House formerly farmhouse. Probably early C16 with C17 alterations, modernized in late C20. Rendered cob and stone rubble walls. Gable ended thatch roof. Late C19 axial rubble stack with brick quoins, and rubble stack with brick shaft at right gable end.
Plan: 2 room and through passage plan with hall to the left which has stack backing onto the passage and gable end fireplace to lower right-hand room. The form of roof truss suggests that the house was built with a hall open to the roof heated by a central hearth. The hall stack was probably inserted in the early C17 but its very high lintel suggests that the hall was still open when it was put in and it pre-dated the ceiling. The date of the lower end ceiling is uncertain. C19 lean-to added behind hall. A comprehensive modernization in the late C20 has concealed or removed much of the early features and altered the plan of the lower end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front of later C20 2-light small-paned casements, those on the first floor has small gables above. C20 plank door to right of centre, small C20 lean-to against each end.
Interior: Left-hand room has very large open fireplace with high chamfered wooden lintel crudely stopped. Oven in right-hand side. Chamfered half beam directly above it.
Roof: 2 apparently full or raised cruck trusses survive, of heavy scantling; soot encrustation is apparent on one but lack of access to roof space at time of survey precluded a fuller inspection of roof construction.


Courtesy of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, University College Cork, Ireland (July 14, 2014).
'Malala is not alone' said the deliverer of the 2014 Annual Grotius Lecture of the American Society of International Law — Radhika Coomaraswamy. Held within these four simple words are children's indivisible worlds, where embodied vulnerability lives in continuous, dynamic juxtaposition with their evolving capacities. So too, are 'the interrelations of subjugation and independence' of the distinguished discussant's response — Diane Marie Amann. Subjugated, Malala seized, shaped, and expressed her right to education. And for this act of subversion she was silenced; or at least the ultimate silencer was triggered and failed. Herein the depth of the connection between aspects of those interrelations (those of subjugation and self-determination) is held within the individual of Malala. However those four words ('Malala is not alone') also illumine their broader dimensions.


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Q: Warning Message: Deleted branch skin (was ...) From the man page for git branch:

Delete a branch. The branch must be fully merged in its upstream branch, or in HEAD if no upstream was set with --track or --set-upstream.

$ git branch -d skin
warning: deleting branch 'skin' that has been merged to
     'refs/remotes/origin/skin', but not yet merged to HEAD.
Deleted branch skin (was 1f97b5b).

$ git remote -v
origin  git@github.com:me/Banana.git (fetch)
origin  git@github.com:me/Banana.git (push)
upstream    git@github.com:others/Banana.git (fetch)
upstream    git@github.com:others/Banana.git (push)

The skin branch was actually removed (locally) but I was trying to understand what the warning message means. Note the skin branch was still available at origin and upstream, as expected.

A: The warning means just what it says: the branch name you asked git to delete is not an ancestor of HEAD.  Whatever branch you were on (e.g., master), skin named a commit that was not "part of" that branch.  But, the name skin was a tracking branch name, and it named a commit that was "part of" the origin tracking branch, so git removed the branch label.
The branch label used to point to commit 1f97b5b.  It's likely that origin/skin also points (or pointed) to 1f97b5b, i.e., the commit tree looked something like this:
A --- B --- C       <-- HEAD, master, origin/master
        \
          D --- E   <-- skin, origin/skin

where the SHA-1 of commit E is 1f97b5b.  But it's possible that skin was a commit or more behind origin/skin, so that 1f97b5b is the ID of commit D, or B, or even A.  The important thing is that starting from origin/skin it's possible to work backwards along the commit tree and find commit 1f97b5b, therefore git figures that it is "safe" to delete a label pointing to commit 1f97b5b.

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Obesity is associated with an increased risk of cancer. Some cancers associated with obesity include gallbladder cancer, thyroid cancer, kidney cancer, cancer of the endometrium breast cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, and esophageal cancer.
One study out of the National Cancer Institute (1) looked at obesity and its ability to cause cancer. It discussed data from the SEER study, which involved 34,000 cases of cancer in men and more than 50,000 cases of cancer in women.About 7 percent of the cancers in these individuals were due to obesity.
It is estimated that if the current trends persist, there will be around 500,000 additional cases of cancer in the United States by the year 2030.
Source: 1.Obesity and Cancer Risk. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/obesity/obesity-fact-sheet. Accessed 9/16/16.


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Nuclear espionage
espionage related to the creation of nuclear weapons
Nuclear espionage is sharing a country's secrets about nuclear weapons to other countries without permission. Since nuclear weapons have been invented, there have been many cases of known nuclear espionage, and also many cases where it has thought to have happened, but has not been proven. Because nuclear weapons are usually considered the most important of state secrets, all nations with nuclear weapons have strict rules against sharing information about how nuclear weapons are designed, where they are kept, and other things about them. There are also rules that keep countries who have signed non-proliferation agreements (which are meant to stop the spread of nuclear weapons) from sharing information about such weapons with the public.
1 Manhattan Project
2 Israel
3 People's Republic of China
Manhattan ProjectEdit
Klaus Fuchs is considered to have been the most valuable of the Atomic Spies during the Manhattan Project.
A drawing of a nuclear weapon design by David Greenglass, showing what he supposedly gave the Rosenbergs to give to the Soviet Union.
During the Manhattan Project, which was when the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada worked together during World War II to make the first nuclear weapons, there was much nuclear espionage in which scientists or technicians working for the project sent information about bomb development and designs to the Soviet Union. These people are often called the Atomic Spies, and their work continued into the early Cold War. There has been much disagreement over the exact details of these cases, though some of this was settled when VENONA Project transcripts were made public. These were secret messages between Soviet agents and the Soviet government that were discovered and decoded. Some issues remain unsettled, however.
Some of the most well known of these were :
Klaus Fuchs – A physicist who had escaped Germany and who worked with the British at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. He was eventually discovered. He confessed, and was sentenced to jail in Britain. He was later released, and he moved to East Germany. Because of his close connection to many parts of the project, and his deep technical knowledge, he is considered to have been the most valuable of the "Atomic Spies" in terms of the information he gave to the Soviet Union about the American fission bomb program. He also gave early information about the American hydrogen bomb program but since he was not there at the time that the successful Teller-Ulam design was discovered, his information on this is not thought to have been of much value.
Theodore Hall – a young American physicist at Los Alamos, whose spying was not revealed until very late in the twentieth century. He was never arrested because of his spying, and never completely admitted it.[1]
David Greenglass – an American machine worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the Manhattan Project. Greenglass confessed that he gave rough diagrams of lab experiments to the Soviet Union during World War II. Some parts of his testimony against his sister and brother-in-law (the Rosenbergs, see below) are now thought to have been made up to try to keep his own wife out of trouble. Greenglass admitted spying and was given a long prison term.
George Koval – The American born son of a family that was from Belarus. He moved to the Soviet Union where he joined the Red Army and the GRU intelligence service. He found his way into the US Army, and became a radiation health officer. He got information about the Urchin detonator used on the plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. His work was not known to the United States until 2007, when he was recognized after his death as a hero of the Russian Federation by Vladimir Putin.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg – Americans who were supposedly involved in coordinating and recruiting an episonage network which included David Greenglass. While most scholars believe that Julius was likely involved in some sort of network, whether or not Ethel was involved or aware of the activities remains a matter of dispute. Julius and Ethel refused to confess to any charges, and were convicted and executed at Sing-Sing Prison.
Harry Gold – American, admitted working for Greenglass and Fuchs.
The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb in 1949.[2] There is disagreement over whether this spying helped the Soviet Union make an atomic bomb faster. While some of the information given, such as information given by Klaus Fuchs, could probably have been very helpful, the way the people in charge of the Soviet bomb project actually used the information has led later scholars to think it did not actually speed up the Soviet Union's process of making bombs much. According to this account, the information was mostly used as a "check" against the Soviet Union's own scientists' work, and little of it was actually shared with the Soviet scientists because neither their scientists nor spies were trusted much. Later scholarship has also shown that the biggest problem with the Soviets' early development was not problems designing the weapons, but rather problems getting the materials.
IsraelEdit
In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, who had worked at a nuclear facility in Israel, gave information about Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press. People had thought before that Israel had an advanced and secretive nuclear weapons program and collection, but now they knew for sure. Israel has never said that it does or does not have a nuclear weapons program, and Vanunu was kidnapped and smuggled to Israel, where he was convicted of treason and espionage.
Whether Vanunu was technically involved in espionage is debated: Vanunu and his supporters say that he should be called a whistle-blower (someone who was exposing something secret and illegal), while his opponents think that he is a traitor and that what he did helped enemies of Israel. After Vanunu left Israel, he did not give his information right away. He travelled for about a year before doing so.
People's Republic of ChinaEdit
In a 1999 report of the United States House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, chaired by Rep. Christopher Cox (called the Cox Report), it was revealed that U.S. security agencies thought there was nuclear espionage going on by the People's Republic of China (PRC) at American nuclear weapons design laboratories. The report said that China had "stolen classified information on all of the United States' most advanced thermonuclear warheads" since the 1970s, including the design of advanced warheads, the neutron bomb, and "weapons codes" which allow for computer simulations of nuclear testing (and allow China to advance their weapon development without doing its own tests). The United States apparently did not know of this until 1995.
The investigations described in the report eventually led to the arrest of Wen Ho Lee, a scientist at Los Alamos, who was at first accused of giving weapons information to China. The case against Lee eventually fell apart, however, and he was eventually charged only with mishandling of data. Other people and groups arrested or fined were scientist Peter Lee (not related to Wen Ho Lee), who was arrested for allegedly giving submarine radar secrets to China, and Loral Space & Communications and Hughes Electronics, who gave China missile secrets. No other arrests from the theft of the nuclear designs have been made.
PakistanEdit
In January 2004, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, a Pakistani nuclear scientist, admitted selling restricted nuclear weapons technology to Libya, Iran, and North Korea. According to his testimony and reports from intelligence agencies, Khan sold designs for centrifuges used to enrich uranium and Chinese designs for a nuclear warhead, and sold centrifuges themselves to these three countries. Khan had previously been said to have taken gas centrifuge designs from a uranium enrichment company in the Netherlands (URENCO) which he used to help Pakistan's own nuclear weapons program get started. On February 5, 2004, the president of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, said that he had pardoned Khan.[3] Pakistan's government says that they had no part in the espionage, but refuses to turn Khan over for questioning by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
↑ "Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies". pbs.org. Retrieved March 2, 2011.
↑ "Cold War Museum". coldwar.org. Archived from the original on May 15, 2011. Retrieved March 2, 2011.
↑ "Online NewsHour: Pardon in Pakistan -- February 5, 2004". pbs.org. Archived from the original on January 25, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
Rhodes, Richard. Dark Sun: The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Cohen, Avner. Israel and the Bomb. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Cox, Christopher, chairman (1999). Report of the United States House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China., esp. Ch. 2, "PRC Theft of U.S. Thermonuclear Warhead Design Information". Available online at http://www.house.gov/coxreport/ Archived 2005-08-04 at the Wayback Machine.
Stober, Dan, and Ian Hoffman. A convenient spy: Wen Ho Lee and the politics of nuclear espionage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Powell, Bill, and Tim McGirk. "The Man Who Sold the Bomb; How Pakistan's A.Q. Khan outwitted Western intelligence to build a global nuclear-smuggling ring that made the world a more dangerous place", Time Magazine (14 February 2005): 22.[1] Archived 2006-06-29 at the Wayback Machine[2]
Retrieved from "https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nuclear_espionage&oldid=7784967"
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India's Support of it's Population with Disabilities
September 25, 2013 5:02:00 AM EDT
6 years after India ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), 1/4 of all the country's government websites still fail to load, and the remaining 5.850+ have other accessibility issues.
India's government realizes the need to combat discrimination of people with disabilities, hence approving the National Policy on Universal Electronic Accessibility, which will facilitate equal access to electronics and information and communications technologies (ICTs).
Shilpi Kapoor, member of the Nasscom Disability Advisory Group and founder director of accessibility consulting firm BarrierBreak, wants companies to employ these same guidelines and view this as another market to dial into. Kapoor says, "Electronics and tech companies have tremendous business potential and they need to recognize that. That in turn will bring e-solutions for people with disabilities."
Perhaps what will get the attention of more India-based companies is what Sunil Abraham, executive director of Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) had to say, stating, "Increased accessibility means increased usage, which means increased returns on investments".
The one thing that seems to be evident is that India is moving in the right direction toward a more equal Internet experience for all, regardless of what kind of disability they may be faced with.
Human Interest People with Disabilities Government
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Barack Obama And The Rationale
For Ecosystem Service Markets
Steve Zwick
US President Barack Obama continued to roll out his Climate Action Plan this week by addressing the League of Conservation Voters. In the address, he mocked climate-science deniers, touted renewable energy, and warned environmentalists against ignoring the potential costs of reducing emissions. He also defended the Clean Water Act – an act that succeeds by addressing the exact issues he warned against ignoring.
NOTE: This piece originally appeared on the Huffington Post. You can view the original here.
27 June 2014 | If there's one thing US President Barack Obama understands, it's the danger of sticker shock.
"People don't like gas prices going up," he said on Wednesday. "They don't like electricity prices going up."
He was addressing the League of Conservation Voters, and he went on to warn that environmentalists who ignore those rising prices do so at their own peril:
"If we're blithe about saying [climate change] is the defining issue of our time, but we don't address people's legitimate economic concerns, then even if they are concerned about climate change, they may not support efforts to do something about it."
It's a point well-taken, and one that's addressed in one of the longest-running environmental successes in the country, which the President also defended on Wednesday: the Clean Water Act:
"We've got to dredge up that old tape of the Cuyahoga River on fire, and the Chicago River, and just remind people that this thing (the Clean Water Act) worked," he said.
He could have added that "this thing worked" because it doesn't just keep nasties out of our water. It also provides mechanisms that address exactly the concerns he warned about. Those mechanisms, paradoxically, let land developers disrupt environmentally significant swamps (or "wetlands") that filter water and regulate floods.
This great success works in part because it lets bad things happen.
But there's a catch: this degradation can only happen under very limited circumstances and only after a rigorous permitting process. More importantly, it can only happen if the developer compensates by either restoring, creating, or in some cases preserving an endangered wetland area of equal or greater environmental value than what is lost.
This ingenious mechanism, which dates back to the 1970s, has led to the creation of wetland mitigation banks, which are private conservation efforts that proactively restore degraded wetlands in the hope of selling credits to developers down the road. Because mitigation banks tend to be built on land adjacent to intact swamps, they often create more contiguous wetlands that deliver more ecosystem services than the isolated patches of degraded swamp that are destroyed.
This is one of the great unsung successes of the 1970s environmental boom, and it succeeds because it doesn't let the perfect become the enemy of the good. Something similar is happening under the Endangered Species Act, which allows for development on habitat under very limited circumstances and only if habitat of equal or greater value is restored, created, or preserved.
These things work, and they work so well that the European Union is incorporating similar mechanisms into its environmental strategy.
Similar things worked on acid rain in the 1990s, when the state of California implemented its Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), which put a cap on the amount of sulphur and nitrogen oxides (SOx and NOx) that industry can pump into the air, then it let the private sector identify the most efficient way of meeting that cap by trading allowances.
Then as now, right wingers went apoplectic – predicting everything from rolling blackouts and soaring energy costs to the end of the coal sector and a nationwide recession. Left wingers had the opposite fear; they believed industry would just "buy its way out" of its clean air obligations, and likened the permits to indulgences.
Both sides were wrong. The program has helped cut acid rain in half since its inception, and at a cost of just $3 billion per year, which is more than 85% lower than industry projections. More importantly, it saved local communities more than $122 billion per year in reduced health costs and cleaner lakes and rivers, according to a study by the Journal of Environmental Management. That's $40 in savings for every $1 spent – although the EPA prefers the more conservative claim of $30 for every dollar spent.
Either way, the program worked, and it worked because it let government do what government does best, and it let the private sector do what the private sector does best. Specifically, it let government draw a clear and inviolable line above which emissions dare not rise, and it let the private sector find new and innovative ways of staying below that line, with a financial incentive for those who did the best job. All of these programs work because they promote responsible land stewardship in a way that is transparent, efficient, and effective – which is what people concerned about cost really want.
And that brings us to something else the president touched on: education. When he alluded to "that old tape of the Cuyahoga River on fire", everyone above a certain age knew exactly what he was talking about. Back then, the general public was confronted with very tangible evidence of our environmental challenges. That's why we were able to implement mechanisms that work.
Climate change isn't as tangible as a burning river, but that hasn't stopped 70% of the public from understands that it's a threat. The challenge now is to make sure people understand just how serious and immediate that threat is so that they can make intelligent and informed decisions about how to proceed – perhaps by pointing out that food is a more fundamental need than even gas and electricity.
That's because food is where rising temperatures are going to extract their highest toll. The US Climate Assessment made that point quite clearly a few months back, when it warned that that climate change is already disrupting global food supplies. That's why 16 retired US admirals and generals recently took the unprecedented step of warning that climate change threatens our national security.
And it doesn't stop with climate change. Our entire green infrastructure is at risk, but most people aren't even aware that such a thing even exists. They don't know that wetlands filter water and regulate flooding, or that mangroves protect our coasts and forests clean our air.
These are the functions that keep us alive, and they're why conservation isn't something we should do, like trimming the bushes, but rather it's something we must do – like putting food on the table or shoring up the foundation. That's literally what it's about, because when you get down to it, our economy depends on our ecology, since everything we buy, sell, eat, and produce is derived from nature.
This is the reality we must ultimately acknowledge, because although higher energy costs aren't a foregone conclusion in a carbon-constrained world, they are a distinct possibility. Environmental markets can reduce that likelihood, but they can't eliminate them.
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Steve Zwick is Managing Editor of Ecosystem Marketplace. He can be reached at [email protected]


How to Find the Ideas That Are Right for You!
To the "asker", it seems an obvious question, one that the writer should be able to answer quickly and easily.
And yet often, to the writer being asked (at least, to this writer), it's a difficult question to answer with any kind of depth or true helpfulness.
And that answer seems, on its surface, rather snotty.
Yet, it's true. When one is a writer, or, I imagine, a creative artist of any kind, at first it seems challenging to get past the urge of knowing that one wants to write (or paint, or sculpt, or compose), to knowing what one wants to write (or paint, or sculpt, or compose).
And that challenge leads to looking anywhere, and everywhere, for ideas. This is where the 'what if?' question comes in handy. What if… that man on the bus, who looks like he's bursting to tell someone a secret, suddenly stood up and yelled that secret to everyone on the bus? What if that caused a wreck? What if, unbeknownst to him, someone who isn't supposed to know the secret is actually on the bus?
What if the events in this newspaper or website article happened here in my hometown, or to me, or to a loved one? Could that be the basis of a story, a poem, a novel, a play?
Keep asking that 'what if' question. Get in the habit of asking it until it's second nature. Sooner or later, you'll start asking it all the time… and you'll feel like ideas are, in fact, suddenly everywhere.
After nearly 30 years of writing professionally, getting ideas is no longer a challenge for me. They're everywhere! The challenge is now knowing when it's worth my time and energy to pursue one. The answer, for me, is that an idea has to, metaphorically speaking, grab me by the throat, shake me around, and demand that I DO something about it! When an idea just won't let me go… when I find characters from the idea narrating their stories in my head, haunting my thoughts, interrupting my sleep… that's when I know I must follow that idea, develop it, and see where it wants me to go and what it wants me to learn.
I become rather like my imaginary man on the bus; I just feel I must get this idea fleshed out on paper, and developed into a story, or I will burst!
If you're a beginning writer and that seems strange or far-fetched, don't worry. Get in the habit of asking of situations, articles, observations, odd bits of overheard conversation—'what if…?' and before you know it, you'll have plenty of ideas. The ones that aren't going to challenge you will wander off; the ones that will help you grow as a writer and give you great material for stories will, like the man on the bus, demand your attention.
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Q: How to change the background colour of the action bar I want to change the background colour of the action bar and maybe the text colour too. This question has already asked here but I do not understand it.
 Do I need to make a new xml file with this:
 <resources>
    <style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
    </style>

    <style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:background">ANY_HEX_COLOR_CODE</item>
    </style>
</resources>

And where should I save it? what folder?
and how to set this as my theme?
Thanks in advance.

A: You should save this xml into values folder, like themes.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">ANY_HEX_COLOR_CODE</item>
</style>
</resources>

And you should select this theme in AndroidManifest like:
<application android:theme="@style/MyTheme">

A: Try this way... simple create a new color xml in drawable folder..
somecolor.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<color xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:color="#e03456">
</color>

then in onCreate:
    getActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.somecolor));

if you wish to change text color:
 int titleId = getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar_title", "id","android");
          TextView yourTextView = (TextView) findViewById(titleId);
       yourTextView.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.white));

A: Here is how you change the color of Action Bar (only a few steps):

*

*Use Android Action Bar Style Generator to general all style xml for
your application. It's a web tool,
http://android-ui-utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-studio/dist/index.html.
The web allows you to generate styles (color, background ... etc)
necessary for the Action Bar. Here is the screen shot of the web
tool.

*The tool generates sample
resources icons, images, style xml as the followings. Add all
resource files to the application resource drawable area, and update
AndroidManifest.xml application:theme to use the style xml generated
from the tool. The following is the sample styles, images created
from the tool.

*I put all xml in res/drawable folder, except for the action bar style file. I put the action bar style file in res/values. The style file contains this line:
    <style name="Theme.Example" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">

*Update your AndroidManfest.xml to use the action bar style "Theme.Example" in the main activity which has the action bar.
<activity
    android:theme="@style/Theme.Example"
    android:name="com.example.restaurant.MainActivity"
    android:label="@string/app_name" >
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

*The following is the styled action bar I generated for my project.


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State Counsel Saves Three Murder Suspects
The sorrow and gloom that hovered on the families and persons of three alleged murder suspects; Messrs. Wasiu Ayoade, Kudusi Olatunji and Akeem Mudasiru were turned into joy and dances when the three suspects were freed by the Chief Magistrate at Court no. 4, Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria on 17th July 2018.
The three suspects had been detained and arraigned before the Court since the 20th day of April 2016 on a three-count charge. They were represented by two counsels. The first count read that Messrs. Wasiu Ayoade, Kudusi Olatunji and Akeem Mudasiru, all males and others at large on the 20th day of April 2016 at about 11:30pm at Agbede Adodo area, Ibadan, in Ibadan Magisterial District did conspired with one another to commit Felony to wit Murder and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 324 of the criminal code cap 38 Volume 2 laws of Oyo State of Nigeria 2000.
In addition, the three persons and others at large were charged that on the same date, time and place in the aforementioned Magisterial District did unlawfully cause the death of one Mr. Yisau Raji, 65, years by shooting him with gun and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 316 and punishable under section 319 of the criminal code cap 38 Volume 2 laws of Oyo State of Nigeria 2000.
The last count stated that the three suspects and others at large on the same date, time and place in the aforementioned Magisterial District did also unlawfully cause the death of (another person) Mr. Dotun Kilanko, 45years, by shooting him with gun and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 316 and punishable under section 319 of the criminal code cap 38 volume 2 Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria 2000.
But in a swift twist for fortune, on the 17th day of July 2018, a State Counsel from Ministry of Justice Mrs. H.O. Awosemusi came to court with the legal advice dated 16th July 2018 and formally took over the case from the Police Prosecutor. She read the legal advice which attested that the three suspects have no case to answer.
The defendants' Counsels had no objection to the legal advice, rather they praised the efforts of the State counsel for investing her time to trace the case file since 2016 and for her diligence at sorting it out as well as the time spent to come to the Court to interpret it clearly.
The numerous legal efforts of their two defense counsels and the thorough investigations of the incidents since 2016 had finally yielded in favour of the suspects and their hope for freedom were rekindled when the counsels to the three suspects finally applied to the Court that their clients should be discharged and acquitted. The suspects were eventually found not guilty as charged.
Chief Magistrate Muideen Salami commended the efforts of the defense counsels from the onset till the final moment and advised the suspects to be very careful and watch their future steps. He discharged and acquitted the three suspects.
The above case or story has raised pertinent question, and the question is what lesson or lessons are learnable from the story? Let's share your views.
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I miss you, Jew! () was a nationwide performative action organized by Polish artist Rafał Betlejewski, aimed at expressing the longing of Poles for Polish Jews, who have largely disappeared from the country following the events of the Holocaust. As part of the initiative Betlejewski painted the slogan "I miss you, Jew" on public walls and encouraged others to copy this gesture. Places where this slogan showed up included Piotrkowska Street in Łodz, as well as along Brezeska Street in Warsaw and in the town of Jedwabne. All of these sites have significance to the once-vibrant Jewish community in Poland; Piotrkowska Street in Łodz was the site of roundups and pogroms during the Holocaust, while Brezeska Street in Warsaw once formed part of the boundary for the Warsaw Ghetto. Jedwabne was the site of a pogrom perpetrated by the local Polish population in 1941.

At the same time, the artist asked Poles to photograph themselves in public space, in places once associated with Polish Jews, along with an empty chair and a kippah on it. He also actively sought memories of Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. Another component of the project took place on 11 July 2010  – the day after the 69th anniversary of the Jedwabne pogrom – under the name "Płonie stodola", or "The barn is burning". Betlejewski set fire to a specially constructed barn in the village of Zawada, but only after he placed symbolic white cards from people who were "burdened with unkind thoughts toward Jews".

Betlejewski said of the project, "I think that for a Pole it is like exploring the subconscious mind, which is a source of fears, phobias, psychoses but on the other hand wonderful dreams. As a Pole, I would like to realize what is hidden in my oblivion, discover the area of what I call active forgetfulness and which was a conscious political and cultural activity." In 2010, he was also quoted as saying to the newspaper Gazete Weborcza, "I want to reclaim the word 'Jew,' snatch it from anti-Semites, who in this country are the only ones using it freely ... I aim to build a platform used to express positive emotions towards the people known as the Jews."

To document the action, Betlejewski created a website with a virtual archive where users can present memories of Jews in Poland, express their emotions associated with these memories, and also post photographs related to the initiative.

Controversy
In April 2016, unidentified people blacked out the word "Jew" on a slogan Betlejewski had painted in the Powiśle neighborhood of Warsaw. Although he had received permission from the owner to paint on that particular wall, Betlejewski has been criticized by other municipal authorities in the past, who perceived his paintings as vandalism.

In 2019, he was fined by the District Court in Węgrów with a fine of PLN 1,100 for illegally hanging a banner with the slogan of shares on the Węgrów market.

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NEPA: Now they tell us
December 3, 2021 | Category: News
The Washington Examiner proclaiming what those of us permitting projects on the ground have known for decades: The environmental review process at state and federal levels is completely broken.
An excerpt from the article (link to article HERE):
When Honolulu approved plans to construct a rail transit line stretching 20 miles into the suburbs in 2008, voters were told the project would cost $4 billion and would be completed by 2022. Now, the cost has ballooned to $11.4 billion, and it won't be done until 2031.
Two-thousand and five hundred miles away in California's Central Valley, what was originally sold as a high-speed rail system stretching from Los Angeles to San Francisco that would cost $33 billion and would be completed in 2020 has since become a $100 billion project to be completed in 2033 that will only travel from Bakersfield to Merced.
Almost a month after Congress finally passed President Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion physical infrastructure bill, the New York Times tells us that these boondoggles are not just isolated cases but are indicative of "the kind of cost overruns, engineering challenges and political obstacles that have made it all but impossible to complete a major, multibillion-dollar infrastructure project in the United States."
Weird that the New York Times failed to mention these problems before Biden's infrastructure became law.
So, what is driving all these infrastructure projects to take so long at so high a price?
According to the New York Times, "projects are put on hold for years" while federal agencies "review environmental reports" required by federal law. It also reported that this environmental review process "has become so complex, in part to defend against inevitable lawsuits, that neither state agencies nor federal departments can write and review the documents without teams of outside consultants."
The New York Times never mentions it, but the law responsible for all these environmental reviews is called the National Environmental Policy Act, and it indeed is the main reason why infrastructure is so expensive. Unfortunately, Biden's infrastructure bill does nothing to reform the NEPA. It just pours $1.2 trillion into what is clearly a broken infrastructure construction system.
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The H4 Handy Recorder is a handheld digital audio recorder from Zoom, featuring built-in condenser microphones in an X-Y stereo pattern, priced from around US$280 depending upon memory capacity .

Recordings are stored on an SD card (128 MB supplied), or via a USB cable to a computer running digital audio workstation software (Cubase LE supplied).

Applications and recording formats

The H4 can record in stereo or four-track mode. In stereo mode WAV or compressed (MP3) files may be made. A 2GB card will store 95 hours of speech-quality or 3 hours of CD-quality recording. With device firmware from version 2.0, SDHC cards up to 32GB in size are supported, storing 16 hours at the highest-quality setting (uncompressed PCM WAV, 24 bit, 96 kHz, stereo).

Basic four-track recordings can be made in the field with the built-in microphones and two additional input ports which accept external signal sources via XLR or 1/4-inch connectors.

Stereo mode

In stereo mode, the user has a wide choice of sound quality, with lower quality requiring less storage space. Only 44.1 kHz 16-bit recordings can be imported into four-track mode. All stereo recordings share a single folder, and on playback are sequenced as one continuous output stream with no pause between files.

Stereo recording can use the built-in microphones or external input via 1/4-inch or XLR plugs.

4-track mode

Four-track recordings can be made of one or two tracks at a time. When recording in stereo, only tracks 1 and 2, or 3 and 4, can be chosen. Four-track recordings are limited to 16-bit/44.1 kHz WAV files. WAV recordings made in stereo mode can be imported into a project folder.

When recording on one or two tracks, the other tracks may be played back simultaneously (see multi-track recording). Each track can be individually panned, to create a stereo image.

Any or all tracks can be mixed down to a stereo bounce file. This can be the last step in mixing, or an intermediate step to free up other tracks.

Effects

The H4 incorporates a 32-bit DSP that provides various effects as well as modelling of different types of microphone and guitar amplifiers. Up to 60 effects patches can be stored.

Internal clock issue

It has been reported that all H4 recorders have a serious flaw: the internal clock is not precise, with a typical error of a few seconds per hour. As a result, recorded audio is out of sync with other devices (e.g., camcorders) and has to be stretched in order to achieve synchronization.

See also

Zoom H2 Handy Recorder
Zoom H4n

References

External links

Pro Audio Review by Bruce Bartlett, November 2005
O'Reilly Digital Media Review by Mark Nelson, February 2007; the same reviewer also tested the Edirol R-09 and M-Audio MicroTrack recorders
Videomaker Review by Brian Peterson, March 2007
Sonic Studios Review The reviewer measures noise/frequency performance of the H4.

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Two GOP Sens Apologize For Using Photos Of Cummings In John Lewis Tribute Posts
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 07: Sen, Dan Sullivan, R-AK, wears a mask during a Senate Armed Services hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Thursday, May 7, 2020. The hearing was held to examine the nominations of Br... WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 07: Sen, Dan Sullivan, R-AK, wears a mask during a Senate Armed Services hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Thursday, May 7, 2020. The hearing was held to examine the nominations of Braithwaite to be Secretary of the Navy, Anderson to be a Deputy Under Secretary, and Brown, Jr. to be Chief of Staff, United States Air Force. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images) MORE LESS
Sens. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Saturday issued apologies after erroneously posting photos of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings in social media posts that paid tribute to Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) following his recent death.
On Friday night, Lewis died at the age of 80 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last December. Shortly after Lewis' death was announced, politicians paid tribute to the late congressman, who had a reputation for his involvement in the civil rights movement and serving 17 terms in Congress.
Sullivan issued an apology for a now-deleted Facebook post paying tribute to Lewis that featured a photo of the Alaska senator with Cummings — the Maryland congressman who died last year — in front of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The photo was previously used in a post last year paying tribute to Cummings.
"Senator Sullivan's staff made a mistake trying to honor an American legend," a spokesperson for Sullivan told CNN.
Sullivan shared a new post on Facebook that refers to a Washington Post article on Lewis' death.
Earlier Saturday, Rubio tweeted an image that mistook Cummings for Lewis, and acknowledged the error after deleting his initial post and replacing it with a new message paying tribute to Lewis.
Earlier today I tweeted an incorrect photo
John Lewis was a genuine American hero
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Cookin' Up Middle Grade Books
By Natalie Rompella on July 6, 2018 / Fiction, For Kids, For Librarians, For Teachers
I began baking when I was about nine. I loved stuffing brown sugar into a measuring up, hearing the whirring of the mixer, and smoothing out frosting onto a round cake. I still have the recipe my friend and I invented for Sprinkle Cake Cookies. It probably isn't surprising that my main character in my first novel is a baker as well as I love reading about baking almost as much as I like actually baking (and it's a lot less messy!).
If you know a middle grade reader who enjoys baking, these books are perfect! And what's great is that they're not all about sparkly pink cupcakes. You will see that there are a couple of fantasy and historical fiction books mixed in, ones about boys who love to bake, and some that address serious issues.
Cookie Cutters & Sled Dog Runners by Natalie Rompella
I'm starting with my own contribution here…
Ana Morgan is excited to begin middle school. She and her best friend Lily plan to create a cookbook for the school's Explorations Fair, but when Ana is assigned a new partner, things quickly go sour. As Ana's life gets out of control, so does her anxiety. Germs bother her and make her wash her hands. A lot. And then she begins her Explorations project with the new girl…on sled dog racing—something she's never even heard of. But when life gives her lemons, can she make lavender lemonade? Contains recipes in the book (including my childhood recipe for Sprinkle Cake Cookies).
Undercover Chefs by Erin Fry
Three unlikely friends join forces to win a baking competition and save their school's culinary classroom. Isaac, a nationally-ranked runner; Jane, a shy artist; and J.C., a rebellious scooter rider – all have a secret passion for cooking. The promise of a cupcake contest lures them to an unusual classroom on the outskirts of campus. As they share friendship and a love for cooking, the pressures of the contest start to boil over – a recipe for disaster that could destroy their chances at winning! The heat is on, and Isaac, Jane and J.C. must figure out a way to salvage their cupcakes, save the culinary classroom from being demolished, and protect their secrets before the judges cast their final votes.
Cupcake Cousins by Kate Hannigan
Nine-year old cousins, Willow and Delia, can't wait to spend a week vacationing together with their families. Their aunt is getting married, and Willow and Delia are hoping their tasty baked goods will be enough to get them out of being flower girls in the wedding.
But with a mischievous little brother, a bacon-loving dog, and a misbehaving blender in the mix, their treats don't exactly turn out as planned. When a real emergency threatens to ruin the wedding, will their baking skills be enough to save the day? [Book 1 in the Cupcake Cousins series]
Lights, Camera, Cook! by Charise Mericle Harper
It's "lights, camera, cook " for four tween contestants–energetic Tate, charming Rae, worldly Caroline, and hyper-competitive Oliver–who are all about to enter a televised cooking competition.
What will the kids cook up? How will they all get along on- and off-camera? Which junior chef will have the grit–and maybe the grits–to make it through each challenge? And which junior chef will have to hang their apron up for good? Bonus: Includes real cooking techniques for the aspiring young chef. [Book 1 in the Next Best Chef series]
Peace, Love, and Cupcakes by Sheryl Berk
Kylie Carson is a fourth grader with a big problem. How will she make friends at her new school? Should she tell her classmates she loves monster movies? Forget it. Play the part of a turnip in the school play? Disaster Then Kylie comes up with a delicious idea: What if she starts a cupcake club?
Soon Kylie's club is spinning out tasty treats with the help of her fellow bakers and new friends. But when Meredith tries to sabotage the girls' big cupcake party, will it be the end of the Cupcake Club? [Book 1 in The Cupcake Club series]
Save the Cupcake! by Lisa Papademetriou
Hayley's world is far from perfect: Her parents have divorced, her mom has lost her job, and she and her sister Chloe are stuck sharing a bedroom in their grandmother's apartment. Luckily, Hayley has a knack for baking cupcakes — and cupcakes always make life just a little sweeter But when she and her best friend Artie start drifting apart, she realizes that it's going to take more than sugar and spice to make things nice. [Book 1 in the Confectionately Yours series]
Baker's Magic by Diane Zahler
Bee is an orphan, alone in a poor, crumbling kingdom. In desperation, she steals a bun from a bakery. To Bee's surprise, the baker offers her a place at his shop. As she learns to bake, Bee discovers that she has a magical power. When a new friend desperately needs her help against an evil mage, Bee wonders what a small orphan girl with only a small bit of magic can do. Bee's journey to help her friend becomes a journey to save the kingdom, and a discovery of the meaning of family.
The Baking Life of Amelie Day by Vanessa Curtis
Thirteen-year-old Amelie Day loves to bake so she's thrilled when she's invited to compete in the Best Teen Baker of the Year contest. But Amelie has Cystic Fibrosis, and some days she can barely breathe. Determined not to let her condition or her mom stop her from taking part, Amelie musters all her Flour Power. But will it be enough to get her to the top?
Close to Famous by Joan Bauer
Foster McFee dreams of having her own cooking show like her idol, celebrity chef Sonny Kroll. Macon Dillard's goal is to be a documentary filmmaker. Foster's mother Rayka longs to be a headliner instead of a back-up singer. And Miss Charleena plans a triumphant return to Hollywood. Everyone has a dream, but nobody is even close to famous in the little town of Culpepper. Until some unexpected events shake the town and its inhabitants-and put their big ambitions to the test.
Gingersnap by Patricia Reilly Giff
It's 1944, W.W. II is raging. Jayna's big brother Rob is her only family. When Rob is called to duty on a destroyer, Jayna is left in their small town in upstate New York with their cranky landlady. But right before he leaves, Rob tells Jayna a secret: they may have a grandmother in Brooklyn. Rob found a little blue recipe book with her name and an address for a bakery. When Jayna learns that Rob is missing in action, she's devastated. Along with her turtle Theresa, the recipe book, and an encouraging, ghostly voice as her guide, Jayna sets out for Brooklyn in hopes of finding the family she so desperately needs.
All Four Stars by Tara Dairman
Meet Gladys Gatsby: New York's toughest restaurant critic. (Just don't tell anyone that she's in sixth grade.) Gladys Gatsby has been cooking gourmet dishes since the age of seven, only her fast-food-loving parents have no idea. Now she's eleven, and after a crème brûlée accident (just a small fire), Gladys is cut off from the kitchen (and her allowance). She's devastated but soon finds just the right opportunity to pay her parents back when she's mistakenly contacted to write a restaurant review for one of the largest newspapers in the world. But in order to meet her deadline and keep her dream job, Gladys must cook her way into the heart of her sixth-grade archenemy and sneak into New York City–all while keeping her identity a secret Easy as pie, right?
Pie by Sarah Weeks
When Alice's Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily fat, remarkably disagreeable cat, Lardo . . . and then leaves Lardo in the care of Alice.
Suddenly, the whole town is wondering how you leave a recipe to a cat. Everyone wants to be the next big pie-contest winner, and it's making them pie-crazy. It's up to Alice and her friend Charlie to put the pieces together and discover the not-so-secret recipe for happiness: Friendship. Family. And the pleasure of doing something for the right reason.
Sprinkles and Secrets by Lisa Schroeder
Twelve-year-old Sophie has always dreamed of being an actress and being in front of the camera. When that dream comes true and she's offered a T.V. commercial spot, she's over-the-moon happy. But then she finds out what exactly she'll be advertising: the delectable, ever-popular brownies from BEATRICE'S BROWNIES, which just so happns to be the number one competitor to IT'S RAINING CUPCAKES—owned by her best friend, Isabel's, family. Sophie has a tough choice to make: Follow her dreams or crush her best friend. What's a girl to do?
Anyone else getting hungry? I hope you enjoy these tasty treats!


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Marvi Kashkoush said he and his wife Edith got a shock when he spotted the red creature scrambling around outside their window, in recent weeks.
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We see our role and contribution to sustainability and impact as one that bridges the divide between hard-hitting financial analysis and the deep social and environmental concerns of our clients.
Our approach to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing focuses on managing publicly traded equities in an effort to provide competitive returns and have an impact on the sustainability of a company's operations. Though it is important to support solutions to ESG issues, the power of a business to impact wider society also comes from its practices, its behavior and processes: not just the product, but its modes of production. Essential to our ESG approach, is our belief that a commitment to sustainable investing does not have to compromise competitive alpha generation.
The Rockefeller Global ESG Equity Strategy seeks to combine our collaborative culture with the rigor and insight characteristic of our equity research. Our analysts apply a proprietary Four Pillar Method to understand company performance in the context of interrelated ESG-related criteria, to practice an integrated, financial-first approach. The Four Pillars, detailed in the interactive graphic below, include the categories of Governance, Products and Services, Human Capital Management, and Environment.
We begin our analysis by assessing the quality, integrity, transparency and accountability of a company's management and board. We consider board composition and independence, executive compensation, diversity, transparency and other key issues that affect all levels of a business. Due to our global investment focus, we pay particular attention to the country of operation and country-specific best practices.
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Los Angeles Marathon
Go Metro to this Sunday's L.A. Marathon from "Stadium to the Sea"
by Lexi Hinton , March 2, 2020
In the words of the late Nipsey Hussle, "the marathon continues!" In this case, it's the annual Los Angeles Marathon returning this Sunday, March 8 with the "Stadium of the [continue reading]
Go Metro to cheer on L.A. Marathon runners this Sunday!
by Lexi Hinton , March 19, 2019
The annual Los Angeles Marathon returns this Sunday, March 24, with the "Stadium to the Sea" course from Dodger Stadium to Santa Monica. For those planning to attend or participate [continue reading]
Go Metro to the L.A. Marathon on Mar. 19
by Steven Arellanes , March 10, 2017
On your mark, get set, go! The annual Los Angeles Marathon returns Sunday, March 19 with their "Stadium to the Sea" course. For those planning to participate in this year's race, [continue reading]
Go Metro to watch this Sunday's L.A. Marathon
by Lily Allen , March 3, 2014
Those participating in or attending the L.A. Marathon this Sunday are encouraged to go Metro to the race. But there will be some bus detours throughout the day due to the marathon. Here's the press release from Metro: The Los Angeles Marathon returns on Sunday, March 9 with the 'Stadium to the [continue reading]
Art of transit; pre-marathon crash race edition
by Steve Hymon , March 18, 2013
After streets are closed the morning of the Los Angeles Marathon, hundreds of cyclists take to the roads to enjoy some car-free time, led by the local Wolfpack Hustle group. The above photo was just posted to Flickr and here's a story about the cycling event — it's not an [continue reading]
Metro bus detours and travel options for L.A. Marathon
by Anna Chen , March 15, 2013
Just a reminder, L.A. Marathon will take place on Sunday, March 17 and run from Dodger Stadium to the Santa Monica Pier. The event begins at 6:55 a.m. and is expected to end around 5 p.m. Due to road closures and bus detours, Metro Rail is the best option for those [continue reading]
Go Metro Weekends, March 16-18
Get ready to party this weekend. St. Patrick's Day is Saturday and that's just one of many events in the area. Escape on Friday to the all-new Infusion Lounge at Universal CityWalk. Happy hour runs from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and special guest DJ HEM will be providing the [continue reading]
Go Metro to the Los Angeles Marathon
Metro Rail is a great way for spectators to view thousands of runners during the 27th annual Los Angeles Marathon set for Sunday, March 18. SPECTATORS: Eight Metro Rail stations are within walking distance of the race course: the Chinatown and Little Tokyo/Arts District Gold Line stations and Union Station, [continue reading]


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The Spirit of St. Louis Tours the United States
To take advantage of public interest in Lindbergh after his transatlantic flight, the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics sponsored a tour in 1927 in which Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis to all 48 states. The tour's goals were to stimulate interest in aviation, encourage use of existing commercial mail and passenger air services, and promote the development of airports and communications by air.
The Guggenheim Fund estimated that 30 million saw the Spirit along the way. The tour enhanced the public's perception of Lindbergh as a hero and of the Spirit as a national icon. It also made him an acknowledged expert on aviation, a role he played nearly to the end of his life.
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Lindbergh like to fly low in "ground effect" believing like others that there was a cushion of air that improved aircraft performance.
The tour's participants (left to right): Donald E. Keyhoe, Philip Love, Charles Lindbergh, C. C. Maidment, and Milburn Kusterer.
Lindbergh gave Henry Ford his first airplane ride during his visit to Dearborn, Michigan.
Lindbergh's Goodwill Tour lasted 95 days through 82 cities and 23 state capitals.
This menu is typical of the fare served at the 69 dinners Lindbergh attended during his tour of the United States.
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Industrial IoT Startup Altizon Raises $7M To Take On PTC, Siemens
Altizon takes on smart manufacturing giants PTC and Siemens with a fresh $7 million in funding, which the company is using to expand its channel partner activities and invest in its end-to-end software capabilities.
By Dylan Martin April 29, 2019, 04:38 PM EDT
Industrial Internet of Things startup Altizon has raised a fresh $7 million in funding to challenge PTC, Siemens and other major players in the smart manufacturing space.
The startup, which has offices in Scotts Valley, Calif., and Pune, India, plans to use the funding to expand its global sales and marketing efforts, which includes more resources to throw at the company's channel program that counts Wipro, Tata Technologies and roughly 28 other partners on its roster. The company will also invest further in its three core products.
[Related: Exclusive: PTC Buys SI Partner Factora To Boost Industry 4.0 Expertise]
Wipro's strategic investment firm, Wipro Ventures, was among the investors in Altizon's Series A round, which brings the company's total funding to roughly $12 million. The round was led by the Singapore subsidiary of TVS Motor Company, an Indian motorcycle manufacturer.
Altizon provides an end-to-end offering for industrial IoT deployments. They consist of Datonis Edge for connecting edge devices and analyzing their data, the Datonis core platform for advanced analytics and integration, and the Datonis Manufacturing Intelligence suite, which is preloaded with modules for productivity, quality, maintenance, energy profiling and traceability.
Vinay Nathan, CEO of Altizon, said those end-to-end capabilities, along with the company's cloud-agnostic stance, are two things that make the company stand out in the sea of industrial IoT players. He counted PTC's ThingWorx as its closest competitor while also making note of Siemens' MindSphere.
"From our perspective, our end-to-end stack and being cloud-agnostic are two major drivers," Nathan said. "Talking to larger companies, they want to have a provider that can provide all three layers and having the flexibility of being able to choose which cloud to go to."
Since Nathan started Altizon with two other founders in 2013, the startup has amassed 132 enterprise customers across 31 countries, including lead investor TVS Motors, Procter & Gamble and Ecolab, the CEO said. Forty of these customers have multiyear commercial contracts with Altizon.
These customers have, on average, experienced an 18 percent boost in overall equipment effectiveness, an 8 percent reduction in indirect overhead costs and a 3 percent reduction in energy expenses.
Altizon has also gained the recognition of research firms like Forrester, which named the company a breakout IoT vendor in India, and Gartner, which listed Altizon in its Magic Quadrant for IoT last year.
The company's channel partners—which include hardware providers, systems integrators and solution providers—make money with Altizon by taking a cut of the software subscription revenue while also providing integration and custom development services, according to Nathan. The company's channel program offers training and marketing resources, as well as priority support.
Rajesh Narasimhan, an Altizon board member and CEO of TVS Motor's Singapore subsidiary, said Altizon stood out in the competitive landscape of industrial IoT providers.
"After detailed assessments around industrial IoT platforms, we found Altizon's technology portfolio of definitive value in driving digital transformation with industrial IoT," he said in a statement.
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Increasing Pacific women's role in fisheries management
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More women are being included alongside men community leaders, government officials and other stakeholders who make decisions about how fishing is managed along Pacific coastlines.
"I support regional and national fisheries agencies, and non-state actors to support gender and social inclusion to be integrated within their areas of work at technical areas and also a policy level," said Margaret Fox, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Adviser for Fisheries at the Pacific Community (SPC).
"This work is critical to highlight the important contributions of women fishers and other women to the fisheries sector, both now and in the future, including the challenges that they face," she said.
In her role, Margaret provides technical advice and guidance to several fisheries initiatives including the community-based fisheries management (CBFM).
In the Pacific, there are many communities involved in the management of their own coastal fisheries, which are often small and isolated groups, or 'pockets'. Bringing a large number of community-based fisheries management (CBFM) pockets together – termed 'scaling-up' – on a national or regional basis creates a large collective of people able to share learnings, work together and influence fisheries decisions.
In this way, they can harness collective community action to bolster effective coastal fisheries management across the region, including recognising the importance of having voices of women heard equally alongside men .
In the Pacific, community-based decision-making and control of fisheries resources is typically undertaken through traditional governance institutions mostly comprising of men, with women's voices rarely present in community decision making settings.
This is changing, with traditional leaders increasingly considering the voices of women plus marginalised groups, such as people with disabilities.
Results of the CBFM scaling-up process show that, in the past few years, fisheries stakeholders including community leaders are including more women, disabled people and marginalised groups In decision making for fisheries.
CBFM is implemented by SPC and the Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network, which is part of the broader Pacific-European Union (EU) Marine Partnership (PEUMP) Programme funded by the European Union (EU) and the Government of Sweden and implemented by several regional and international organisations. A key objective for PEUMP is to promote greater recognition of gender issues to ensure inclusiveness and positive changes for Pacific Island people.
SPC is committed to improving gender equality, women's empowerment and ending violence against women and girls. Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality – programmes that work to improve gender equality and women's empowerment contribute to ending gender-based violence.
This story is part of a series being published by SPC during this year's 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (GBV) to demonstrate how science and technical approaches directly contribute to gender equality and ending violence against women and girls (VAWG). Refer to this year's SPC 16 Days web-page for more details: https://www.spc.int/events/16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence-2022
The Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership (PEUMP) Programme addresses some of the most serious challenges faced by Pacific countries. Among these are the increasing depletion of coastal fisheries resources; the threats to marine biodiversity, including negative impacts of climate change and disasters; the uneven contribution of oceanic fisheries to national economic development; the need for improved education and training; and the need to mainstream a rights-based approach and to promote greater recognition of gender issues to ensure inclusiveness and positive changes for Pacific Island people.  This seven-year PEUMP programme is funded by the European Union (EUR 35 million) and the Government of Sweden (EUR 10 million). It is implemented by the Pacific Community (SPC), the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the University of the South Pacific (USP) in close collaboration with Non-Government Organisations and the national authorities.
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New Singapore Tourism Board collaboration to innovate in hotels
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SINGAPORE - People might eventually check into hotels here through self-service kiosks via facial recognition technology.
A prototype of the kiosk has been developed as part of a new collaboration between Far East Hospitality, a hotel and serviced apartment owner and operator, and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB).
This partnership was announced by Dr Amy Khor, the Senior Minister of State for Health and Manpower on Tuesday.
She was the guest-of-honour at the inaugural hospitality summit, a conference for industry players to discuss productivity, organised by the Singapore Hotel Association and the STB.
Said Dr Khor: "The collaboration aims to yield quantifiable productivity data such as cost and manpower savings, which can be shared for the benefit of the wider industry."
Far East Hospitality has looked at areas where it can improve its operations, and it has several initiatives such as the self-service check-in kiosk which was developed by information technology companies AIT Technology and EmiNET.
One of the kiosks will be installed in the front lobby of its Village Hotel Katong in Marine Parade within the next few months. It will verify the bookings and details of guests by scanning their passports or identification cards, for Singaporeans. As an additional precaution, it will also compare their facial features with their passport photos. After some additional steps, the kiosk will dispense the room key card to guests.
The entire process should take about two minutes, which will be a 50 per cent gain in productivity for the hotel. And the kiosk will complement the activities of their front line staff.
Besides this new trial, Far East Hospitality will also be introducing other initiatives to improve efficiency in its laundry services and rooms.
Said Mr Arthur Kiong, its the chief executive: "If you combine our service residences and hotels, we operate over 5,000 rooms or apartments in Singapore. We obviously have the scale and vested interest to want to be the leading light in terms of productivity innovation."


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This Site Lets You Dress Like Your Favorite TV And Movie Characters (Photos)
By Gillian Fuller
If you've ever watched a TV show or a movie and wished you could rob the closet of your favorite character, now you can -- kind of.
New website Spylight -- not to be confused with fashion app Stylight -- is every fashionable binge-watcher's dream come true.
It features a catalog of popular films and TV programs and shows users how to recreate the looks of their favorite characters by linking to shop-able versions of outfits featured in the episode.
If there's a specific look you're on the hunt for, you're in luck. The site allows users to search by season, character and more to find exactly what they're looking for. And we mean exactly. The site coordinates with the production studios to source the exact garment or accessory worn by the character.
Those without a movie star budget will be happy to find lower-priced alternatives for some of the pricier picks.
The Spylight blog offers further fashion inspiration from popular flicks, celebrity looks, news and more.
There's pretty much no reason not to check out this website immediately. Prepare to be obsessed and, inevitably, spend lots of dough.
Don't say we didn't warn you.
First, pick from your choice of TV shows and films.
Next, pick a character whose look you love.
A series of looks will appear on the top of the screen; pick your favorite.
Click on a product to be redirected to a store where you can purchase it.
It's not just for ladies, either!
For TV shows, the looks appear in the middle of the screen (and may take up several pages).
Pick your favorite ensemble, et voila!


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Jodi Weiss
Jodi Weiss has been running ultras for the last decade, and to date has completed 35 races of 100 miles or more, and dozens of 50Ks, 50 milers, 100Ks and 24-hour races. She loves hot-weather races, making Badwater 135, Javelina Jundred, and Keys 100 her favorite races, with multiple finishes at each. When she's not running races, she loves to write about races and interview her running superheroes. In her professional life, she leads the Nonprofit and Higher Education Practice at Korn Ferry, a global consulting firm, and is a professor of literature and writing at various colleges and universities. She's currently working on her second novel, Exit 11N.
Jodi Weiss 01/31/2023
By my last day in India, I remembered the wonder of pursuing new paths, interruptions as a given versus an obstacle, and that when you make space and room in your life, possibilities abound. Taking in the thrashing waves of the Arabian Sea as the high tide returned each dawn, I remembered that the comings and goings are all part of the journey, and perhaps the key is to flow and enjoy the current.
Route 66 Ultrarun: Great Open Spaces
Ultras remind me that the world is such a big and welcoming place, which was the case for Marshall and Heather Ulrich's inaugural Route 66 Ultrarun. The race consisted of 140 miles across the longest remaining unbroken stretch of Route 66, from Seligman, AZ, to Topock, AZ, finishing at Topock66 on the Colorado River.
Badwater 135: The Will to Keep Going
Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California, sits at 280 feet below sea level. Each year in July, endurance athletes from all over the world converge to run 135 miles from the start at Badwater to the finish line at the portal of Mt. Whitney (elevation 8,360 feet). Runners traverse three mountain ranges and face numerous other challenges, like scorching desert heat and sleep deprivation, over the course of two nights.
Miami 50/50: Finding My Way
The Miami 50/50 is an urban adventure race that requires runners to team up with a partner and tackle 50 miles together from start to finish, totally self-supported. To add to the challenge, the course map is unknown prior to race morning. Runners receive course directions every ten or so miles along the way, at designated checkpoints.
Death Valley 30/30 – Marshall Ulrich's Next Big Adventure
Thirty years ago, at age 39, endurance athlete Marshall Ulrich completed his first 146-mile crossing from Badwater Basin (282 feet below sea level) to the summit of Mount Whitney (14,505 feet). At 6 a.m. on Monday, August 24, 69-year-old Marshall Ulrich began his journey across the desert to climb the highest mountain in the contiguous United States for his 30th crossing of Death Valley and his 27th summit of Mount Whitney.
Ultrarunner on the Rise: Lisa DeVona
The first thing you might spot when you see Lisa DeVona, is her purple ponytail. It may lead you to believe that she has superpowers, and considering how she has climbed the ultrarunning ranks over the last few years, she just might.
Doing Hard Things – Daytona 100
In a world of conveniences, why take on hard challenges? Perhaps because in the pain, misery and torture that we face in these abbreviated and self-imposed adventures, we grow empathetic and remember that we are all in it together, from the first person to the last person crossing the finish line.
Kimble Attempts TRT Supported FKT
Kimble's goal is to come in any time under 38 hours and 32 minutes to break the record, but his "A" goal, if all goes according to plan, is to come in closer to 36.5 hours.
Pamela Chapman Markle: Stronger and Faster
Pam Chapman Markle entered the world of ultramarathoning in 2011 at age 55. As a certified registered nurse anesthetist for over 35 years, she had been working with a physician who encouraged her to sign up for an ultra.
Badwater Cape Fear: Community Building
I believe the Badwater experience is about being together in settings that involve intense running experiences, and then having the time and space to recover, relax, and rejoice together.
Pete Kostelnick's 5,300-Mile Ke2Key
Kostelnick became the first person to complete a self-supported run, without relying on an accompanying support vehicle, from Alaska to Florida.


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Q: Login activity problem Im currently developing an application for android, the first screen of the application is the LoginActivity, it is authenticating with facebook and a facebook login dialog is shown on users request. The whole login process is working great, when you have logged in user are brought to a new activity. I've created a logout function in that activity which logging the user out of facebook in the whole application, but. If you press the "back-button" on an android device when the user is at the activity where you are when you have logged in the loginactivity is shown for the user. I want to make it impossible for the user to show the loginactivity but i don't know how. When the user successfully logging in from the beggining the following lines are runned:
        Intent intent = new Intent().setClass(LoginActivity.this, LocationActivity.class);
        startActivity(intent);

And when the user successfully logged out from the MainActivity the following lines are runed:
ApplicationController appController = (ApplicationController)getApplicationContext();
            appController.setfullnametoNull();
            appController.setuseridtoNull();
            finish();

Any suggestions on how to make it impossible for the user to get to the loginactivity when the user is currently logged in?

A: finish() the activity and if the user navigates to other app without log out then you should check in the login activity when comes back to app and redirect the user to appropriate activity. You need to save the login credentials for this. You can use SharedPreferences for this.

A: Use an broadcast intent which you send from the activity you start after the login activity. Then use the login activity as the receiver of the broadcast intent. Then you can use this broadcast to call finish() for the login activity. This way the login activity should get out of the android activity stack.

A: Not sure if I understood your question correctly... you are saying after you logged in and another Activity is started the user hits the back button and the activity is shown again?
If yes: you can prevent this with starting the activity using startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_CODE) instead of using startActivity(intent).
Then you have to add this method:

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    if (requestCode == REQUEST_CODE) {
        finish();
    }
}


Islamic State's Syrian capital of Raqqa has been largely conquered by the Syrian Democratic Forces supported by the US-led coalition. Around 100 ISIS fighters surrendered on Saturday, and 1,500 civilians have fled unharmed in the last week, coalition spokesman US Army Col. Ryan Dillon said.
The battle for Raqqa began in early June and has dragged on for more than four months.
By late June ISIS was surrounded in the city, its forces occupying about 3 square kilometers. By mid-September it had been pushed back to a small pocket in the center and north of the city.
Nevertheless the SDF, which is composed of forces including the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), continued to face a difficult enemy.
Adnan Abu Amjad, a wellknown commander of the SDF's Manbij Military Council, was killed fighting in the city on August 29. ISIS counterattacks also inflicted casualties. On October 4, Jac Holmes, a British volunteer serving with the People's Protection Units (YPG), estimated it could still take up to two months to take the city, when he held a live Facebook session to answer questions about the battle.
Since October 5, the coalition has carried out almost 150 air strikes in and around Raqqa, according to its daily press releases. Most strikes in recent days targeted ISIS "fighting positions," but the coalition does not specify precisely where. The congested space in the jihadist-held part of the city, about a kilometer square, make air strikes difficult.
What gives hope to the coalition and SDF is the surrender of 100 ISIS fighters in the last days.
There is no agreement for the exit of ISIS from the city, Wladimir van Wilgenburg, a Kurdish affairs analyst in Syria, wrote on Twitter that SDF commander Rojda Felat told him on Thursday.
However, the SDF and coalition have been attempting to let civilians flee. "Daesh [ISIS] is on the verge of being finished.
Today or tomorrow the city may be liberated," Nouri Mahmoud, a spokesman for the YPG, told Reuters on Saturday.
When Raqqa falls it will be largely symbolic, because there are not thought to be major ISIS leaders in the city which once served as the capital of the black flag-waving extremists. However, the long battle has been a major but costly victory for the SDF and is part of the successful policy the US has hit upon of leveraging local forces to defeat ISIS.
The battle for Raqqa has been eclipsed now by the race for the Iraqi border taking place 160 km. down the Euphrates River, as the SDF and the Assad regime seek to fill the space left by ISIS retreating. In the long run the issue of who gets to the Iraqi border and whether the US chooses to challenge Iranian influence and stick with its local allies, will be more important than the fall of Raqqa.


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No. 23 Ohio State routs Illinois State in season opener
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)Justice Sueing scored 19 points and No. 23 Ohio State scored the first 22 points en route to a 94-67 win over Illinois State on Wednesday in the season opener for both teams.
Due to COVID-19 concerns, the game was played before about 100 school officials and media inside 19,100-seat Value City Arena.
The Buckeyes created their own energy as Sueing, making his Ohio State debut after transferring and sitting out a year, had seven points in the team's opening surge. He was 8 of 9 from the floor in his first game since leaving California, where he averaged 14 points and six rebounds as a sophomore in 2018-19.
"It's great to be out here with my guys," said Sueing, who also missed practice time last winter with a foot injury. "It was a long time sitting out. As soon as I got out there, I was able to play off my teammates and jell with them. I'm just excited to see what we can do this year."
E.J. Liddell had 16 points while Duane Washington and freshman Zed Key each scored 12 for the Buckeyes. Key also had five rebounds. C.J. Walker chipped in 10 points and six assists.
Antonio Reeves led Illinois State with 17 points and Howard Fleming Jr. added 15 points.
"I'm not real surprised, to be honest," Illinois State coach Dan Muller said. "We're not ready to be a good team yet. Part of it is missing two weeks of practice (due to COVID-19), but part of it is our guys don't believe the coaches when we say how hard you have to play. I do think we'll grow a lot from this."
The Buckeyes led by as many as 24 points in the first half before settling for a 42-25 halftime lead. The lead went as high as 37 points with just over six minutes left.
Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann was concerned about his team's defense coming into the season. But the Buckeyes forced the Redbirds to miss their first nine shots in building their early lead.
"This was a good first start for our guys," Holtmann said. "(Illinois State) came out and missed some shots they would normally make. But I'm proud of our guys' effort overall. They had really good energy. They were anxious and ready to play."
Liddell moved into a starting spot at power forward for Ohio State after serving as a backup last year. He opened the game with a jam and then completed a three-point play, scoring both off passes from his teammates. Liddell fed Sueing for back-to-back jams midway through the second half as the Buckeyes pulled away.
"We were sharing the ball very well," Liddell said. "We went out there and blitzed them and played together."
Ohio State: The Buckeyes got to see their new-look offense in action, going with more of an open floor look after utilizing center Kaleb Wesson in the post the last three years. Wesson declared for the NBA draft but went undrafted last week. Ohio State was 21-10 and finished fifth in the Big Ten a year ago.
Illinois State: The Redbirds got a chance to see how they match up against a Big Ten opponent and, after the first six minutes, did a few positive things. They were 10-21 and finished ninth in the Missouri Valley Conference last season.
Ohio State welcomed back junior guard Musa Jallow, who missed last season with an ankle injury.
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Harvard transfer Seth Towns, still coming back from a knee injury that cost him his last two seasons, was late arriving to the game after being involved in a minor car crash near campus. No one was hurt.
AWAY FOR THE HOLIDAY
Illinois State is spending Thanksgiving weekend in Columbus. The Redbirds will play UMass-Lowell on the Ohio State campus on Saturday. "The location was good for us," Muller said. "Sometimes it does come down to money. Budget-wise, it was a good trip for us to get two games."
Illinois State: Hosts UMass Lowell on Saturday.
Ohio State: Hosts UMass Lowell on Sunday.
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MILWAUKEE (AP)Jarred Godfrey had 18 points as Purdue Fort Wayne topped Milwaukee 81-74 on Saturday night. Jalon Pipkins added 16 points for the Mastodons, while Bobby Planutis chipped in 15.
Godfrey also had eight turnovers but only seven assists. Pipkins also had six rebounds.
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP)Ethan Claycomb had 17 points to lead five Bellarmine players in double figures as the Knights got past Florida Gulf Coast 80-63 on Saturday night.
CJ Fleming, Juston Betz and Pedro Bradshaw added 12 points apiece for the Knights. Nick Thelen chipped in 10 points. Bradshaw also had seven rebounds.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)Nearly an hour after Saturday's game had ended, Tennessee's Victor Bailey was still launching 3-pointers in an empty arena.
Bailey wasn't taking his success in No. 10 Tennessee's 81-61 win over Vanderbilt for granted.


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November 26, 2012 December 18, 2012 2012 Top 20 Singles Leave a comment 2012bat for lashesbye bye bayoude la souldon't leave me (ne me quitte pas)feel good incget somegorillazhot chiplcd soundsystemlexington avenuelightning blue eyeslykke limusicnew yorkparisready for the floorregina spektorrockmelonssacre coeursecret machinesurkintop 20 tracksultra lightwhat we saw from the cheap seatswhat's a girl to do
[20] Regina Spektor, 'Don't Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas)'
Junior is 7. When we started our year-end countdowns on 7 December 2005 she was five months old and our No.20 single of the year was Gorillaz and De La Soul's 'Feel Good Inc.'.
In 2006 it was Secret Machines' 'Lightning Blue Eyes'
In 2007 it was Bat For Lashes' 'What's A Girl To Do?'
In 2008 it was Hot Chip's 'Ready For The Floor'
In 2009 it was LCD Soundsystem's 'Bye Bye Bayou'
In 2010 it was Lykke Li's 'Get Some'
In 2011 it was Surkin's 'Ultra Light'
And now it's Regina Spektor, exhuming a song from a decade ago and slapping on a bouncing, pop reggae rhythm track that you'd have expected to see Rockmelons fail to have a hit with in 1993. So it's all about history today.
"I know this song," says Junior, turning sharply to the stereo and draping her hair in her apple strudel and custard. "This is the best song ever," projects Junior 2 (aged 4), hearing it for the first time. By the second chorus she knows all the words because she's got a brain like that. Junior 3 (aged 2) just wants to get down and dance with her sisters. With every daughter we produce, this blog gets more complicated. That's why I take six-month breaks – not laziness. No.
Spektor's never been more than a kooky distant blip on my radar but What We Saw From The Cheap Seats is a deep-pile, affecting album and this is its shining pop moment. It also makes me want to hang out on Lexington and claim, "I love Paris in the rain". I just love Paris when I'm not throwing up the previous night's dinner from that place near Sacré Coeur. So that's nice.
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