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Paris Delivers the Promised Climate Deal to Resounding Cheer and Applause
By Diego Arguedas Ortiz	Reprint | | Print |
According to the Paris Agreement, the world will pursuit a 1.5C global temperature rise target, a recent addition propelled by the civil society and key players like the Climate Vulnerable Forum. This action on Thursday afternoon pushed for this goal. Credit: Diego Arguedas Ortiz/IPS
PARÍS, Dec 13 2015 (IPS) - The impossible was made possible. Governments from 195 countries around the world emerged here with the first universal agreement to cut greenhouse gases emissions and reduce the negative impacts of climate change.
After two weeks' worth of intense negotiations at the 2015 Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, diplomats and ministers cheered the Paris Agreement as completion of a four-year long process with many checkpoints.
A French-woven process managed to avoid the fate of the failed 2009 climate summit, the last time such an ambitious agreement was attempted, and delivered a robust treaty that includes everything from financial obligations and the respect of human rights and ecosystems' integrity.
"It is my deep conviction that we have come up with an ambitious and balanced agreement. Today it is a moment of truth," said French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, who chaired the summit over the two weeks.
After almost two hours in the Plenary Room and a quiet discussion over the choice of a verb in a critical article in the agreement (a "shall" instead of a "should"), Fabius was finally able to line-up delegates in their positions and pick up the thematic COP21 gavel: "It is a small gavel but I think it can do a great job."
If ratified by the now signing parties, it would be the first globally legal agreement tasking every nation with addressing climate change. It will succeed the Kyoto Protocol which is now an obsolete treaty that never lived to its expectations and only charged developed countries with responsibility.
The resulting science-advised agreement managed to gather support from all the negotiating groups in the UN Climate Convention, from the bloc of small insular states to the alliance of industrialized nations.
"The text is not perfect but it is a good foundation for climate action," declared the South African Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, after the ovation following its approval.
"This is a first step of a long journey," concluded the minister, the first among those who spoke during the closing plenary.
Many of the delegates who took the floor during the night recalled the need for fuelling the Agreement's implementation during the forthcoming years, specially at 2016's climate summit to be held in Marrakech, Morocco.
Through this deal, the world agrees to limit the increase in global temperature to "well below 2C" and in pursuit of 1.5C, a target that might save the world's most vulnerable countries, particularly atoll nations in the Pacific, Indian and Caribbean.
It also grants 100 billion dollars a year from developed countries after 2020, formalizes a mechanism established two years ago to address irreparable damage caused by climate change and defined a long term goal, which was defined as the balance between emissions and carbon sinks, something between 2050 and 2100.
The agreement came after two weeks of intense talks in the massive conference center at Le Bourget, in the outskirts of Paris, lead in the indaba format used for the Durban Climate Talks in 2011 which began the road for the Paris Agreement.
"Despite diversity and divergence, we have found common ground." said Emmanuel M. de Guzman, Climate Change Commissioner and head delegate for the Philippines.
The negotiator stated that the summit "has given us 1.5 to survive and thrive. It's now up to us all to bring that vision into reality," through national actions and international cooperation.
Once again, the Philippines was among the leading voices during the climate talks, this time leading the charge with the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a self-defined "leadership group" of 33 countries that didn't take part in negotiations but pressed hard on topics like the 1.5C goal.
"And now as one family of nations – as sisters and brothers of one world – we can move forward with greater resolve and ambition, hopeful of winning the fight against climate change. We may be vulnerable but we are also capable when we work together," argued de Guzman.
Earlier on Saturday, Fabius had presented parties with what he considered to be a bridging proposal of the agreement, the fifth in the last two months alone. This was the agreed text countries signed in on Saturday.
The Agreement was acknowledged as a positive outcome by the majority of civil society observers, a signal of the growing transition from a fossil fuel dependent 20th century to a new economy based on renewable and green energy.
"The agreement's temperature goal, net zero emissions objective, and processes to steadily increase the ambition of national emissions reduction commitments combine to send a clear message to the fossil fuel industry: after decades of deception and denial, your efforts to block action on climate change are no longer working." said through a statement Alden Meyer Director of Policy and Strategy, Union of Concerned Scientists.
Many activists and even the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, said they hoped the approval of the agreement would send a strong signal to private markets working in energy-related sectors to drop fossil fuels and invest in renewables.
Another major victory for sectors of civil society and international leaders like the former Irish President Mary Robinson was the inclusion of human rights and gender as a driving element for the Agreement.
After pushback from Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and developed nations such as the United States and Norway, the support of key players like Mexico, the Philippines and other Latin American emerging economies helped to keep their mention in the text.
Yet, experts were fast to acknowledge this was but one step in the urgently needed transition to a cleaner and more resilient economies.
"All countries have agreed upon the pathway to phase out all fossil fuels, but failed to make headway towards this common goal. This is why the hard work needs to continue after the summit", said Wendel Trio, Director of Climate Action Network Europe.
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It is a nice temple and I have been to this several times. Good that you have written a nice post on this temple.
Nice pictures. Check out the two pillars- Trishul and Chakra -have astronomical significance.
Thanks Siddeshwar. I don't know much about it. I would try to know.


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Making the medallions
(L-R) Walter Lopez, Freeman Stamper and David Bowers
The story of the origins of how the medallions are made
as written by Freeman Stamper [1]
At the 1998 Portland Convention. I relinquished the Medallion Dancer Project to Rick Hawes. At the 1989 New York Convention, I had started the first gathering of information about earlier convention registrants. I was visiting with my friend David Bowers for a few days prior to the start of Convention, and I said to him one morning: "Just because you manufacture plumbing supplies, do the products always have to look like plumbing parts?" Thus began his efforts to cast the medallions after Mark Davis had completed his design concept. There were many failed attempts with his fabricators in China because David was never satisfied that the end product had the detailed finish that he thought was appropriate. In 1989, David was in the beginning of a relationship with Walter Lopez which eventually became a marriage. My friendship with David goes way back to the early 1970's in Washington, DC, when he and friends started going to the big drag show I did for six years called "Show Stoppers."
As the 1993 Seattle Convention drew nigh for the first presentation of the medallions at the first 10th convention, David and Walter turned to fabricators in the U.S. He was able to locate a gentleman who was basically retired but agreed to produce them. The medallions arrived in San Francisco only days before I was to leave for Seattle and were actually engraved in Seattle. What a madhouse that was.
My last official act as Mother of the Medallion Project was to present medallions to David and Walter. It was the first time they had been to a convention and the first time they allowed me to tell anyone that they had funded all the research, production attempts, and the final production costs. They were awarded as Angels of Square Dancing. That's a great story of selfless giving because a friend was trying to do something in an activity in which they had no interest.
After a long battle with cancer, David L Bowers died on the evening of, September 13, 2019. Please keep Walter in your closest and dearest thoughts. For me, it's one of those moments when my grief cup had been filling, reached the tipping point, and is now overflowing. I am moved to tears and deep sadness.
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It is easy to Submit the Manuscript at Jacobs publishes.
It should be clearly mentioned in the cover letter along with the title, if it is submitted to the Special Issue. Ex: Special Issue: Development of critical care in AIDS patients.


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Q: Python: How to only loop over first 'x' items of a very long list; Writing a Twitter bot with tweepy Noob here. I'm sure this is a simple problem. I'm writing a Twitter bot with tweepy. I've hit a snag. I'm getting a 'Rate limit exceeded' error when I'm calling the api to make a list of followers. From what I understand, this is due to Twitter imposing a limit on calls to the api.
My code snippet:
for follower in tweepy.Cursor(api.followers).items():
    follower_ids.append(follower.id)

My question: How do I grab the first 'x' items from tweepy.Cursor(api.followers).items()?  in range seemed like the obvious solution, but I couldn't get it to work.

A: You can restrict tweepy's cursor limit like this:
# Only iterate through the first 200 followers
for follower in Cursor(api.followers).limit(200):
     follower_ids.append(follower.id)

This is pretty explicit in the docs, see here.

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2019/2020 Season (65th year), Art at the Institute (ART@TI), Online Exhibits
Online Exhibition | Frontline / Peace Life: Ukraine's Revolutionaries of the Forgotten War
J.T. Blatty
Frontline / Peace Life: Ukraine's Revolutionaries of the Forgotten War
Art at the Institute was pleased to present Frontline / Peace Life, an exhibition of photographic portraits by J.T. Blatty, chronicling a generation of volunteer soldiers of the war in eastern Ukraine and their stories of a return to a marginalized existence, "peace-life," as the war moves into its sixth year without resolution. The exhibition opened on January 16, 2020 and now is available for viewing online. Co-curated by Walter Hoydysh, PhD, Director of Art at the Institute and J.T. Blatty, this marks Blatty's first solo showing with The Ukrainian Institute of America (UIA).
Former U.S. Army Captain J.T. (Jenn) Blatty graduated from The United States Military Academy at West Point. She is a 2002-03 combat veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq, the author of Fish Town: Down the Road to Louisiana's Fishing Communities, a photojournalist, and FEMA disaster reservist photographer whose articles and photographs have been published in Bloomberg Magazine, National Geographic, PDN Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Savannah Magazine, The Daily Beast/Newsweek, The Oxford American, and CNN Photos amongst others. Since early 2018, she spent months embedded in the war in eastern Ukraine, working with Ukraine's volunteer soldiers and veterans of the war in Donbas. Her project, Frontline, Peace Life: Ukraine's Revolutionaries of the Forgotten War, was previously exhibited at the Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago (May 2019). More about Jenn Blatty at jtblatty.com.
Dmytro "Babay" Lavrenchuk: Was working in marketing and digital advertising in Kyiv when the first students were beaten during Maidan. He then became actively involved in the revolution and following the Crimea annexation, joined the Aydar Volunteer Battalion, traveling East by bus where he fought as a combatant, liberating and defending Ukrainian towns in the Luhansk region. He was wounded in action and sustained life-threatening injuries from a grenade launcher shelling. Dima is now a student in Kyiv, pursuing degrees in public administration and law to combat government corruption.
READ EXCERPT FROM HIS STORY
Alina "Alya" Viatkina: Following Maidan, at the age of 18, Alina started her own Twitter fundraising campaign to collect medical and other supplies before she hitchhiked to the frontline to deliver them. She eventually stayed on the front as a paramedic with the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (Right Sector) and worked under the shellings of the battle for the Donetsk Airport. She currently works with female veterans to help them cope with psychological trauma from the war. READ EXCERPT FROM ALINA'S STORY
Bizhan Sharopov: Originally from Tajikistan, Bizhan was a PhD student in biology in Kyiv before the war. When Crimea was seized by Russia, he began training to prepare for combat and eventually found his way by bus to the front-line where he joined the Aydar Volunteer Battalion, liberating and defending towns in the Luhansk region. Today he continues his work in the biology field as a researcher and is writing a book about his experience during the war. READ EXCERPT FROM BIZHAN'S STORY
Uliya "Cuba" Sidorova: Originally from Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, Cuba traveled to Maidan after the students were first beaten and stayed until the end, assisting with the wounded and killed in a makeshift hospital that was established by the people. After Maidan, she joined the Hospitallers medical unit on the front line and worked as a paramedic with them until 2017, when she created her own medical unit with a comrade within the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (Right Sector). She continues to serve there today on the frontline. READ EXCERPT FROM CUBA'S STORY
Dmytro "Davinci" Kotsiubailo: Originally from Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine, Davinci was 18 and a student of the arts, focused on painting, before he became an active participant in the Euromaidan revolution. It was during Maidan that he joined the Right Sector and began training with them for combat immediately following the annexation of Crimea. Shortly thereafter, they deployed East, where he volunteered as a combatant. He continues to serve on the frontline today with the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (Right Sector) as the First Assault Company Commander. READ EXCERPT FROM DAVINCI'S STORY
Edward "Edvas" Hatmullin: A Soviet soldier from the first Georgian War (1989-91), Ed was living and working in-between Donetsk and Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine when the war erupted. He was displaced from his home in Donetsk and quickly went to the aid of the ground forces, navigating them along back roads to enter and liberate separatist-controlled towns. He continued assisting troops by delivering supplies in both the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, and in 2015 co-founded East and West United, a logistical operation providing medical equipment, ammunition, food, and other supplies to the entire frontline of the Donetsk region (to volunteer and regular army soldiers), and continues to run operations today. READ EXCERPT FROM ED'S STORY
Valera "Indeyets" Krukov: Was a tattoo artist and freelance artist, crafting stained glass for churches when the first students were beaten on Maidan. When he learned of his best friend's sister being severely beaten by the Berkut, he became an active participant and was eventually shot by the riot police at close range during protests, resulting in the loss of his eye. After numerous surgeries in 2014, he deployed with friends to the East, working as a "freelance sniper," and continues to volunteer on the front line today.
READ EXCERPT FROM INDEYETS' STORY
Olena "Mellon" Maksymenko: Ukrainian journalist, was seized and held as a POW in March 2014 by Russian authorities in Crimea after she traveled there to investigate. She was interrogated and tortured for three days under suspicion that she was a spy for the United States. After her release, she went East and volunteered in an organization supporting citizens caught in the crossfire of the war, and after joined the Right Sector as a volunteer paramedic. Olena continues to travel to the frontline as a journalist and is a "reservist" for the Right Sector as a paramedic, should there be another war escalation.
READ EXCERPT FROM MELLON'S STORY
Oleksandr "Mongol" Yermoshyn: Originally from Berdychiv in the Zhitomir region, Sasha was a taxi driver and a musician before Maidan. After the Russians invaded Crimea, he joined The Wings of Phoenix, a volunteer organization that took on multiple roles, from transporting dead bodies to delivering essential supplies to the Ukrainian Army and volunteer soldiers on the frontline, including tactical and medical equipment, uniforms and food. In 2015 he joined the 58th Infantry Brigade and has been serving on the frontline of the war ever since. READ EXCERPT FROM MONGOL'S STORY
Dmytro "Sim'orka" Kulish: Was a Special Forces Platoon Deputy Commander in the Donbas Volunteer Battalion (National Guard of Ukraine). He was captured by Russians in the "green corridor" when trying to exit the city of Ilovaisk with his troops in August 2014, when Ukrainian forces were ambushed and encircled by insurgents and hundreds of soldiers were massacred and wounded. An agreement with Russian commanders allowed the return of wounded Ukrainian Forces soldiers to safety, but the Donbas Battalion volunteers were handed over to the separatists by Russian officers. Dima was tortured and held captive for nearly ten months before being released in June 2015. READ EXCERPT FROM DIMA'S STORY
Yulya "Valkyrie" Tolopa: Crossed the Ukrainian border from Russia when she was 18, inspired to understand the true events of the Maidan revolution versus reports from the Russian media. Shortly thereafter she jumped on a bus to the frontline and joined the Aydar Volunteer Battalion, liberating and defending towns in the Luhansk region. Today, she continues to serve on the frontline in the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a Russian citizen, protected by Ukraine from Russia's request for extradition. She is still fighting to obtain Ukrainian citizenship, her attempts stifled by a law requiring proof of no criminal history from her mother country, where she is wanted as a traitor. READ EXCERPT FROM VALKYRIE'S STORY
Alina "Zabava" Gordeeva: Before Maidan, Alina was a manager at a pharmaceutical factory in Kyiv. After the annexation of Crimea, she joined the Ukrainian National Self Defense (UNSD) where she was trained in tactical medicine and weaponry amongst other skills. The UNSD then deployed East near the Donetsk Airport, where Alina delivered volunteer-donated supplies to the frontline soldiers near Voldyane, transported sick and wounded soldiers from the frontline to hospitals, and worked as a medical instructor, training frontline soldiers the skills to treat and react to combat injuries. READ EXCERPT FROM ALINA'S STORY
Eugene "Zhora" Turchak: Was an executive director for a Kyiv construction firm before he joined the Euromaidan revolution, delivering merchandise from his warehouses to the revolutionaries. After Russia invaded Crimea, he immediately visited a recruiting station, was assigned to the 95th Brigade and deployed East. He was assigned to a special assault task force, responsible for storming and liberating separatist-occupied towns including in Stepanivka and Zelenopillia, where his squad liberated three Ukrainian Armed Forces Brigades that were surrounded by the insurgents. Today, he works as a project manager for veterans support nonprofit organizations. READ EXCERPT FROM HIS STORY
Call Sign: Connor
Dnipro-1 (9th Company) Volunteer Battalion.
Connor an architect in Dnipro before joining the Maidan revolution in the Dnepropetrovsk region. After witnessing the unrest in the East during a soccer game in Donetsk, she began preparing to defend her hometown with thousands of others in Dnipro, then joined the Dnipro-1 battalion and volunteered as a combatant on the frontline until 2015. In 2016 she began training regular armed forces soldiers, but unable to keep away from the fight, she joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces that same year and continues to serve on the frontline today.
Connor's Excerpt: Recently I read, or rather recently re-read Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls". There is a phrase saying "that we should win the war and shoot nobody…and that those who fought against us should be educated to see their error." But it's impossible. With each passing year you have less and less faith that this war may ever be over.
World War I or II ended with some capitulation or destruction of one state. This is some comprehensive victory, and I really hope that we are bringing it closer by being here rather than home.
Vadym "Tsar" Boyko: Was working as a foreman in Belarus when he caught news of the war. He immediately returned to Ukraine and went to a recruitment station to sign up for the fight. He deployed to the East with the 90th Separate Air Battalion, engaging his first battle in Pisky as an unofficial commander after his lieutenant was killed and the remaining official military leaders abandoned the area. From Pisky, Vadym went on to defend the Donetsk Airport until they were ordered to retreat under the first ceasefire agreements.
Tsar's Excerpt: We were storming the old terminal, but in the end we were ordered to retreat, although we could have taken it. We retreated, took further positions and the separatists hung the bodies of our dead comrades in the windows of the old terminal right in front of us.
Valerii "Schumacher" Vlasov: Originally from Bila Tserkva, near Kyiv, Valera, a former Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) soldier at the time, was working at a casino when he was drawn to become an active participant in the Revolution of Dignity (Euromaidan), driven by a desire to do something purposeful with his life. In April, he attempted joining multiple volunteer battalions to join in the fight against the Russian-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine, and by August joined an Armored Personnel Carrier team with two other volunteers in the Aydar Volunteer Battalion, where he helped liberate and defend towns and villages in the Luhansk region until 2015. Not content with the "peace life," he joined the 72nd Brigade of the UAF in 2018, where he continues to serve on the frontline of the war presently.
READ EXCERPT FROM SHUMACHER'S STORY
Resort Shyrokyne, Ukraine 2019
A volunteer militant from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) patrols the streets of abandoned, war-destroyed resort homes in Shyrokyne. Once a popular, beachside resort city near Mariupol, Shyrokyne became a major launching point for Russian-backed separatists in 2014 during the war in the Donbas, until Ukrainian forces recaptured it in 2015.
Waiting Game Avdiivka, Ukraine 2018
Soldiers on the frontline in Avdiivka, in the operations area, monitoring the night for attacks from the Russian-backed separatist side.
Vendetta Pisky, Ukraine 2018
Stacked ammunition crates at a "block post," or checkpoint, to the frontline positions in Pisky. Before the war, Pisky had a population of approximately 2,000 residents. In 2014, it became a major battleground during fighting for the Donetsk Airport, which ultimately fell to the Russian-backed separatists in 2015. As of 2016, less than 20 residents remain in the war-destroyed village, living amongst the soldiers who continue to hold defensive positions in the ongoing war.
Sunflowers and Oil Vodyane, Ukraine 2019
Soldier of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army stands in a harvested sunflower field less than 100 meters from the frontline in Vodyane.
Scope Popasna, Ukraine 2019
View through the scope of a Ukrainian soldier on the frontline in Popasna, looking toward the Russian-backed separatist controlled side in the Luhansk region.
Right Sector Avdiivka, Ukraine 2018
2014 and present day volunteers of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corp, Alina Mykhailova and "Davinci" Kotsubailo, with their dog in a former school transformed into a military operations center in the frontline town of Avdiivka. The Ukrainian Volunteer Corp and the Ukrainian Volunteer Army were one volunteer force in 2014 under the Right Sector, until they split in 2015 into the Ukrainian Volunteer Corp and the Ukrainian Volunteer Army. The UVC and UVA are two of the only major organized volunteer units that have refused to be integrated under the Ministry of Defense, therefore their volunteers cannot receive state benefits as war participants, and when they die on the frontline, their deaths are not counted in the figures.
Rehab Kyiv, Ukraine 2019
Dmytro Lavrenchuk, 2014 Aydar volunteer combatant (wounded in action), inside of the Kyiv City Clinical Hospital for War Veterans, a municipal service for soldiers with registered injuries and "war participant" status.
Popasna Ukraine, 2019
War destroyed remains of the welcome sign for Popasna, a frontline town in the Luhansk region of the Donbas. Popasna fell under control of the Russian-backed separatists twice in the summer of 2014 until the Ukrainian forces permanently retook it the same summer. Nearly abandoned now, the remains are frequently shelled by the insurgents.
Returning the Call, Avdiivka, Ukraine 2019
A soldier from the 20th Battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reloads his weapon to return fire towards the Russian-backed separatists during a night shift defending positions in Avdiivka. Even under the Minsk ceasefire agreements since 2015, nightly violations are routine, with casualties amounting every week. In the Industrial Zone of Avdiivka, it is routine for soldiers to take shifts firing small arms weapons during the night to demonstrate the presence of Ukrainian soldiers maintaining their hold on the positions.
Pisky School Pisky, Ukraine 2018
A war destroyed school in the frontline town of Pisky. Before the war, Pisky had a population of approximately 2,000 residents. In 2014, it became a major battleground during fighting for the Donetsk Airport, which ultimately fell to the Russian-backed separatists in 2015. As of 2016, less than 20 residents remain in the war-destroyed village, living amongst the soldiers who continue to hold defensive positions in the ongoing war.
Paratroopers Lugovoye, Ukraine 2019
Paratroopers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces 25th Airborne Brigade return from a live training exercise at a Joint Field Operations training field near Mariupol in eastern Ukraine. The soldiers demonstrated a response to a potential enemy attack on Ukraine's defensive positions during the 2018 Marshall law declaration, coinciding with fear of an escalation and attack.
Industrial Zone Avdiivka, Ukraine 2018
War destroyed infrastructure on the frontline in the "Industrial Zone" of Avdiivka. Avdiivka, near Donetsk Airport and Donetsk City (under control of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic), was one of several towns captured by Russian-backed separatists in April 2014 in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. In July 2014, after heavy fighting, Ukrainian forces regained control of the town from the insurgents. Avdiivka remains a frequently shelled frontline town and one of the hottest spots in the continuing war in the Donbas, despite ceasefire agreements. Fighting for the "Industrial Zone," where Ukrainian forces have established fortified positions to control a key highway connecting occupied territories, has greatly intensified since 2016.
Hangar Avdiivka, Ukraine 2018
Frontline, Peace Life Kostyantynivka, Ukraine 2019
Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) on the railroad tracks in Kostyantynivka, the arrival and departure point for many soldiers traveling back and forth from the frontline to the peace life, a six-hour express train-ride away from Kyiv. Kostyantynivka, an industrial city of the Donbas approximately ten miles from the frontline, was captured by the Russian-backed separatists in April 2014 and later retaken by the Ukrainian forces in July 2014.
Frontline Borsch, Tryohizbenka, Ukraine 2018
Soldiers and volunteer veterans discuss the state of the war over borsch with a village resident inside of her home in Tryohizbenka, less than 20 meters from the frontline in the Luhansk region of the Donbas.
Drone Operator, Mayorsk, Ukraine 2018
Yulya Tolopa, "Valkyrie," 2014-2015 Aydar volunteer veteran and present day UAF soldier, at a frontline operations area in Mayorsk, reviewing her drone imagery of the Russian-backed separatist controlled area. Although Yulya is a drone operator for in the Armed Forces, she was trained and equipped by a non-governmental organization to perform her responsibility.
Counting the Days Avdiivka, Ukraine 2018
Soldier's writing on the wall on the frontline in Avdiivka, counting the days until the rotation on the frontline will end.
Birds of Freedom Kyiv, Ukraine 2018
Tattoos on 2015 volunteer veteran and present day tattoo artist, Kim Isrich. The doves on each hand represent "zhinotstvo" (femininity) and "cozatstvo" (freedom fighters). For Kim, the birds represent freedom. A symbol that "we never surrender. Better be dead than a slave."
Avdiivka Coke Plant, Avdiivka, Ukraine 2019
A road towards the frontline town of Avdiivka, with the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant — one of the top five coke producing plants in Europe — operating in the background. Constructed by the USSR in 1963, the plant produced 12,000 tons of coke per day (instrumental to Ukraine's steel production), worth $2.4 million, but has fallen to less than half this production since the beginning of the war. It was temporarily closed in 2014 after being caught in the crossfire between Russian-backed separatists (who temporarily seized control of Avdiivka) and the Ukrainian forces (who regained control). The plant resumed production in 2014 but continues to sustain damage from artillery shelling (at least ten employees of the factory have been killed since 2014).
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Q: Deserialize a specified object by a user of a JSON file I have a textbox where the user can enter a number that will retrieve info from a specific movie. I am using Json.NET by Newtonsoft.
I have this:
public class Movie
{
   public int number { get; set; }
   public string title { get; set; }
   public string director { get; set; }
}

public class RootObject
{
   public List<Movie> movies { get; set; }
}

private void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Movie movie = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Movie>(File.ReadAllText(@"c:\MoviesJSON.json"));

    enteredNumber = Int32.Parse(textBox1.Text);

    label7.Text = movie.title[enteredNumber]; <---- //I am not sure about this. But it's kind of what want to get to.
}

I want to display the name of the movie(title) given by the enteredNumber.
This is my JSON file:
{
    "movies": [
        {
            "number": 1,
            "title": "Unbroken",
            "director": "Angelina Jolie"
        },
        {
            "number": 2,
            "title": "Avatar",
            "director": "James Cameron"
        },
        {
            "number": 3,
            "title": "Batman: The Dark Knight",
            "director": "Christopher Nolan"
        }
    ]
}

A: Given your classes, the following helper method will get the movie title at a zero-based index in the JSON movie array, given an index string typed by the user:
    public static string GetMovieTitle(string json, string enteredNumberText)
    {
        var root = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(json);
        try
        {
            var enteredNumber = Int32.Parse(enteredNumberText);
            if (enteredNumber < 0 || enteredNumber >= root.movies.Count)
                return null;
            return root.movies[enteredNumber].title;
        }
        catch (System.FormatException)
        {
            // Invalid number typed by the user.  Handle if desired.
            throw;
        }
        catch (System.OverflowException)
        {
            // Too large or small number typed by the user.  Handle if desired.
            throw;
        }
    }

A: Change this line:
label7.Text = movie[enteredNumber].title;

A: You need to provide your Movie class to make it clear, and exception details if there is.
It seems like your Movie class is something like that:
public class Movie
{
   public List<String> title;
   public List<String> director;
   public List<DateTime> year;
   ...
}

If so, it should work. (i need to say that, it's a terrible design)


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import { Injectable, NgZone } from '@angular/core';
import { Store } from '@ngrx/store';
import { CameraType, GetNewsStreamItemsRequestTO, GetNewsStreamItemsResponseTO, RogerthatContext } from 'rogerthat-plugin';
import { from, Observable, of, Subject, throwError } from 'rxjs';
import { catchError, filter, map, mergeMap, take } from 'rxjs/operators';
import { AppVersion } from './rogerthat';
import { ScanQrCodeUpdateAction, SetServiceDataAction, SetUserDataAction } from './rogerthat.actions';
import { RogerthatState } from './rogerthat.state';

@Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' })
export class RogerthatService {
  version: AppVersion;
  private apiCallResult$: Subject<{ method: string; result: any; error: string | null; tag: string }>;

  constructor(private ngZone: NgZone,
              private store: Store<RogerthatState>) {
  }

  initialize() {
    NgZone.assertInAngularZone();
    this.store.dispatch(new SetUserDataAction(rogerthat.user.data));
    this.store.dispatch(new SetServiceDataAction(rogerthat.service.data));
    const cb = rogerthat.callbacks;
    // Callbacks aren't using promises so these need to run in the ngZone
    cb.qrCodeScanned(result => this.ngZone.run(() => this.store.dispatch(new ScanQrCodeUpdateAction(result))));
    cb.userDataUpdated(() => this.ngZone.run(() => this.store.dispatch(new SetUserDataAction(rogerthat.user.data))));
    cb.serviceDataUpdated(() => this.ngZone.run(() => this.store.dispatch(new SetServiceDataAction(rogerthat.service.data))));
    const [major, minor, patch] = rogerthat.system.appVersion.split('.').slice(0, 3).map(s => parseInt(s, 10));
    this.version = { major, minor, patch };
  }

  getContext(): Observable<RogerthatContext | null> {
    return from(this.wrapPromise(rogerthat.context())).pipe(map(result => result.context));
  }

  isSupported(androidVersion: [number, number, number], iosVersion: [number, number, number]) {
    if (rogerthat.system.os === 'android') {
      return this.isGreaterVersion(...androidVersion);
    } else {
      return this.isGreaterVersion(...iosVersion);
    }
  }

  isGreaterVersion(major: number, minor: number, patch: number) {
    const v = this.version;
    return (major < v.major || major === v.major && minor < v.minor || major === v.major && minor === v.minor && patch <= v.patch);
  }

  apiCall<T>(method: string, data?: any, tag?: string | null): Observable<T> {
    if (!NgZone.isInAngularZone()) {
      console.error(`Expected to be in Angular Zone, but it is not! Api call: ${method}`);
    }
    if (!tag) {
      tag = rogerthat.util.uuid();
    }
    if (data) {
      data = JSON.stringify(data);
    } else {
      data = '';
    }
    const callResult = rogerthat.api.call(method, data, tag, true);
    if (callResult instanceof Promise) {
      return from(this.wrapPromise(callResult)).pipe(
        map(result => this.getParsedResult((result as {result: string | null}).result) as T),
        catchError(err => {
          let resultError = err;
          if (err.hasOwnProperty('error')) {
            resultError = this.getError(err);
          }
          return throwError(resultError);
        }));
    } else {
      if (!this.apiCallResult$) {
        this.setupApiResultListener();
      }
      return this.ngZone.run(() => this.apiCallResult$.pipe(
        filter(r => r.method === method && r.tag === tag),
        mergeMap(result => result.error ? throwError(this.getError(result.error)) : of(result.result as T)),
        take(1),
      ));
    }
  }

  getNewsStreamItems(request: GetNewsStreamItemsRequestTO): Observable<GetNewsStreamItemsResponseTO> {
    return from(this.wrapPromise(rogerthat.news.getNewsStreamItems(request)));
  }

  startScanningQrCode(cameraType: CameraType): Observable<void> {
    return from(this.wrapPromise(rogerthat.camera.startScanningQrCode(cameraType)));
  }

  private getError(error: any) {
    try {
      return JSON.parse(error.error);
    } catch (ignored) {
      return error.error;
    }
  }

  private setupApiResultListener() {
    this.apiCallResult$ = new Subject();
    rogerthat.api.callbacks.resultReceived((method, result, error, tag) => {
      this.ngZone.run(() => this.apiCallResult$.next({
        method,
        result: this.getParsedResult(result),
        error,
        tag,
      }));
    });
  }

  private getParsedResult(result: string | null | undefined) {
    if (result) {
      try {
        return JSON.parse(result);
      } catch (ignored) {
      }
    }
    return result ?? null;
  }

  private wrapPromise<T>(promise: Promise<T>) {
    return new Promise<T>((resolve, reject) => {
      promise.then(result => this.ngZone.run(() => resolve(result)));
      promise.catch(err => this.ngZone.run(() => reject(err)));
    });
  }
}

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El Premio Nacional de Investigación Ramón Menéndez Pidal es un premio de Humanidades convocado por el Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia de España.

El premio se instauró en 2001 y pertenece junto con otros nueve premios a los Premios Nacionales de Investigación.

El objetivo de todos estos premios es el reconocimiento de los méritos de las científicos o investigadores españoles que realizan «una gran labor destacada en campos científicos de relevancia internacional, y que contribuyan al avance de la ciencia, al mejor conocimiento del hombre y su convivencia, a la transferencia de tecnología y al progreso de la Humanidad».

Premiados

Véase también
 Premio Nacional de Investigación

Referencias

Ramón Menéndez Pidal

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Companies across the globe are digitally transforming as they are challenged to improve business processes and develop new capabilities and business models.
In this economic reality where entire industries are disrupted, actionable intelligence is the new currency. Data and information have become core business assets, sources of revenue and critical enablers in the information age.
In order to reap the benefits of new technologies, the next stage in that information age and the digital transformation economy, organizations need to be ready for accelerating evolutions, higher business agility and the increasing role of all forms of data and information.
Most importantly, they need to be able to develop a digital transformation strategy and build bridges in several areas, which are related with information, data, processes, technologies, human aspects and much more.
A digital transformation strategy starts with answering essential questions such as the what, why, how and who. A digital transformation strategy builds bridges between current state and desired long-term plan.
And as digital transformation by definition is holistic and requires integration and collaboration, a digital transformation strategy looks at building blocks and the bridges to connect them, as well as barriers and new bridges to overcome them.
In a business reality where 'the business', with a leading (yet, non-exclusive) role for marketing and the CMO, increasingly takes decisions on technology budgets, we see that it's often hard for IT and information management professionals, who are essential in digital transformation, to speak the language of the CMO or other business executives, which traditionally didn't belong to their 'target audience'.
It's one of the reasons why IT firms are building or acquiring 'digital transformation consultancies' with roots in marketing/business or even agencies, which can help them in properly understanding and addressing the needs of these a-typical audiences.
It's also the reason why some consultancy-oriented firms, who have been very vocal in the digital transformation scope, encounter challenges of growth. They can't respond to the increasingly end-to-end digital transformation strategy needs of companies as they miss the profound IT and information management skills.
In other words: for many of them it's hard to build the bridges that are required in the holistic phenomenon that covers many realities and skillsets and is called digital transformation.
It's not just the IT and information management people that struggle to speak the language of, let's say, the CMO.
The other way around, many marketing executives, don't speak the language of IT and/or are not used to think and work in terms of business process management, essential technological evolutions and concepts or methods of business process reengineering and/or business process optimization.
There are more bridges to build than just those between the 'IT and information management side' and 'the business side'. We've covered this necessity previously from the perspective of information as a bridge builder in the next stage of the information age, whereby information bridges need to exist between back end and front office, content and processes (integration), human and machine and machine to machine (the Internet of Things), raw data and actionable intelligence, etc. It's equally critical to integrate information/content and processes, with the business and knowledge worker in mind as previously mentioned.
To successfully navigate digital transformation and protect against digital disruption, all organizations need to developed three core capabilities says Professor Michael Wade: hyperawareness, informed decision making and fast execution. More in the presentation here, which we also embedded below.
It's probably not that hard to imagine how much bridging of processes, people, information sources and existing silos and gaps that requires.
Information is ubiquitous and at the center of digital transformation. Data volumes, formats and sources keep growing exponentially. The question for leading companies has become: how do we turn all this data into actionable intelligence in a meaningful, prioritized and profitable way, leading to new opportunities.
At the same time, information management requires a holistic and integrated approach. From digitizing and capturing paper-based information to enhancing processes, empowering knowledge workers, better serving customers and getting the right information and intelligence when, where and how they are needed requires several steps and integrations.
Achieving end-to-end information management excellence, tailored to the individual goals and challenges of organizations, their customers, their ecosystems and their goals of optimization, innovation and, increasingly, digital transformation, is critical, if not the main pillar to succeed any digital transformation strategy. In practice, it requires building many bridges to remove gaps and chasms that are still prevalent.
Last but not least, it requires data/content analytics and (thus) artificial intelligence to move from information to knowledge and intelligence that is actionable.
There are ample bridges to be built from a human perspective. Customer-centricity, customer-facing processes and the end-to-end customer experience are key in digital transformation strategies. We need more and stronger bridges with customers in ways which require more depth and breadth (and personalization) than ever.
A digital transformation strategy also requires bridges between leaders and 'their people', among others those who are closest to the customers and often feel forgotten and unheard, bridges between various functions and, increasingly, between business execs and leaders from several companies who are building the ecosystems of value which are needed in an economy where new business models and revenue streams de facto increasingly dictate both the business and technology agenda. The customer in the broadest sense (external and internal such as employees, don't forget change management) is the driver behind many bidges to build and instrumental in effectively building them.
The strength of ecosystems and communities of innovation, collaboration and also outsourcing partnerships, defines the strength of the businesses which are part of them in a culture of co-opetition and co-creation.
Finding new revenue streams together by connecting systems of value and building bridges is key here as well, and is enabled by a technological reality that increasingly revolves around data, actionable intelligence, software and connectivity. This dimension will increase even more with the interconnection of everything and more actionable intelligence opportunities, what the Internet of Things or IoT is really about.
It's clear that collaboration and co-creation, on top of the different meanings they already have (think internal collaboration, for instance), in a digital transformation economy and digital transformation strategy context go beyond the enterprise and existing ecosystems and move towards building new networks and ecosystems where data and actionable intelligence are leveraged for future growth and entirely new business models.
Co-opetition might be less known but in fact it's an idea and practice that exists since several decades.
We invite you to read the classic 'Coopetition', essentially meaning 'cooperation and competition', which Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff already wrote in 1996. It has always been in our top 10 of business books and in the holistic reality which business is and which digital transformation also is and requires to succeed, it could inspire you as it inspired us.
The reason we mention it is because co-opetition is also de facto what we see happening in several markets where so-called incumbents and so-called disruptive companies understand that it's better to collaborate in competing for specific markets than to go in from purely competitive approaches. A typical example of that is happening in Fintech.
Speaking about disruptive companies, also note that, on top of describing a game theory strategy that redefines what competition and co-operation are, co-opetition builds upon a specific aspect of the, by definition holistic, industry attractiveness assessment model, widely known as the 'six forces model, where 'new entrants' are one of the key forces.
Another area is the building of bridges between the capabilities of existing and 'emerging' technologies and the potential they offer for the most innovative, who will win in the end.
While many companies already struggle with several of the previously mentioned bridges, this is where the real value can be created in an enterprise-wide and longer term digital transformation strategy (digital transformation needs a longer term view and strategy). We live in an age where over the past decades new technologies have emerged (some more recently) and gradually became core components of the ways we do business and the ways we live.
Their increasing maturity, as well as their increasing adoption, has led to what Gartner called the Nexus of Forces. On this site we often refer to the core technologies as the third platform (a term coined by IDC) or SMAC and sometimes SMACIT.
Third platform technologies and accelerators are meaningless as such. It's in bridging them with each other and with people, processes and purpose that they can transform.
Just to remind you: they are the cloud, social, mobile (mobility) and (big) data (analytics). With SMACIT we also include the Internet of Things. None of these 'technologies' are really new and often have their roots in other technologies we mention less or have forgotten about. On top of these so-called pillars new technologies are added, from 3D-printing to what IBM calls cognitive (and in the end is really about analysis and artificial intelligence).
The thing is that we often tend to approach all these technologies from a somewhat siloed perspective. It suffices to look at the traditional third platform depiction.
We do know that they are interconnected and strengthen each other, not for the sake of the technologies themselves but because in that Nexus of Forces they are inherently dependent of each other and simply overlap if you go deeper.
When you look at these various technologies, whether it's from their individual traits and evolutions (books are written about each one as they cover many underlying realities and are all de facto umbrella terms) and when you look at how they are often covered, it's easy to forget how they are really part of one single, more holistic, perspective, which is defined by the end goals why we 'invented' them and why we use them.
However, in order to reap the benefits and potential, it's not enough to understand what you can with these technologies. It's at least as important to understand how, in the end, they all matter in a context of your digital transformation strategy, actionable intelligence and opportunities. Most people realize that this end-to-end view matters to come up with innovative business approaches or novel ways to solve challenges of whatever nature.
At the same time we're also forced to understand them individually. You really need to know what the Internet of Things is and can do, beyond what you believe it is and how important it will be. So, that is what we try to achieve. However, you should never forget that it's important to build bridges between your understanding and the goals you want to achieve on one hand and the bridges to build between all the technologies that fit in your individual business context.
To do so, you need to grasp what role they play in the bigger picture of digital transformation, while identifying the glue that connects them and that in the end enables you to make a solid difference with your strategy. And that's one of the areas where actionable intelligence (what data should become), speed/agility (what the cloud offers), hyper-connectivity and along with it more data (what the Internet of Things, mobility and so on offer), and the intersection of people, purpose, innovation, optimization, information, processes, value and business models come into play.
All the mentioned bridges need to be built. Because here is a reality: some forward-thinking companies have done amazing things using the Industrial Internet of Things and data analysis. They hook up with others with whom they can create new ecosystems of value. Others are doing or will do equally amazing things in other areas.
However, those that in the end will make the difference, will not be the technology innovators. It will be individuals and organizations that come up with entirely new ways of innovation and value creation by truly understanding how they can leverage the intelligence that is created in often seemingly unrelated areas by those first movers and, possibly by adding additional capabilities, and who can build bridges between sources and resources in ways we only start understanding today. And to do so, a holistic mindset, common sense, some distance and a profound understanding of how everything can be connected in the scope of a unique purpose are needed.
The question that arises is where do you start? The answer: by understanding all the components, technologies and others, we mentioned in this articles and building bridges on the essential levels where they aren't constructed yet but where they should be in order to get that agile and holistic innovation and optimization capacity that stretches far beyond the hype of the day and is designed with a longer term strategy in mind.
How do you get to that strategy? By building bridges. By bringing people together that don't get lost in the noise of the day but are able to see and…to build bridges. Between what you need to do now and what you will need to do next with the meaning, context, hyper-connectedness and purpose of it all in mind – certainly also on the longer term. Yet, that starts in the here and now and the basic operations, processes and models to improve and overhaul with an immediate business case, a medium term one and a bigger roadmap in mind.
Bridging intent and achievement: where do you want your digital transformation strategy to take you?
Digital transformation is not a thing, it's partially a journey and partially a goal, but most of all it requires a clear roadmap and strategy with ample room for adjustment in an adaptive way.
The challenge for many executives is to know where they want to head, what they need to get there and how to be sure they successfully did get there with the necessary (intermediate) controls in place.
You can look at it from two angles.
On one hand we see that often digital transformation is seen as a set of projects, actions and exercises to do or a more enterprise-wide goal to achieve. If you look at it this way, inevitably you need to ask why do I want to transform anything whatsoever, what is that whatsoever and how am I going to get there as mentioned. Essential project management questions and forecasting methods are just a must, even if we tend to forget them and lose ourselves in the technological or organizational questions without the end in mind.
On the other hand we see that digital transformation is often approached as an ongoing journey that is more about a continuous business transformation strategy in the scope of technological and societal change. This is obviously a journey that never ends. It's the development of a capacity to act, react and ideally pro-act as societal changes and technological evolutions continue to take place, accelerate and evolve.
It's not because you have digitally transformed in the now, that there won't be new occasions, challenges and chances, brought upon us by new technologies. The Internet of Things is just one example here as, in all honesty, we are still at the start. And there will be more changes and evolutions, far more.
The latter view explains why it's so important to have a reactive (or agile), informed and highly 'change-aware' capacity. Digital transformation also means achieving this omni-informed capacity to act when action is needed or desirable.
Regardless of how you look at it, there is always one crucial challenge that comes back as just mentioned. However, it's bigger in less project-based exercises. We hear this time and time again, whether we speak with experts in a specific domain such as the Internet of Things, CIOs, CMOs, information managers, you name it: all too often there is a lack of attention for the essential questions that also apply in digital transformation or any technological or other project or process.
What do you want to achieve, why do you want that, how do you get there, who do you need, is there a clear and calculated case that supports your intent and how are you going to gauge whether you achieved or not?
While these questions seem obvious, there are numerous reasons why they are often overlooked and we don't bridge the what, why and how or the intent and achievement.
One of many reasons is that often we are partially and in a sense by definition operating in relatively uncharted territory and aren't sure if we have all the building blocks. That's why it's important to conduct VoC exercises and strategic sessions with various people. It's also why it's important to continue to learn, have a culture of evolution awareness and prioritize. Last but not least, it's why we need a roadmap, as informed as possible, and as mentioned, with the necessary space for failure and balanced risk.
Compare the latter with marketing ROI. A good marketer will always strike a balance between activities with more certain outcomes and proven results and activities with less certain or uncertain outcomes which could be unexpectedly high gains or, if it doesn't work that well, losses that don't affect the overall ROI too much.
In exactly the same way and, depending on the scope and breadth/depth of the digital transformation strategy, chart the unknowns. What we often see in practice is that the mentioned challenge is not always a matter of uncertainty regarding outcomes but also a matter of uncertainty regarding the "how": the uncertainty regarding what the outcome will look like (as we do speak about change and this something new) is then strengthened by uncertainties whether all the (right) building blocks are foreseen and/or in place to get there.
This uncertainty of missing building blocks or having the wrong ones is often what makes organizations uncertain as they fear failure in regards with the proper mapping of the needed building blocks (subprojects, people, processes, information sources, change management initiatives, built-in checks and so forth). Lean transformation with an adaptive case management approach, a focus on the 3Ps and room for failure and iteration as in a continuous Bèta model (more here) offer ways to tackle these challenges.
Many leading 'incumbents' are increasingly setting up environments where they give room to innovation, experimentation and future-oriented sessions, in order to shape their digital transformation strategy.
They invite start-ups, newcomers, the often younger generations of technologists who master emerging technologies and/or their existing IT partners (who are also challenged) to showcase, collaboratively think, find talent and potential future scenarios, etc. They set up hackathons, organize brainstorming session days and launch trials in order to prepare for the longer term, as they decreasingly rely upon those first moving 'digital transformation experts' who have been repeating the same stories too long too often.
In more than one sense you can compare this trend and the challenge of several pure digital transformation consultancies , too often operating as islands of limited expertise who start feeling that they need to broaden their scope, with the evolutions before the dot come bubble when huge 'e-business' specialists went bankrupt one after the other and only a small portion more or less survived. Many have forgotten the names of various of these large players of the early days of the Internet and what used to be called 'e-business'.
The comparison with that period is not a coincidence. We don't just see many digital transformation consultancies facing challenges of scale and capabilities, we also see that in several areas of emerging technologies, specifically the Internet of Things, the narrative is mainly about numbers, which in the end are meaningless for execs, and about the technologies, from connectivity to hardware and software. This will change as the market matures, just as it did before the dot com bubble when numbers, predictions and the tech talk dominated the debates very often as well, leading to inflated expectations and hype. Will there be a new bubble? There always is one, you just don't know how big it will be and which areas will be most affected.
The main question is: do you build all these bridges and define the goals, set out the strategy and journey, map the required building blocks and barriers, and look at your digital transformation strategy and roadmap in a smart way, regardless of all those frameworks out there and, rather, creating the right conditions to get you going?
Unfortunately this is still rarely the case and many don't have a clear goal and overview of building blocks, barriers and bridges to build yet. Stay tuned as we'll look deeper into digital transformation strategy and a framework/roadmap that guides your strategy by asking the right questions and connecting the right dots.
look at where the leaks in your business are and where it's clear that you'll need to remove or bridge legacy and necessity, among others in the technologies that are crucial to scale and move faster and better once your strategy is in place.
Identify market, evolutions, pain points.
Map current status with major evolutions and opportunities.
Assess skillset, culture and readiness.
Focus on core intangible assets: customers, data.
Base strategy on where you are and go.
Include external and internal help.
Develop a roadmap to get where you need.
Design for innovation, optimization, agility and scale.
Optimize information and data maturity.
Connect technologies and data (sources) in function of strategy.
Gap bridges with customers and stakeholders.
Set goals, KPIs and controls.
Build for ecosystems and platforms.
Focus on long term with intermediate goals.
Start where it makes sense (calculated).
Learn, measure, re-assess, scale, innovate.
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Green New Deal's price tag could top $94 trillion: report
That's more than $650,000 per American household
According to a new study, the price tag for progressives' controversial Green New Deal proposal could have a price tag of more than $94 trillion.
What are the details?
Analysts at American Action Forum, a right-leaning think tank, "distilled" the 10-year plan down to its policy basics, in order to figure the costs of its ambitions plans for:
1. A 10-year transition to an exclusively low-carbon energy electricity grid;
2. Enough high-speed rail transit available that air travel becomes unnecessary;
3. Guaranteeing union jobs with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to all people of the United States;
4. Universal health care;
5. Guaranteed housing for every American; and
6. Food security for every person in the United States.
All told, researchers found the 10-year price tag could be as high as $94.4 trillion, which breaks down to $653,010 per household over the decade — meaning the annual cost per household would be $65,300.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) — who chairs the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — responded to the report by saying, "The American Action Forum's analysis shows that the Green New Deal would bankrupt the nation."
Noting the price tag, he added, "That is roughly four times the value of all Fortune 500 companies combined. That's no deal."
"Instead, we should promote innovation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions," Barrasso continued. "Promising new technologies like advanced nuclear power, carbon capture and carbon utilization hold the key to significant emissions reductions. We can lower our emissions without crashing our economy."
Republicans haven't been the only critics of the plan.
On Sunday, the Washington Post's editorial board launched the first in a series of articles aimed at proposing its "own Green New Deal." The board slammed the current plan proposed by Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), saying, "they should not muddle this aspiration with other social policy, such as creating a federal jobs guarantee."
The Post went on to say the current plan floated by lawmakers "is so monumental that the country cannot afford to waste dollars in its pursuit."
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Q: Thread not terminating correctly, I think public String newUser = "false";
public double lat = 0.0, lon = 0.0;

I have the following function in my android app (called when a Button is clicked) which starts a thread:
public void SignUpFunction(View view) {
    assignValues();
    String filledAll = checkIfFilled();
    if (filledAll.equals("true")) {
    Log.d("LIFECYCLE", "calling thread..");

    //my thread
    new validateThread().start();

    Log.d("After thread start","This log call does not occur");

    if (newUser.equals("true")) {
        Toast.makeText(this, "Please wait as we obtain your location", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        getMyLocationFunction();
        } else {
            return;
        }
    }
}

validateThread:
class validateThread extends Thread {
    public void run() {
        Log.d("LIFECYCLE", "validateThread entered...");
        try {
                        newUser = "true";
                        Log.d("validateThread", "Validated and found new user");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.d("validateThread", "Exception in validateThread: " + e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

The thread runs correctly...but after the last line, it does not go back to its point of start. I don't understand why this is happening because I've used threads before and they all work correctly.
I know I can just give the getMyLocation function inside the thread but I really need it this way.
I've searched for similar questions but none helped.. What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks in advance.

A: It's a race. SignUpFunction should wait until validateThread decides whether or not to set newUser = "true". Even with the race your code may work sometimes, but that is by accident.


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import React, { Component } from 'react';

export default class Mine extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="page3"> Page3 </div>
    );
  }
}


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Q: use_frameworks! and Model not found build error I'm working on a rather large iOS project that was originally written in Objective-C and we're now starting to add in Swift code. We are using Cocoapods to install 3rd party libraries and have included use_frameworks! in our Podfile.
In some of our Objective-C classes, we have added module imports at the top such as @import AFNetworking;
Usually, on first build of the project within Xcode, the build fails and we see module 'AFNetworking' not found but on the second build, it works fine. However, now I am trying to get Fastlane to do our builds and when using Fastlane to do the builds, we get the error 100% of the time.
In the build settings of the target:

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*Enable Modules (C and Objective-C) is set to Yes

*Always Search User Paths is set to No

*User Header Search Paths is set to $(SRCROOT)/Pods and is recursive

Any suggestions on what else I can check/try?

A: Have you tried checking "Other Linker Flags" to see if it has the -ObjC value in it?
You can click on your project name on your Navigator, go to Build Settings, scroll down to Linking section and double check on "Other Linker Flags" stated. If it is not there, you can manually add to it.

A: Today I finally found the solution to the problem. Our project is made up of multiple targets (10+) and we noticed that only the one target was failing to build. After hours of hunting around, comparing files we finally looked at the schemes and noticed that the target that wasn't working was using a scheme that had Find Implicit Dependencies unchecked. We checked this and it started to build again!
Just to note, the target would build if we built it after building one of the other targets but if you then deleted the derived data and tried to build the target then, it would fail.


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A mother from Albury, New South Wales, has been charged with starving her baby to near-death.
Authorities came across the severely malnourished baby when they responded to a domestic incident on Saturday night.
"Officers were so concerned for the well-being of the baby they immediately called NSW Ambulance paramedics to the scene," NSW Police said in a statement.
The baby was rushed to Albury Base Hospital.
His mother was charged with failing to provide for a child causing danger of death.
She was granted bail and will appear in Albury Local Court next week.
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This pair of Gokey Botte Sauvage Supreme Knee-high Pull-on Boots was made in the 1920s by the people that taught the people that taught the people that taught us - what's the bench life of a shoemaker?! It's amazing that nothing has changed in the techniques used from theirs to ours in the 90 to 100 years since they were made! Jonathan Wort inherited them from his Grandfather who passed away in 195l and he plans to pass them on to one of his sons. Lyle replaced the welts, midsoles and soles, and he and Elaine replaced the buckle straps and gussets. Lyle used the same holes in the bottom of the boots that the master bootmaker made when he stitched the original welts nearly a century ago. The leather in the bottoms was still like new and well worth continuing!
This is a pair of The Gokey Botte Sauvage Snake Proof Boots made in 1961! The welt had been damaged, the soles were worn out, and one of the top buckle straps was torn. The leather is in great shape after 43 years and they are well worth repairing.
This is the same pair of boots after Lyle replaced the section of damage welt, restitching through the same holes, so their integrity has not been compromised. He also added midsoles and replaced the soles and gave them a generous coat of shoe oil. Elaine fixed the top buckle strap. Impressively, these boots are ready for another 43 years!
These are very rare Gokey "Supreme" Knee High, Pull-on boots that were made in 1963. They were a special order item, and Gokey did not make very many of them. They are similar to our Northland boots, only with a full lining in the bottom. After 40 years, the midsoles had disintegrated but the leather was still in excellent condition, and they were well worth repairing.
This is the same pair of boots after Lyle hand-welted them, as in our Highland Handmade boots, to preserve the integrity of the full lining. We fixed the top buckle straps and replaced the midsoles and soles. They truly are ready for another 40 years!
These are Richard Gokey's Gokey Boots! Richard is a collateral descendant of Noah Gokey who founded the Gokey Boot Company in Jamestown, NY, in the early 1800s. He needs some minor adjustments to the fit, and the hand-sewn seam needs some touch-up stitching in the toes and on down the sides. The original, authentic, Gokey soles are still fine. Because the label is blue, we know these boots date back to the 1960s, or beyond! They are in great shape and well worth refurbishing.
Here are the same pair of boots after a little TLC! All Richard Gokey could say when he got them back was "Beautiful!! Job well done!"
The bench on which he sat, the rug on which he stood, for his fitting for these Moccasins on 4th of July, 1987, at Lincoln Center in New York City - almost 20 years later!
The tree on which he found his repaired Moccasins on Christmas morning, after weeks of searching for them, wondering where they had gone! See Stone Sole Christmas.
Double-soled Moccasins sent in for repair for the first time since purchased in 1994. Original letter was enclosed.
The same pair of moccasins a week later, after being resoled.
The dog really went after these Town & Country Shoes - twice! The right shoe came in a couple of years ago, and now here's the left!
The same shoes after being repaired.
The dog got to this pair and went at it.
The same pair of hard-soled moccasins after being repaired.
MacRostie Leathers
Spring Lake, MN 56680
© 2000-2016 MacRostie Leathers


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