Sept 10, 2015 (LBO) – With the installation of a new government comes hope of ways to unleash the creativity and potential of this beautiful island. With that in mind, this column will re-visit ideas, often discussed – depending on which circles you move in – about how this can be done.
Here's the first topic for you to consider: the opening up of the Sri Lankan tea industry.
I believe the time has come. The managed opening up – we don't have to go from zero to 100 in six seconds – should follow liberalization that has taken place, and been forced on, all other sectors.
There are many flaws in the modern neo-liberal world, but a shortage of trade is not one of them. A careful liberalization spearheaded by someone from outside the industry should work quite well.
Let's take an analogy. The situation is a bit like French wine.
We know there are good French wines, and there are bad French wines. Just because we get our hands on a gleaming bottle does not mean we expect it to be the best wine available. On the contrary, the lower the price, the greater the chance quality is not that good.
Ceylon Tea is in the same situation. Consumers know they must make an effort to find quality Ceylon Tea. The presence of fakes and strange products that cannot be called tea does not diminish Pure Ceylon Tea.
A lot is riding on the tea industry, and we should be unreservedly grateful to the incumbent companies that have carefully nurtured Pure Ceylon Tea, and brought it to where it is today.
Now it's time to push the industry into top gear.
Liberalization is a must, as Razeen Sally of the National University of Singapore, told Lanka Business Online recently. The tea industry has strangely avoided this.
I mean, no one is talking about diluting the brand of Pure Ceylon Tea. But by focusing on what the world is drinking — the WORLD, mind you — Sri Lanka could become the tea capital of the world.
Some analysts have proposed having tea processing zones with major foreign and local investors who are carefully surveilled and monitored for their packaging claims. They would produce what the world wants to drink, and cater to the beverage industry.
Maybe we need to make a distinction here between beverages and tea.
Strict laws expelling them if labeling laws are broken, and laws on how the words Ceylon Tea are used, should be sufficient to ensure the segregation of Pure Ceylon Tea from, well… the other stuff.
Ensuring minimum food standards and labeling of food products is something we do already, and Sri Lanka has made remarkable strides in the quality of some of its food and beverage products.We can hold our heads up high when our products compete with the best of the best.
Sri Lanka has plenty of experience in the area of liberalization. Finding someone who can spearhead this should not be difficult. Maybe we can use infrastructure set up in Hambantota for this purpose, since we are searching these days.
What is clear is that the global citizen wants to drink many things, be it green tea, chilled tea, organic tea, flavored tea, or my favorite recently in the Philippines – almond-flavored milk tea with tapioca pearls and konjac jelly. It was chilled, mind you.
I would completely support the tea industry running an international marketing campaign that says: "That's Not Tea." But we need the money to do it. The government could finance it, if there was a thriving industry to pay a bit of taxes.
We export around 320 million kilos of tea, about 16 percent of total exports in the world. It earns 1.5 billion dollars in revenue. That's a poor return considering that almost every nation in the world consumes tea.
Surprisingly, the United States, which we assume is a country of coffee drinkers, is quietly switching over to tea. Around 80 percent of U.S. households have tea in their kitchens. More than half of the American population drinks tea on a daily basis, and 85 percent of tea consumed in the country is chilled, according to a recent article in the Washington Post.
The market for tea in the U.S. alone is estimated at 10 billion dollars.
Analysts have long said we are sitting on a gold mine that could drive the entire Sri Lankan economy forward. Most importantly, this growth will lift the monthly incomes of tea estate workers and give them a decent wage.
It's time we push the tea beverage industry into top gear.


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Every 25 seconds, or 1.35 million times a year, a young athlete suffers a sports injury severe enough to go to the emergency room.
To raise awareness about heatstroke safety, General Motors Foundation is providing $200,000 to support the Never Leave Your Child Alone in a Car campaign.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Safe Kids highlight the dangers of child heatstroke in hot cars.
Following four tragic deaths in one week, NHTSA and Safe Kids headed to Nevada to highlight dangers of child heatstroke.
Safe Kids Worldwide released a new research report that found kids are getting into medicine at an alarming rate.
A new report released by Safe Kids Worldwide and SANUS revealed that every three weeks a child dies from a television tipping over.
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"Walking Safely, A Report to the Nation" reveals that teens are now the most at-risk age group for pedestrian injuries and deaths in the United States.
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Mountview Cemetery is committed to providing the community an attractive, peaceful sanctuary to celebrate and commemorate the lives of our loved ones.
Mountview Cemetery is the largest and oldest continually operated cemetery in the region. The oldest part of the cemetery was opened over 135 years ago in the year 1881, and we are still growing with the total future size of about 65 acres.
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Zedd's 'True Colors' LP Includes Collaborations With Echosmith And Troye Sivan: See The Full Tracklist
Mike Wass @mikewassmusic | April 24, 2015 3:16 pm
Zedd Unveils 'True Colors' Cover Art
It's a big day for Zedd's fans. The DJ unveiled his album cover and set the release date.
Zedd unveiled the tracklist of his sophomore LP True Colors today (April 24) and it boasts a number of surprising features. The rumors of another Selena Gomez collaboration turn out to be unfounded, but there is still a lot to get excited about. For starters, the German DJ teams up with Australian singer/songwriter Troye Sivan on a track called "Papercut" and works with Echosmith on album-closer "Illusion."
While they are probably the most high-profile pop collaborators, Zedd also got in the studio with singer/rapper Jon Bellion, alternative rockers X Ambassadors and girl group Bahari. If the featured artists are any indication, the 25-year-old is about to deliver one of the most eclectic electronic albums of 2015! Check out the full tracklist below.
Zedd's True Colors tracklist:
1. Addicted to a Memory (featuring Bahari)
2. I Want You to Know (featuring Selena Gomez)
3. Beautiful Now (featuring Jon Bellion)
4. Transmission (featuring Logic and X Ambassadors)
5. Done with Love
6. True Colors
7. Straight Into the Fire
8. Papercut (featuring Troye Sivan)
9. Bumble Bee (with Botnek)
10. Daisy
11. Illusion (featuring Echosmith)
Watch Zedd and Selena Gomez's "I Want You To Know" video:
Are you excited to hear Zedd's album? Let us know in the comments below.
Zedd And Selena Gomez At The Golden Globes
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Tags: Echosmith, Selena Gomez, Troye Sivan, Zedd

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Hellyeah! For the Fifth Installment
About nine years ago, when this supercard was first announced not many thought that it would beat the odds and grow beyond a side project. The thought of continuous albums never really came to mind… till today. Sure, there are four others prior to this one but the reason this was brought up was because Chad Gray's vocals on Unden!able, truly made Mudvayne resonate on this album. Not saying that it's a bad thing, frankly this album will give you a long overdue Mudvayne fix, assuming that you are craving one to begin with. The melodic undertones of Unden!able give you a reminder of the Buckcherry and Nothingface's influence in the band, whether or not it was prevalent to begin with. This album will not only make you miss Mudvayne, it will certainly make fans of Hellyeah appreciate this fresh material by comparison to their previous works.
Rating: 4/6, good enough to posses ya!
Cover of Hellyeah's new album
Poison Headache,the Antidote To A Headache
If you're a San Diegan and are a metal head, Phil Sgrosso may be one of the names that may come to mind. The 2007 "Ultimate Metal god" recipient never ceases to amaze despite his busy schedule. A testament of that is his current side project, and self titled album, Poison Headache. Combined with the vocals of Andy Kukta and the Adam Rosa's drumming, Poison Headache makes a good hardcore album. The Poison Headache's debut sound like Kindom of Sorrow and Nails (Phil Sgrosso, FYI, currently is touring with them) had a recent union. Despite all the good of this album, to this drunken sack of fun, a Midas touch was felt absent to make this debut, perfect. But I'll digress for the fact that not all debut album start off perfect and completely refined.
Rating: 5/6, this unholy melody can surely tame those hellhounds!
Gnarly cover for Poison Headache's debut album
You'll die happy for this Dark Funeral
For this 6/6/16, this sack of drunken fun will tell you about the black gold mine that was let loose from the deep abyss of the earth a couple of days back. Relax eco-nuts, I am not talking about oil… this time. No, fellow headbangers what I will be talking about are one of the Swedish Black Metal kings, Dark Funeral, and their sinfully sixth studio album, Where Shadows Forever Reign. Right from the beginning of "Unchain my Soul" to the song title of the namesake album, "Where Shadows Forever Reign" this album is a plethora of brutal meets speed and melodic. Where Shadows Forever Reign is like listening to Watain's The Wild Hunt sprinkled with some Dimmu Borgir minus the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The second to last track of the album, "Nail Them to the Cross," proves why it was chosen to represent Dark Funeral's current banner. Once the last tracks are over, you'll be thirsty for more.
Rating: 6/6, LEGENDARY!
Epic cover for Dark Funeral, just in time for 6/6/16!
Uh oh! Jenny Oh's about To Put In Her Two Cents In This Trial! (There goes her life savings…again :/ )
Combichrist Can Raise the Dead With This Is Where Death Begins
The Atlanta based industrial band return with their eighth studio and delivered it to the masses with more edge and grit. Andy LaPlegua's piercing vocals are captivating when he transitions his shrills to thick to anguish all at once which can be best heard in "We Are The Plague." Though the quintet flirt with a darker side of themselves on this album, they remain loyal to their industrial roots reinvigorating their sound. Not only will "This is …" lightly pet your angst and make you want to knock over that hideous vase your aunt gave you, but songs like "Exit Eternity" will make you want to dance around its pieces like its Saturday night.
Rating: 5/6, will make you the ultimate hellhound tamer and will make you wanna dance cause of it!
Combichrist slithering in with their new album.
All albums are out now!!
Ugh Metal Presents: The Best Albums of 2016 | Not Another Metal Site
[…] like the previous, the Klown will not invest too much time on Dark Funeral because its an album he rated. Since his verdict, the Klown hasn't really stopped playing this dark masterpiece. Just to give […]


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Antônio Augusto de Lima (5 April 1859 – 22 April 1934) was a Brazilian journalist, poet, musician, magistrate, jurist, professor and politician. He was born in Congonhas de Sabará (now Nova Lima).

Augusto de Lima was governor of the state of Minas Gerais, and he idealized the transfer of the state's capital from Ouro Preto to Belo Horizonte (then "Curral Del Rey").  In 1903, he became a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and was elected its president in 1928.

In 1906, Augusto de Lima was elected deputado federal (house representative) and moved to Rio de Janeiro, the federal district. There, he married Vera Monteiro de Barros de Suckow, granddaughter of Hans Wilhelm von Suckow,  Major of the Prussian Army (who fought Napoleon's army in the Battle of Waterloo) and patron of Brazil's horse racing —  the first breeder of race horses in Brazil.

As a politician, Augusto de Lima defended female suffrage and was also an ecologist. He was strongly devoted to Saint Francis of Assisi, and was responsible for the first Amazon forest protection law in Brazil, implemented after a fifteen-year battle in congress.

Bibliography

Contemporâneas, poetry (1887)
Símbolos poetry (1892)
Poesias, poetry (1909)
Noites de sábado, chronicles (1923)
São Francisco de Assis, poetry (1930)
Coletânea de poesias (1880–1934)
Poetry (1959)
Tiradentes, poetry
Antes da Sombra, poetry (not released).

External links
Augusto de Lima's page — Brazilian Academy of Letters Website (Portuguese)

1859 births
1934 deaths
Brazilian male poets
Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
People from Minas Gerais
Governors of Minas Gerais
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from Minas Gerais
19th-century Brazilian male writers
19th-century Brazilian poets
20th-century Brazilian male writers
20th-century Brazilian poets

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He is young, energetic and forward looking and it is no wonder that he has worked with several big names in the music industry in Ghana and abroad.
His prowess on the keyboard and guitar and his skills as a producer and recording engineer make Kwame Yeboah a hot commodity in the world of contemporary music.
He has provided services for big names in the industry such as Kojo Antwi, Miss Dynamite, Craig David, Stevie Wonder, Alexander O'Neal, Amy Winehouse, Jimmy Cliff and good old Osibisa.
This makes him shuttle regularly between London and Accra and, at 34, the only job he has ever done is to play music, something he emphatically says he will not trade for any other.
His father is a veteran highlife musician, K.K. Yeboah, and Kwame attributes his achievements to the fact that he was surrounded by music throughout his childhood and was allowed to drift where his instincts led him.
Apart from his father's early influence, he also learnt from his maternal uncle, the late Paa Gyimah, who was a proficient guitarist for Jewel Ackah, Senior Eddie Donkor and several other local bands.
"Though there were instruments all around me as I grew up, my father was initially not too keen on me taking up music. He felt I should pay more attention to school but I was playing drums by the time I was five and the guitar by seven," he recalled.
Since his father was not excited about his venturing into the music industry, Kwame hung out a lot more in Snr Eddie Donkor's house, which was close to theirs at Abeka in Accra. He also followed his uncle Gyimah around quite a bit.
"The guitar was my main instrument in the beginning but I moved on to keyboards. I realised that whenever a band was playing and the keyboards came in, the sound became bigger. I wanted to be able to be the one responsible for that big sound," he said.
Many know Kwame in Ghana as Kojo Antwi's keyboard player and music director. The two first came together through keyboardist Kwabena Akwaboa in 1996 for a Miss Ghana gig.
"I was hired to play that gig alone but Kojo invited me to a session in the studio after that. He was extremely impressed with what I produced in the studio and we have been together since then," he recalled.
Kwame started his primary education at the Cosmos Preparatory School and continued to the Wassa Amenfi Secondary School in the Western Region and finally completed at the Pank Secondary in Accra.
As a result of his love for music, he took some music lessons in Denmark to be able to write and interpret music with world jazz piano players such as Michel Camilo and Danilo Perez.
Kwame hails from Wassa Akropong in the Western Region and his main focus now is running his two Mixstation studios in Accra and London and performing with his Ohia Beye Ya Band.
He was music director for this year's Vodafone Ghana Icons music reality show.


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Kanchan Gupta
Questions for the BJP
Dear BJP,
RE: Your performance during the Kandahar Episode
Do you have anything better than this Kanchan Gupta article to explain your performance? If not, then here are some questions that arise from that article:
The article blames the media for creating the impression that the entire country wanted the terrorists to be released. The question is, were you elected to office based on SMS polls organized by the media? Don't you have BJP workers all over the country? Did you really have no way to be in touch with those who elected you?
If you cannot fight your country's media and some 200 families within the country, how do you expect Indians to have the confidence that you will fight India's enemies? If you cannot take tough decisions and communicate them during a minor crisis like this, what would you have done if you had faced the situation that Britain faced during World War II when the Germans were bombing them?
The article is pretty critical of the behaviour of the officials at the Raja Sansi airport. Apparently, they failed to obey a direct order from a Central Minister at the time of crisis. What did you do to end the careers of such incompetent officials? Or do your powers of harrassment and vindictiveness extend only to those who expose wrongdoing in your government?
In December 1999, NSG commandoes could not fly from Delhi to Amritsar because they did not have a plane. In November 2008, NSG commandoes could not fly from Delhi to Mumbai because they still did not have a plane. What did you do between 1999 and 2004 to get the NSG commandoes a plane?
Finally, if, when faced with the problems, constraints and incentives that the Indian National Congress did, you are going to do the same things that the Indian National Congress did, why should anyone who is exasperated with the performance of the Indian National Congress vote for you?
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I've been playing a fair amount of Zuma Blitz on Facebook. Zuma Blitz is a Flash game from Popcap, makers of many popular Flash games, including the original Zuma. While playing, I have been thinking (occasionally) about what we can learn from "normal" games like Zuma Blitz.
Zuma Blitz mechanics
Zuma Blitz involves a frog that you control in the center of a game board. You can rotate the frog in any direction, and clicking the left mouse button causes it to fire a ball of a particular color (chosen randomly). The game board has tracks on it, and balls of 4 colors are released onto the board at varying rates. The balls follow the tracks, and if the balls reach the end of each track, then the game is over. When the frog fires a ball at the balls on the tracks, if a match of 3 balls in a row of the same color is made, those balls are removed from the board. In addition to the normal balls, there are special balls such as multiplier balls, time balls, etc. Matching these balls affects game play in some positive way. This might sound very complicated, but after about 20 seconds of game play you will see how it works.
Each game lasts for 1 minute, so game play is highly frenetic. There is no time for strategy, balls must be fired very quickly for good scores. The game records 3 different values for each player: score, mojo, and experience points. Score is recorded for each game played, and the highest score for each player for each weekly tournament is displayed in-between games. A histogram of scores (in 50K increments) is recorded, with each bin associated with a different "spirit animal", and as additional scores are accumulated in each bin, the player achieves different "levels" of spirit animal. This provides a little additional interest for the player, and also shows a historical record of the player's scores.
Mojo and experience points (abbreviated XP) are accumulated at the end of each level, based on how many balls were matched (which is different but correlated with the score achieved on a game). Mojo can be used by the player to buy powers that can be used to make game play easier, but the cost is recurring for each game they are used in. Powers generally cost more mojo than the player can earn each game, so powers must be used sparingly.
As XP is earned the player reaches different levels. Upon reaching a level, something new is awarded to the player (a new power, a new spirit animal, etc. See this list of levels for more details). Since XP is awarded after each game, no matter how low the score, less skilled but persistent players can improve their scores by achieving higher levels. Zuma Blitz also has idols that are awarded for reaching an XP level, and the idols can be used to buy things in the store (extra lives, mojo, etc). For impatient players, idols can be purchased using Facebook credits (bought using real currency), this is presumably one revenue stream for Zuma Blitz.
When starting Zuma Blitz, the player is given 5 lives, and each 1 minute game takes one life. These lives regenerate based on real world time (starting at 8 minutes). This prevents the user from playing more than a certain number of games in a row, as the lives have to regenerate. Higher levels award the player more lives and reduce the length of the regeneration timer.
Zuma Blitz parallels and lessons
Surprisingly, Zuma Blitz (ZB from here on) has several parallels with the Kukui Cup (KC from here on). Among the ones I have noticed:
Players cannot play ZB continuously due to the lives and regen timer. This requires them to come back later to play. Many KC activities require a human administrator to verify that the activity was completed properly, requiring players to return later to see if they got their points. We have worried that this delayed gratification might be off-putting to KC participants, but ZB has deliberately picked this approach (though this is for continuation of the game, rather than the awarding of points).
ZB has 3 different metrics being collected (score, mojo, XP) that are interrelated but different. KC has both points and lounge energy usage, which are different and we hope are interrelated. We have been concerned about the complexity of having 2 metrics, but clearly popular games can be similarly complicated.
ZB is also based on weekly tournaments, the way KC has weekly rounds. The layout of the ZB game screen (where the tracks are, background image) changes each week.
ZB has a store and idols, which is similar in some ways to our raffle and raffle tickets that are earned through points.
Some potential lessons from ZB:
The special balls that appear on the board disappear after a certain period of time. If you manage to match them a couple seconds after they have disappeared, you still receive the special value for the ball. In essence, there is a grace period. As a player, this kind of generosity is greatly appreciated, something frustrating (missing a special ball by 1 second) becomes enjoyable. KC already has this generosity in some ways, for example all lounge residents receive points when the lounge makes their energy goal, even if they did not participate in any way. We should continue to look for ways to make KC "generous".
When you first play ZB, it shows all your Facebook friends that have also played the game, their highest score this round, and their stats. It would be good if KC could scan participants' Facebook friends to see if there are any matches among the residents of the participating dorms. If there are matches, the participant could be given the chance to message them on Facebook to encourage them to participate. You could even get points for doing this, perhaps (or will that just encourage spamming?)
Unlike the plan in KC, ZB does not post things automatically to the player's Facebook wall. Instead, for every interesting event (new high score, winning weekly tournament, new spirit animal), there is a button that says "Share" (or "Gloat" if you win the tournament), and that prompts for text to go along with a post to your wall. We had briefly considered and rejected this technique in KC (I believe I rejected it out of hand by saying something like "are we going to have a Share button in every dialog box??"), but if ZB is doing it then perhaps they know what they are doing. One difference is that ZB is runs in perpetuity, while KC is focused on a 3 week period. A compromise might be a single daily automatic post from KC, and then share buttons provided for noteworthy events.
ZB's changing weekly game layout is another way that ZB encourages players to return frequently. Perhaps we could have a different color scheme or background image for each round. Perhaps the rounds could have names/themes?
That's all I can think of so far. It might be interesting to look at other Facebook games to see how they make use of the functionality of Facebook, as well as their own game design.
This entry was posted in kukui-cup, research on 2011-01-24 by Robert Brewer.
I just got back from the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, aka HICSS. This conference has been running for 44 years. General information about this year's HICSS can be found here, and the proceedings will eventually be here.
This was my first HICSS, which is kinda strange seeing how long I have been in Hawai`i. It was held this year at the Grand Hyatt Kauai, which is pretty luxurious. I guess the idea is to hold it at resort that will be a draw for participants, and provide enough amenities that attendees don't feel the need to wander off.
The first thing that struck me about HICSS is the incredible diversity of sessions going on. The conference is organized in as a bunch of tracks (high-level topics), which are then broken into about 60 minitracks. The minitracks can last a whole day (4 sessions) or be as short as a single session.
The result is a huge smorgasbord of papers. Each day, there are 15 parallel tracks, ranging all over the place: education, social networks, cyber security, location-based marketing, power systems, and many more. This can be good if you want to check out a diverse set of presentations, but to me it makes HICSS feel more like a conference of mini-conferences than a unified whole. This is quite different from a conference like Ubicomp, which is vociferously single-track so that every attendee can attend every session if they want to. Naturally, Ubicomp accepts far fewer papers than HICSS.
The minitrack I was attending (Information Systems and Decision Technologies for Sustainable Development) didn't start until the second day, so on the first day I just went to sessions that looked interesting. Just deciding which sessions to attend is quite a task: 15 rooms * 4 sessions a day = 60 paper titles to look at!
I started with the Future Electric Power Systems (smart grid, more or less) minitrack. This minitrack was located in a standalone building at the Hyatt that is used as a nightclub. So the attendee chairs were set up in a sunken dance floor, and the presentation slides were shown on one large TV embedded in the wall, as well as 16 smaller TVs distributed around the ceiling (like one might find in a sports bar). This was kinda bizarre, but amusing.
The power systems minitrack has been running for 15 years, so the attendees seemed quite familiar with each other, and had their conference process down pat. The papers I saw were interesting, though more traditionally smart-grid-oriented compared to our Kukui Cup work. Unfortunately, the proceedings (which will be freely available) are not yet online, so I cannot link directly to papers.
A case study on the expected impact of PHEV vehicles on electricity consumption, using a new community in South Korea (A Case Study on the Grid Impact of PHEVs to Sample Distribution Power System by Dong Joo Kang and Sunju Park)
An algorithm for detecting "load pockets", which are areas on the grid that are constrained by transmission such that generation facilities could raise their prices and electricity users would have no option but to pay the higher prices (Clustering of Power System Data and its use in Load Pocket Identification by Katherine Rogers and Thomas Overbye).
An analysis of locational marginal carbon intensity of generation (how much additional carbon will be emitted by increasing demand by 1 kWh in a particular location at a particular time) on the eastern part of the US. The results are somewhat surprising, in that areas that are heavy coal users might actually have lower marginal carbon intensity because if they had additional demand they would import power from generation facilities with lower carbon intensity. The presenter related the marginal intensity to Renewable Portfolio Standards, which provide subsidies for production of renewable energy. Currently subsidies are independent of carbon intensity, but the authors argue that they should be higher (pay more for renewable energy) in places where the marginal carbon intensity is high, and lower where marginal intensity is low. This would encourage the buildout of renewable generation in places where it would reduce carbon emissions the most (Locational Carbon Footprint and Renewable Portfolio Policies: A Theory and its Implications for the Eastern Interconnection of the US by Aleksandr Rudkevich, Pablo A. Ruiz and Rebecca C. Carroll).
An investigation into what is really happening in loads, starting with hot water heaters. The presenter argued that there has been a lot of research into the dynamics of generation, but very little in the dynamics of loads, which will be critical for any type of demand response program. In the ensuing discussion, I learned a new term: demand subscription. This is the idea that rather than being metered for use, customers subscribe to a certain amount of electricity (not sure if it is measured as power, energy, or both) and then it is up to the customer to figure out how to live within that subscription. So the utility would only communicate with a smart meter, not reaching beyond the meter to smart appliances.
I also had time to attend some talks in the social networking track by members of LILT (my former research group): Dan Suthers, Kar-Hai Chu, and Devan Rosen. I was familiar with some of the outlines of the Traces work, but it was good to see it discussed in a public forum.
The minitrack I presented in was called Information Systems for Sustainable Development. I presented our paper describing the design of the Kukui Cup. It seemed well received, with most of the questions revolving around how to get students involved and how to keep them aware after the competition in order to sustain behavior changes. Eric Paulos suggested we should provide Kill-A-Watt meters to some residents in May 2012 before they move out of the first-year dorms, and then follow up with them on whether and how they used them in their next living situation.
Two other presentations in our track that I found interesting:
Hendrik Hilpert, a PhD student from Göttingen University presented work on computing products' carbon footprints automatically using vehicle mass airflow data (obtained via OBD2) fused with GPS data. This combination allows one to compute how much carbon is being emitted, while the GPS data allows the carbon to be allocated to different products that might be on the same delivery vehicle as it makes a series of stops. They even cited my older literature review in their paper, würd! (Real-Time Data Collection for Product Carbon Footprints in Transportation Processes Based on OBD2 and Smartphones, by Hendrik Hilpert, Lars Thoroe and Matthias Schumann).
Eric Paulos, assistant professor at CMU presented work on Citizen Energy. Citizen Energy is the idea of changing people from just being energy consumers into more active participants in the generation and use of energy. They have made a bunch of cool devices, like a Seasonal Energy Lamp. The lamp is connected both to grid power and to solar and wind turbines, and it changes the color of the emitted light depending on the source (orange for solar, blue for wind, etc), making people more aware of where their energy is coming from. These design experiments seem really complementary to the Kukui Cup, possibly providing additional ways for participants to become more energy literate. (Citizen Energy: Towards Populist Interactive Micro-Energy Production by Eric Paulos and James Pierce).
Unfortunately, our minitrack had fairly low attendance (perhaps 8 attendees at peak, of whom half were presenting in the minitrack), so I don't know how it will fare next year. All in all, it was a worthwhile experience, but was a bit of a comedown after BECC 2010.
This entry was posted in conference, energy, kukui-cup, research, sustainability on 2011-01-10 by Robert Brewer.


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On 29 October, the UN Security Council will vote on the UN mission in Western Sahara's renewal. Following last year's resumption of hostilities and the appointment of a new envoy, Council members should signal their commitment to relaunching negotiations and an even-handed approach to the conflict.
The resumption of hostilities in Western Sahara exacerbates the plight of tens of thousands of Sahrawi refugees and fuels conflict in North Africa, the Sahel and Europe. The UN Security Council, months after fighting has restarted, has yet to take a clear stance to address the crisis. It is time now for Washington to act and place a higher priority on resolving the conflict. Given its influence over both parties, the U.S. has a special responsibility ahead of an important Council meeting on the disputed territory this month.
Morocco and the Polisario Front have been locked in a conflict over Western Sahara since 1975. Following a long diplomatic deadlock and the May 2019 resignation of the UN Personal Envoy, Horst Köhler, the gap between Rabat and the pro-independence movement widened. Tensions rose after Morocco encouraged African and Arab governments to open consulates in Western Sahara and the Polisario riposted by blockading a main road through the territory's southern Guerguerat region.
An estimated 173,000 refugees live in five camps near the Algerian border with Western Sahara and wish to return once the fighting is over. The camps' living conditions are precarious. In April 2020, the UN Refugee Agency estimated that only 12 per cent of the refugee population was food secure, with acute malnutrition for children aged six to 59 months up from 4.7 per cent of the population in 2016 to 7.6 per cent in 2019.
For several months this resumption of hostilities failed to elicit a discernible international response. The U.S. administration appears to prefer avoiding to confirm or rescind former President Donald Trump's December 2020 recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, a major win for Rabat. Instead, Washington has focused on restarting the UN-led diplomatic process by pressuring Morocco to accept the latest candidate for the UN envoy position, Staffan de Mistura. In October, the UN announced the appointment of this widely experienced diplomat.
This is a positive step, but the international community's overall slow reaction to the events in Western Sahara has frustrated pro-Polisario Sahrawis. Displaced youth are probably the most disillusioned group. Some are now demanding the Polisario attempt more daring military operations against Rabat. Over time, long-term international inertia could lead frustrated youth to enter and escalate the fight themselves, particularly if they find an external actor willing to support them.
Recent tensions between Morocco and Spain have also highlighted other risks. In mid-May, Rabat allegedly allowed thousands of would-be migrants to surge toward its border with the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the North African coast. That appeared to be a retaliation against Madrid's April decision to host Polisario leader Brahim Ghali, who needed urgent hospitalisation for COVID-19. Morocco resumed its normal border policing only a few days later, but this incident highlighted the conflict's potential security repercussions for Europe.
If the U.S. believes benign neglect of this long-running crisis will serve its interests, it should think again.
With the new envoy in place and two key UN Security Council meetings on Western Sahara scheduled for mid- and late October, Washington should seize the moment to push at the Council for talks to resume now.
To show that it means business, the U.S. ought publicly to present possible changes to the mandate of MINURSO, the UN's Western Sahara peacekeeping organisation. It could propose to shorten MINURSO's mandate from twelve to six months so that the Council can consider and act on the evolving situation on the ground more frequently to put pressure on both sides. In the next resolution reauthorising MINURSO, it could also add to standard language on seeking "a realistic, practicable and enduring political solution" a reference to Western Sahara's right to self-determination. Without that addition, the Polisario will continue to see the UN as endorsing Morocco's 2007 Autonomy Plan as the permanent solution to the conflict. That Plan would keep Western Sahara under Rabat's sovereignty while recognising a degree of self-government to the region, with no provision for Sahrawis' right to self-determination. By adding clarifying language and projecting a more balanced approach to the conflict, the Council could help encourage the Polisario back to the negotiating table while leaving open choices for self-determination and Moroccan ideas for achieving this.
These signals could be just enough to convince both sides that Washington and the Security Council are seriously committed to finding a durable solution to the conflict, and the pro-independence movement and the Sahrawi refugee population that there is still hope for a political settlement. Pressing the parties to restart talks is the only way for Washington to open the path to improve the humanitarian conditions for thousands of refugees and contain the stability threats to the region and Europe emanating from this conflict. Human lives are plainly at risk and early action to head off further escalation would be both wise and timely, as the situation is deteriorating. The consequences of a failure to act are clear and contrary to American and world interests.
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THE CITY'S DANGEROUS MOMENT: PROFESSIONAL CRITICS NOT GROUNDED IN REALITY ARE GUIDING POLITICS AND POLICY, AND WE'RE SEEING THE CONSEQUENCES
New York is now being run by young people with very little experience outside of politics. The current sharp turn towards obvious socialism is a product of lack of experience on the part of those in positions of power at City Hall and in Albany. Whether in criminal justice, economics or housing...
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Q: Not able to run the app in iPhone Device I had a problem with running my app in the device. My device software version 4.2.1 and my xcode is on 4.2. I am using just MessageUIFramework in my app. And my console message is follows. Please help me.
 unable to load symbol file: unable to load symbol file: unable to load symbol file:     unable to

load symbol file: unable to load symbol file: unable to load symbol file: unable to load symbol file: unable to load symbol file: unable to load symbol file: unable to load symbol file: unable to load symbol file: unable to load symbol file: unable to load symbol file: unable to load symbol file: unable to load symbol file: unable to load symbol file: target remote-mobile /tmp/.XcodeGDBRemote-3893-99
Switching to remote-macosx protocol
mem 0x1000 0x3fffffff cache
mem 0x40000000 0xffffffff none
mem 0x00000000 0x0fff none
run
Running…
[Switching to thread 11523]
[Switching to thread 11523]
continue
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warning: UUID mismatch detected with the loaded library - on disk is:
    /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/4.2.1 (8C148)/Symbols/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreTelephony.framework/CoreTelephony
warning: UUID mismatch detected with the loaded library - on disk is:
    /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/4.2.1 (8C148)/Symbols/System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/QuickLook

A: The framework versions on disk do not match the versions on the device. Delete the folder:

/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/4.2.1/

The SDK version (bolded above) can be any installed version. Choose the version(s) of your test device(s).
Plug in your device and start Xcode. Open the Organizer (Window > Organizer) and you will be prompted to restore these frameworks. Once this is complete, restart Xcode and Clean All Targets before building the app for the device.
See: UUID mismatch detected with the loaded library

A: i think you need to go to the developers website and get your certificate once again. this time match your uuid with your phone and the website.

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Q: Anti Forgery Cookie Token has different ID I am developing an ASP.NET Core Web Application using a combination of MVC Views and Web APIs. I also use Identity for user management.
I now want to enable Anti-Request-Forgery Tokens for our Web API. For that, I use the IAntiForgery service in Razor views to GetAndStoreTokens and forward the RequestToken to a $.ajax call as a header, as described in the official documentation in section JavaScript.
When I run the corresponding page that performs a Web API request with the user being signed in (Cookie-Authentication), I can also see that the request token is set properly as an HTTP Header (see orange box in image). However, the Anti-Forgery validation of ASP.NET Core denies the request with the following message:
Antiforgery token validation failed. The required antiforgery cookie ".AspNetCore.Antiforgery.ybHEizTXFmU" is not present.
Thus, the cookie-part of the Anti-Forgery-Token (blue box) is the problem here - the key starts with a different ID: .AspNetCore.Antiforgery.lUjKpn5xN20 instead of .AspNetCore.Antiforgery.ybHEizTXFmU

How can this happen? The Web App and Web API reside in the same process / at the same domain, so no Cross-Origin-Calls are performed. Is this a problem of $.ajax (which I can't explain because the browsers cookies of the target site should be reused) or a problem within the ASP.NET Core Anti-Forgery (or even Identity) module?


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Q: Delay starting of an consumer as it depends upon a MaterializedView which is not in running state as yet I have a use case in which inside a consumer, I use a materializedview to execute some businesslogic (as shown in the code below). On restart of the spring boot application materializedview gets recreated from kafka topic, depending upon messages on the topic it can take small dealy to come into running state. If during this delay an message arrives on the other consumer which has the dependency on this MV to execute its logic then it fails.
Consumer 1
@Bean
public Consumer<KStream<String, Pojo> read() {
     return messages-> messages
            .toTable(Materialized.<String, Pojo, KeyValueStore<Bytes, byte[]>>as(STORE_NAME)
                .withKeySerde(Serdes.String())
                .withValueSerde(CustomSerdes.PojoSerde()));
}

Consumer 2
public class CustomProcessor implements Processor<String, Pojo> {

    private final InteractiveQueryService queryService;
    private ProcessorContext context;

    @Override
    public void close() {}

    @Override
    public void init(ProcessorContext context) {
        this.context = context;
    }

    @Override
    public void process(String key, Pojo value) {
        queryService.getQueryableStore(STORE_NAME, QueryableStoreTypes.keyValueStore())
        .all()
        .stream()
        .....
        business logic here
        ....
    }
}

Any suggestions how to tackle such issues ?

A: Kafka Streams processors will not start completely and ready for processing unless the state stores are fully restored (for the processors under the same applicaiton.id). I assume that these two consumers are part of two distinct Kafka Streams processors, i.e. they each have their own separate application.id. You can introduce the following properties to control retrying queryService.getQueryableStore(...).
spring.cloud.stream.kafka.streams.binder.stateStoreRetry.maxAttempts
spring.cloud.stream.kafka.streams.binder.stateStoreRetry.backOffInterval

The defaults are 1 and 1000 (milliseconds) respectively.
You can set some reasonable values depending on the time it takes to restore the state store to retry the processing.
This section of the ref docs has more details on this.
If you want to build your own retrying mechanism, that is also fine, but that may be more cumbersome. The above approach is far more concise and reasonable for interactive query API's.

A: Thanks Sobychacko, finally I got everything to work. Here is the complete solution for others (incase they hit the same issue)
Application.properties
#statestore retry configuration
spring.cloud.stream.kafka.streams.binder.state-store-retry.max-attempts=5
spring.cloud.stream.kafka.streams.binder.state-store-retry.backoff-period=1000

Consumer listening to an topic for passage events
@Bean
public Consumer<KStream<String, Pojo>> passages(@Lazy @Qualifier("passages-in-0-RetryTemplate") RetryTemplate retryTemplate) {
        return passages-> passages.process(() -> new PassagesEvaluator(retryTemplate));
    }

PassageEvaluator class, has dependency on InteractiveQueryService for processing passages events, the code is placed in retryTemplate.execute(...) retryTemplate is configured from application properties
public class PassagesEvaluator implements Processor<String, Pojo> {

    private final InteractiveQueryService queryService;
    private final RetryTemplate retryTemplate;
    private ProcessorContext context;

    @Override
    public void close() {}

    @Override
    public void init(ProcessorContext context) {
        this.context = context;
    }

    @Override
    public void process(String key, Pojo value) {
        retryTemplate.execute(ctx -> {
              queryService.getQueryableStore(STORE_NAME,
               QueryableStoreTypes.keyValueStore())
              .all()
              .stream()
               .....
                business logic here
               ....
     });
   }
}


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JLL Brokers Sale of 2 Industrial Facilities
The company has arranged both transactions on behalf of Blue Steel Development and also represented the buyer of the second deal. The two facilities changed hands for a total of $21.8 million.
Evelyn Jozsa
Crossroads Commerce Center
JLL has arranged the sale of two build-to-suit industrial facilities within Crossroads Commerce Center in Tampa, for a total of $21.8 million. Blue Steel Development sold the assets to NewSouth Window Solutions and Colonial Grocers. The industrial center is 50 percent sold and occupied.
Located at 4330 Williams Road, Crossroads Commerce Center occupies 71 acres at the crossroads of interstates 75 and 4, 21 minutes away from downtown Tampa. Other major cities, such as Orlando, Jacksonville, Miami and Atlanta, are accessible via the interstates.
NewSouth Window Solutions has purchased a 238,094-square-foot facility with cross docks, for $14.3 million. In this transaction, JLL worked on behalf of the seller, Blue Steel Development. Colonial Groceries has acquired the second asset, a 112,800-square-foot facility with front-load access, for $7.5 million. JLL represented both the seller and the buyer in the deal.
Due to the industrial park's strong demand, Blue Steel has already built pads for two additional buildings, totaling 215,434 and 77,760 square feet, with cross-dock and front-load dock configurations.
JLL's team of Ryan Vaught, John Dunphy and Robyn Hurrell represented the seller in both transactions, while Gary Godsey and Caleb Lewis worked on behalf of the buyer, Colonial Grocers. Earlier this year, Vaught closed the sale of an 119,257-square-foot industrial facility in Lakeland, Fla., for $7.7 million.
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Magna signs agreement to acquire automotive closure systems supplier
Magna International said it had signed a purchase agreement to acquire the BÖCO Group of Companies, an automotive supplier of latches, hinges and strikers, to help bolster its product portfolio and engineering capabilities in key regions.
Subject to regulatory approval, the transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2016.
Once complete, BÖCO's two facilities located in Wuppertal, Germany, and Tianjin, China, and its approximately 450 employees will be integrated into Magna Closures, an operating unit of Magna. BÖCO has annual sales of more than EUR100m and its customers include the BMW Group, Daimler and Audi. The addition of BÖCO complements Magna's product portfolio, enhances its engineering capabilities and strengthens its leadership position in the global closure systems market.
"We believe BÖCO is an excellent fit in terms of technology, footprint and customers, and we look forward to working together to further grow our business," said John O'Hara, president, Magna Closures. "BÖCO's product and processing know-how and engineering strength also provides additional global growth opportunities for us going forward, particularly with automakers based in Germany."
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Technical Writing Portfolio
© 2019 by DAVID H. CHAU
Book Review: The Periodic Table
David Chau
To some memoirists, a photo or a song may open memory's flood gates, but for Primo Levi, a chemist by trade, it is the elements that evoke memories of life as a working chemist, the encroaching anti-Semitism, and then later his captivity by the Nazis.
Surprisingly, Levi's The Periodic Table is not a book of science. The table of contents would suggest otherwise with 21 elements making up 21 separate chapters, made up of 19 essays and two short stories. It is, however, an exploration of the past connected through stories that relate to the elements allegorically.
In the opening chapter, Argon, he writes vignettes of his uncles and aunts. He describes Uncle Barbarico, for example, as noble, rare, and inert, befitting the characteristics of Argon "like a glove." Levi understood that stories like his uncle's are important and although he may not have achieved greatness on the world stage, there are lessons that we can still learn from his life. Levi wrote that at end of his Barbarico's life, he "ate almost nothing, and in general way he had no needs; he died at over ninety, with discretion and dignity." Even though the was written in 1975, before the popularity of memoirs of non-celebrities, Levi was already aware that everyone has a unique story to tell.
One of the most extraordinary chapters is Silver, where he confronts a former concentration camp guard, Muller, particularly known for his cruelty. Instead of exacting revenge as Edmond Dantes, the main protagonist of Alexandre Dumas's canon, would have done ("I am not the Count of Montecristo"), Levi writes that he "did not feel capable of representing the dead of Auschwitz, not did it seem sensible to see Muller the representative of butchers."
The chapters are also in chronological order, beginning with his decision to study chemistry in his youth. Indeed, Levi's in the chapter Hydrogen, he writes, "For me, chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come back in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai…I was fed up with books, which I still continued to gulp down with indiscreet voracity, and search for another key to the highest truths." He confronts his painful past head on and reveals the universal themes of forgiveness and redemption, friendships, purity and impurity ("Chemistry and physics…were the antidote to Fascism…because they were clear and distinct and verifiable at every step, and not a tissue of lie and emptiness.") and unrequited love because of the growing policy of racial segregation ("To carry on your crossbar a girl you desire and be so far from her as not to be able to even fall in love with her") among others.
Recalling memories through writing plays a prominent role in the book. In Chromium, after being released from captivity of three months, he felt that writing would cleanse him: "I would be purified if I told its story, and I felt like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, who waylays on the street the wedding guests going to the feast, inflicting on them the story of his misfortune." Moreover, even with his "baggage of atrocious memories," writing made him feel like a regular person: "By writing, I found peace for a while and felt myself become a man again, a person like everyone else, neither a martyr nor debased nor a saint: one of those people who form a family and look the future rather than the past."
It was through writing then that he "was growing like a planet." It was no wonder then that the last chapter is Carbon, the element of all life.
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9 things you probably did in the 90s
1. Cried when Take That broke up
What was Robbie's problem anyway? Who leaves the best band in the world just so they can fool around at Glastonbury with Liam Gallagher? What was wrong with spending the rest of his life recording songs like Pray? Seriously, what's the matter with people?
2. Went dancing
You might dance a bit now while you're in the kitchen and there's nothing on Radio 4, so you've flicked over to Radio 2 and they're playing The Lighthouse Family. But we're talking about dancing with intent. In fields, in nightclubs (remember those?) in the sitting room where you practised dance routines that your younger brother was only allowed a brief cameo in.
3. Got a Brazilian
It sounded sexy and landing strips were all the rage. You thought that's what a Brazilian was. Just a topiary of the top bit. You found out the hard way that it wasn't.
4. Wore a Wonderbra
HELLO BOYS. Wonderbras were the Medieval torture instrument of the Nineties with their ruthless underwiring and heavy padding, causing major spillage for big boobs and rigid, cricket-ball-like situations for small boobs. Always a talking point though – and good for letting people prod after a few Smirnoff Ices.
5. Drank Smirnoff Ice
Like cough mixture mixed with petrol and yet somehow, we all seemed to think it was a brilliant idea.
6. Went for 'cocktails'
I'll have a Cosmopolitan! I'm so Carrie Bradshaw! I want to wear fur coats hanging off my shoulders and smoke in bed! Now where the fuck is Mr. Big?
7. Got Chlamydia
So everything with that cute law student seemed to be going well until you started to notice a bit of itching south of the border that wouldn't go away and when you told the student doctor, she rolled her eyes and muttered, "When will you lot ever learn?" as she wrote you a prescription for antibiotics and gave you a party bag of condoms.
8. Bought your first mobile phone
Brick-like with a flimsy aerial, yes, but finally the end of 'How can you have spent two hours on the phone with your boyfriend when you've spent all day with him???' No one need know now. And, anyway, five minutes cost, like a million pounds…
9. Got internet at home
The thrill of technology underpinned by that rambling robotic noise of your modem connecting like it was receiving a signal from an alien life on a planet ten million light years away.
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