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India, January 09, 2023: Turtlefin, India's leading Insurtech platform announced its partnership with Compass Insurance Brokers LLC, one of the biggest financial solution providers in the UAE, to create a unified and seamless platform to enhance their distribution capabilities in UAE markets. Through this partnership, Turtlefin will enable Compass's distribution teams to access the required information seamlessly and customize proposals for clients.
Turtlefin will provide access to its extensive, technology-driven solutions to become more efficient and provide cost-effective solutions. This will help in reducing proposal creation time by more than 50% and increase the sales efficiency by 30% along with better customer experience.
Turtlefin will enable Compass's vast distribution network to access all retail insurance products on its platform. Additionally, Turtlefin is also looking at providing its capability of digital prospecting and E-skilling with a vision to support and empower its network of advisors. This will strengthen the engagement of Compass Advisors with their customers and empower them with necessary tools to cater to their customer's insurance needs.
Speaking on the occasion, Amreesh Kher, Chief Partnership Distribution Officer, Turtlefin said, "This partnership exemplifies our belief in the opportunities in the Middle East markets with an aim to bring about transformation in the insurance distribution ecosystem. With our commitment to improve the distribution network and the insurance ecosystem, we are confident that our capabilities and interesting growth trajectory will further enable a future that will be beneficial for the entire community"
On the partnership, Mr Navin Nihalani, CEO of Compass Insurance Brokers LLC, said, "We at Compass always believe in a tech first approach going along the UAE vision of creating paperless digital environment. With the right combination of expertise from Turtlefin and our existing module, we want to strengthen our position as the pioneers of a common API framework in the UAE. We look forward to working with Turtlefin to take advantage of the opportunities our new strategic partnership will offer."
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Q: Why does the intercept parameter increases in an unexpected direction? I'm doing 2 gradient descent iterations (initial condition: learning_rate = 0.1, and [w0,w1] = [0,0]) to find the 2 parameters (y_hat = w0 + w1*x) for linear model that fits a simple dataset, x=[0,1,2,3,4] and y=[0,2,3,8,17]. By using the closed form formula, I found that w0 = -2 and w1 = 4. For the first 2 iterations of the gradient descent, I found that w0 = 0.6, w0 = 0.74. However, I thought that, if no overshooting occurs in the gradient descent, I should expect w0 to decrease for every single iteration given the initial condition of gradient descent and the answer I got from closed form solution. Why would this occur if the error function is a convex function?

A: you actually misinterpret gradient descent. Gradient descent doesn't say that on every iteration all the weights will move towards their respective optimal values but instead what it is all about is that you always move towards the minimum cost if accurate hyperparameters are supplied. In your case where you initialize the weights with [0,0] there exists no value of alpha which will deny the mentioned effect because when w0 goes from 0.6 to 0.74(consider this a vector) and w1 moves from 2 to 2.68(consider this another vector) then the resultant vector is such that it moves down the hill with the steepest descent and this is what GD accounts for, that is a collective direction of weights moving down the hill of cost function.
And you can verify this by plotting the cost graph and also after the second iteration the b value do move towards -2 because after the second iteration in that direction w0 is steepest.
the below graph is the value of w0 at different iteration, x_axis=w0 and y_axis=iteration_no

Now we can clearly see the little upward notch at the beginning which is mentioned by you as well.
below is the graph of cost at different iterations

And this cost curve you can clearly see that the cost is decreasing at every single iteration, i.e., we are continuously moving down the hill in the steepest direction and this is what gradient descent, this is what the actual job of GD. And Yes we may get such behaviors where our weights move opposite to their required value during learning of our model but because we are moving down the hill we always converge to the minimum and the correct values of our weights.
Now if it still annoys you then the only way to solve this is change your initial values of weights because tuning learning_Rate won't solve this with the [0,0] Initialization.
So initialize with [-0.1,3.1] with the same learning_rate

As now you can clearly see that there are no such upward notch at the beginning because now the cost values decrease in the direction where the weights also move in the direction of their optimum values i.e., [-2,4]

now you can also see that the cost and w0 approach to the required values in fewer iterations as before, this is because now we initialized very close to the required values.
And there are many more such initializations which give you this result.
Conclusion - GD always move in the steepest path down the hill
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Pioneering research led by the University of Tasmania, that could change the way we view Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, has taken out one of the nation's top science prizes.
The team of researchers has won the Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Research.
The winners of the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, referred to as the Oscars of Australian science, were announced at a gala dinner in Sydney on Wednesday night.
Headed by Distinguished Professor Ross Large, the team of scientists analysed pyrite, or fool's gold, in drill cores, which are sections of rock drilled from deep below the ocean floor.
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So far the international team has analysed around 300 drill cores from across the world, with some of the samples dating back 700 million years.
"(An) interval that is only a few metres deep, actually represents tens of thousands, up to a million years, of sedimentation," Professor Large told 7.30.
"So that's what makes these cores so valuable, is that they allow us to go back through time."
Pyrite in a core sample collected from the ocean bed.
The pyrite in the rock stores trace elements, like selenium, which allowed the team to map the changes in the ocean's chemistry over time.
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"It was a eureka moment, more than a light bulb moment. It sent shivers down my spine, because I thought this is so radical many of my colleagues aren't going to believe it."
He joined the research team and began focusing on the extinctions — finding that three of the Earth's five mass extinctions correlate with a fall in selenium.
"All mass extinctions have a bit of controversy around them, but these three in particular were not linked to a major impact event like the dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago," he said.
"These three mass extinction events are put down to things like global anoxia — a lack of oxygen in the oceans causing extinctions, or cooling events, like ice age events.
"But none of these events or causes in themselves are total explanations for the widespread extinctions both in the oceans and on land in some instances.
"So our explanation of the trace element depauperation (poor development) in the oceans is a very good example of something that covers all the bases and actually gives a better explanation for some of these events."
A twist on Darwin's theory: Did man evolve from the mountains?
University of Tasmania geologist, Prof. Ross Large.
The team has made another crucial discovery that links to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection.
The research has provided strong evidence that it is the movement of tectonic plates which releases trace elements, like selenium, into the ocean.
"So we've added a new dimension where you might say that really it's plate tectonics which controls evolution. Because, indirectly, plate tectonics controls the chemistry of the ocean, and the chemistry of the ocean has a big control on evolutionary pathways," Professor Large explained.
"That's why I often say to people basically man came from the mountains. It's mountain building, and the erosion of all those nutrients into the ocean, that controlled man's evolution."
But Professor Large says Darwin's theory still stands.
"(It's) one of the most important breakthroughs in biology and set evolution on the right path, we're just adding a little background to it, we're taking it back into a geological context.
"I mean, he wasn't aware of plate tectonics back in his time. But I'm sure if he had have been aware of it, he would have joined the dots."
Core samples collected by Professor Ross Large and his team.
The conventional method for testing drill core samples involves crushing the rock sample and then analysing it.
The team from the University of Tasmania has used a different method. They are using a laser at their world class laboratory to analyse just the pyrite in the rock.
"We've been criticised for not using the conventional path, using quite a different path," Professor Large said.
"But I think with the amount of publications we've got out now that have been accepted, and the amount of lectures and talks we've given at international conferences, that people are coming on board and realising how significant this research is and that you can't come up with the results without the technology we're using.
"The conventional approach will just not achieve what we've been able to achieve."


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Q: Android: Changing image contrast and brightness upon scrolling seekbar I would like to set the contrast and brightness of a imageview. Referring from How to programmatically change contrast of a bitmap in android?, which should be the most fastest and efficient way of doing so, I have implemented the code as follows:
Code:
final SeekBar SeekBar_contrast = (SeekBar) dialog_preview.findViewById(R.id.SeekBar_contrast);
        final SeekBar SeekBar_brightness = (SeekBar) dialog_preview.findViewById(R.id.SeekBar_brightness);
        SeekBar_contrast.setMax(10);
        SeekBar_brightness.setMax(510);
        SeekBar_contrast.setProgress((1));
        SeekBar_brightness.setProgress((255));
        SeekBar_contrast.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(new SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener()
        {
             @Override
             public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress, boolean fromUser)
             {
                    new_bm = changeBitmapContrastBrightness(bimap, (float)(progress-1),(float)(SeekBar_brightness.getProgress()-255));
                    cropImageView.setImageBitmap(new_bm);
             }

             @Override
             public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar)
             {
             }

             @Override
             public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar)
             {
             }
        });
        SeekBar_brightness.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(new SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener()
        {
             @Override
             public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress, boolean fromUser)
             {
                    new_bm = changeBitmapContrastBrightness(bimap, (float)(SeekBar_contrast.getProgress()-1), (float)(progress-255));
                    cropImageView.setImageBitmap(new_bm);
             }

             @Override
             public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar)
             {
             }

             @Override
             public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar)
             {

             }
        });

Method:
public static Bitmap changeBitmapContrastBrightness(Bitmap bmp, float contrast, float brightness)
{
    ColorMatrix cm = new ColorMatrix(new float[]
            {
                contrast, 0, 0, 0, brightness,
                0, contrast, 0, 0, brightness,
                0, 0, contrast, 0, brightness,
                0, 0, 0, 1, 0
            });

    Bitmap ret = Bitmap.createBitmap(bmp.getWidth(), bmp.getHeight(), bmp.getConfig());

    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(ret);

    Paint paint = new Paint();
    paint.setColorFilter(new ColorMatrixColorFilter(cm));
    canvas.drawBitmap(bmp, 0, 0, paint);

    return ret;
}

The param are as follows:
 @param bmp input bitmap
 * @param contrast 0..10 1 is default
 * @param brightness -255..255 0 is default
 * @return new bitmap

Question:
While the brightness default value is 0, which is the middle of the range and hence scrolling the brightness seekbar it is working perfectly, I would like to ask how to set for the seekbar max value and progress changes for the contrast, as the default value is 1, which is not the middle of the range.
Upon the scrolling of the seekbar_contrast, the code above would make the image showing "negative-color" at progress =0, while scrolling to right (bigger value of the seekbar) it produces a white image.

A: First of all, in onProgressChanged listener of contrast seekbar you have to do -255 for value of brightness of seekbark.
In order to make default value of contrast be placed in middle go ahead with following code:
    SeekBar_contrast.setMax(10);
    SeekBar_contrast.setProgress((5));
         @Override
         public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress, boolean fromUser) {
                if (progress <= 5) {
                    progress = 1 - progress / 5;
                } else {
                    progress = 1 + (progress / 10) * 9
                }
                new_bm = changeBitmapContrastBrightness(bimap, (float)(progress-1),(float)SeekBar_brightness.getProgress() - 255);
                cropImageView.setImageBitmap(new_bm);
         }

If you want to do increasing of contrast smoother - try to use any non linear function.


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USDA Issues Changes to School Nutrition Rules
The USDA recently released a final rule for its proposed changes to school meal standards. The final rule ushers in broader flexibilities in the whole wheat, sodium, and milk standards than previously suggested. Under the final rule, to be published later this month, the whole grain requirement will be lowered from 100 percent whole wheat to 50 percent whole wheat. Many districts have been eligible for an annual waiver from the 100 percent requirement, but under this rule, all districts will only be held to the 50 percent requirement. AASA had been suggesting this change, in that many districts have had difficulty finding culturally appropriate whole grain foods that students enjoyed.
The rule also holds steady the sodium limit, postponing the planned decreased allowance for four years and cancelling the final planned decrease. Phase II of the sodium restrictions will now take effect in the 2024-25 school year and will be the final stage. AASA had been suggesting this change as the current limits are already quite stringent and nutritionists disagreed on the need for further reductions.
The rule also allows schools to sell and to serve one percent flavored milk in addition to the nonfat milk currently allowed. This change will make it easier to buy, sell, and serve milk that is familiar to students.
Find AASA's statement here.
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A short 5.5 miles southwest of South Portland lay the graceful marshlands and stunning seashores of Scarborough.
Enjoy miles of sandy beaches while taking care not to disturb the nesting areas of the endangered Piping Plover. Dogs are welcome at most beaches, but be sure to plan ahead and review the rules here.
"Make a date with nature" at the largest tidal marsh in Maine. Encompassing over 3,000 acres, the marsh is a haven for a variety of wildlife, flora and fauna. For a unique outdoor experience, pick up a handy guidebook and rent a canoe or kayak at the Scarborough Marsh Nature Center on Pine Point Road and travel the quiet waterways of the marsh. The Nature Center offers visitors a chance to explore this fascinating ecosystem by land or water, with both guided and self-guided tours.
Travel along the dramatic peninsula of Prout's Neck to view homes designed by famed architect John Calvin Stevens. Take time to view the stunning seascapes, from the waves lapping the sandy beach to spraying along the rocky cliffs. Perhaps it will inspire you to create great works of art – as it did painter Winslow Homer.
Scarborough also offers lots of shopping, a variety of dining and lodging options along with scenic golf courses.
Scarborough was incorporated in the middle 1600's. The Scarborough Historical Society obtained a copy from the archives in Boston of the "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, Vol. IV – Part 1 1650 – 1660." A number of our early settlers "engaged themselves to this authority of the Massachusetts, at the date hereof, July 13, 1658. Whereas the tounes of Black Point, Blew Point, Spurwincke, and Casco Bay (Spurwincke and Casco Bay became the town of "Falmouth" in this order) have acknowledged themselves subject to the government of the Massachusetts, as by the subscriptions under theire hands doth appeare, wee, the commissioners of the Generall Court of the Massachusetts, doe actually graunt as followeth." The order continued to established both the towns of Scarborough and Falmouth (now Cape Elizabeth) and was signed and sealed by the commissioners of the "Generall Court" on "July the 14, 1658." This is the excerpt from the order on the Incorporation of the Town of Scarborough:
"That those places that were formerly called Blacke Pojnt, Blew Point, Stratton's Islands, thereto adjacent, shall henceforth be called by ye name of Scarborough, the bounds of which toune on the westerne side begineth where the toune of Saco endeth, & so doth runne along on the westerne side of the River of Spurwinke, eight miles back into the country."
The settlement of Scarborough was one of the earliest made on the New England coast. John Jocelyn, writer, botanist and English nobleman, came to Scarborough in 1663 to visit his brother Henry Jocelyn, who had settled on Prout's Neck. His visit lasted eight years. His writings offer the best history of that time. He wrote that the province of Maine had plenty of magistrates, husbandmen and planters, but very few skilled craftsmen.
In the early 1600's, John Stratton had his trading post upon the island off Scarborough's shore, which still bears his name. This island also saw many of the other first settlers. In the 1630's, the first settlement of Black Point was the 1500-acre Cammock's land grant; by 1650 there were 50 homes. This grant is now known as Prout's Neck.
The country between the Saco and the Spurwink rivers was originally called Black Point. Just when the narrow tongue of land now known as Pine Point was first called Blue Point and/or Pine Point is uncertain, but it is said that the spruce trees covering the eastern shore of the Nonesuch River appeared black to ships, and the hardwood on the western shores of the Nonesuch and Dunstan Rivers appeared blue. In 1636, Richard Foxwell built his homestead a little south of where Mill Creek (Foxwell's Brook) saunters into Dunstan River. Henry Watts built nearby the same year. This began the second settlement.
The third principal settlement of the old Scarborough was Dunstan in 1651. Andrew and Arthur Alger purchased more than one thousand acres from Uphannum, daughter of Wackwarreska, Sagamore of Owascoag County. Owascoag was the Indian name for Scarborough, meaning "place of much grass."
The town incorporated in 1658 and was named for Scarborough, England. It included those lands formerly called Black Point, Blue Point, and Stratton's Island and extended back eight miles from the sea. These boundaries have changed almost every century.
By October, 1676 Scarborough, a town with three settlements of more than 100 houses and 1,000 head of cattle, had been destroyed -- some of its people killed and others taken captive by Native Americans. These settlers tried repeatedly to rebuild but peace was impossible. In 1690, the town was abandoned due to Native American uprisings, with inhabitants going to Portsmouth and other settlements further south.
The second settlement of Scarborough is regarded as dating to 1702. A fort was erected on the western shore of Garrison Cove, Prout's Neck. Other stockades were at Spurwink and Blue Point. The Hunnewell House was known as the "outpost for the defense of Black Point." Richard Hunnewell, and eighteen other men were killed in 1703 at Massacre Pond. This incident took place after peace negotiations had been made.
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Are you worried that your home will be on the market for a long time? Do you think that itll struggle to sell, or do you want to make sure that it sells quickly? Here are a few things you can do to make sure it goes in a sensible amount of time. Use these tips to help you!
Take some time to put serious thought into areasonable asking price for your home. Keepin mind that people will haggle, so you might want to make it slightly higher than you would accept. However, you don't want it to put people off. A silly asking price will stop people from looking at your home altogether. Make sure you take into account any maintenance that may need to be done to give you an accurate idea of how much you can ask for.
A good estate agent will find buyers that are looking for something like your property and point them in the right direction. Do lots of research and maybe even speak to a few to find the one you feel most comfortable with. You don't know how long you'll be working with them for, after all. Contact Morris Dibben for info on selling your property. You'll get an idea of what to look for in an estate agent this way!
The smell of your home can even have an impact on whether it sells or not. A lot of it is subconscious! If your home smells of of pet odors, it may not sell, even if the potential homebuyer has pets of their own. Make sure you give it a deep clean and bake some cookies or something to make it smell good.
Clutter will only make the property appear smaller. Whether that clutter will be there when the buyer moves in or not, it doesnt matter, it will still put them off Tidy up, even in your cupboards. If you can find storage elsewhere for certain items and make your home look more spacious, that's even better.
If possible, have an estate agent show people around and leave the house duringviewings. They will notfeel comfortable viewing your home with you in it, no matter how friendly you are. If you're the one showing them around, try to be sure that all kids and pets are out of the house. They should feel as comfortable as possible viewing your property which will encourage them to buy.
If you usethese tips, it will help make your home so much more likely to sell. Hopefully it willbe taken off the market in no time!


Take a tour through this gallery of photos from the beautiful restoration of our West Creek cabins during the years 2012 through 2014. Thanks to Hanson General Contracting and the work done by Steve, Orion, Eric and Betty Hanson and crew members Scott Weddell, Rory Jacquot, Jeff Blair, Lucas Heger, Dirk Foss, Matt Foss, Jim Devereaux, Brendan Woodard, Scott Lesh, and others, along with the services of Terry & Joe Jacobson, Scott Mulvihill, Dan "Gone Fishin" Lengstorf, Bill Joiner, Zack the plumber, the two Mikes, and Fast Eddie.
Interior of Bea and her old uneven floor after the glacial silt was shoveled out.
Eric, Orion and Steve Hanson prepare Margaret for a move to her new location.
Work begins on Bea's foundation logs.
Steve and Orion Hanson prepare Bea for lifting with new cottonwood and spruce logs to replace rotten ones damaged in the 2002 flood.
The restored Bea takes shape during the summer of 2012.
This portable Woodmizer mill was hard at work at the site for three years preparing cottonwood and spruce logs from the property for use in all the cabins and bath house.
The new upstairs loft in Bea with her curved railing and diamond-shaped, stained-glass window.
Bea almost finished showing off her curved arches which were found on the property.
Margaret nestled into her new spot with restored logs and a new roof and porch. She was completed in 2013.
Milling continues in the summer of 2013.
Orion Hanson and Rory Jacquot make notches in a log for the Bath House.
Rory and Orion insure a perfect fit.
Orion and Rory demonstrate notching for 2013 participants of the North Words Writers Symposium.
The Bath House rafters take shape.
A final photo of the old Mary Jane before she was dismantled in the fall of 2013. She was pushed here by the 2002 flood and had severe rot. We saved what we could of her, including her original design. The old MJ is depicted in our logo by Josh Downs.
Water lines being installed to connect the cabins to the well and bath house.
New septic and drain field installation behind the Bath House.
Work begins on the new Mary Jane in the fall of 2013.
Mary Jane starts to take shape.
Mary Jane shows off her new dove-tail joints.
Trusses going up in the new Mary Jane.
Steve at work on the roof of Mary Jane.
Bath House with metal roof and windows and doors installed. She has two entrances to the baths in front and back.
Mary Jane all "weathered-in" for the winter of 2013-14.
Inside of the Bath House with her new stained-glass.
Outside of Bath House showing new windows.
Finish work on the Bea cabin stairs.
Kitchen sink and cabinet installation in Mary Jane during the summer 0f 2014.
Scott Weddell begins to assemble the birch countertop.
French doors framed by stained-glass picked out by Dorothy connects the front and back rooms of Mary Jane.
Sink and vanity installed in the Bath House.
Orion applies window trim in Mary Jane with boards salvaged from the original cabin.
Scott sands the birch countertop.
Countertop and cabinets all finished, stove and fridge installed too.
Dorothy and Steve pick out wood for Mary Jane's hutch.
Dorothy washes old brick from our Skagway property for the Mary Jane fireplace.
Orion with the finished brick backing and base made from West Creek river rock, which we have an abundance of. See photos of the fireplace with the wood stove on the Mary Jane page.


I was recently visiting Hong Kong, and as I was going through an industrial district in Kowloon I noticed the construction of a few enormous non-descript buildings, with very few windows. It got me wondering was this some sort of penitentiary or secretive government building? Then I noticed that there was not enough barbed wire to be a jail nor any visual indication to be a secretive government facility. Fortunately, a quick search on cell phone GPS maps advised that it was just another large data center.
While there has been a strong trend toward creating bigger and more powerful centralized data centers to meet end user needs, there has been another, less notable, trend toward pushing the data center closer to end users for the same reason. Large data centers create efficiency through a centralization of resources (e.g., uninterruptable power supplies, generators, HVAC, other networks, etc.). The goal is to minimize cost while maintaining maximum functionality and reliability of the data center itself. However, many end users find that they prefer certain mission critical elements of their IT infrastructure to be physically closer to their offices, rather than in a central data center that could be far away. This has given rise to the need for a data center solution physically closer to the customer (aka virtualized data center), which essentially comprises a network extension of the centralized data center into space that is physically closer to the end user, while still offering many of the traditional data center services. For some locations, such as a remote business park, building a full service, but smaller scale data center may be justified; for others a virtual data center is the next best option.
that is)?" Some business applications don't care about such parameters, like certain Human Resource functions, or Customer/Marketing applications, but other applications, such as proprietary algorithmic trading, 3D modelling applications, or high volume transaction-oriented processes, may suffer due to latency and need for greater control. The alternative is to keep an IT facility onsite, but ideally there is a preference for someone else to manage it.
Why most large enterprise will need virtualized data centers?
As more enterprise users move toward cloud-based applications, performance and speed of innovation (aka speed of change) become important. This has driven the desire to have some portion of infrastructure be located in a high performance, controlled IT facility, while other portions can be operated over a public infrastructure, creating a hybrid cloud network. This desire has created a new Cloud concept known as the hybrid cloud. Hybrid cloud is defined as having some portion of cloud infrastructure operating in a public cloud facility, and another portion operating in a private facility, usually to meet specific end user demands, such as security, location, accessibility and reliability.
Many large enterprises, including financial and retail enterprises, can build their own private cloud with private infrastructure they build themselves, or outsource it to a data center operator/integrator, who could own and maintain the space and connect it back to the main data center, where a rich set of other cloud services may be available. They could also supplement any public cloud offering with such a private cloud offer, thus offering a full hybrid cloud solution.
The concept of the virtual data center is about both revenue and opportunity. A virtual data center is simply an extension of a larger centralized data center that offers similar services, with the added benefit of catering to more specific enterprise needs. By addressing large enterprises, perhaps through a customized virtual data center solution, data center operators can attract larger, more profitable end users while establishing a footprint in a new market segment. In fact, many Fortune 500 companies have already engaged in such strategies by building their own private networks using leased space and contracting companies to manage the network. This concept of the virtual data center has been shown to be popular in large metropolitan locations, where customers are spread out across larger distances.
The key challenge is how to extend the network from the central data center to a virtual location efficiently. In fact, there are several ways to overcome this network challenge, including technology, operational simplicity and ultra-high performance. All of the key operational challenges concern space utilization, power consumption and the need for a high performance network. In this case, two key technological innovations enable such solutions to become reality: photonic integration and optical super-channels.
The value of photonic integration lies in replacing multiple discrete components with a single highly integrated optical integrated circuit, also known as the photonic integrated circuit (PIC). A key value of the PIC is that it reduces space and power while ultimately providing higher performance network capacity. It follows the same philosophy of integrated circuits in our laptops replacing discrete transistors that were much larger and consumed much more power. Ultimately the real value of photonic integration is that it takes the highest power consuming components (e.g., network side lasers) and integrates them into a small compact device that consumes significantly less power and space.
Optical super-channels are defined as a group of smaller, more granular optical channels that are bundled into a single, larger optical group that provides equivalent high performance, but also adds the simplicity of managing fewer circuits. For example, would you rather manage 50 x 10G fiber circuits or manage 5 x 100G fiber circuits?
If we agree that PIC based optical super-channels are the simplest and most cost effective way of deploying network capacity, the next question is one of reliability. Fortunately, PIC technology is so reliable that it features an expected Failure in Time (FIT) of more than 1 billion hours (Source: Infinera).This solution results in increased reliability with photonic integration and simplification with super-channels that deliver performance.
Leveraging both Photonic Integration and Optical super-channels will not only help drive greater network efficiency and operational efficiency, but also provide opportunities to increase ROI. However, 500Gb/s is a lot of capacity, but a particular customer's forecasted need may be only about 100-200Gb/s. To solve this dilemma, the superchannel can be sliced whenever needed through software activation. Namely, since optical super-channels and photonic integration are tightly coupled, customers can simply activate the bandwidth they need, in 100Gb/s bandwidth increments, using a few simple keystrokes, similar to activating software on your computer.
As the data center market continues to evolve, large centralized data centers and smaller virtual data centers that are closer to the end users will co-exist. The concept of the hybrid cloud plays a role in that it addresses the need for large enterprises to keep certain mission critical resources close to them while locating other assets in large, more economical and centralized facilities. This solution also creates opportunity for data center operators to offer value-added services, from the basic virtual storage and computing services to the fully outsourced IT solutions that make the operators more indispensable to the enterprise. The critical element in this solution remains the network, which must be simple and efficient. From the technology angle, technologies such as photonic integration and optical super-channels may be critical to ensuring the deployment of simple, efficient and high performance virtual data center solutions.


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By Brandan Mueller on January 27, 2023
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We are pleased to announce that Husch Blackwell has published its inaugural "Legal Insights for Manufacturing" report, which provides a look ahead to 2023 and explores the key trends and issues that will shape the coming year for the manufacturing industry.…
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Judicial Hellhole Ranks for 2022-23 Receive a Significant Shake Up
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The American Tort Reform Foundation (ATR) released its 2022-2023 Judicial Hellhole report. In this report, the ATR ranks the eight most dangerous jurisdictions for corporate defendants and their defense attorneys. This year the hellhole ranks had a significant shake up.…
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Walls Closing in on Experts: Federal Court Clarifies Daubert Rulings in Asbestos Case
By Katie Putnam on December 8, 2022
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Overview of Original Daubert Rulings
In orders issued on October 25, 2022 and November 9, 2022, U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Biggs provided some clarification to her prior expert rulings in the matter of Walls v. Ford Motor Company, et al., a mesothelioma wrongful death case pending in the Middle District of North Carolina. The plaintiff, Laura Walls, alleges that her deceased husband, Robie Walls, developed mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos-containing products through his naval service and career as a truck mechanic. The plaintiff intends to call several experts to offer opinions that the defendants' products caused the decedent's disease. The defendants intend to introduce expert testimony that friction products made with chrysotile asbestos did not and could not have caused the alleged injury while asserting that the decedent sustained significant exposure to asbestos during his naval service. The Court took up the parties' various Daubert challenges over two days of oral argument in June 2022 and made several significant rulings regarding expert admissibility on August 11, 2022 as discussed herein.…
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NYCAL Defendants Lose Requested Case Management Order Amendment Severing Punitive Damages
By Kristen Durant & Austin O'Malley on November 18, 2022
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On November 4, 2022, the New York City Asbestos Litigation (NYCAL) coordinating Judge Adam Silvera issued a long-awaited decision denying defendants' motion to sever punitive damages in asbestos claims filed in NYCAL. Defendants had urged the Court to amend NYCAL's current Case Management Order (CMO) to indefinitely postpone plaintiffs' ability to seek punitive damages against defendants, as was the case in the original NYCAL CMO and a procedure that had been in place for over 2 decades up until 2017.…
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Florida Supreme Court Grants Review of Common Law Marriage-Before-Injury Rule on Loss of Consortium Recovery
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Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal recently held that to recover for loss of consortium under the Florida Wrongful Death Act, a surviving spouse must be married to the decedent at the time of injury—not the time of death. In so holding, the Fourth District, in Ripple v. CBS Corp., 337 So. 3d 45…
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Asbestos Defendants Beware: Iowa's Tort Reform Was Apparently Weaker Than We Thought
By Caleb Hunt, Lazaro Aguiar & Magda Patitsas on September 14, 2022
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In a 4-3 decision, the Iowa Supreme Court issued an opinion that significantly narrowed Iowa's new statutory asbestos defense – holding the defense only protects asbestos product defendants who did not manufacture or sell the asbestos in question. See Beverage v. Alcoa, Inc., No. 19-1852, 2022 WL 2182351 (Iowa June 17, 2022). This statutory asbestos defense was part of Iowa's 2017 tort reform.
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Washington Court of Appeals Applies Common Sense Limits on Consenting to Personal Jurisdiction
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Where a case is filed can sometimes be as important as the facts of the case itself. The Washington Court of Appeals, recently revisited specific jurisdiction in the context of consent in Bradley v. Globus Medical, Inc.
In February 2021, Rachel Bradley filed suit in Spokane County Superior Court against Globus Medical, Inc. alleging…
General jurisdiction by consent continues to divide as the Supreme Court takes on Mallory.
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Mallory v. Norfolk S. R.R. Co., Civ. A. No. 3 EAP 2021, Slip. Op. J-49-2021 (Pa. Dec. 22, 2021) may be one of the most cited decisions in Pennsylvania state courts these days, as defendants file an array of motions seeking dismissal of their clients for lack of personal jurisdiction in cases where the only nexus between the defendant and Pennsylvania is the defendant's registration to do business in the Commonwealth. We previously blogged on this issue here and here, and we were hopeful that the bold statement made in Mallory would clarify the previously murky law on point, but the battle regarding consent jurisdiction rages on.
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If Only All Asbestos Cases Were Pending in New York… Nemeth v. Brenntag North America
By Audrey Allen & Magda Patitsas on May 31, 2022
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New York's Court of Appeals recently reversed a $16,500,000 asbestos jury verdict in a case brought by decedent Florence Nemeth and her husband, who alleged that Mrs. Nemeth's cancer was caused by her use of Desert Flower Talcum Powder. In Nemeth v. Brenntag North America, et al., 2022 WL 1217464 (Ct. App. NY Apr. 26, 2022), the state's highest court overturned the decision on the grounds that the plaintiff's experts failed to present sufficient evidence to prove that the talc-based cosmetic powder caused decedent's peritoneal mesothelioma.
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No Decision on Genetic Testing Dispute in Asbestos Case in Alameda County, California
By Andrew German on May 26, 2022
An Alameda County Judge set a hearing on a motion for protective order in a pending asbestos case in which the plaintiffs sought to prevent the defendants of unapproved genetic testing. In the case of John C. Lohmann and Suzanne L. Lohmann vs. Aaon, Inc., et al., the plaintiffs filed suit in Alameda Superior Court against several defendants alleging that Mr. Lohmann developed mesothelioma as a result of his career working in the refrigeration maintenance field from 1970 to 2021 in California. The defense experts sought to use the plaintiff's medical data for non-litigation purposes without the plaintiffs' permission because they believed the information will advance science and no pathologist/associated scientist would ethically agree to limitations. As part of the case, defense counsel moved for discovery of Mr. Lohmann's original pathology material and subpoenaed the providers. The court ordered production of those materials. The plaintiffs contend that production of pathology and genetic material in litigation does not permit outside, personal research and analysis. Multiple defendants, on the other hand, argue that evidence produced in litigation enters the public domain and is not protected by discovery law.
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On the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Foreign Policy published two compelling, yet opposing, viewpoints by Leslie Gelb and Stephen Sestanovich concerning the lessons learned from those thirteen fateful days.
Gelb asserts that Kennedy's strategic decision to keep crucial details of the Crisis settlement secret – namely, that the United States would remove its missiles in Turkey in exchange for the Soviets withdrawing their weapons from Cuba – was key to the president's successful resolution of the crisis. In other words, by showing only half of his hand to the world, Kennedy appeared to have "won" his game of chicken with the Soviets, thus institutionalizing a mindset in American foreign policy that would prevail from that point forward.
Gelb charges that this mindset has handicapped American leaders since by removing the notion of compromise from the national security toolbox. Sestanovich argues that the importance Gelb places on compromise is misplaced, and that Kennedy over-compromised when what really "softened Khrushchev up—unhinged him, really—was the threat of U.S. military action." Although Gelb overemphasizes Kennedy's singular effect on future policymakers, he is right to focus on measured compromise as a useful, yet undervalued, tool of American statecraft.
Gelb points out that there is a deeply engrained viewpoint in our national psyche that characterizes "leadership" as never backing down in the face of constant adversity. But he is mistaken to assign so much credit to President Kennedy for implanting this mentality into the minds of American policymakers after October 1962. More likely, American leaders, including Kennedy, have taken their cues from uncompromising styles of leadership dating back to George Washington, and living on through Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. In other words, this winner-take-all mentality has dominated the way our leaders have thought about national security since the dawn of the Republic, and it continues to dominate today.
So even as "crippling sanctions," tough multilateral pressure, and threats of military action fail to dissuade Tehran, political negotiation itself is still characterized as an unacceptable concession. Perhaps things would be different today if President Kennedy had not scored such a victory in 1962.
Yet, Kennedy did not succeed "without giving an inch," as Gelb says, and he did not panic and pay a "higher price" than he should have, as Sestanovich intimates. What made Kennedy's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis so successful was that he appeared to do these two things to different audiences simultaneously. Kennedy understood that ensuring the Soviets fully pulled out of Cuba was worth the national security price of removing obsolete missiles in Turkey. But, as a skilled politician and leader of the free world, he also realized the immense power that perception plays in both domestic politics and foreign policy. By agreeing to keep the quid pro quo silent, the Soviets handed Kennedy the total victory he needed to both ensure U.S. security, and appear strong in the U.S. and abroad.
The problem with Kennedy's success in the Crisis is that it holds our leaders, as Kennedy himself was held, to an impossibly high standard of absolute victory. This mindset once served our country well, and may have even been necessary at times. After all, we emerged from the twentieth century victorious over imperialism, fascism, and communism. However, if we wish to avoid being included amongst the fallen great powers of old, the U.S. needs to adapt with the times. We can no longer afford to think that getting one hundred percent of what we want is possible, or even desirable, for our country and for the world.
Warren Ryan is a graduate student at Georgetown University.
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Bernie Sanders Bests Kamala Harris' First-Day Donor Total in Four Hours
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In just over the first four hours of his 2020 presidential campaign, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had already raised money from 42,000 donors, a total that bested the number Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) had hit in the first full day of her campaign. The campaign estimated that Sanders had raised $1.2 million in three-and-a-half hours on Tuesday. Later Tuesday, it was revealed that the campaign reportedly raised over $3.3 million from 120,000 donors in one day. The figure is another sign of the incredible money-raising prowess that Sanders brings to the race. Up to this point, Harris had been the most dynamic fundraiser among Democratic candidates in the race, having raised a whopping $1.5 million in 24 hours after declaring from more than 38,000 individual donors. That number, the Harris campaign noted at the time, had surpassed the number of individual donors for Sanders in his first day of running during his 2016 bid. Now, Sanders' current campaign says they have already received contributions that beat both of those figures.


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Net Zero by 2050? Where's the Tech?
In the IEA's "Net Zero by 2050" report, which outlines a comprehensive pathway for a global transition to zero emissions by mid-century, the agency states that much of the technology needed to make a timely transition has not yet been developed. Emerging technologies, such as improved battery storage, low-carbon hydrogen production and carbon capture utilization and storage, show "encouraging" progress, but the world significantly lags behind in power generation and end-use sectors, specifically industry, buildings and transport.
Explorer Article By Ken Milam
How to Grow Big Fields into Giants
Thanks to continuing advances in reservoir characterization, technology and innovative thinking, many oil fields around the globe have "grown larger" in recent decades. John Sneider, president of Sneider Exploration Inc., documented examples of mature field growth 20 years ago and recently revisited the topic to focus on mature giant fields. This updated analysis is detailed in chapter 4 of the new AAPG Memoir 125: "Giant Fields of the Decade: 2010 – 2020."
Explorer Division Column DPA By Don Burdick
The 'Great Reset'?
There is no denying there are massive changes happening around the world today, seemingly as a reaction to the emergence of the COVID/Wuhan virus. However, while the virus might be a catalyst of change, other factors are in play too. Many leaders around the world seem to share in the sentiment expressed by the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, who recently wrote, "The changes we have already seen in response to COVID-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible," in the interest of promoting the WEF's proposed "Great Reset" of the global economy.
'Chaos Will Intensify' as Oil Investment Crisis Threatens Supply
Last month Houston hosted the 23rd World Petroleum Congress with more than 5,000 attendees from 70 countries. After a one-year postponement due to the global pandemic, energy leaders from across the globe gathered to discuss the future of energy. And the tone of the discussion was sobering. Following on the heels of November's COP26 meeting in Glasgow, there was recognition that political and societal pressures are shifting the energy sector and the industries in it. But there was widespread concern that the expectations underlying these pressures for change were unrealistic. That those pushing hardest for change lacked a fundamental understanding of what transforming the global energy sector truly entailed, what it would look like when it was complete and the dangers looming from getting it wrong.
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Making It All Work
Before unconventional resources became prevalent in the global petroleum supply, deepwater exploration and development was a significant focus for many larger companies. For deepwater activities to succeed, the petroleum industry was forced to merge its above-ground concerns with the below-ground geoscience and engineering disciplines.
2021 Marked by Oil Price Recovery, Industry Transformation
Producers finally got some relief in 2021. Oil and gas prices recovered from their pandemic lows and remained at high levels through most of the year, as increased production could not keep pace with a global demand recovery. It was a year when higher prices helped energy producers strengthen their balance sheets and improve their bottom lines.
A Source-to-Sink Project Boosts Colombia's Subsurface Knowledge
While the COVID-19 pandemic ground the world to a halt in 2020, crisis led to creativity and opportunity in many parts of the world. For four geoscientists in Colombia, the pandemic became the perfect time to serve their country and their profession. In May 2020, two weeks after oil prices dropped below zero, Colombia's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation launched a bidding contest allocating nearly $3 million to finance geoscience research projects for the hydrocarbon sector.
'Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance' Launches at COP26
One of the more provocative but less publicized initiatives introduced at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow is an international effort to end oil and gas exploration and production. The Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, created by Denmark and Costa Rica, officially launched its program at COP26.
Geothermal Offers an Economical Alternative to Wind, Solar
Considering that geothermal energy can supply power 24/7 for hundreds of years, it can use existing infrastructure from retired coal and nuclear plants, it is extremely attractive to investors, and that it creates more jobs than wind and solar energy, the question arises: Why does so much of this clean, natural resource remain in the ground? That was the topic of discussion at the "Geothermal 101" Geosciences Technology Workshop, hosted recently by AAPG and Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Super-giant oil fields, by definition, are those fields containing at least 5 billion barrels of known recoverable crude oil or gas. It is believed they account for up the 40 percent of the world's petroleum reserves, so their collective health – how much energy is being created at present, as well as how much can be – will play an oversized role in meeting the world's future energy needs. "The interest in future oil supply waxes and wanes depending on price and supply, and these days climate takes up all the discussion about energy supply," said Richard S. Bishop, past AAPG president and currently an international oil and gas consultant based in Houston.
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The Niobrara Petroleum System of the U.S. Rocky Mountain Region is a major tight petroleum resource play.
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Green River Shales: Geochemical Basin Study
The geochemistry of formation fluids (water and hydrocarbon gases) in the Uinta Basin, Utah, is evaluated at the regional scale based on fluid sampling and compilation of past records.
Thursday, 9 February 2012, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.
Seismic Reservoir Characterization of U.S. Shales: An Update
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Successful Oilfield Water Management: Case Studies and New Directions (including recycling)
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Wind Farm Operations: Current Practices and Future Trends
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Bringing your own Energy to the Energy Business: First Discovery of Oil in Belize is the empowerment of the people of Belize
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Ambient Seismic Imaging Throughout the Life Cycles of Unconventional Fields
An overview of a new ambient seismic imaging method and applications of the method throughout the lifecycles (exploration through refracing) of unconventional oil and/or gas fields.
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Wednesday, 15 July 2020, 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Pivoting Week 11: New Subsurface Tools and Techniques
Join us for 'New Subsurface Tools and Techniques'. New Subsurface Tools and Techniques and strategies for pivoting for new revenue and diversification in today's times. This webinar will be presented via Zoom 7pm - 8:30pm CDT, 15 July 2020.
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If you've been to the Bruce Trent Farmers Market or Market in the Alley in the past year, you are familiar with (aka devoured) Ruse and their vegan food in Las Vegas.
The popular pop-up is known for its homemade — and perfectly seasons — vegan meats that don't break the bank. With menu items like a vegan lamb gyro, vegan Italian sausage, falafel burger, a tofu satay taco, and a vegan beef chimichurri taco, Ruse is creating a name for itself within the community.
And the woman behind it all?
Roo Abdel-Al is the boss behind Ruse, an all-vegan pop-up in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas native, Roo Abdel-Al. Behavior analyst by day and chef the rest of the time, Abdel-Al has worked with autistic children for the past 10 years.
When she's not with children, she's cooking and creating.
You can taste that love in her food.
A vegetarian for 15 years, Abdel-Al took her love and knowledge of spices and created plant-based cuisine she ate at home. Until she and her boyfriend, Matt Frantom, made it official in April 2018 and launched her pop-up, Ruse.
The idea had been stirring inside of her for some time … especially after she realized how expensive vegan and vegetarian dishes were on menus, even when the product wasn't made in the actual restaurant.
So we had to ask, if Abdel-Al is a vegetarian, why make Ruse a vegan pop-up?
Also, by staying strictly vegan and ditching dairy, she's able to keep the menu price points down for herself and the consumers. After playing around with the numbers, Abdel-Al said it made sense to be completely vegan.
If you've tried any of Ruse menu items, you know the future for Ruse is bright (and we've got big news for Ruse coming out tomorrow!).
While currently popping up at farmers markets, breweries, and special events in Las Vegas, Abdel-Al envisions Ruse as a brick and mortar … eventually.
For now, she has a few new dishes in the works to add to the current menu — including a new pesto steak pita — but don't expect a massive menu. She prefers to keep the choices limited and focus on consistency. And, if you can't make it to one of her pop-ups, you can order gyro kits to make at home, or sit tight until they start to deliver (they're currently exploring options).
To find out where Ruse is going to pop-up next, head over to their social media and follow @rusevegankitchen.