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Estimates of Gene Flow, Genetic Substructure and Population Heterogeneity in Bracken (pteridium aquilinum)
Paul G. Wolf, Utah State UniversityFollow
E. Sheffield
C. H. Haufler
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Bracken [Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn] is a cosmopolitan species and is a noxious weed in many areas. Because of its abundance, particularly in Britain, bracken affords an ideal system for investigating various aspects of population genetics and evolution. High mobility of dispersal units (spores) suggests that rates of gene flow among distant populations should be high. Gene flow is a major evolutionary force that influences the genetic structure of populations. To examine the effects of gene flow on population heterogeneity and population substructuring in bracken, starch gel electrophoresis of enzymes was used to provide the necessary genetic database. Allele frequency data at 21 loci were obtained for seven British populations, one Majorcan and one from the eastern United States. A model was employed to estimate the amount of gene flow (Nm) at several levels. Gene flow among British populations was extremely high (Nm= 36.51), one of the highest estimates reported for plants. Among eight European populations gene flow was lower (but still considered high) at Nm= 2.47. Trans-Atlantic gene flow was low (Nm= 0.0926). F-statistics were used to assess population heterogeneity and substructuring. The data indicate that, compared with other species, there is very little genetic differentiation among British populations of bracken. Indeed, it appears that the whole island is behaving as a single randommating population. This result is consistent with high levels of gene flow. Only one population (on the Isle of Arran) showed statistically significant genetic substructuring. Habitat heterogeneity on the island and age structure are hypothesized as possible causes of this result. The data reported here support previous studies demonstrating that bracken is genetically polymorphic and is an outcrossing species.
Wolf, P. G., E. Sheffield and C. H. Haufler. 1991. Estimates of gene flow, genetic substructure and population heterogeneity in bracken (Pteridium aquilinum). Biolical Journal of the Linnean Society 42: 407-423.


BRICS countries will definitely start using their local currencies for mutual settlements quite soon, the head of Russia's VTB bank Andrey Kostin told RT Wednesday at the BRICS summit in Ufa.
"We definitely see a growing interest from the countries to make settlements in local currencies," the CEO of Russia's second biggest bank said. 40-50 percent of all the mutual settlements among the BRICS countries can be performed in domestic currencies, Kostin estimated, RIA reported.
The Chinese yuan as the leading currency can be used in settlements among BRICS member states, Kostin said, adding that the Russian ruble can be used for that as well.
He says there will be a growing interest from leading Russian exporters to the process of switching to national currencies.
The BRICS summit will give a boost to Russia-China relations, Kostin told RT. China is a leading nation and the largest economy among the BRICS countries and mutual projects like 'Silk Road' will definitely increase the cooperation between Russia and China economically, he added.
The creation of new institutions is quite important for the development of relations between BRICS members, Kostin said.
Speaking about the BRICS bank, the VTB head stressed the importance of the "first institution created by BRICS countries." The bank will "be at the heart of BRICS cooperation," and in a position to provide finance for important projects in Russia and in other countries, Kostin added.
The New Development Bank will be a substantial player and might have an even more important role for Russia than the World Bank, according to the VTB head.
"The World Bank is not lending money to Russia, and Russia is not borrowing from the World Bank. I think, Russia will be ready to borrow from the New Development Bank," Kostin said.
The BRICS agreement to forge ahead with a $100 billion New Development Bank (NDB) was signed last year in Brazil. The bank also possesses a reserve currency pool worth another $100 billion. The new bank will finance infrastructure projects in the BRICS countries and across other developing countries. NDB is expected to start functioning by the end of 2015, with its headquarters in Shanghai.


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Tuesday was data day 42. Or possibly Wednesday. It's hard to keep track. Dan, Jamie, Samu, Alison and Robert (who is of the internet, but not on the internet) locked themselves away in a humid cupboard and talked about data. And work. What better way to spend the summer?
They chatted website progress, technology in general, cloud adoption in particular and what's happening with all the other (non-public) data. Later in the day they were joined by Alex who brought along some interesting questions. How do data teams justify their existence was a particular doozy. Answers on a postcard please.
Jamie would like it to be known he found Alex's comments and questions inspiring. Particularly around how the Libraries act as an institutional memory for the state (and not just our own Members). Basically because information management in government departments might be best described as broke. Alex also endorsed our new 'purple' unified search. He commented on how the simple interface felt familiar. His views on the purple are not recorded.
We don't learn from Slack if all Alex's questions were answered to everyone's satisfaction. We do learn they ended up in the pub. And what question has never been successfully answered in a pub?
Is Samu morality?
On the subject of juicers, Anya, Samu and Michael also took a trip to the Red Lion. At some stage in the evening Samu announced to his eager crowd, I AM MORALITY. We're not sure how we got there. Anya and Michael took an extra sip and lit another fag. It's best not to question.
Dan went to Bristol. It was dreadful. Or at least the trains were. Railways and hot days don't combine well in this country. As a result he missed two of his meetings but he did have a mind-expanding time at the Office for Students learning about Microsoft Dynamics 364 on behalf of the Interaction Management Programme.
Anya, Robert and Michael had a phone call with Thomas Francart from the European Legislation Identifier project. ELI are expanding their work from legislation to draft legislation and wanted to check how that fitted with our stuff. The connection was made via Dan off the back of schema.org conversations. Thanks Dan.
Our Liz chatted to Andy at the ONS about their process for deciding on features and improvements. Andy said it's not led by any specific routine although they do regularly gather feedback and talk to users. Their negative feedback is almost always from users on the site, and not from those arriving externally. ONS use Elastic Search so are more concerned with ranking content than we are. They also monitor their top 100 terms and group terms to try to understand how to solve problems based on what they see people do. For the ONS, search isn't a separate consideration from pages and journeys. Which is as it should be, says Michael. They have similar questions on domain specific language and sometimes feel they make decisions that are best for the business and not for users. Liz says it would be good to speak with their analyst. Plans were made for further chats.
In other community related news, Dan's taken to wearing a One Team Gov lanyard. Michael remains unconvinced. Any association with T-Men (let alone G-Men) tends to undermine his sense of separation.
One world, one web, one team
Michael met with Steve to chat about user research and Michael's half coherent thoughts on the ecosystem, information flows and ripples of parliamentary users. And how measuring and targeting individual user needs might not play well with this. Michael's been bending many ears on this recently, not least those belonging to Anya, Robert and Paul. A blog post might be brewing.
Alison spent some time with our Liz and her dedicated team of data analysers to start sketching out their workflow. Liz thought they got quite far. Together they identified some further work around how they communicate results (or insights as we say these days) and some more general stuff around how they move from Exploratory Data Analysis to a more established process.
Alison also ran a workshop with performance analysts and data analysts (don't look at me, I don't know). They talked in more detail about some of the terminology used to describe measurement and how the different terms might be related (measurement vs. metric vs. indicator vs. KPI). We are, as ever, divided by a common language. Sara says it was a good exercise and a good start at defining and unifying the language we use for measurement. We're also told a lot of post-its were involved but not whether this was a good or bad thing.
Samu met Oswin Taylor from the Legislation Office in the House of Lords. They had a second talk about supporting the drafting process for Private Members' Bills, this time focusing on the practicalities of document and workflow management. Samu reports it was a good talk. And if Samu approves we can be sure it was good.
Did Mike discriminate?
A report came in from an internal user flagging up our internal search application doesn't work with a certain browser / operating system combination. This gave rise to allegations of discrimination against a certain fruit-based operating system. Luckily the machines do not yet have HR, so we're fairly sure Mike is safe. For now.
Scarred by allegations of systemic OS discrimination, Mike continued to investigate and found that the problem can be reproduced by connecting to the application over a certain network route. No minority OS bias contributed to this. Mike chatted to Rob Preston from the architecture team, who provided some expert advice on certificates and Parliament's network topology. Samu threw in a few ideas for possible solutions concerning routing, DNS, IP addresses and web-server configuration. Mike's quest ended when he finally found the team responsible for this setup. Unfortunately they claimed to knowing nothing about such 'web voodoo' but did replace the expired certificate with a valid one. No machines died.
Domain modelling
Alison met with House of Lords Ed and House of Commons James to look at whether committee reports could be slotted into the existing document model. What we have now reflects a very simple structural model that doesn't get us much past slightly improved HTML output. For both library briefings and committee reports there is more underlying structural data that could be exposed which points back to the reproducible research angle that Tony was experimenting with. In many cases the data is statistical but, for committee reports, includes more parliamentary business data such as committee memberships, recommendations, minutes of meetings, and the business items that were part of those meetings. In the longer term there's a feeling that we need to move away from serialising documents and toward a model that's more an ordering of decorated transclusions. Michael is planning for more Tony chats.
Alison spent some time discussing the initial information architecture for visiting Parliament with the Collaboration team and spoke to Sarah from the Visiting team about the ticketing category model. She also expanded the visitor events domain model to introduce the concept of a series as well as a season of visitor events. Series of business items (debates, PMQs, questions and answers) are an idea Anya, Robert and Michael have been playing around with in respect to tabling and timetabling. So there's some overlap here. Although to Michael every nail tends to look like the Programmes Ontology.
Anya and Michael made a couple of minor changes to the laying and tabling models to make them more fag packet like. They also met with Stephanie Hunter who's doing an audit of the Parliamentary Computational Section, to chat about their work and how it fits into (or occasionally doesn't) the wider picture. And whether there's a wider picture.
Work continued on the SI tracker service to pick up all the bits that weren't possible for launch. Anya, Samu, Matthieu and Michael had a long chat interspersed with many fag breaks to chat about the legislation, tabling, time period and laying models. Once those are in place and we have a working calendar all the known knowns of SI tracking will be done. From our end anyway. Matthieu continued to probe via Michael, via Jamie, via Ben, via Kirsty (House of Lords head of business data), the quality of data in our existing calendar application. We're starting to hit interesting questions about what a business item is and how that relates to parliamentary procedure.
Matthieu ploughed on with the physical ontology in the absence of Chris (get well soon) and had more conversations with Samu, Jayne, Michael, Anya, Mike and Wojciech. He's started to refine some of the functional properties and sub-properties and, apparently, had fun doing it. He's also been reading Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, How Parliament Works and assorted technical recommendations from the W3C. Which is some kind of sweet spot.
On search. And indeed indexing
Matthieu has been furiously fighting the newest Vocbench to make it run on our services. With no noticeable signs of success. Yet. Armando, the maintainer, has been, as ever, most helpful. And we're sure success shall ensue at some point. Hopefully. The team talked again about getting a Java professional for a day a week. Which might help.
Liz and Robert talked in some detail about the work he's done on recognising unclear or unhelpful content or title text displayed on search results. They talked about how they'd turn Robert's pixel thoughts into reproducible analysis that has the benefit of input from different people. And supporting what he wants to achieve rather than being lead too much by the approach. Although Liz points out everything he went through was sound, as usual. They talked about methods of assessment and analysis and what they'd like to implement in the future. But for now there are many quick and simple things that can be done to improve search result display.
Sara reports that new tracking code has been added to Parliamentary search. An unusual number of requests searching for 'horses' and 'farms' were noted. Agricultural searches were running at one request per minute. Which is a lot. For us. After chatting to Mike, Sara discovered that the 'horses' search is used for monitoring the service. Farms we're still less clear on. The good news is we can now filter these out as operational synthetic searches. Which might make our numbers go down but at least be more accurate.
The data analysts moved their work relating to search into the public document library on the Data and Search SharePoint site. We're not given a URL so I'm not sure of the definition of public here.
Matt has been looking at creating a method for determining when certain measures on and around search have changed. Things like how much would the percentage of people searching for something but not clicking on any of the results need to change, and over what time period, before we considered it to be a significant difference.
Matt and Sara visited the Indexing and Data Management Section in the House of Commons Library to observe Jason working on a data task. Their goal is to be able to predict when action will be required in these tasks. Seeing Jason at work and a task being done gives them lots of useful context around this work.
The beloved Biztalk continued to explode in assorted faces. As is its wont. David, Lew, and Noel had another tough week wrestling with Microsoft's finest. Aidan stepped in to help out with coordination, prioritisation and communication. A few other colleagues from the department were drafted in. Cos, let's face it, no one's gonna volunteer here. Microsoft were called. Presumably someone slipped a flat snack under a door in Seattle because some progress was made. By the end of the week Noel was making sure that missing records were getting manually updated. Because that's why we have computers. David also got 90% of the way to implementing a change that should see some improvements. You'd hope.
Did anybody fill in any forms?
Aidan and Liz talked through how we support our business intelligence software and filled in the service group form. It would be good to move away from requests needing to be channelled through Liz. She'd like to build in the option for users to read the framework before getting a licence and get to the point where the application is just something that's there rather than anyone having to request it.
Michael's security pass expired and he had a slight run in with the chap in the pass office. So Anya had to fill in forms to get him into buildings. Thanks Anya.
Strolls
Dan and Robert went for a stroll which turned into more of a punishing hell-trek through a sun baked Westminster in search of hot coffee. We'll be drinking fresh cactus juice soon.
Eventually they did manage to find a small island of shade. At which point, things improved. There was some chat about watches and post-war Japanese manufacturing which are some of the many and varied things Robert knows about. Maybe a milkshake next time lads?
Anya, Robert and Michael took a stroll down the Pilgrims' Way to St Martha-on-the-Hill. Anya saw England for the first time and was most impressed. Ben was supposed to join them but his teeth fell out so sadly couldn't show. We know you're thinking this was a long stroll for a working day (and Robert only has little legs), but it happened on Saturday and they took a train. They did talk a little about work though so should probably bill Parliament.
Robert and Michael decided they'd quite like to run a festival but struggled to settle on a coherent narrative. Shame 2019 should take place next summer. Probably in Surrey. Flagellation will be encouraged. But not if anybody looks like they're enjoying it.
Things that caught our eye
Magical thinking about machine learning won't bring the reality of AI any closer
Has Machine Learning Become Alchemy?
The Emoji Report

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Before we go any further, let's be clear on one thing: I'm a fan of Tesla Motors chief Elon Musk. It's not because he's both two years younger than me and, with a net worth of $2.7 billion, ranks 527th on Forbes's 2013 list of ridiculously rich people. For that, I should hate him. I'm a fan because Musk did what I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't have done, had I been handed a check for several hundred million at the age of 31 for inventing PayPal. Had it been me instead of him, I would have called my contribution to mankind complete and frittered away my remaining days on some island, with brief public appearances on the entry rosters for the Pebble Beach concours, the Mille Miglia Storica, the Reno air races, and wherever else money and vanity collide to spectacular effect. Instead, Musk threw his wealth and considerable intellect into an electric-car company. And he got into residential solar panels. And, as if those two activities are just something to divert the mind between crossword puzzles, he started SpaceX, the first private operation to successfully build and launch a rocket into orbit.
A few years ago, conservative columnist George F. Will penned a piece called "The Basement Boys," in which he lamented "the culture of immaturity among the many young men who are reluctant to grow up." Plenty of American males want to be successful, but, Will asserts, fewer and fewer are actually doing anything to make it happen. Instead, they're increasingly embracing youthful slackerism as a permanent lifestyle choice. Musk may have his personal failings, one of which could very well be megalomania, but he's no slacker idol in the modern mold. The man's Wikipedia entry never stops expanding. He walks the halls of Wall Street, calls the final frontier his corner office, and consults with presidents. I'm proud just to be in the same generation as this guy.
That said, Musk could use some PR help, as his recent rumble with the New York Times proves. Lots of people you know and admire call the Times slanted, but to call the Gray Lady an outright liar is crossing a line and standing with such notorious operatives as the Chinese government.
For those of you who may have missed it, the row started when Times reporter John Broder wrote in the February 8 edition of an attempt to road-trip in the Tesla Model S from Washington, D.C., to Connecticut by hopscotching from one newly installed Tesla "supercharger" station to another. The accompanying photo of the car being winched aboard a wrecker and the headline, "Stalled on the E.V. Highway," sum up the result.
Broder's misadventure is too detailed to be recounted here, but, by his account, it involved numerous panicky calls to Tesla for assistance and attempts to stretch the car's range by driving dangerously slowly on the New Jersey Turnpike in sub-freezing temperatures with the heat switched off. It was deeply negative press, but in the pounding cacophony of today's media environment, even the New York Times is just tomorrow's soon-forgotten fish wrapping.
So it would have been, had Musk not risen up to protest the perceived outrage. On Tesla's website, he fired off a direct retort to Broder's story, basing his case on data logged by the car's computer. "When the facts didn't suit [Broder's] opinion," seethed Musk, "he simply changed the facts." Broder responded the next day with a point-by-point counterargument. Smelling the blood on the switchblades, the national press picked up the story and it went bouncing around the media echo chamber.
Finally, the Times' Margaret Sullivan, whose title is "public editor," wrote an op-ed blog citing problems with the story's "precision and judgment, but not integrity." All that did was prove that being thrown halfway under a bus creates a bigger mess than being thrown all the way under.
Musk has done this before with the press, Car and Driver included, and perhaps he is right to fight for his company's honor. But anybody following these dense debates needs lots of time and a decoder ring to sort through the arguments. Few people have either. However, every time Musk makes a stink, the wider public is alerted—not to potential media incompetence, but to the fact that average mortals can't operate an electric vehicle safely without thoroughly memorizing the owner's manual and/or making panicky calls to the company.
People don't want complex cars, and they certainly don't want to read the owner's manuals. They want cars that go where they're pointed and that never, ever make them walk. "Range anxiety" is a fluffy kitten of a euphemism for the cold, primal terror drivers have for a car that suddenly stops. Those who routinely use elevated expressways to cross inner-city neighborhoods fear walking more than the A-bomb.
Musk complained later that Broder's story cost Tesla $100 million in shareholder value. He ought to look in a mirror. As a fan of both Musk and of automotive innovation, I think he should hire someone who is authorized to tell the boss, in the nicest possible tone, when to shut the hell up.


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As Dylan Cartlidge knows well, sometimes even the slightest taste of success can light a fire under you, and make you hungrier for it than you knew you could be. He first arrived in Redcar at the age of 16, having been born in Stoke and spent part of his childhood with foster families before settling in North Yorkshire with his adopted mum. Having grown up listening to chart pop and rap - think Lupe Fiasco and Kid Cudi - it was where his peers would put him onto the likes of The White Stripes and Rage Against The Machine. And, it was also where he would fuse these varied influences together as the frontman of a locally-adored four-piece. His band, Bi:Lingual, were akin to heroes in their small working class town - population 36,000 - racking up regional radio plays and reaching the heats of a contest to play at Reading and Leeds Festivals. Dylan even dropped out of university to put his all into a rigorous schedule of gigs across the North of England.
Now 23, he remembers the rush of being recognised him in the street, and, later, the lows of what he describes as a "fall from grace" when they decided to give it up. "I went from planning what skill moves I was going to do at Soccer Aid and what I would say on Jools Holland to working in a call centre for a bank, and at Wetherspoons", he says. "A lot of people became distant, but it made me more aware and driven".
Fast forward a few short years, and this determination to not merely end up another "also ran" has led Dylan to set his sights not only on conquering Redcar, but the world, broadening his horizons and improving his craft. To date, he's collaborated with UK indie icon Jamie T, garnered praise from national radio tastemakers including Annie Mac and Huw Stephens, and gained a glut of UK print support, with NME simply describing his sound as "f**king brilliant". Boasting that uncanny talent for deconstructing and subverting genres that he honed in his teenage years, it's not hard to see why Dylan has drawn comparisons with everyone from Beck to Andre 3000. It's a stylistic mix that's reflected in his unique image: timelessly cool afro; Americana-inspired Hawaiian shirts; Elvis-style cuban collars. Dylan also goes against the status quo in other ways, too; at a time when the creative industries seem increasingly dominated by the wealthiest in society, he's someone who has "fought tooth and nail" to get his voice heard, even teaching himself the bass from scratch over the past few years. It was a chance mention in new music bible Record Of The Day rather than insider connections which prompted industry buzz, and an exciting, if daunting, period spent travelling from Yorkshire to London for meetings ("It felt like I was on the train to Hogwarts every time", he jokes).
Those compromises paid off, however, and he inked a deal with Glassnote (Childish Gambino, Chvrches, Phoenix) earlier this year.
But just what does a Dylan Cartlidge song sound like? On debut single 'Love Spoons' his Northern-tinged take on Atlanta rap melds with a swirling bassline and a soulful sensibility to create a positive jam that's as fresh as it is reminiscent of an era of peace and free love.
Elsewhere, Scratch Sniff sees him show off a more grungey vocal style, complemented by DIY percussion sounds - including trash can lids and slammed piano lids for "dirge and grit" - and poetic lyrics inspired by Manchester icon John Cooper Clarke ("he's dark and tongue-in-cheek'... I'd never heard anything that felt so nasty, but wasn't harsh or wasn't explicit"). Meanwhile, 'Up & Upside Down' is straight out of the Beck Hansen school of hi-energy hip-hop with a minor-key edge, with Jamie T - an artist with whom Dylan shares a social-realist outlook - providing typically sardonic delivery which only bolsters its wobbly bass and pop-soul hooks. While no two of his songs are quite the same, the constants are a boundary-squashing, scattergun approach to genre, and an ability to connect with the deeper fabric of British society in 2018. His ethos is one of "hope above adversity, though I don't want to sound preachy or like I'm trying to fix all the world's problems. If people want to listen to my music and just groove, they can, but if people relate to it that's great".
'Scratch Sniff' is a case in point; while seemingly about an epically infectious beat, it also carries an important message about mental health, with tongue-in-cheek lines like "it's only just a runny nose / I'll be ok I suppose" referring to the stiff upper lip attitude its creator still sees reflected in much of society. Meanwhile, 'The World Outside' considers the fate of "all the ones who ain't never getting out" at a time when social mobility feels more glacial than ever, and includes the true story of one of Dylan's classmates who tried to burn their school down. He never tries to force these observations, however; rather they come out via an "unconscious blob" of thoughts and feelings during the writing process. Nor do they feel somehow removed, rather heartfelt and hopeful; indeed, upcoming single 'Yellow Brick Road' is a funk-filled, irregular paean to making your dreams come true.
While staying true to himself, Dylan's style has only become more polished through collaborating with major producers, among them Grammy-nominated James Dring (Jamie T, Gorillaz) and Danger Mouse, with whom he worked on material for his upcoming debut album at the Jimi Hendrix - founded Electric Lady Studios in New York earlier this year, honing his knack for teasing out smart and subversive lyrics from his initial melodic jibber-jabber. Despite this, Dylan's humility continues to seep through. "I'm this kid who's from a place you've probably never heard of, who has a weird background and a weird musical journey.
And yet I'm being able to hold my own in my industry", he says. And, with a style that's raw and eclectic, Dylan Cartlidge is poised to do all that and much more.
Glastonbury Festival: Friday 28th June, 2019
Stormzy will headline at Pyramid Stage on Friday night at Glastonbury Festival, and the day features a packed line-up of Primary Talent International artists.
14.00-14.40: Yellow Days (William's Green)
14.00-15.00: The Wombats (Other Stage)
15.00-16.30: Connie Constance (Left Field)
16.00-16.40: Sundara Karma (Williams Green)
16.30-17.00: Dylan Cartlidge (The Rabbit Hole)
16.50-17.55: Kuenta (Glade)
19.00-19.40: Sunflower Bean (William's Green)
19.00-19.45: Gaffa Tape Sandy (The Unfairground)
19.20-20.20: Swimming Girls (Avalon Cafe Stage)
20.00-21.00: Dub Pistols (Glade)
20.15-21.15: Two Door Cinema Club (Other Stage)
21.00-22.00: Pale Waves (John Peel Stage)
22.15-23.45: Stormzy (Pyramid Stage)
23.00-00.00: Mollie Collins (The Temple)
00.00-00.45: Jamz Supernova (Shangri-La)
01.00-02.00: Snow B2B Jamz Supernova (The Gas Tower)
01.15-02.45: Pinty (Stonebridge)
03.30-04.30: Kasra B2B Randall (The Temple)
Glastonbury Festival: Thursday 27th June, 2019
First day of the Glastonbury Festival for artists from the Primary Talent International roster.
The schedule for Thursday is as follows:
13.00-13.30: Dylan Cartlidge (Greenpeace Stage)
15.00-15.30: Swimming Girls (The Rabbit Hole)
20.00-21.00: Connie Constance (Wormhole)
20.30-21.30: High Contrast DJ Set (BBC Music Introducing)
01.30-03.00: Jamz Supernova (Greenpeace Stage)
The Greenpeace Field: Glastonbury Festival 2019
The Greenpeace Field at Glastonbury Festival, between 26th - 30th June will feature Primary Talent International & Decked Out artists:
...Jamz Supernova
...Johnny Lloyd
...Simian Mobile Disco (DJ Set)
Dylan Cartlidge: At BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend
Dylan Cartlidge played the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend to a huge home crowd and performed 'Monsters Under The Bed', 'Wishing Well' & 'Higher'' amongst many others. Dylan also performed a fantastic freestyle rap wishing Huw Stephens a Happy Birthday!
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Haldern Pop Festival 2019
The Haldern Pop Festival in Rees-Haldern, Germany from 8th-10th August, features Primary Talent International artists:
...Loyle Carner
www.haldernpop.com/en
SXSW Festival 2019
The SXSW festival takes place this week at various venues across Austin, Texas and features a whole host of Primary Talent International artists.
...Maybe April
...Miya Folick
...Husky Loops
...Carson McHone
...Charlotte OC
...Novelist
...P.Money
...Sidney Gish
...BEA1991
...Art School Girlfriend
...The Get Up Kids
......And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
...Bad Sounds
...Gia Margaret
...Sir Babygirl
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The NME 100: Essential New Artists For 2019
The NME have announced their list of '100 Essential New Artists for 2019', which includes many Primary Talent International artists:
...Amelia Monét
...Avalanche Party
...Bad Gyal
...Beabadoobee
...Fredo
...Hana Vu
...The Night Café
...No Rome
...Wicca Phase Springs Eternal
...WWWater / Charlotte Adigéry
...Young T & Bugsey
www.nme.com/blogs/nme-radar/the-nme-100-essential-new-artists-for-2019-2426835
Dylan Cartlidge: UK Tour
Dylan Cartlidge will tour the UK throughout March / April 2019, see his artist page for full details.
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Dylan Cartlidge: New BBC Documentary
Dylan Cartlidge features in a new BBC documentary on his hometown 'The Mighty Redcar'.
"He warmed your cockles on the uplifting documentary about the north Yorkshire town - and now the rapper / singer has unveiled his groovetastic new single 'Wishing Well'.
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Dylan Cartlidge is also Apple Music's 'Artist of the Week', with his new single 'Wishing Well'.
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It's tough to transition in to a "normal" diet on the heels of Thanksgiving, and then to maintain control in December when tempted daily with holiday cookies, hot cocoa, figgy pudding, eggnog, latkes, gingerbread . . . whatever does you in. Don't you wish you could savor rich casseroles and buttery cookies forever without the fear of wearing sweatpants to the office holiday party?
It's slightly reminiscent of indulgent Thanksgiving sweet potato dishes, but has only 290 calories per (1 1/2 cup) serving.
It's even better on the second or third day, so you can make a batch on a free night, and heat up the leftovers after a night of rigorous holiday shopping, caroling or snowman-building.
It also freezes well; ladle into single serving-sized freezer bags for lunch or dinner on busy days.
The whole recipe costs less than $10 to make -- think of all the gifts you can buy with the money you're saving!


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Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, Sept. 24, 2019 – Brooklyn Park Mayor Jeffrey Lunde has proclaimed October...
About Brooklyn Park
We're excited to have you as a member of our community!
With a population of more than 80,000 people, Brooklyn Park is the sixth-largest city in Minnesota and the fourth largest in the metropolitan area. We are a community that believes our residents are our strongest asset and the key to making Brooklyn Park thrive and prosper.
Nestled along the Mississippi River, Brooklyn Park features almost 2,000 acres of parkland, two golf courses and 120 miles of trails for outdoor enthusiasts. We are also home to a community center which features a gymnasium, two hockey rinks, meeting rooms, racquetball courts and a senior center.
Brooklyn Park has a residential housing stock that fits into just about every budget. We also have a unique mix of retail, commercial and industrial businesses.
We make sure the needs of residents always come first. As part of our Community Engagement Initiative, we always make residents and stakeholders primary when it comes to important decision making. It is our mandate to consistently work to engage Brooklyn Park residents to make sure diverse viewpoints are shared openly and honestly.
We are a proud and active community with numerous youth, adult and senior organizations, including important citizen boards that enrich our community. With all this, there is no question, Brooklyn Park is a thriving community inspiring pride where opportunities exist for all.
Our mission, values, and goals
Brooklyn Park, a thriving community inspiring pride where opportunities exist for all.
Core operational values
Ability to work within the city's values system where individuals are valued and respected for their unique differences, experiences, skills and knowledge.
We value all people and diverse ideas.
Address economic, geographic and racial inequities
Include the people affected in decision-making
Engagement is part of our DNA
We build trusting partnerships.
Working within and between departments
Partnering with residents and community stakeholders
Open and honest communication
We are accountable for our actions and results.
Personal and professional responsibility
Responsible stewardship of the community's resources
Excellent service and results
We learn and improve each day.
Continuous improvement and innovation
Opportunities for learning and training
Thriving employee culture and learning environment
Professional and personal growth
What do we want Brooklyn Park to be like in the year 2025? The Brooklyn Park community came up with Brooklyn Park 2025, a plan for the future of Brooklyn Park.
While the City of Brooklyn Park is working to accomplish this plan through clear, measurable steps, BP2025 isn't just a plan for City Hall. It's a plan for our entire community.
We know many of these goals aren't in the power of city government. We need your help. Every adult, youth, business, school, and organization can contribute to make these goals a reality. Let's put our resources together to make Brooklyn Park a thriving community, inspiring pride, where opportunities exist for all.
1: A united and welcoming community, strengthened by our diversity
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We have connected neighbors who understand and celebrate our unique cultures.
Brooklyn Park is unified with a strong positive identity and image.
Our community's activities, events and services are inclusive, multi-cultural, and accessible.
We have places and spaces for diverse communities to gather.
Residents of every age contribute to our community.
2: Beautiful spaces and quality infrastructure make Brooklyn Park a unique destination
Modern transportation options (drive, ride, walk, bike) connect people to education, jobs, and recreation.
Quality recreation and park amenities inspire activity for all ages and interests.
Our rich diversity is showcased through our vibrant music, arts, food, entertainment, and cultural scene.
Attractive key corridors, corners, and city centers create destinations that meet community needs.
Quality and well-maintained housing for all ages and incomes are integrated throughout the community.
3: A balanced economic environment that empowers businesses and people to thrive
People of all ages and backgrounds enjoy financial stability.
Residents and visitors support an abundance of retail stores, restaurants, and entertainment venues.
Our business environment inspires private investment and job growth.
Businesses and organizations of all types, sizes and specialties start, stay and grow here. (e.g. local networks and resources support businesses)
We are a leader in environmental sustainability, benefiting our economy and community.
4: People of all ages have what they need to feel healthy and safe
Neighborhoods are empowered and supported by strengthened positive relationships with police.
Youth are engaged in positive and quality experiences.
Aging adults have services and amenities to thrive and age in place.
Everyone has access to quality healthy food options.
People have access to quality medical and emergency care.
5: Partnerships that increase racial and economic equity empower residents and neighborhoods to prosper
Each resident has access to the training and support needed to get and keep a living wage job. (e.g. Job skills training, childcare)
Each student graduates high school with a pathway to college or career. (e.g. Pre-k, rec programs, BrookLynk)
Aging neighborhoods and commercial centers are revitalized through continuous investment.
The community provides necessary supports and services for community members to overcome life challenges such as hunger, mental illness, and homelessness.
6: Effective and engaging government recognized as a leader
The City provides quality services at a reasonable cost.
Elected officials, commissions, and city staff reflect the diversity of the community and are culturally competent.
City information is clear, accessible, and delivered in ways that meet the community's needs.
City laws are understandable, equitably enforced, and relevant to the community.
The City is well-managed and recognized as a great place to work.
The City is coordinating with other organizations and community members on what everyone is working on.
For the city's part, we have project teams and plans around short-term priorities and projects. Each department has business plans around Brooklyn Park 2025, so we're all working toward achieving the goals.
Come to our monthly Brooklyn Park Community Assembly or sign up for emails.
Get creative about how you, your family, your neighborhood or organization can help achieve the Brooklyn Park 2025 community goals.
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The trouble is, we get the message that we need to be doing every single thing and doing it perfectly.
I think that's a bit of a fib. And who has the energy for that, anyway?
The secret to enjoying our days – I'm convinced – is in realising that we can't do everything amazingly and that very often, good enough really is enough.
I could never get into any sort of exercise regime until I started walking.
Walking doesn't even feel like exercise to me: it's a time to turn up a podcast and turn down the noise in my head and now I don't miss a day.
And when it's really cold or I don't have much energy? I'll just walk to the shops and back.
Some days I'll get round every room in our house and pick things up; some days, the bed doesn't even get made.
It's okay: no one yet has withdrawn their hand of friendship over my hit-and-miss housekeeping skills.
We tell kids to, "Do your best!" but I'm not sure that statement's all that helpful.
With my kit designs, I'm putting in as much time as feels healthy.
Could they be my very best work if I put in more than a few hours a week? Absolutely.
But are they just fine as they are for my purposes? Yep.
I iron once a week, which means there is pretty much always ironing waiting to be done.
The same goes for every other chore: when it happens on a weekly rota, the result is that the house never looks completely put together.
But it's pretty much sanitary… so that's okay. Certainly good enough.
You know, I have tried to be the pinterest-perfect wife and mum in the past, but I don't anymore. I'd rather leave that to the women who are paid to create all that beautiful content!
This year for his birthday, Rev. Fish got a fondant 'portrait' popped onto a shop-bought cake and it raised a smile and tasted good: job done.
My diet isn't perfect: I have a terrible habit of eating butter straight from the pat and have the shakes most of the time from over-consumption of coffee.
But I figure that so long as most of my choices are on the nutritious side, it's not so bad.
And enough has become enough with my creativity too.
I can spend hours making layouts that will bring in lots of love on social media or I can spend the twenty minutes I actually have sticking a few things together and writing down a few thoughts.
One of those approaches feels healthy.
Turned out, that because I couldn't read whole chapters in one sitting, I was striking the activity off my list. Daft, huh?
So these days, I schedule time to read: it's never for long and lounging around 'unproductively' always feels uncomfortable, but it's doing me good.
And guess what? I eventually finish books.
Turns out, little and often really can be enough.
I read on Instagram that you're playing with a new collection. Any chance we might be getting black and white florals?
LOVE your words from the post. I am glad you are reading. I like to read. The CAT mug is so cute. Thanks!!!
I love reading too… so relaxing to just escape from your own world into another, even for just a little while.
Gee, no author recommendations come to mind right now. I tend to read thrillers, the more suspenseful the better; I love a good page-turner.
Have you read any Liane Moriarty? I've devoured all of hers that I've read – edgy but not too scary.
Bravo to this! I definitely make the time for the things that are important to me and everything else generally works itself out.
I think that doing our best is still a good idea. But doing our best at this particular moment. Some days I have mpre energy, other days getting early to bed is the best I can do to take care of myself, right?


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Indian Science Congress (ISC) 2011, will emphasize more on collaboration with space agencies of different countries for planetary explorations and India-US student exchange programme.
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Indian Science Congress 2011 To Highlight On Science Education & Planetary Exploration
Chennai: Indian Science Congress (ISC) 2011, is expected to emphasize more on the issues such as collaboration with space agencies of different countries for planetary explorations and India-US student exchange programme. Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) will conduct the 98th edition of ISC. It is scheduled to be conducted on January 3-7, 2011, at the SRM University in Kattankulathur. The science Congress will deliberate on the focal theme Quality Education and Excellence in Scientific Research in Indian Universities.
As per sources, the four-day premier science event, to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister, is expected to cost SRM University about Rs 12 crore. Around 7,000 people are expected to participate in the science congress, including overseas scientists and couple of Nobel laureates. Moreover, according to officials, normally one-third of the cost will be met from contributions from the domestic scientific organizations and the balance from sponsors.
P. Sathyanarayanan, Vice Chancellor of SRM University and Chairman of the ISC organizing committee, have announced that the Space Summit will see participation from space agencies of other countries like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US, Japan Space Exploration Agency, Europe apart from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
According to Ashok K. Saxena, ISCA General Secretary, a student exchange programme is also planned with the San Diego-based American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He also mentioned that nearly 40 percent of the children in San Diego are of Indian origin. The student exchange programme will give them an opportunity to visit India. This will be the first time such a programme is being thought of as a part of science congress.
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Biola athletics is about more than just putting points on the board or runs across the plate, this was evidenced by Biola being named an NAIA Champions of Character Five-Star Institution.
Oct. 10, 2013 By Neil Morgan
Biola University has once again been named a five-star institution by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics' Champions of Character program.
BU's athletic department has been awarded this honor each year since the 2007-08 school year. The Eagles received 66 total points on the 2012-13 Champions of Character scorecard.
More than 80 percent of all NAIA institutions were named five-star programs this year as the association continues to strive towards raising the standards of positive student-athlete development in athletics and academics.
"The Champions of Character program is very important to Biola University athletics," said Bethany Miller, assistant athletic director and Champions of Character liaison. "We work hard to demonstrate respect and sportsmanship, and Biola has once again proven to be doing excellent in all the areas."
All eight Golden State Athletic Conference programs scored the designated 60 points or higher to be named as five-star institutions. BU's 66 total points places them in the top five in the conference.
The top five schools in the NAIA all came in at 97-plus points. Oklahoma Baptist led the nation with 99 points and Central Methodist (98), Columbia College (98), Cal Maritime (97) and Edward Waters (97) followed.
Points are calculated based off of a yearly scorecard that is created by the NAIA Champions of Character team. The scorecard presents tangible, measurable goals in the following categories: character training, academic focus, character recognition, character promotion and conduct in competition.
"Our athletes do very well academically, as our GPA is actually above the average for the entire student body," said Miller. "We strongly emphasize performance in the classroom as well as on the court or in the field. Athletes also go out into the community and serve, and that is something that is very close to the heart of Biola Athletics."
Service projects play a big role in Biola's ability to excel in the Champions of Character program, and teams currently have service projects ongoing, including softball, tennis and others.
The NAIA instituted the Champions of Character program in 2000, and it serves to educate and enhance all NAIA athletic programs in the areas of integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship and servant leadership. More information on the program and how it applies to Biola can be found at http://athletics.biola.edu/sports/2013/10/9/GEN_1009131538.aspx?tab=championsofcharacter.
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Claddagh, Co. Galway, Ireland; upper-shore rocks. 06 Apr 2009. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).
Syntype localities: Ad littora mar. sept. pr. Eckwarden [Niedersachsen, Germany] Trentepohl & in insula Norderney Mertens (Roth 1806: 71). Isotype: LD herb. alg. Agardh, no. 7417 Notes: According to Womersley (1984: 221) the type is from Germany (North Sea ); probably lost.
Adjective (Latin), shaped like a pencil or an artist's camel-hair brush (Stearn 1973).
Swedish: Fransalg (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).
Hanic, L.A. (2005). Taxonomy, gamete morphology and mating types of Urospora (Ulotrichales, Chlorophyta) in North America. Phycologia 44: 183-193.
Lindstrom, S.C. & Hanic, L.A. (2005). The phylogeny of North American Urospora (Ulotrichales, Chlorophyta) based on sequence analysis of nuclear ribosomal genes, introns and spacers. Phycologia 44: 194-201.
Zinova, A.D. & Zaberzhinskaja, E.B. (1965). Species algarum pro mari Caspico novae. Novitates Systematicae Plantarum non Vascularium 2: 97-100.
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Kristiansen, J. (1974). The fine structure of the zoospores of Urospora penicilliformis, with special reference to the flagellar apparatus. British Phycological Journal 9: 201-213, 18 figs.
Roleda, M.Y., Campana, G.L., Wiencke, C., Hanelt, D., Quartino, M.L. & Wulff, A. (2009). Sensitivity of Antarctic Urospora penicilliformis (Ulotrichales, Chlorophyta) to ultraviolet radiation is life-stage dependent. Journal of Phycology 45(3): 600-609, 5 figs, 2 tables.
Sluiman, H.J., Roberts, K.R., Stewart, K.D. & Mattox, K.R. (1982). The flagellar apparatus of the zoospore of Urospora penicilliformis (Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 18: 1-12, 42 figs.


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Disney Completes Buy Out Of LucasFilms
As of recently The Walt Disney Company has completed the buy out of LucasFilms. Disney has agreed to purchase all of the rights to LucasFilms for an astonishing $4.04 billion. With this acquistion, The Walt Disney Company will have complete ownership to any of LucasFilm's annexes, including Star Wars and LucasArts, the gaming subdivision of the company. With this hefty purchase now under their belt, Disney already plans to release a Star Wars trilogy of it's own, with episode 7 of the series slated make its big screen debut sometime in 2015. CEO and Chairman of LucasFilms, George Lucas, will still be on board for the trilogy as the creative director of the films, giving life long followers of the movie something to remain excited about. This is by far the priciest investment that Disney has taken part in, other purchases include the likes of other media powerhouses such as ESPN, ABC, and Pixar. Below is a statement by George Lucas that the media has released about the situation:
"For the past 35 years, one of my greatest pleasures has been to see Star Wars passed from one generation to the next," George Lucas, the chairman and CEO of Lucasfilm, said in a statement. "It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime. I'm confident that with Lucasfilm under the leadership of Kathleen Kennedy, and having a new home within the Disney organization, Star Wars will certainly live on and flourish for many generations to come. Disney's reach and experience give Lucasfilm the opportunity to blaze new trails in film, television, interactive media, theme parks, live entertainment, and consumer products."
-Dustin DeGuzman


ABOUT THE LOOK (: Heavy navy blue winged liner on top, brown shading on the bottom, balanced with my favorite hard-to-describe lipstic--Rimmel Airy Fairy. I like wearing heavy liner in the rain, it makes me feel windy and bluesy... catch my drift?
TO ACHIEVE: Start by priming the lid, just up to the crease and below the bottom lashline.
Take a navy blue pencil liner and line the top lid, starting at the outer corner. I do this sometimes to exaggerate a cat eye.
Take a smudger brush (a dense short haired flat brush) and smudge out the line, using a bit of shadow in the same navy color. Using shadow to smudge the liner helps to lock in the color.
Take a brown waterproof liner and line under the bottom lash line, stopping had way in. I find that navy blue and brown create the most unusual effect and really play up brown eyes.
For extra contrast, take a black liquid or gel liner on a brush and draw a thin black line on top of the navy blue, staying very close to the lashes. This will "outline" the blue liner, making it appear even more vibrant.
Finish with a coat or two of your favorite mascara to your top lashes.
Turning my frown upside down and FIXing MY FACE!!! YEA!!!
Airy Fairy by Rimmel is an amazing lipstick!
Step 1: Chop those nails to your desired length.
I like to keep about a 2 mm tip for French.
Step 6: Base--Duri Rejuvacote , the one and only!!!
I chose a pale lavender (cuz it makes my hands look tan).
Step 8: The tips--for true French, keep them white.
A tip for the tips: Try to line across the nail in one, steady sweep.
Step 9: Top Coat--Duri Rejuvacote , the one and only!!!
So, now that I've fixed my nails and face, I am ready for the world!!!


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Content Monetization
How to Monetize Content with Ad Insertion
By peter.dikhazi@guava.blue
We've discussed making OTT content profitable, but we haven't yet explained how to further improve monetization through advertising, which can also be turned into a significant revenue stream that helps grow your business.
The forecast of global spending on TV advertising is counting with $192 billion by 2022 (a $19 billion increase compared to 2018), which means more opportunities for monetization—which can also be more lucrative if the ads are sold for popular VOD or high-viewership live content.
Let's see how you can leverage the benefits of Dynamic Ad Insertion to drive the monetization of your OTT content.
What is Dynamic Ad Insertion and What Does It Do?
Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) is the server-side technology that enables advertising within video streams. If the goal is to insert video advertising pieces into VOD or live linear programming content, this is the best tool out there that you can utilize.
It generally functions like this: based on embedded protocol info, the video streams are transcoded and conditioned for ad insertion by an encoder. Then cues for the ad elements are inserted into the playlist at points of your choice. During ad breaks, for example, the viewing devices will receive the inserted ad chunks from your network in a transparent manner.
However, DAI can also be utilized in targeted advertising. Since advertising can target several levels in generals (e.g., demographics, content, user, device, behavior, geolocalization), a DAI solution can intertwine targeted ads and video content into a single stream. This results in a seamless experience for viewers—one that doesn't rely on a web page or app to work.
The Value of Dynamic Ad insertion
DAI holds tremendous value, and its benefits can be grouped according to five main areas: personalization, dynamic adaptation, data, analytics, and, last but not least: unblocked ads.
With the saturated OTT market, it's hard to stand out even with original, unique content. The competition is fierce, and personalization is the key to securing viewers' attention—and later, the loyalty—. But it's one thing to differentiate your content and another to determine ads inserted into your video stream. So how can you add a personal touch to ads and make them resonate with individual viewers? The way DAI operates allows you to understand better those who are watching your streams, gathering data, and analyzing that to give you insight into their behavior as well as the things they like. If you tune into that and provide them with ad pieces that match their preferences and interests, you're on the right path to secure them as loyal viewers of your content. This becomes possible through DAI.
Dynamic Adaptation
In general, DAI plans with ads inserted to specific time slots; however, those slots can be switched instantly and dynamically. It uses predefined data that enables the dynamic reaction to the customer's ad-viewing habits and preferences. When an ad best matches a relevant theme at the right time, customer engagement increases, resulting in higher conversion rates.
Today, media players can offer advertisers much more targeted audience segments thanks to emerging, new tech in big data, cloud-based video processing, and behavioral analytics. It means that with smart advertising being the prize, advertisers will enjoy better cost per thousand (CPT) rates. (CPT is the cost an advertiser pays for one thousand views or impressions of an advertisement.)
Analyzing the collected data to gain insights into your viewers can create thematic channels where content and advertising are synergized. And advertising that's woven into the dominant theme of the channel will be seen as less disruptive, ultimately translating into higher CPT rates as well. Moreover, since the CPT with DAI is already higher, it is viable to reduce the ad load and become more liked by your audience due to fewer ads.
Unblocked Ads
DAI can make advertisements look the same as the content in the eyes of adblocking software. This means that those ads will surely get through to your viewers.
Cloud-Based DAI
As within the cloud, you can scale several workflows to run parallelly. A DAI solution that is up there and is equipped with manifest manipulation will enable the real-time creation of custom manifests per user. Specifically, DAI offers solutions interfaced with ad decision servers to supply users with targeted manifests based on user location, device, or other criteria.
These cloud-based DAI solutions that can do this are generally capable of supporting multiple targeting scenarios and delivering unique playlists with targeted ads included for any device.
The DAI use case can be expanded to operate with blackout management and video content replacement with the cloud. It is crucial to distribute content anywhere, to any device. For impeccable blackout management, a solution needs to be event scheduling and provide a notification interface service.
Preparing for DAI Utilization
DAI is an amazing tool, but its implementation cannot be rushed. As with all things worth investing in, it requires care and proper preparation to work in your favor.
Ad Trigger Normalization
Ingesting several live channels from multiple providers can be somewhat problematic, as providers usually implement in-stream ad triggers differently. The solution here is to normalize these ad triggers and enrich them with external data to enter the platform at the intended time and place.
Quick Ad Ingestion
To mitigate the risk of undesired latency, DAI platforms should ingest ads as quickly as possible. For seamless ad-stitching, the ad will have to be transcoded to match pre-configured, live transcoding profiles. Be cautious with the ad-transcoding process; however, if it's too drawn-out and the ad isn't ingested in time, the ad insertion may not occur or be inserted at the wrong time.
Accurate Reporting
Accurate reporting of ad impressions and data is a basic expectation of advertisers. It's the same in the case of DAI, regardless of the content type (VOD, live, catchup, etc.). So make sure that impressions of every ad are counted and reported accurately to the ad server.
DAI Scalability
A manifest should be calculated and served to each viewer in a server-side architecture, allowing you to present different ads to your users. Unfortunately, the Content Delivery Network is not ideal for distributing the manifest in this case. A such, the DAI must ensure to process and serve the manifest to each viewer. Thankfully, the scalability provided by the cloud makes DAI deployment highly efficient.
Compliance with Video Ad Serving Template (VAST)
Make sure that VAST—the standard protocol for interfacing a DAI video-stitching platform with third-party ad decision servers (ADS)—is implemented.
Coupling the Cloud with DAI
DAI—specifically server-side ad insertion (SSAI)—is also great for ad replacement in the live stream without disrupting or ruining the viewers' experience. Furthermore, the technique of intertwining ads with the content itself on the server-side is a surefire way to circumvent adblocking.
However, by utilizing the advantages of the cloud, workflows become streamlined and more straightforward. For instance, processes such as ad and ABR transcoding, manifest generation and manipulation, and packaging can all be synchronized within a single, seamless architecture that will significantly ease deployment.
Our full-scope OTT solution, ENT.360, is an enterprise-ready, software-only AWS native architecture with DAI and SSAI implementation included. With it, we architected and developed a global, monetized content distribution platform for a market-leading streaming service provider that was available in 50+ countries across more than 15 devices. ENT.360 is Well-Architected Solution.
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Instead of being frustrated at trying to shoot a video while my toddler jumped around, I decided to let him be part of the project. He "helped" me record my entry into Oprah's OWN Network show contest. I'm pitching the idea of a Frugal Socialite show. He truly is a mini-socialite! By himself, with no prompting from me, he started repeating the things I was saying, and tell me, is he a natural?


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West is Losing and so It's Bashing China and Russia 'Left and Right' Literally
by Andre Vltchek, New Eastern Outlook:
The insanity and vileness of Western anti-Chinese propaganda used to make some of my Chinese friends cry late at night. But things are changing. The lunacy of what is said and written about China (and Russia, of course), in the US and Europe, is now clearly reflecting frustration and the bad manners of sore losers. One could almost be inclined to pity the Western empire, if only it wasn't so violently murderous.
The Empire's propagandists are pitying nobody – they are now shooting like maniacs, but without any coherent plan.
Various Western 'experts' and journalists cannot really agree on the basics: 'what is really wrong with China'. But they are paid extremely well to find new and newer skeletons in the huge Chinese closets, and so they are constantly competing with each other, looking for the juiciest and the most scandalous stories. Often it appears that it pays to assume that absolutely everything is flawed with the most populous, and on top of it, Communist (with the 'Chinese characteristics, of course) country on earth!
China will end extreme poverty by 2020, but do not look for cheers and applause from Berlin, Paris, London and Washington. China is far ahead of all the large countries on earth in building a so-called 'ecological civilization', but who is willing to notice? China is constructing public parks, boardwalks and playgrounds, the biggest on earth, but who cares? The Chinese government is introducing sweeping educational reforms, while flooding the entire nation with concert halls, museums and theatres. But that's not worth mentioning, obviously!
Western propaganda tries to discredit China literally from both 'left and right', sometimes accusing it for being too Communist, but when it is suitable, even for 'not being Communist enough'.
The New York Times ran a cover-page story on October 5, 2018, "Unlikely foe for China's leaders: Marxists". For this highly sarcastic piece, a reporter visited the Chinese city of Huizhou, from where he wrote about a group of over-zealous young Marxists who are demanding things to be as they were in Mao's days:
"But the Huizhou activists represent a threat the authorities did not expect."
Seriously? A threat? China is moving towards Communism, again, under the current leadership. We are talking about democratic, socially-oriented Communism. But let us not argue with the official U.S. newspaper. It is definitely not a pro-Communist publication, but they had to show some sympathy (by running a cover story!) to a small bunch of over-zealous 'opposition' Marxists, just to spread doubts among the readers, suggesting that the Chinese government is not that Red, anymore.
The next day (Saturday-Sunday edition, October 6-7, 2018), the same New York Times published two cover stories on China. One was along its usual anti- Chinese and anti-Russian conspiracy lines "Will China hack U.S. mid-terms?", but the other basically contradicted the story from the previous day, accusing Beijing this time of cutting the wings of private companies: "Beijing is pushing back into business", with a sub-title:
"Government flexes muscle as private companies that built economy lose ground."
'Wherever it can hurt China, just write it', could be the credo of thousands of European and North American journos: 'as long as the news about or from China is bad, really dark and negative, anything goes!'
Too much Communism, or too little… As far as the West is concerned – China can never get it right! Because… simply because it is China, because it is Asia, and because it waves the red flags.
And so, The New York Times ran two totally contradictory stories. An editorial blunder, or a pre-meditated attempt to inflict maximum damage, by kicking 'left and right'?
It is, of course, fun, to follow this propaganda trend, 'from a safe distance' (meaning: 'not believing a word of what it says'). But what is happening is not a joke; what is being done can actually be deadly. It can trigger, unexpectedly, a chain of events that could truly hurt China.
'An explosion' could originate in Taiwan, in Southeast Asia, or from the PRC territory itself.
Look at Brazil, look at Venezuela! Look at all those Color Revolutions, Umbrella Revolutions, 'Springs' from Europe to Arab countries. And look at China itself: who triggered; who sponsored the so-called Tiananmen Square events? There is clearly enough evidence, by now, that it was not some spontaneous student rebellion.
The West has convinced several countries such as the Philippines, that they should confront China, through various territorial claims in which, honestly, almost no serious Filipino historian or political scientist is ready to believe (unless he or she paid royally from abroad). I talked directly to several top historians and political scientists in Manila, and I got a clear picture of whom and what is behind those territorial claims. I wrote about it in the past, and soon will again.
China is too big to tolerate dangerous subversions from abroad. Its leadership knows well: when the country is in disarray, hundreds of millions of human beings suffer. To preserve the nation's territorial integrity is essential.
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A common mistake companies will make is to have IT the exclusive owner of Master Data. In a recent SAPnsight Breakfast Huddle, the issue was raised that having master data exclusively belong to IT can cause implementation problems, Implementations can occur without input or testing from business users. Improvements requested by the user community after implementation are disruptive to standard business processes. To have sustainable Master Data Integrity, build a sound and repeatable process in your company to implement and support accurate master data.
The SAP Super User team should be engaged in any Master Data implementations. Business requirements on reporting and procedures need to be brought into the implementation process early.
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I find it hard to believe that super users are not the drivers of Master Data for SAP projects after all these years( I became SAP in 92 ); its not that I don't know that some organizations do not put them in charge, its that I find it hard to believe. Just so everyone is clear I am talking about; Material Masters, Vendor, Customer, etc. When I was at SAP in the 90s, I taught Master Data many times, by its very design it requires users( super ), get involved in the companies definition, and use of Master Data.
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