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Q: PHP issue "Cannot send session cookie" Please find attached my code:
<?PHP
session_start();
if (isset($_POST["usernameform"])){

$username = $_POST['usernameform'];
$password1 = $_POST['passwordform'];

$user_name = "XXXX";
$password = "XXXXX";
$database = "XXX";
$server = "XXXX";

$db_handle = mysql_connect($server, $user_name, $password);
$db_found = mysql_select_db($database, $db_handle);

$SQL = "SELECT * FROM login WHERE Username = '$username' AND Password = '$password1' "; //grab all the records from table
$result = mysql_query($SQL)
    or die("Error:" . mysql_error());

if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0){ //if username and password match return number of rows is always 1

$_SESSION['login'] = $username; //by placing this in session it will remember this variable on the page it directs too

while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) ){ //lays out array in $result
$_SESSION['ID'] = $row['ID']; //selects from list of array ID
$_SESSION['firstname'] = $row['First_Name'];
echo'<script> window.location="page1.php"; </script> ';

}
} else {
$_SESSION['login'] = '';
print('
<script type="text/javascript"> //place html script for alert. Use single comma for print command here.
    alert("Sorry, your username or password could not be recognized")
</script>
');
session_destroy();
}
}
?>

Although the code works perfectly on my localhost (wampserver), it does not work on my host and I get the errors:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session
  cookie - headers already sent by (output started at
  /.../vhindex.php:1) in /.../vhindex.php on line 2
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session
  cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at
  /.../vhindex.php:1) in /.../vhindex.php on line 2

The session_start(); code has been placed at the top of the PHP block and before any HTML output is made and I am completely stumped.
Any ideas?

A: *

*Download Notepad++ and open the file there, delete all fancy characters before the <?PHP

*Make sure there is no whitespace character like " " or tab or linebreak before the <?PHP.

*

*In Notepad++ click Encoding and then UTF-8 without BOM to convert the file to UTF-8 without BOM, then save it.

*Also add ob_start(); before session_start(); to be safe.

A: If you load this -.php file from vhindex.php. Make sure that this is done in the right order.
Eg.
require_once'handle-user-login.php';
callToYourFunction();
If your session already been sent you get this warning. (Yeah like the error code says).

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Broadcasting seeds is one of my favorite ways of planting most vegetables (with the exceptions of big vegetables like squash, corn, beans, etc.) The method is most appropriate for gardens with permanent beds in which you want your vegetables to spread out and cover all of the available space. To broadcast plant, I simply fill the palm of one hand with as many seeds as I want to put on the bed, separate my fingers, and jiggle my arm until the seeds bounce to the ground. Once you get the hang of it, you can broadcast seed a bed in less than a minute and end up with well-spaced seedlings.
The one difficulty with broadcast seeding is that the seeds sit on the soil surface, which means trouble germinating during hot, dry summer days. (In the spring, I rarely have issues with germination even though I don't cover my seeds.) But if you rake the top half inch of soil to the sides of the bed, broadcast seed, then carefully pull that excess soil back on top, you can have the best of both worlds --- quick seeding and efficient germination. I tried out this method a few weeks ago with the first of our fall carrots and was so pleased with the results that I think it will be my new broadcast-seeding standby.
Our chicken waterer keeps our flock from going thirsty on hot summer days.


Bat's Roosting In Michigan Homes: 3 Helpful Locations To Find Bats.
When it comes to any DIY project, checking your attic for possible bat infestations is critical. So we want share a couple facts about bats roosting and where to look for them.
1) Bats typically don't roost in winter months.
So the colder the weather the more likely you will not find them hanging from the rafters but burrowed down into yo installation.
2) Bats prefer to roost near the entry point.
Some of the most common areas bats like to roost are places like carports, gutter areas and soffit vents. So when looking in your home for bats to be roosting, look in areas that seem obvious.
3) Ways to deter bats from roosting.
Batcon.org has a helpful pdf on roosting area deterents.
Mylar Balloons near roosting area.
So when it comes to bats roosting, it is important to know they don't always roost, prefer to roost near entry points and can be deterred.


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If so, there could be an argument that he's not entitled to the accrued time he's seeking. The city, through its labor attorney, Andy Hament, said Lannon already has been compensated for the accrual time.
"I did not leave the city of Palm Bay voluntarily," Lannon told FLORIDA TODAY. "I was constructively discharged. My amended employment agreement was not going to be honored."
At one time, Lannon was seeking a $300,000 settlement offer; six months' worth of insurance coverage for his family of five; and indemnification from the city if Lannon was named in any litigation in which he was a named defendant.
The situation with Lannon is the latest chapter of a political saga taking place in Palm Bay, Brevard County's most populous municipality. During the last few years, there have been resignations or dismissals of key personnel; charges of shoddy financial record-keeping; and an investigation involving the FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Triggering Lannon's resignation, he said, was the recent appointment of Eden Bentley as Brevard County attorney. That was a job Lannon for years had sought, and he became dismayed when he learned of Bentley's appointment without even a formal search process taking place.
Andrew Lannon's Pre-Suit Letter
Bentley replaced Scott Knox, who held the position for 24½ years. Bentley was assistant county attorney from 1986 to 2005, then became deputy county attorney.
I've never once heard of a city or county of this magnitude end the recruitment process before it began," Lannon said. "That didn't just happen by circumstance.
Lannon places much of the blame on Tres Holton, Palm Bay's deputy mayor who is up for re-election for a second term, for his problems with the city and not being considered for the county attorney's job.
FLORIDA TODAY contacted the five Brevard County commissioners, and they denied Holton had any influence with Bentley's appointment. Two of the commissioners, Kristine Isnardi and John Tobia, said they voted against Bentley only because they wanted a broader search.
More:Former Palm Bay city attorney seeks $300K consulting deal in pre-lawsuit settlement offer
Tobia said it's very possible that Lannon, with his background and credentials, would have been a finalist if there had been a search process, but that doesn't mean he would have ultimately been named county attorney.
"He certainly would have gotten a strong look from me," Tobia said.
County Commission Chair Rita Pritchett recalls that Lannon came to her Titusville office in early 2017, shortly after she took office as a county commissioner, to discuss another matter. In the course of that conversation, "he said to me: 'I'm going to be your next county attorney.' "
Pritchett, though, said she didn't feel Lannon was lobbying her for the job.
"I just think he really wanted that job," Pritchett said.
Pritchett said she thought Lannon "seemed like a nice-enough guy," but Pritchett was comfortable with hiring Bentley as county attorney when Knox retired.
Lannon alleges that Holton told him numerous times "behind closed doors" that he would never get the county attorney job. Lannon also claims that Holton threatened that he would end Lannon's career with the city by not honoring his employment agreement.
Holton denied "Mr. Lannon's absurd false allegation," and provided FLORIDA TODAY with a letter he says he sent to U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio, endorsing Lannon for a federal judgeship. There was a similar letter to Florida Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera.
Lannon said the letters sent to the senators were penned by Holton begrudgingly — and only after the four other council members wrote a similar letter.
Lannon also doubts whether Holton actually sent the letters. FLORIDA TODAY was checking with Nelson and Rubio's office to see if Holton's letters were received.
Holton said Lannon thanked him in a note for the endorsement.
Holton also told FLORIDA TODAY in an email that Lannon's employment contract was inconsistent with the city charter.
"While I noted that his employment contract was executed by a prior City Council, I never stated it was not valid because of it," Holton said. "My greatest concern was Mr. Lannon's overbearing influence over assistant city attorneys, inconsistent with the city charter."
Baker Act motion
In the background of this employment dispute is Lannon's recent checking into a treatment facility and a subsequent Baker Act motion, also known as the Florida Mental Health Act.
It allows for the involuntary institutionalization and examination of an individual, and it can be initiated by judges, law enforcement officials, physicians or mental health professionals.
Lannon, who is 43 years old, said, on the advice of a fellow attorney, he voluntarily checked into Harbor Pines, a facility operated by Circles of Care, on April 17 for "generalized anxiety disorder" related to the stresses involving his job at Palm Bay City Hall.
Lannon believed he was ready to leave Harbor Pines on April 20, but a physician at the facility disagreed, and ordered him to stay an additional two days, using a Baker Act motion to keep him there until April 23.
In court documents, Lannon said: "I am mentally stable, and submitted myself voluntarily to get help."
But a Circuit Court judge denied his petition, in which Lannon sought to voluntarily leave the facility.
"I needed to go there and get mental health care to deal with all the stresses that have been caused in my life, primarily by Deputy Mayor Tres Holton," Lannon told FLORIDA TODAY, explaining his stay at the facility.
Holton's response to Lannon's mental health and his role was: "It seems that Mr. Lannon is and has been struggling with some personal issues. You may be aware of them. I do not think it is appropriate for me to comment further on those issues, but I trust that you will factor them into your report. My prayers are with him and his family."
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or wprice@floridatoday.com.
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Britishvolt: more evidence UK is falling far behind in race to capture growing EV market
Birmingham, Jan 20: Britishvolt, the would-be electric vehicle (EV) battery maker that recently went into administration, always faced an uphill struggle. The start-up had no track record developing technology and never confirmed how it would raise the £3.8 billion needed to start mass producing batteries, which reduces the average cost per battery.
The proposed facility near Blyth, a coastal town in north-east England, was slated to contribute around a quarter of what the UK automotive industry needs, or enough for 330,000 battery packs a year. But with no major auto firms as customers, its business model always looked vulnerable.
This was despite keen promotion from Boris Johnson when he was prime minister and a pledge of £100 million in public funding if certain conditions on the factory's construction were met. They weren't, and the government kept the cash.
There remains hope that new ownership could rescue the business and that batteries for EVs could still be assembled at the site. For now, though, Britishvolt's woes raise wider questions about the future of the UK automotive industry as it transitions to making EVs, and whether the government is doing enough to support it.
For the UK to become a leader in EV manufacturing, it needs large factories (called gigafactories) making EV batteries and quickly, as demand for EVs is taking off ahead of a 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars, and the requirement for all new cars to be fully zero emission by 2035. This is particularly urgent given the nature of the trade and cooperation agreement (TCA) between the UK and the EU.
The TCA requires that batteries in EVs have to be assembled in the UK or the EU by the end of 2026 for vehicles traded between the two to avoid tariffs. The UK is lagging well behind EU countries in attracting investment in battery-making, and Britshvolt's collapse throws this into sharp relief.
Without a major effort to build a domestic supply chain that includes battery manufacturing, UK car assembly lines will increasingly be left producing obsolete internal combustion engine cars and dependent upon imported battery components from the EU to meet rules of origin requirements. That isn't going to make much business sense.
In recent years, a lot of investment in battery gigafactories has skirted the UK, partly because of uncertainty caused by Brexit. Tesla boss Elon Musk said as much in late 2019 when justifying his firm's decision to build its first major European gigafactory in Germany.
Along with Arrival's decision to shift electric van production to the US and Mini pulling the plug on EV production in Oxford, for now at least, government hopes for the UK auto industry as an EV powerhouse seem stuck in neutral, if not reverse. The one piece of good news so far is that battery maker Envision has committed to a new gigfactory in Sunderland that will come onstream in 2025 – the only confirmed investment in the UK.
In a good year, the UK makes between 1.3 and 1.5 million cars. As the industry seeks to supply UK and EU markets in which petrol or diesel vehicle sales are being phased out from 2030, maintaining a similar level of production will require a lot of batteries.
The UK has been slow to get government support lined up for such investment. So far, only £800 million has been earmarked for the mass production of EV batteries. Demand for EV batteries in the UK could reach as high as 130 gigawatt-hours (GWh) a year by 2040, equivalent to the output of eight gigafactories with a capacity of 15GWh each. Meeting this demand would require an investment of between £5 billion and £18 billion by 2040 according to one estimate.
Meanwhile, there are at least 35 gigafactories up and running or under construction in the EU, including those by NorthVolt (in Sweden), Saft/Stellantis (in France and Germany), Samsung SDI (in Hungary), LG Chem (in Poland), and Tesla (in Germany).
The European Commission and seven member states have allocated around €6 billion (£5 billion) to help build up to 20 gigafactories and aim at having one-third of the world's EV batteries being made in the EU by 2030. This is expected to serve an estimated €250 billion-a-year market by that time. EU member states are simply doing more to attract investment in battery production than the UK, with heavy financial support and special economic zones to woo manufacturers.
If the UK auto industry is to compete, it will need to produce its own batteries at scale. Domestic battery production will reduce supply chain costs and ease logistical difficulties. It should also help UK-based carmakers and battery manufacturers work more closely in areas such as battery cell technology and technician training – critical to the industry's competitiveness.
For this to be possible, the government must think more creatively about how to target financial support for car and battery makers. And, in turn, the auto industry needs a more active industrial strategy and closer partnerships with government, especially with regards to reorientating skills and the supply chain towards EVs.
This isn't about picking winners – demand for EVs produced in the UK and internationally is forecast to be there. And increasing UK sales of EVs indicate a growing domestic market for batteries. McKinsey consultants forecast that by 2040, battery demand for European EVs will reach 1,200GWh per year, or the output of 80 gigafactories with an average capacity of 15GWh.
The UK risks missing out on new investment in a growing industry. If the UK wants to maintain its large automotive assembly capacity as it transitions to making EVs, then it will need homemade batteries and on a large scale. Only a revamped industrial strategy can help make this happen. (The Conversation)
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Lucknow, June 29: Sidelined senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Shivpal Singh Yadav on Friday said he was not given his due despite playing an important role in making his brother Mulayam Singh Yadav the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh thrice and his nephew Akhilesh Yadav once.
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the 72nd birthday celebrations of his cousin but also an arch rival within the party, Ram Gopal Yadav at Firozabad, Shivpal Singh said he has toiled hard for the SP since its formation but even as the party came to power four times, he did not get what he deserved.
Shivpal Singh has been pushed into political oblivion by the present dispensation in the SP ever since a bitter feud broke out within the party and a power struggle ensued thereafter for its control in 2016.
Mulayam Singh threw his lot behind Shivpal Singh but stopped short of disowning his son, leaving the Jaswantnagar legislator even more cut up. While Shivpal Singh did not show any bitterness with the 'birthday boy' on Friday, he wished Ram Gopal well while standing by him during the cake cutting ceremony and also warned his cousin and other senior leaders of the party to "beware of flatterers".
He said the pitiable present condition of the party where it has just 48 legislators in the 403-member state Assembly was a result of his humiliation, and left the venue after a ten-minute stop over. The two estranged cousins were seen together in public for the first time after more than two years.
Both have been accusing each other of conspiring against the party and hob-mobbing with the Bharatiya Janata Party, to the determent of secular forces led by the SP.
The birthday of Ram Gopal, a Rajya Sabha member and mentor of Akhilesh Yadav, is being celebrated by his followers and fellow politicians at the Ram Leela grounds in Firozabad, a family bastion.


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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's home page on the social network. (Dolphfyn / Shutterstock)
Facebook Reporting Steep Rise in Data Requests from Indian Government
Governments want more and more data from Facebook, according to a report released this week.
India was one of the countries with a notable spike in requests, according to the New York Post.
From January through June, Facebook received 16,580 data requests from the Indian government. That's higher than the 13,613 for all of 2016 and is on track to surpass 22,024 requests in all of 2017.
Of those requests, 617 were emergency requests, Facebook said.
It granted the requests, which were principally for law enforcement purposes, 53 percent of the time, according to the Indian Express.
According to a blog post by Chris Sonderby, Facebook's VP and deputy general counsel, India was not alone in increasing its data requests.
"Government requests for account data increased globally by around 26 percent compared to the second half of 2017, increasing from 82,341 to 103,815 requests," he wrote. "In the U.S., government requests increased by about 30 percent, of which 56 percent included a non-disclosure order prohibiting Facebook from notifying the user."
U.S. government agencies produced 42,466 data requests, with Facebook giving the government what it wanted 86 percent of the time, according to the report.
Facebook's report showed that the United States filed the most requests, followed by India, with the United Kingdom (7,981 requests) Germany (6,661), and France (5,110) rounding out the top five nations in terms of requests.
Are you uncomfortable with the growing number of data requests by governments?
No: 19% (20 Votes)
Russia, in contrast, only made 14 data requests, none of which were granted, Facebook's report said. China made none.
The company said it responds to requests in accordance with each nation's laws and its own terms of service.
"Each and every request we receive is carefully reviewed for legal sufficiency and we may reject or require greater specificity on requests that appear overly broad or vague," it said.
Facebook also noted it is often asked to preserve accounts involved in some type of legal action.
"When we receive a preservation request, we will preserve a temporary snapshot of the relevant account information, but will not disclose any of the preserved records unless and until we receive formal and valid legal process," it said.
Democratic Lawmakers and Liberal Activists Have Meltdown After Meta Announces Decision on Trump's Facebook
In his post, Sonderby said Facebook is not hesitant to push back against requests it believes are inappropriate.
"In June, for example, a criminal court in Brazil ordered Facebook Brazil to wiretap all Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger accounts from a specific location and timeframe and threatened a penalty if we didn't deliver the information. Facebook Brazil appealed the order highlighting that its broad scope was unconstitutional and violated people's privacy rights. The court of appeals agreed with us and directed the trial court to suspend the order," he wrote.
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Q: Enumerable.Max() if two max values I'm trying to get the maximum value from an array of integers but if there are two values which are considered maximum, I need to find their index in the array.
I.e. If I have the array:
{10, 13, 13, 9, 8}
I need to find the index of both the 13 values
If I have the array:
{10, 13, 12, 9, 8}
I need to just return the index of the 13
I have done the second part of this by using
    myArray.ToList().IndexOf(myArray.Max());
But can't figure out the first example.

A: A little bit of LINQ works:
var numbers = new [] { 10, 13, 13, 9, 8 };

var maxIndices =
    numbers
        .Select((n, i) => new { n, i })
        .GroupBy(x => x.n, x => x.i)
        .OrderByDescending(x => x.Key)
        .Take(1)
        .SelectMany(x => x)
        .ToArray();

This gives the result:

Remembering that arrays are zero-based the above two values are the indices for the 13's in the array.

A: You could do it like this:
var array = new int[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, 8, 2, 3, 6, 8, 8, 4, 3, 2, 8, 1, 8 };

var maxNumber = array.Max();

var indices =
    array.Select((number, index) => number == maxNumber ? index : -1)
         .Where(index => index != -1);

It gives back the array of all max number indices. We're selecting index value for number that equals array max number and -1 for every other value. Since array index starts at zero, we will never get -1 as index of array max number. That means, after we filter our selection with condition index != -1 we'll get only indices of max numbers we selected before.
Fiddle example here: https://dotnetfiddle.net/drRiVb

A: Try this:
    private static IEnumerable<int> FindIndexesOfMax(int[] input)
    {
        int max = input.Max();
        for (int i=0; i<input.Length; i++)
        {
            if (input[i] == max)
                yield return i;
        }
    }

A: If you need to work with all linq providers (your mentioning Enumerable.Max() rather than "Linq's Max() in the title suggests you don't, but maybe you do), then I'd suggest Enigmativity's answer, but without the ToArray() unless definitely needed.
If you only care about enumerables, I'd suggest:
public static IEnumerable<int> MaxIndices(this IEnumerable<int> source)
{
  using(var en =  source.GetEnumerator())
  {
    if (!en.MoveNext())
      return Enumerable.Empty<int>();
    int curMax = en.Current;
    List<int> indices = new List<int>{ 0 };
    for (int index = 1; en.MoveNext(); ++index)
    {
      int current = en.Current;
      if (current == curMax)
        indices.Add(index);
      else if (current > curMax)
      {
        indices.Clear();
        indices.Add(index);
        curMax = current;
      }
    }
    return indices;
  }
}

This starts either by returning an empty enumerable (if there are no values in the source, there are hence no maximum values) or else starting with a list containing 0 as the starting point is always that the first element is the maximum found so far. From that starting point it continues through the list. If a given element matches the maximum found so far then its index is added to the list of indices. If a given element is greater than the maxmimum found so far, then it becomes the new maximum, and the list is cleared before its index is added. Otherwise the value is ignored.
You can combine both approaches with appropriate overloads. As well as the above have:
  public static IQueryable<int> MaxIndices(this IQueryable<int> source)
  {
    if (source is EnumerableQuery<int>)
      return MaxIndices((IEnumerable<int>)source).AsQueryable(); // most efficient approach with enumerables.
    return source.Select((n, i) => new { n, i })
      .GroupBy(x => x.n, x => x.i)
      .OrderByDescending(x => x.Key)
      .FirstOrDefault() ?? Enumerable.Empty<int>().AsQueryable();
  }

Then it takes the most efficient approach for either case, including treating queryables that are actually enumerables as enumerables. All other sources are treated much as in Enigmativity's answer.


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Racist "Problem of Whiteness" course reintroduced at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Could you imagine what would happen if any college had a "problem of blackness" course?
This spring, a controversial course titled "The Problem of Whiteness" will once again be offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The African Cultural Studies course seeks to teach students to "understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy," according to its online description.
When the course debuted during the spring 2017 semester, it prompted national headlines and much controversy, with some Republican lawmakers even calling for the course to be canceled.
The class this spring may touch on that, based on the fact that its professor created a montage of headlines criticizing the course as its new syllabus cover sheet, its online description shows.
The course is taught by Professor Damon Sajnani, who is white. In a statement emailed to The College Fix, a University of Wisconsin spokesperson said the upcoming "The Problem of Whiteness" course is very similar to last spring's class and that its first iteration was a success.
"Student feedback was overwhelmingly positive – students said they found it valuable to examine majority cultures and how power imbalances are created, sustained, and challenged in societies around the world," the spokesperson said.
After Sajnani debuted the class, it drew the ire of two Wisconsin state lawmakers who denounced the new class and said it could affect future funding for the flagship university.
State Rep. Dave Murphy also raised concerns about several tweets from Sajnani's Twitter account that the legislator said showed the professor "condones violence against law enforcement and compares white voters to the KKK."
In one of the tweets highlighted by Murphy, Sajnani included a photo of news coverage from the 2016 fatal police shooting in Dallas and wrote "Is the uprising finally starting? Is this style of protest gonna go viral?"
Despite the backlash, the course went on as planned and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a Republican, called the course "goofy" but said the university's funding should be based on "the broader issue of accountability and performance."
The online description for next semester's course states the class will "break away from the standard US-centric frame" and look at the concept of whiteness through a global lens.
"We will come together with our socially ascribed identities of Black, white, mixed and other and, with the problem properly in its place we will ask ourselves and our allies, what are we going to do with it," the description states.
In a phone interview with The College Fix last year, Sajnani said his course explores how white privilege and white power are connected and that it looks at how students can work for social justice.
"The problem of racism is the problem of whites being racist towards blacks," the professor had said at the time.
The University of Wisconsin told The Fix this month that Sajnani has "continued to research, write, and mentor educators from across the country" on the topic of whiteness since he first taught the course earlier this year.
In November, Sajnani chaired a panel at the American Studies Association's annual conference that had the same name as his course. During the panel discussion, Sajnani, who is also a rapper, performed a song called "The Problem of Whiteness" that he said he plans to release.
"But you know what your number one problem of whiteness is, you don't even know what the f*** whiteness is," the lyrics of the song included.
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/40421/


For our first dispatch in the series we actually found a great a cappella piece that happens to also feature a science topic. Bohemian Gravity by acapellascience (Tim Blais) was posted on YouTube in September 2013 and already had over 2 million views by the end of November of that same year. Understandable...it is kinda brilliant.


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STANLEY FELDMAN
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'MONA LISA
Leonardo's Earlier Version'
into the labyrinth
new revelations
Stanley Feldman, artist, historian, researcher and author of the book 'Mona Lisa - Leonardo's Earlier Version' gestures during the unveil event of the 'Isleworth Mona Lisa' on September 27, 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland. The painting was presented as an earlier version of the Louvre 'Mona Lisa' painted by Leonardo da Vinci. The Zurich-based Mona Lisa Foundation presented what it described as a 'stunning portrait of Lisa del Giocondo', along with results from 35 years of research and scientific tests, which it claimed proved it was the work of da Vinci, and had been completed about 10 years before its famous sister in the Louvre. The book is a fully-illustrated, 300-page explanatory companion to the painting, and was also launched at the same presentation.
(Photo credit: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
© 2001, Stanley Feldman


I was watching the Paris Saint-Germain v Manchester City UEFA cup game and it reminded me of something I've always wondered. Why does a great city like Paris only have one large club? Well, that question sparked the idea for this post.
I've listed the many clubs in Europe that are based in Capital cities. In cases like Athens, Belgrade, Sofia, and Vienna, the capital city clubs win the title nearly every season. Then there are places like Ankara, Berlin, and Edinburgh where the title is hardly ever, or even never, won (I think Istanbul, Munich, and Glasgow might have something to do with that). Here is the list of capital clubs currently in their nation's highest division with their most recent title listed in parenthesis.
CS Otopeni is not from Bucuresti, but from... Otopeni.
There were a few cases of clubs that were so near the main city that I couldn't decide whether to include them or not. In the end I decided to include clubs that are in the Greater Capital region, even if they are not technically in the city of "blank".


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Harper government presses Obama to approve Keystone XL pipeline
Harper government presses Obama to approve Keystone XL pipeline | rabble.ca
Today, on this Presidents Day weekend, tens of thousands are set to converge on the White House in what organizers are promoting as "the largest climate rally in U.S. history." The protesters will be calling on Barack Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. For the first time in its 120 year history, the million member Sierra Club has endorsed civil disobedience actions on that day.
Alongside one of this country's biggest corporations, Stephen Harper's government has entangled Canada in one of the most controversial decisions of Obama's presidency. The Conservatives have lobbied vigorously in support of Calgary-based TransCanada's plan to build a $7 billion pipeline to take up to 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
The prime minister has pressed Obama to approve Keystone XL while his ministers have visited Washington to pursue the matter with the Secretary of State. During two visits to Washington in recent weeks foreign minister John Baird said Keystone XL was his main priority.
Canada's ambassador in Washington, Gary Doer, has also spent a large amount of his time pushing the pipeline, prompting TransCanada to send him a "thank you" note on August 30, 2011. "Gary," reads an email from the pipeline firm, "I just wanted to send a quick note to thank you and your team for all of the hard work and perseverance in helping get us this far, I know it has made a big difference."
The ambassador responded to critical media commentary and pressed state officials to support the pipeline. When Nebraska's Republican governor Dave Heineman initially came out against the project Doer visited him in Omaha. Similarly, the 28 members of Congress who urged the State Department to consider the "major environmental and health hazards" posed by Keystone XL received an immediate letter from Canada's ambassador and Alberta's minister of intergovernmental relations. "I believe it necessary to address several points in your letter," Doer wrote. The ambassador's letter trumpeted Canada's plan to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. "[This is] a benchmark we intend to meet," Doer wrote, even though planned tar sands expansion will make this objective impossible to reach.
Canada's 22 consular offices in the US have also been ordered to take up the cause. When the New York Times ran an editorial titled "Say No to the Keystone XL" Canada's consul general in New York wrote a letter supporting the project.
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Watch the haunting video for Jess Taylor's "Crooked Roots"
Jess Taylor recently dropped the video for her dark new song, "Crooked Roots," and it's definitely a video worth watching.
The song itself is rootsy, and more bluegrass than country some would say. Taylor's strong vocals evoke some similarities to some of Carrie Underwood's darker songs like "Two Black Cadillacs" and "Choctaw County Affair." But Taylor doesn't go as deadly with the theme as Underwood tends to, but rather she focuses on the family of a man who did her wrong. It's an interesting twist on a song calling out a man, rather than placing all the blame on him for his actions, Taylor hints that maybe some of his negative personality traits just run in the family. She sings, "Underneath the dirt, there lies the cold hard truth. That boy's got crooked roots." In some ways, this pierces more than a song attacking him would, as she's attacking him and his family. It's a cleverly written track, and the production of the song perfectly matches the dark story the lyrics portray.
The simple, black and white video is enormously effective in getting the message of the song across. Taylor's all-white costume links to the idea of purity and goodness, while the man in the video is dressed in all black, evoking a more sinister and evil personality. Simple decisions make a world of a difference, and in a simple video like this one, they matter even more.
The song is great, and the video is even better. Watch it below.


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Former French Minister Dumas: West Was Preparing Attack on Syria Before Crisis Started
Arabi Souri- July 2, 2013 - Britain- 5 Comments
The former and known French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas has revealed in new statements about Syria, the proxy war and conflict as well as the Western intentions in the Middle East and especially in Syria, that there really was and is a plot that was devised by several Western countries – primarily Britain and France – in order to overthrow and topple the Syrian government in the capital Damascus already before the conflict and crisis has started in Syria.
The former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said in an exclusive interview with a correspondent of the Syrian state news agency SANA in Paris, France, that he has been invited to a party where two people, one guy from France and one guy from Britain, have asked him if he would be interested to participate in the preparations of an attack on Syria in order to overthrow the Syrian government and President al-Assad.
According to the former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas, he refused this strange offer, but the following events prove that these people were serious about what they have asked at this party in Britain and that the plot was finally carried out later.
The former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas also voiced surprise over the French government's positions in this exclusive interview with SANA and said, for example, that the paths chosen by the governments of former President Nicolas Sarkozy and current President Francois Holland aren't the correct and honest paths that will lead to peace in Syria and everybody just can agree to the words of the former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas.
In terms of the Western plot against Syria, the former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said in this interview that in his opinion, the current international stance, which was formed around Syria, is just a part of the plot and the West policies in such issues are no policies of peace but rather policies of war and that he personally opposes war and supports the path that will lead to peace.
In terms of the so-called (external) Syrian opposition, former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said that this "opposition" is multifaceted, and that countries like the both Gulf States Qatar and Saudi Arabia are involved in the fighting taking place in Syria against the legitimate government in the capital Damascus. Of course, the former French Minister is correct when he says that "a peaceful solution is not achieved by letting people fight" and that the deliveries of weapons to Syria will not solve the crisis and conflict in this Arab nation.
The former French Minister Roland Dumas also pointed out in this interview with SANA in Paris, France, that the Syrian government and the army are reclaiming regions and areas, which gunmen have seized, and that this is a good sign for him. He also noted that the policy of France towards the conflict in Syria seems very strange and that the French government had been opposing the idea of another international conference on the topic Syria in Geneva (Geneva II.) – and this in a manner, which is contrary to the traditional political creed of France.
The former French Foreign Minister Dumas also said in this interview in Paris that the international laws are only good for achieving peace when its time comes, and that there's no hope of ending the crisis in Syria when not all parties and countries will participate in such an international conference, which will be held exactly for this purpose.
Foreign powers against the Syrian people. Proxy war in Syria.
Former French Minister Roland Dumas also pointed out that the allegations of the use of chemical weapons in Syria "are very dangerous" because they seem similar to the debates about Iraq some years ago, when Washington alleged that Iraq would have possessed chemical weapons but later.. as everybody knows, there were no chemical weapons found in entire Iraq.
About the double standards and hypocrisy of the French government in terms of Mali and Syria (France supports the terrorists and jihadists in Syria while it fights the same people in Mali), the former French Foreign Minister Dumas told the correspondent of SANA in Paris that France wants to arm the "opposition forces" but that it is very unknown what will happen to all these weapons and that nobody knows whether these arms will one day be turned against France.
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Guest Talks 2020
Upcoming Lectures
Previous Talks
Titus Winters - September 30
Shifting Left: Cost vs Fidelity and Emerging Truths
Abstract: DevOps practitioners regularly talk about "shifting left" - thinking about scalability, security, QA, Ops, etc, earlier in the software engineering process. Doing so allows issues to be addressed earlier, and leads to more stable software, lower costs, and a higher developer velocity. This talk will show that the shift-left mentality is perhaps more fundamental: "shifting-left" encapsulates a fundamental tradeoff between fidelity in defect finding and defect cost, both for defects that are found and those that slip through. Your process is most effective when you've shifted-left defect finding and product fitness practices in such a way to ensure that most releases are quick, easy, non-events. When viewed as a currency, this concept ties final product fitness with standard engineering workflow practices, and "shifting left" emerges as more than a buzzword - it's a fundamental recognition of a real truth in Software Engineering as a discipline.
Bio:Titus is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, where he has worked since 2010. At Google, he is the library lead for Google's C++ codebase: 250 million lines of code that will be edited by 12K distinct engineers in a month. He served several years as the chair of the subcommittee for the design of the C++ standard library. For the last 9 years, Titus and his teams have been organizing, maintaining, and evolving the foundational components of Google's C++ codebase using modern automation and tooling. Along the way he has started several Google projects that are believed to be in the top 10 largest refactorings in human history. That unique scale and perspective has informed all of his thinking on the care and feeding of software systems. His most recent project is the book "Software Engineering at Google" (aka "The Flamingo Book"), published by O'Reilly in early 2020.
Johannes Schöning - October 14
The Importance of HCI Perspectives for Next‐generation Spatial User Interfaces
Abstract: Catastrophic incidents associated with GPS devices and other personal navigation technologies are all too common: A tourist drives his rental car across a beach and directly into the Atlantic Ocean, a person in Belgium intending to drive to a nearby train station ends up in Croatia, a family traveling on a dirt road gets stranded for four days in the Australian outback. Often we blame those accidents on human error, but as HCI researchers, we have a deep understanding that humans make mistakes and it's our responsibility as HCI researchers to analyse the failures and improve the technological design to minimise the chances for human error.
In my talk, I give an overview of how we design, develop and evaluate the next generation of such spatial user interfaces with a lens of HCI. I will outline our approaches to help people navigate, perceive and interact with space from personal navigation technologies to climbing in virtual worlds. In my talk I will present the spectrum of our work bridging the fields human-computer interaction (HCI), geographic information science and ubiquitous interface technologies.
Bio: I am a Lichtenberg Professor and Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at the University of Bremen in Germany. In Bremen I am the co-director of the Bremen Spatial Cognition Center (BSCC) and co-chairman of the TZI (Technologie-Zentrum Informatik und Informationstechnik). Before I was a visiting lecturer at UCL, UK, helping to setup the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Cities and had a faculty position at Hasselt University, Belgium. In addition, I am a visiting professor at the Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal. Previously, I worked in Saarbrücken, where I was a senior consultant at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). During my time at DFKI, I received a PhD in computer science at Saarland University (2010), which was supported by the Deutsche Telekom Labs in Berlin. I obtained my Master's degree in Geoinformatics at the University of Münster at the Institute for Geoinformatics (2007). www.johannesschoening.de
Mark Billinghurst - October 21
Towards Empathic Computing: Next-Generation Collaborative Technologies
Abstract: In this presentation, I review next generation technologies for collaboration in a post-COVID world. People have been researching collaborative tools for many years, but the global pandemic forced large numbers of people to work from home for the first time. The experience of long term use of video conferencing and other collaborative tools soon highlighted the limitations of current technology. I review some of the lessons learned from this widespread use and discuss how new approaches to collaboration using AR and VR could overcome some of the limitations of desktop tools. In particular use of AR and VR can enable more natural ways to work together remotely, while new directions such as Empathic Computing can enable new ways to work together. As remote working becomes the new normal, there are opportunities and directions for future work which will also be discussed.
Bio: Professor Mark Billinghurst is the Director of the Empathic Computing Laboratory at the University of South Australia, and the University of Auckland. A pioneer in the fields of Augmented and Virtual Reality, Professor Billinghurst has been researching AR and VR for over 25 years, publishing more than 550 research papers on topics such as Collaborative AR and VR, Multimodal Interfaces, Mobile AR, and Empathic Computing. In 2013 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and in 2019 was given the ISMAR Career Impact Award in recognition for lifetime contribution to AR research and commercialization.
Saurabh Bagchi - October 28
Dependability: Meet Data Analytics
Abstract: We live in a data-driven world as everyone around has been telling us for some time. Everything is generating data, in volumes and at high rates, from the sensors embedded in our physical spaces to the large number of machines in data centers which are being monitored for a wide variety of metrics. The question that we pose is: Can all this data be used for improving the dependability of computing systems?
Dependability is the property that a computing system continues to provide its functionality despite the introduction of faults, either accidental faults (design defects, environmental effects, etc.) or maliciously introduced faults (security attacks, external or internal). We have been addressing the dependability challenge through large-scale data analytics applied end-to-end from the small (networked embedded systems, mobile and wearable devices) [e.g., NeurIPS-20, Sensys-20, UsenixSec-20, NDSS-20, DSN-19, UsenixSec-18, S&P-17] to the large (edge and cloud systems, distributed machine learning clusters) [e.g., DSN-20, UsenixATC-20, UsenixATC-19, ICS-19, TDSC-18]. In this talk, I will first give a high-level view of how data analytics has been brought to bear on dependability challenges, and key insights arising from work done by the technical community broadly. Then I will do a deep dive into the problem of configuring complex systems to meet dependability and performance requirements, using data-driven decisions. The first detailed item is in the small: how to perform analytics on streaming video close to the source of the data, such as on an embedded or mobile device, while providing performance guarantees. The second is in the large: how to reconfigure clustered NoSQL databases in the face of changing workloads while preserving availability.
Bio: Saurabh Bagchi is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He is the founding Director of a university-wide resiliency center at Purdue called CRISP (2017-present) and co-lead on the WHIN center for IoT testbeds for digital agriculture and advanced manufacturing. He is the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2018), an Adobe Research award (2017), the AT&T Labs VURI Award (2016), the Google Faculty Award (2015), and the IBM Faculty Award (2014). He serves on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors and is a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Saurabh's research interest is in distributed systems and dependable computing. He is proudest of the 21 PhD and about 50 Masters students who have graduated from his research group and who are in various stages of building wonderful careers in industry or academia. In his group, he and his students have far too much fun building and breaking real systems for the greater good. Saurabh received his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his BS degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, all in Computer Science.
Paul Groth - November 4
The Challenge of Constructive Data Search
Abstract: A central challenge in our modern information environment is how to find data and unify it from a multitude of diverse sources. The problem of data discovery remains a challenging activity in particular for researchers. I will present our work looking at how researchers go about searching and evaluating data. This is based on in-depth social science inquiry and a unique survey of over 1600 researchers. Based on these insights, I will outline the challenge of constructive data search - building datasets on the fly from multiple sources. Finally, I will discuss our work on the automatic construction of integrated data in the form of knowledge graphs.
Bio: Paul Groth is Professor of Algorithmic Data Science at the University of Amsterdam where he leads the Intelligent Data Engineering Lab (INDElab). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southampton (2007) and has done research at the University of Southern California, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Elsevier Labs. His research focuses on intelligent systems for dealing with large amounts of diverse contextualized knowledge with a particular focus on web and science applications. This includes research in data provenance, data integration and knowledge sharing. Previously, Paul led the design of a number of large scale data integration and knowledge graph construction efforts in the biomedical domain. Paul was co-chair of the W3C Provenance Working Group that created a standard for provenance interchange. He has also contributed to the emergence of community initiatives to build a better scholarly ecosystem including altmetrics and the FAIR data principles.Paul is co-author of "Provenance: an Introduction to PROV" and "The Semantic Web Primer: 3rd Edition" as well as numerous academic articles. He blogs at http://thinklinks.wordpress.com.
Susan Holmes - November 11
Zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/949837545
Using the Space of Phylogenetic trees: Computational and Mathematical solutions to Biological problems
Abstract: Phylogenetic trees are important in the study of the evolution of diseases: the human microbiome, HIV and Covid-19 being just a few examples. The mathematical construction of a space of all trees enables the computation of "average" trees in the sense of Frechet. This space has the property of being negatively curved (CAT0) and some of its mathematical properties have consequences for the algorithms we use for combining trees and data, my talk will provide an overview of how the mathematical results can help statistical inference on biological problems that use phylogenies and some pointers to results and open problems in the area.
Bio: Professor of Statistics, Stanford University. Trained in the French School of Data Analysis (Analyse des Données) in the 1980's, Professor Holmes is a Data Scientists specialized in exploring and visualizing complex biological data. She is interested in integrating the information provided by phylogenetic trees, community interaction graphs and metabolic networks with sequencing data and clinical covariates in biological contexts such as immune system and cancer, resilience and biomarker detection in the human microbiome and drug resistance in HIV. The methods she develops use computational statistics, nonparametric computer intensive methods such as the bootstrap and MCMC to draw inferences about many complex biological phenomena and are made available as open source projects in Bioconductor and R. She teaches many courses in Statistics and Bioinformatics to biologists and mathematicians and has written a book with Wolfgang Huber that is freely available online: at http://bios221.stanford.edu/book/ . More information: http://statweb.stanford.edu/~susan/
Henderik Proper - November 18
Domain Modelling - Understanding the things we talk about
Abstract: Whenever we study, or reflect about, complex phenomena such as buildings, information systems, business models, organisations, etc, we tend to use an abstraction of the actual phenomenon. Such abstractions enable us to focus on those properties of the phenomenon at hand, which matter in relation to some purpose we may have (e.g. to understand, to assess, or to change the phenomenon). Such abstractions, `stand model for' (with regards to the relevant properties) the actual phenomenon, and are therefore generally regarded as (domain) models.
In general, a domain model provides an explicit (i.e. human understandable) representation of the structure and semantics of selected aspects of some domain of interest. Depending on the application context, the domain models may e.g. take the form of data models, semantic models, system dynamics models, information models, enterprise models, domain ontologies, or knowledge graphs. Each time, these models are used to explicitly capture domain knowledge. In other words, domain models allow us to clarify and understand the things we talk, and reason about.
As such, domain models are used / useful in many more application contexts. For instance, in present day society, we can observe a clear increase in the role / use of knowledge-intensive computing technologies, including (explainable) AI, data science & modelling, and digital twins. The application, and operational use, of these technologies also requires relevant domain knowledge to be captured in terms of domain models (for example in terms of domain ontologies, or knowledge graphs).
In this webinar, I will discuss some of the general foundations of domain modelling, including (1) the notion of model itself, (2) what it means to create a model, as well as (3) the role of modelling languages. Based on this, I will then explore some of the key research challenges with regards to domain modelling (applicable across different application contexts), including human-model-interaction, collaborative modelling, optimising the return of modelling effort (RoME), and the tension between standardising modelling languages and the need for purpose specific languages.
Over the past years, my research and industrial work has allowed me to study the use of domain models in the context of enterprise engineering and architecting. During the webinar we will, therefore, also pay specific attention to the challenges in this application area for domain modelling.
Bio: Prof.dr. Henderik A. Proper, Erik to friends, is an FNR PEARL Laureate, and Head of Academic Affairs at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) in Luxembourg, and senior research manager within its IT for Innovative Services (ITIS) department. He also holds an adjunct chair in Computer Science at the University of Luxembourg.
Erik has a mixed background, covering a variety of roles in both academia and industry. His professional passion is the further development of the field of enterprise engineering, and enterprise modelling in particular. His long experience in teaching and coaching a wide variety of people enables him to involve and engage others in this development. He has co-authored several journal papers, conference publications and books. His main research interests include enterprise engineering and enterprise modelling, which includes enterprise architecture, systems theory, business/IT alignment and conceptual modelling
Erik received his Master's degree from the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands in May 1990, and received his PhD (with distinction) from the same University in April 1994. In his Doctoral thesis he developed a theory for conceptual modelling of evolving application domains, yielding a formal specification of evolving information systems.
After receiving his PhD, Erik became a senior research fellow at the Computer Science Department of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. During that period he also conducted research in the Asymetrix Research Lab at that University for Asymetrix Corp, Seattle, Washington. In 1995 he became a lecturer at the School of Information Systems from the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. During this period he was also seconded as a senior researcher to the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC), a Cooperative Research Centres funded by the Australian government.
From 1997 to 2001, Erik worked in industry. First as a consultant at Origin, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and later as a research consultant and principal scientist at the Ordina Institute for Research and Innovation, Gouda, The Netherlands.
In June 2001, Erik returned to academia, where he became an adjunct Professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In September 2002, Erik obtained a full-time Professorship position at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
In January of 2008, he went back to combining industry and academia, by combining his Professorship with consulting and innovation at Capgemini, with the aim of more tightly combining his theoretical and practical work. Finally, in May 2010 Erik moved to the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology as a PEARL chair, while also continuing his chair at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. As of June 2017, Erik holds an adjunct chair at the University of Luxembourg.
Cathy Mulligan - November 25 - CANCELLED
Blockchain and Europe's Common, Decentralised Future
Abstract: Since the dawn of the computing era, we have experienced fluctuations between centralised and decentralised computation - firstly with mainframes, then with PCs through to cloud computing and finally to smart phones and IoT devices. For the vast majority of computing's life, computational capacity has been located within the realms of the corporate sphere – hidden behind large capital investments and firewalls. As of 2004, however, two separate but deeply intertwined things occurred – firstly, the world saw the emergence of true Open APIs – APIs that permitted anyone with an internet connection to access data (e.g. on Facebook, or Twitter) and secondly, the same amount of computing power that took mankind to the moon was placed into the hands of end-users, not just companies. The end result of those two things was blockchain – a new form of decentralisation that challenges not just our notions of centralised / decentralised computing – but the very foundations of our economy itself. Whole new forms of business models are enabled by Blockchain – from decentralised data marketplaces to decentralised food production. Indeed, as the next wave of decentralisation descends upon us – in the form of AI on the Edge and AI on the device, blockchain will play a critical role in the emergence of a new European economy – a truly digital economy. More importantly, blockchain can help us build a European economy that is environmentally, economically and socially sustainable. This talk will outline the interdisciplinary path that Europe needs to follow in order to achieve this as our world comes to terms with its past and faces its uncertain future – together but decentralised.
Bio: Dr Cathy Mulligan has over 25 years' experience in technology across both industry & academia; she is an Honorary Researcher at UCL, visiting researcher at Imperial College & VP/Region CTO for North & West Europe at Fujitsu. Prior to joining Fujitsu, she was Co-Director of the Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering at Imperial College, where she helped develop over 45 proofs of concept around Blockchain. Cathy was an advisor to several governmental reports including for the UK's Chief Scientific Advisor report on blockchain for government. Within her work at UCL, Cathy leads the work around "DataNet" - a blockchain-based infrastructure designed to rebalance and redistribute the geo-political balance of technology across the world. She has a strong interest & track record in using research to influence policy in different arenas, including high-level policy discussions at various levels across governments, NGOs, UN, OECD & EU around various digital technologies including 5G, blockchain & IoT. She is the author of 7 technology books (academic press). She is a member of the World Economic Forum's Data Policy Global Future Council and was a founding member of the World Economic Forum's Blockchain Council. Cathy has a strong commitment to sustainability and equitable access to technology, evidenced by her being a panel member of the UNSG's High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. She received her Masters and PhD from the University of Cambridge and her BSc (Hons 1) from UNSW, Australia.


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WHAT 'S ON THE NEWS?
By Kimberly Denney
SPECIAL TO THE SUN-SENTINEL
The sound of steel drums wafted outside the auditorium of Plantation's Volunteer Park, where children were playing and laughing.
"If you close your eyes, it almost feels like you could be on a beach in the Caribbean, "said Julie Katz of Pompano Beach. That mood set the stage for last month's"Caribbean Night 2001," sponsored by the Caribbean american National
Foundation of Florida.
Cleopatra Mills, who brought her family with her from Pembroke Pines, enjoyed the entertainment. "I heard about the event through a friend, and wanted to support the cause, " she said.
The foundation focuses on cultural learning forums and civic awareness, specifically Caribbean issues, as well as teen pregnancy prevention, drug and alcohol abuse counseling and AIDS awareness.
And it was a true community effort. Tanya Ragbeer of Southwest Ranches works for Bank United, one of the event's sponsors. She knew her co-worker Eddy Martinez of Lauderhill, was part of a duo called A Touch of Steel, and asked him to play the steel drums for the event. Eddy said he was more than happy to lend his talents, as well as those of partner Vern Julian, of Coral Springs.
While the steel drums played, people sat around the many tables socializing with each other while children practiced dance routines. After a Caribbean-style dinner of jerk chicken, rice and peas, cabbage vegetable and festival - a type of fritter/dumpling - it was time for more entertainment. young Jamaicans took the stage, singing, dancing and performing acrobatics to the cheers of the audience.
Britney Miller, 10, Jasmine Joan, 5, and Kay-Ann Hermitt, 10, all friends from Fort Lauderdale, couldn't wait to get onstage. "We perform around once a week, " Britney said. "It's fun because sometimes you get to make up your own moves."
The Jerk Machine, a Caribbean restaurant with locations throughout Broward and Miami-Dade counties, including Sunrise and Fort Lauderdale, donated almost all the food.
"This is a nonprofit organization, and we like what they're trying to do," said area manager and catering coordinator Deanna Allen. "We like to give back to the community, and when we do, it's usually in the form of food."
Ragbeer was there because she wanted to expose her three children, Tatiana, 13, Natassjia, 5, and Katrina, 2, to Caribbean culture.
"I come from Jamaica, and I want my kids to see what type of community is all about, from the dancing to the music to the sense of family," she said. "I have support the foundation because of what they are trying to do for children."
That was also the attraction for Plantation City Councilwoman Diane Veltri Bendekovic.
"I'm an ex-ar-risk teacher, and I've seen firsthand the adjustment problems kids have when their families have moved from another country," Veltri Bendekovic said. "I know how this club fosters children. It's too bad every ethnic group doesn't do this."
Eric Myers of Davie, attorney for the Caribbean American National Foundation, lent a hand at the door: "What they're doing for the kids, that's why I got involved," Myers said. "What's good is they've got kids from the Caribbean community being mentored by adults from the same community."
Jimmy Gordon, president of the foundation, said the night was a success, with more 300 people in attendance. He was especially happy to be approached by a few professionals who wanted to become mentors.
"Next year we want to expand on a large scale outdoors with bands, booth, food and more cultural organizations represented," Gordon said. "We've done banquet dinners and gospel concerts in the past, but this was our first festival. We just want to keep growing and getting the word out." .
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HMRC has had an initiative in place to make tax digital for a while now, but the latest plans have been criticised by the business industry. The department plans to change annual company tax returns to quarterly, a move which business groups say will place strain on administrative processes for small companies. The criticism comes days after HMRC gave digital tax accounts to every individual and small business owner within the UK.
A group who advises HMRC on how it can assist small businesses, the Administrative Burdens Advisory Board, were among those raising concerns about the new system- including the quarterly tax updates. In the group's annual report, they said that they were supportive of the digital transition, but were disappointed with the plans to mandate digital record keeping alongside quarterly tax reports. They added that small companies make up approximately 99.3% of private sector businesses, and it is these businesses who will struggle the most with digital records as they may create more of a burden than the current record keeping processes.
The Federation of Small Businesses also spoke on the subject, stating that they believed the move will force owners of small businesses to pay for expensive accounting tools in order to keep up. The spokesperson said that forcing firms to pay for expensive software won't help anyone, but instead make the cost of doing business in the UK more expensive.
It isn't the first time that HMRC has been criticised for its digital tax plans. Back in January, the agency was forced to deny that it would force small businesses to submit quarterly tax returns following an online petition. The financial secretary to the Treasury also responded to the petition, repeating that the plans won't mean four tax returns a year. Then, in March, the chairman of the Treasury committee said that he finds it hard to see how digital tax accounts will reduce admin costs for businesses by £400m.
A spokesperson for HMRC said that the agency is focused on creating a tax system which is 'more effective, more efficient'. The spokesperson added that '99% of businesses' already file their corporation tax online, alongside 98% of VAT returns. Lastly, the spokesperson stressed that new digital accounts were not being introduced until 2018 and all they will do is put different information into one simple system.
For more information about the digital tax transformation, call the Tax Return helpline.


This quote struck a nerve with me as this ultra competitive world is wrought full of knowledge and information hoarders. This behavior is especially prevalent in the business world, inside of companies where one or very few people grasp onto information so tightly that they metaphorically could be choking it, afraid that someone will rise from the ashes and use this knowledge or skill to depose them. It's really not that serious, as no one benefits from this seemingly safeguarded knowledge, not the team, not the organization and not even the want to be gatekeeper. I believe being in this state of hoarding keeps you stagnant, and without room to grow or to improve upon the skill you're so fervently trying to conceal from the prying eyes of others.
On the other hand, you could be the opposite of a hoarder, an enabler of sorts. Teach the next person what you know and the next one after that. Teaching happens to be one of the best ways to learn. By imparting what you know, you step everyone's game up and you get things flowing, you engage in dialogues and you gain perspective that you otherwise wouldn't have.
This quote is originally from Annie Dillard's book The Writing Life. We found it on Austin Kleon's book Show Your Work!
This entry was posted on March 21, 2016 by leon in Business, Education, Environment, Learning, Life Lessons, Mental Floss, Productivity, Quotes and tagged annie dillard, austin kleon, quotes, sharing, Show your work, teaching, teamwork, The writing life.


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3. 52 Andrea Gulliksen Bj�rndal 00:02:44.2 00:00:34.9 J 9 .
4. 79 Sondre Maximilian Kinserdal 00:02:45.0 00:00:35.7 G 7 .
5. 92 Lana Tormodsgard Dokken 00:03:13.7 00:01:04.4 J 9 .
6. 62 Johann Fj�slid- Johansen 00:03:14.1 00:01:04.8 G 9 .
7. 42 Anne Lindteigen Hegna 00:03:22.4 00:01:13.1 J 13 .
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Diversity matters at Loras College because we are an inclusive community of people from many backgrounds and experiences
Loras College Diversity Statement
Our commitment to the Catholic intellectual tradition! Loras College is a Catholic, diocesan college explicitly oriented to promote service of both church and world through encouraging all members of the community in development of their "diverse professional, social and religious roles." The college strives to be a community demonstrating the highest standards of the Catholic intellectual tradition and welcoming all people into a dialogue to promote core values of truth, respect, responsibility, excellence and service. Learn more
Commitment to providing and promoting interfaith opportunities and dialogue for students, faculty and staff. As part of Loras' identity as a Catholic institution, the Second Vatican Council's Nostra Aetate declares, "The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in [other] religions. She regards with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men" . Loras and its students have been nationally recognized for their commitment to interfaith community service. learn more
Religious Diversity and Inclusion
Religious diversity at Loras is represented by students of diverse faiths including Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Mormon, and many other Christian denominations. Loras embraces Catholic Social Teachings and our Catholic Identity Statement that include celebrating the spirituality of all people, seeking an understanding and acceptance of those around us, so that we may better understand our ability to contribute positively to the world, together.
Some course offerings encourage an analysis of faith and religion through the comparison of Catholic, Christian and other faith traditions, and our faculty and staff have taken leadership roles in several groups designed specifically to garner a better understanding of faiths other than Catholicism.
In its fourth year, the Children of Abraham program, is a series of conversations between Jews, Muslims, and Christians, all open to the public. Each conversation is focused on a specific topic, ranging from various prophets (Abraham, Moses) to the understanding of God to dimensions of experience (conversion, suffering) to social concepts and behaviors (peace, discrimination). Following the gospel principle of "love your neighbor as yourself," and oriented toward peace-building through nurturing relationships between people, the Children of Abraham program emphasizes listening and learning and does not involve debate or any attempt at persuasion. The result has been the formation of cross-cultural friendships and inter-religious respect and understanding.
For the past three years, Loras has invited the imam at the Tri-State Islamic Center to come to campus to lead a discussion of the Qur'an for anyone, from campus or the Dubuque community, who wishes to participate. The sessions involve hearing the text translated (also with written translations on hand) and then explained from Muslim perspective, followed by questions and discussion. The purpose of the sessions is to expose participants to a different perspective that provides depth of understanding through repeated experience and sympathy through personal experience.
DuTalk©: Dialogue, Difference, Democracy
DuTalk© was begun in 2009 in response to requests from faculty, staff and students for more opportunities to learn skills in valuing inclusion. Loras College defines inclusion broadly, beyond protected classes, as all forms of difference. We believe that respectful, civil discourse is the best way to put our expressed value for diversity into practice. DuTalk Ground Rules & Guidelines (pdf)
Loras College Intercultural Programs support a multicultural understanding that weaves the Loras College commitment to diversity into the educational, spiritual, academic, cultural, and social fabric of the campus. We provide leadership in education that celebrates individual differences of people within the Loras and Dubuque community by providing support for the tapestry of ideas and experience to which each person contributes to its overall environment. In facilitation of such endeavors, we especially encourage students of minority and international backgrounds to participate in its support effort focused on mentoring and leadership development to strengthen their overall educational experience.
We also administer and support a variety of programs, as well as interpersonal activities that facilitate the adjustment of the multicultural and international students to the college.
At Loras, over 500 student-athletes not only represent a diverse group of students, but immerse themselves in groups, situations and organizations, through athletics and beyond, that support diversity and inclusion. Our student-athletes come from 17 states and 8 different countries.


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English is the language of instruction and communication at BISL.
Progress in English is assessed and tracked each year and students are prepared for IGCSE and A Level examinations, which are in English.
All students in Year 11 sit for IGCSE examinations in English as a first language and English literature. For those students whose level of English is not sufficient for success in IGCSE English as a first language, they will be entered for IGCSE English as a second language.
English as an Additional Language (EAL) support
Being an international school with students arriving from all over the world, non-native students may be advised to take part in our English as an Additional Language (EAL) programme to boost their English language development, supporting them in gaining full access to the curriculum. Our EAL programme operates across all Key Stages and at different levels to cater for a student's individual needs and requirements.
All students at BISL take Slovene lessons. There are two sets in each year group: Advanced and Foundation.
The curriculum for the Advanced set, for fluent or native speakers of Slovene, is approved by the Slovenian Institute for Education and covers topics and texts broadly in line with Slovenia's state education system.
The Foundation set learn Slovene as an additional language, from beginner to intermediate level.
French and other foreign languages
French is offered from Year 3 upwards at BISL. All students in Key Stage 4 (Years 10 & 11) and Sixth Form (Years 12 & 13) are offered French as a language option at IGCSE and A Level.
Native speakers of other languages may be entered for IGCSE or A-Level examinations in those languages, but students will be required to cover the syllabus for these individual languages independently or through the use of a private tutor. Teaching provision for these individual languages is not covered within our usual curriculum timetable.
We aim for our students to develop into healthy, confident and independent individuals who understand their rights and responsibilities as members of a wide and diverse society. Whilst this is reinforced within the academic curriculum, much of it is covered as part of the school's personal, social and health education (PSHE) programme.
As an integral part of the Early Years framework, PSHE is delivered through topics, group activities, visits, and free-play. The children are encouraged to develop skills and confidence to act independently and within a group setting. They wash their hands and brush their teeth at appropriate times of the day, change their footwear and clothing independently, arrange their snack bags and water bottles and are encouraged to use tools, such as cutlery, scissors or pens, correctly.
In Primary school, PSHE topics are addressed in class circle-times, as well as through lessons and topics, activities, assemblies, trips and visits, and through community work around the school. All students are encouraged to play a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community through involvement in caring for the community (C4C) activities, fundraising events, the Student Council, and taking part in various community events outside of school.
In addition to discussions and presentations in form time and assemblies, Secondary students have citizenship sessions each week, covering current affairs and ethics, providing a forum for discussion and debate on current issues of major international and national significance, encouraging students to be aware of the issues in the world around them and to formulate their own opinions.
Students in the examination years from Year 10 through 13, are given additional support in studying effectively and independently through our study skills programme. These enable them to further develop their organisational skills, effective revision and exam techniques, cope with assessments in general and enhance their academic writing skills.
Sixth Form students also have time for private study. This self-directed time enables them to undertake research, prepare for upcoming classes or complete assignments. Developing successful study habits builds an important bridge between school and university, in terms of social as well as academic development.
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Students are encouraged to be proactive in the process of planning their future education and career paths and to base their decisions on a holistic consideration of their abilities, career aspirations and specific university requirements.
The Head of Sixth Form leads our guidance services for students in Years 12 and 13, where weekly sessions and one-to-one counselling include careers advice and course guidance, as well as developing skills such as writing university applications, CVs and interview techniques. When possible, our students also participate in university and career fairs.
BISL graduates have successfully joined excellent universities and higher education institutions around Europe, including the UK and Slovenia, the United States, the Middle East and South-East Asia.
SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP
We offer and encourage students to take on a variety of leadership roles within our school community, from 'Helpers of the Day' in Early Years to Sixth Form volunteers helping plan and run adventure trips. Many become members of the Student Council and/or take part in community service activities within or outside school.
Our older students are encouraged to participate in the International Award for Young People - known in Slovenia as MEPI and the Duke of Edinburgh's Award in the UK.
The Student Council is a team of elected class representatives from the student body, who work in partnership with teachers and parents to carry out activities for the benefit of our whole school community. The Council presents students' views to appropriate members of the school community, such as the School Management Team or the PTA, and give regular feedback to the student body on progress towards specific actions and goals.
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C4C activities include both Primary and Secondary students and focus on building a supportive school community based on caring relationships and positive links between school, students, parents, teachers and the wider community. C4C promotes a positive social, emotional and academic environment where students take responsibility for their own learning and behaviour, develop self-motivation and caring for the wider community, and learn the values of caring and respecting each other. C4C charity and social events are organized throughout the year, in which the whole school community is able to participate.
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