) = 1; a(1,2) = 2;  a(2,1) = 3;  a(2,2) = 2
    id = maxloc(a)
    write(*,*) a(id(1),id(2))
end program h

It works and everyone is happy. Well, except me. I want to know if there is a better way of doing it. Is there something I am missing? An easy solution to the problem.

A: Yes, that is correct, maxloc returns an array (sort of a vector of indexes) and you cannot use it for  multidimensional array indexing. Vector indexing does something else and is mostly used for 1-D arrays.
You can use maxval() to get the maximum value of the array directly, but that may not be the thing you need in all cases.
You can also use associate and avoid declaring a new variable in the scope:
associate(id => maxloc(a))
  write(*,*) a(id(1),id(2))
end associate

but that will be more useful if your use is more complicated and cannot be just done by maxval().

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Lenterocelia è un processo embrionale con inizio in fase di gastrula, mediante il quale viene a formarsi una cavità celomatica a partire da evaginazioni dell'archenteron, la prima e primitiva cavità embrionale che strozzandosi, e quindi separandosi dall'intestino embrionale, va a formare altrettanti sacchetti celomatici. Ciò avviene in quegli animali che comunemente usiamo definire Deuterostomi (Echinodermi, Emicordati e Cordati) e nei Chetognati, o, appunto, Enterocelomati.

Il termine viene contrapposto a Schizocelia.

L'ipotesi di primitività circa la formazione dell'enterocelia rispetto alla schizocelia presenta varie incongruenze nonostante diverse ricerche tentassero di dimostrare il contrario.

Le divisioni tassonomiche, basate sul processo mediante il quale viene a formarsi una cavità celomatica, presentano punti oscuri, divisioni controverse e sono ormai considerate obsolete.

Note

Voci correlate
 Schizocelia
 Biologia dello sviluppo

Embriologia
Processi cellulari


» Reviewed by David Vineyard: MAURICE LEBLANC – Countess Cagliosto.
Reviewed by David Vineyard: MAURICE LEBLANC – Countess Cagliosto.
MAURICE LEBLANC – Countess Cagliosto. Arsène Lupin #12. First published in France as La Comtesse de Cagliostro (1924). First translated into English in 2010 and included in Arsene Lupin vs Countess Cagliostro, edited by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier (Black Coast Press, trade paperback). Also included in this latter edition are the 1935 novel Countess Cagliostro's Revenge, also never before translated. The book also includes the short story "The Queen's Necklace," and the all-new The Death of Countess Cagliostro, written by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier. Film: Arsène Lupin (2004).
Maurice Leblanc, a forty-one year old journalist, created the French rival to Sherlock Holmes in 1905 in the short "l'aresstation de Arsene Lupin". It was a bright and clever tale (foreshadowing Agatha Christie's Roger Ackroyd) introducing the world to the gentleman thief and romantic adventurer whose lust for life was almost as great as his lust for other people's things.
Not unnaturally over time Lupin evolved, showing as great a skill at solving crime as committing it, taking on Sherlock Holmes (Holmlock Shears) in two adventures, and appearing in classics of the genre like 813 and The Hollow Needle.
But again as with Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles, Leblanc had one last trick up his sleeve — one last great adventure to recount. That adventure would be nothing less that the origin of Arsene Lupin, and of his greatest foe and implacable enemy, Josephine Balsamo, the possibly immortal daughter of Joseph Balsamo, Count Cagliostro, in the 1924 novel that bore her name.
Lupin fans must have celebrated, Leblanc and his hero were back in fine form.
After a brief forward explaining Lupin had forbid him to tell the story of the Countess for twenty-five years, Leblanc plunges right in as young Raoul d'Andrésy breaks into the home of the Baron d'Etigues, father of Clarisse, the young woman he loves, and finds among his papers an order to execute a mysterious unnamed woman.
Fate has a different kind of fame in store for him though.
… a voice rose above the murmurs of surprise. It was that of Prince d'Arcole, who had stepped forward to look at the prisoner.
"It's her! It's her!" he stammered, his eyes wide in horror, his face twitching.
Of course Lupin will save her, become her lover and student, be drawn into and obsessed with the conspiracy surrounding the treasures of the Kings of France she and the conspirators all covet, he will learn her incredible claim to be the immortal daughter of the infamous Joseph Balsamo. Count Cagliostro.
"I'm right, aren't I?" he said.
He took her in his arms and kissed her passionately.
Lupin will eventually become her rival ("…what is impossible is that I could continue to see you under that fog of mystery in which you've deliberately wrapped yourself; for now, I see you for what you truly are: a murderess and a criminal."), learn secrets of his own family, marry Clarisse (like James Bond, Lupin's lovers don't last long) and have his son kidnapped by Josephine to take revenge on him twenty five years later (recounted in Countess Cagliostro's Revenge published here for the first time in English).
This particular Black Coat Press edition includes a short by editors Jean-Marc and Randy Loffcier recounting the final days of the Countess, and a short story, "The Queen's Necklace" telling of Lupin's first crime. It also comes with an informative introduction for anyone not already familiar with Lupin's exploits.
I grant I am a sucker for any tale in which the hero meets his Moriarty, his true nemesis, and this one lives up to both its hero and its epic theme, full of bravado, style, action, and lively twists as well as a fairly melancholy ending. It's a good introduction to Lupin for those new to his adventures, and a grand addition to them for fans already familiar with him.
American readers may find it hard to take the very French brio of Lupin at first, but staying with it will reveal some of the cleverest mysteries and adventures of any classic hero done in high style.
There's a whole world of adventure out there that I knew nothing about before, and I find it fascinating. Thanks, David!
I discovered Lupin decades ago and enjoy the character and the humor of the writing. I have found some hard to finish because of the lack of enough of Lupin to keep me reading.
As a fan of anime and manga I also enjoy Monkey Punch's creation of Lupin's supposed grandson, Lupin the 3rd. One of the classics of all anime is THE CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO which I recommend highly.
Now I need to check out the original version of the character and read this book.
There is another animated entertaining series featuring the real Lupin available on YouTube, sometimes as NIGHT MASK. Like you I love Monkey Punch's LUPIN III, and am happy to tell you many of the original manga are available to read on Internet Archive, while much of the anime (movies, specials, both live action versions,and the series) is available on YouTube.
There are three American Lupin films; ARSENE LUPIN, THE RETURN OF ARSENE LUPIN, and ENTER ARSENE LUPIN, all well done with excellent casts. The 2004 French film ARSENE LUPIN shows our heroes origin with Lupin evolving from a gauche youth to the smooth professional and available in both dubbed and subtitled form. Kristin Scott-Thomas is good as the Countess providing able villainy.
There are also numerous episodes of the French television series with Robert Lameroux as Lupin, most adaptations of the stories themselves. Set in Europe in the pre WWI era the series is oppulent and stylish. Alas they are only available in French. Sets of the series are available to purchase as well.
The pre war books, classics such as those mentioned above and THE EXPLOITS OF ARSENE LUPIN, EIGHT STROKES OF THE CLOCK, SHERLOCK HOLMES VS ARSENE LUPIN and such are probably the best and most entertaining, though lovers of clever detective stories should enjoy the JIM BARNETT stories, an American private detective in Paris who wears blue shaded spectacles and of course has a final secret up his sleeve. Lupin plays a key role in books like WOMAN OF MYSTERY and DOROTHY THE ROPE DANCER, but appears only briefly, almost in cameo.
Admittedly Lupin's penchant for popping up at the end of the book having been there all along can get a bit tired if you read too many in a row, I really suggest you spread them out a bit. Also Lupin may spend entire books under one of his various guises like Prince Renin and the le Duc de Charmerace, sometimes two or three of the guises in the same book. Lupin has far more than Hamilton Cleek's forty faces.
The shorts are probably the best place to start. They are among the cleverest crime stories, often impossible crimes, of the age and worthy rivals of Doyle, Chesterton, and Freeman. One of Lupin's more audacious ploys is to get arrested and placed in prison so he can commit a series of crimes with the perfect alibi.
Probably the best of the Lupin novels is 813, which I reviewed here earlier featuring Lupin finding his own incredible scheme to steal an entire principality complicated by a brilliant murderous master criminal, Lupin's own secrets, an innocent man sentenced to die, and a mystery the Kaiser needs solved to save Germany that has already defeated the great Sherlock Holmes. The Lupin novels tend to be kitchen sink affairs since they were often serialized, and they are often as much adventure and romance as classic mystery.
But you put it best, it really is a whole world of mystery and adventure new to many American readers.
Ironically for a long time Americans believed Leblanc and Gaston Lerouge (PHANTOM OF THE OPERA etc.) were the same person simply because it seemed impossible the two bestselling popular writers in France were Maurice the White and Gaston the Red. It almost sounds like one of Lupin's schemes.
Here is part one (of 3) of episode one of the Canadian Lupin inspired series NIGHT HOOD.
Lupin the 3rd TV series can be seen in various places. Hulu has season 2. iTunes has several available to buy. I subscribe to Funimation a streaming service devoted to anime and has some Lupin the 3rd available to watch as well.
While the TV series has its moments it pales compared to the movies.
I felt the Arsene Lupin movies lacked the humor and style equal to the books, and I thought they never got the casting of Lupin correct.
I still hold out hope for a nice dub version of the French TV series.
Lupin has also inspired other writers to try their hand at the character. There was some guy named Vineyard who did a couple of stories in TALES OF THE SHADOWMAN that has surfaced recently on a Lupin collection available on Kindle.
Thanks for the promo. Over the years Lupin has inspired quite a few pastiche, including a juvenile series in which Lupin, Holmes, and Irene Adler team as youths. Arthur Porges wrote a memorable one based on one of Leblanc's stories and there have been others by quite famous names.
I'm afraid my own vary greatly in quality, but I am proud of a few of them. One of my tales appears in THE MANY FACES OF ARSENE LUPIN an original anthology of Lupin pastiche, which like most of the TOTS tales are available through Kindle. I've done a few Nyctalope stories too, but Lupin is more fun to write and it has been great fun teaming him or pitting him against the likes of Fu Manchu, Carl Peterson, Harry Lime, Hanoi Shan, Theodore Tiabault, Gregor Arkadin, a young Modesty Blaise, Bulldog Drummond, John Silence, Lawrence Talbot, Father Brown, Terence O'Rourke, Dirk Pitt, Indiana Jones, Father Brown, and the youthful Simon Templar.
I'm no Barry Perowne, but I like to try to keep Lupin in character ala M. Leblanc.


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When Is The Ethereum Merge? Everything You Need To Know
Writer Alejandro Miguel
andEditor Angelica Leicht
•2 Min Read
"The Merge" is being executed on Ethereum this September – and it's arguably one of the biggest upgrades to happen in crypto, ever.
We've all heard the Merge mentioned, but what does it mean for the Ethereum blockchain? Most importantly, when is the Merge actually happening?
The Merge: A quick overview
The Merge is the fusion of the existing proof-of-work (PoW) Ethereum network that we know and love today, with a new proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism.
All of the existing tokens, balances, and smart contracts that exist on the PoW chain will be migrated over to the new network, which has been running silently in the background since December 2020 via its "beacon chain."
In a nutshell, Ethereum will look almost exactly the same on the surface, and users will be able to stake Ethereum or complete other transactions as normal. Under the hood, however, it will be powered by an energy-efficient staking model instead of energy-hungry mining.
In addition to this power-saving potential, it will open the doors for further improvements to the speed, security, and long-term viability of the Ethereum network.
When is the Merge happening?
The Ethereum Foundation has confirmed that The Merge will take place next month, and will occur in a two-step process: The "Bellatrix" upgrade and the "Paris" upgrade.
The first upgrade, Bellatrix, will take place on September 6th. This step will simply prepare the PoS chain for the actual fusion of the two chains.
The second upgrade, Paris, takes care of the actual fusion of the two networks. It will occur somewhere between September 10 and September 20, taking around 13 minutes to complete if everything goes to plan.
Why is there no specific date or time for the Merge?
In simple terms, the Merge cannot be set for a concrete real-world time. Instead, the upgrade must be set to occur at a chosen "terminal total difficulty" – i.e. once miners have reached a specific target in total computing power produced.
Since this computing power via mining can vary with the number of miners, especially around important events, this can throw off real-world time estimates.
What can we expect from the merge?
As touched on above, the Merge will completely eliminate mining from the Ethereum network and replace it with a PoS model. This new, energy-efficient chain will be where all transactions, account balances, and network data will be processed, validated, and stored.
The Merge will have two primary implications:
Ethereum's energy consumption will be reduced by around 99.95%
Ethereum will be primed for further upgrades such as sharding, which will improve the network's overall scaling capacity. That means higher throughput, for potentially faster and cheaper transactions.
What will happen to the proof-of-work (PoW) Ethereum chain?
The PoW Ethereum chain will cease to exist after the merge, and miners will no longer be able to validate transactions or earn Ether from mining on the network.
On the other hand, it appears likely that some groups in the community will hard-fork the Ethereum network to create a new chain that continues to run via mining.
So far, it doesn't seem as though any such forked chains will gain much traction, due to most stablecoins, decentralized applications, and other stakeholders committing to development on the new proof-of-stake chain only.
Supporting this theory are futures markets for ETHPoW tokens on BitMEX and other exchanges. ETHPoW tokens are currently valued at only around $45 – a mere 2.7% of the market price of Ethereum.
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Alejandro MiguelWriter
Alejandro is a blockchain writer and consultant who has been involved in the space since early 2016. Being extremely passionate about this emerging technology, he has written content for a myriad of projects and news outlets.
Angelica LeichtEditor
Angelica specializes in crypto and personal finance content. Her work has appeared in publications such as Bankrate, Forbes, The Motley Fool, The Simple Dollar, The Houston Press, Dallas Observer, The Village Voice, and others.
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