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Theme: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: What Ethical Issues for Africa?
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Big data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, like a double aged sword, offer both opportunities and threat to Africa's future. Whoever can 'mine' big data and configure it into useable formats has the "oil" to power the socio-economic and political activities. At what level are African countries in the spectrum of data mining and protection? What opportunities and risks do data sets fed into machines by human beings portend? How does Artificial Intelligence address the challenges of bias in a World order that has for centuries held Africa at the periphery? The 8thInter Region Economic Network (IREN) Eastern Africa Thought Leaders' Forum will focus on "Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: What Ethical Issues for Africa?"
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In development
The programmable metallization cell, or PMC, is a new form of non-volatile computer memory being developed at Arizona State University and its spinoff, Axon Technologies.
PMC is one of a number of technologies that are being developed to replace the widely used flash memory, providing a combination of longer lifetimes, lower power, and better memory density. Infineon Technologies, who licensed the technology in 2004, refers to it as conductive-bridging RAM, or CBRAM. NEC has a variant called "Nanobridge" and Sony calls their version "electrolytic memory".
PMC is based on the physical re-location of ions within a solid electrolyte. A PMC memory cell is made of two solid metal electrodes, one relatively inert (e.g., tungsten) the other electrochemically active (e.g., silver or copper), with a thin film of the electrolyte between them. A control transistor can also be included in each cell.
When a negative bias is applied to the inert electrode, metal ions in the electrolyte, as well as some originating from the now-positive active electrode, flow in the electrolyte and are reduced (converted to atoms) by electrons from the inert electrode. After a short period of time the ions flowing into the filament form a small metallic "nanowire" between the two electrodes. The "nanowire" dramatically reduces the resistance along that path, which can be measured to indicate that the "writing" process is complete.
Actually the nanowire may not be continuous but a chain of electrodeposit islands or nanocrystals.[1] This is likely to prevail at low programming currents (less than 1 microampere) whereas higher programming current will lead to a mostly metallic conductor.
Reading the cell simply requires the control transistor to be switched on, and a small voltage applied across the cell. If the nanowire is in place in that cell, the resistance will be low, leading to higher current, and that is read as a "1". If there is no nanowire in the cell, the resistance is higher, leading to low current, and is read as a "0".
Erasing the cell is identical to writing, but uses a positive bias on the inert electrode. The metal ions will migrate away from the filament, back into the electrolyte, and eventually to the negatively charged active electrode. This breaks the nanowire and increases the resistance again.
PMC is not the only application of this basic concept, which relates to "nanoionics". Other prospective applications include dynamically reroutable electronics, optical switches, and microfluidic valves.[2]
Arizona State University was among the first to perform studies of PMC, developed by the university's Center for Applied Nanoionics. The new technology will presumably be used in commercial products. PMC technology has been licensed to Infineon (Qimonda), Micron Technology, and Adesto Technologies, and several other large semiconductor companies and OEMs have also shown interest in the new technology.[3]
CBRAM differs from RRAM in that for CBRAM metal ions dissolve readily in the material between the two electrodes, while for RRAM, the material between the electrodes requires a high electric field causing local damage akin to dielectric breakdown, producing a trail of conducting defects (sometimes called a "filament"). Hence for CBRAM, one electrode must provide the dissolving ions, while for RRAM, a one-time "forming" step is required to generate the local damage.
The primary form of solid-state non-volatile memory in use today is flash memory, which is finding use in most roles that used to be filled by hard drives. Flash, however, has a number of problems that have led to many efforts to introduce products to replace it.
Flash is based on the floating gate concept, essentially a modified transistor. Conventional flash transistors have three connections, the source, drain and gate. The gate is the essential component of the transistor, controlling the resistance between the source and drain, and thereby acting as a switch. In the floating gate transistor, the gate is attached to a layer that traps electrons, leaving it switched on (or off) for extended periods of time. The floating gate can be re-written by passing a large current through the emitter-collector circuit.
It is this large current that is flash's primary drawback, and for a number of reasons. For one, each application of the current physically degrades the cell, such that the cell will eventually be unwritable. Write cycles on the order of 105 to 106 are typical, limiting flash applications to roles where constant writing is not common. The current also requires an external circuit to generate, using a system known as a charge pump. The pump requires a fairly lengthy charging processes so that writing is much slower than reading; the pump also requires much more power. Flash is thus an "asymmetrical" system, much more so than conventional RAM or hard drives.
Another problem with flash is that the floating gate suffers leakage that slowly releases the charge. This is countered through the use of powerful surrounding insulators, but these require a certain physical size in order to be useful and also require a specific physical layout, which is different from the more typical CMOS layouts, which required several new fabrication techniques to be introduced. As flash scales rapidly downward in size the charge leakage increasingly becomes a problem, which has led to several predictions of flash's ultimate demise. However, massive market investment has driven development of flash at rates in excess of Moore's Law, and semiconductor fabrication plants using 30 nm processes are currently (late 2007) being brought online.
In contrast to flash, PMC writes with relatively low power and at high speed. The speed is inversely related to the power applied (to a point, there are mechanical limits), so the performance can be tuned for different roles. Additionally, the writing process is "almost infinitely reversible",[4] making PMC much more universally applicable than flash.
PMC, in theory, can scale to sizes much smaller than flash, theoretically as small as a few ion widths wide. Copper ions are about 0.75 angstroms,[5] so line widths on the order of nanometers seem possible. PMC is also much simpler in layout than flash, which should lead to simpler construction and lower costs.[4] Whether or not these advantages can be brought to market remains to be seen; the wide variety of other "flash killers" have so far always been behind the technology curve of flash's massive investment. However, as the CEO of one licensee claimed, "No other technology can deliver the orders-of-magnitude improvement in power, performance and cost that this memory can."[4]
Early experimental PMC systems were based on silver-doped germanium selenide glasses, but these materials were not able to withstand the temperatures used in standard CMOS fabs. Work then turned to silver-doped germanium sulfide electrolytes and then finally to the current copper-doped germanium sulfide electrolytes.[6]
Axon Technologies has been licensing the basic concept since its formation in 2001. The first licensee was Micron Technology, who started work with PMC in 2002.[7] Infineon followed in 2004,[8] and a number of smaller companies have since joined as well.
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A proposed physical analog of a quantum amplitude: Corkscrew model from the Theory of Elementary Waves (TEW)
This article proposes solutions to two riddles of quantum mechanics (QM): (1) What is the physical analog of a
quantum amplitude?, (2) Why do electrons in a double slit experiment act differently if we look at them? The Theory of Elementary Waves (TEW) is an unconventional view of how nature is organized. Elementary ray amplitudes precede and travel in the opposite direction as particles, which then follow these amplitudes backwards. The amplitude A = |A| ei? is a vector in Hilbert space, but it moves through Euclidean space. This makes explicit something implicit in Feynman's thinking, although Feynman had the amplitudes traveling in the wrong direction. In double slit experiments, the amplitude of elementary rays going though the two slits interfere before they reach the electron gun. Any experiment that detects which slit the electron uses, destroys the coherence of those two rays, destroying the interference. Because there is no interference, the target screen displays no interference fringe pattern. TEW represents a paradigm shift of seismic proportions, in both classical and quantum physics. Thomas Kuhn warns that paradigm shifts of this magnitude are usually rejected as preposterous. That is exactly what happened to Alfred Wegener's idea of "continental drift."
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Real Oneway Glass In Quake ... It's Possible, But How?
Posted by
on 2005/09/19 02:05:21
I've been looking around for how to make one-way glass in way. I am aware of 2 or 3 "wrong" methods.
The correct method is employed in the map ID3
In the map ID3, there is an observation area below the DM6 red armor area. You can see everything above it, but shoot a rocket at it and it explodes on contact but from above you can't even see that area.
(Of course this is the "best" glass we have in Quake).
Away, I can't find any info on how to make this type of glass.
Anyone know? Is there a certain color in the palette that is 100% transparent and you paint that face of the wall with it?
#1 posted by Method on 2005/09/19 02:25:49
I didnt know about that way, nor do i know the answer to your question. but i found out you can make a "Glass" effect by making a brush as thin as you can and then texturing that brush with the "teleport" texture (you know the black with the white circles that move about). and tie a func_wall entity to it. now look at it in the game. It only works on some engines tho.
Skip Texture
#2 posted by
on 2005/09/19 03:45:28
I expect this is done using the skip texture utility. You can get this from
It's an extra executable to run on your map after bsp, which will check all the faces to see if they have the texture "skip". Any surface that has this texture will be removed from the visible hull(but still clips rockets etc). How you'd achieve the effect in that map is to make a func_wall for the one way glass, and texture the bottom face with skip.
This may not be the only way to do this, but I'm pretty sure it'll do what you want.
Arrgh, Broke The Link
#3 posted by
on 2005/09/19 03:46:22
There's an extra period that doesn't belong, the link is
I Kept Trying The Skip Texture And It Didn't Work
#4 posted by
on 2005/09/19 04:31:08
... so you have kept me from going insane.
There is no func_wall in the id3 map, I did a text dump. It does have a func_plat in it and ID3 is a Rocket Arena'ized DM6 clone, but the Tyrann utility doesn't say it has to be an entity
The mod Starship has a forcefield in it -- an animated yellow pixelated particle haze. I might see if I can find the QuakeC that does that. It appears to be the same as that which appears in the Chthon death scene on E1M7 which also doubles as the radiation rune effect/spawn shields in Rune Quake.
#5 posted by
on 2005/09/19 04:33:25
Starship singleplayer map/mod
Rune Quake Source
#6 posted by
on 2005/09/19 04:56:25
I haven't looked at the map in question, but i'm pretty sure if you are standing inside a func_illusionary, you can see out, but no-one can see in.
#7 posted by
on 2005/09/19 04:57:37
this probably should have been posted in mapping help.
#8 posted by
on 2005/09/19 05:10:36
the 'window' in id3 is a shootable trigger_multiple with a high "wait" value. this isn't a good solution, as each window will bleed the first time it is shot at.
the func_wall with skip texture trick is much better, although using the skip removal tool mentioned above will lead to the "one texture is missing from the bsp file" warning when the map is loaded.
there are compilers out there that support the skip texture in a 'clean' way, but i have no example at hand at the the moment.
(note that skip windows are transparent to the player, but monsters cannot see through them!)
Skip Test ... No Funcs
#9 posted by
on 2005/09/19 05:36:48
Didn't use func_wall, shoot it and it doesn't bleed it just impacts.
It'd be nice if that were built into a qbsp'ish utility, I can't see anyone using a texture named skip without the intended effect.
Now I need to figure out how to make it look enough like a window is there that isn't doubt to whether it is empty space or something solid without resorting to something only GLQuake supports. maybe some sort of mild pixelated stuff in the middle or a crack or a cheapy fake "shine".
(func_illusionary, don't see that in too many maps. It'd be nice for elements that are scenery that you don't want to interfere with movement).
#10 posted by
on 2005/09/19 06:16:35
you're right. there is no warning message with tyrann's tool. i must have confused it with some other program...
making the window a func_wall allows you to killtarget it if necessary and it also doesn't interfere with the lighting.
Skip Method And Func_wall
#11 posted by
on 2005/09/19 06:35:13
If you go for using the skip texture in an actual map you'll still want to use a func_wall for the glass. This is because even though you can see through the removed face, vis cannot. If you build the window as a regular world brush, once you vis the map the parts of the map on the other side of the glass will not be drawn, and you'll get a HOM effect instead. Func_wall never blocks visibility so it'll work fine. It'll also make the inside edges of the window frame much easier to make, as they won't get clipped off.
As for a visual indication, the best visual indicator for glass in quake I've seen is in efdm9, which is certainly still around somewhere if you don't own a copy already. The windows in the map have 'decals' on them, marking the surface of the glass nicely. You could replace this effect with very thin white brushes to look like cracks, but the decals are nice and clean, a more stylish alternative in my opinion
Forcefield In Starship Map
#12 posted by
on 2005/09/20 00:59:02
Nice effect, just like a wall.
It is QuakeC though, and I cannot seem to track it down.
Hipnotic Had One Like That
#13 posted by
on 2005/09/20 09:37:13
Surely that source is released?
It's From Hipnotic ...
#14 posted by
on 2005/09/20 13:38:01
Heh, I figured that out last night
I decompiled the QuakeC using deacc32.exe and looked through the source and all the functions had "hip" in them.
Eventually, I came across a sample tutorial file on how to use the particle field from Hipnotic:
and the official devkit page for Hipnotic:
Small Concern...
#15 posted by
on 2005/09/20 17:05:48
I crunched your id3.bsp to a map and it must be a trigger_multiple with a wait function -1
Take a look at the id3.map and see yourself.
Oh Wow You Made My Head Explode
#17 posted by
on 2006/06/08 05:00:08
A human footprint? Actually a shoeprint? This is proof that prehistoric humans wore velcro fastened no-brand sneakers?
Oh crap no I read on and it's an angel? Holy!
Wow, dude. You caught my attention!
#18 posted by
on 2006/06/08 05:05:28
Let me help on your scientific project. Look what I found:
It's mammoth poo! Praise the lord that those beasts are extinct!
#19 posted by
on 2006/06/08 05:10:56
what's your beef man? I thought everyone turned to Geocities for the latest announcements in scientific discovery.
(metlslime: do we have a "retarded" icon yet?)
Those Prints Side By Side
#20 posted by
on 2006/06/08 12:09:39
suggest an early society where man and dinosaur treated one another as equals with a shared sense of purpose, or it could mean that there was a form of bestiality too horrendous to contemplate.
#21 posted by
on 2006/06/08 18:54:46
i've often contemplated such a thing. Maybe one day science can bring us back the Pterodactyl and the Triceratops, and I can give them a good shagging.
#22 posted by Zop on 2006/06/09 22:34:43
There is a normal clip texture in the standard levels. I assume you use that on just one side of the wall.
Not Quite...
#23 posted by
on 2006/06/10 01:02:58
brushes need to be entirely clip or not at all.
previous comments in this thread pretty much answered this. Not sure why this Noah's Ark spam resurrected the thread so successfully.
Because We Are All Born To Fallow
#24 posted by
on 2006/06/10 10:05:16
and need someone strong to guide us.
Sorry For This....
#25 posted by
on 2006/09/22 23:46:02
I decided to resurrect this thread following the discussion started in Base Pack thread these last days. There plenty of informations in the previous posts, but things are not really clear on the method to use for glass creation. So, as it doen's work well as described by than in Base Pack thread, is there somebody already experimented Tyrann's remove_skip tool, and did the results were what has been expected ?
#26 posted by
on 2006/09/22 23:48:28
if you want what baker was asking for, just use a func_wall with a skip texture on one side. I think that's different from what than is doing.
Remove Skip
#27 posted by
on 2006/09/24 17:39:20
is already causing me problems with my basepack map. I have some shots I will upload later (in the basepack thread) that all were taken with novis 1 to avoid showing up unsightly errors.
I will do a short tutorial on it in the near future.
#28 posted by
on 2006/09/25 00:14:15
Please do... quickly... ;)
Where To Get Skippy
#29 posted by
on 2006/09/28 05:54:06
you can find tyrann's skip tool at
glass rocks!
#30 posted by
on 2006/10/01 08:10:57
Thanks a lot for your tutorial, and about the map examples... Nice and interesting !!! I just jave a small comments: the 2examples are
based... Would it be possible you will give an
example ?
I tried to make a
glass in map current map, following the same method, replacing water by nothing.. (i.e "air") but unfortunately the results is completly unexpected and crappy (ingame you are either stucked or map leaks, and you have thousands HOMs everywhere..)
#31 posted by
on 2006/10/01 21:12:26
I have them all over the place in my map, but I know it has worked OK because enabling r_novis 1 gets rid of them. I'm holding out hoping that Tyrann will release a new version of skippy. He told me it is planned, but I think he is pretty busy with other stuff atm so I've know idea if he will do it before christmas or some other time. Fingers crossed.
I didn't have problems with air/air glass, by the way, only air/water.
Than, Other People:
#32 posted by
on 2006/10/01 23:59:56
have you verified that the HOMs are not there when you don't run skippy?
#33 posted by
on 2006/10/02 00:26:19
No I don't get any HOM with normal process (QBSP + VIS + LIGHT) Including skip run (QBSP + SKIP + VIS + LIGHT), ingame the map is HOM'ish as hell :(
Yes, It's Because Of Skip
#34 posted by
on 2006/10/02 03:48:15
I thought I mentioned that it is likely to cause problems earlier. Maybe I didn't :)
I tried using different compilers, reordering the compile process (makes some difference, and seemed to fix it last time I tried, but the problems just came back) etc. but to no avail.
Anyway, I tend not to have too many problems if skip is used in just a few places and only on bmodels. If I stick skip on the world then problems start occuring. The probability of problems happening also seems to increase with map complexity, number of portals etc. I had no problems to begin with when working on my map, but they slowly crept in, and are very evident when I do a full vis. However, it's a bit late to change things drastically now, so I am ignoring it and crossing my fingers that Tyrann will do some work on his compilers that includes skip ;)
If he doesn't then I'll have to do some work myself and I guess some of the cooler things in the map will have to go. Others I can replace with the trigger trick though :)
*the trigger trick is mentioned in my glass tutorial I think.
#35 posted by
on 2006/10/02 04:11:52
.. at the moment Tyrann's skip tool is buggy... I was aware of that point, it is even mentionned in v0.0 readme text file.
But actually I am very surprised of the result ingame (at least with my map.... I was thinking the
skip bug
, mentionned by Tyrann, would have generated some weird effects (i.e HOMs, leaks, etc..) were the skip texture is located, but not everywhere in the map...
Well, we have to seriously ask Tyrann to improve this cool stuff :)
... quickly :P
If You Are Mapping For Quoth...
#36 posted by
on 2006/10/02 20:42:58
then you can probably use this entity in place of skip covered func_wall:
It also has the advantage of being toggleable.
However, you will still run into problems if you plan on doing the same stuff with water and glass that I am doing. Otherwise, for glass air/air it is perfectly suitable and you won't ever have to use skip again.
#37 posted by
on 2006/10/02 23:03:55
Thanks for the infos, I'll check it out, while I'm not mapping for Quoth (shame on me... I know
...) Anyway, I can avoid glasses use in my current map, even if it would have been a nice goodies there...
In anyway, Tyrann must work on his skip tool now to make it bug free... :P.. ASAP I would say :D
#38 posted by
on 2014/06/26 05:06:13
I have seen glass on a map and it isn't any of the ones you have mentioned here. And it looks great to me.
There Are A Few Ways Of Doing Glass.
#39 posted by
on 2014/06/26 10:25:57
If you make a 64x64 single-color texture (grey or whatever) and give it a *blah name so it behaves like water in the engine, then you can put a skip-texture func_wall over it (so the player cant swim through the window) and set the wateralpha accordingly.
Or you can just make a func_wall and give it an _opacity key. Both rely on non-standard engines or some progs.
The first version I mention above is limited by the fact that you need to trigger the cvar wateralpha, do-able with the Quoth mod's info_command or trigger_command entities.
The other version requires an engine that supports transparency via the _opacity key. Most do now, but Vanilla GLQuake doesn't for example.
The Good Engines
#40 posted by
on 2014/06/26 14:34:56
Support the 'alpha' key now.
Just give an entity (any one you like) an alpha value of less than 1 (solid) but greater than 0 (completely transparent.
#41 posted by
on 2014/06/26 22:05:31
You can get the edfm9 here, in case you don't have a copy and want to check it out...
Non-bleeding Glass In Quake1
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Hey all.
I made non-bleeding glass and uploaded it to a really old Quake1 map editor website that I can't even remember the name of. I came across the property shift in a func_trigger (I think?) if you give it a health attribute and super-long delay time. In start.bsp for quake1, the "dopefish lives in the crypt of decay" shootable texture on the stretched face leading to the nightmare teleport... I noticed that while it was doing the 'cool-down' that you could stand and walk and interact and it would produce sparks instead of blood. The trick then is to have an func_trigger on spawn points in the map which triggers a one-time nail to shoot th glass when the level loads.
Super ghetto - but it worked - and it required 0 engine modifications. This eventually made its way into the observation areas for the initial release of Rocket Arena. I chatted with Zephod on a rocketarena server once and we were both like "oh wow its an honor to meet you." I cherish those uber-dork moments :) Love you all and keep on quaking. cheers
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Camilla Tominey: Too busy to be parents
I ASKED a teacher friend at a private girls' school to describe her worst parents' evening. Being familiar with the high-achieving, middle-class demographic I wasn't expecting Dickensian tales of neglect.
The worst parents are the ones that are 'too busy' to pay enough attention to their children
In fact I was fully prepared for her to tell me that the most difficult parents were the overly enthusiastic ones. You know the type – if they're not volunteering to chair the PTA they're phoning up to demand to know why their five-year-old daughter only got a B for her GCSE Mandarin.
So I was somewhat taken aback when my friend revealed that the worst parents were always the ones who were "too busy". She recounted one meeting with a mother whose daughter was bright but disengaged.
"What your daughter really needs," she told the smartly-dressed professional, "is someone to sit down with her every night, go through her homework and motivate her to get it done."
"Can you recommend anyone?" came the mother's reply, seemingly content with the idea of contracting out the job of being a parent along with the ironing.
Last week a top private school announced that it had started teaching teenage girls how to fit a bra and boys how to shave properly amid concerns that working parents are too pressed for time to show children the classic rites of passage into adulthood. Oakham School in Rutland, where fees are more than £17,000 a year, has brought in "life lessons" for teenage pupils to "fill the gap that parents in traditional family scenarios used to fill".
Deputy head Sarah Gomm said: "Parents are busy, no time to talk. We have lost that round-the-dinner-table time to sit down and chat because these days both parents work, may get home late and the chance to have those kinds of conversations has gone."
A new study has found that the children of supportive parents are happier and richer in later life
How depressing. I know how busy life can get as a working parent because I am one but surely no mother can be too busy to help their daughter buy their first bra?
These days, when parents say they are "too busy" (and let's face it we are all guilty of it), nine times out of 10 they will be staring at their smartphones. They aren't too busy, they're just too distracted.
If these "busy, busy, busy" middle-class parents can find the time to post things on Facebook, shop on Amazon and keep up with Game Of Thrones then they can get their daughters down to the M&S underwear department and acquaint their sons with the joys of Gillette.
Failing that, google Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator and watch it together on YouTube, if you must. Bra-wise, there's always Carry On Camping.
Even the now soon to be ex-Prime Minister manages to tuck his children in bed several nights a week and no one is more preoccupied than him right now, except perhaps whoever makes Jeremy Corbyn's cycle clips. In fact if affluent, dual-income families are so time-poor what are they doing at John Lewis every weekend?
I'm all for "life lessons" in schools. Children should be taught practical stuff such as how to open a bank account, boil an egg and change a plug but teachers are there to supplement parents, not replace them altogether.
Another study last week found that of six parenting types – supportive, strict, indulgent, easy-going, harsh and average – the children of supportive parents end up richer and happier in later life.
Supportive parents were deemed as those who give their children high levels of trust, showed a high level of interest in them and spent a lot of time with them. Forget iPads, games consoles and expensive trainers – all children really want from their parents is their undivided attention.
ELLIE Butler may have died at the hands of one man – her brutal father Ben Butler – but there are others who must also take some responsibility for her death.
Dame Mary Hogg failed Ellie
The mother who should have protected her but failed her in every way
The mother who should have protected her but failed her in every way. The judge who went against the advice of police, social services and Ellie's loving grandparents, who said she would have "blood on her hands" if she handed her back to her parents.
Why on earth did Dame Mary Hogg also decree that social services cut off all contact with the family when she knew Ben Butler had a string of criminal convictions for violence?
We will never know because judges never comment on cases outside court and Hogg has now retired.
The only way we can get to the bottom of why such catastrophic mistakes were made in this case is to hold a public inquiry, as Ellie's grandfather Neal Gray has demanded.
Mr Gray and his late wife Linda described the five years they spent looking after their granddaughter after Butler was jailed for shaking her as a baby as "the best years of our lives".
Their bid to adopt the little girl was blocked by social workers who suggested they were too old and after Butler's conviction was quashed on a legal technicality Ellie was sent back to live with the biological parents she barely knew.
Less than a year later she was dead. The judiciary is not "above the law" – it IS the law and if that system fails a six-year-old girl then it isn't just her grandfather who needs answers – we all do.
I LOVE music but I frankly cannot think of anything worse than being at Glastonbury in the rain this weekend, even with Adele headlining.
Adele at Glastonbury
Just seeing the pictures of mothers trying to push their buggies through the quagmire makes me mentally reach for the wet wipes.
There is a time and a place for young children and it isn't in a field full of muddy puddles unless you're the kind of masochist who enjoys being updated on the contents of someone's welly every waking minute of the weekend.
I seriously hope Peppa Pig isn't planning on making an appearance in the "Kidz Field" – even the hippy vegan parents will end up wanting to turn her into sausages.
Do all cats suffer from a personality disorder?
ARE ALL cats psychopaths? The personality disorder is traditionally defined as displaying antisocial behaviour (check), diminished empathy and remorse (check) and disinhibited and bold behaviour (check).
Our pet puss Baroness Lionel of Blair is an actual serial killer. Mice, birds, spiders – you name it she'll kill it and eat it.
Last week she presented us with a beheaded bat, Ozzy Osbourne style. I wonder if the vet offers CBT (cat behavioural therapy)?
SOME people can appear healthy but are "thin on the outside and fat on the inside", according to scientists. A study found that while exercising may not help you to lose weight (because muscle is heavier than fat) it will rid you of the visceral fat around your internal organs.
Scientists at Liverpool John Moores University found that if you lost five per cent in body weight after exercising you would reduce your visceral fat by 21.3 per cent.
But if you lost five per cent by calorie reduction alone your visceral fat would drop by just 13.4 per cent. Conclusion? It's better to be fit and heavy than thin and unhealthy. Brisk walk and a biscuit, anyone?
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There is no such thing as too much neon.
Actor, musician, and cultural icon David Hasselhoff has released a music video in support of his contribution to the Kung Fury soundtrack, "True Survivor." As the film pays homage to absurd and outrageous action movies of the 1980's, so too does True Survivor represent the most absurd of 1980's soundtrack music videos, as Hasselhoff is inserted into the world of the film.
There is a lot to love about this video as a child of the 80's, from the white Lamborghini to the pink neon, but nothing is greater than Hasselhoff. Say what you will about his talent, you cannot argue his commitment. He totally sells the song's utterly nonsense lyrics with every dramatic pose and determined stare. Were it not for that new Star Wars trailer, this would be the most amazing thing you saw today.
Kung Fury tells the story of a rogue ninja cop who quits the police force to fight the greatest Kung Fu master of all time, Adolph Hitler. Funded through a Kickstarter campaign early in 2014, the short film will premiere on YouTube May 28. Hasselhoff's "True Survivor" is available on Spotify and can be purchased on iTunes for $1.29.
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Etebo disappointed with Las Palmas stalemate vs. Athletic Bilbao
Oghenekaro Etebo is disappointed following Las Palmas's 0-0 stalemate with Athletic Bilbao in Friday's Spanish La Liga duel at the San Mames Barria.
The Nigeria international secured a loan switch to the Estadio Gran Canaria outfit from Portuguese side, Feirense in January.
And after helping La Union Deportiva to a 1-0 victory over Malaga on his debut, he is unhappy as they failed to secure the maximum points against Jose Angel Ziganda's side in his second game.
"Tough game last night against a good team," Etebo posted on Instagram.
"Disappointed not to take all three points but pleased with another clean sheet and point away from home. Our fans were brilliant once again."
The 22-year-old featured from start to finish in the encounter but could do little as Las Palmas settled for their 15th draw in the Spanish top-flight this season which leaves them in the relegation zone.
Etebo will be looking to help his side bounce back to winning ways when they take on Sevilla on February 17.


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"We are not responsible for responding to the news they publish, but there is no talk of negotiations with the United States," Akbar said, according to the Tehran Times.
"We hold negotiations within the framework of the 5+1 group," he said, referring to several rounds of nuclear negotiations held this year with the P5+1 group, the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany.
Despite the denials, the New York Times report on direct nuclear talks is poised to play a major role in Monday's foreign-policy debate.
Mitt Romney has criticized President Obama's policy toward Iran, saying the president has not been tough enough to stop the country's nuclear program. Romney foreign policy adviser Dan Senor said Monday that Romney would be a better negotiator than Obama.
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As for negotiations, Akbar said that a new round of P5+1 talks could take place in late November, although a date and time have not been determined yet, he said.
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Just a week ago, there were fears that the neck injury suffered by Cowboys cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones could end his career. Now it's looking like he'll only miss one game.
Tim McMahon reports at the Dallas Morning News that Jones practiced today and the Cowboys are almost certain Jones will play this week.
"He's got nine lives, I think," Cowboys coach Wade Phillips said of Jones. Phillips then bumped that estimate up to 18 lives when it was pointed out that Pacman may have already used up some lives.
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Universal Galactic Theories
The Theory of De-evolution
The theory of de-evolution was promoted by the psycho waste technician theoreticists, a.k.a. the thinking garbage collectors of the universe.
The theory goes something like this:
If you consider that there are infinite star systems in the Ultimate Universe, and if even one tenth of one percent of these develop intelligent life forms, and of those, if only one tenth of one percent achieve interstellar travel, they aren't sure how many life forms that is but it does equate to a whopping lot of space travel going on. It is also a well-known galactic fact that for some reason, the more evolved a species becomes, the more trash it produces. Some of the younger and bolder psycho techs ventured to just go ahead and redefine the development of advanced intellect as a sign of de-evolution of the species rather than progress. They state that a primitive species lives in harmony with its environment. It utilizes everything and produces virtually zero waste. The more intelligent they become, two things happen, one, they become inherently lazy, creating things like remote controls so they do not have to walk six feet, and second, they begin to pile up heaps of garbage. They do not wish to take care of the garbage themselves, so they hire others to move the garbage for them. Which reverts back to instance one, they are lazy.
This began a short lived Re-Evolution campaign, where the psycho tech union asked planets to stop educating their young, in hopes they would become more stupid and less likely to create mounds of trash, thereby making the job of psycho-techs much easier. Some planets were eager to comply, realizing they could use their ill spent funds on education on more important things like custom colored atmospheres. And while the theory seemed to be proving correct, as there was less garbage to collect, the psycho tech waste collection and disposal union, facing vast layoffs in personnel as garbage collection became a thing of the past, instituted in its stead an inter-galactic Mardi Gras, thus creating enough rubbish to salvage their jobs. They quietly swept the Re-evolution campaign under the chairperson's rug (it is a very big rug) and refused to discuss such ludicrous assumptions of de-evolution again. They also passed a galactic law prohibiting psycho techs from forming theories or thinking.
The Theory of Relativity:
First the Theory of relativity is actually the Law of Relativity, but it just doesn't sound as nice to say, so it is still called the Theory of Relativity by most everyone except the diehard Lawologists. Since most people do not care what the Lawologists think, and they receive relatively little funding from the Ultimate Galactic Headquarters, so their complaints are largely dismissed and ignored.
The Galactic Guild of Civil Relations and Time Continuity, at its 2,354th Annual conference unanimously agreed upon the Theory of Relativity. Well, almost unanimously, 159 votes of Aye and one vote abstained because he was locked, gagged in a closet. The guild had spent over 2,000 years working on this theory and they were not about to let one old fogey determined to insist time was constant to stand in the way of progress. Since everyone present to vote, voted Aye, the Theory of Relativity was passed into law and now is the dominant resource for determining all factors of time. Some other science branches had to do some quick shifts, as time no longer remaining constant jumbled up their calculations a bit. Time had to do some shifting as well to keep up with progress, but not wanting to be left out of the loop, it has done its job sportingly. Anyway, being constant was terribly boring and jumping around a bit made eternity much more interesting, so Time was happy to comply.
The Law:
Time is directly related to circumstance. More specifically, to an absolute circumstance. Time passes at different rates depending on if a relative is or is not sleeping on your couch, and then is sped or slowed down by the continuing factor of the nature of the relative sleeping on your couch, and the duration in which they continue to sleep there. Also, it determines that couches are the modem for which time changes itself. Professor Morka Milam, Senior Time Continuity Research Director at Walawala Upta University, first discovered the inconsistency of time passage when his wife's brother came to visit after losing his job. It was supposed to be for a weekend. Milam had not complained about his weekend seeming longer, only that he had spent it with his lazy brother-in-law. The weekend stretched into a week, which felt like two. Then two weeks which felt like four. Professor Milam was torn between wanting to research the phenomenon and getting the lazy bum off his couch. The latter won out, but he decided to continue his study using proxy families and detailing their experience and utilizing temporal measurement devices. The devices concluded that inside the home, the presence of unwanted family created a time warp which actually stretched time beyond its original bounds, as much as tripling the length of time passage in extreme cases. The results were phenomenal. Noting that time could, in fact, decide to selectively slow itself down, Milam set out to see if the opposite were also true. His new test subjects were first male college students allowing distantly related, very hot, promiscuous cousins (third, fourth and fifth cousins, typically two or three time removed) to sleep on their couch. This was a vast failure for two reasons. First, because most of the male college students did not actually have a couch and second because they quickly moved the cousin to their own beds, usually with the college male still in it. Both instances removed the prime factor of the theory, which is, of course, the time fulcrum: the couch.
Not to be deterred, Milam plugged on until his sudden demise, involving a couch, a time warp and an egg beater, whereby another up and coming Temporal Theoreticist stepped up to take his place, named Lapnil Schnapp. Schnapp found the flaw in the research tests and determined to place visiting relatives the family enjoyed seeing to sleep on the couch. It was initially difficult to locate suitable test subjects, as most people only enjoy seeing their relatives initially and after the first day or two, the anxiety begins to build. Schnapp used this phenomenon to create a test model of time flow, showing the initial increase in time passage, two days feeling like one. However, after the initial increase, time slowed down to the general passage, denoted at point 0. After four days the time began to slow and the final findings found that one week created a net loss of two days on the average lifespan. The findings were published, debated and accepted into theory, where the guild then spent the next two thousand years deliberating the merits of making it law. And then the next several years explaining how this would apply to things like worm holes, watches, and clock radios.
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006
A Gentle Wind
"Gardner Christopher 36 Darien CT Deceased WTC Occupant Christopher Gardner, a senior executive at Aon Corp., was seen on the 78th floor of the World Trade Center trying to escape the aftermath of the attacks on Sept. 11. His father-in-law, Kenneth Hecken, told the New York Times that the family has received one or two unconfirmed reports that Gardner got out of the building but returned to aid others inside. "That's the kind of guy he was," Hecken said. Gardner loved to sail and was passionate about his wife, Susan, and his two children, Christopher, 3, and Alexander, 2. -- The Hartford Courant"
I have researched Chris a bit. I do know that he was working in Tower Two of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attacks occurred. Witnesses have claimed that he escaped the tower and ran back in to save others. Judging from the stories friends and family have told of Chris, this seems probable to me.I learned that he was called Sam as a child. I could write about his joys, one of which was sailing, or his work as a senior executive at AON Corporation, but I really don't know much about those things. I understand his business was Insurance (better known in the business as "risk assessment", perhaps).
Now, I have sailed exactly once, in a small sailboat with my wife and a friend who knew what he was doing. It was great fun but one trip hardly qualifies me to write about sailing, though I retell the story often; expounding on my wife's fears as we flew along with the mast tip bouncing off the waves (it does get scarier and more adventurous with each retelling, but that's what stories are for, right?).
I have purchased plenty of insurance and I understand the concept of risk assessment. I've always thought that insurance was one of the more ridiculous things we humans pay for. I mean, if you think about it, when you buy insurance, you are placing a bet with the insurance company that you will die soon and they are betting against that happy occurrence. Kind of wierd, huh? So obviously I have no business writing about Chris Gardner's job as a senior executive at an insurance company.
I'd like to be able to say that Chris loved a good craft-brewed beer or that he was a fellow homebrewer. That would make it easy for me, a homebrewer and beer-lover, to properly connect to the man's life. I'd like to know that he was an avid hunter or fisherman because we'd also have that in common. Unfortunately, I am unaware of his drinking habits or of any hobby he enjoyed other than sailing. The picture at the top of the page is a racing photo taken at the Glen Cove Yacht Club, in Glen Cove, Long Island. Chris lived there as a child and surely sailed this stretch of sea as a young crew hand. He was also known to have sailed at Camden, Maine from the Camden Yacht Club in Penobscot Bay. He still sailed there with his wife and two children up until 2001, I believe. So, while sailing and the sea was Chris's passion, I don't really know enough about it to properly expound on this aspect of his life.
Of course one of his joys was his family, and that I am very familiar with. Chris had a wife, Susan, and two young boys, Chrstopher and Alexander. He and Susan were very dedicated young parents. According to Susan, Chris never golfed a weekend in his married life, as time with his family was too important to him. I understand that sentiment! Many times I have left my family for a hunting or fishing trip or a golf weekend with the boys, only to feel guilty and somewhat cheated by not being at home with the three people I care most about. I suspect this is why Chris didn't golf. At least with sailing, he could bring along the whole tribe and have fun together! I understand that Chris had a Boston Whaler, "Robo Chief" and a sailboat, "Evening Star", and he navigated the waters of Pebobscot Bay regularly in both.
As humans we like to name things because it personalizes those things for us and gives them even more meaning due to the personal connections the names add. The names of Chris's boats is an example. In the same way, in order to familiarize ourselves with people, we need to know who the people in their lives were, as we are a product of those personal relationships. Judy Gardner was Chris's mother. She was married to Jonathon Gardner, Chris's father. They had two boys, Jonathon and Christopher. Chris's wife was Susan. They were married in 1996 or 1997 and had two boys themselves, Christopher and Alexander. I don't know about you readers but that short list of the closest people in Chris's life helps me to understand him better.
This tribute to this particular victim of the 9/11 attacks is meant to celebrate the life of Chris Gardner and not to talk about the attackers. Of course it is tempting to rail on about the ignorant and bloodthirsty savages that perpetrated this crime or to lament the time with Chris lost to Susan and her boys. That would only exacerbate the pain and, in a way, assist those who enjoyed their (limited)successes on that day. I prefer to celebrate the life of an American husband and father, who lived a life of service to his family and his job, while enjoying the beauty and simplicity of the art of sailing and the magnificence of the sea.
I am a working class midwesterner, whose father left the Appalachian coal mining region and drove the Hillbilly Highway north to Detroit during that blue collar migration in the Fifties and early Sixties. I'm about fifty years old and could only dream of ever belonging to a yacht club or owning two boats (other than canoes or maybe a small fishing boat). I work in a middle management position in State government. I say all this to show that Chris and I come from very different worlds. The connection between the two of us is that we were both Americans and family men. We had more in common than we had differences, I believe.
Christopher and Alexander will be eight and seven years old by now. They will remember very little of their father, his having passed away when they were too young to have formed the memories that last as adults. I hope they remember the boating trip they took with Mom and Dad in 2001 on Penobscot Bay, where the two boys got to steer the boat through the crowded harbor. There is very little I can remember from before four or five years of age. I am sure Chris's wife, Susan, has kept the memory of their father strong in those little fellows , though. They now know what happened on that day and who is responsible. I'm quite sure they don't understand how such a thing could happen or why, but that's reasonable as most of us can't.
While I don't sail or even do alot of boating, I understand the lure of the sea and the peace and sense of communion with God and his nature that it brings. I have lost my father and mother and also know a bit about the loss of a loved one. Recently, the diagnosis of cancer in my oldest son, further illuminated the ephemeral nature of life to me and my family. For these reasons, I feel I can better understand what Susan and her two boys are going through. Perhaps a trip out on Penobscot Bay would help. I know just looking at the picture above, with that mast tipping towards the frothing waves, as the boat fairly flies along with the wind, helps me to blend with the nature that surrounds us all. I'll bet Chris would enjoy watching his family take another such turn on the water. He might even lend a hand, now and then, when the going gets tough.
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- SGT USMC 1ea said...
Chris is but one of many victims of a blight that spreads from Darfur to Beslan to Pyunjab. It is great that you take such time to remind us of the humanity of the individuals we so often see as just a number adding to justification of our middle east policies. So many suffer that it rends the heart and leaves us almost completely incapable of comprehension of the worldwide affliction. May the Lord Bless and preserve us all
God Bless
Deus est Semper Fidelis
- camojack said...
Guess maybe I'll post mine sooner than Monday, too.
Good job, BTW...
- Beerme said...
I think you hit on the very reason for this concept (2996): to ensure that these vicitims and heroes are not just a number. Thanks for sharing!
I wasn't gonna, but dc roe gave us the go ahead, and mine was all done so...
Besides I'm going to be golfing and kayaking the Au Sable river this Sunday and Monday.
- Maggie said...
You make me proud to be a mountain gal.You have great talent cuz.
- Beerme said...
Aw shucks! Thanks, cuz. You ain't half bad yourself!
- MargeinMI said...
Thanks Beerme, for your contribution to this worthy project. Each personal story I hear about 9/11 (and I've been watching alot on tv this weekend) just reinforces for me the connection we all have as Americans, and human beings for that matter. Also, how thankful we must all be for what we have today, for life can be all too brief.
God bless us all.
- Beerme said...
If it can just be stated clearly for everyone that we are all interconnected on this one; if we can all see that this is an American tragedy that should unite us, not divide us, then perhaps the proper steps can be taken to keep it from happening again.
- Hawkeye® said...
Good job Beerme. Let us never forget.
Well done.
- Lemming Herder said...
Good post. Congrats and a thumbs up to all who took the time to do this.
- Beerme said...
Thanks, LemmingHerder!
It was the toughest writing assignment I've ever had, but very rewarding, too.
- Heather McGuire said...
I knew Chris...we dated as teenagers one summer in Camden. I can say many beers were consummed that summer. He was a sweetheart.


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Hannah French presents a performance of the earliest surviving English opera: John Blow's Venus and Adonis. The performance features the Dunedin Consort conducted by John Butt.
Hannah French presents a performance of John Blow's Venus and Adonis for Valentine's Day. The earliest surviving English opera, which served as the model for Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, was written for the court of King Charles II in 1683 and subtitled "A masque for the entertainment of the king". An early manuscript records that the king's former mistress Moll Davies sang the part of Venus, and their illegitimate ten year old daughter Lady Mary Tudor took the part of Cupid. In today's performance recorded last year at the Rennie Mackintosh Church in Glasgow, Mhairi Lawson is Venus, Matthew Brook Adonis, and Jessica Leary Cupid. The Dunedin Consort is conducted by John Butt.


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Places of Origin was painted from memory and imagination. I was hoping to create an engaging piece that brought the imagery of 'the wall' to interact with land mass and passages of a built urban landscape. Instead of a cohesive work, I found myself with a cartoony divisive image separated into different quadrants. It seems like there are at least three separate works on one canvas. There is no focus and it is so busy that it makes me uneasy to look at for more than a few seconds.
Recognizing the problem areas in this work has had a positive impact on work that came later. It made me really aware of considering a painting's unity and overall strength during all parts of the painting process. In this painting's case, I attacked the painting with my idea, and didn't diverge from that plan even though it wasn't working. Now I've learned to remove myself from my plans where I may follow them to some extent, but I realize the necessity of going where the painting takes you.
People agree with me when I point the issues out to them. However, some people actually like this painting.
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Tell us the make and model of your brand name system, or if you have a generic desktop system, the make and model of the mboard.
The specific model of a brand name system is often shown on a label on the outside of the case somewhere, or it can often be determined by going to the brand name's web site and loading a program they have available, if Windows is still working, on the subject computer.
If it's a Dell computer...
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Tell us what it is.
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Finding my product number
The model, sometimes the make, of a mboard in a generic desktop system is usually printed on the mboard's surface in obvious larger characters, often between the slots.
Is the computer a laptop?
Never mind, my genius son just came and removed the battery from the hard drive for a few minutes and put it back and started the computer back up and that reset the password. thanks anyways.
I asked you to provide the make and model because bios versions are overall versions - software frameworks that are modified to suit a specific combination of chips on the mboard. D686 sounds like an overall bios version - the software framework. - knowing that doesn't tell us whether you have a desktop computer, or a laptop or netbook computer or how old your mboard is - an overall bios versions is often used for several years or longer.
Hard drives don't have batteries.
The case most of your desktop computer components are in is s NOT hard drive, and is NOT a CPU.
Apparently you have a desktop computer.
In most cases you can remove a password set in the bios setup on a desktop computer by either removing the battery on the mboard, waiting a bit, installing it again, or by moving a jumper to clear the CMOS , waiting a bit, and moving it back again, or some mboards have a separate jumper you can move, move back, to clear just the passwords. .
The CMOS is the part of the bios chip where user set settings are stored. A battery must be connected to the cmos part of the bios chip in order to retain those settings, which include the current time and date.
If you had a laptop, passwords set in the bios on modern laptops are NOT stored in the CMOS - they're stored on a separate chip on the mboard that cannot have user set settings removed from it by removing the power to that chip. .


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On Oct. 30, Thomas Rhett announced his new 30-city Life Changes Tour.
The tour will kick off in Tulsa, Okla., in April and make stops in Syracuse, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and more, before capping on Oct. 27 in Sacramento, Calif.
A combination of Brett Young, Midland, Russell Dickerson, Jillian Jacqueline and Carly Pearce will serve as openers during the tour. .
Tickets will go on sale on Nov. 3 in select markets at 10 a.m. local time at Ticket Master. Pre-sale begins on Oct. 31 via Citi's Private Pass program.
"It's wild to me that next year we will be launching our second year of headline shows and are bringing out some of my favorite artists in music right now," said Thomas Rhett. "I think the fans have come to expect that we're going to be on our feet and having the time of our lives every single night."
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4/5/2018 Tulsa, OK BOK Center *
4/6/2018 Lubbock, TX United Supermarket Arena *
4/7/2018 Las Cruces, NM Pan American Center *
4/19/2018 Augusta, GA James Brown Arena **
4/20/2018 Jacksonville, FL Daily's Place **
5/3/2018 Grand Forks, ND Alerus Center ***
5/4/2018 Bismarck, ND Bismarck Event Center ***
5/17/2018 Lafayette, LA Cajundome ***
5/18/2018 Bossier City, LA CenturyLink Center ***
9/13/2018 Bangor, ME Cross Insurance Center ****
9/14/2018 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena ****
9/20/2018 Manchester, NH SNHU Arena ****
9/21/2018 Syracuse, NY OnCenter War Memorial Arena ****
9/22/2018 Albany, NY Times Union Center ****
9/27/2018 State College, PA Bryce Jordan Center ****
9/28/2018 Charleston, WV Charleston Civic Center ****
9/29/2018 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena ****
10/5/2018 Toledo, OH The Huntington Center ****
10/6/2018 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena ****
10/11/2018 Little Rock, AR Verizon Arena ****
10/12/2018 Oklahoma City, OK Chesapeake Energy Arena ****
10/13/2018 Lincoln, NE Pinnacle Bank Arena ****
10/18/2018 Eugene, OR Matthew Knight Arena ****
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10/20/2018 Salt Lake City, UT Vivint Smart Home Arena ****
10/25/2018 Fresno, CA Save Mart Center at Fresno State ****
10/26/2018 Los Angeles, CA The Forum *****
10/27/2018 Sacramento, CA Golden 1 Center ****
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At Intertraffic Amsterdam innovative ITS and smart mobility solutions for cleaner, more efficient and safer transport systems come together in the Smart Mobility Centre, where attendees can find inspiration, expertise and network opportunities in various settings. This important industry event is organised by Eidhoven Technucal University of Technology (TU/e). Here, Dr. Carlo van de Weijer, director strategic area Smart Mobility at (TU/e) gives the background on why this is important now, and overleaf, we provide some themes and highlights of what will be covered in this important element of this year's Intertraffic Amsterdam will provide.
Our world faces numerous social challenges presented by the everlasting demand for mobility and the impact this has on space and environment. Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) believes that technology is the answer to problems like traffic jams, polluting emissions and car accidents. The university is committed to developing knowledge and innovative technologies to help achieve sustainable mobility for society. More than 200 researchers contribute every day to make mobility and transport more intelligent and productive, and to make vehicles safer, cleaner, and more efficient.
Less stress on the road, no more unexpected delays caused by traffic jams, less impact on the environment, and accident prevention. It seems like an impossible task, because our growing population and prosperity may lead to even more traffic. However, at TU/e we see many opportunities for tackling mobility problems with technological solutions. We aim to achieve sustainable mobility without losing sight of the freedom and joy that cars have brought us.
Making cars smarter, cleaner, and safer. Cars that know exactly which route to take to avoid traffic jams. Cars that can brake, accelerate, and steer on their own, thanks to intelligent sensors that perform even better than humans do.
That increases safety. We see a bright future for electric powertrains and focus a lot of our research in that area. We are also working on developing engines that run on sustainable fuels, with exhaust fumes that are cleaner than the surrounding environment. Going beyond zero emissions is an attractive goal.
A productive and efficient traffic network calls for smart planning and communication. For well-organised logistics and traffic flows to ensure, for example, that there are no empty trucks on the road. For models that will provide insight into the future mobility needs of people, so we can act accordingly. And for intelligent transport systems: vehicles that communicate with one another, their drivers, and the environment and can travel safely, without delays, through traffic. We develop the road towards in-car centric traffic management that will soon make those dynamic routing panels and other roadside equipment redundant."
Below are just some themes and interrelated programme examples of the special three-day Smart Mobility Seminar Programme.
In-car technology developments are running fast. Intelligent vehicles bring lots of opportunities for improving dynamic traffic management and making traffic flows safer, cleaner and more effective. But how is human behaviour affected by new in-car information technology? Today, the in-car technology theme will be discussed in various seminar sessions in the Smart Mobility Knowledge Centre, seminar room 1 – see page 27 for the programme.
Parking is a big issue in most cities nowadays. As the idea of smart cities is becoming a reality, smart parking is one of the first applications that springs to mind and which has to be addressed. Today, smart parking solutions are presented in various seminar sessions in the Smart Mobility Knowledge Centre, seminar room 2 – see page 28.
In recent years, there has been a great amount of activities around Europe in order to realise the vision of cooperative and smart mobility. Tomorrow and Thursday, smart and cooperative mobility solutions, including policy and deployment issues, will be the topic of various seminar sessions in the Smart Mobility Knowledge Centre, seminar room 1. Check out the full programme in tomorrow's issue of The Daily News.
As mobility needs are continuously growing in cities during the last decades new traffic management solutions need to be implemented. From March 27th –March 29th smart traffic management solutions will be the topic of the seminar sessions in the Smart Mobility Knowledge Centre, seminar room 2. Also on Thursday there will be some highlights regarding this theme.
The TU/e has successfully installed a Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (C-ACC) controller in a DAF truck. During Intertraffic the TU/e will demonstrate the DAF truck in collaboration with the Volkswagen Lupo EL electric research vehicle. As a striking duo they demonstrate cooperative driving where the truck automatically responds to the speed of the Lupo EL and the following distance is maintained.
Demonstrations will take place today and Thursday outside at the Smart Mobility Live Experience between 12.00 and 17.00 hours.


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We found a couple of really cool vintage stores, of which Petrune stood out. They had a great selection of vintage Ferragamo shoes, jodpurs from the 1930s for $35, slightly ragged alligator handbags for $45... Great stuff! I got two handbags and a pendant, but I haven't managed to take pictures of them yet.This is what I wore on Thursday:
Sunday, 1 March 2009
Last post from upstate NY
Me and Chris visited Ithaca on Friday. The weather wasn't the greatest, but the town had a lovely atmosphere and we had a great time.
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Hello Waves dear! Thank you for a most amazing two weeks...it was so wonderful to have you here with the kitties and I. Can't wait for your next visit!!! :) Chris R.
- 1 March 2009 at 22:15
I love the ruching on that skirt. The blouse is really cute too.
- 2 March 2009 at 02:19
- Vasiliisa said...
I'm glad you had such a good time!
That teal dress on the wall... did you buy it for me :O?
- 2 March 2009 at 08:57
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