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Was the World Humanitarian Summit worth it?
So, was the WHS worth it?
I really can't say. I was far removed from the high level discussions and, honestly, I don't expect or need very much from them. As everyone I talked to said, the commitments are fine and while one could quibble about certain omissions they are good enough to structure our objectives, principals and thinking for awhile.
At a more fundamental level, there was, throughout and minute to minute, an inspirational level of esprit de crop amongst everyone here. These are people who have, by and large, invested their careers and lives towards helping those in dire need and in some of the roughest places on the planet. This was a chance to come together under a global banner and talk, and think, and laugh. It was more than "networking." It was about seeing people that have been lost to the messiness of humanitarians' lives, digging deeper with those who you may have met in an airport or a stray HCT meeting, and meeting others who share your commitments to humanitarian action despite the shitty conditions, the shitty pay, and the shitty respect you get from people "at home" who have no real clue about the work you do. We came together as a community and are leaving as a stronger community. Some have criticised the WHS as being "too much talk." Honestly, I don't think there was enough.
The other striking thing about this odd, complicated, diverse, slightly crazy and prone to all kinds of rambunctiousness, community, is that it has really taken on quite a serious level of professionalism. There were countess side events on operationalising innovation, principles, evidence and the tools, platforms and technologies that support this. There was even one high level event with WFP's ED, the CEOs of Mercy Corp and IRC, and a senior executive at MasterCard who talked about shifting the paradigm to start thinking about affected populations as "customers." While I tend to balk at the term "customer" - I'd settle for "client" -the fact that people were talking in these terms signals just how much the thinking, approaches, and applications are changing.
So, was it worth it? I will let the cynics and doubters cloud the space with their thoughts and viewpoints. I will read as many as I can and consider the most thoughtful carefully. For me and for all the people I talked to, it was worth it. Could I do a proper cost:benefit analysis, as I'm wont to do in many instances? No. However, some things don't need to be quantified.
All I know is that I very much look forward to going to the next one, 70 years from now!


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FC: BONES OF THE HUMAN BODY | Marie Barbee
1: Welcome to my Mixbook technology curriculum project! The following are examples of work that students might create and publish following directions of my Bones and Muscles lesson plan found at the end of this Mixbook. Technology is a powerful motivator for students. They can create projects that are aesthetically pleasing and that can be published to share with other students, family, and friends. In addition to being viewed on the Web, a Mixbook creation can be printed out as a hard copy book that can be housed in the classroom, presented to the school library, or purchased by parents and guardians as a keepsake of their child's work. -Marie Barbee
2: The human skeletal system has 5 main functions: SUPPORT, SHAPE, PROTECTION, MOVEMENT, and MAKING BLOOD CELLS
3: SUPPORT: The skeleton supports the soft tissues of the body to form the framework to which our muscles, tendons, and ligaments attach. -Kaitlyn F.
4: Your spine provides support for your head, neck, and back. | Many bones make up the foot to support the weight of your body.
5: SHAPE: The overall shape of our bodies is mostly due to our skeletons. The skeleton determines how short or tall your are by the length of your bones.
6: PROTECTION: Our bones are very strong. They protect the organs of the body. That is why it is so important to drink milk.
7: Can you see how the hand is made up of many small bones? Now, see if you can match the bones in the picture with your own hand.
8: MOVEMENT: Our bones work as levers that are pulled by the muscles to control movement. There are more than 600 muscles in the human body, including the heart-the most important muscle of all. -Triston W.
9: Just imagine how many bones and muscles are being used by the kids in this picture.!The muscles make up about half of the body's weight.
10: Without the bones and muscles, what would happen to the organs of your body?
11: Like pads that football players wear for protection and safety, your bones and muscles protect your vital organs from harm. Jacob B.
12: The fifth function of the human skeleton is to make new blood cells. When active, the human heart can circulate up to 8.8 gallons of blood per minute. -Reid K.
14: To the right you will find the link to the Mixbook lesson plan. it is aligned with the Missouri Grade Level Expectations and Show-Me Performance Goals.
15: MixBook Lesson Plan SECTION ONE Author: Marie Barbee Email Address: email@example.com Semester Created: Fall 2009 LESSON OVERVIEW Title: Bones of the Human Body Brief Description: The students will create their own Mixbook from mixbook.com about the bones of the human skeleton. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS/GENERALIZATIONS: The student understands the five main functions of the human skeleton, and is able to name the main bones of the human skeletal system. ENGAGING QUESTION/SCENARIO: The teacher will engage students by explaining that a Mixbook is just like an online book they can create on their own. Mixbook allows the students to show their creativity and knowledge combined to make a presentable project. The teacher will show students an example of a Mixbook she had previously made. In addition to the explanation of the Mixbook, a display of a human skeleton will be placed in the front of the classroom. SUBJECT AREA(S) (Put an X by all relevant subject areas.) ___ Math Science ___ Reading ___ Writing ___ Social Studies/History ___ Foreign Language X Art ___ Music X PE (Health) X Information and Technology Literacy GRADE LEVEL (Put an X by all relevant grade levels.) ___ Kindergarten ___ Grade 1 ___ Grade 2 X Grade 3 ___ Grade 4 ___ Grade 5 ___ Grade 6 ___ K-12 Elementary ___ K-12 Middle ___ K-12 Secondary ___ Secondary DETAILED LESSON DESCRIPTION This lesson is aligned with Missouri Grade Level Expectations and Show-Me Performance Standards. GLE #1: The SWBAT identify and label different bones by body parts of the human skeleton with 100% accuracy( Health Education, Functions and Interrelationships of Systems, Strand I. Structure and Functions of the Body, Concept C-Grade 3) (Performance Goals 2.7 ). GLE #2: The SWBAT correctly identify and use symmetrical balance (Visual Arts, Strand II: Elements and Principles (EP), 2. Select and use principles of art for their effort in communicating ideas through artwork, Concept A-Grade 3). STUDENT ASSESSMENT The students will be given a word search puzzle to acquaint themselves with the vocabulary of the skeletal system. The students will be given the Head-To-Toes activity sheet before the lesson to determine the level of prior knowledge in the form of a pre-test. The same activity sheet will be given after the lesson to check for understanding in the form of a post-test. During the week, students may review their progress with the teacher as desired. PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT CRITERIA Click here to see the scoring guide used on this project. COLLABORATION Possible collaboration could be with the Instructional Technology Specialist, Health Educator, and Art Educator. Anticipate possible collaboration with other 3rd Grade teachers as well as a possible unit that is used throughout the whole grade. LESSON IMPLEMENTATION Length of Unit (hours, days): 8 days, 45 minutes per day. An extra day will be allowed for completion of the project if needed. Prerequisite Skills: Students must have basic computer skills. ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS: ELL/IEP Students: Assistive Technology Needs: IEP students may work with a partner on this project. ELL students may incorporate their own language with the vocabulary in this lesson. MANAGEMENT/ORGANIZATION TIPS Allow for a couple of extra days that could be necessary to complete the lesson, depending on the needs of the individual class. Since this lesson plan requires searching on the Web, I would require they begin on Yahoo Kids at www.kids.yahoo.com. MATERIALS AND RESOURCES REQUIRED FOR UNIT: Access to the Internet Access to the computer lab Access to mixbook.com Paper Glue Pasta for skeleton: wagon wheels, spaghetti, lentils/detalini, ziti, spirals, small shells/white beans, lima beans TECHNOLOGY www.mixbook.com Web-based resources www.kids.yahoo.com UNIT PLAN FLOW CHART/TIMELINE Day 1: The class will be introduced to "Mr. Bones," who is a human skeleton replica model, to gain their attention. The students will be given the activity sheet to determine their prior knowledge of the skeletal system. They will be given the bones word search puzzle. The teacher will describe and assign the take-home Pasta Skelton project to the class. Day 2: The teacher will begin a class discussion about the main functions of the human skeletal system. The different bones will be introduced to the class in sections. An introduction of the Mixbook will follow. The teacher will model how to create a Mixbook. Day 3: The students will begin their Web search for resources to use in their Mixbooks. Students may work in pairs if desired. Day 4: The teacher will review how to create a Mixbook, modeling an example. The students will begin to create their individual Mixbooks. Day 5: This will be a work day for the students' mixbooks. Day 6: The teacher will instruct the students to complete their mixbook projects. Day 7: The students will present their mixbook projects in class, along with their Pasta Skeletons. Day 8: The students will complete the activity sheet, that was given initially as a pre-test, as a post-test.


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The latest Republic of Consciousness Podcast for Small Presses — supported by the Contemporary Small Press — is ready for your education, information and entertainment. This month's podcast includes a discussion of the soon-to-be-announced Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019.
Exciting things coming from small presses in 2019
Sam Jordison of Galley Beggar Press has put together some excellent recommendations from small presses of new titles coming out this year. See part 1 of these here — with recommendations from Sam alongside those from Tramp Press, Cassava Republic, Bluemoose Books, and from And Other Stories.
Manchester Indie Book Fair, 2 February 2019
For all those lucky enough to be in the north west, do check out the Manchester Indie Book Fair on 2 February at the Anthony Burgess Foundation — organised by Dostoyevsky Wannabe and focused on small and indie presses from the north of England. DW will be joined by, among others, Dodo Ink, If P Then Q, Knives, Forks and Spoons, Nightjar, Zimzalla, And Other Stories, Dead Ink and Longbarrow. For more information see here.
Episode 3, The Republic of Consciousness Podcast for Small Presses!
We are very pleased to announce the next Podcast for Small Presses from the Republic of Consciousness in association with the Contemporary Small Press. You can find it here.
In this episode Neil Griffiths, Jonathan McAloon and guests discuss Jean Fremon's Now, Now, Louison (Les Fugitives) and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home (The Stinging Fly).
The Inbetweenies: the identity of the small-press published author
After publishing my debut novel with micro-press Inspired Quill, I likened the experience to riding a mule. Now, with my third book and first short story collection on the brink of publication, I still feel something of an "inbetweenie" author, with neither the independence of the self-published nor the kudos of big-name backing. As identity is the overarching theme of my anthology, it's hardly surprising I've been musing on my identity as a writer in recent weeks.
Readers don't care who published a book as long as it's engaging. But the challenge for the inbetweenie author is less about writing an engaging story than about attracting the attention of readers who are unaware of the rich literary landscape beyond those prominently displayed in bookshops. Among the people I encounter in one of my other identities, many can't resist attaching the adjective famous to the word author, perhaps even rich and famous in their heads. I must then explain how, although they won't see them reviewed in the Sunday papers, my books are still worth their money and their time.
If ignored by the broadsheets, we're blessed by the blogosphere, and the myriad book-addicts who'll accept a review copy if they like the sound of the blurb. Many don't discriminate between self-published, inbetweenies and literary royalty, as long as they've room on their e-reader or shelf. But approaching them directly, as I often do, I've been mistaken for self-published, which irks me when, if it weren't for my publisher, the book might not exist.
Among writers, I come across a mixture of support and snobbery, although most will encourage other authors regardless of the process through which our books are birthed. But when time is tight – and when is it not? – a certain amount of tribalism is inevitable. This is never more apparent than when a prestigious author pours praise on a mediocre book; I'm often puzzled until I realise the authors share a publisher or agent.
Self-published authors are also adept at mutual support, sharing expertise and finding creative ways to promote each other's work. But if small-press published authors are banding together in a similar manner, I haven't been invited. Do we have a shared identity? What would an Alliance of Independent Authors equivalent for inbetweenies look like?
Surely we don't need another organisation? We have the Society of Authors after all. (As do self-published authors, as associates.) While I've definitely benefited from my membership, I'm bemused at handing over circa £100 a year to be informed I should be wary of the small press that signed me on four years ago.
Concerned that print-on-demand and digital technology enables anyone to set themselves up as a publisher, the SoA advises authors offered such "minimal investment" contracts to choose self-publishing instead. But this overlooks the contributions of micro-presses (some, like mine, non-profit) in bringing a wider diversity of reading material to the world. It is a category error to assume that, because some publishers are charlatans, all who can't afford advances or printing and warehousing costs, will be cavalier about the quality of the product or about paying authors our dues. So inbetweenies also need to guard against being mistaken for hapless victims of a vanity press.
Of course, as an inbetweenie, my identity is not only a matter of how others judge me. It's also about self-perception, and the smaller the gap between our achievements and our aspirations, the more comfortable in that identity we're likely to be. I must confess that, on bad days, I can't shake off the fantasy that, in a parallel universe, there's another Anne Goodwin who headlines at festivals and whose books grace the windows of every bookshop in the land.
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Anne Goodwin's debut novel, Sugar and Snails was shortlisted for the 2016 Polari First Book Prize. Her second novel, Underneath, was published in 2017. Her short story collection, Becoming Someone, on the theme of identity launches on Facebook on November 23rd, 2018, where the more people participate the more she'll donate to Book Aid International. Subscribe to her author newsletter before 19th November, for the chance of winning a signed copy.
A former clinical psychologist, Anne is also a book blogger with a particular interest in fictional therapists.
Website: annegoodwin.weebly.com
Twitter @Annecdotist.
Republic of Consciousness Podcast for Small Presses, Episode 2!
Episode 2 of the Podcast for Small Presses is here! Featuring Jonathan McAloon and Catherine Taylor on Anna Burns' Booker-winning Milkman, Eley Williams on Nicholas John Turner's Hang Him When He Is Not There published by Splice, and Jonathan McAloon's Small Press Book of the Month.
'Small is Beautiful', Strong Language, Sheffield, October 2018
Leigh Wilson of the Contemporary Small Press was very pleased to be involved in Strong Language, a series of events curated by Tim Etchells as part of the Sheffield's Off the Shelf Literary Festival. She chaired a panel, 'Small is Beautiful', consisting of four fantastic small press publishers — Victoria Brown from Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Stefan Tobler from And Other Stories, and Brian Lewis from Longbarrow Press — all testament to the many different ways that small can be beautiful. For a great summary of the event and some excellent photos by Chris Saunders, see Tony White's account.


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Thursday, December 2, 2010
I am translating every single line ..which is very touching.
which says... just like a flowering tree which was in their yard..(Babbul de veede ambi da buta)(ambi nu boore peya)now ready to bloom..
.(vas da rehe mere baabul da veedah theeian di ehi dua)daughters always pray for well being of their parents..
(sakyon bachpan de din payare enha galiyan de vich guzare)friends childhood memories are precious spent in playing on the streets...
(bachpan beetiya ayi jawani aagye mehaka de vanjaare)..now the flower blooms and its taken by somebody else ..
(babbul de veedeh chamba si khidya ek phool tod liya)there was garden full of flowers one flower is taken now..
(vaasda rahe mere baabul da veedah theeiyan di eh hi dua)I pray for well being of my parents and the garden to bloom forever...
(veedeh goonj pehiyan shenaiyan ki sakhiyan doli pavan ayian)the same house has today celebration goin on with friends together to set her for final goodbye.
.(baabul par latha tere sir toh loki ake dean vadhiyaan)..people are congratulating father as his burden of getting his daughter married is finally over..
(rona ni mayen punjh le athroo has has kar de bidaayee )dont cry mom wipe your tears...and happily say good bye..
(vas da rehe mere babbul da veedah theeyian di ehi dua)I pray for well being of my parents...
(mera veer sandahra layaya lambe cher ke paande aya)my bro has come with gifts after traveling hours..
(mere toh khushi na sambhi jaandi aaj khar aya ambhdi jaya)..I cannot express my happiness that apple of moms eye is here...
(Ambdi de jaye gal lag mileye a doove pehan praa...).apple of moms eye ...give me a hug we are brother and sister..
(Vaasda rahee mere babbul da veedah theeyan di ehi dua.....)..I wish for well being of my parents!!
I have translated the lyrics ....to best of my ability....with tears in my eyes all the time...
11 comments:
- A said...
I don't want to sound racist or biased towards any state but I noticed in that a lot Indians don't (wrongly) consider Panjabis or Sikhs to be good in literature, music, dance or art.
However on the same time, whole world dances to beats of dhol and knows Bhangra. No movie is complete without a good Panjabi song and Panjabi dance.
This song is another example of deep music sense in Panjabis.
On the literature side, while we had people like Amrtia Pritam but on the same time we have people like Khuswant Singh who is unmatchable.
Sometimes I wonder when will people be objective
Thanks for posting this song.
- December 2, 2010 at 6:17 PM
- Zeenu said...
harman what are you doing? I have yet to get married plz plz don't make me emotional its very nice song but very heart ripping.
I was in tears listening to whole song where did you get it?
harbhajan mann 's voice itself is very emotional kind and on top of that he has sung this bidayee song?
call me I have to talk ,its been long since we had some girly talk :)
- December 2, 2010 at 7:07 PM
- GardenLane said...
I have to say, please donot post things like this. We girls live far away from our parents here, let alone getting married. It is better to forget this part of life to live normally. I cannot even dare to click on this song to play. Your lyrics alone made me cry.
When I got married, I pretended that I am never going away from my parents. I did not think I could live throught the crying, if I let the reality sink in.
This is one thing I always prayed that my good bye was not the final kind, and God answered my prayer. Now here, my parents can come and stay with me for longer time and life is almost the same as it was before marriage. I still cling to my mom like a baby, and leave her only when she promises to come back soon.
- December 3, 2010 at 1:33 AM
- Bikramjit said...
beautiful song .. thanks for putting it on ..
God bless ur parents and all parents
- December 3, 2010 at 6:18 AM
- Dharmjit said...
@harman this is not good u r making everyone cry here.Even i am feeling bad seeing everyone here in tears
- December 3, 2010 at 6:57 AM
- AbhiLaSH RuHeLa said...
logon ko rulaana atchi baat hai kyaa??
Agar meri biwi bidaai k samay jyaada roegi to usse jyaada main rone lagunga or usey kahunga k theek h tu apne hi ghar reh .. Main roz shaam ko yahiin milne aa jaaunga... ;)
- December 3, 2010 at 8:01 AM
beautiful song...
Just out of curiousity... why do girls always have to leave their house, their parents, their friends, even their surname... to go live with (often times) completely unknown family and they not only live with them... they accept them as their family and do every thing in their best capability to keep every single person in the household happy!! They adapt themselves to blend into the new family trends and ways and habits of doing things...
Sorry to say that but not all men can do the same thing!! I have seen men who avoid their in-laws and are proud of doing that!! Sorry, took the discussion to another direction... But, Harman can I add this as another reason to why not to get married??? ;-)
You have a beautiful soul and a wonderful way of thinking!! I wish more girls could be like you!
Cheers - Mannat!
- December 3, 2010 at 8:46 AM
- Harman said...
@ abhilash ..Buddy ..that was really a cute answer...wish world would run like that!
I didnt mean to make anybody cry...I cried myself too:( but jus the song is too good!
- December 3, 2010 at 11:48 AM
- Harman said...
@A..thanks !!I support your comment its not biased but in general where Punjabis ..have made a name all over the world ..and I think made every nationality ..(forget about Indian states )made their mouth water with sumptuous Punjabi food!
@Zeenu..I got from one of my online friends she had posted it..
dont be upset..plz!!
@gardenlane..I am sorry if got upset..parents are precious to everyone!have a gr8 time with your parents!
@Dharmjit..Sorry if Ihad upset anyone!
its very sad part for girls that changes their identity after marriage..yes she has to change..adapt a different atmosphere ..but still I would never say .."not to get married"...marriage has its own charm ,a good partner you can always share your problems and help each other seeing ups and downs in life..and then old age when you can actually see a transformation in everyone but your life partner remains same...
evry thing has its drawbacks and assets too..
tc!God Bless!!
- December 3, 2010 at 4:36 PM
- dr.antony said...
We are sensitive,sentimental and emotional.And that is why we are touched by songs like this.
Bringing up a child with so much of love and care ,and then sending her away to an often unreachable destination, is not easy for a mother.
- December 4, 2010 at 11:17 PM
- Harman said...
@DR antony..Yes..its very sad part of a girls upbringing..but thats how its been a tradition!
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The Secret Behind Levitating Street Performers Is Finally Revealed… And It's So Clever.
Most illusions can be explained fairly quickly, unless they defy logic. Travellers around the world are being seduced by street entertainers who levitate effortlessly, making us torture ourselves trying to figure out how they did it . The tricksters even use a staff to appear that it is used for balance while wearing heavy and long clothing.
In reality, it is nothing more than an optical illusion designed by some very smart people. The performer uses a metal plate, rod, and a rug to make magic. As fun as it is to see an act that defies gravity, it's just as entertaining trying to figure out the science behind it. Or in this case, the deception.
A street performer charms his audience while levitating over his rug.
This magic trick stops strangers on their tracks all over the world.
The performer is sitting on a platform that connects to the floor.
Watch this man setup his levitating device.
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Lessons from a showgirl
Last week I was at the Miele Catwalk event where we were welcomed by a couple of beautiful girls dressed in extravagant costumes. They reminded me of the many times that I performed as a showgirl at big, luxurious corporate parties. Before I became a 'Doctor' in the area of branding, I used to spend at least 12 to 20 hours a week dancing and singing at Diana Meijer ShowBizz Academy. Classical ballet, jazz, tap dance and showdance, I followed classes and gave my own. Almost every weekend I performed professionally with my (girl)friends, often wearing not much more than bikini and feathers.
When I started working at Positioneringsgroep, I hesitated to tell my new colleagues about my 'other life', but when you are passionate about something, it's very difficult to hide. The only thing I really was afraid of, was meeting CEO's and other boardroom members at their corporate parties. I always had this nightmare of presenting branding strategies to men in suit during the day and being recognized by them during the night, while doing my sexy moves on stage. At the same time, I enjoyed seeing top managers in the context of fun and entertainment. Instead of being serious, status-sensitive businessmen, they loosened up, dancing and singing, not afraid to be laughed at while failing to pass under the limbo stick. They became … human!
I haven't been performing on stage since I became a mom two-and-a-half years ago, but at BR-ND I still use the learnings from my time as a showdancer. When people are having fun, status disappears and people tend to be more vulnerable. Vulnerability, to my opinion, is one of the key success factors of friendship and cooperation.
Oh, in case you wondered, I never stood face-to-face in my feathers with someone I just met in the boardroom. Being older and wiser now, and less afraid, I wish I had!
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I'm asked to show that transformation $$ T(a_1, a_2) = (a_1, a_1^2)$$ is not linear.
My attempt at was by showing that it is not closed under addition. That is; $$T[(a_1, a_2)+(b_1,b_2)] \ne T(a_1, a_2)+T(b_1, b_2)$$
and I got $$ \begin{matrix}a_1+b_1 \\a_1^2+b_1^2 \end{matrix} \ \ \ne \ \ \begin{matrix}a_1+b_1 \\a_1^2 + 2a_1b_1+b_1^2 \end{matrix} $$
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1.7-pound laptop. Full-size keyboard. Options for a built-in optical drive and extended batteries. GreenTech approved.
Must handle with care. Screen flexes too much and needs brightening. 3G wireless needs to come to the United States. SSD drives are expensive. Performance is unspectacular.
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Toshiba drove the Portégé R500 (SSD)'s weight down to 1.7 pounds, but you'll have to do without an optical drive, work with a smaller battery, and pay for an expensive SSD drive.
Calling the Toshiba Portégé R500 (SSD) ($2,599 direct) an ultraportable is an understatement. It's almost inconceivable that a laptop can sport a 12-inch screen and a full-size keyboard and yet weigh only 1.7 pounds (yeah, you read that right). Of course, several adjustments had to be made over the previous iteration of the Portégé R500 to get to this astonishing weight.
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This new configuration doesn't have a built-in optical drive, although you can integrate one as an option (which, of course, will add to the weight, as well as the price), and it comes with a 64GB SSD drive. The SSD drive optimizes disk transfer times and adds durability. Should you drop the system by accident, it won't break like a traditional spinning hard drive. (Granted, many laptops with spinning drives have an accelerometer, which helps park the heads of the hard drive in case the laptop is dropped by accident, but that doesn't work if the laptop is turned off at the time.) Also, the R500 (SSD) uses a smaller, three-cell battery in place of the six-cell one in the previous version. This featherweight machine isn't for the frugal, though. The R500 (SSD) costs well over $2,500.
When the Portégé R500 launched last year, it was, at 2.4 pounds, far and away the lightest laptop in its class to integrate an optical drive. By ditching the optical drive, Toshiba has achieved an unprecedented 1.7-pound chassis; the R500 (SSD) is a worthy rival to the MacBook Air and the ThinkPad X300. It isn't as sturdy as those two systems. Its hollow magnesium frame feels like a dummy model absent of any parts, and its cracker-thin screen succumbs to the same serious flexing issues as that of its predecessorit bends alarmingly easily. By contrast, the Lenovo X300 has minor screen flexing, and there's virtually none on the Apple Air. Keep in mind, though, that the X300 and the Air are 3-pound systems, significantly heavier than the R500 (SSD).
The 12-inch LED widescreen is not as big as the 13-inch ones on the Air and X300, but the R500's dimensions (11.2 by 8.5 by 0.8 inches) are better suited to slipping into small bags and to using on flights with pull-down trays, while still allowing room for a drink. Side by side against the X300 and the Air, the R500's screen isn't as bright and at times looked washed out, regardless of lighting conditions. Its full-size keyboard is a pleasure to type on and is larger than the 91 percent keyboards of the Fujitsu LifeBook P8010 and the Sony VAIO VGN-TZ150N. Still, the celebrated ThinkPad keyboard on the X300 offers arguably the best typing experience and has dual pointing devicesa pointing stick and touchpad. The R500 (SSD) comes only with a touchpad.
The goal of this configuration was to get the R500 below 2 pounds, even if certain features had to be sacrificed. A DVD burner is a glaring omission, but certain business travelers don't need one, and you can include one in the R500's other configurations. What you won't get in other versions, in the United States at least, is a webcam and 3G wireless. Toshiba has informed me that 3G supportthe ability to achieve broadband speeds with a cellular modemis offered in Europe. In its absence, the R500 (SSD) does integrate Intel's 802.11n Wi-Fi and an Ethernet port. Like the ThinkPad X300 and the LifeBook P8010, the R500 (SSD) has three USB ports. It also has an SD slot and a FireWire port to round out the connectivity options. The most expensive piece on this unit is the 64GB SSD drivethat's the reason this particular configuration costs $2,599 (and that the X300 costs $3,000). Because of the other, more fragile features of this laptop, the durability that SSD drives bring to the table is particularly important.
The system's 1.2-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo U7600 is a bottom dweller in terms of processor speed, and the 1GB of RAM isn't exactly generous. The R500 (SSD) runs Windows XP Professional, which is the type of operating system you want with these parts. You can easily do tabbed Web browsing, word processing, and light photo editing with this configuration. Video-encoding scores weren't that much slower than those of the ThinkPad X300 and MacBook Air. Yet the ThinkPad X300 and the MacBook Air are faster because they run faster processors and load more RAM (2GB each).
The X300's SYSmark 2007 Preview Overall score is more than 25 percent faster than that of the R500 (SSD). Although the R500 (SSD) and MacBook Air's SYSmark 2007 Preview Overall scores looked even, the MacBook Air ran my benchmark tests under Windows Vista Home Premium, a more resource-intensive operating system than Windows XP. On other tests, the Air had an 8 percent and an 18 percent advantage over the R500 (SSD) on CineBench R10 and video-encoding tests, respectively.
Battery life results weren't home runs, like the ThinkPad X300's and LifeBook P8010's 5-hour scores. The R500's 31-Wh, three-cell battery was on a par with the Air's 37-Wh battery, scoring just over 3 hours on MobileMark 2007 tests. Unlike the Air, however, the R500 gives you the option of purchasing a six-cell extended battery, plus a six-cell expansion slice (which slides underneath the base) to bring battery life to 9 hours. Of course, this will bring the weight up significantly as well.
The ultra-low-voltage (ULV) processor (as reflected in the energy usage scores) and a list of green certifications, which include Energy Star 4.0, EPEAT Gold, and RoHS, earned the R500 PC Magazine's GreenTech Seal of Approval. Per our PS3 International Kill A Watt measurements, the R500 (SSD) consumed 12 watts in idle state, matching the HP Compaq 2710p and besting the Fujitsu LifeBook P8010, the Lenovo ThinkPad X300, and the MacBook Air by 2W apiece. Even at maximum load, the R500 averaged only 21W.
The Toshiba Portégé R500 (SSD) is the only ultraportable with a 12-inch screen and full-size keyboard that has broken the 2-pound barrier. Certain sacrifices had to be made, though, like integrating a small battery and an expensive SSD drive, and leaving out the optical drive. While some might question the sturdiness of the chassis, it's important to note that laptops such as the ThinkPad X300, a feature-packed featherweight, and the MacBook Air, the thinnest laptop on Earth, are almost twice as heavy as the R500 (SSD). Before you take the plunge, though, I'd consider putting in a bigger battery.
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Welcome to the blog showcase by the Year 2 (Secondary 2) students of the School of Science and Technology (SST), Singapore. A showcase by the Art, Design, Media and Technology (ADMT) department, this 'Architectural Design 2012' module was developed with the following objectives:
- To enable students to apply systemic thinking into architectural works, with considerations being made of the environment as well as other related factors
- To sharpen the students' visual communication skills, through the creation of visual artefacts
Each Year 2 student was given the task and theme of working on an architectural (re)design project, with the following 3 deliverables: a design journal, a virtual model and a set of digital presentation boards. 2 options were offered to the students to choose. They were:
- A local food centre
- A local public park
The following 2 pages showcased the exemplary works done by these 13- to 14-year old students. Subsequent page will exhibit some of the other formative works and ICT-/media-enriched approaches by the teachers in lessons typical of an SST/ADMT classroom environment. Hopefully viewers would have an opportunity to appreciate the learning processes and outcomes of the students too.
Critiques, comments and feedback are most certainly welcomed. Do take the time to view and enjoy their digital artefacts. Hoping that you would enjoy the showcase, and the efforts put in by these students, and the teachers.
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Rather than staying with my exhibit of sketchbooks at FRESH, I returned again and again to the main show space to sketch the performers. In this performance, TinTin danced on the mound becoming more and more a part of the earth. He then dug into the earth, essentially resurrecting his dancing partner, Ashley Kroft. She gracefully rose up, spreading her arms towards the sky. Their dance then became an erotically charged dance of embraces, painful separations and joyful reunions. They both embrace the earth, and share it with each other. They rub the coffee scented earth into each other's skin. It would be awesome if Starbucks would embrace this celebration of coffee by bringing this dance to the center of its coffee shops. I am certain they would sell more coffee.
I am writing this post from the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Gentle new age music is playing as I enjoy my morning coffee. The music perfectly brings back impressions and feelings I had while watching the FRESH performance. I feel at peace although I am here, to do one last portrait of my stepmother who is losing her battle with cancer. I visited her yesterday and she is a frail fraction of the woman she was. This portrait is the most important sketch I will do in some time. It is time to pack up my supplies and get to the hospital. I approach this new found day buzzing with hope and faith. I do not want to waste a minute.
Monday, February 22, 2010
FRESH-The Coffee Mound
Prints are available for each sketch for $250 and many originals can be purchased for $400. White museum grade shadow box frames are $100 more. You can e-mail Thor at firstname.lastname@example.com
Posted by Thor at 1:00 AM
Labels: Cameo Theater, Dancers, Drip, Theaters
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I will keep you in my thoughts Thor
- February 22, 2010 at 1:07 AM
- Thor said...
Thanks A.
- February 26, 2010 at 11:01 AM
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It sounds like you are going to do a lot of extra coding, to make all of your users come up with security questions and answers, to avoid confusing a user if a poser tries to get his kicks by triggering an unwanted email.
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Imagine you are moving at 10 km per hour and your friend is moving at 11 km per hour.After 6 minutes they are only 100 m (1/10th of 1km) apart which is not very significant. You can literally see each other.After an hour you are 1 km apart. You can no longer see each other but still you aren't all that far from each other. If you wish you can meet each other easily.But after 10 hours you are 10 km apart and after 100 hours you are 100 km apart.Now you are in two different cities. It's too far to meet each other. Perhaps you have to speak over phone.Likewise investing in a fixed deposit of 6% per annum or investing in a mutual fund of 10-15% per annum does not make a huge difference when invested for a period of 1 year or even for that matter for a period of 2 years.However, if you were to invest for a period of 10 years to 15 years, the 4-9% difference but nearly 100-200%.
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Perpetually polished and impeccably put-together, we all envy the near mythological elegance of French women. Genealogy aside, there's one classic element of French style we can steal NOW: the French twist. Intimidated? Not! This foolproof how-to will have you saying 'ooh-la-la' to your reflection in no time.
Up dos always work best with some 'stick' in your hair, so use a prep spray such as L'Oréal's LOCK IT FINE CONTROL Hairspray first. To start, pull up the front of your hair as though you're doing a half-up do, and twist the section for a rolled effect. Pin the roll in place at the back of your crown.
Right beneath the pin, braid the remaining ponytail portion and secure it with a small band. This is a cool look in-and-of itself with volume and a trendy braid, but not particularly French! Yet.
Brush the back of your hair to the right side of your head, smoothing as you go. Use large hairpins to secure your side swept hair slightly off center, so your braid dangles over it. If your hair underneath feels too slippery, use some hairspray for better hold (L'Oréal's LOCK IT BOLD CONTROL Hairspray).
Holding on to the tail of your braid with one hand, pull your pinned hair back to the left side of your head, covering the braid. The tail will be popping out by design (it's the key to mastering this tricky twist).
Here, even for the hair-style-challenged, is the foolproof ah-ha moment: wrap your hair around the braid, creating a croissant type twist/roll (oui: that's the origin of the name!).
Continue neatly wrapping your hair around the braid until you reach the tail, and secure together with an elastic. The twist will be loose, but once you've completed this step, the rest is a fait accompli.
Simply tuck the tail of the new braid/rolled ponytail under the twist at the nape of the neck and pin. Once the tail is secured, you can adjust (and flatten the tucked area) with more pins. Volume for a French twist is greatest at your crown; the nape should be as smooth as possible.
Starting at the top of your now hidden braid, use large pins to secure the twist, gently tucking hair into the twist as you go to create a tight hold. While there are myriad ways to style a twist, this sleek take begs for high shine. Spritz on LOCK IT BOLD CONTROL Hairspray for a major staying power.
The result: a Catherine Deneuve-worthy French twist that will have your friends asking you when you got back from Paris. Voila!
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Did you ever see a picture of yourself and think, "Ugh. Is that what I look like?" only to come across the same photo a year later to think, "Man! I wish I still looked like that!"
I'm having that moment, and laughing at myself.
Conversely, check out these before and after photos of Ralph the Sock Monkey. It's a drastic change: double arm blowouts, a tail bandaged with tape, his hat re-stitched…
But when I think about his travels to four countries and seven U.S. states, I realize that Ralph looks pretty good. His smile hasn't changed a bit.
You get a little wear and tear when you don't stay home in a drawer. Ralph has earned every one of his blowouts. And so have I.
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As a stager/decorator by profession and a mom/homemaker by calling, I have come to believe home should be two things: personal and beautiful. And I don't think I'm alone in this, am I? Personal because there is something so powerful about creating a space that is unique to the family who lives there, which is different than anywhere else. A personal home with the faces of those who live there smiling at us from the walls; memories captured through displayed items from our parents' childhoods or our family vacations; colors and textures that we love and connect to, allowing us to exhale when this world seems too much. That's a valuable space, is it not? And then we try to get this personal touch in ways that also seem beautiful to our eye. Let's go ahead and acknowledge that it matters! "Personal and beautiful" is way more appealing than "personal and ugly," right??
But you know, I wish I could add one more word. I want add the word "imperfect." It takes the pressure off, I think. It lessens the burden of having to come up with something exact. It gives us the freedom to use grandma's old chair in our living room even if it's dinged up or the leg was glued back on three times. It allows us to use what we have and already love, which means we decorate with our child's artwork because that makes us smile more than the prettiest picture in Target's aisles. It's the space where we breathe…and I think imperfection matters because it gives those who live there permission to be the same thing: imperfect. Because we are, you know. And home should be, at its best, a reflection of us.
The connection between a woman and her home is strong, isn't it? It houses her beloveds who dwell there, and we are all fiercely protective of that crew. But there is often tension between a woman and her home, because it's also the place that never seems to keep up with social media, that taunts our rest with endless piles of laundry, and can sometimes feel more like a place to be trapped than a place to relax and be deeply known. I know there are many who feel frustration toward it because they know they want beauty and warmth but don't know how to get it. There are others who wreck their family's budget because the things they have aren't bringing contentment, because comparison is the thief of joy. There are others who don't have the time/money/bandwidth to be concerned about its beauty during this season of life, but who wish that home would be able to give them a warm squeeze when they walk in the door at the end of a long day. And I hope, even though the group may be small, that there is a collection of women who would raise their hands to say that on good days, they are able to stand somewhere in the middle of all that.
Mamas/women/warriors/brave-hearts/comforters/trailblazer, may I encourage you for a moment? You will never need to use what you don't have to create your home. Home isn't this illusive thing you will someday have the money to buy, or someday have the pretty things to fill, or someday discover the talent for. Home is the place where you are; where your family lives. Home is the building that we fill with what we have, with what we love, and with what we use. Home is "personal, beautiful, and imperfect." And we each get to decide what those things are to us. It doesn't depend on what you can buy in the stores. It isn't determined by the trend we see in pictures. And it certainly doesn't cost us all we have- or more. It can be found in soft blankets and items you grew up with, or the toys your babies have played with. In fact, my favorite things in my own home are the items with a story behind them.
Let me tell you how this plays out in my own home! I just redecorated my bookshelves a few weeks ago because it was time for a changeup. I was craving a shopping trip something fierce, but our household is Dave Ramsey-ing right now and so "working with what we have" is the theme hour. (All of my fellow gazelles raise your hands!) So! I shopped my home, my boxes in the garage, my closet, and I came up with things to use instead of running to the store. And I surprised again by how emotionally attached I felt as I looked at those beautiful-to-me shelves because it held the things that told our story. It was full of things we love! And things that reminded us where we've been…..and who we want to continue being.
You'll see in the picture below that I used piles and piles and piles of books. To get those I just raided our bookshelves, found all the hardbacks and removed the paper covers, then stacked them with pages facing out. I used ceramic creatures from my son's art class, Mother's Day hand-painted ceramic coffee mugs to hold succulents, a purse I bought from a street market in Paris when my husband celebrated our 10-year anniversary, one of the Battleship boards that we bought as the family souvenir during a trip to Disney World, woven baskets at child-height holding legos and figurines and train sets. And I used pictures. So many pictures.
You know, my husband and I have lived in six different homes in the last 10 years, partly because of the US Navy and partly because of the adventurous spirits within us. And I have come to really treasure the things we own, as opposed to the building we live in, because those are the things that we take with us from building to building. And I have had to fight this lie pop culture tells us that says we have to buy something new, or that our house (or ourselves) has to look a certain way to be beautiful, all because of the thing that's really at the root of all that fuss- the desire to be enough.
A whole, separate blog post could dig down through all of this to tackle the chains of discontentment and self-worth, which I believe are the real enemies in our pursuit of creating a "personal, beautiful, imperfect home" in a healthy way. But we'll keep this "Chapter 1" level. And as we intentionally seek to create a home where others and ourselves feel welcomed, we will chase balance and the honoring of finances. We will honor memories we have made and dreams we have for the future. And I hope we create spaces that are free to change with us to meet our needs and be the safe place to rest when we come together to fellowship and deepen relationship. Because those things are the marrow of life, friends! They're not just poetic words, they're the things worth investing in!
I guess what I'm saying is that this dream of the perfect home…..this thing we all wish in our hearts that we would somehow someday capture? The secret to that is that we already have it, to some degree. And maybe you'll be inspired to use the scarf you bought on your honeymoon to tie around the base of your lamp. And if you do, I hope it makes you smile as you remember your honeymoon every time you walk past the living room! That's the kind of thing that makes me feel connected to where I live. But at the end of the day, home is the place that's filled with the people you love, and with the things that provide comfort, rest, memories, and pleasure to your people as they gather and deepen relationships. That's what a personal, beautiful, imperfect home does naturally. And as your people change and grow, your space will do the same. Because our homes should serve us, not the other way around.


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- 20. ContentfulContentful
Headless content management systems (CMSes) are becoming a common component of digital platforms. Contentful is a modern headless CMS that our teams have successfully integrated into their development workflows. We particularly like its API-first approach and implementation of CMS as code. It supports powerful content modeling primitives as code and content model evolution scripts, which allow it to be treated like other data store schemas and enable evolutionary database design practices to be applied to CMS development. Its robustness and a stream of new features, including a sandbox environment, have impressed our teams further and made Contentful our default choice in this space.
- 21. AWS FargateAWS Fargate
AWS Fargate, the docker-as-a-service option on AWS, is now widely available across regions. It's a great solution for situations in which teams want to run Docker containers, because AWS Lambda functions aren't powerful enough, without having to manage EC2 instances or Kubernetes clusters. Our teams report generally positive experiences with Fargate; however, the convenience of this managed service can come at a cost, in financial terms.
- 22. EVM beyond EthereumEVM beyond Ethereum
Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) was originally designed for the Ethereum main network. Nowadays, however, most teams no longer want to reinvent blockchain from scratch; instead, they'd like to take EVM beyond Ethereum. We've seen a lot of blockchain teams choose to fork Ethereum (e.g., Quorum) or implement the EVM spec (e.g., Burrow, Pantheon), adding their own designs. The intention is to not only reuse the Ethereum design but also leverage its ecosystem and developer community. To many developers, the concept of "smart contract" is almost equivalent to a smart contract written in Solidity. Although Ethereum itself has some constraints, the technology around the EVM ecosystem is booming.
- 23. InfluxDBInfluxDB
Time series databases (TSDBs) have been around for some time now. But increasingly they're becoming more mainstream as more use cases naturally fit the time series model. InfluxDB continues to remain a good choice for TSDBs with monitoring being one of its key use cases. TICK Stack is an example of a monitoring solution that has InfluxDB at its heart. Influx 2.0 alpha recently introduced Flux — a scripting language for querying and processing time series data. It's still early days for Flux and the jury's out on its broader adoption beyond InfluxDB, but it promises to be more powerful and expressive than InfluxQL and enables pushing time series analytic workloads to the database. However, clustering support for InfluxDB is only available with the enterprise version which has limited its adoption on some of our projects.
- 24. IstioIstio
Istio is becoming the de facto infrastructure to operationalize a microservices ecosystem. Its out-of-the-box implementation of cross-cutting concerns — such as service discovery, service-to-service and origin-to-service security, observability (including telemetry and distributed tracing), rolling releases and resiliency — has been bootstrapping our microservices implementations very quickly. It's the main implementation of the service mesh technique we've been using. We've been enjoying its monthly releases and its continuous improvements with seamless upgrades. We use Istio to bootstrap our projects, starting with observability (tracing and telemetry) and service-to-service security. We're closely watching its improvements to service-to-service authentication everywhere in and outside of the mesh. We'd also like to see Istio establish best practices for configuration files to strike a balance between giving autonomy to service developers and control to the service mesh operators.
- 25. Kafka StreamsKafka Streams
Kafka Streams is a lightweight library to build streaming applications. It supports basic streaming APIs such as join, filter, map and aggregate as well as local storage for common use cases such as windowing and sessions. Unlike other stream-processing platforms such as Apache Spark and Alpakka Kafka, Kafka Streams has been a good fit for scenarios that don't require large-scale distribution and parallel processing; hence we could get away without yet another piece of infrastructure such as cluster schedulers. Naturally, Kafka Streams has been a good choice when operating in the Kafka ecosystem. Kafka Streams is particularly useful when we have to process data strictly in order and exactly once. One particular use case of Kafka Streams is to build a change data capture (CDC) platform.
- 26. NomadNomad
HashiCorp continues to release interesting software. We've featured HashiCorp Vault in March 2017, and tools related to Terraform are all over this edition of the Radar. We've moved Nomad to Trial because we've had positive experiences using it. While Kubernetes continues to gain traction, we like Nomad's general applicability. It's not just limited to running containerized workloads but can be used to schedule just about anything. Java and Golang are supported natively as well as batch and distributed cron jobs. We like its focus on multi- and hybrid-cloud operations, something likely to become more important to avoid sticky clouds and the fact that it does scheduling well.
- 27. CloudEventsCloudEvents
Outside the function code itself, applications written as serverless functions are tightly coupled to the cloud platform on which they're hosted. Although events are a common FaaS-triggering mechanism, and every cloud provider supports them in some form, the current proprietary specifications prevent interoperability across clouds. The CloudEvents specification is a burgeoning standard that has been accepted into the CNCF Sandbox. The standard is still in active development but several language bindings exist and Microsoft has announced first-class support in Azure. We're hoping other cloud providers will follow suit.
- 28. Cloudflare WorkersCloudflare Workers
Most modern server-side or serverless code execution platforms are centered around containers or VMs. Cloudflare Workers, however, takes a different approach to hosting a serverless computing offering. It uses V8 Isolates, the open source JavaScript engine developed for Chrome, to run functions as a service (FaaS) on their extensive CDN network. Code can be written in JavaScript or anything that compiles to WebAssembly and data can be accessed from Cloudflare's cache or key-value store. The major benefit for developers is performance: by being on the edge network, close to end users, cold-starts take only five milliseconds. For the provider the benefits include both the ability to densely pack isolates because of their lower memory overhead and faster performance through reduced process context switching. This is definitely an intriguing approach to monitor and assess.
- 29. DenoDeno
As a group we have mixed feelings about programming in JavaScript on the server side, especially when the rationale for doing so is simply to avoid polyglot programming. That said, if you decide to use JavaScript or TypeScript on the server, have a look at Deno. Written by Ryan Dahl, the inventor of Node.js, Deno aims to avoid what Ryan considers mistakes that were made in Node.js. It brings a strict sandbox system and built-in dependency and package management, and it supports TypeScript out of the box. Deno is built using Rust and V8.
- 30. Hot ChocolateHot Chocolate
The GraphQL ecosystem and community keep growing. Hot Chocolate is a GraphQL server for .NET (core and classic). It lets you build and host schemas and then serve queries against them. The team behind Hot Chocolate has recently added schema stitching which allows for a single entry point to query across multiple schemas aggregated from different locations. Although there are plenty of ways to misuse this approach, it's worth assessing whether to add it to your toolkit.
- 31. KnativeKnative
The serverless architecture has popularized a FaaS style of programming among developers; it helps developers focus on solving core business problems with independently built and deployed functions that react to an event, run a business process, produce other events in the process and scale down to zero. Historically, proprietary serverless platforms such as AWS Lambda or Microsoft Azure Functions have enabled this programming paradigm. Knative is an open-source Kubernetes-based platform to run FaaS workloads. There are few things that stand out about Knative: it's open source and provider agnostic; it implements the serverless workflow as described in the CNCF Serverless Working Group whitepaper; it ensures cross-service interoperability by implementing its eventing interface consistent with CNCF CloudEvents specification; and, most importantly, it addresses a common challenge of operating a harmonized and yet hybrid FaaS and long-running container-based architecture. It easily integrates with both Istio and Kubernetes. For example, developers can take advantage of roll-out strategies that Istio implements by traffic splitting between different revisions of the functions. Developers can take benefit of Istio-provided observability not only for long-running container services but also for FaaS programs in the same Kubernetes environment. We anticipate that Knative open-source eventing interface will continue to enable new underlying source and destination event integrations.
- 32. MinIOMinIO
Object storage is a popular choice for storing unstructured data and in a few cases structured data in the cloud. We do discourage the use of generic cloud but if you want to minimize the risk of cloud stickiness for object storage, we've found MinIO quite helpful. With an S3-compatible API layer, MinIO abstracts object storage across cloud providers, including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and we've used it successfully in products with flexible target infrastructures from data centers to cloud providers.
- 33. ProphetProphet
Even in the era of deep learning, statistical models still play a role in business decision support. Time series models are widely used to forecast inventories, demand, customer traffic, and so on. Hand-crafting these models so that they're robust and flexible has typically been the role of either specialized statisticians or large commercial software vendors. Prophet is an open-source alternative to commercial forecasting packages that can be programmed in R or Python. Facebook claims to use Prophet internally for business forecasting at scale and has made it available as an open-source package for anyone to use. We like that Prophet removes some of the tedium of model construction, maintenance and data manipulation so that human analysts and subject matter experts can focus on doing what they do best.
- 34. QuorumQuorum
Quorum is "an enterprise-focused version of Ethereum" that aims to provide network permissioning and transaction privacy as well as higher performance. One of our teams has worked deeply with Quorum; however, their experience so far hasn't been great. Some challenges result from complex smart contract programming and some come from Quorum itself. For example, it doesn't work well with load balancers and only has partial database support, which will lead to significant deployment burden. We faced some stability and compatibility issues especially on private transactions. Quorum recently attracted a lot of attention because of JPM Coin. However, from a tech perspective, we recommend being cautious when implementing Quorum while keeping an eye on its development.
SPIFFE standardization of service identity has been an important step in enabling turnkey solutions for end-to-end encryption and mutual authentication between services. The SPIFFE standards are backed by the OSS SPIFFE Runtime Environment (SPIRE), which automatically delivers cryptographically provable identities to services. Istio also uses SPIFFE by default. SPIFFE enables many use cases, including identity translation, OAuth client authentication, mTLS "encryption everywhere" and workload observability. ThoughtWorks is actively working with the Istio and SPIFFE communities to bridge the gap between legacy service identity providers and SPIFFE-based identities so that mTLS can be used everywhere between services, inside a service mesh and outside.
- 36. TendermintTendermint
Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) is one of the fundamental problems in cryptocurrency and blockchain systems. It requires overall system agreement on a single data value in the presence of a number of arbitrary faulty processes, which includes malicious fraud. Tendermint is a BFT state machine replication engine that lets you implement your own blockchain systems. The consensus engine, Tendermint Core, takes over the peer-to-peer communication and consensus part, you just need to implement the rest of the application (e.g., construct transaction and verify cryptographic signature) and communicate with Tendermint Core through ABCI. Some blockchain implementations have already chosen Tendermint as their consensus engine.
- 37. TimescaleDBTimescaleDB
In previous Radars we've discussed PostgreSQL for NoSQL. PostgreSQL's maturity and extensibility have led to a steady stream of innovative persistence stores built on the Postgres engine. One that caught our attention is TimescaleDB, a database that allows fast writes and optimized queries over time-series data. Albeit not (yet) as full-featured as InfluxDB, TimescaleDB offers an alternative data model and querying capability. You should evaluate TimescaleDB if you have modest scalability needs, prefer to use SQL and appreciate the stability and familiar administrative interface that PostgreSQL offers.


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"It came down to Memphis and Miss. State," Johnson told Tigersportsreport.com. "Memphis is close to home, they were the first school to recruit me and send me letters. The first ones to invite me, they were there from the start and never stopped."


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RELATE reports the relationship of each household member to the ATUS respondent.
In addition to all persons who live in the household, the household roster includes any of the respondent's own children (biological, step, or adopted) under the age of 18 who live in the respondent's household less than 50% of the time.
"Own child" refers to the respondent's biological child, adopted child, or step child.
"Other related person" may include the respondent's an aunt, cousin, nephew, mother-in-law, etc.
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There are few – if any – local percussionists busier than Louise Devenish. Aside from stints with WASO (and who knows what other classically-geared ensembles), she constitutes a sixth of Decibel, half of The Sound Collectors; she steers the ship for Piñata Percussion, regularly joins forces with Melbourne's Speak Percussion and the exhausting list goes on. Still, despite encountering Devenish's playing anywhere and everywhere over the last few years, I've never caught her in an instance where she's playing a concert all of her own, under her own name, performing a programme of entirely her own choosing. Until tonight. It's a compelling prospect.
I hop off the bus outside the paella place – just enough time to sneak a middy at the Flying Scotsman, dally with the Attack From Mars pinball, and scoot up the Astor Theatre's staircase. Through the turquoise art deco tunnels, there's cosy a six-sided room with tiered rows of seats and a stage decked with skinned barrels, twinkling cymbals and shining gongs.
Given Devenish's breadth of experience, ability and taste, presumably one of the harder parts of putting on a concert like this would be knowing how to narrow it down. What to include? In the end, she goes for composers who are (1) living, (2) Australian and (3), as you might imagine, writing boundary-pushing music for percussion – from there she's selected a tight, diverse programme comprising five pieces.
Warren Burt's Chromophone presents an array of scenes melting into each other: improvisations mirrored imperfectly in electronic reflections that bubble and warp, as the next live motif is conjured. Software algorithms splice phrases into unexpected lengths and structures, keeping the ear from settling into any sense of pattern, keeping you present. Devenish makes use of extended techniques (scrubbing and rubbing the bass drum skin, for example, to elicit gentle a gentle hiss or a low growl) – but it never sounds like these instruments are bring forced to make sounds they'd rather not. Instead, it feels like we're being offered a glimpse into sounds that come naturally, eagerly even, but are rarely offered primetime coverage in a composition.
Exposiciones by Andrian Pertout sits in stark contrast: from curious experiments over phasing uncertainties, we now move onto adrenalised tintinabulations dancing frosty over a clockwork counterpoint. There's a complex process underpinning this work's unfolding: methodical divisions of octaves laid out across ratio-based polyrhythms. The Indonesian "Pélog" and "Sléndro" scales are being invoked too. It's certainly not stuff my brain can digest as I listen, but the conceptual underpinnings add intrigue to the surface aesthetic, which – for what it's worth – wouldn't be out of place in a (good) Dario Argento soundtrack. And for all its scientific machinations, the piece never sounds clinical: it's virtuosic, bright, great fun.
Devenish keeps moving round the stage, arriving at new stations equipped with new instruments. For Lindsay Vickery's InterXection, she's at the closest thing to a conventional drum kit, joined by Stuart James who is overseeing electronics processing for the concert. Devenish grips mallets and whips up dark, slow swells from the skins and cymbals; James follows the mallet-heads around with a microphone. He's tailing the sound, half bent-over, like the archetypal press reporter, desperate for a scoop. What we hear are thick resonant textures: quiet percussion textures blown up and out through amplification and ring modulation. These textures are indistinct, soft-edged – though, paradoxically, the intimate contents of sound suddenly become clear. Storms of frequency. Trains pulling into stations and UFOs coming to land on your head. The piece is pleasantly singular, linear, as simultaneously complex and simple as waves at the beach, but in any case more urgent, more portentous.
Jame's Hullick's K(L)ING entails a score projected in piecemeal fashion onto the stage's real screen, rendered in stark white-on-black. Above it, words and phrases flash at random: YES, NO, GO BACK, DIE, GET IN THE BATH, STAND UP, DO YOUR HOMEWORK, etc, and glitched-out TV newsreader samples play over the speakers. Within this somewhat grim and heady audiovisual environment, Devenish sets about realizing the score as it flashes past. Woodblock trill, crotale clang, a range of instruments I don't even recognise, marshalled into utterances that are quick and skittish and precise. Are these interjections bursting out in defiance of the doomy, oppressive words onscreen and the babbling voices from the unseen TV? Or are all the elements conspiring into a shared cacophonous attack? It's hard to say, but the piece and the performance make an indelible impression.
With Devenish pulling out all the stops, and quite rightly taking centre stage, Stuart James has been the quiet achiever this evening, handling the secondary but crucial task of electronics in the wing. But the final piece of the night is his, affording the modest composer some time in the limelight. It's called Kinabuhi / Kamatayon and has been written for Balinese gamelan, which Devenish teaches at UWA. Laid out atop a long black tablecloth are a series of "reyong" and "tromping," the "small bossed gongs" that the piece intends to explore over five short movements. Lifting her mallets almost before they've made contact, Louise daubs the air with sound. For a time she'll be pattering across the golden surfaces, patterns compressing and expanding in time and space; then, running the mallet-stick around the inner lip of an inverted gong or extruding slow, warm metallic resonances that bloom in the air. Now these semi-abstract gestures are suddenly traded for a 4/4 emphasis and a tonal centre (it seems to be a minor key), see-sawing chimes forming a suspenseful ostinato that won't let up. At this moment I discern traces of techno, of ambient electronica and Steve Reich, whether or not these evocations are intended or welcomed. And Devenish is playing with what look like batons now…James is processing the tinny tap-tap-tap, creating a stratum of filtered, squeaky squelchy echoes like rubber bats above us. Ultimately the piece consists of countless minimalist melodies rendered with a range of inflections, overlapping, repeating, jostling. The piece is said to reflect upon the sun, the moon, the tides, nature, breathing, life, death… but before I've been told this, I get some unarticulated sense of it. There's something reverent and deep and pensive happening. If you blur your eyes it kind of looks like Devenish is playing a series of bright, amber candles. And it kind of sounds like she is too.
The concert is done, and it's as if no time has passed – I've been in a weird reverie, engulfed by the pieces. Which is not to say they were long and soporific – on the contrary, most of these works were brief, and none of them felt drawn out – the concert overall felt uncommonly concise. What came across was Devenish's desire to push the limits of your imagination, without merely assailing you with unconventionality. Each piece announces itself fairly modestly and takes you along for the journey, giving you good reason to follow. What's more, every exploration offers a markedly different disposition, a different atmosphere and conceptual stimulus – the unifying factor is Devenish's breathtakingly deft delivery, her artistic interpretation of the material, her sculptor-like attention to detail. The caricature of percussion playing posits it as crude, blocky, simplistic, ill-matched with the pursuit of nuance and lyricism. We already know this isn't true, but Louise Devenish shows us just how untrue it is: hers is a percussion more akin to painting, fluid and textural, yet still rhythmic and bold and tactile. And for every colour that announces itself vividly and emphatically, there are a thousand chromatic shades being explored in between.


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Protected species: new licensing system saves customers time and money
Natural England's changes to protected species licensing have led to £1 million of customer savings over the past 3 years.
The range of innovative measures, designed to reduce both the volume of licence applications and the associated costs, marks a significant step by Natural England towards its goal of cutting red tape and creating a more efficient organisation.
Savings have been made chiefly via the introduction of an 'annexed licence' system for works affecting bats, great crested newts and dormice – which has reduced the number of applications and subsequent rejections and reapplications; and a new 'class licence' – which has reduced applications for individual mitigation licences for low impact works affecting bats.
The drive to reduce red tape extends beyond saving money for smaller-scale customers. Organisational licences – removing the need for large organisations to apply for individual licences which can often result in costly last-minute project delays – are also being rolled out.
James Cross, Natural England's Chief Executive said:
"This landmark saving for our customers is a key milestone on our journey to reduce regulatory burdens and improve real-world impact. We are saving customers time and money, providing a slicker, more efficient process, observing environmental law and achieving great things for nature.
"Our organisational licences are a win-win for large organisations and for the environment, supporting economic progress, whilst ensuring that there is no impact on species conservation.
"The changes to our system have the added bonus of reducing time spent by Natural England staff on advising and processing individual licences, meaning that we can usefully divert those resources elsewhere."
Network Rail organisational licence
Network Rail has been issued with an organisational licence authorising ecologists working on the upgrade to the railway between St. Pancras and Sheffield to capture and move great crested newts along the length of the railway, at any time of the year, during time-critical, low-impact works such as gantry installation.
Historically, the unexpected discovery of great crested newts and other wildlife has had a significant impact on the delivery of a scheme, incurring additional mitigation costs and delays to the programme. Previously the organisation had to apply for individual licences at each location where newts or other protected species were discovered. The new licence has allowed Network Rail greater certainty over programme delivery, as well as reducing costs – which can reach as much as £10-20,000 per night where unexpected delays are incurred.
Richard John, Network Rail Environment Manager, said:
"This new system has considerably sped up the process of removing and relocating protected species which are found along the route, which has allowed investment work in the railway to be carried out more quickly. It has also meant significant savings for the public purse and, as a system, it means projects are less likely to be delayed by ecological factors."
Bat low impact class licence
The introduction of the new bat low impact class licence system has removed the requirement for individual bat mitigation licences at a site – saving the accompanying costs.
In general terms, class licences are a 'middle-way' between general licences and individual licences. Class licences do not follow the standard individual mitigation licence application, but users must be registered with Natural England and provide frequent reports. In the case of bat low impact class licences, once registered with Natural England, consultants can apply to register individual sites. Where licensing tests are achieved, low impact works can begin.
As a basis for this new licence, Natural England provided training workshops and mandatory assessments for existing bat consultants. Almost 70 consultants have completed the training so far, registering more than 94 individual sites. A second training round is currently underway, with the number of registered consultants expected to top 100.
Daniel Whitby, Consultant Ecologist at AEWC Ltd said:
"The new system has provided consultants with the tools to submit simplified licence applications for sites where ecological impacts are lower and detailed assessments and mitigation are not always necessary. In turn, this enables us to provide a cheaper and notably quicker service to our clients – a benefit for all involved."


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Hundreds of millions of mobile handsets using older SIM cards are vulnerable to a flaw that allows attackers to gain complete control over affected handsets, German security expert Karsten Nohl has reported.
What Nohl has spent two years researching could turn out to be the most significant flaw in SIMs in many years when he reveals its full details at a presentation scheduled for the Black Hat security conference at the end of this month.
Nohl's briefings to the media and short website description have so far been light on detail, but the teasers he has been willing to put out sound alarming enough.
According to the Security Research Labs chief scientist, a quarter of 1,000 SIMs tested by his team had proved vulnerable to a weakness in the older DES (Data Encryption Standard) encryption used to secure them.
This made it possible to take control of a handset using a binary SMS text message to upload malware. This piggybacked on the carrier over-the-air (OTA) process through which SIMs are transparently updated via the JavaCard programming interface.
Attackers could use the method to eavesdrop on calls, sent premium text messages, and even in some circumstances, conduct payment fraud.
Only a proportion of the world's handsets used DES in its vulnerable form but this still amounted to 750 million, overwhelmingly older handsets, he said. Not all SIMs using DES seemed to have the flaw, but enough batches to cause major concern.
The size of the issue could define its seriousness with carriers unsure about Nohl's estimates. Most SIMs from recent years would use a different standard, Triple DES (3DES), and be immune to the attack.
The research had been sent to the GSM Association so it could be passed on to carriers, Nohl told media outlets.
"Cards need to use state-of-art cryptography with sufficiently long keys, should not disclose signed plaintexts to attackers, and must implement secure Java virtual machines," he wrote in a blog. "While some cards already come close to this objective, the years needed to replace vulnerable legacy cards warrant supplementary defenses."
Nohl has form when it comes to sniffing out mobile handset issues. Between 2009 and 2011 he publicised a number of security flaws in the GSM standard, most famously in its A5/1 encryption cipher, which could allow call interception between the handset and the network base station.
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