In general, society finch is a type of bird that can get along well with humans and also adapt to new environments easily. It has a scientific name called the 'Lonchura Striata Domestica'. Society finch is known as 'society finch' only in the United States and the reason why it is called that way is because they always stick close with each other in a flock. They can be humans' best friends and great entertainers; therefore, many people tend to keep society finches as pets nowadays. Keeping them as pets is not very hard but also not easy because it requires certain knowledge and techniques in order to do so. What should you know about keeping a society finch as pet?
People usually think that keeping society finches as pets is a hard thing because they do not know what to feed them. Basically, feeding them is not that hard because food they eat can be easily found. However, they need varieties in their diet. They love food with several ingredients just like any other animals. You can feed them with food that contains minerals and vitamins like greens.
You can choose either spinach or parsley because society finches enjoy them a lot! In order to spice up the menu a little, you can add a small amount of fruits like apples or bananas; but bear in mind that not all society finches love the same type of food. If you are a first timer, then you can maybe try feeding your finch with different types of food and you will soon find out which type your finch prefers. Another important thing is to provide them sufficient amount of water to drink. You should change the drinker more frequently because finches will be happier to drink clean and fresh water.
Well, if you are wondering the best place for your society finch to stay in, the answer would be cages. Try to choose a larger cage so that your finch will have more freedom to move around. Imagine yourself being trapped in a small cage that you can hardly move. They feel the same too! Therefore, buy your society finch a bigger cage so that they will be happier. You can choose wide cages instead of tall ones.
Besides, install a swing inside the cage to entertain your finch. Society finches enjoy playing on swings instead of other toys. Where to keep the cage? Basically, you can consider putting your cage outdoors because finches love sunlight and light is important to them. Never put the cage in noisy areas or polluted areas because that makes your finch feels uncomfortable. During the night, cover the cage with blanket or a piece of cloth because weird sounds will freak them out! The most important thing is to always clean the cage. Just like us, finches want to live in a clean environment too!
In short, keeping society finches as pets is not impossible but you need to be responsible when it comes to taking good care of them. They are wonderful little birds that can entertain you and therefore, you have to learn to love them as how they love you as their master.
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In a world often rife with Criminals, terrorists and fugitives and teeming with some of the best crime fighting personnel in the history of man, many of the most wanted people on earth are still never caught. But when they are, many around the world breathe shuddering sighs of relief.
As in the bizzare case of one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, he has finally been named. Yes—authorities now have a name and a picture, or more accurately a sketch.
Bottom line—we now know who he is. Previously we were only familiar with the terror he perpetrated. And what horror it was.
Exposed. Named for the first time, this is the man who allegedly 'masterminded' the terror attack on a Tunisian beach in which 38 people died.
Wanted terror suspect Chamseddine al-Sandi. is said to have trained and instructed killer Seifeddine Rezgui, who slaughtered 30 British holidaymakers with an assault rifle as they sunbathed near Sousse in 2015. It was a beautiful day that ended in gruesome death, as a mass killer opened fire.
Wanted and hunted. An international manhunt is currently underway for al-Sandi, who is believed to be on the run in Libya.
Men arrested in connection with two terror attacks named al-Sandi in their confessions, with the information uncovered following an investigation by the BBC.
An organizer of death.Suspects said al-Sandi was the 'mastermind' behind the horror, who recruited and directed men including Rezgui and paid for them to go to Libya for terror training.
Careful planning and recruitment.Rezgui is said to have met members involved in the Bardo attack in cafes and mosques and trained alongside one of them at an ISIS camp in Libya.
Terrorist organizer. CommanderAl-Sandi is then believed to have given the perpetrators their orders.
As they often do, ISIS claimed responsibility for both of the attacks.
The international hunt for terrorist Chamseddine al-Sandi rages on.


Welcome to the Million Dollar Journey February 2016 Net Worth Update – Team MDJ edition. A select group of readers were selected to be part of Team MDJ which was conceived after the million dollar net worth milestone was achieved in June 2014. Nobleea – the Oil and Gas Engineer, was selected as a team member and will post net worth updates on a quarterly basis. Here is more about Nobleea.
Notes: Owns primary house. Building new home across the street.
We live in Edmonton where incomes are decent and housing prices are fairly reasonable. Some may roll their eyes at the high family income and say that a million dollar journey is going to be pretty easy. I have a plan to retire at 50 and pursue other interests. My wife will likely continue working until it makes sense to retire with her DB pension as the penalties for early retirement are pretty severe. We are in the process of building our new family home on a tear down lot across the street from our current home with an expected occupancy date some time in Sept 2016.
We completed about 70% of our financial goals that we had for 2015 including: opening and funding TFSA's; signing up for term life insurance; buying back pension maternity leave service; and, paying off the remaining car loan. Our goals for 2016 are varied, but our financial ones include: contributing 30K to our TFSA; moving in to our new house and selling our old one for $475K or more; tracking utility consumption on the current and new house; and, tracking and reducing our monthly spend in a variety of categories. The end goal is to have a reasonable budget by the middle of the year. The TFSA is invested in a mix of 85% couch potato ETF's and the remaining blue chip stocks.
Since our update last quarter, our house construction has progressed with the house locked up and all rough ins done. They are putting the siding on now and it is looking like we'll be able to take possession in late June or early July. Our current house was refinanced with an open mortgage to free up equity to pay for the new place. We chose an open mortgage so that we can pay it off without penalty this summer. The first draw was completed on the construction draw mortgage. We are allowed a total of 4, with the final one upon completion. The second draw will take place later this month.
The drop in oil prices has certainly been noticeable in Edmonton housing and especially condo prices. We have had to lay people off at work and are also on furlough which gives us an unpaid day off every 2 weeks. I have no concerns about my job at this time, however, if oil continues to stay under $30 for the rest of the year, I would probably be a little more concerned at this time next year. The spending tracking and budget process we've started has shown that we could survive in our new home with my wife's salary and the garage suite rented out, so we sleep just fine at night.
The primary increase in our net worth numbers comes from my wife's DB pension value. It is updated whenever I get a statement from it to reflect the amount listed for Termination Benefit. This is the amount that would get paid out if she left tomorrow. Our daughter's RESP is healthy and has a balance of about $9,200 though the value is not included below. It is invested in TD e-series. She turns 2 next month.
Cash includes bank account balances in two accounts, plus any gift card balances. Cash balances may be high right now to cover the monthly bills from our builder. When not building a house, we use cash flow modeling to predict the maximum amount we can put towards debt/investments today without having a negative balance in the future, taking all one time or non-regular bills in to account.
The credit cards are paid off in full every month with no interest due. We put all our expenses on credit cards for points and cash back. As this can be a substantial amount some months, I believe it needs to have a line item in your monthly net worth as it is a liability at that snapshot in time.
TFSA's have just started and we hope to have them maxed out within a year or two. This will be our early retirement fund, or emergency savings if it comes to that.
Our primary residence was purchased in 2008 for $355K. We have put in $110K in DIY renovations since then in a complete overhaul. The house value shown here is based on those two numbers and is conservative relative to what similar homes in the area sell for. As part of our financing for the new house, our home was appraised by the bank at $480K which lines up well with the estimate above.
Our 'tear down' is across the street and was purchased in 2014 for the lot, purchase price $375K. The next year will be a mess with construction draw mortgages, HELOC balances for some construction costs, messy accounting for a rental that was effectively disposed of after 7 months of rent. The value of the property includes lot purchase price plus any monies paid to the builder this far.
We have pretty substantial unused RRSP contribution room and will likely never use it. Perhaps in the event of a large capital gain, we may contribute some to offset the capital gain taxes.
Just over half of this amount is vehicles. We have a two 2013 model year vehicles, one purchased new, one purchased used. I depreciate their value every month in net worth updates to keep it at just above wholesale value. The two vehicles combined cost us $250/mo in depreciation and repairs. I find that reasonable considering it would be hard to lease a single small vehicle for that price. The "Other" refers to fairly extensive photography equipment (part time business), sporting equipment and personal property.
you're making mad money, and that's what it is about at the end of the day.
Wow. You are doing absolutely great. Great income and solid portfolio etc… You would be able to reach your financial independence well before many people do. It is good to hear that your job is relatively safe at the moment. Hopefully oil crisis ends soon. Good luck!
Amazing progress. Just be careful in your residence and Home assessments. We may be headed for a MAJOR housing correction in Canada that might throw a wrench in your assumptions.
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In 2013 Martine Vaugel was invited to be the Invitee D'Honneur of the famous exposition, "Regards Sur Les Arts" in the beautiful cathedral in Lamballe, Brittany. The director, a most dedicated creator and artist, Yvon Guilloux presented the bronze award for excellence to Martine, pictured here.
In 2013 & 2016 respectively, Martine was awarded a Bronze Medal and a Silver Medal in the Salon Des Artistes Francais ART CAPITOL Exhibitions, at the Grand Palais in Paris. Martine also won the Arthur LeDuc Jury Prize for the best sculpture in 2018 the Salon Des Artistes Francais ART CAPITOL Exhibition, at the Grand Palais in Paris.
Martine received the First Prize in the Versaille Biennal d'arte Contemporaire 2017 in Versaille France.


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Игра «Жизнь» () — клеточный автомат, придуманный английским математиком Джоном Конвеем в 1970 году. Это игра без игроков, в которой человек создаёт начальное состояние, а потом лишь наблюдает за её развитием. В игре можно создать процессы с полнотой по Тьюрингу, что позволяет реализовать любую машину Тьюринга.

Правила

 Место действия игры — размеченная на клетки плоскость, которая может быть безграничной, ограниченной или замкнутой.
 Каждая клетка на этой поверхности имеет восемь соседей, окружающих её, и может находиться в двух состояниях: быть «живой» (заполненной) или «мёртвой» (пустой).
 Распределение живых клеток в начале игры называется первым поколением. Каждое следующее поколение рассчитывается на основе предыдущего по таким правилам:
 в пустой (мёртвой) клетке, с которой соседствуют три живые клетки, зарождается жизнь;
 если у живой клетки есть две или три живые соседки, то эта клетка продолжает жить; в противном случае (если живых соседей меньше двух или больше трёх) клетка умирает («от одиночества» или «от перенаселённости»).
 Игра прекращается, если
 на поле не останется ни одной «живой» клетки;
 конфигурация на очередном шаге в точности (без сдвигов и поворотов) повторит себя же на одном из более ранних шагов (складывается периодическая конфигурация)
 при очередном шаге ни одна из клеток не меняет своего состояния (частный случай предыдущего правила, складывается стабильная конфигурация)

Игрок не принимает активного участия в игре. Он лишь расставляет или генерирует начальную конфигурацию «живых» клеток, которые затем изменяются согласно правилам. Несмотря на простоту правил, в игре может возникать огромное разнообразие форм.

Появление идеи

Джон Конвей ещё в детстве заинтересовался проблемой, предложенной в 1940-х годах известным математиком Джоном фон Нейманом, который пытался создать гипотетическую машину, способную воспроизводить себя. Джону фон Нейману удалось создать математическую модель такой машины с довольно сложными правилами — в автомате фон Неймана ячейка может иметь одно из 29-ти состояний, которые эти правила описывают. Конвей поставил целью придумать как можно более простой клеточный автомат с нетривиальным поведением, надеясь, что в таком случае он будет тьюринг-полным. Команда энтузиастов (Конвей, его коллеги и студенты) занималась перебором бесчисленных вариаций правил в поисках подходящих. Итогом стал набор из двух правил для клеток с двумя состояниями, получивших известность как игра «Жизнь». В 1970 году в письме к Мартину Гарднеру Конвей изложил правила и основные сведения о получившейся системе, которые удалось быстро выяснить. Гарднер изложил это в своей колонке о математических играх в журнале Scientific American. Игра «Жизнь» быстро получила тысячи поклонников по всей Америке и за её пределами, а её изобретатель приобрёл известность среди широкой публики.

Вскоре Конвей доказал тьюринг-полноту игры «Жизнь» (доказательство не было опубликовано). После этого он практически потерял интерес к данной теме.

Конвей был недоволен тем, насколько игра «Жизнь» более известна, чем другие его работы, и не слишком любил о ней рассказывать — кроме как отдельным интересующимся детям.

Компьютерная реализация

В компьютерных реализациях игры поле ограничено и, как правило, замкнуто — верхняя граница поля «соединена» с нижней, а левая граница — с правой, что представляет собой эмуляцию поверхности тора, но на экране поле всегда отображается в виде равномерной сетки.

Простейший алгоритм «смены поколения» последовательно просматривает все клетки решётки, для каждой подсчитывает соседей, определяя судьбу клетки в новом поколении (не изменится, умрёт, родится). Такой алгоритм использует два двумерных массива — для текущего и для следующего поколений.

Более быстрый алгоритм делает первый проход по всем клеткам, но при этом составляет список клеток для просмотра в последующем поколении. Клетки, которые через поколение принципиально не могут измениться, в список не вносятся. Например, если какая-либо клетка и все её соседи не изменились при текущем обсчёте нового поколения, то эта клетка не изменится и при следующем проходе.

Фигуры

Вскоре после опубликования правил было обнаружено несколько интересных шаблонов (вариантов расстановки живых клеток в первом поколении), в частности: r-пентамино и планер (glider).

Некоторые такие фигуры остаются неизменными во всех последующих поколениях, состояние других периодически повторяется, в некоторых случаях со смещением всей фигуры. Существует фигура () всего из семи живых клеток, потомки которой существуют в течение ста тридцати поколений, а затем исчезают.

Конвей первоначально предположил, что никакая начальная комбинация не может привести к неограниченному размножению и предложил премию в 50 долларов тому, кто докажет или опровергнет эту гипотезу. Приз был получен группой из Массачусетского технологического института, придумавшей неподвижную повторяющуюся фигуру, которая периодически создавала движущиеся «планеры». Таким образом, количество живых клеток могло расти неограниченно. Затем были найдены движущиеся фигуры, оставляющие за собой «мусор» из других фигур.

К настоящему времени более-менее сложилась следующая классификация фигур:

 Устойчивые фигуры: фигуры, которые остаются неизменными
 Долгожители: фигуры, которые долго меняются, прежде чем стабилизироваться;
 Периодические фигуры: фигуры, у которых состояние повторяется через некоторое число поколений, большее 1;
 Двигающиеся фигуры: фигуры, у которых состояние повторяется, но с некоторым смещением;
 Ружья: фигуры с повторяющимися состояниями, дополнительно создающие движущиеся фигуры;
 Паровозы: двигающиеся фигуры с повторяющимися состояниями, которые оставляют за собой другие фигуры в качестве следов;
 Пожиратели: устойчивые фигуры, которые могут пережить столкновения с некоторыми двигающимися фигурами, уничтожив их;
 Отражатели: устойчивые или периодические фигуры, способные при столкновении с ними движущихся фигур поменять их направление;
Размножители: конфигурации, количество живых клеток в которых растёт как квадрат количества шагов;
 Фигуры, которые при столкновении с некоторыми фигурами дублируются.

Райский сад

Райским садом (садом Эдема) называется такое расположение клеток, у которого не может быть предыдущего поколения. Практически для любой игры, состояние клеток в которой определяется несколькими соседями на предыдущем шаге, можно доказать существование садов Эдема, но построить конкретную фигуру гораздо сложнее.

«Цифры»
С помощью простейшего «шрифта» размером 3 на 5 клеток, предложенного, по всей видимости, Эриком Анджелини в 2007 году, можно получить очень многие фигуры. Например, число 90, записанное этим шрифтом, порождает планер.

Влияние на развитие наук
Хотя игра состоит всего из двух простых правил, тем не менее она более сорока лет привлекает внимание учёных. Игра «Жизнь» и её модификации повлияли (в ряде случаев взаимно) на многие разделы таких точных наук, как математика, информатика и физика. Это, в частности:
 Теория автоматов,
 Теория алгоритмов,
 Теория игр и математическое программирование,
 Алгебра и теория чисел,
 Теория вероятностей и математическая статистика,
 Комбинаторика и теория графов,
 Фрактальная геометрия,
 Вычислительная математика,
 Теория принятия решений,
 Математическое моделирование.

Кроме того, многие закономерности, обнаруженные в игре, имеют свои аналогии в других, подчас совершенно «нематематических» дисциплинах. Вот список наук, теории которых имеют интересные точки соприкосновения с феноменами «Жизни»:
 Кибернетика. Сама игра является удачной попыткой Конвея доказать существование простых самовоспроизводящихся систем, а также появление некоего «разума» у самовоспроизводящихся систем.
 Биология. Внешнее сходство с развитием популяций примитивных организмов впечатляет.
 Бактериология. Некоторые интересные вариации игры с дополнительными условиями могут с точностью повторить размножение бактерий, которые с случайной вероятностью могут мутировать (по условию модификации).
 Физиология. Рождение и смерть клеток подобны процессу возникновения и исчезновения нейронных импульсов.
 Астрономия. Эволюции некоторых сложных колоний удивительным образом схематично повторяют этапы развития спиралевидных галактик.
 Физика твёрдого тела. Теория автоматов вообще и игра «Жизнь» в частности используются для анализа «явлений переноса» — диффузии, вязкости и теплопроводности.
 Квантовая физика. Поведение «жизненных» ячеек (рождение новых и взаимное уничтожение) во многом напоминают процессы, происходящие при столкновении элементарных частиц.
 Наномеханика. Стационарные и пульсирующие колонии являются показательным примером простейших устройств, созданных на основе нанотехнологий.
 Электротехника. Правила игры используются для моделирования самовосстанавливающихся электрических цепей.
 Химия. Конфигурации, подобные строящимся в игре, возникают во время химических реакций на поверхности; в частности, в опытах М. С. Шакаевой возникают движущиеся молекулярные конструкции, аналогичные «жизненному» планеру. Также предпринимаются попытки объяснить периодические химические реакции с помощью многомерных клеточных автоматов. Самоорганизацией элементарных частиц также занимается супрамолекулярная химия.

Возможно, эта игра связана и с другими научными явлениями, в том числе и с теми, о которых современной науке пока неизвестно. Также возможно, что не открытые на сегодня законы природы и общества станут более понятными благодаря «Жизни» и её модификациям.

Факты

 Правила игры таковы, что никакое взаимодействие не может передаваться быстрее хода шахматного короля. Его скорость — одна клетка в любом направлении — часто называют «скоростью света».
 Фигура «планер» в 2003 году была предложена в качестве эмблемы хакеров.
 Первое русскоязычное упоминание «Game of Life» относится к 1971 году и в переводе журнала «Наука и жизнь» известна как «Эволюция».
 Если ввести в строке поиска Google «conway's game of life», то, помимо стандартного результата запроса, как фоновая анимация будет отображаться подобие этой игры.

 Существуют программы для создания звука из паттернов, сгенерированных в игре «Жизнь», в том числе в MIDI-секвенции.

Модификации

 Существуют модификации игры «Жизнь» / «Эволюция» по:
 размерности — на плоскости, в объёме;
 цветности — однотоновая, чёрно-белая (шахматная), полноцветная;
 направлению алгоритма — прямой, обратный;
 константам эволюции — классические (B3/S23), изменённые;
 размерам игрового поля — ограниченное, неограниченное, полуограниченное;
 активности поля — активное, пассивное;
 количеству игроков — zero-game, один, два;
 активности игры — пассивная, активная;
 геометрии поля — прямоугольная, шестиугольная.

 Представляет интерес обратная задача Конвея — поиск предшественника заданной фигуры. Для решения её может привлекаться аппарат статистики: метод Монте-Карло, имитационное моделирование, а также весь арсенал эвристических методов.
 Эффективным алгоритмом полноцветной игры является декомпозиция исходного изображения на однотоновые, с последующей, после применения к ним классических правил жизни, их суперпозицией; для объёмных вариантов — ортогональный алгоритм преобразований. Примеры практического применения этого — всевозможные заставки, абстрактные изображения, дизайн произведений искусства.
 В шахматном, чёрно-белом варианте участвуют два игрока, цвет рождения определяется по преобладанию цвета в порождающей триаде, запись ходов осуществляется по правилам шахматных нотаций. Кроме оригинальных граничных образований, здесь наблюдаются коллизии цвета, например, «глайдер» в нотации : белые a2b2c2, чёрные c3b4 — полностью обесцвечивается за цикл преобразований, а то же: белые a2b2, чёрные c2c3 b4 — демонстрируется хроматическая цикличность «глайдера» в рамках его геометрической цикличности.
 В активной шахматной игре игрокам представляется возможность влиять на события «Жизни/Эволюции» единичным введением — выведением ограниченного количества фишек своего цвета с целью экспансии, стабилизации хода истории, противодействия в этом противнику. Теоретические основания здесь — методы принятия решения, аппарат теории игр.
 В трёхмерной реализации игры каждая клетка граничит с 26 другими клетками, выживает при 4–5 соседях, и рождается новая при 5 соседях, а также есть трёхмерные стабильные структуры, некоторые из которых схожи с двухмерными.

Примечания

Литература

 Трофимов М. Жизнь на Макинтоше // Монитор, 1995. — № 2, с.72; № 4, с.72; № 5, с.66.
 Журнал Наука и Жизнь. № 8, 1971, с. 130—133.
 Журнал В мире научных открытий. № 5.4(11), 2010, с. 50-53, 139. ISSN 2072-0831 (print), ISSN 2307-9428 (online)
 Приложение к журналу Юный техник. № 8 август 1989, с. 11-13
 Хэйес Б. Клеточный автомат создает модель мира и мир вокруг себя. // В мире науки, 1984, № 5, с.97-104

Ссылки

 ConwayLife.com — игра «Жизнь» и родственные клеточные автоматы, программа Golly
 Словарь Жизни

Математические игры
Клеточные автоматы
Появились в 1970 году в Великобритании
Джон Конвей

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Nazarbayev University / News / NU Testing Center successfully passed an external evaluation
NU Testing Center successfully passed an external evaluation
2020, May 5| by Nurlan Ismailov Ismailov
Nurlan.Ismailov@nu.edu.kz
In March 2020, the NU Testing Center successfully passed an audit conducted by a partner of the ETS (Educational Testing Service) center. According to the results of the audit, the NU Testing Center implements all policies and complies with all ETS safety standards.
The Educational Testing Service is one of the largest private nonprofit organizations in the United States, which conducts testing and organizes exams using the standardized Scholastic Assessment Test program for applicants. This Service was created more than half a century ago (in 1947) in the United States and holds over 1.5 million exams per year.
"The staff at the NU Testing Center and the Department of Lifelong Learning are working hard to create a safe, honest, and open testing environment. And this external assessment and recognition of the center became possible because of their hard work. Our NU Testing Center will continue to steadily follow all policies and comply with all ETS safety standards" said Zhanar Moldasheva, Acting director of the Department of Lifelong Learning.
In addition to ETS, the NU Testing Center collaborates with such large international organizations as College Board, ETS Global, Pearson VUE.
It should be noted that the NU Testing Center was created in 2017 to administer international standardized tests. Everyone here is given the opportunity to pass both international standardized tests and practice tests.
Today, the Testing Center is:
The largest SAT administration testing center in Kazakhstan (maximum number – 200 people per test date);
The only testing center in Nur-Sultan city for administering computer GRE, TOEFL tests;
The only testing center in the city of Nur Sultan for the administration of international standardized tests ETS Global (TOEIC, TOEFL iTP, TOEFL iBT, etc.).
The number of people tested at the Center is growing annually. So, if in 2017 there were only 235 of them, then in 2018 – 1122, and in 2019 – 1207 people. In the center you can take such types of tests as: TOEFL PBT, GRE PBT, SAT, TOEIC® for listening and reading, TOEIC® Speaking and Writing, TOEIC® Speaking, TOEFL ITP®, TOEFL® Junior Standard, TOEFL® Junior Comprehensive, TOEIC Bridge ™, International French Language Test Test (TFI ™), TOEFL iBT, GRE CBT, GMAT, PMI.
In 2018, at NU, the center's staff, together with partners, held the first ETS Global conference "ASSESS TO PROGRESS – ETS TESTS FOR THE SUCCESS OF YOUR INSTITUTION". The conference became a kind of platform for the development of international cooperation, the integration of Kazakhstani organizations and companies in the field of international certification of English proficiency, and it also provided an opportunity for networking. Representatives of ETS Global shared their experience in conducting international tests, as well as shared successful stories of using TOEIC in the world community.
The conference was attended by over 100 representatives of ministries and departments, national and international companies, as well as universities, schools and NGOs of Kazakhstan.
In 2019, the NU Testing Center was awarded a diploma from ETS Global for its cooperation.The TOEIC ® Test was developed by the world leader in Educational Testing Service (ETS). The TOEIC® system is one of the best systems in the world for certification of business English proficiency. This test is recognized by such major international companies as Siemens, Allianz, Procter & Gamble, Hewlett Packard / Compaq, Coca-Cola, TengizChevroil and others whose employees pass the TOEIC® test when applying for a job.
For more information on passing international tests at the NU Testing Center, you can contact the Department of Lifelong Learning: Nazarbayev University, block 7, offices: 7e118, 7e119 and by phone 70 59 00, 70 63 74.
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Q: Retrofit form data response not same as postman I am trying to simulate a POST form-data request from postman with retrofit 2 in my android application.
I am using RetroFit 2.3.0
implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.3.0'

My postman query looks as follows
I also have some headers which are:

*

*Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8

*User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.186 Safari/537.36

and my response is:
[
    {
        "lecture": "http://2xx.xxx/videos/6xxxxxx6oxsx.mp4",
        "quality": "720p",
        "type": "video/mp4"
    }
}

That is the correct response. However, when i try simulate this request with RetroFit I dont get the result back like postman. Here is my RetroFit data.
@POST("/admin.php")
    @FormUrlEncoded
    Call<University> fetchLecture(@Field("action") String action,
                                      @Field("id") String ids,
                                      @Field("server") int server,
                                      @Field("nonce") String nonce);

Then I call the method:
private void getLecture(String dataID, String nonce){
            final String ACTION = "video_info";
            final int SERVER = 1;

            mAPIService.fetchLecture(ACTION,dataID,SERVER,nonce).enqueue(new Callback<University>() {
                @Override
                public void onResponse(Call<University> call, Response<University> response) {
                    Log.d("dataid", "success");
                    Log.d("dataid","API call was a success. Response:");
                    Log.d("dataid", response.toString());
                }

                @Override
                public void onFailure(Call<University> call, Throwable t) {
                    Log.d("dataid", "Unable to submit post to API.");
                    t.printStackTrace();
                }
            });

        }

here is the http log:
03-12 18:13:54.852 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: --> POST myendpoint....php http/1.1
03-12 18:13:54.852 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
03-12 18:13:54.853 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: Content-Length: 181
03-12 18:13:54.853 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: action=video_info&id=jlIR0pR1ZDb0MzVGtSSlkxRy9tY2l0ZGJud1E9PQ%3D%3D&server=1&nonce=f326b41b57
03-12 18:13:54.853 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: --> END POST (181-byte body)
03-12 18:13:54.993 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: <-- 200 OK
03-12 18:13:54.993 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: Server: VPZ
03-12 18:13:54.993 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:13:07 GMT
03-12 18:13:54.993 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: Content-Type: text/html
03-12 18:13:54.993 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: Content-Length: 134
03-12 18:13:54.993 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: Connection: keep-alive
03-12 18:13:54.993 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: Set-Cookie: PipeGuard=d00a56603601f7dbda84a42d5654df65; path=/
03-12 18:13:54.993 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: P3P: CP="CUR ADM OUR NOR STA NID", policyref="/w3c/p3p.xml"
03-12 18:13:54.993 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT
03-12 18:13:54.993 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: Cache-Control: no-cache
03-12 18:13:54.994 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: Pragma: public
03-12 18:13:54.994 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate
03-12 18:13:54.994 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=http://myendpoint.....php">
03-12 18:13:54.994 12775-12930/? D/OkHttp: <-- END HTTP (134-byte body)

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IBM 5 in 5

With AI, our words will open a window into our mental health
Hyperimaging and AI will give us superhero vision
Macroscopes will help us understand Earth's complexity in infinite detail
Medical labs "on a chip" will serve as health detectives for tracing disease at the nanoscale
Smart sensors will detect environmental pollution at the speed of light
IBM Reveals Five Innovations that will Help Change our Lives within Five Years
IBM Predicts New Scientific Instruments to Make the Invisible Visible
PR Newswire, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., (05 January 2017)
IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled today the annual "IBM 5 in 5" (#ibm5in5) – a list of ground-breaking scientific innovations with the potential to change the way people work, live, and interact during the next five years.
In 1609, Galileo invented the telescope and saw our cosmos in an entirely new way. He proved the theory that Earth and other planets in our solar system revolve around the Sun, which until then was impossible to observe. IBM Research continues this work through the pursuit of new scientific instruments – whether physical devices or advanced software tools – designed to make what's invisible in our world visible, from the macroscopic level down to the nanoscale.
"The scientific community has a wonderful tradition of creating instruments to help us see the world in entirely new ways. For example, the microscope helped us see objects too small for the naked eye and the thermometer helped us understand the temperature of the Earth and human body," said Dario Gil, vice president of science & solutions at IBM Research. "With advances in artificial intelligence and nanotechnology, we aim to invent a new generation of scientific instruments that will make the complex invisible systems in our world today visible over the next five years."
Innovation in this area could enable us to dramatically improve farming, enhance energy efficiency, spot harmful pollution before it's too late, and prevent premature physical and mental health decline as examples. IBM's global team of scientists and researchers is steadily bringing these inventions from the realm of our labs to the real world.
The IBM 5 in 5 is based on market and societal trends as well as emerging technologies from IBM's Research labs around the world that can make these transformations possible. Here are the five scientific instruments that will make the invisible visible in the next 5 years:
In five years, what we say and write will be indicators of our mental health. Patterns in our speech and writing analyzed by cognitive systems will provide clinicians tell-tale signs of early-stage mental and neurological conditions that prompt us to seek treatment. Read more: https://ibm.biz/Bdsn75
Brain disorders, including developmental, psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, represent an enormous disease burden, in terms of human suffering and economic cost.1 For example, today, one in five adults in the U.S. experiences a mental health condition such as depression, bipolar disease or schizophrenia, and roughly half of individuals with severe psychiatric disorders receive no treatment. The global cost of mental health conditions is projected to surge to US$6 trillion by 2030.
If the brain is a black box that we don't fully understand, then speech is a key to unlock it. In five years, what we say and write will be used as indicators of our mental health and physical wellbeing. Patterns in our speech and writing analyzed by new cognitive systems will provide tell-tale signs of early-stage developmental disorders, mental illness and degenerative neurological diseases that can help doctors and patients better predict, monitor and track these conditions.
At IBM, scientists are using transcripts and audio inputs from psychiatric interviews, coupled with machine learning techniques, to find patterns in speech to help clinicians accurately predict and monitor psychosis, schizophrenia, mania and depression. Today, it only takes about 300 words to help clinicians predict the probability of psychosis in a user.2
In the future, similar techniques could be used to help patients with Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Huntington's disease, PTSD and even neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism and ADHD. Cognitive computers can analyze a patient's speech or written words to look for tell-tale indicators found in language, including meaning, syntax and intonation. Combining the results of these measurements with those from wearable devices and imaging systems and collected in a secure network can paint a more complete picture of the individual for health professionals to better identify, understand and treat the underlying disease.
What were once invisible signs will become clear signals of patients' likelihood of entering a certain mental state or how well their treatment plan is working, complementing regular clinical visits with daily assessments from the comfort of their homes.
In five years, our ability to "see" beyond visible light will reveal new insights to help us understand the world around us. This technology will be widely available in our daily lives, giving us the ability to perceive or see through objects and opaque environmental conditions anytime, anywhere. Read more: https://ibm.biz/Bdsn7W
More than 99.9 percent of the electromagnetic spectrum cannot be observed by the naked eye. Over the last 100 years, scientists have built instruments that can emit and sense energy at different wavelengths. Today, we rely on some of these to take medical images of our body, see the cavity inside our tooth, check our bags at the airport, or land a plane in fog. However, these instruments are incredibly specialized and expensive and only see across specific portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
In five years, new imaging devices using hyperimaging technology and AI will help us see broadly beyond the domain of visible light by combining multiple bands of the electromagnetic spectrum to reveal valuable insights or potential dangers that would otherwise be unknown or hidden from view. Most importantly, these devices will be portable, affordable and accessible, so superhero vision can be part of our everyday experiences.
A view of the invisible or vaguely visible physical phenomena all around us could help make road and traffic conditions clearer for drivers and self-driving cars. For example, using millimeter wave imaging, a camera and other sensors, hyperimaging technology could help a car see through fog or rain, detect hazardous and hard-to-see road conditions such as black ice, or tell us if there is some object up ahead and its distance and size. Cognitive computing technologies will reason about this data and recognize what might be a tipped over garbage can versus a deer crossing the road, or a pot hole that could result in a flat tire.
Embedded in our phones, these same technologies could take images of our food to show its nutritional value or whether it's safe to eat. A hyperimage of a pharmaceutical drug or a bank check could tell us what's fraudulent and what's not. What was once beyond human perception will come into view.
IBM scientists are today building a compact hyperimaging platform that "sees" across separate portions of the electromagnetic spectrum in one platform to potentially enable a host of practical and affordable devices and applications.
Instrumenting and collecting masses of data from every source in the physical world, big and small, and bringing it together will reveal comprehensive solutions for our food, water and energy needs. Read more: https://ibm.biz/Bdsn77
Today, the physical world only gives us a glimpse into our interconnected and complex ecosystem. We collect exabytes of data – but most of it is unorganized. In fact, an estimated 80 percent of a data scientist's time is spent scrubbing data instead of analyzing and understanding what that data is trying to tell us.
Thanks to the Internet of Things, new sources of data are pouring in from millions of connected objects - from refrigerators, light bulbs and your heart rate monitor to remote sensors such as drones, cameras, weather stations, satellites and telescope arrays. There are already more than six billion connected devices generating tens of exabytes of data per month, with a growth rate of more than 30 percent per year. After successfully digitizing information, business transactions and social interactions, we are now in the process of digitizing the physical world.
In five years, we will use machine learning algorithms and software to help us organize the information about the physical world to help bring the vast and complex data gathered by billions of devices within the range of our vision and understanding. We call this a "macroscope" – but unlike the microscope to see the very small, or the telescope that can see far away, it is a system of software and algorithms to bring all of Earth's complex data together to analyze it for meaning.
By aggregating, organizing and analyzing data on climate, soil conditions, water levels and their relationship to irrigation practices, for example, a new generation of farmers will have insights that help them determine the right crop choices, where to plant them and how to produce optimal yields while conserving precious water supplies.
In 2012, IBM Research began investigating this concept at Gallo Winery, integrating irrigation, soil and weather data with satellite images and other sensor data to predict the specific irrigation needed to produce an optimal grape yield and quality. In the future, macroscope technologies will help us scale this concept to anywhere in the world.
Beyond our own planet, macroscope technologies could handle, for example, the complicated indexing and correlation of various layers and volumes of data collected by telescopes to predict asteroid collisions with one another and learn more about their composition.
Nanotechnology "detectives" will let us know we're unwell before we experience any symptoms. Read more: https://ibm.biz/Bdsn7N
Early detection of disease is crucial. In most cases, the earlier the disease is diagnosed, the more likely it is to be cured or well controlled. However, diseases like cancer can be hard to detect – hiding in our bodies before symptoms appear. Information about the state of our health can be extracted from tiny bioparticles in bodily fluids such as saliva, tears, blood, urine and sweat. Existing scientific techniques face challenges for capturing and analyzing these bioparticles, which are thousands of times smaller than the diameter of a strand of human hair.
In the next five years, new medical labs "on a chip" will serve as nanotechnology health detectives – tracing invisible clues in our bodily fluids and letting us know immediately if we have reason to see a doctor. The goal is to shrink down to a single silicon chip all of the processes necessary to analyze a disease that would normally be carried out in a full-scale biochemistry lab.
The lab-on-a-chip technology could ultimately be packaged in a convenient handheld device to allow people to quickly and regularly measure the presence of biomarkers found in small amounts of bodily fluids, sending this information securely streaming into the cloud from the convenience of their home. There it could be combined with real-time health data from other IoT-enabled devices, like sleep monitors and smart watches, and analyzed by AI systems for insights. When taken together, this data set will give us an in depth view of our health and alert us to the first signs of trouble, helping to stop disease before it progresses.
At IBM Research, scientists are developing lab-on-a-chip nanotechnology that can separate and isolate bioparticles down to 20 nanometers in diameter, a scale that gives access to DNA, viruses, and exosomes. These particles could be analyzed to potentially reveal the presence of disease even before we have symptoms.
Environmental pollutants won't be able to hide thanks to new sensing technologies that accurately pinpoint and monitor the quality of our environment. Read more: https://ibm.biz/BdsnWc
Most pollutants are invisible to the human eye, until their effects make them impossible to ignore. Methane, for example, is the primary component of natural gas, commonly considered a clean energy source. But if methane leaks into the air before being used, it can warm the Earth's atmosphere. Methane is estimated to be the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide (CO2).
In the United States, emissions from oil and gas systems are the largest industrial source of methane gas in the atmosphere. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that more than nine million metric tons of methane leaked from natural gas systems in 2014. Measured as CO2-equivalent over 100 years, that's more greenhouse gases than were emitted by all U.S. iron and steel, cement and aluminum manufacturing facilities combined.
In five years, new, affordable sensing technologies deployed near natural gas extraction wells, around storage facilities, and along distribution pipelines will enable the industry to pinpoint invisible leaks in real-time. Networks of IoT sensors wirelessly connected to the cloud will provide continuous monitoring of the vast natural gas infrastructure, allowing leaks to be found in a matter of minutes instead of weeks, reducing pollution and waste and the likelihood of catastrophic events.
Scientists at IBM are tackling this vision, working with natural gas producers such as Southwestern Energy to explore the development of an intelligent methane monitoring system and as part of the ARPA-E Methane Observation Networks with Innovative Technology to Obtain Reductions (MONITOR) program.
At the heart of IBM's research is silicon photonics, an evolving technology that transfers data by light, allowing computing literally at the speed of light. These chips could be embedded in a network of sensors on the ground or within infrastructure, or even fly on autonomous drones; generating insights that, when combined with real-time wind data, satellite data, and other historical sources, can be used to build complex environmental models to detect the origin and quantity of pollutants as they occur.
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High harmonic spectrum (top left) and its time-frequency map (bottom left) generated by the 1800 nm/900 nm MIR-OTC scheme and corresponding time profiles of isolated attosecond pulses by superposing different spectral humps (right). ω0 and T0 are the angular frequency and optical cycle of the 1800 nm fundamental pulse, respectively.
The generation of intense isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs) covering the keV regime has become a hot topic at present due to their practical applications such as biological imaging, X-ray diffraction, attosecond pump-probe dynamics. High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is one of the most powerful approaches to generate attosecond pulses.
Generally, mid-infrared (MIR) lasers with the wavelength up to several micrometers have been extensively used as the driving sources for keV high-order harmonic generation (HHG) because of the prediction of the single-atom cut-off law that the maximum photon energy is proportional to the driver wavelength. Unfortunately, the high harmonic efficiency will drop dramatically with increasing wavelength, with a very unfavorable λ-(5~6) scaling, which severely hinders its practical applications.
To improve the high harmonic efficiency, a new scheme for intense keV isolated attosecond pulse (IAP) generation by orthogonally polarized multicycle mid-infrared two-color (MIR-OTC) laser fields has been proposed by Professor Zhinan Zeng and Yinghui Zheng's research group, from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The obtained IAPs are enhanced by 30 times and 5 times in magnitude, compared with the results obtained by single-color and parallel two-color schemes. The research result is reported in Chinese Optics Letters, Volume 15, No. 7, 2017 (Guicun Li, et al., Intense keV isolated attosecond pulse generation by orthogonally polarized multicycle mid-infrared two-color laser fields).
Based on the waveform control method, the scheme consists of a multicycle mid-infrared laser field and its orthogonally polarized second harmonic laser field to interact with the helium atom. By optimizing the two-color delay, multiple humps with different central photon energies can be obtained in the MIR-OTC field, due to the 2D manipulation of the electron-ion recollision process and the suppression of inter-half-cycle interference effect. By filtering these humps, about 360 as, up to 1.8 keV intense isolated attosecond pulses are directly generated without any phase compensation in the 4 µm/2 µm OTC field. The scheme is reliable and easy to carry out.
The MIR-OTC scheme, combined with the loosely focused conditions, can be used for further increasing the energy of the IAPs. The following work will focus on the experimental realization of the loosely focused MIR-OTC scheme for intense keV IAP generation by directly using multicycle TW or even PW mid-infrared lasers.


Nebraska quarterback commit Logan Smothers is switching schools in Alabama because of his father's job change.
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HuskerOnline kicks off its post-spring assessment of each position group with a look at the quarterbacks.
Deontre Thomas' added bulk will help him in his fight for playing time on the defensive line.
Monday Morning Quarterback: Who will be the Huskers' top receiver in 2019?
Athlon sees two Huskers as likely picks this weekend in the NFL draft.
Adam Carriker sees summer conditioning* as an under-the-radar but crucial phase of the off-season.
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This week in Husker history: Two former Huskers describe their daring bombing runs in the South Pacific during World War II.
The LJS has a number of questions (and potential answers) for the 3½ months until the start of fall camp in August.
Luke Gifford is optimistic about his NFL chances* regardless of whether he gets drafted.
Tad Stryker looks at the reunions and fan rituals that came at the end of last week's spring game.
With his secondary solidified, coach Travis Fisher can recruit with a sense of confidence.
Dedrick Mills isn't on campus yet, but the juco signee is motivated* to become the starting running back this fall.
Sophomore walk-on Trent Hixson has won and lost some battles while making a strong run at the starting left guard spot.
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Mario Verduzco* talks with Adam Carriker about the progress of Adrian Martinez and his backups, what he looks for in a quarterback and more.
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From Adam Carriker,* two strong positives from the spring game and two areas that need work.
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See this 100-yard walk and talk by Adrian Martinez and Ameer Abdullah.
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Hail Varsity has come up with projected depth charts for the offense and defense.
Nebraska football and basketball fans have donated more than $160,000 toward flood-relief efforts.
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Fans get their first look at how the 2019 Huskers are taking shape as the spring game kicks off Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Here are your stage-setters from the LJS, Husker247, HuskerOnline, AP and OWH (1, 2).* Commentary: Christopherson, Sipple, Shatel,* Rosenthal.
The battle between the O-line and D-line has been fierce this spring.
Men's basketball coach Fred Hoiberg's staff is now official: assistant coaches Matt Abdelmassih, Doc Sadler and Armon Gates, plus special assistant Bobby Lutz.
Adam Carriker says Bill Moos* has Nebraska athletics moving in the right direction.
The secondary market is seeing declining prices for tickets to the spring game.
The rosters for the spring game have been released.


Day two of the 2015 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Nortec Collective of Tijuana played early Saturday to a committed audience on the Coachella Stage. Adrian Gonzalez on Tuba keeps the beat going.
Tijuana's pioneering electronic music group Nortec Collective came full circle Saturday afternoon at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, performing 14 years after making its Coachella debut. If that's not a record for the most time between appearances at the festival, it certainly is a top contender.
Nortec was both bigger and smaller — as in less well-known — in 2001, with a seven-member lineup and just one album, "Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 1," to its credit. The collective splintered in 2008, after which two of its members Pepe "Fussible"Mogt and Ramon "Bostich" Sánchez began working as a duo, Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich & Fussible, and went on to win two Latin Grammy Awards.
Now, Bostich & Fussible are embarked on the duo's world farewell tour, which will includes dates across Europe and South America. It will be followed, early next year, by a final performance at a yet to be determined venue in Tijuana, the city that birthed the Collective 15 years ago.
"We're closing a cycle at Coachella, which is great," Mogt said backstage.
Bostich & Fussible's Coachella performance Saturday showcased Nortec's innovative fusion of electronic dance music with elements of norteño, banda, ranchera and other Mexican styles. They were accompanied by Juan Tellez on accordion, Adrian Rodriguez on tuba, Gustavo Medina on trumpet and Juan Carlos Reyna on charango, a 10-string acoustic guitar.
The manner in which the musicians combined electronic beats and synthesizers with acoustic instruments was impressive both in conception and execution. Rodriguez drew repeated cheers for playing tuba while bouncing up and down and, at time, twirling in mid-melody. He also became the first artist in memory at Coachella to play a tuba solo while perched on the metal barrier that separates the audience from the massive Coachella Stage, the festival's largest outdoor performance area.
Bostich & Fussible's repertoire Saturday featured several songs from their final album, "Motel Baja," including the title track, "Moda Mokina" and "Temporary Paradise." At the start of "Tijuana Brass," they dug deep into a propulsive street parade groove that would have fit in well in a Second Line parade in New Orleans. "Tijuana Sound Machine," the next seletion, combined Kraftwerk-like electronically modified vocals with rapid-fire accordion lines by Tellez.


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This gorgeous table is from a Christmas wedding that you can read about here.
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All of the start ups such as Electra Meccanica and Archimoto are relegated to building three wheelers in order to circumvent nanny state crash testing. Mandating every car to obviate user responsibility via 500 kg's and $5,000 of safety structure and equipment is regressive. It prohibits development of ultralight 4 wheeled transportation which would be much more sustainable than the 2,000 kg monsters we are stuck making now. This mandate killed Aptera.
3 billion people cannot all have a 2,000 kg car that costs $40,000.
Thank the NHTSA and their insane "Towards Zero Deaths" policy.
Regarding Aptera, though: Aptera killed Aptera.
Aptera floundered because they were forced to initially pursue a 3 wheeled format to circumvent crash certification. They had the vehicle essentially ready for production when the investors realized there were very few people willing to drive a 3 wheeled vehicle. So they tried to change the design to 4 wheels at the last minute which squandered any remaining working capital.
Totally agree with this. The lighter the average vehicle is, the less lethality it has to other vehicles in a crash. I was very surprised to read than the BMW I8 and its carbon fiber weighs MORE than my four dour V6 accord.
I was reading about those eco marathon urban concept vehicles yesterday, pretty cool! They would need to let them go faster than 25 mph though.
Carbon fiber really isn't that good for building structural parts of a car.
In a crash steel bends, carbon fiber shatters.
Aluminum and or magnesium alloys would be better.
Odd. Not-RElio generated quite a buzz and many pre-orders. You'd think with all that high-paid expertise on board at Aptera they'd have decided on the number of wheels before the 11th hour.
The government has all sorts of nanny rules that don't make sense. It's illegal to be in a boat without life jackets onboard, but not illegal to be in the lake with no life jacket.
A car has to pass crash safety, and an occupant must wear a seatbelt, unless the person is riding a motorcycle.
All sorts of homeopathic "medicine" that is unregulated, but I can't go to a healthcare professional that isn't licensed, or licensed at a lower level than Dr or PA.
Government should allow unregulated (almost) everything, so long as the unregulated things clearly state they are unregulated, and that the user accepts a higher level of responsibility.
Consumer advocacy groups would pop up that would help guide people's decisions.
We live in absurd times.
Safety regulations aren't about safety. They're about protecting profit, preserving power. As old man Rockefeller had it, competition is a sin.
It's a cycle of corruption where somehow those harmed feel that they have been served.
Politicians look great because they have grown government in the name of protecting citizens > Cartels prosper because barriers to entry have been imposed > Citizens feel safer because businesses proudly display a piece of paper saying the government has blessed them to perform the work.
These laws in effect ban manual transmissions, multiple engine choices and even stopped Toyota from gluing on an 18lb solar panel to their sheet metal roof.


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Henri Marie Jean André de Laborde de Monpezat (* 11. Juni 1934 in Talence im Département Gironde, Frankreich; † 13. Februar 2018 auf Schloss Fredensborg), seit 1967 Prinz Henrik von Dänemark, war der Gemahl der dänischen Königin Margrethe II.

Leben
Henri wurde als zweites von neun Kindern von André de Laborde de Monpezat (1907–1998) und Renée Doursenot (1908–2001) geboren. Er verbrachte seine ersten Jahre in Indochina, wo sein wohlhabender Vater einige Industrieunternehmen geerbt hatte. 1939 kehrte seine Familie nach Frankreich in das Stammhaus Le Cayrou in Cahors zurück. Henri ging bis 1947 zur Jesuiten-Klosterschule in Bordeaux und besuchte von 1948 bis 1950 das Gymnasium von Cahors. 1950 ging er nach Hanoi und war bis 1952 Schüler des französischen Gymnasiums in Hanoi. Von 1952 bis 1957 studierte er Jura und Staatslehre an der Pariser Sorbonne, dann französische Literatur, Chinesisch und Vietnamesisch an der École Nationale des Langues Orientales. Das Sprachstudium setzte er 1957 an der Universität Hongkong und 1958 mit einem Studienaufenthalt in Saigon fort.

Seine Wehrpflicht erfüllte er bei der Infanterie in Algerien von 1959 bis 1962.

Als Sekretär der französischen Botschaft in London lernte Henri die dänische Kronprinzessin Margrethe kennen. Sie heirateten am 10. Juni 1967. Für die Ehe konvertierte er vom katholischen zum evangelisch-lutherischen Glauben, wurde dänischer Staatsbürger und nahm den Namen Prinz Henrik von Dänemark an (dänisch Henrik, Hans Kongelige Højhed Prinsgemalen; Titel H.K.H. Prins Henrik af Danmark). Gemeinsam haben sie die beiden Söhne Kronprinz Frederik (* 26. Mai 1968) und Prinz Joachim (* 7. Juni 1969).

In einer Autobiografie äußerte sich Henrik über seine ersten Jahre in Dänemark:

Prinz Henrik war bis 2012 in seiner Freizeit Regattasegler in der Drachen-Klasse. Zudem war der Prinzgemahl ein bekennender Weinliebhaber und produzierte in den Weinbergen von Château de Cayx bei Cahors eigene Keltertrauben. Er engagierte sich für den Naturschutz und war Präsident des WWF Dänemark. Prinz Henrik schrieb Gedichte, die auf ein geteiltes Echo stießen.

Prinz Henrik kritisierte öffentlich die Diskriminierung von Ehemännern regierender Königinnen. Er hoffe, Männer würden die gleichen Rechte erhalten wie Mädchen, ließ er die Zeitung Ekstra Bladet 2009 wissen, nachdem eine Volksabstimmung den Vorrang von Prinzen vor ihren Schwestern abgeschafft hatte. 2015 wiederholte er in Le Figaro seine Forderung nach mehr protokollarischer Gleichstellung im Königshaus und brachte den Titel "Königgemahl" ins Spiel.

2016 zog er sich weitgehend von seinen repräsentativen Aufgaben zurück und legte dabei auch den Titel Prinzgemahl ab. Zahlreiche Schirmherrschaften behielt er aber bei. Anfang August 2017 gab das dänische Königshaus bekannt, dass im Gegensatz zu früheren Plänen Prinz Henrik nicht wie geplant neben seiner Frau im Dom zu Roskilde begraben werden möchte.

Genau vier Wochen nach dieser Mitteilung gab das dänische Königshaus bekannt, dass Prinz Henrik ernsthaft erkrankt sei. Ein Team von Spezialisten des Rigshospitalet, welches ihn im Spätsommer untersucht hatte, war zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass er an Demenz erkrankt sei. Angekündigt wurde ebenfalls, dass Prinz Henrik aufgrund der Erkrankung im entsprechenden Ausmaß Ehrenämter und Schirmherrschaften niederlegen werde. Ende Januar 2018 wurde er erneut ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert, wo ein gutartiger Lungentumor entdeckt wurde. Er starb am 13. Februar 2018 auf Schloss Fredensborg.

Schirmherrschaften und gemeinnützige Aktivitäten
Prinz Henrik engagierte sich in zahlreichen Organisationen, die wirtschaftliche, wissenschaftliche, kulturelle, ökologische und soziale Interessen fördern. Neben seiner Präsidentschaft im WWF Dänemark war er Vorsitzender verschiedener Stiftungen und Komitees. Außerdem war Prinz Henrik Vorstandsmitglied der königlich-dänischen Sammlung, die mehrere Museen umfasst, sowie der Stiftung Dronning Margrethes og Prins Henriks Fond, die wissenschaftliche, kulturelle und soziale Projekte fördert. Darüber hinaus war Prinz Henrik Schirmherr von rund 70 Organisationen. Dazu gehörten die dänisch-französische Handelsgesellschaft, das Albert Schweitzer-Komitee Dänemark, die Handwerks- und Industriemesse, das dänische Rote Kreuz, das dänisch-chinesische Wirtschaftsforum u. v. a.

Künstlerische Aktivitäten
Unter dem Pseudonym H.M. Vejerbjerg übersetzte Prinz Henrik gemeinsam mit Königin Margrethe 1981 den Roman Tous les hommes sont mortels von Simone de Beauvoir ins Dänische (Alle mennesker er dødelige; "Alle Menschen sind sterblich").

Lyrik
Henrik veröffentlichte mehrere Gedichtbände:
 Chemin faisant (1982)
 Cantabile (2000)
 Les escargots de Marie Lanceline (2003)
 Murmures de vent (2005)
 Les bleues à l'âme – TARNIMI TUNGUJORTUT – Blå mærker på sjælen (2009) auf französisch, grönländisch und dänisch
 Roue-Libre (dän. Frihjul, 2010) mit Illustrationen von Königin Margrethe und Maja Lisa Engelhardt
 Fabula (2011) mit Fotografien seiner eigenen Skulpturen
 Dans mes nuits sereines (2013; dän. I mine lykkelige nætter, 2014)

Frederik Magles sinfonische Suite Cantabile basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Gedichtband von Prinz Henrik.

Prinz Henrik sagte über das Schreiben von Poesie:

Kulinarik
Prinz Henrik veröffentlichte auch mehrere Kochbücher:

 Ikke Altid Gåselever (1999)
 Til glæde for ganen – nye opskrifter til et kongeligt køkken (2005)
 mit Barbara Zalewski: Helt magnifique – franske kokke ved det danske hof (2007)

Bildhauerei

Prinz Henrik studierte in den 1970er-Jahren bei dem Bildhauer Poul Holm Olsen. Es entstand eine Reihe von kleinen Fabeltieren und abstrakten Figuren. Eines der Werke, ein abstrakter Frauentorso, wurde im Skulpturenpark des Schlosses Marselisborg aufgestellt. Die Zeitung Jyllands-Posten lud im Jahr 2002 Jens Erik Sørensen, den Direktor des ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseums, zu einem Rundgang ein. Ohne zu wissen, wer der Künstler war, beschrieb dieser das Werk: "Eine verwunderliche Verbindung von klassik-antik und etwas roboterähnlicher Science Fiction. Es ist nicht ein Winkel uninteressant. Auch ist es eine Skulptur, die sich nicht so leicht erschließt. Sie erfordert viel Nachdenken, um sie in ihrer Gesamtheit zu verstehen." Er erinnerte sich später an die Skulptur und stellte sie im Jahr 2009 in der Ausstellung Sculpture by the Sea in Århus aus. Dies war die Feuertaufe für Prinz Henrik als Bildhauer, und er erntete harsche Kritik aus der etablierten Kunstszene. Später wurde eine Reihe der kleineren Skulpturen in Bronze gegossen und vorzugsweise in den königlichen Schlossparks aufgestellt. Das Porträt von Königin Margrethe II. mit dem Titel Dronning steht öffentlich zugänglich am See der königlichen Sommerresidenz in Schloss Gravenstein. 2015 verkaufte Prinz Henrik zum ersten Mal eine Bronzeskulptur mit dem Titel Fabeltier (dänisch Fabeldyret). Im Juli desselben Jahres präsentierte Prinz Henrik seine erste große Soloausstellung in der Galerie Augustiana im Schloss Augustenborg auf der Insel Alsen.

Am 16. Juli 2016 enthüllte Prinz Henrik eine neue große Skulptur Torso Maskulin in Tondern nahe dem Rathaus.

Musik
Prinz Henrik war ein sehr guter Pianist. Am 8. März 1970 spielte er den 2. Satz von Beethovens Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 mit der Königlichen Kapelle Kopenhagen, dirigiert von seinem Schwiegervater König Frederik IX. Zur Eröffnung des Konzerthauses des Dänischen Rundfunks (Dansk Radio Koncerthuset) im Januar 2009 dirigierte Prinz Henrik das Symphonieorchester des Dänischen Rundfunks (DR Radiosymfoniorkestret).

Im Jahr 2013 unternahm er eine unkonventionelle Zusammenarbeit mit der Rockband Michael Learns to Rock. Er spielte Klavier in einer Aufnahme für die Nummer Echo.

Prinz Henrik komponierte auch kleine Stücke, unter anderem für Jagdhorn.

Kunstsammler
Prinz Henrik trug über mehrere Jahrzehnte eine umfangreiche private Sammlung orientalischer Jadekunst zusammen. Die mehrere Tausend Teile umfassende Sammlung ist verteilt auf die königlichen Schlösser Fredensborg, Amalienborg und seinen Stammsitz Château de Cayx in Frankreich. Im Museum Koldinghus in Kolding präsentierte Prinz Henrik 2017 seine Sammlung persönlich der Öffentlichkeit unter dem Titel Himmelssteine.

Siehe auch
 Stammtafel der dänischen Könige

Literatur

Weblinks

 H.K.H. Prins Henrik. Website des Königshauses (dänisch)

Einzelnachweise

Prinz (Dänemark)
Regattasegler (Frankreich)
Autor
Literatur (Dänisch)
Literatur (Französisch)
Lyrik
Übersetzer aus dem Französischen
Übersetzer ins Dänische
Sachbuchautor (Essen und Trinken)
Dichterjurist
Bildhauer (Kopenhagen)
Person im Algerienkrieg
⚭Henri #Laborde De Monpezat
Träger des Bundesverdienstkreuzes (Sonderstufe des Großkreuzes)
Träger des Groß-Sterns des Ehrenzeichens für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich
Träger des Verdienstordens der Republik Polen (Großkreuz)
Träger des Ordens vom Aztekischen Adler (Großkreuz)
Träger des Ritterordens von Avis
Träger des Sankt-Olav-Ordens (Großkreuz mit Ordenskette)
Träger des Sterns von Rumänien (Großkreuz)
Träger des Finnischen Ordens der Weißen Rose (Großkreuz mit Ordenskette)
Träger des Elefanten-Ordens
Großkommandeur des Dannebrogordens
Träger des Seraphinenordens
Träger des Falkenordens (Großkreuz)
Träger des Leopoldsordens (Großkreuz)
Träger des Ordens der Ehre (Großkreuz)
Träger des Nationalen Ordens vom Kreuz des Südens (Großkreuz)
Träger des Ordens vom Niederländischen Löwen (Großkreuz)
Ritter des Nassauischen Hausordens vom Goldenen Löwen
Träger des Drei-Sterne-Ordens (Großkreuz)
Träger des Verdienstordens der Italienischen Republik (Großkreuz)
Träger des Ordens des Marienland-Kreuzes (I. Klasse)
Träger des Ordens des Weißen Doppelkreuzes 1. Klasse
Träger des Vytautas-Magnus-Ordens (Großkreuz)
Träger des französischen Nationalverdienstordens (Großkreuz)
Honorary Knight Grand Cross des Order of the Bath
Honorary Knight Grand Cross des Royal Victorian Order
Honorary Knight Grand Cross des Order of St. Michael and St. George
Mitglied der Ehrenlegion (Großkreuz)
Träger des Ordens von Chula Chom Klao
Träger des Ordens Stara Planina
Träger des Nersornaat
Franzose
Däne
Geboren 1934
Gestorben 2018
Mann
Margrethe II. (Dänemark)


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The course has 6 practice tests. These are official ACT company practice tests.
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What's behind the iPhone 4's higher risk of a cracked screen? The iPhone 4 glass extends to the edges of the phone?
If your cat swats your iPhone 4 across the room, there's a good chance the iPhone will smash against a wall or the floor and, sadly, one of the glass screens will crack - at least twice the chance as with the iPhone 3GS, because the iPhone 4 is double-sided.
How delicate is the iPhone 4 glass? SquareTrade, an iPhone warranty provider, reported that iPhone 4 screens break a whopping 82 percent more than iPhone 3GS screens.
iPhone 4 models aren't known for their overall durability: 4.7 percent of iPhone 4 owners reported damage in the first four months, compared with 2.8 percent of iPhone 3GS owners, according to SquareTrade. This has at least one tech manager worried about bringing iPhones into the enterprise.
"Drop it, and we have to buy another one at full price," Shane Allen, former information systems manager at Special Devices, a manufacturer of air-bag initiators for the automotive industry, told CIO.com earlier this year. "But you can drop kick a BlackBerry or candy bar phone or flip phone."
Two-thirds of all iPhone accident claims fall into three categories- liquid damage, cracked screens and theft-says Aaron Cooper, marketing director at Worth Ave. Group, a consumer electronics insurer. "We're seeing more accidents, probably because people are more attached to their iPhones and iPads than ever before," Cooper says.
"The iPhone 4 breaks more," says Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, a website that provides free repair manuals and advice forums mostly aimed at Apple products.
So what's behind the iPhone 4's higher risk of a cracked screen? Sure, the iPhone 4 has glass on both front and back, thus having twice as much glass as the single-sided iPhone 3GS-but there's more to it.
Perhaps the biggest reason for the iPhone 4 screen's susceptibility to breakage: The iPhone 4 glass extends to the edges of the phone. An impact on the edge, say, a fall on concrete from only a couple of feet in the air, will shatter the glass, says Wiens, because the glass directly takes the impact.
On the iPhone 3GS, though, a relatively large metal ring surrounds the edge. The metal ring is a lot more forgiving than glass and thus can better handle such an impact, Wiens says.
Apple claims iPhone 4 screens are 30 times harder than plastic and comparable to sapphire crystal, yet that's part of the problem, some Apple iPhone experts say. Hardness makes the screen more scratch resistant, but not as elastic. Given plastic's elasticity, there's less chance of the plastic shattering. "Yes, the [iPhone 4 screens] are 30 times harder and so they're going to break more," Wiens says.
On the upside, the iPhone 4 front glass is glued securely to the liquid crystal display. This structural support makes the glass more tolerant to impact than the non-glued glass of the iPhone 3G and 3GS, Wiens says. But the iPhone 4 back glass is not glued. "We're seeing the back glass break more often than the front screen," he says.
Another possible factor for the higher rate of iPhone 4 broken glass: Think screen protectors, says Worth Ave. Group's Cooper. In the past, almost every iPhone owner put a screen protector (a thin film with a sticky side) on the glass. Then Apple said improvements to the glass, starting with the iPhone 3GS, made screens highly scratch resistant and thus screen protectors were no longer needed.
Earlier this year, Apple banned iPhone screen protectors from Apple Stores (although screen protectors are still available from third parties). So it's unlikely iPhone 4 owners have purchased and put on a screen protector, let alone two.
Screen protectors, though, protect iPhone screens from much more than scratches-they can prevent glass from shattering, according to Worth Ave. Group. At this year's MacWorld Expo, Worth Ave. Group put on a demonstration asking attendees to smash screens of various models of iPhones with a hammer. Screens without a screen protector broke easily, while those with a screen protector did not break.
Cooper is considering handing out free screen protectors to Worth Ave. Group's iPhone customers. Screen protectors might be a good idea for all iPhone 4 owners.


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1. Study Session on Railroad Quiet Zones in Palo Alto
2. Finance Committee Recommendation to Accept Macias Gini & O'Connell's Audit of the City of Palo Alto's Financial Statements as of June 30, 2014 and Management Letter
3. Finance Committee Recommendation to Adopt an Ordinance Authorizing the Closing of the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget, Including Re-apropriation Requests, Closing Completed Capital Projects and Authorizing Transfers to Reserves, and Approval of the Fiscal Year 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR)
4. Approval of a Contract Amendment in the Amount of $63,000 to Contract No. C14149978 With Dyett and Bhatia Urban and Regional Planners for Additional Data Collection and Analysis Related to Downtown Retail and Residential Uses
5. Authorization to Operate the Golf Course from March 1, 2015 to June 30, 2015 and Adoption of a Budget Amendment Ordinance to Increase Golf Course Revenues Estimate in the Amount of $106,000, Provide Additional Appropriation of $289,424 in Budget for Expenses, and Reduce the Operating Loss Reserve by $183,424
6. Policy and Services Committee Recommendation of Changes to the Board and Commission Recruitment Program Including Adoption of an Ordinance Re-aligning Terms on the Architectural Review Board, the Historic Resources Board, the Parks and Recreation Commission and the Planning and Transportation Commission; Adoption of a Resolution Re-aligning Terms on the Storm Drain Oversight Committee; Allowing for Remote Board and Commission Interviews; Limit Applicants to One Board or Commission Each Recruitment
7. SECOND READING: Adoption of an Ordinance Increasing Council Salary From $600/Month to $1,000/Month, Effective January 1, 2017 (First Reading: January 20, 2015 PASSED: 6-3 Dubois, Filseth, Scharff no)
8. Approval of Technical Amendments to the Below Market Rate Housing Agreement, Exhibit C-3 to the Mayfield Development Agreement Between The City and Stanford University
9. Adoption of a Resolution to Amend and Correct Salary Schedules for: Management, Professional and Confidential Employee (M&P), Fire Chief Association (FCA), and Utilities Managers of Palo Alto Professional Association (UMPAPA); Adoption of an Ordinance to Update the Fiscal Year 2015 Table of Organization
10. Confirmation of Appointment of Rob De Geus as Director of Community Services Department
11. Discussion and Direction to Staff Regarding Establishment of an Office/R&D Annual Growth Limit (Item Continued from January 26, 2015)
13. Colleagues Memo from Council Members Berman, Burt, Dubois, and Wolbach Regarding a City-Wide Minimum Wage Ordinance
14. Colleagues Memo From Council Members Berman, Berman, Burt, Holman, and Kniss Recommending Adoption of a Resolution Urging CalPERS Divestment from Fossil Fuel Companies
12. Public Hearing: Proposed Changes in Development Impact Fees: Adoption of Resolution Setting New Public Safety Facility and General Government Facility Impact Fee Levels as Approved by the Council on December 15, 2014


If there's one time of year I dislike more than Christmas, it's new year! I find it ludicrous that a change in the date can make everyone believe tomorrow will be different. The weather will still be cold and grey. We're all still broke and fat after the excesses of the festive season and pay day is just as far away!
I should look back and be grateful for all the good things that happened over the last year. But my mind just goes blank and what springs to mind are the disappointments and struggles. The challenges yet to be overcome, the wholeness that continues to allude me.
I hear my mother's voice in my head that I have nothing to be miserable about. I am mightily blessed and she is right! My heart goes out to all those who are facing 2014 without a precious loved one, the hope of new life or a fulfilling job, a full stomach or a roof over their heads. However, I can't deny that I wish things were other than they are.
I guess that is a big part of what makes me who I am. Pioneers and prophets see the world as it could be and not how it is. Why else would I be motivated to inspire others to take risks and do church, mission and relationships differently? It's just at the start of a new year, we never seem to have accomplished as much as I'd hoped and the size of the task ahead is as daunting and overwhelming as ever.
By Whom the Happy Ending is possible.
We live in an 'in-between' time. The past behind us, the future in front of us as we straddle the gap between how things are and how things are meant to be. It's a cosmic case of middle child syndrome. We're familiar with the beginning and aware of the end, but somehow feel uncomfortable and even at times ignored in what we know as our present.
So Happy New Year. Not because we have a new diary and haven't had time to mess up yet, but because Christ is with us. We're not alone and the Happy Ending is in His scarred and capable hands. A carpenter used to fashioning purpose and beauty out of unyielding blocks of wood. 'Into your hands I commit my spirit,' again.