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RSI Motor Services/ Motordienste was registered, and in 1998 a small rented workshop opened its doors in Pretoria West.
We became RMI (Retail Motor Industry) and SAMBRA (South African Motor Body Repairers Association ) accredited.
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Derivative of non-linear least-squares minimiser
If $y^{\star}(x)$ is the minimiser of a non-linear least-squares problem
where function $r$ maps $x \in \mathbb{R}^{m}$ and $y \in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ to a vector in $r(x, y) \in \mathbb{R}^{p}$, then how can we estimate its derivative
This page uses some techniques from the generalised Wiberg paper of Strelow (pdf). It also makes use of some notation and results from the post about the linear problem.
Assume that we are able to obtain an estimate of the minimiser $\hat{y} \approx y^{\star}(x)$. The true minimiser can be represented as a displacement from this estimate $y^{\star}(x) = \hat{y} + \delta y^{\star}(x)$. The derivative of this displacement with respect to $x$ is equal to that of the minimiser
If the estimate is good, then the optimal displacement $\delta y^{\star}(x)$ is small and
and hopefully (perhaps this can be shown with Lipschitz continuity?)
This is the solution to a linear least-squares objective
where $A(x) = \frac{\partial r}{\partial y}(x, \hat{y})$ is $p \times n$ and $b(x) = -r(x, \hat{y})$. The derivative of this expression is
where $A^{\dagger} = (A^{T} A)^{-1} A^{T}$ is the left-inverse and $a \equiv \operatorname{vec}(A)$.
The derivatives of $\delta y^{\star}$ with respect to $A$ and $b$ are known from the post about the linear problem. The derivatives of the parameters of the linear system are
This is enough to compute derivatives
The complete source for this experiment can be found on Github.
The overall expression for the derivative can be found
where $G = A^{T} A$ and $J_{m n}$ is the linear operator such that $\operatorname{vec}(X^{T}) = J_{m n} \operatorname{vec}(X)$ if $X$ is $m \times n$.
There might be some tensor notation to better express this. The derivatives with respect to single elements of $x$ at least have a neater expression
where $C_{i}$ is a $p \times n$ matrix and $d_{i}$ is a vector of length $p$
Therefore it is necessary to compute $\frac{\partial r}{\partial x}(x, \hat{y})$, $\frac{\partial r}{\partial y}(x, \hat{y})$ and $\frac{\partial^{2} r}{\partial x \partial y}(x, \hat{y})$ as well as the QR factorisation of $\frac{\partial r}{\partial y}(x, \hat{y})$.

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text: Static and dynamic type systems have well-known strengths and weaknesses. In previous work we developed a gradual type system for a functional calculus named $\lambda^?_\to$. Gradual typing provides the benefits of both static and dynamic checking in a single language by allowing the programmer to control whether a portion of the program is type checked at compile-time or run-time by adding or removing type annotations on variables. Several object-oriented scripting languages are preparing to add static checking. To support that work this paper develops $\mathbf{Ob}^{?}_{<:}$, a gradual type system for object-based languages, extending the Ob < : calculus of Abadi and Cardelli. Our primary contribution is to show that gradual typing and subtyping are orthogonal and can be combined in a principled fashion. We also develop a small-step semantics, provide a machine-checked proof of type safety, and improve the space efficiency of higher-order casts.


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The end of 2011 also draws the curtain on scores of public, education and government (PEG) channels because many of the "statewide/state-issued video franchise" laws have created situations where cuts in funding have made it impossible for those channels to continued operation.
The PEG channel advocacy group American Community Television (ACT) has listed the financial situations in nine states. By state, those situations are:
California: At least 51 PEG access centers have been shut down in California. In Los Angeles Time Warner shut down 14 public access centers and with the federal law that limits support for PEG channels to capital expenses, the municipality could not afford to fund those access centers.
Florida: All PEG channel funding ends on Jan. 1, 2012. In addition, cable operator Bright House has moved the PEG channels out of its "basic tier" of cable service into the more expensive non-basic digital tier where many customers cannot receive the channels without renting additional equipment. However, 40 percent of Bright House customers do not receive digital cable keeping PEG channels from about 170,000 subscribers in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Hillsborough County and Manatee. In addition, state law allows cable operators to conduct "pushpolling" of subscribers, and only if a majority of subscribers respond that they want the PEG channels will operators provide those channels. Communities such as Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Miami, Tampa and Pinellas County have either lost, or are losing their funding, and the access channel in Port St. Joe is threatened.
Illinois: Comcast has notified the villages of Mundelein, Graystake, the Community High School District 128 and the Cook Memorial Library District that it will no longer broadcast village, school or library board meetings.
Indiana: Comcast has notified producers in Goshen, Hammond, Merrillville, Mishawaka, Plymouth, Portage and South Bend that it would be closing production studios and playback facilities for public access TV. However, ACT says the closing of those facilities might be in violation of the statewide franchising law.
Kansas: The has been a loss of PEG funding, and Salina Community Access Television—in a Cox service area—has lost $150,000 per year, or about a third of their budget. In addition, Cox will not continue to provide the cable drops to Salina its PEG center, or Kansas State University, unless they paid $450 per month for each drop.
Missouri: All PEG channel funding ends on Jan. 1, 2012. In addition, Charter Communications has assigned the PEG channels to the 900-channel range with the most recent re-assignment occurring in St. Louis County. Charter also informed the town of Farmington that it would lose its channel in January and that it would have to lease a channel if wanted to continue to broadcast city council meetings.
North Carolina: Statewide franchising created a PEG capital fund that promised $25,000 to each channel, but—because the number of PEG channels was underestimated—the amount distributed to each was only $6,000. However, the state legislature corrected the problem by doubling the amount of PEG support the operators have to pay. In addition, Time Warner has refused to provide channels in Nash County and Henderson, and it terminated PEG support and studios.
Ohio: All PEG channel funding ends on Jan. 1, 2012. The statewide law allows cable operators and telephone companies to charge communities for transmission of those channels, charges that can reach $100,000 per year.
Wisconsin: All PEG channel funding ended on May 1, 2011. In addition, Charter Communications attempted to reassign all the PEG channels into the 900-channel range until a lawsuit was threatened. Charter then provided the PEG channels with an analog channel, but continues with plans to permanently place the PEG channels at the 900 settings when it transitions to digital.


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Diamonds and Dogs
The Apple in Wall Street's eye. Apple (AAPL) jumped 6% to new recent highs following better than expected earnings. Earnings beat by 4 cents, but sales fell 14% year over year and down 33% year over year in China. But looking forward, Apple raised estimates ahead of the iphone7 launch in the third quarter. iphone7 should initiate new growth as the analyst at Maxim sees a significant upgrade cycle coming, upgrading the stock with a $173 price target. Not bad.
Robert Half (RHI) going in the wrong direction. Robert Half is down 12% back toward its 52 week low after missing earnings estimates by 2 cents as revenue missed as well. To add insult to injury, Robert Half guided third quarter sales and earnings below consensus. Now the company expects revenue of $1.335-1.395 billion vs consensus of $1.40 billion while earnings should come in around $0.68-0.74 vs consensus of $0.8 a share. Not the best news for an employment company.


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I may be a cliche first-born who tends to be bossy and adamant about what I want, but when it comes to writing, I don't like to dictate too many rules. Challenges, however, are another category altogether. I think that it's fun to put parameters on what you're writing and how you're writing it. When you enforce limits in your writing, you consciously think about your writing in a different way than you're used to doing. That being said, I have thought of a few fun challenges for you to try in your writing this month…
Words Per Sentence
Put a limit on the number of Words per Sentence (WPS) you can use. Let's say each sentence has to be five words or less (choppy, to-the-point sentences). Or, try the opposite, and write very verbose sentences of five or more words. Have fun with it. When you read your stories back to yourself, you'll find that the tone and mood changes depending on the number of WPS.
Alliteration Avenue
Create a list of words that each begin with the same letter. After compiling a good-sized list, start writing. The challenge is to try to use mostly the words from your list (and not many other words that begin with different letters/sounds). Read it back to yourself when you've finished and see how poetic and flowing it sounds.
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Think of a situation that you've been in (or could be in). Write it down quickly from your perspective in the first person point of view (using words like I, we, my, me). Then, rewrite the same situation from the second person point of view as if it's someone else describing what happened to you (using words like you, your). Finally, rewrite the same situation a third time in the third person point of view (using words like he, she, it, they) from an unbiased, omniscient perspective. Notice how details changed in your storytelling across all three perspectives.


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Try something new that's perfect for the rugged trend that you are going to flaunt as you wear this shrug, in Navy White, from RIGO. Fashioned using Knit Fabric, this shrug will not fail to catch your fancy at a single glance. Wear this shrug over any plain top and enhance the look of your attire.
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Building Blocks Figurine - Possible Dreams by D56
When he isn't delivering presents Santa still finds ways to keep busy. On his off days, he has been seen enjoying many hobbies, public services or sports. And there's always fun to play in the snow| Santa helps a little one learn the alphabet with a tower of giant lettered blocks. The pair organize the squares consecutively in this darling resin and Clothtique fabric figurine. Height: 25.5cm


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Mr. David Rodriguez has over 20 years of experience in international marketing and sales as a business development consultant at a global level, mainly in the fields of high-tech and biotechnology. At FreeMind, David is able to combine his extensive marketing and sales skillset and his knack for connecting with people, with his passion for the life sciences.
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Terms of Reference 2015-2019
The commission aims, internationally, to:
promote the use and enjoyment of maps by children and young people;
increase understanding of children and young people's engagement with maps;
raise the standard of maps and atlases produced for children and young people.
In 2015-2019 it will further these aims by:
disseminating the outcomes of research into map use by children and young people. Deliverable:
an enhanced set of online bibliography and web links on cartography and children
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representing the commission in events and publications related to this theme.
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Judith X. Becerra1 and Koji Noge2
1University of Arizona, Department of Biosphere 2, Tucson AZ 85721, USA. email@example.com
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The tree known as Indian lavender (Bursera delpechiana, Burseraceae) is a source of linalool. It was introduced to India from Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century for the exploitation of its essential oil. Its origin from Mexico was not well understood because the name B. delpechiana has been taxonomically obsolete for many years. We used molecular, phylogenetic, and chemical data to determine which currently recognized species it belongs to. This evidence regarding the Indian Lavender Tree's identity all points to the Mexican species, Bursera linanoe. Our chemical analysis also revealed that linalyl acetate is the primary constituent of Indian Lavender oil as well as of Mexican B. linanoe rather than linalool as previously believed.
Key words: Bursera, Burseraceae, Indian lavender oil, linalyl acetate, linalool, Mexico.
El árbol conocido como Lavanda de la India (Indian lavender; Bursera delpechiana, Burseraceae) es una fuente de linalol. Esta planta fue introducida en India a principios del siglo XX para extraer el mencionado aceite esencial. Su origen hasta hace poco era incierto porque el nombre B. delpechiana fue declarado obsoleto desde hace muchos años. Usamos datos moleculares, filogenéticos y químicos para determinar a qué especie reconocida pertenecen estas plantas que se encuentran en India. Las evidencias señalan que la identidad de la lavanda de la India es la especie mexicana Bursera linanoe. Los análisis químicos revelan también que el constituyente químico principal de esta especie es el acetato de linalilo y no el linalol, como se había reportado.
Palabras clave: acetato de linalilo, Bursera, Burseraceae, linalol, México.
A plant usually identified in Asia as Bursera delpechiana Poisson ex Engl., commonly known as Indian Lavender Tree or Indian Linaloe, inhabits parts of southern India. For more than a century it has been intensively used in the perfume and pharmaceutical industry as a source of essential oils, particularly linalool. The genus Bursera Jacq. ex L. is an abundant and diversified component of the tropical dry forests in Mexico and Central America (Becerra, 2003; Becerra, 2005). As the genus is otherwise restricted to America, B. delpechiana is the most widely cultivated Bursera species elsewhere.
Yet, Bursera delpechiana is not native to India. In 1912 this tree, along with other closely related species such as B. glabrifolia (Kunth) Engl., were introduced in India in the vicinities of Bangalore in Karnata State by Scottish entrepreneurs with the purpose of commercializing their oils (Burton, 1952). Bursera delpechiana did well in the Indian environment due to its drought resistance and its cultivation spread soon to Andhra Pradesh, Thailand, and other areas. The innovation of distilling the mature fruits instead of the wood, as it had been done in Mexico, proved to be a success, giving the Indian oil a superior odor and a longer persistence. The Indian oil eventually took over the international markets and its industrial exploitation in Mexico collapsed.
As time passed and taxonomical studies of the genus were conducted, the name of B. delpechiana Poisson ex Engl. became obsolete in America as it was considered synonymous first to B. penicillata (Sessé & Moc. ex DC.) Engl. (Bullock, 1936), then tentatively to B. glabrifolia (Kunth) Engl. (McVaugh and Rzedowski, 1965) and later to B. linanoe (La Llave) Rzed., Calderón & Medina (Rzedowski et al. 2005). However, because of confusion about its correspondence to the Mexican species, it has not been possible to establish which modern species the Indian plants belong to (Toledo, 1982). Some Indian authors have indicated that the Indian lavender is Bursera penicillata (Mahmood Hussain et al., 1974; Somata & Uppin, 1979), a species of wide distribution in the west of Mexico. Yet their morphological descriptions do not coincide fully with descriptions of this Mexican species. However, since some degree of morphological change can be expected from the species having been for years in another environment only a more rigorous analysis could conclusively confirm the true identity of the species. Here we present molecular and chemical evidence regarding the identity of Indian Lavender.
A small branch of an individual of B. delpechiana was collected from one of the old original plantations located at the south of Bangalore, India. For prior phylogenetic studies we had collected samples of several individuals of B. linanoe, B. penicillata and B. glabrifolia (Kunth) Engl., as well as other closely related species such as B. xochipalensis Rzed., B. heteresthes Bullock and B. tecomaca (Sessé & Moc. ex DC.) Standl. The geographic distribution of these species, as well as the localities of the samples taken can be found in Becerra & Venable (1999).
A phylogenetic tree including all of these species was reconstructed using the DNA sequences of the internal transcribed spacers (ITS1 and ITS2), the 5.8S coding region and the 5S non-transcribed region. Sequences of these regions had been already published for all species (Becerra, 2003; Becerra & Venable, 1999) except B. delpechiana from India. For this last species total DNA was isolated using the DNeasy® Plant Mini Kit (QIAGEN, Valencia, CA, USA) according to the manufacture's protocol. The partial fragments of the ITS region were amplified using the ITS1 (5'-TCCGTAGGTGAACCTGCGG-3') and 26SE (5'-TAGAATTCCCCGGTTCGCTCGCCGTTAC-3') primers. PCR was performed in a 30 µl volume containing 15 µl of EconoTaq® PLUS GREEN 2× Master Mix (Lucigen® Corp.), 1 µM of each primer and 1 µl of template DNA. The PCR amplification was carried out as follows: an initial step of 2 min at 94 °C, followed by 30 cycles with denaturation at 94 °C for 30 s, annealing at 48 °C for 30 s and extension at 72 °C for 1 min. After the final cycle, the products were extended for 5 min at 72 °C. The 5S-NTS region was amplified using the primers 5SF (5'-GAGAGTAGTACWWSGATGGG-3') and 5SR (5'-GGAGTTCTGAYGGGATCCGG-3') described in Cronn et al. (1996). We used the same reaction mixture as for the ITS reaction. The amplification program was: hold at 94 °C for 2 min; 30 cycles of 94 °C for 30 s, 50 °C for 30 s, and 72 °C for 10 s; extend at 72 °C for 5 min. The amplified products were purified by QIAquick® PCR Purification Kit (QIAGEN). The DNA sequences were analyzed with an ABI 3730xl DNA analyzer (Applied Biosystems Inc., Foster City, CA, USA) at the Genomic Analysis & Technology Core, University of Arizona. Sequences were aligned with the computer program Sequencher 4.4. Phylogenies were inferred from the sequence matrix using parsimony analysis with PAUP 4.0b10 (Swofford, 2002). Heuristic searches were used with the same assumptions as in Becerra & Venable (1999).
To confirm DNA and phylogenetic results concerning the closeness of the Indian B. delpechiana Poisson ex Engl. and B. linanoe (La Llave) Rzed., Calderón & Medina, we performed chemical analysis on these plants. A small piece of a branch with leaves of B. linanoe, and another piece of B. delpechiana were extracted in dichloromethane. Their volatile chemistry was analyzed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). GC–MS analysis was carried out by an Agilent 6890N gas chromatograph linked to an Agilent 5975B mass spectrometer operated at 70 eV using a HP-5MS capillary column (Agilent Technologies, 30 m × 0.25 mm i.d., 0.25 µm in film thickness) with helium carrier gas at 1.2 ml/min in splitless mode. The oven temperature was programmed from 30 ºC to 300 ºC at 10 ºC/min with an initial 4 min hold, and then held at 300 ºC for 5 min. All compounds were identified by comparing their GC retention times and mass spectra with those of authentic standards.
DNA sequences of the Indian B. delpechiana were all identical to those of B. linanoe. Even the fast evolving 5S NTS region, which gives a good level of resolution at the species level in Bursera was identical for both species. Because of this, B. delpechiana and B. linanoe came together in the reconstructed phylogenetic tree (Fig. 1). All other species, including B. penicillata were relatively distant from them.
Fig. 1. Phylogenetic reconstruction of species of Bursera including B. delpechiana from India (Indian lavender) and Mexican B. linanoe. Heuristic searches produced one single most parsimonious tree.
Chemical components of B. delpechiana were also quite similar to those of B. linanoe (Fig. 2). In both, the compound with the highest relative abundance (more than 90%) was linalyl acetate (Table 1). All the other minor compounds in B. delpechiana were present in B. linanoe at very similar abundances.
Fig. 2. GC chromatograms of the dichloromethane extract from Bursera delpechiana (A) and B. linanoe (B). a, 1-undecene; b, linalool; c, linalyl acetate; d, α-copaene; e, germacrene D.
Table 1. Chemical composition of Bursera delpechiana and B. linanoe.
Retention time
B. delpechiana
B. linanoe
1-Undecene (a)
Linalool (b)
Linalyl acetate (c)
α-Copaene (d)
Germacrene D (e)
Identified compounds
Molecular, phylogenetic, and chemical results leave little doubt about B. linanoe being the Mexican species taken to India in 1912 and subsequently there known as B. delpechiana (Fig. 3). Not only are the examined molecular sequences of the DNA the same but these species also share the same chemical compounds.
Fig. 3. Herbarium specimen of B. delpechiana collected in Tamil Nadu from Indian National Herbarium in Kolkata, showing a clear morphological relationship with Mexican B. linanoe.
Previous chemical analyses using steam distillation have identified linalool as the major natural chemical component of the leaves and fruits of the Indian B. delpechiana (Nargaraja & Farooqi, 1989; Mahmood Hussain et al., 1974; Somatta & Uppin, 1979). Our analysis shows that it is actually linalyl acetate. Linalyl acetate is known to change into linalool by thermal hydrolysis during steam distillation (Reverchon & Della Porta 1995; Noge et al., 2010). We extracted our samples in dichloromethane in cold conditions (4 ºC). This is probably the reason for the discrepancy between our results and the published data. Thus, we conclude that linalyl acetate is the natural component of B. linanoe (and B. delpechiana).
In previous studies, 65 of the 82 Bursera species from Mexico have been chemically analyzed, including species such as B. penicillata and B. glabrifolia. The major component of B. penicillata is β-phellandrene, while B. glabrifolia produces high amounts of germacrene D and α-pinene (Becerra, 2007; Becerra et al., 2009). Thus, these two species are chemically quite different from the Indian lavender. Furthermore, none of the 65 Bursera species analyzed except B. linanoe seem to produce linalyl acetate. Given the high abundance of this compound, it could thus be considered a chemotaxonomic trait for this species.
B. linanoe is a narrow endemic to the tropical dry forest in the south of Mexico in the states of Puebla, Oaxaca, Guerrero and Morelos (Becerra & Venable, 2008). The introduction of this species to India and its subsequent commercialization there has had important consequences for the status of this species in Mexico. First, exploitation of the plant for its oil diminished in Mexico because the quality of the Indian oil was higher. Essential oil is still extracted from the Mexican trees, along with other Bursera species, but only at an artisanal level (Toledo, 1982). Its wood is also used to make crafts. Yet, in contrast with Indian plantation cultivation, the Mexican oil has always been extracted from wild plants. This, as well as its exploitation for wood crafts have caused a decline in the abundance of this species, to the point of now being nearly extinct in some localities (Espinosa-Organista, 2007). Successful commercialization and extraction of higher quality oil in India has relaxed commercial extraction in its native range, hence improving its conservation status in Mexico.
We thank Leif Abrell, University of Arizona for the generous gift of chemicals, Boris Vrskovy for providing the Indian literature, Fredd Dürr for collection of the B. delpechiana sample, and Larry Venable for reading a prior manuscript and giving helpful suggestions. The Indian National Herbarium in Kolkata allowed us to take photographs of herbarium specimens of B. delpechiana. This work was supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER grant, a Young Investigator Award from the Beckman Foundation, and a grant from the Vice President for Research and the Colleges of Science and Agriculture of the University of Arizona to J.X.B.
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Becerra, J. X. 2007. The impact of herbivore-plant coevolution on plant community structure. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104(18): 7843-7488.
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China's manufacturing sector has ample room for maneuvers, and "has the confidence to turn perils into opportunities," an official has said.
Miao Wei, minister of Industry and Information Technology made the remarks in an interview with Xinhua, when talking about the impact of recent China-U.S. trade frictions on the country's manufacturing sector.
"After a long period of development, the country's manufacturing sector has made historical breakthroughs," Miao said."The huge domestic market, a complete industry chain and a quality-assurance system meeting global standards have laid a solid foundation for the sector."
Meanwhile, sound fundamentals of the industrial sector and constant pushes for innovation and transformation have become the ballast stone and source for stabilizing expectations and boosting confidence, Miao said.
In the first eight months of 2018, the value-added industrial output of major companies rose 6.5 percent, with the growth for manufacturing companies at 6.8 percent.
Investment growth was another highlight, as investment in the manufacturing sector was up 7.5 percent in the first eight months, faster than the 5.3-percent overall fixed-asset investment growth in the same period.
The strong growth shows the positive expectations of companies and industries for the manufacturing sector, Miao said.
Despite escalating trade frictions, China's determination of opening up has not been affected, he said. "China will maintain strategic composure and continues its transition from a large manufacturing nation to a high-quality manufacturer in accordance with established goals and policies."
Profits of China's major manufacturing firms grew 13.5 percent in the first eight months of 2018, accounting for more than 84 percent of profits for all large industrial firms, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday.


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Are you new to Freshkills Park and want to learn a little bit more about the exciting changes occurring at what was once the world's largest landfill? Freshkills Park is excited to announce the release of new videos that introduce newcomers to the park in three themes: "Welcome", "Freshkills Park Science and Research Program", and "Landfill Infrastructure at Freshkills Park"....MORE
An upcoming documentary entitled Landfill Harmonic chronicles the work of Favio Chavez, who is using trash to inspire his local community in Cateura, Paraguay. The documentary follows Chavez, landfill technician and director of the appropriately named Recycled Orchestra, as he constructs musical instruments made of trash sourced directly from the landfill....MORE
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A recent video on Urban Omnibus, featuring Garbage Land and Bottlemania author Elizabeth Royte, offers a glimpse behind the complex process of everyday garbage collection in New York City. Combining interview, animated graphics, and often poetic archival and present-day footage, the video tells a succinct story of one citizen's look into the past, present, and possible future of municipal solid waste management....MORE
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A clear and compelling promotional video by the Dan Region of Towns in Tel-Aviv for their transformation of the Hiriya Landfill into a 2000-acre park focused on environmental sustainability. Sound like a familiar type of project? The many folks involved in planning, building and educating about the site and the lessons it can teach have been great supporters of the Freshkills Park project....MORE
We're excited to introduce a new way of engaging with the Freshkills Park site: Freshkills Park+, an augmented-reality guide to the site's many facilities, vistas, natural and manmade features. The experience, which is available to users of iPhone 4, iPad, Android and Blackberry devices, was constructed using the Layar browser, which makes use of a phone's camera, GPS, compass and accelerometer to enhance what is seen with a layer of digital information....MORE
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A clip from 2008 History Channel program "The Works" features Staten Island's Pratt Industries, where more than half of New York City's paper is recycled. This is a terrific clip that explains the infrastructure required for paper collection and processing as well as spelling out the steps of paper recycling....MORE
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Another animated video in the American Society for Landscape Architects (ASLA)'s sustainable design series demonstrates how to sustainably reclaim building materials for use in new park construction. The clip highlights ways to convert a former building site into a new open space while minimizing waste and maximizing use of recycled materials....MORE
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Among the features in the New York Times 2010 Year in Ideas was a short animated video illustrating vibro-wind technology, which harvests wind energy without the use of traditionally large, bladed turbines. Instead, wind causes an array of lightweight members in a vibro-wind installation to oscillate; connection to a piezoelectric transducer converts the mechanical energy of that oscillation into electricity....MORE
The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently held the first 2011 webinar in their series Wind Powering America, through which energy experts present and discuss current issues relating to wind power. These online conferences are free to the public and take place on the third Wednesday of every month....MORE
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A follow-up (or preface) to Dana Gumb's lecture: as part of its series of sustainable design videos (including the brownfield remediation piece we featured recently), the American Society of Landscape Architects has produced an animated video on designing landscapes to assist in stormwater management....MORE
The latest podcast on Freakonomics radio discusses the stigma, culture and psychology of trash. In addition to short pieces on the strange journey of the Mobro 4000 garbage barge and Taipei's participatory curbside pick-up, host Stephen Dubner reports on the recent boom in "Pay-As-You-Throw" (PAYT) trash plans that charge households for garbage collection depending on how much they throw out....MORE
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A simple video called From Industrial Wasteland to Community Park, produced by the American Society of Landscape Architects, demonstrates how contaminated brownfield sites can be returned to productive and public use through site clearance and phytoremediation of contaminated soils....MORE
Thanks to the huge crowd that came out to Robin Nagle's talk in our lecture series two weeks back. Standing in front of a fascinating slideshow featuring many of the men and women who keep New York City clean (or–more than that–keep New York City alive, as artist Mierle Ukeles famously phrased it), Robin discussed her academic approach to Sanitation, the stigma we attach to the work San Men and Women do and some hypotheses as to how those stigmas develop and why they stick....MORE
We're playing catch-up recapping some of our recent events. Last month's talk by Dr. Steven Handel, Director of the Center for Urban Restoration Ecology (CURE) at Rutgers University, was an informative and engaging overview of Dr. Handel's work, including a discussion of 'ecological services' and why urban ecology is so important....MORE
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The PBS Thirteen series The City Concealed recently featured a segment on the Staten Island Greenbelt. This 2,800-acre continuous corridor of green space provides a host of natural recreational opportunities–including some of the best and most serene hiking in New York City–and acts as a refuge for native wildlife....MORE
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Flavorwire features six particularly interesting art projects featuring plastic shopping or garbage bags. Nils Völker's one hundred and eight is particularly beautiful....MORE
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The Olmsted Legacy is a one-hour documentary about the contributions of urban planner and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, visionary designer of many of America's first great parks. It features the voices of Kevin Kline and Kerry Washington....MORE
Such a huge crowd came out to hear Peter Harnik speak in our Freshkills Park Talks/Uncommon Ground joint lecture last week! We're grateful to the many attendees, and to Peter, who made the trek up from Washington, D.C. and gave an interesting overview of projects happening nationwide to turn existing spaces within our cities into public parks....MORE
Urban Omnibus recaps (and streams) an Architectural League discussion between Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker, and former NYC Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Dan Doctoroff. The discussion covers a number of the controversial projects Doctoroff helped initiate before and during his tenure, including the City's failed 2012 Olympics bid, the West Side Stadium project, the Atlantic Yards and congestion pricing....MORE


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Cheryl Cole and Liam Payne first went public with their romance in 2015. A year later, news of Cheryl's pregnancy began doing the rounds
English singer Cheryl Cole has rubbished rumours that her mother was behind her split with One Direction star Liam Payne. The duo announced their split on June 2 via micro-blogging website Twitter.
The Crazy Stupid Love singer took to Twitter to confirm it and further expressed that these are difficult times to respond to such things and that her mother is not the type of woman who should be dragged into this.
"I hate responding to stuff esp at such difficult times but I cannot sit here and listen to such nasty, false articles regarding my mam. I don't know why they involve her in stories about me. I can assure you she has absolutely nothing to do with any of it", she tweeted.
"I am a grown woman who is capable of dealing with my own life. She is a soft and kind woman who doesn't deserve to be dragged into something that has nothing whatsoever to do with her", she further added.
The couple first went public with their romance in 2015. A year later, news of Cheryl's pregnancy began doing the rounds. The couple welcomed their first child, Bear, on Mother's Day last year, who has now turned one. However, reports of a rough patch in the couple's relationship surfaced soon after, thus fuelling rumours of a split.
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John McMillian is an assistant professor of history at Georgia State University. He is the author of Beatles vs. Stones.
In the introduction to his new book, City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future, Mark Pendergrast writes that "Atlanta is on the brink of either tremendous birth or inexorable decline." Having lived in Atlanta for several years, I've become familiar with the forces at work here that suggest the latter.
The city's structural challenges are immense. Atlanta leads the nation in both income inequality and sprawl. Its car-choked roads and highways rank among the very worst in the world, and when things go awry—as when Atlanta receives two inches of snow, or a highway bridge collapses—the city's infrastructure becomes a national laughingstock. Atlanta's public transportation system, MARTA, has long been underfunded and unloved. Relatedly, Atlantans are among the least healthy American urbanites when it comes to exercise: A recent study found that 79 percent of city residents "do not meet minimum recommended physical activity guidelines."
Currently, however, Atlanta is undertaking one of the nation's most ambitious urban redevelopment programs. The Atlanta BeltLine—born of a 1999 master's thesis by a former Georgia Tech architecture student named Ryan Gravel—will eventually be 22-mile multi-use path connecting 45 neighborhoods. It promises to convert a ring of mostly abandoned railroad tracks into a chain of interconnected parks and pathways, which will attract bars, shops, restaurants, and new housing all the way. Though it's been dubbed "a glorified sidewalk" in the New York Times, the BeltLine may eventually feature an adjacent streetcar or light railway line. Many locals hope that the $4.8 billion project could be a game changer for Atlanta.
As Pendergrast explores in City on the Verge, the BeltLine also reflects the city's troubled history of racial conflict and its modern efforts at reconciliation. "The racial divide remains an often unspoken aspect of every other issue facing the city, including transportation, housing, food, education, religion, health, and the environment," he writes. Although many affluent African Americans live in Atlanta, it "continues to maintain fundamentally unequal schools, jobs, parks, and medical care for black versus white." Pendergrast describes failed urban renewal policies that encouraged migration from the city center, and shows how white (and black) flight, along with the triumph of the automobile, fed a cycle of sprawl: Today, the population of the city proper is about 450,000, but nearly six million people live in Atlanta's outlying suburbs.
Recently, we spoke over email. Here's lightly edited version of our conversation.
I'm a person who loves charming, walkable cities; I've lived in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts. I moved to Atlanta seven years ago. Some longtime residents don't like me saying this, but it's not as alluring as other places I've lived.
I went to Harvard long ago as an undergrad, and I've revisited Cambridge and New York over the years, so I know their appeal—when you take the subway there, you walk up into vital, dense, interesting neighborhoods, whereas in Atlanta, when you come out of a MARTA station, you generally face a desolation of parking lots. That is changing now, with transit-oriented developments in process or in planning stages.
You write that the BeltLine could be an incredible catalyst for that kind of growth. But it's not planned to be finished until 2030! Robert Moses built giant expressways, parks, bridges, tunnels, and public housing faster than Atlanta can build a 22-mile cement path. What gives?
First, it is expensive, and Atlanta's tax base isn't that big. So they have had to rely on federal grants, philanthropists and foundations, and tax allocation district funds that were hammered by the Great Recession. The idea behind the TAD is to freeze the taxes going to the city, county, and public schools for a specified period of time, so that tax increments above that amount help to fund the project.
Also, they are building the BeltLine to provide space for two streetcars to run alongside the trail, in opposite directions. That adds hugely to the expense. It isn't clear at this point when or if they will add streetcars to the BeltLine.
In the last chapter of the book, I suggest that they just secure the rest of the BeltLine corridor—about 40 percent of which is still owned by the railroad company CSX. Then they should slap a trail down. It doesn't even need to be paved. If they put it right in the middle of the former rail corridor, it won't require retaining walls or much foundational work.
I visited my brother in Toronto last year, and we walked along the Toronto Beltline—yes, that's what it is called. They're pursuing the same idea, though theirs is not a loop, and it's not complete. The section we walked on was composed of compacted, fine gravel, and it was fine for bikes and pedestrians. Why not do that to complete the Atlanta BeltLine, and then go back and tear it all up to put in streetcars and a concrete bike path when the time comes?
Some critics complain that the BeltLine is geared toward middle and upper class Atlantans, and it's not the type of development that poorer citizens may desire.
My impression is that the Eastside Trail section of the BeltLine—part of which has already been completed—does indeed appeal primarily to middle- and upper-class folks. About half the city population is white and half black, but that isn't reflected by who you see on the Eastside Trail. It's majority white.
Having said that, though, I think the trail can appeal just as much to lower income folks, especially if it provides transit in the form of streetcars that link with bus rapid transit and MARTA, eventually. It will be very interesting to see who uses the Westside Trail when it opens later this year, since it's going through predominantly African American neighborhoods.
The BeltLine is being funded in part with property taxes meant for Atlanta's public schools. Some have argued that in essence, poor people of color are paying for amenities enjoyed by white homeowners. And some lower income Atlantans fear that they're going to be pushed out of their homes as a result of the BeltLine. Are they right to be concerned?
Yes, lower-income Atlantans have every right to fear displacement as a result of the BeltLine. It has already happened near the Eastside Trail, as rents and house prices have shot up. The TAD was set up so that 15 percent of all bond proceeds go to pay for affordable housing near the BeltLine, with a goal of 5,600 units by 2030. They are far, far from that goal, largely because the economy tanked and the TAD is just starting to provide funds, with a new bond planned. Ryan Gravel, the BeltLine visionary who first suggested the project, quit the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership board a few months ago to protest lack of focus on affordable housing issues.
Since then, various city and Atlanta BeltLine Inc. efforts to boost affordable housing have been announced. This is all to the good, but until the city passes a comprehensive inclusionary zoning law, it is mostly an ad hoc process.
The question of whether school taxes (along with county and municipal taxes) should contribute to the TAD—that was the subject of a lawsuit in which the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal. [Later, TAD was saved by a ballot referendum that amended the constitution.] We don't have room here to get into that whole debate, but those in favor of the TAD believe that as the BeltLine attracts new residents and development, the tax base will rise, and eventually that momentum will help the schools.
You argue that Atlanta's current redevelopment efforts could provide a model for other cities moving forward. What lessons—or warnings—should people be taking from Atlanta as they look to improve their own communities?
Very briefly: A grassroots effort to support a brilliantly conceived project can really jumpstart innovative urban efforts. In this case, Ryan Gravel and then city-council member Cathy Woolard, who's now running for mayor, spent several years building community support. Without it, this would have been just another mega-project imposed from on high.
Having said that, however, it was important to set up a bureaucratic mechanism with full support from the city, but with enough autonomy to act decisively and quickly. Nothing will go the way you plan, exactly, and you will have to adjust continually to unexpected challenges. In the case of the BeltLine, those challenges have ranged from the economic downturn to neighborhood battles over planned twin towers [a proposed high-rise apartment complex that would have hovered over Piedmont Park], and many other near-disasters.
Other lessons: It's important to attend to issues around affordable housing and dealing with impact of gentrification. It is also important to get philanthropies and businesses to help. In Atlanta, money from Home Depot, Coca-Cola, and Cox Enterprises, in addition to others such as UPS and Kaiser Permanente, has been crucial.
I'm excited about all of this, but it's clear that Atlanta has a long ways to go. I'm forty-six, and I've been thinking about relocating. What would you advise?
I certainly can't tell you where to live or how to live your life. As I said in my book title, Atlanta is on the verge of many things, and most of them are headed in a positive direction. The good news is that Atlanta is still a city in its adolescence, and you can have input and impact, if you stick around.
Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.
Because of coronavirus, millions of tenants won't be able to write rent checks. But calls for a rent holiday often ignore the longer-term economic effects.
Renters in apartments and houses share more than just germs with their roommates: Life under coronavirus lockdown means negotiating new social rules.
We must prepare for a protracted battle with coronavirus. But there are changes we can make now to prepare locked-down cities for what's next.
Some renters and homeowners are getting financial assistance during the economic disruption from the coronavirus pandemic. What about landlords?


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Party leaders, and AAP MLAs across the national capital participated in the cleanliness drive.
Incidentally, the party undertook the cleanliness drive in the 7, Race Course Area, in the vicinity of Prime Minister's official residence, after Narendra Modi announced his plan to start the Swachh Bharat campaign in Valmiki Basti.
Valmiki Basti also happens to be the place from where AAP launched its party symbol broom. The Valmiki community is also known to be a strong supporter of the party.
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June 7, 2018 — Philips announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Ingenia Elition 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) solution and two clinical applications, Philips Compressed Sense and 3D APT. This integrated suite of innovations enables clinicians to perform exams up to 50 percent faster [1], increase diagnostic confidence and improve the patient experience.
The first commercial installation of the Philips Ingenia Elition in the U.S. has recently been completed at Hennepin Healthcare, a comprehensive healthcare system in Minneapolis.
In today's healthcare landscape – where reimbursements are becoming value-based and chronic conditions lead to more MR procedures and longer waiting times – there is an ever-increasing pressure on the radiology department. Philips is responding to these challenges through the development of new systems and clinical applications that improve image quality and the patient and staff experience, as well as operational efficiency.
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Philips Ingenia Elition and the entire digital MR portfolio empower a faster, smarter and simpler path to diagnosis – providing patients and radiologists with the following benefits:
- Speed of care – By uniting Philips' dStream digital broadband technology with Compressed Sense across its new digital MR portfolio, radiologists can benefit from up to 50 percent [1] faster exam times, increasing throughput and workflow efficiency and resulting in more time with patients. Additionally, SmartExam analytics enable automatic planning, scanning and processing of exams that help improve the entire MR workflow, from image acquisition to reading preference.
- Confident diagnosis – 3D APT is a contrast-free brain MR imaging solution that addresses the need for more confident diagnosis in neuro-oncology. By differentiating low-grade and high-grade gliomas, radiologists have the ability to better understand a tumor's progression and determine the effect of treatment [3] [4].
- Improved patient experience – The MR Elition combined with Philips Ambient Experience and in-bore Connect solution offers an immersive audio-visual experience that may help calm patients, improving the quality of service for the patient. Herlev Gentofte University Hospital in Denmark managed to reduce the number of rescans by up to 70 percent [5] using the Ambient Experience in-bore Connect solution with its Ingenia 3.0T MR, allowing radiologists to handle more patients per day [6]. In addition to Ambient Experience, Philips' VitalEye brings a unique patient sensing approach, enabling an intelligent respiratory signal – allowing routine exam set-up time to occur in less than a minute [7] – as a part of Philips VitalScreen technology that allows workflow integration and patient setup.
In addition to receiving U.S. FDA approval the Ingenia Elition 3.0T is also available for sale in Europe.
For more information: www.usa.philips.com/healthcare
[1] Using Compressed SENSE technology and compared to Philips exams without Compressed SENSE
[2] SmartExam is not available to patients with MR Conditional implants
[3] Togao et al. (2014) Neuro-Oncology
[4] Park KJ et al. (2016) European Radiology
[5] Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other cases. Results in other cases may vary
[6] Compared to the average of the other five Philips MR scanners without Ambient Experience and In-bore Connect. Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other studies. Results in other cases may vary
[7] Based on in-house testing


text: What's one thing that all designers, coders, entrepreneurs and leaders have in common? They've all failed at something before. Even if you haven't noticed, you've likely failed at something. There's a lot of risk in putting your work out there; in being hired by a client for a project; in being a team leader to other designers or developers. And when risk is involved, failure inevitably follows. It's time to talk about the realities of failure: the fear, the shame, the embarrassment, and possibly the depression that comes with it. If you've ever failed — and you have — you'll want to hear this.


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