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\section{Introduction}
Near Earth objects (NEOs) are important topics of research and education in astrophysics and space sciences. Due to their small size, poor magnitude and very fast movement, NEOs discovery is a very difficult task, especially when the surveillance area is large. Besides their risk of collision with the Earth, these objects represent opportunities for mining resources, modeling new frontiers for emerging space industry. Monitoring the nearby space for near Earth asteroids (NEAs) is essential for the future of our planet. These studies have been geared first towards the main belt asteroids (MBAs), discovering more than 700,000 objects so far, as well as to the farthest asteroids of the Kuiper belt. Some research and surveys have been improved and directed towards NEAs smaller than 150 meters, the most difficult to detect and monitor. In the last couple of years, the NEAs discovery rate has been intensified due to the improved Catalina survey and to the new Pan-STARRS survey supported by the US Congress. While the major American surveys have increased discovery rate, in Europe there were just a few local initiatives led by some scientists without specific funding and dedicated facilities.

\begin{figure}[t!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3.4in]{nea_chart.eps}
\caption{NEA discoveries in time (https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/stats/totals.html)}
\label{fig:fig1}
\end{figure}

The European Near Earth Asteroids Research (EURONEAR) project has been contributing to this research since 2006 \cite{Vaduvescu2015}. EURONEAR includes only a small number of professional astronomers, involving more amateurs and students who promptly reduce the data, report discoveries and perform NEA recoveries. For the image reduction, THELI software is used (under Linux). This is a tool for the automated reduction of astronomical images \cite{Schirmer2013}, \cite{Erben2005} which can be used via a graphical user interface or by a set of command line based scripts. It subtracts the bias, twilight flat and corrects the known field distortion of the telescope's prime focus field. Afterwards, the Astrometrica software, under Windows, developed by Herbert Raab is used in order to detect all moving sources via human blink \cite{Raab}. For the THELI reduced images to be used in Astrometrica, an intermediate manual step is performed to update the image headers to be supported by Astrometrica. Having this manual flow in mind, we propose an automated pipeline prototype for moving object detection. The prototype is a modular system written in Python language. Each module has a specific functionality and some of them are tightly coupled to some 3rd party astrophysics libraries.

The next section will go through some similar systems. Section 3 describes in more detail each of the modules and their dependences. The matching of identified objects is described by section 4. In section 5 we will present the major problems encountered and their solutions. The last section concludes on the achievements and experiments, presents the work currently in progress, and sketches some future research directions.

\section{Related Works}
All of the major American surveys have written their own automated system for asteroids detection but virtually none of them is made public. The Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program made the first fully automated system for controlling a remote telescope, acquiring wide-field images, and detecting NEOs \cite{Pravdo1999}. The WISE/NEOWISE Moving Object Pipeline Subsystem (WMOPS) was designed to detect Solar system objects in the WISE survey data as these data were processed in real-time, with particular emphasis on the detection of NEOs \cite{Cutri2011}.

Variable KD-Tree algorithms were used by the Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System \cite{Kubica2006}, \cite{Denneau2013}. These techniques were developed in collaboration with the incoming LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) \cite{Kub2007}.

Not only the major surveys developed automated system for moving object detection, but also some amateurs and small private surveys. A group of mainly amateurs search for NEAs in the TOTAS survey carried out with the ESA-OGS 1m telescope, lead by ESA \cite{Koschny2015}. Another group from Argentina developed such a system based on the profile of the each light source represented by FWHM (Full Width at Half Maximum) \cite{Allekotte2013}.

\section{Automated Moving Object Detection Prototype}
The current version of the proposed pipeline prototype is tightly coupled with the data obtained from the 2.5 meters diameter Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) located in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. At the prime focus of the INT, a wide field camera (WFC) is located, consisting of four CCDs 2k x 4k pixels, covering an L-shaped 34 arcmin x 34 arcmin field with a pixel scale of 0.33 arcsec pixel$^{-1}$.

\begin{figure}[t!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3.4in]{arch.eps}
\caption{Prototype Architecture}
\label{fig:fig2}
\end{figure}

Figure \ref{fig:fig2} presents the architecture of the prototype. The first two modules are based on a couple of external (3rd party) astrophysics libraries for image reduction and field correction. The last two modules automatically generate and submit reports of the new discovered objects under a specific format that is used by Minor Planet Center will be soon implemented.

\subsection{Pre-correction Module}
Any image taken by a CCD camera through a telescope will not give accurate information about the photometric distribution over a portion of the sky. Optical imperfections and the discrete nature of light itself lead to errors in the measured data. The first module corrects artifacts (bias, flat field) and instrumental defects (bad pixels) from the raw science images. It is embedded in Python and based on IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) calls, which is a software system written and supported by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) in Tucson, Arizona, for the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. IRAF is distributed by NOAO, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.

\begin{figure}[t!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3.0in]{bias_flat_reduce.eps}
\caption{Bias; Flat; Reduced Image}
\label{fig:fig3}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Field Correction Module}

\begin{figure*}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=5.8in]{scheme.eps}
\caption{Field Correction Module's Scheme}
\label{fig:fig4}
\end{figure*}

Especially at the prime focus of any larger field telescope, substantial field distortions caused by the optical system and projection of a hemispherical field into a 2D image occur in the imaging process, which become difficult to perfectly align images for further processing and analysis. Field distortions increase with distance from the center of the image. This prototype solves the field distortion issue of the reduced images in a sequence of steps (Figure \ref{fig:fig4}).

This is the second module of the prototype, and it depends on few external astrophysics libraries. The first step, prepare headers, is needed to update image headers with some specific telescope information in order to be able to call the SExtractor in the second step. SExtractor is a software that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image \cite{Bertin1996}. The output catalogs, in the FITS LDAC format, are used as input for the third step. In this step the SCAMP tool is used to obtain the shifting function for each pixel in order to correct field distortion \cite{Bertin2006}. Scamp reads SExtractor catalogs and computes astrometric and photometric solutions for any arbitrary sequence of FITS images in a completely automatic way. Its process is based on querying online catalogs of stars to find star references in the reduced images. The Scamp solution is stored in .head files and can be checked visually using plots files. All the new information obtained from Scamp is updated for each image using the MissFits software tool. Afterwards the SWarp tool is called in order to resample the images based on the shifting formula, thus correcting the field distortion in the image. Besides that, SWarp aligns and co-adds the reduced images of the same field of view. The combined images are needed in the next module for background subtraction. The last step of this module calls SExtractor again, but this time using the combined and resampled images, resulting in ASCII catalogs needed in the next module as well.

\subsection{Source Extraction Module}
Background subtraction of celestial sources is an important phase for detecting moving objects. Stars and galaxies are considered fixed sources, fully populating the background field. If they can be eliminated, what remains are the moving objects (asteroids, comets and other Solar System objects) and the noise. Two directions were approached to achieve background subtractions:
\begin{itemize}
\item \textit{Pixel based } - using star/galaxies subtraction. Subtraction operation at pixel level between resampled image and the specific combined image using IRAF – not good enough (due to variable sky and telescope tracking quality), see the Figure \ref{fig:fig5};

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=2.5in]{pixelBasedSubtraction.eps}
\caption{Pixel Based Subtraction using IRAF}
\label{fig:fig5}
\end{figure}

\item \textit{Space Objects Based} - using sources in catalogs;
\begin{itemize}
\item represents the solution currently used in the prototype
\item moves the process entirely to Python which loads SExtractor ASCII catalog sources as Python objects
\item removes all fixed objects from individual catalogs that match sources from the combined catalog
\item the remaining objects are asteroids or noise and should be paired in the individual images
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

\section{Matching Module}
The matching module is based on the classic blink algorithm which is automatically processed in Python. When the space objects and catalogs are created in Python a couple of characteristics are stored as well, including full width at half maximum (FWHM). This parameter associated with a catalog can be interpreted as the clarity of the sky for the image that the catalog represents. The catalog of the image that have the best FWHM will be considered the pivot in the analyzed sequence of images (5 images). After that, for each source in the pivot, the algorithm will make pairs with sources from the others catalogs (pair – coupling a source from the pivot with a source from another catalog). In order for two sources to be paired, they need to be at a certain distance in known time interval, typical for most NEAs:
\begin{equation}
d = arccos[\sin\delta_{1} * \sin\delta_{2} + \cos\delta_{1} * \cos\delta_{2} * \cos(\alpha_{1} - \alpha_{2})]
\end{equation}

where:

$d -$ distance between two objects

$\delta_{i} -$ object declination

$\alpha_{i} -$ object right ascension\\

The actually matching is done in the second part of the module. If at least two pairs having the same source from the pivot comply with both the direction (based on the position angle $\omega$) and proper motion (represented by $\mu$), then we can assume that the object in cause is an asteroid.

\begin{figure}[t!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3.1in]{badPixels.eps}
\caption{Problems caused by bad pixels}
\label{fig:fig6}
\end{figure}

\begin{equation}
\mu = \frac{d}{\Delta UT}
\end{equation}

$\Delta UT -$ time frame between image acquisitions of the same observed field

\begin{equation}
\theta = arctan(\Delta \delta, \Delta \alpha)
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
\omega = \theta + 2 * \pi, \theta < 0
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
\omega = \theta, \theta \geq 0
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
\mid \omega _{pair_{1}} - \omega _{pair_{2}} \mid < 10^{o} \ and \mid \mu _{pair_{1}} - \mu _{pair_{2}} \mid < 1"/min
\end{equation}

\section{Encountered Problems}
There were several types of problems encountered during prototype development. Among these are the following:
\begin{itemize}
\item Caused by bad pixels - CCD detectors degrade over time, resulting in the occurrence of new "defective pixels", see Figure \ref{fig:fig6}
\begin{itemize}
\item Solution: generate new maps for "bad pixels" (the last dating from 2013)
\end{itemize}

\item Problems caused by interpolation – side effect of bad pixels correction, see Figure \ref{fig:fig7}. There are few bad columns resulted in imperfect correction, causing one bad pixel

\begin{figure}[t!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3.1in]{interpolation.eps}
\caption{Problems caused by interpolation}
\label{fig:fig7}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[b!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3.1in]{alignment.eps}
\caption{Problems caused by image alignment}
\label{fig:fig8}
\end{figure}

\begin{itemize}
\item Solution: not yet implemented – visual analytics technique that will let the user to decide if it is a valid asteroid by showing them the use case in a graphical mode
\end{itemize}

\item Problems caused by image alignment - side effect of field distortion correction, see Figure \ref{fig:fig8}. The imperfect alignment of the camera causes few bad pixels in the margin of the rotated field

\begin{itemize}
\item Solution: SExtractor is an extremely powerful tool which, when properly configured, can bring out precious information about the objects identified in astronomical images. By activating certain parameters in the SExtractor configuration file, the resulting catalogs will contain a set of flags that characterize the object. Those flags are used in this solution. If they are different from zero, then surely the object is actually noise
\end{itemize}

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3.1in]{saturation.eps}
\caption{Problems caused by star saturation}
\label{fig:fig9}
\end{figure}

\item Problems caused by star saturation, see Figure \ref{fig:fig9}. The very bright or saturated stars cause multiple detections close to the centre which can not be
properly subtracted
\begin{itemize}
\item Solution: based on SExtractor's magnitude parameter, the very bright sources are eliminated
\end{itemize}

\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3.1in]{noise.eps}
\caption{Problems caused by noise}
\label{fig:fig10}
\end{figure}

\item Problems caused by noise – false detections or side effect of vignetting, see Figure \ref{fig:fig10}
\begin{itemize}
\item Solution: use a mask or the same as the solution proposed for the interpolation problem - a visual analytics technique will let the user to decide if it is a valid asteroid by showing them the use case in a graphical mode; sometimes, like in the case of the right picture in Figure \ref{fig:fig10}, it is possible to use a mask that will exclude the problematic area from the process
\end{itemize}

\item Problems caused by the short time frame between image acquisitions of the same observed field. If the image cadence is too fast, some of the moving objects will barely move and appear on the combined image and they will be interpreted as static sources or background, see Figure \ref{fig:fig11}

\begin{figure}[b!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=2.5in]{seq_comb.eps}
\caption{Left: moving object in the sequence of images; Right: moving object in combined image}
\label{fig:fig11}
\end{figure}

\begin{itemize}
\item Solution: increase the time frame between image acquisitions of the same observed field by alternating pointing between four or more nearby survey fields
\end{itemize}

\end{itemize}

\section{Conclusions and Future Directions}
Until now, this prototype was only tested against a set of archives provided by the collaborative project EURONEAR. In this collection, the time frame between image acquisitions of the same observed field is very small and some of the asteroids identified by the human eye were flagged as part of the background in the prototype. Recently, a new set of dedicated data was provided and another round of testing began.
Medium and large sized telescopes (2-4 meters) are required to detect faint NEAs using the classic "blink" algorithm and in the near future it is planned to use this pipeline for such data. Even so, smaller telescopes (1 meter) can be used in the same purpose if the used process is based on various forms of "digital tracking" methods that require extensive computing resources. This is another direction that the prototype will approach in the future.
Having a modular structure, the prototype can be easy improved from the performance point of view. It will be migrated to cloud for  high performance computing. Taking advantage of parallel processing, the time will decrease considerably. Using Docker in the future cloud solution will bring a great value to any user that wants to use this prototype because the problems encountered in environment setup are eliminated. Some of the modules can be rewritten with image processing tools such as OpenCV. After that it can be further improved by the GPU using hardware accelerators tools such as CUDA or OpenCL (provided by NVIDIA).

\section*{Acknowledgment}
The first idea on such a work was proposed at the camp organized by the Romanian Astronomical Society of Meteors (SARM). The research and the experiments would not have been possible without getting involved in the activities of the EURONEAR group, and then through the ERASMUS mobility hosted by the Isaac Newton Group in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.

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Interview: Talia Mayden New Song/Video Release for "Prettiest Girl in L.A."
Talia Mayden by Nick Rasmussen
Photos by Nick Rasmussen
By Iesha Rowan
Sometimes you're provided opportunities to speak with a fantastic artist. This is one of those opportunities. Talia Mayden has "it". Whatever "it" is, she has an abundance of it. Charisma, charm, attitude, and talent, talent, talent. Her ambitious take on life and music is contagious and will catapult her into the charts. Iesha from Habari entertainment took a few minutes to ask some questions about the future superstar's upcoming video release produced by K Factor Films for Talia Mayden's new song, "Prettiest Girl In LA". The video is directed by Sundance award-winning director, Giselle Bonilla. The music video is a fun take on the pressure and inevitable vanity that comes with being a woman in LA. We all know that LA women have essentially impossible standards to live up to physically and this video/song sheds a refreshing and hilarious new light on the issue as a whole.
First off, thank you for taking the time to speak with us. We love your voice and the soulful sound and aura of your music. The video for "Prettiest girl in L.A" is beautifully shot and filled with a fun take on such a sore subject.
Iesha – Coming from Nashville and moving to L.A. you've lived in two musical legendary cities. In which ways did growing up in Nashville mold your musical career?
Talia – Growing up in Nashville is like learning songwriting through osmosis. I've seen so many shows that are just the songwriter and their guitar up there. It's always been clear to me that if you can't sell a song with just you and your guitar, you're not the real deal.
Iesha – With Country music always being steeped in tradition, women have usually struggled to hit the airwaves as much as their male counterparts. What are some of the old customs of Country music are you trying to break?
Talia – Sure, women have historically had a hard time getting popular radio play in country music, but I don't really subscribe to the notion that there is an accessibility issue with hearing women in Country music. You just have to know where to look, and it's not going to be popular radio or, like, the CMAs. So if that's where you're getting your country, change the dial! Country music gets a bad rap. Regarding what traditions I'm trying to break– none. Country, traditionally, is not all beers and jean shorts and tractors. I'm not reinventing the wheel here. I just want to write good songs.
Iesha – listening to this lovely song, "Prettiest girl in L.A", and I can't call it a country song. What genre exactly would this track fall under? Or do you care about being labeled as an artist?
Talia – You're right, the production doesn't scream country. I guess I'd call it songwriter-Liz-Phair-sun-drenched-y2k-realness? This might be categorically incorrect but if I write a song on my acoustic guitar, I call it country.
Iesha – The video for "Prettiest girl in L.A" touches on such a hot button topic as the impossible physical standards we as women face. This seems to be a topic you love to write about. What were some of the challenges you have faced in the music industry with pressure to look or act a certain way? And how did you handle the situation?
Talia – Yeah, I write a lot about my experience in my physical body. The friction I've experienced in this realm has come more from dating than from the music industry, but perhaps I'm too new to music to get that kind of pushback. I will say, though, that the way I look is seldom an accident. I think the video touches on this. I know exactly how to rise to the standard that society expects of me. Double-edged sword.
Iesha – The video is directed by Sundance award-winning director, Giselle Bonilla What was it like working with her? And what was the process for creating the concept of the video?
Talia – I met Giselle years ago because we both had films at the LA Short Film Fest. Hers was the only good one. We listened to the song together a bunch of times, I threw out the word "lobotomy", which we liked. Then I went off the rails. At one point, I was trying to get us to stream a live (fake) lobotomy on OnlyFans, then use the income generated from that event to fund post-production. Props to Giselle for walking that road with me before gently turning us back on course. She is hardcore, the real deal. She really wanted to roll the wheelchair off of a cliff in Malibu, which left us ducking and rolling to hide from Malibu park rangers. Oh, also, we ended at a sex doll brother at one point for "research". Very scary stuff. I feel so lucky to have gotten in on the ground floor with Giselle. We are not worthy.
Iesha – The Awesome nurse for the video was a terrific choice. How fun was it filming those scenes?
Talia – The nurse was played by my good friend Conor McGrath! It was his first time in full drag, can you believe it? A true natural. We had so much fun although we were sweating our asses off. My heels were impossible to walk in so Conor was rolling me around the streets of Los Feliz in that wheelchair.
Iesha – We really loved the video and hope people gravitate toward this beautiful song. What exactly do you want listeners to take from this track and the visual concepts of the video?
Talia – I hope viewers just feel a shred of recognition with the video. Of course, it's ludicrous and funny, and that's Giselle's magic touch. I once talked to a man in New York about the women he knows in LA, and how he finds them to be more shallow than women elsewhere. I remember thinking, sure, if you think having lip injections precludes you from having depth, I guess that makes sense? It's a lazy take. I hope this video effectively satirizes that notion.
Iesha – Good luck to you and your future endeavors. Thank you again for speaking with us.
We really appreciated speaking with Talia. She is definitely a future star in country music. The music video is amazing and we cannot wait for the full release. We're now huge fans of Talia and will keep an eye on her career, we suggest you do the same. Her music talent is remarkable, the ability to write, play music and she has an undeniably beautiful voice. Here is a link to her Spotify,
Spotify – Talia Mayden –
Take a listen to the track "Prettiest Girl In LA" here – (Not the video)
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McDonald's Philippines will leverage the Promoted Stickers #McDoBonFries campaign in support of the UAAP Cheerdance Competition that will take place on November 19.
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Fr. Michael O'Sullivan, a priest in Cork had long cherished a dream to establish a group of missionary priests similar to the Vincentians. Following along the lines of the Irish Vincentians, he and a young Maynooth student, Mr. Kelsh began a school. This was a success but seeing no sign of being able to form a community, Fr. O'Sullivan offered the school to the Vincentians along with himself and Mr. Kelsh for admittance to the Congregation. These two new members of the Congregation along with Frs. Kickam, Gillooly and Burton formed a new community in Cork.In addition to the work at the school, they were also given a chaplaincy to the Asylum and at the proposal of the Bishop, preached in some church in the city every Sunday.
After a few years, they undertook to erect a church for themselves; no mean feat when there was no congregation to support them. However, Fr. O'Sullivan was much loved in the city of Cork and contributions came flooding in. Work began on this prominent site in the city, and it became a project dear to the people of Cork's hearts. When the roof was partially on, one night a great storm blew up and levelled the building back down to the first storey. The next morning the whole city knew about the disaster that befallen the missioners and all agreed that work should continue. More donations flooded in.
Over the course of many years and under the guidance of various parish priests, the church at Sunday's Well has grown and now stands as one of the finest in Cork city today.


So, why are we so loyal to a president who is not loyal to us?
Back when affirmative action was white, educational institutions were created for African Americans who were barred from admission elsewhere. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) became the breeding grounds for the "talented tenth" – the elite class groomed to lead black America. Towards the end of the last century HBCUs had produced 75% of black PhDs, 85% of black doctors and 80% of black federal judges. Among the most prestigious was Morehouse, in Atlanta, which counts Martin Luther King, Samuel Jackson and Spike Lee among its alumni.
Later this month, Barack Obama will deliver the keynote address at Morehouse's graduation ceremony. Another invited speaker was Morehouse alumnus Kevin Johnson, a prominent Philadelphia pastor. Then Johnson, an ardent Obama supporter during both presidential runs, wrote an article criticising the president for failing to appoint enough black cabinet members and to address the needs of African Americans in general. "Obama has not moved African-American leadership forward but backwards," he wrote. "We are not in the driver's seat – or even in the car … Why are we so loyal to a president who is not loyal to us?"
Shortly afterwards his speaker's slot was removed. Instead of addressing the students alone, the day before Obama, he will now be one of a three-person panel curated "to reflect a broader and more inclusive range of viewpoints".
Evidently, whatever they'll be celebrating at this graduation at Morehouse, it won't be critical thinking. And that's a shame. Because that's precisely what black America could do with more of at a time when the quest for greater black representation has been almost completely divorced from improving the material conditions of black people as a whole.
The brouhaha at Morehouse illustrates the degree to which space for this conversation within America's black communities has shrunk under Obama. "Too many black intellectuals have given up the hard work of thinking carefully in public about the crisis facing black America," said Princeton professor Eddie Glaude. "We have either become cheerleaders for President Obama or self-serving pundits." Hardly surprising when that "hard work" risks the backlash Johnson received. "I have friends," says Virginia state delegate Onzlee Ware, "who say I'm a traitor if I bring [Obama's shortcomings] up as an intellectual conversation."
This is partly a defensive response to the overt racism and disrespect that Obama has received, particularly (though not exclusively) from the right. But increasingly it feels more like a preference for mythology over meaningful engagement lest the symbolic importance of who Obama is – the first black president – be tainted by a substantial conversation about what he actually does. Yet the longer his presidency goes on, the more urgent those questions become.
For Johnson is right on two counts. First, Obama's second-term cabinet will probably have fewer black members than his first and those of either George W Bush or Bill Clinton. Meanwhile, there are the same number of black governors and Congressmen and one less elected senator than in 2008. "For all of the euphoria about the election of Barack Obama in black America, his election has not had coat-tails," said talk-show host Tavis Smiley.
Second, African Americans, as a group, are far worse off now than when Obama was elected and the wealth gap between whites and blacks has grown since the recession. Between 2007 and 2010 black families' wealth decreased by 31%; for white families it was 11%. "[Theracial wealth gap] was already dismal," Darrick Hamilton, a New School professor, told the New York Times. "It got even worse."
You can argue about the degree to which the relationship between Obama's presidency and that reality is causal. But you can't contest that it is factual. Obama's meteoric rise has coincided with black America's precipitous economic descent.
One reason why having that conversation is so difficult is because black people have rarely been more upbeat. They are considerably more optimistic than whites, presumably because the percentage in 2010 who thought black people were better off than they were five years earlier doubled, and a significant proportion think the standard of living gap between whites and blacks is actually narrowing. That optimism appears to be directly related to Obama's presidency. In 2011 African Americans were twice as likely to think race relations had got better as a result of his election than that they had deteriorated while 64% thought they would get "a lot better or a little better" in the years ahead. A third believe his election has been "the most important advance in terms of progress for blacks" in the past century.
So black Americans feel better even as they fare worse. Unravelling that contradiction demands more and deeper debate, not less. For while Johnson identifies part of the problem, his proposed solution is inadequate. Clinton's diverse cabinet coincided with a sharp increase in the black prison population and the slashing of welfare; Bush's diverse cabinet oversaw hurricane Katrina and the economic slump. Clearly, there is precious little correlation between the presence of black faces in high places and progress in black Americans' lives.
One shouldn't dismiss black representation as irrelevant or insist that symbolism is not important. But we shouldn't fetishise them either. For in themselves they are worse than meaningless without a discussion about what that representation is for and what those symbols mean.
It isn't that black Americans are entitled to special consideration because the president is black. Quite the opposite. They should demand of him what they would and have done of any president – greater equality and social justice. Only more so, because they gave him a greater percentage of their votes than any other group or to any other president. The "talented tenth" is barely worthy of the adjective unless it makes space for these debates or its progress is in some way related to the remaining 90%.
As Arundhati Roy explained in her essay Do Turkeys Like Thanksgiving, in which she referred to the presidential pardoning of a single turkey during Thanksgiving: "A few carefully bred turkeys … the occasional Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice … are given absolution and a pass to Frying Pan Park. The remaining millions lose their jobs, are evicted from their homes, have their water and electricity connections cut, and die of Aids. Basically, they're for the pot … who can say that turkeys are against Thanksgiving? They participate in it!"
What difference does it make if a few make it through the glass ceiling if millions are still confined to the basement?


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Q: Azure Functions Not Working VS2017 I've downloaded VS2017 Community Edition to try out Azure functions and I can't get it to work. I've searched many post on Stackoverflow and Azure functions Github pages but nowhere there seems to be a complete documentation about anything.
Here's what I have:
Azure function:
namespace FunctionApp1
{
    public static class Function1
    {
        [FunctionName("Function1")]
        public static void Run([ServiceBusTrigger("ngctestqueue", AccessRights.Manage, Connection = "Endpoint=sb://ngcservicebus.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=RootManageSharedAccessKey;SharedAccessKey=SERVICE_BUS_KEY")]string myQueueItem, TraceWriter log)
        {
            log.Info($"C# ServiceBus queue trigger function processed message: {myQueueItem}");
        }
    }
}

host.json
{
  "disabled": false,
  "bindings": [
    {
      "name": "myQueueItem",
      "type": "serviceBusTrigger",
      "direction": "in",
      "queueName": "ngctestqueue",
      "connection": "connection",
      "accessRights": "manage"
    }
  ]
}

local.settings.json
{
    "IsEncrypted": false,
  "Values": {
    "AzureWebJobsStorage": "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=ngctest2;AccountKey=STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net",
    "AzureWebJobsDashboard": "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=ngctest2;AccountKey=STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net",
    "AzureWebJobsServiceBus": "Endpoint=sb://ngcservicebus.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=RootManageSharedAccessKey;SharedAccessKey=SERVICE_BUS_KEY",
    "connection": "Endpoint=sb://ngcservicebus.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=RootManageSharedAccessKey;SharedAccessKey=SERVICE_BUS_KEY"
  }
}

When I run the function via F5 locally, I get the following error:
Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host: Error indexing method 'Func
tion1.Run'. Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.ServiceBus: Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK Serv
iceBus connection string 'AzureWebJobsEndpoint=sb://ngcservicebus.servicebus.win
dows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=RootManageSharedAccessKey;SharedAccessKey=SERVICE_BUS_KEY' is missing or empty.

My dev environment is as follows:
1) Windows 8.1 Pro
2) VS2017 Community 15.3.5
3) Azure Functions CLI 1.0.4
Any help would really be appreciated.
Thank you.

A: Connection property should be set to connection string name, not the value itself. The value will then be read from the config.
[ServiceBusTrigger("ngctestqueue", AccessRights.Manage, Connection = "AzureWebJobsServiceBus")]

You don't need to create host.json in local environment (it will be auto-generated by SDK).

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Quick Q and A with Elana James (Hot Club of Cowtown)
Hot Club of Cowtown is sizzling hot. All three members of the band (Elana James on fiddle, Whit Smith on guitar, and Jake Ervin on stand-up bass) play their respective instruments impeccably and with a passion that is undeniable. Their gypsy jazz infused music is infectious. It's nearly impossible to sit still in your seat when listening to them. Their new CD Rendezvous with Rhythm harkens back to their roots and more than exemplifies their dedication to the musical brilliance of the masters—Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.
To learn more about Elana and her bandmates, visit the Hot Club of Cowtown website.
(left to right: Jake Erwin, Elana James, Whitt Smith)
Your new CD Rendezvous with Rhythm is a major nod to the masters of gypsy jazz, Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. Did each of the Hotclub band members come to know this music early on in their music careers?
Well, I have always had an affinity for that kind of music–like from watching Woody Allen movies growing up (in Kansas), the movie Blue Velvet. It never occurred to me until much later that I had always been drawn to this style but didn't even know what it was or who played it or where it came from. I got more into it when I met Whit in NYC in 1994–fortunately he has very good taste and he helped point me in the right direction. I could just as easily have ended up playing hip hop covers at Sea World with a headset in the killer whale show. This is a better fit for me. Whit, for his part, started out as a rock'n'roller on Cape Cod but got into Django/Stephane through country music–I think some of the guitar players he discovered that way, like Eldon Shamblin, George Barnes and Freddie Green and Thumbs Carlisle–had a style that led him back toward early hot jazz.
Lloyd Maines produced this CD for you. What was it like working on this project with him? Did he bring some new elements to the discussion table and help you find the sound that you wanted?
Lloyd is like a Buddha. He is calm, has excellent musical ideas, and just to have him there while we are recording is very reassuring. It's like having an adult present at a kids party. In case things go wrong there's someone in charge. He's a really cool person, and, musically speaking, is very good at tweaking small things to bring out drama in a song or in little suggestions that make things sparkle more. He has helped us with lots of arrangements over the years and still whenever we play them I always think of him, of where they came from.
Was there one song on this collection that was the "anchor song" that you knew right away would be a crowd favorite?
I do love "Dark Eyes," which is the first track on the new album Rendezvous in Rhythm. It has a slow build and unfurls into a frenzy.
Hot Club of Cowtown is a multi-faceted band: you seem to attract a variety of different kinds of music fans (which is a very cool thing). You get the jazz aficionados, country devotees, and intrigued folkies! All these people love good music and know that they'll get it when they listen to you and get to experience you live. With such a diverse fan base, do you find yourselves playing at an extreme range of types of venues?
Over the years we have played a pretty crazy combination of places, for sure. We've been fortunate to play a few tours for the US State Department which has been one of the greatest thrills in our band's career so far. We've played a rodeo in Hawaii. We recently played for the mayor of Salalah at a cultural festival in the Sultanate of Oman. We were the first American band ever to tour in Azerbaijan, we've played several times on the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville as well as on NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition. We've played biker bars, remote villages in Armenia and the Republic of Georgia and at Jazz at Lincoln Center. We've toured with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson and once, when we were just getting going, we played a show for one person in Kentucky. Just last year we played a week-long residency at a fancy casino in central London, we played the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV, did a three-week tour of the UK that wrapped up in a little ancient church in the far north of Scotland, the Montana Folk Festival in Butte, Montana, a Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli gypsy jazz festival at a big folk venue in Berkeley, CA….Last weekend we played a dance event at BYU in Provo, UT where this huge troupe of undergraduate dancers leaped and twirled to choreographed versions of three of our songs and it was awesome. The list goes on and on. That's about normal for us! 🙂
Do you have any musical aspirations that haven't happened yet and that you'd like to float out there into the universe in hope of making them come true?
We are looking forward to being an overnight success.
Hot Club of Cowtown will be appearing at the me&thee in Marblehead, MA on Friday, April 12.
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Home » HPC Hardware » IBM Cloud to Provide Quantum-safe Cryptography in 2020
IBM Cloud to Provide Quantum-safe Cryptography in 2020
IBM took a major step today towards maintaining the highest level of security of its client's data and privacy in the future from fault-tolerant quantum computers with the demonstration of the world's first quantum computing safe tape drive prototype. Credit: IBM Research
Quantum Computing holds tremendous promise, but it could also put today's cryptographic-based security systems at risk.
Enter IBM, who just announced plans to provide quantum-safe cryptography services on the IBM public cloud in 2020. The company is now offering a Quantum Risk Assessment from IBM Security to help customers access their risk in the quantum world. Additionally, IBM cryptographers have prototyped the world's first quantum computing safe enterprise class tape, an important step before commercialization.
IBM is also committed to making quantum-safe algorithms available through the open source community. As an industry, we can only become secure if new quantum-safe algorithms are tested, interoperable and easily consumable in common security standards. To this end, IBM is donating algorithms and support to a number of open source projects such as OpenQuantumSafe.org.
These new services and technologies are building on IBM's leading position in quantum computing and leverage decades of research in cryptography to protect data at rest and in motion.
IBM first made quantum computers available through its public cloud in May 2016 with the IBM Q Experience platform. As of today, users have executed more than 28 million experiments and simulations on the quantum cloud platform and published over 180 third-party research papers.
Preparing Cybersecurity for a Quantum World
Quantum computing is an emerging form of technology that takes advantage of quantum mechanical phenomena to solve certain types of problems that are effectively impossible to solve on classical computers. As quantum systems become more powerful, they will also impact information security and will create new opportunities for improving security for data both on-premises and in the cloud.
At the current rate of progress in quantum computing, it is expected that data protected by the asymmetric encryption methods used today may become insecure within the next 10-30 years. While years away, data can be harvested today, stored and decrypted in the future with a powerful enough quantum computer. While the industry is still finalizing post-quantum cryptography standards, businesses and other organizations can start preparing today.
IBM Takes Steps to Help Clients Maintain Security in the Future World of Quantum Computing
With more enterprises turning to the cloud for their mission-critical data, IBM is bringing together its hybrid cloud leadership with quantum and security research expertise to stay at the forefront of future quantum cybersecurity threats.
IBM will begin to unveil quantum-safe cryptography services on its public cloud in 2020. To help clients achieve quantum-safe protection of their data while it is in-transit within IBM Cloud, IBM will enhance its TLS/SSL implementations in IBM Cloud services using algorithms designed to be quantum-safe leveraging open standards and open source technology. IBM is also evaluating approaches to provide services that render quantum-safe digital signatures.
IBM Cloud is taking the critical steps needed to help enterprises ensure their data stays secure in a quantum future," said Harish Grama, general manager, IBM Cloud. "Starting in 2020, IBM Cloud will roll out new services that will help keep data secured and private from the emerging cybersecurity challenges presented by future quantum computers."
IBM Research Donating Cryptographic Algorithms to Open Community, Demonstrates First Quantum-Safe Tape Storage Prototype
"In order to prepare for the impact that quantum computers are expected to have on data security, IBM Research has been developing cryptographic algorithms that are designed to be resistant to the potential security concerns posed by quantum computers," said Vadim Lyubashevsky, cryptographer, IBM Research. "Our jointly developed quantum-safe algorithms, part of a lattice cryptography suite called CRYSTALS, are based on the hardness of mathematical problems that have been studied since the 1980's and have not succumbed to any algorithmic attacks, either classical or quantum. This is why we have made our algorithms open source and have submitted them to NIST for standardization."
IBM has actively supported NIST on its journey to standardize quantum safe cryptography with preparatory input, algorithm submissions, analysis of submitted algorithms and feedback to the process. We will continue this commitment by contributing our learning as we migrate IBM's own systems and services to become quantum-safe based on the NIST standards, which are expected to be available between 2022-2024.
CRYSTALS (Cryptographic Suite for Algebraic Lattices) is developed jointly in collaboration with several academic and commercial partners including ENS Lyon, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and Radboud University. It's based on two quantum resistant cryptographic primitives – Kyber, a secure key encapsulation mechanism, and Dilithium, a secure digital signature algorithm. CRYSTALS has been donated to OpenQuantumSafe.org, to further develop open standards.
IBM has tested CRYSTALS successfully on a prototype IBM TS1160 tape drive using both Kyber and Dilithium in combination with symmetric AES-256 encryption to enable the world's first quantum computing safe tape drive. The new algorithms are implemented as part of the tape drive's firmware and could be provided to customers as a firmware upgrade for existing tape drives and/or included in the firmware of future generations of tape drives.
To help clients assess their potential risks and begin the quantum-safe journey, IBM Security is also offering a quantum data risk assessment service to help clients develop a quantum-safe cryptography implementation strategy.
To educate security professionals and executives on migrating to the next generation of quantum-safe cryptography, IBM Research has recently launched a Security Subscription service which provides quarterly reports and seminars. The next seminar is currently planned for October 2, 2019 in Zurich, Switzerland.
To learn more about quantum computing and its impact on information security, download the IBM Institute for Business Value report: Wielding a double-edged sword: Preparing cybersecurity now for a quantum world.
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Memorials at Unity Village
We understand the loss of a loved one can be an emotional experience. Our team can assist you in creating a celebration of life or memorial service that allows you to say goodbye in a way that is meaningful and honors the faith traditions you hold dear.
Whether you want to create an intimate gathering or a large celebration, our goal is to make the experience as stress-free as possible for you and your family.
"Sue's day was absolutely perfect. It was exactly what we needed to let the healing begin. You made a difficult day remarkably stress-free for us."—Pat Majesky
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Sacred Spaces. Unity Village offers a variety of indoor or outdoor locations for memorial services.
Officiant. You may bring your own minister or select from our list of qualified officiants.
Reception. Full-service, on-site catering is available.
On-Site Accommodations. Unity Village Hotel and Conference Center, an award-winning boutique hotel, as well as two Airbnbs, Fillmore Manor and Hummingbird Vista, are available on grounds for those who may be traveling.
Live-streaming. Broadcast the memorial to family and friends who are unable to attend.
Alternatives to a Formal Service
Eternal Gardens. Ashes may be spread in one of the many gardens on the Unity Village campus. A donation is recommended for scatterings. Reserve time in one of the gardens by calling 816-251-3511.
Personalized Pavers. The Rose Garden at Unity Village has always been a place where life is celebrated. Many families choose to honor the memory of their loved ones with a personalized brick paver placed in the Unity Village Rose Garden.
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For questions or to schedule a memorial service or ash scattering, contact us at 816-251-3511 or use our form.
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Below you will find some considerations you will want to think through as you plan a memorial for your loved one.
What do you want the service to look like? Is it a traditional service officiated by a minister, a happy hour reception with a dance floor, or something in between?
Whom do you want to speak? Do you want to have friends and family tell stories about your loved one's life, or would you prefer a minister do most of the speaking?
Do you want an officiant? Officiants help arrange the order of service and incorporate any special requests you and your family may have.
What kinds of readings would you like? Is there a certain poem or scripture that was special to your loved one?
What kind of music would you like? Music is a healing component of any celebration of life. Do you prefer live music, a soloist, a music playlist, or even a dance party?
Do you want a reception? Following the memorial service, do you want to gather friends and family to look at photos and share stories?
Potential Resources to Include
"I Am There" by James Dillet Freeman
"The Traveler" by James Dillet Freeman
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I recently wrote an article on Bubble Sort, more as an academic exercise than a piece of practical and usable code. At the bottom of the post I suggested that the C library's built-in qsort (Quicksort) function was the best option for sorting arrays in most situations.
However, there is more to using qsort than just throwing an array at a function: you need to provide your own comparator function, the implementation of which can be slightly fiddly if you are sorting anything other than primitive data types. In this article I'll start off with a simple int-sorting example, and then go on to sort an array of structs, firstly by an int and then by a string.
My long list of ideas for future posts includes implementing various sorting algorithms so I won't go into how Quicksort works here. If you are interested take a look at the Wikipedia article Quicksort here. For the purposes of this project we'll just treat the qsort function as a "black box".
This is a short and simple project so I'll just keep all the code in one source file. Create a file called qsort.c somewhere convenient, and then type or paste the following. You can download the source code from the Downloads page if you prefer.
One of the #includes is stdlib.h, needed for the qsort function. We'll use the author struct in an array which we'll sort by both id and name. The first three functions prototyped here are the comparator functions needed by the qsort function. The next two functions simply output arrays of ints and authors. The last two functions are called by main, and will create, sort and output arrays of ints and authors respectively.
As you can see sort_authors is commented out in main, as to start with we will just implement sort_integers and its associated functions. Enter/paste the code for the three functions needed to sort integers into qsort.c.
After calling qsort we simply output the data again in its sorted form.
which when you look at separately don't look so bad. In this particular case the pointer points to an int, so firstly we cast the void* to int*, and then dereference that pointer to give the actual value. These are then compared, and the appropriate value returned.
That's about as simple as qsort gets, but now we will go on to sort something slightly more complicated, an array of structs. The principle is exactly the same, the big difference is that extracting the values we want to actually compare from the pointers is more involved.
Enter or paste the following into qsort.c, comment out sort_integers in main, and uncomment sort_authors.
I'll gloss over the sort_authors and output_authors functions as they are essentially the same as the integer equivalents, except that we create, sort and output an array of authors rather than integers. Note though that we sort the array twice, firstly by id and secondly by name. The important functions here are compare_author_id and compare_author_name.
we would be attempting to obtain the id property of a and then casting that to an author pointer, which of course is completely wrong and indeed meaningless. If we tried it the compiler would humiliate us with a suitable error message.
The strcmp function returns the same < 0, 0, > 0 values that qsort expects so we can just return its return value as-is.
Of course you can create an array of anything, building up data structures of any complexity. It is therefore impossible to give examples of all possible comparator functions to be passed to qsort, but I hope this article is a good start. Please let me have any ideas, suggestions or questions in Comments below, and please follow Code in C on Twitter for news of future posts.


When I think back on it I realize how naive we were. Before enrollment season even started we jotted down a list of public schools for our rising Kindergartener. When school tours and info nights started it felt like all we had to do was go to confirm the final order for our district choices and check the boxes for our charter choices. Easy, right? What neither my partner nor I expected was the depth of the conversations we would dig into, the shift in priorities, and what would emerge as her learning journey into the world of public education in Oakland. Like so many other parents around us and before us we had to utter "no one prepared me for this." Welcome to parenthood in the age of school choice.
A little background first. Ten years ago my partner and I bought a house in the Longfellow neighborhood. This was far before the idea of a kid crossed our minds so we weren't combing GreatSchools to find a house that would give us choice neighborhood preference. We were literally trying to find something we could afford. Many years later when we had a toddler, we enrolled her in a bilingual daycare and then a Spanish immersion preschool. So, when we started to think about Kindergarten it only made sense to focus on schools with dual language programs.
We wanted her to be bilingual. For a kid born in California these days that just makes sense. Interest and demand for these programs, particularly in a few schools, has grown over the years. In response, this is the first year that the district has put a Spanish language assessment in place to help bring balance between enrollment of native and non-native speakers. I was heading down the path of having our daughter tested. Of course we wanted her to test into the Spanish language pathway, right?
If Our Daughter Gets in, Who Doesn't?
Throughout our enrollment journey I was glad to have the views and questions that my partner threw at me. Unlike me, she does not think about Oakland education every day. She brought a fresh perspective and often raised the questions that we had to wrestle with most deeply. She was not sold on the language assessment. "Why should we take a space from a native speaking student?" I saw her point. While our daughter would bring her native English skills to a school, her years learning Spanish did not replace what a native speaker would bring.
It is the blend of these two worlds that makes these programs stronger. Now I say all of this knowing many friends who choose to participate in the assessment. And we 100% support that. We made the choice that felt right for our family and respect the choices of other families to do the same. That is our job as parents. And we owe each other the respect to honor our individual choices. And by no means should our choice suggest that we don't support the assessments to help bring balance to these programs. We are happy to see this new process happening in Oakland.
On our tours we wrestled with the balance of how we saw schools through the cold, hard look of data and what it felt like inside a building. As part of my partner's dive into Oakland public education we sat in my office for nearly three hours on a Saturday where she would ask a question and I would pull up the data to answer it: "Where do the kids live who attend that school? What is the demand rate? How are they doing in math? What about absences?" Yup, this is the exciting life of being married to someone who looks at a lot of education data. Some schools we visited felt so warm that I wanted to spend all day there. One school we toured had created such a strong community for the students in the neighborhood. Students who traveled across several borders to even access education were surrounded by a safe, understanding, and nurturing warmth. Here again we had to pause. My often quiet and thoughtful partner raising a similar question, "This school is so amazing for the kids in this neighborhood. What does it mean if we try to take a space for our daughter?" This school reflected the community in which it sat – a true reflection of the neighborhood. What might happen to a neighborhood student who doesn't get in because our daughter did? Perhaps we over thought all of these questions and others would see us as fools. But these felt like important questions to ask.
In the end, we submitted our applications for district and charter schools and waited to see how the lottery would treat us. The school we originally thought would be our first choice overall did not even make it to the application. We had dual language schools on our list, but not prioritized as high as we had planned. The reality of living in the congested Bay Area set in and we needed to find a school closer to home and work. Both of us felt a sadness about having to make these tough decisions. And we know that we are not alone. Ideals and wishes have to meet reality. When it came time to hit submit on our applications I had to trust (sometimes it felt like blind trust) that we would land in the school community we were meant to be in. It felt odd, so many of the choices we made for our daughter felt intentional and this one felt, well, like a lottery.
The day after the lottery assignments came out my partner was asking me for about the eighth time to explain what I knew technically about how the lottery works. She was perplexed by some of the assignments others families had gotten particularly for district schools. It did not make sense to her that for the same school some families who ranked it last got in while other families who ranked it number one did not. We were less surprised by the results for charter schools even for our own choices. This led to a conversation about the Opportunity Ticket. She wanted to know if students from schools that closed or merged would really have a chance to get into high demand schools. "Do you want me to show you the presentation from the school board meeting?" I had to ask. I just could not explain this well before breakfast.
I did not expect that at the end of the enrollment process these were the questions that my partner would raise regularly, but I was glad it was happening. We need more parents to dig in deeply and ask these tough questions, not just at school board meetings but across school campuses and to each other. I know that right now there is a lot of division in Oakland around education. I keep thinking about and hoping that in the end there is more that can unite us than divide us.
August still feels far away, but I know that it will come quickly. The first day of Kindergarten will be a huge milestone for our daughter, but also for us as parents. As we contemplate joining the Kaiser Elementary school community we will come ready to roll-up our sleeves and work for all the students in that building (or whatever building that loving school operates within). We are all in this together.
Dana Wellhausen has lived in Oakland for more than twenty years and worked in Oakland education at the Rogers Family Foundation for nearly six. Together with her partner Jenny, a land surveyor working all over Oakland and beyond, she is the proud parent of an incoming Oakland Kindergartener who will debate you on whether or not a Diplodocus is a dinosaur (hint, it is!). Views shared are her own.


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シンガー ジェーン
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E-mail: singer.jane.6e*kyoto-u.ac.jp (Replace * with @)
Associate Professor, Environmental Education, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
Academic Degrees
Ph.D., Global Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, January, 2015
Master of International Affairs, Specialization in Economic and Political Development, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, USA, May 1983
Fields of Specialization
Migration and displacement, participatory development, education for sustainability
Principal investigator, JSPS Research Project (Challenging Exploratory): Evaluating Impacts and Community Resilience of Dam-displaced Indigenous Villages in Central Vietnam, 2011-2013.
Co-investigator, JSPS Research Project (B Overseas): Tertiary Education for Sustainable Development Initiative (Principal investigator Prof. Tracey Gannon, GSGES), 2011-2014.
Co-investigator, JSPS Research Project (B Overseas): Integrated Assessment of Post-Disaster Recovery of Coastal Communities (Principal investigator Prof. Andreas Neef, GSGES), 2012-2014.
Collaborator, JSPS Research Project (B Overseas): Globalization and Plantations in Southeast Asia: Oil Palm Transforming Economy, Nature and Community (Principal investigator Prof. Hideki Hayashida, Doshisha University), 2014-2017.
Principal investigator, JSPS Research Project (B Overseas): Intergenerational Impacts and Resilience of Transmigrant Communities in the Outer Islands of Indonesia, 2015-2018.
Co-investigator, JSPS Research Project (B Overseas): Housing Reconstruction after Natural Disasters in Indonesia (Principal investigator Prof. Kenji Okazaki, GSGES), 2015-2018.
Principal investigator, CoHHO Project: Comparing livelihood strategies between mountain and peri-urban resettlement communities in central Vietnam, 2015- 2018.
Singer J. 2010. Biodiversity: Japan's Satoyama and our shared future, Kyoto Journal No. 75, September 2010.
Singer J., Hoang H., Mizuno K., and Kobayashi H. Future research on dam-induced displacement and community adaptation and resilience in the highlands of central Vietnam. GSGES Asian Platform Annual Report 2010, pp. 103-107.
Singer J. Negotiating biodiversity: COP 10's (modest) attempt to save life on Earth, Sansai: An Environmental Journal for the Global Community, No. 5, 2011.
Singer J., Pham H. T. & Hoang H. Broadening stakeholder participation to improve outcomes for dam-forced resettlement in Vietnam. Water Resources and Rural Development, 4, 85-103, 2014.
Singer J. & Hoang H. Participation in resettlement decision-making by dam-displaced villagers in central Vietnam. Asia Journal of Global Studies, 6(1), 16-29, 2014.
Singer J. & Watanabe T. Reducing reservoir impacts and improving outcomes for dam‐forced resettlement: experiences in central Vietnam. Lakes & Reservoirs: Research & Management, 19(3), 225-235, 2014.
Singer J., Hoang H. & Ochiai C. Post-displacement community resilience: Considering the contribution of indigenous skills and cultural capital among ethnic minority Vietnamese. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2015.
Neef A. & Singer J. Development-induced displacement in Asia: conflicts, risks, and resilience. Development in Practice, 25(5), 601-611. (Co-editor of special section), 2015.
Singer J. 開発による強制移住―経済成長が引き起こす犠牲とは?地球環境学のすすめVol. 3.東京:丸善出版, 2014.
Price S. and Singer J., eds., Global Implications of Development, Disasters and Climate Change: Responses to Displacement from Asia Pacific. Oxford, UK: Routledge Publishers, 2015.
Singer J. & Bird W. Pondering the right to return… and the right not to: Fukushima evacuees in limbo. In Price S. and Singer J., eds., Global Implications of Development, Disasters and Climate Change: Responses to Displacement from Asia Pacific. Oxford, UK: Routledge Publishers, 2015, 222-239.
Singer J., Gannon T.J., Noguchi F., & Mochizuki Y., eds., Education for Sustainability in Japan: Fostering Resilient Communities after the Triple Disaster. Oxford, UK: Routledge Publishers, planned for 2016.
Singer, J. and Hoang, H. 2011. Policy and implementation in the resettlement of ethnic minority communities displaced by hydropower dams in central Vietnam, WISC Third International Global Studies Conference, Porto, Portugal, August 19, 2011.
Singer, J. 2012. Participation and empowerment for dam-displaced indigenous minority villagers in central Vietnam, Asian Association for Global Studies Seventh Annual International Conference, Tokyo, Japan, March 19, 2012.
Singer J. Broadening stakeholder participation to improve outcomes: Dam-induced resettlement in Vietnam, International Conference on Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement: Bridging Research and Practice, Filling the Knowledge Gaps, Oxford University. March 2013.
Singer J. Post-displacement community resilience: Considering the contribution of indigenous skills and social capital, International Geographical Union 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference. August 2013.
Singer J. The contribution of cultural capital to reconstruction of minority villages in central Vietnam. NZASIA 2013 Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand. November 2013.
Singer J. Co-host of session Responses to Displacement in Asia Pacific, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. July 2015.
Singer J. Pondering the right to return and the right not to: Fukushima evacuees in limbo. International Geographical Union 2015 Moscow Regional Conference. August 2015.
Courses at Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies:
Environmental Ethics and Environmental Education
Migration and Displacement in Developing Nations
Academic Writing Strategies
International Liberal Arts and Sciences courses:
Introduction to Sustainable Development
Topics in Human Geography
Human and Environmental Interactions


Under the present regime, under-construction apartments are treated as work contracts in which the land, goods such as cement and steel, and services are involved.
If you have already bought a flat but the entire payment has not been made, you will be charged tax at the GST rate on the remaining amount to be paid, which is likely to be between 12% and 18%.
Amit Kumar Sarkar, partner in tax consultancy firm Grant Thornton, said the rise in prices will be due to an increase in the net tax incidence for apartments under construction.
Under the present regime, under-construction apartments are treated as work contracts in which the land, goods such as cement and steel, and services are involved. Therefore, to tax its services portion only , an abatement of 60% of the total cost is allowed. So, the net service tax liability is calculated at 15% on 40% of the total cost, which works out to be 6% of total cost. Besides this, a buyer also has to pay 1% VAT (value-added tax).
Pratik Jain, leader of indirect tax with consultancy firm PwC, said in the suggested framework of GST, work contracts as well as sales of under-construction apartments are treated as a service.The problem arises as no abatement is allowed in lieu of land and other commodities such as steel, cement and sand used for the construction.
Now, if the GST rate is fixed at 12%, the net tax incidence will increase by around 6% from the earlier level. But if the rate is fixed at 18%, the rise would be by around 12%.
The problem got compounded as stamp duty, which is levied by the local state government on the registration of the property , has not been subsumed in GST. Therefore, over and above service tax, the buyer will have also to pay a stamp duty of 5-8% in different states.
Credai president Getambar Anand Said said as stamp duty is levied on the real estate, the sector should be treated separately and abatement should be allowed to calculate GST, so that the net tax incidence does not rise.
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has received over 1.35 lakh applications for its 972 houses being sold through a lottery. The overwhelming response only reiterates the pent-up demand for affordable housing in India's commercial capital.
NOIDA: Possession of 50,000 flats is slated for this year-end in Noida Extension but lack of infrastructure and amenities like streetlights, roads, security, water connections and power supply is set to delay the handover.


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En aéronautique, la cabine est la partie de l'aéronef (avion de ligne ou dirigeable) où prennent place les passagers. Comme beaucoup de termes aéronautiques, ce terme est hérité de la navigation maritime, dans laquelle la cabine est la "chambre" où les passagers se reposent. Depuis les débuts de l'aviation commerciale, dans l'entre-deux-guerres, la cabine est traditionnellement placée vers l'arrière du fuselage, derrière le poste de pilotage, où prend place le personnel navigant technique, tandis quand le personnel navigant commercial prend soin des passagers.

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 Cabine d'avion de ligne

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