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VICTORIA – The U.S. has Canada over a barrel on water as well as oil these days, but the tide is turning.
Last week I mentioned a new book called The Columbia River Treaty – A Primer by members of Simon Fraser University's climate adaptation team. This slim volume makes the case that B.C. has ended up with a shockingly bad deal from this 1964 treaty, which concerned itself entirely with flood control and hydroelectric power.
In those days there was little or no environmental assessment. Agriculture, fish habitat and aboriginal impacts were ignored. More than a decade after the disastrous flood year of 1948, once Ottawa stopped its bureaucratic delays, U.S. public and private power utilities paid B.C. $254 million to build three dams on the Columbia system.
Those dams (and one at Libby, Montana that mostly floods B.C. land) hold back the huge spring runoff from the Rockies and then dole out water for power production in B.C. and for the 15 hydro dams previously built downstream in the U.S.
The U.S. payment was for half the power over 30 years, which B.C. didn't need at the time. Then our American cousins cut us another cheque for $64 million, an estimate of the value of flood protection from 1968 all the way to 2024.
Boy, did we get taken. The SFU team calculates the value of that flood control to the U.S. at more like $32 billion.
That's not even the worst of it. The Kootenays were once the leading fruit and vegetable growing area in B.C., bigger than the Okanagan. Now in the Arrow Lakes and other reservoirs, levels rise and fall dramatically to steady the flow south. In addition to the large areas permanently flooded by the Mica, Duncan and Hugh Keenleyside dams, this renders more of B.C.'s prime bottom land impassable.
B.C. is paid precisely zero for this sacrifice, while Washington state has developed a $5 billion-a-year farm economy using our stable irrigation source. That has helped their tree fruit growers push some Okanagan orchardists out of business.
As U.S. billionaires continue to bankroll environmental attacks on B.C. and Alberta energy projects, it's worth noting that long before the treaty, the U.S. military-industrial complex had wiped out the Columbia River salmon runs. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its private power partners dammed everything they could find, exterminating a fishery bigger than the Fraser that had sustained aboriginal people on both sides of today's border for thousands of years.
B.C. Energy Minister Bill Bennett and SFU's Jon O'Riordan both described to me their experience at the Columbia River Basin conference, held last October in Spokane.
Their main impression was that Americans, including traditional tribes, want those salmon runs restored. Vast amounts have been spent on hatcheries and habitat to speed recovery below the Grand Coulee dam, which stands like a giant tombstone for migratory fisheries above it.
Should the Americans ever manage to get salmon above their biggest dam, it will largely be up to B.C. to provide sufficient cool water to keep them alive. That service has an increasing value to the U.S. as well as an ongoing cost to B.C.
Bennett surprised some in Spokane when he said the U.S. needs to pay more for the benefits from the Columbia River Treaty.
The flood control agreement expires in 2024. The treaty requires 10 years' notice for either country to exit. Climate shifts are expected to make B.C. water more important than ever.
Your move, Uncle Sam.
Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: email@example.com


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EBay Inc said that hackers raided its network three months ago, accessing some 145 million user records in what is poised to go down as one of the biggest data breaches in history, based on the number of accounts compromised.
It advised customers to change their passwords immediately, saying they were among the pieces of data stolen by cyber criminals who carried out the attack between late February and early March.
EBay spokeswoman Amanda Miller told Reuters late on Wednesday that those passwords were encrypted and that the company had no reason to believe the hackers had broken the code that scrambled them.
"There is no evidence of impact on any eBay customers," Miller said. "We don't know that they decrypted the passwords because it would not be easy to do."
She said the hackers gained access to 145 million records of which they copied "a large part".
Those records contained passwords as well as email addresses, birth dates, mailing addresses and other personal information, but not financial data such as credit card numbers.
Miller also said the company has hired FireEye Inc's Mandiant forensics division to help investigate the matter. Mandiant is known for publishing a February 2013 report that described what it said was a Shanghai-based hacking group linked to the Peoples Liberation Army.
EBay earlier said a large number of accounts may have been compromised, but declined to say how many.
Security experts advised EBay customers to be on the alert for fraud, especially if they used the same passwords for other accounts.
"People need to stop reusing passwords and should change their affected passwords immediately across all the sites where they are used," said Trey Ford, global security strategist with cybersecurity firm Rapid7.
Michael Coates, director of product security with Shape Security, said there is a significant risk that the hackers would unscramble the passwords because typically companies only ask users to change passwords if they believe there is a reasonable chance attackers may be able to do so.
Still, eBay said it had not seen any indication of increased fraudulent activity on its flagship site and that there was no evidence its PayPal online payment service had been breached.
EBay said the hackers got in after obtaining login credentials for "a small number" of employees, allowing them to access eBay's corporate network.
It discovered the breach in early May and immediately brought in security experts and law enforcement to investigate, Miller said.
"We worked aggressively and as quickly as possible to insure accurate and thorough disclosure of the nature and extent of the compromise," Miller said when asked why the company had not immediately notified users.
The breach could go down as the second-biggest in history at a U.S. company, based on the number records accessed by the hackers.
Computer security experts say the biggest such breach was uncovered at software maker Adobe Systems Inc in October 2013, when hackers accessed about 152 million user accounts.
It would be larger than the one that Target Corp disclosed in December of last year, which included some 40 million payment card numbers and another 70 million customer records.
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I'm adapting a script I found online to add custom bulk actions to the screen with the list of posts. It has this line:
add_action('load-edit.php', 'custom_bulk_action');
I'm trying to adapt it for the media library. I see that in place of
edit.php I should use
upload.php, which leads me to believe I need to find the media analog for
load-edit.php. Sounds easy, but I can't even find
load-edit.php in my WP install to see if by chance it might be what I'm looking for itself. I have found a few references online to
load-*.php (e.g., Custom bulk_action), but nothing that tells me what values
* can take.
(I've tried
load-upload.php but it's not working--though it could always be something else in my code that's gumming up the works.)
So my questions are two:
- What is the media analog of
- Where is
load-edit.php(and the other
load-*.phpfiles), or what code handles these file requests?
The first is my real question, but the second has gotten under my skin.
Can any of you experts out there give me some guidance? I would very much appreciate it.
By "not working" I meant not that it crashes, but that it wasn't doing as it was supposed (changing a media attribute).
The code I'm adapting can be downloaded at the bottom of the post "Add a WordPress Custom Bulk Action" by Justin Stern of Fox Run Software. Going back to verify each step of the code, I got the adapted version to work, but only if I comment out the conditional and the security check (both asterisked below). What are the media analogs I should use to replace these?
add_action('load-upload.php', array(&$this, 'custom_bulk_action'));
function custom_bulk_action() {
// ***if($post_type == 'attachment') { REPLACE WITH:
if ( !isset( $_REQUEST['detached'] ) ) {
// get the action
$wp_list_table = _get_list_table('WP_Media_List_Table');
$action = $wp_list_table->current_action();
echo "\naction = $action\n</pre>";
$allowed_actions = array("export");
if(!in_array($action, $allowed_actions)) return;
// security check
// ***check_admin_referer('bulk-posts'); REPLACE WITH:
// make sure ids are submitted. depending on the resource type, this may be 'media' or 'ids'
if(isset($_REQUEST['media'])) {
$post_ids = array_map('intval', $_REQUEST['media']);
if(empty($post_ids)) return;
// this is based on wp-admin/edit.php
$sendback = remove_query_arg( array('exported', 'untrashed', 'deleted', 'ids'), wp_get_referer() );
if ( ! $sendback )
$sendback = admin_url( "upload.php?post_type=$post_type" );
$pagenum = $wp_list_table->get_pagenum();
$sendback = add_query_arg( 'paged', $pagenum, $sendback );
switch($action) {
case 'export':
// if we set up user permissions/capabilities, the code might look like:
//if ( !current_user_can($post_type_object->cap->export_post, $post_id) )
// wp_die( __('You are not allowed to export this post.') );
$exported = 0;
foreach( $post_ids as $post_id ) {
if ( !$this->perform_export($post_id) )
wp_die( __('Error exporting post.') );
$sendback = add_query_arg( array('exported' => $exported, 'ids' => join(',', $post_ids) ), $sendback );
default: return;
$sendback = remove_query_arg( array('action', 'action2', 'tags_input', 'post_author', 'comment_status', 'ping_status', '_status', 'post', 'bulk_edit', 'post_view'), $sendback );
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Are low click rates evidence that display ad campaigns have not had any impact on consumer behavior? Or, does online display advertising work in a similar way to traditional offline advertising with multiple exposures over time being needed to effect a change in consumer behavior?
This paper reports the results of Comscore research into online advertising effectiveness based on the use of Comscore's proprietary panel of 2 million Internet users, of which over 400,000 are resident in Europe. The results presented in this paper will show the manner in which online display ads work in affecting European consumer behavior, revealing that there are indeed latency effects and branding effects even when click rates on the ads themselves are minimal. The results observed in Europe will also be compared to those that Comscore earlier measured in the U.S. and which were published in November 2008 in a seminal paper How Online Advertising Works: Whither the Click, which demonstrated the importance of looking beyond ad clicks when assessing the effectiveness of online display ad campaigns. "Whither the Click?" was subsequently published in the June 2009 issue of The Journal of Advertising Research as one of "21 Watertight Laws for Intelligent Advertising Decisions".


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Young-adult authors have conquered science fiction with a mixture of angst, romance, and the discovery that adults are wrong. But Cory Doctorow's Hugo/Nebula-nominated Little Brother puts a geeky, subversive spin on that formula. Spoilers!
Little Brother is set five minutes into the future, when terrorists blow up San Francisco's Bay Bridge and the BART tunnel. This brings about a huge crackdown, with tons of American citizens being rounded up and imprisoned in a secret prison on Treasure Island - or shipped off to foreign countries to be tortured.
The novel's main character, Marcus, is a snarky teen hacker with authority issues. And that's before he gets locked up and abused by the Department of Homeland Security, and his friend Darryl disappears for good. That event transforms Marcus from a minor-league hacker to a major dissident and subversive element.
Marcus is a classic Doctorow protagonist: snarky and pissed off, but with an amazingly tender heart lurking just below the jagged armor. He launches a quixotic crusade to make the American government spooks pay, which starts out by "jamming" the government's attempts to profile people based on their travel and purchases, and gradually grows into far-reaching civil disobedience, and a massive network of young people communicating via hacked xBoxes.
Many, if not most, young-adult science fiction novels take place in a dystopian or post-apocalyptic setting, where the grown-ups have long since stopped asking questions about the evil overlords and their excessive overlording. The twisted genius of Doctorow's novel is that it starts out in our world, more or less, and then shows how easily and quickly it transforms into a dystopia.
The "Panopticon," in which observation and spying are constant companions, becomes an alarming reality in Little Brother. It turns out all of those devices that make your life easier, like transit fast passes, credit cards, and RFID-enabled tags, allow the government to track your every movement. And anyone whose movements falls outside normal patterns can be arrested - or simply made to disappear - unless you can "prove" that you're not a terrorist.
And the adult characters in Little Brother quickly become inured to this crazy surveillance regime, accepting it as a necessary evil to stop those awful terrorists from destroying our way of life. Marcus' dad, in particular, goes from being a critic of the government to an apologist for the Homeland Security fascists. And adults who do encourage dissent, such as Marcus' Social Studies teacher, tend to lose their jobs or vanish some other way.
The other thing that sticks in your mind after reading Little Brother is the alarming depiction of propaganda gone insane. Marcus' version of Dumbledore's Army becomes so successful, they start getting condemned on Fox News and in the newspapers, and in the mass media generally, and no matter how media-savvy Marcus tries to be, he only makes things worse. At one point, he does a "press conference" in a virtual world, where he tries to explain his viewpoint, and the press only twists his words around:
I'd blown it, somehow. The press had come to my press-conference and concluded that we were terrorists or terrorist dupes. The worst was the reporter on Fox News, who had apparently shown up anyway, and who devoted a ten-minute commentary to us, talking about our "criminal treason." Her killer line, repeated on every news-outlet I found, was:
"They say they don't have a name. I've got one for them. Let's call these spoiled children Cal-Quaeda. They do the terrorists' work on the home front. When — not if, but when — California gets attacked again, these brats will be as much to blame as the House of Saud."
Leaders of the anti-war movement denounced us as fringe elements. One guy went on TV to say that he believed we had been fabricated by the DHS to discredit them.
The title, Little Brother, comes from the idea that young people can become "little brothers" keeping tabs on "Big Brother," but it kept reminding me of this classic 80s song:
And meanwhile, Doctorow doesn't neglect the "love story" portion of the young-adult formula. Through his rabble-rousing, Marcus meets the defiant Ange, who's just as radical and brilliant as he is, and they bond over spicy food, loud music, hacking and civil disobedience. Compared to the Orwellian nightmares of the main storyline, the Marcus-Ange love story feels a bit less urgent, but it still has moments of genuine sweetness and gives us another reason to root for Marcus in his struggle.
You can tell Doctorow was a staffer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the techie civil liberties organization. He mentions EFF a number of times in the novel, and the book is full of helpful little asides where Marcus explains the ins and outs of surveillance, hacking and computer security.
Major spoiler: The only real problem I had with Little Brother was the happy ending, which felt a bit forced. It actually reminded me of the fake happy ending in Terry Gilliam's Brazil, and for a moment I thought Doctorow was doing something similar - I thought Marcus was fantasizing this happy ending while he was being tortured by government goons. I felt a bit let down when I realized the happy ending was "real," and there's a part of me that still imagines the book's narration panning back from Marcus' comatose face, as someone says "He's gone."
But generally, Little Brother represents a great step forward in the burgeoning subgenre of dystopian young-adult SF. It brings a greater degree of political sophistication, geekiness and civil disobedience to a genre that was already serving up a milder dose of rebellion. After this, no YA novel will be able to get away with watering down its youthful revolution.
Little Brother was nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards. Read more of io9's coverage of 2009's book award nominees here.


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The first and the oldest type of steel used as structural steels are plain carbon steels. The increase in strength was based on increase in carbon content. Carbon in Fe is a solid solution, with limited solubility. During deformation, as a result of applied stress, dislocations through their movement interact with obstacles, what in turn requires increase of applied strength for further deformation.
It is clear that the increase of carbon content increases transition temperature and lowers the upper shelf of impact toughness. In these steels, the microstructure depends on carbon content, and is mainly feritic or feritic-pearlitic, and in some cases even bainitic.
The first and the oldest type of steel used as structural steels are plain carbon steels. The increase in strength was based on increase in carbon content. Carbon in Fe is a solid solution, with limited solubility. During deformation, as a result of applied stress, dislocations through their movement interact with obstacles, what in turn requires increase of applied strength for further deformation. Influence of carbon content on transition temperature in carbon steels is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Influence of carbon content on the transition temperature of steel.
It is clear that the increase of carbon content increases transition temperature and lowers the upper shelf of impact toughness. In these steels, the microstructure depends on carbon content, and is mainly feritic or feritic-pearlitic, and in some cases even bainitic.
Increase of carbon provides increase in carbide fraction. Carbides (cementite) are elongated with very sharp tips; they act as stress concentrators, thereby decreasing toughness.
Due to the relatively low level of production technology, it hadn't been possible to remove sulfur and phosphorus from the steel matrix during processing. Sulfur forms a low melting eutectic with Fe, distributed as a thin film on grain boundaries, leading to fracture. Influence of sulfur content on the transition temperature in carbon steels is shown in figure 3.
The requirement for steel with the minimum level of impurities has become a permanent challenge up to today. Generally speaking, the increase of strength in plain carbon steel only by increasing carbon content could not deal with the three major problems:
1) low toughness and low transition temperature,
2) poor weldability, and
3) enormous weight of the construction itself.
Also, in steel with more than 0.8% C cementite is introduced, which can in some cases lead to the formation of carbide net, characterized by very sharp edges behaving as stress concentrators.
Figure 3: Influence of sulfur content on the transition temperature of steel.
As it can be seen from Figure 2, for structural components that require improved mechanical properties (higher toughness), only low carbon steel can be used, but its strength is relatively low. Therefore, larger cross sections should be used, what in turn leads to increase in weight of the construction and introduction of a third stress component.
To overcome these problems it was necessary to produce a new type of steel, C-Mn steels. Introduction of manganese had several roles: formation of sulfur containing inclusions, additional solid-solution strengthening, and lowering of the carbon level in steel, i.e. the carbon equivalent.
Manganese is substitutionaly soluted in Fe, but the effect on strengthening is not significant, since it depends on the difference in atomic size and Mn and Fe are neighboring elements in the periodic table. In structural steels, the content of Mn is in most cases limited to 1.5-1.75%, because larger content leads to increase of Ar3 temperature and nucleation of pro-eutectoid ferrite. In other steels, the manganese content may be as high as 12%. The influence of manganese on the transition temperature in C-Mn steel is shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Influence of manganese on the transition temperature in C-Mn steel.
The increase of manganese content decreases transition temperature to very low values, the main mechanism of which being the formation of manganese-sulfide (MnS). Manganese and sulfur have strong chemical affinity, leading to spontaneous formation of MnS inclusions during the solidification of steel. So, the simplest way to completely remove sulfur from the solid solution is the addition of sufficient amounts of manganese.
The application of manganese ensured significant increase of toughness of low carbon steels, with exceptions in some medium carbon quenched and tempered steels. During further metal working, MnS inclusions can become elongated (rolling) or fractured and dispersed (forging). The presence of long MnS inclusions in as-rolled steels is very dangerous, since the edges behave as stress concentrations, leading to fracture or to lamellar tearing in welded structures.
The next task was to eliminate sulfides as critical particles. The solution was additionally alloyed with calcium or rare earth elements (RE). This improvement was directly based on the knowledge provided by fracture mechanics, i.e. addition of calcium primarily influences the shape of MnS. This feature is shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Shape of MnS after rolling (RD-rolling direction): a- no Ca added; b-addition of Ca.
Another problem for steel producers was the presence of free oxygen, originating from air blowing into converter or furnace. In order to eliminate oxygen it was necessary to modify the chemical composition by adding a specific chemical element with strong affinity to oxygen. The answer came from the diagram of stability of oxides.
Silicon or aluminum have been applied in an amount calculated from the chemical composition analysis during the steel production (ladle analysis after converter). This procedure introduced a new type of steels, so called killed steels, since the oxide formation prevents bubbling of the liquid metal.
The addition of aluminum has become increasingly interesting since in some Al-killed steels the precipitation of AlN occurred at grain boundaries, thus decreasing grain boundary mobility. This was observed in steels in which Al was added in high amount: air-blowing (instead of oxygen, nowadays) led to reasonable presence of nitrogen and strong affinity between Al and N.
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HAINING (REUTERS) - A luggage trolley that converts into a seat and a pole with pads that props up sleepy passengers are just a couple of the gadgets intrepid Chinese have devised to help make their annual New Year train trips home a little more comfortable.
About 200 million people in China are expected to take trains home for the New Year's holiday at the weekend in what has been described as the world's largest annual migration.
Some opt for standing-only tickets on packed trains to save money on trips that can last three days.
This year, Chinese microblogs have been abuzz with gadgets and inventions that could help make gruelling journeys a little easier.
One of the most talked-about is the "Hard Seat Treasure", a metal pole with pads attached that is meant to prop up a sleepy traveller and ensure he or she does not fall out of their seat when they nod off. But not everyone is a fan.
"It's a burden to carry," said Mr Li Kang, a migrant worker from the southwest province of Guizhou who tried it out. "When I lean on it, my body feels suspended."
Former physics teacher and avid amateur inventor Zhou agreed. He invented the "Grass Roots Travel Treasure" - a trolley with what looks like a metal mop handle sticking out of it that converts into a seat.
It also features holders for bottles that Zhou insists can be filled with sodium percarbonate powder and water to make oxygen - a breath of fresh air for anyone suffering in a stuffy, smoky train carriage.
The 67-year-old Zhou has such faith in his gadget he's going to put it to the test himself on a 31-hour train trip.
"I could have bought a ticket for a sleeper but I really wanted to try this out so I can see what doesn't work and improve it," Mr Zhou said at his home in a small city near Shanghai before setting off.
There are lots of other ideas out there.
One user of the Sina Weibo microblog site suggested taking along a squawking rubber chicken to make other passengers get out of the way in crowded aisles.
Another recommended adult diapers.
But the most popular accessory remains a simple plastic bucket, that can be turned over and used as a seat, or for other purposes.


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This is real. This cake was picked up after a call in order was made to a bakery to order a cake for a going away party (changing jobs). But, what the heck is "Under Neat That"?
OK, so this is how I imagine this conversation went:
Bakery Employee: 'Hello, how can I help you?'
Customer: ' I would like to order a cake for a going away party this week.'
Bakery Employee: 'What do you want on the cake?'
Customer: 'Best Wishes Suzanne' and underneath that 'We will miss you'.
You just have to laugh!
(By the way...a friend sent this to me so it may or may not be "real", but the thought is funny anyway!)


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Playboy.com launched the "Women of Home Depot" pictorial Tuesday, showcasing six of the retailer's "sexiest" female employees.
Playboy.com said in May it was searching for the sexiest women at Home Depot (HD: down $0.02 to $34.67, Research, Estimates), the world's largest home improvement retailer, to "shuck their orange smocks" and pose nude for the online pictorial.
"Playboy is an American icon and I am so excited to have been chosen as one of the models for this feature," said Rachel Parks, one of the feature's models. "This has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
The adult men's publication ran similar 'Women of Enron' and 'Women of Starbucks' photo spreads in Playboy magazine in 2002 and 2003.
Last November, Playboy.com ran its first version of the 'Women of....' pictorial featuring women from Wal-Mart.
For its part, Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, criticized the spread, saying it was "in poor taste" and went against its image as a family store.
Nevertheless, the Wal-Mart spread turned into the Playboy.com's biggest success to date, according to John Thomas, editor of the Web site.
"It was a real watershed moment for Playboy.com in terms of the number of people who actually paid money to get access to the pay-per-view part of the feature," he said.
Thomas said the Home Depot casting call elicited about 400 responses from employees. "That's much more than we had anticipated. We think the Home Depot feature could be even more successful than the Wal-Mart one."
The pictorial, which is exclusively on Playboy.com, features six models including a sales associate, a supervisor and a cashier. Playboy.com paid the models for the feature but would not disclose the amount.
Who's Thomas looking at next?
"Maybe 'Women of CNN' will be next," he joked.
"I'm sure there are a lot of nervous brands out there," he added. "We have between six to eight names that we're considering. One idea is a 'Women of fast-food' spread.
"The whole idea of this feature is to surprise people with the unexpected. People thought the Wal-Mart idea was a joke but the real beauty of it was the enormous buzz it created. We knew it would be a success when Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien joked about it."
Home Depot could not immediately be reached for comment. But the company had said it didn't endorse or support the pictorial when Playboy first announced it was doing the feature.


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Dutch court clears doctor in landmark euthanasia trial
A Dutch doctor was acquitted Wednesday in a landmark trial that prosecutors and physicians hope will help clarify how the country's 2002 euthanasia law can be applied to people with severe dementia.
The doctor, who was not named in court, was cleared of any wrongdoing in carrying out euthanasia three years ago on a 74-year-old woman. The patient was given fatal doses of drugs despite some indications she might have changed her mind since declaring in writing that she wanted euthanasia.
The court ruled that in rare cases of euthanasia that were being performed on patients with severe dementia—and who had earlier made a written request for euthanasia—the doctor "did not have to verify the current desire to die."
Judges at The Hague District Court ruled that the doctor met all criteria for carrying out euthanasia under the Dutch law legalizing mercy killing by physicians. Applause broke out among the dozens of people who attended the hearing.
The doctor was accused of not acting with due care because, prosecutors alleged, she made insufficient efforts to find out whether the patient still wanted to die. To carry out the euthanasia, the physician drugged the patient's coffee without her knowledge and then had family members restrain the woman while delivering the fatal injection.
Prosecution spokeswoman Sanne van der Harg said prosecutors would carefully study the judgment before deciding whether to appeal.
Steven Pleiter of the Euthanasia Expertise Center welcomed the verdict.
"It feels good for people in the Netherlands that this is a clear view of the judges and court that it is possible to give euthanasia to a person who is not mentally competent any longer," he said.
Under Dutch law, people are eligible for euthanasia if they make a considered, voluntary request for it and if their suffering is hopelessly "unbearable." Patients can draw up a written request for euthanasia to be performed sometime in the future, in an advance directive, which should specify the conditions determining when they want to be euthanized. Doctors must also seek the advice of at least one other independent physician before killing the patient.
Euthanasia cases among people with advanced dementia are extremely rare; there have been fewer than 20 cases since the procedure was legalized in 2002.
"The most important issue we have to judge as doctors is whether there's unbearable suffering for the patient," said Dr. Rene Heman, president of the Royal Dutch Medical Association.
He said the organization is working on guidelines for how doctors should handle euthanasia cases in people with advanced dementia.
"As a doctor, you need to make sure people don't change their minds," he said.
Dutch investigators began scrutinizing the case last September, marking the first time a doctor was criminally investigated for euthanasia.
The 74-year-old woman had renewed her living will about a year before she died, writing that she wanted to be euthanized "whenever I think the time is right." Later, the patient said several times in response to being asked if she wanted to die: "But not just now, it's not so bad yet!" according to a report from the Dutch regional euthanasia review committee.
In announcing the verdict, the court said the patient no longer recognized her own reflection in the mirror.
Suzanne van de Vathorst, an associate professor who specializes in ethics and end-of-life issues at Erasmus University, said euthanizing patients with severe dementia puts a considerable burden on doctors.
"There's a living, breathing person in front of you who is not aware that you're performing euthanasia," she said. "This is a very difficult thing to do and we cannot oblige doctors to do this."
The Netherlands is one of five countries that allow doctors to kill patients at their request, and one of two, along with Belgium, that grant the procedure for people with mental illness.
The trial of a Belgian psychiatrist charged with improperly euthanizing a woman with autism is set to be heard later this year.
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Published Sep 24, 2018This past weekend, the second edition of Venus Fest — a musical celebration of women and non-binary artists that spans genres — hit Toronto in an expanded edition that saw the inaugural year's one-day event turned into three nights of magic.
Among the performers this year were Zola Jesus, Oshun (pictured above), Tika, Partner, Maylee Todd, Moor Mother, Bully, Vallens and more.
Exclaim! sent photographer Jennifer Hyc to capture the performances, and returned with photos of the artists above and tons more. Relive some of the festival's best moments below.
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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch.
Chocolate lovers, rejoice!
Two studies published this week indicate that the delectable treat not only may help reduce blood pressure, but also can improve cognitive function.
Local chocolate makers and confectioners are not surprised.
"There has been a lot of research on the benefits of chocolate, especially higher-percentage chocolate," said Michael Recchiuti, co-owner and chocolatier of San Francisco's Recchiuti Confections, referring to darker, more concentrated chocolates.
In the first study, researchers in Australia took a look at all of the research conducted on chocolate and blood pressure and found that there is a definite, albeit slight, decrease in blood pressure when people start consuming chocolate.
Altogether, they reviewed data on 856 people involved in 20 trials that lasted anywhere from two to eight weeks. One lasted 18 weeks. On average, daily intake of the product reduced blood pressure by 2 to 3 mm Hg, or millimeters of mercury - the unit used to measure blood pressure. The effects generally were seen within two weeks of starting the diet.
"Although we don't yet have evidence for any sustained decrease in blood pressure, the small reduction we saw over the short term might complement other treatment options and might contribute to reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease," said Karin Ried of the National Institute of Integrative Medicine in Melbourne, Australia, the report's lead author.
The research appeared in the journal The Cochrane Collaboration [PDF].
Ried and her colleagues say the rich concentration of flavanols, a group of chemicals, in chocolate is likely providing the health benefits observed. Other foods that have flavanols include apricots, apples, grapes, red wine and tea leaves.
But chocolate has the highest concentration of flavanols, which is what makes it so exceptional, said Giovambattista Desideri, a researcher at Italy's University of L'Aquila.
He said several lines of clinical and experimental evidence show that flavonoid-rich foods, such as dark chocolate, "are effective in maintaining cardiovascular function and health and are associated with better cognitive function in elderly subjects."
He wanted to test the effect on cognitive function. His study appears in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension.
So he and his colleagues rounded up a group of 90 seniors who had been referred to the University of L'Aquila's geriatric division for mild cognitive impairment.
The researchers then split the group into three more groups. One group received a high concentration of flavonoids every day for eight weeks, another received intermediate amounts and the third group, just a little. The researchers then had the groups perform mental tests, such as mazes and word recollection.
Subjects in the highest and intermediate groups not only improved over the study period, but far outpaced their low-flavonoid co-testers.
For instance, in one test called the trail making test, the high-flavonoid group completed the exercise in an average of about 38 seconds. The low-flavonoid group took, on average, about 104 seconds to do the same thing.
"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first dietary intervention study examining neurocognitive performance in response to cocoa flavanols," Desideri said.
"As people live longer," he said, "the burden of cognitive impairment in society becomes increasingly important."
He said consuming cocoa "as part of a calorie-controlled and nutritionally balanced diet may represent an interesting and innovative strategy to maintain cardiovascular and brain health."
Recchiuti, of Recchiuti Confections, had his own advice.
"My recommendation is to practice moderation," he said. "What I've experienced in the past when studies have been released regarding the positive health benefits of daily chocolate consumption is people have a tendency to go a little overboard."
Susanne Rust is an investigative reporter for California Watch, a project of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. Find more California Watch stories here.


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The first option in the Moodle Question Bank is the Calculated question. The calculated question allows the teacher to create mathematical questions. These can have formulas that are kept in a Dataset (Datasets will be discussed in a later article). An example of a calculated question would be a question on the area of a rectangle. The teacher can create a question based off of the area of a rectangle formula. Lets move forward and walk through the steps of creating the calculated question.
Creating a Calculated Question in Moodle
- Log into the Moodle Dashboard
- Navigate to Front page settings > Question bank > Questions in the Settings section on the left..
- Click Create a new question.
When the Choose a question type to add box pops up, select the Calculated radio button and click Next.
Next the Adding a Calculated question page will display. The following table will detail the necessary fields to fill out.
Category Select the category. For more information on the question categories click here. Question name Type the Question name. This should be very unique as it will need to be distinguishable from the other questions. Question Text In the Question Text box, type the question. For instruction purposes, type the area of a rectangle question. The question should look like the following:
What is the area of a rectangle that is {A} by {B}
The Curly brackets are wild card variables that can be set to random parameters. There are many different formulas that can be created for the Calculated question. This tutorial will not cover Calculated question formulas. The student will see random numbers in place of the curly bracketed variables like the following:
What is the area of a rectangle that is 5 by 3?
Note! At least one wildcard must be in the Question text. Wildcards are placed inside curly brackets. Wild cards will be discussed in a different article.
Default mark The Default mark is to determine how much the question is worth. For example, if the question is weighed heaver than other questions, the Default mark can be set to 2 or 3 points.
Next, fill in the Answer section. Below is a brief on the Answer settings. When done click Save Changes.
Correct Answer Formula= This is where the formula for the question is entered. Moodle will use the formula to calculate the question and answer. The formula used in this tutorial is {A}*{B}. Formulas will be created the same way they are normally calculated with a calculator. This article will not discuss how to create a formula. Grade The grade must be set or there will be an error saving the question. This value is how much the question is worth if answered correctly. Tolerance ±= The Tolerance of the Question answer is the same as "Grading on a Curve". Tolerance allows the student to come close to the correct answer. The default is 0.01. which is equivalent to 1%. This is figured into the Tolerance type. This will be discussed in a later article Tolerance type The tolerance of the answer is figured 3 ways, Nominal, Relative, and Geometric. Each of these are factored in with the Tolerance ±=. The details of how this works will be discussed in a different article. Correct answer shows This determines the precision of the answer. Format This setting sets the answer as a decimal or significant figures. Feedback What displays when the answer is correct goes in the Feedback box. This is not a necessary part of the answer.
On the Choose Wildcards dataset properties page click next. (This section will be discussed in detail in a different article.)
On the Edit the wildcards datasets page, where the Add section is located, make sure to click Add.
Important! . If the dataset item is not added, there will be an error message stating:
You must add at least one dataset item before you can save this question.
Once the dataset is added, click Save changes. (This section will be discussed in detail in a different article.)
Now the Question will show in the Question Bank. To preview the Question click the preview icon.
The preview should look like the following snapshot. Congratulations the question was entered in the Question bank and is now available to use in Lessons and Quizzes.
This concludes the article on Inserting a Calculated question in the Moodle Question Bank. If you missed the previous article on Creating categories in the Moodle Question Bank, feel free to visit it now. There are many more question types that can be added to the Question bank. To see other questions that can be added, please see the course on Working with the Question Bank


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Remember when we went into the current conflict abroad with, lets say, less than proper equipment for the guerrilla warfare situation our ground troops would find? Remember how the quick fix was to up-armor the existing Humvee's to protect the troops inside as best as could be managed? Well, this is a possible long term solution. Currently a contender in the bid phase for the contract to provide the next generation of light infantry and cargo support, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) is a whopping slice of armor toting badass. Sporting a V-hull design similar to the one found on the RG33L MRRMV, the JLTV offers protection and capabilities which would make the venerable old Humvee blush with envy.
The 16,000 lb JLTV is a joint effort between BAE and Navistar, whose International MaxxPro we saw at the Chicago Auto Show, to compete against as many as 8 other suitors for the lucrative contract. We can't show you the guts of this beast yet as there are trade secrets involved, but lets just say it's got some nice aces up its sleeve. Anyone else think it's funny how an eight ton vehicle is classified as "light". Given the pending demise of the Hummer H2, we're imagining a sea of these babies clapped out with 30" triple chrome Daytons, Alcantara headliners, 50" plasma TVs and complete daycares for the kids in back.


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The Alesis Q88 is an 88-note MIDI keyboard that has the extended range of a full-size piano. Equipped with 88 semi-weighted, velocity-sensitive keys, the Q88 provides an excellent feel that conveys all the nuances of your playing. Pitch bend and modulation wheels ensure an expressive performance, plus you can transpose quickly to play in any key. At just 22lb, the compact and portable Q88 is equally at home on stage and in the studio.
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Novell Identity Audit provides the ability to perform a search on events. The search includes all online data currently in the database, but internal events generated by the Identity Audit system are excluded unless the user selects. By default, events are sorted based on the search engine's relevancy algorithm.
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Sheep people are elegant, charming, artistic, gifted and fond of nature.
People born under this sign are also the most creative. They are also very
delicate, their good manners and charms always bring many admirers and
Sheeps are insecure. They need to feel loved and protected. They are easily drawn into complex predicaments. This being, so, they usually shy from confrontation, pull back when faced with heavy decision-making and blatantly refuse to take an unpopular stand in a conflict.
Sheep people are dreamers, sometimes, they are pessimistic, hesitant and over-anxious worriers! They can be lazy sometimes. If Sheeps have any choices, they would definitely choose to marry a wealthy person and sit back for the rest of the lives. Also, they are obsessed with their appearance. That, play an enormous part in their sense of personal stability. If they don't look their best, they may be afraid to go out the door to pick up the Sunday papers.
Due to their indecisive nature, Sheeps like to study the esoteric to know more about the unknown. They enjoy reading books about horoscope and fortune-telling. Therefore, it will not be unusual to find Sheeps working as astrologers or fortune-tellers.
Disorganized as they are , business is definitely not the strength in a Sheep. Instead, the Sheep will make a good craftsman or artist or writer and can confidently take up any career demanding artistic talents and creativities.
Sheep people are very romantic sensitive, sweet and darling. In relationship, they could be sometimes a little bit bossy and lazy, but with their gentle and caring nature, it will be hard to resist Sheep people.
Socially, domestically and politically, people belonging to the Sheep category are the least likely to make waves. They respect order
and pay attention to rules and regulations that are laid down by laws and by society. Whether it is because Sheeps are such nice and
pleasant people or whether it is because they are born under a lucky star, fortune seems to favor them. It is quite possible that
because they are so mild, unassuming and whimsical, they would not be capable of making their fortune in life by their own efforts.
Yet many seem one way or another to attract success and money whether through legacies, patronage or popular acceptance via
the mass media. Consequently, this popularity and success makes for an easy life where Sheeps are concerned.
Endowed with innate intelligence and artistic talent, the Sheep will fare well in business. Sheeps are good-natured and altruistic. However, their successes are often limited to money; in family matters they may flounder. They can be a bit too undisciplined and at times show a morose, misanthropic side. Although Sheeps prefer an uncomplicated, easy life, free of conflict or problems, if danger appears, especially when it is a matter of saving their own life or that of others, Sheeps are extremely combative and put up a ferocious battle. Life's circumstances influence the Sheep's actions and disclose startling contrasts in their seemingly impassive natures. They leave decision-making to others, but cannot be forced to follow a path they do not like. Their lack of self control and the mysterious delays which beset their lives make people lose patience with them easily. And though they can make themselves agreeable when they want to, more often Sheeps take advantage of others, sometimes even living entirely at their expense.
Sheeps are frequently religious, but whatever religion it is, it will only be praticed to the point where it interfers with their comfort and everyday routine. They are not prepared to put themselves out for it, although Sheeps are often drawn to the fantastic, the supernatural, occultism and the reading of horoscopes.
Generally, those born in the Year of the Sheep are attracted to the Arts and many are highly creative. But they are practical too, so that for them Art must also be functional and, conversely, everyday functional objects must also reflect inherent beauty. Couple their talents to their manual dexterity and it is not difficult to see why so many Sheep-born people are gifted craftsmen and women. With their strong artistic inclinations, it is not surprising that Sheep-folk have a keen eye for beauty and that they simply adore exquisite things. Just as psychologically they need peace and harmony, so physically they need to be surrounded by beauty both in their living and working environment. Without pleasant or conducive surroundings these people could so easily become depressed and dispirited.
Thanks to others, the Sheep will generally land on his feet. So great is his talent for knocking on the right door, he will have no problems with what the Japanese call I-Shoku-Ju, the life of the senses. If you have a nice country home full of good things and good conversation, frequented by artists, don't ever let a Sheep through the door -- with his love of creature comforts, you may never be able to get rid of him!
The second phase of the Sheep's life will be tempestuous romantically, but there will be a lot of luck in the other two phases.
The Home-Loving Sheep
Romantic problems are often frequent in the life of the Sheep and because of this he may experience emotional agitation. In matters of Love, it is the Sheep's heart which rules its head. These people work best as part of a team, so a secure, stable and loving relationship is essential for their emotional well-being. Perhaps more than any other sign, Sheeps are home-lovers and are tailor-made for marriage and family life. Next to love and security, they crave peace and harmony, consequently they will bend over backwards within their relationships to keep things running smoothly. As they hate discord of any kind their partners shouldn't ever expect them to get embroiled in an argument for these people will simply retreat into silence. As lovers they can be clingy and dependent. They like to associate with others stronger than themselves. Highly sensual, they adore physical contact; however, despite all their need for tranquility, partners of Sheeps should note that these people want what they want and will all too often wear down opposition with protestations in order to get their own way.
Sheep women dream of marriage with a rich man, an affaire with a generous boyfriend, or a liaison with some influential patron. Failing this, she will be happy living at home with wealthy parents. She is the stuff of which are made courtesans, prostitutes, management consultants, public relations officers and other parasites. She is also the stuff of which great artists and writers are made. Everything depends on her luck and the influences at work in her life.
Sheeps would be especially happy with the Rabbit, the Boar or the Horse, yet they are capable of living with practically all the signs. However, the Dragon and the Snake consider Sheeps too passive for their likes. The Ox has no patience with the Sheep. In love or business, a union between the Sheep and the Dog is destined to fail as they are both too pessimistic.
August is the month of the Sheep. The time of the Sheep is from 1:00 p.m. to 2:59 p.m.; their direction of orientation is south-southwest. The Sheep's color is pink.
(1 - least compatible, 100 - most compatible)
|56 - Probably not.
|45 - Why not just be friends.
|24 - One of the worst combinations.
|82 - Nice couple. They'll be happy.
|74 - A sound and stable relationship.
|69 - This might work.
|82 - Good, they won't bore each other.
|52 - Better avoid.
|71 - Oh, well, why not?!
|42 - They'll be unhappy, even they pretend.
|62 - Difficult, but possible.
|98 - One of the happiest possible combinations.
|Jane Austin
|Rudolph Valentino
|Franz Liszt
|Boris Becker
|King George VI
|Veronica Lake
1999 - The Year of Rabbit
(quotes from "Chinese Lunar Calendar")
|The year of Rabbit will be a better year than last year. Finance and romance are both looking good. January and February are good months for you, yet avoid visiting patients or attending funerals. Try going to wedding to enhance your fortune. In March, you might get some help from your mother's side of family. April is the month for traveling. July is the month for romance, but beware of losing some money. October is the month to be cautious, watchout for the betrayal of your friends or family.


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Three-time RITA nominee Joanne Rock turned a passion for writing into a career when imaginary characters kept her awake at night, demanding she tell their stories. The author of over forty romances in a variety of subgenres, she enjoys writing medieval historicals and sexy contemporaries along with the occasional romantic suspense. Joanne traces her passion for all things medieval to an early brush with John Keats' poem "The Eve of St. Agnes" and a rapt fascination with the Pre-Raphaelites' depiction of medieval themes. As a writer, she enjoys supplementing her more research-intensive trips to the Middle Ages with faster-paced contemporary stories sparked by the characters she meets in real life. The move back and forth between very different story styles keeps her Muse singing happily. A former Golden Heart recipient, Joanne has won numerous awards for her stories. Her work has been reprinted in twenty-four countries and translated into nineteen languages.


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Our mission is to help all of our clients achieve their fullest potential. With scientifically-proven approaches and state-of-the-art technology, we have the tools to ensure that our clients receive the treatment they need to achieve their own goals. It's a privilege working with these fantastic families and hearing their stories of overcoming challenges.
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DIAGNOSIS: Mild-Moderate Autism Spectrum Disorder
AGE AT DIAGNOSIS: 19 months
BEGAN SERVICES WITH CARD: March 2003
ABA HOURS PER WEEK: 15 to start, Up to 35 in first year,
down to 10-15 during last year
MAJOR MILESTONES: Saying his first word at 23 months
old, having a best friend, having his ASD DX removed from his medical chart by his
pediatrician in October 2010
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS: Mainstreamed for his entire school
career, playing drums in bands with adults, kicking autism's butt
HOBBIES AND ACTIVITIES: Playing drums in a band, singing,
Tae Kwon Do, mastering video games, ruling Instagram, reading Wimpy Kid books and
chasing girls
DIAGNOSIS: Autism Spectrum Disorder
AGE AT DIAGNOSIS: 2 years and 1 month
BEGAN SERVICES WITH CARD: Began using Skills in November
2010 at 2.5 years old
ABA HOURS PER WEEK: 30 hours
MAJOR MILESTONES: We started our ABA program in September
and in October, she reached out and asked me to hold her hand. I knew then. She
would never let anyone hold her hand let alone ask for it! Her tiny little voice
said to me after an ABA session, "Hold hand" and she slipped her hand into mine.
I knew ABA was working.
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS: Maddy is 5 years old now and she
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HOBBIES AND ACTIVITIES: Dress up! Maddy loves to play
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Little Ponies! She is a very social child so she loves to playgrounds! She finds
a new friend at every single one of them. In the winter, she goes dog sledding with
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DIAGNOSIS: Autism
BEGAN SERVICES WITH CARD: May, 2008
ABA HOURS PER WEEK: 40 hours
HOBBIES AND ACTIVITIES: Nerf guns and swimming in the
BEGAN SERVICES WITH CARD: April, 2011
ABA HOURS PER WEEK: 25 hours
MAJOR MILESTONES: During an early ABA session, Jack Riley's
therapist was withholding markers from him until he identified which color he wanted
to use. Coloring was his favorite activity at the time, but he never had to EARN
the opportunity to do it. He screamed and cried and ran away from the therapist,
furious about not getting access to the markers. Then, in the midst of his tears
and misery, he said it: "Boo" (Blue). Ahh yes, "boo." We may be on to something
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS: Becoming potty trained, making friends,
beginning to engage in a conversation with follow-up questions, learning to read
and spell words and then Googling them to find related videos
HOBBIES AND ACTIVITIES: Using his computer and iPad,
playing with Legos, and watching movies
NAME: Nicholas
BEGAN SERVICES WITH CARD: August, 1994
ABA HOURS PER WEEK: 40 hours
HOBBIES AND ACTIVITIES: Music
BEGAN SERVICES WITH CARD: November, 2005
ABA HOURS PER WEEK: 30-40 hours
MAJOR MILESTONES: When he began making more eye contact
and connecting emotionally with us, as well as the reduction in aggressive behavior
and no longer requiring a therapist to shadow him at school
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS: Recovery at age six
HOBBIES AND ACTIVITIES: Basketball, tap dancing, gymnastics,
and acting
AGE AT DIAGNOSIS: 13 months
BEGAN SERVICES WITH CARD: July, 2007
MAJOR MILESTONES: The first time AJ said, "Mommy, I love
AGE AT DIAGNOSIS: 18 months
BEGAN SERVICES WITH CARD: July, 2005
ABA HOURS PER WEEK: 35 hours
MAJOR MILESTONES: At 3 ½, Kyle went from three or four-word
sentences to sentences of ten to twelve words.
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS: Gifted student, in honors class,
won 1st place in horseback riding, won trophy for surfing, reads five grades above
his grade level
HOBBIES AND ACTIVITIES: Surfing, skateboarding, swimming,
tennis, horses, reading, architecture, Legos, and building stuctures
BEGAN SERVICES WITH CARD: October, 2005
MAJOR MILESTONES: When his 60-minute tantrums became
tantrums of only a few minutes
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS: Recovery from autism on June 12,
HOBBIES AND ACTIVITIES: Boy Scouts, Little League baseball,
flag football, church youth group, Legos, and video games.
BEGAN SERVICES WITH CARD: June, 2006
ABA HOURS PER WEEK: Initially 35 - 40 hours, then a gradual
reduction over the last five years.
MAJOR MILESTONES: Holding his hand at a Dodger game -
Jem walking with me - two weeks after we started treatment
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS: Starting typical kindergarten on
time. Also, the last two years, he has scored in the "high advanced" level on his
Math Star tests with no special accommodations.
HOBBIES AND ACTIVITIES: Legos, Minecraft, watching animation,
and making movies


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Technology Innovation: The Key To Corporate Success
In today's world of intense competition, the declining working age population, global anaemic demand and appetite for re-industrialization, technology innovation is the key to corporate success. The "survival of the fittest" requires businesses to embrace digital transformation (industry 4.0, robotics and cybersecurity).
Industry 4.0 is now on
Over the last few years, companies have been reluctant to invest, because of surplus capacity and anaemic final demand. However, the situation is improving. Going forward, firms will look first to defend or improve their competitiveness, particularly in the face of declining working age populations and deteriorating productivity. Furthermore, they will harness any opportunity to reduce costs. In addition, there is increasing appetite for re-industrialization in developed countries, allowing companies to be closer to consumers and to tailor products to their needs. The best option to achieve these targets is to use technology innovation, but above all, undergo a digital transformation.
There is a lot of talk about "industry 4.0", which refers to the fourth revolution. After mechanization, with the steam engine, electrification and automation, now comes digitalization. Connected concepts apply to smart factories, smart grids, smart logistics, smart machines and smart products. According to PwC, an audit firm, "Industry 4.0 combines advanced connectivity and advanced automation, cloud computing, sensors and 3D-printing, connected capability, computer-powered processes, intelligent algorithms and 'Internet of Things' services." All these factors help to deliver revenue growth, cost control, efficiency gains and customer satisfaction.
Robots are taking over
The "robotics revolution" is another term used to describe the huge transformation in manufacturing. Boston Consulting Group, a consultancy firm, expects advanced robotics to grow by 10% annually over the next decade, thanks to a drop of more than 20% in the price of hardware and enabling software over the next decade. These trends mean that robotics will become affordable for small companies. Productivity will benefit the most from robots (or "co-bots", as collaborative robots are called). And needless to say, labour costs will also benefit enormously.
Since 2008, there have been more connected objects than human beings! Cisco Systems, a specialized IT group, forecasts that there will be more than 50 billion connected objects by 2020, mostly serving industrial applications but also health and finance apps. The "Internet of Things" is clearly a booming trend.
Artificial intelligence is another field where demand is huge. For the time being, large companies are taking the lead in exploring technology, such as machine learning, chatbots (software to simulate human conversations), virtual assistants, natural language and face recognition. However, as solutions mature and costs fall, artificial intelligence will attract small and medium-sized firms too.
Given that connectivity is becoming widespread, security issues are becoming very complex and difficult to tackle, hence, the exploding demand for cybersecurity.
Risks to our base case
This theme is essentially a long-term core investment. It plays heavy structural trends. As these industries are still young and innovations are constantly taking place, today's winners might not be tomorrow's winners. A close monitoring of this theme and of the underlying trends is necessary.Although this is a long-term recommendation, we believe that the next few quarters should be profitable for investors who take up this theme, based on our positive macro-economic outlook for 2017. Should the macro-economic climate deteriorate, companies will slow down their digital transformation. In this scenario, stock prices would suffer and long-term promises would take longer to materialize.


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|We've been working feverishly away to add even more robot parts and upgrades for your greater building pleasure. Here are some highlights of the cool new products that have just been added to the Trossen Robotics catalog!
PICBEE– Finally an easy method to use the Maxstream XBEE module coupled with the power of the Microchip PIC 18F series micro-controller. As a stand alone board, it can be a development platform or target device for nearly any application. This is perfect for creating a wireless sensory aquisistion network!
Maxbotix WR-1 – Sonar Low-Voltage Weather-Resistant Ultrasonic Range Finder (IP67 Rated) With 3V – 5.5V power the LV-MaxSonar®-WR1™ provides very short to long-range detection and ranging, in a compact, robust PVC housing, designed to meet IP67 water intrusion, and matches standard electrical ¾" PCV pipe fittings.
The Roboduino is a Freeduino (Arduino software compatible) microcontroller board designed for robotics. All of its connections have neighboring power buses into which servos and sensors can easily be plugged. Additional headers for power and serial communication are also provided. The kits come fully assembled and with a USB cable for programming and debugging.
The IOWizard is used when additional I/O capabilities are required. The IOWizard features an I2C interface that allows users to query 5 analog inputs and 10 digital I/O lines. The default I2C slave address is 100d (0x64h), and it can be changed to a value between 100d and 110d (0x6Eh).
Looking to make your Robobuilder Humanoid more durable? This Metal Bracket Upgrade Kit is the way to go! These high-quality aluminum brackets reinforce the legs and servo joints to fortify your robot to take a beating during competitions or rough play.
The Robobuilder 3-Axis Accelerometer sensor module measures the acceleration in all three axis (X, Y and Z). Read measurements range from -7 to +7. Integral number 1 can be translated into 1/4g (here g stands for gravity acceleration). By analyzing the return value on each axis you can determine the actual position/orientation of the robot at any time.


text: Firstly, congrats on a superb project and a superb "perfect guide for FC4". I have successfully installed ISPConfig with no problems (using http:// for ISPConfig) I have installed twice since, selecting the option to use the control panel through SSL (https://) and encountered the same problem. Incidentally, the domain I have used is a FQDN but I am behind a router, as such I have a line in my hosts file which is: 192.168.1.100 www.mydomain.com www mydomain.com This line appears both on my FC4/ISPconfig server and my local client machine. When I put http://mydomain.com:81/ into my browser, I get as expected: ------------------------------------ Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port. Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please. Hint: https://mydomain.com:81/ ------------------------------------ When I put https://mydomain.com:81 I get: The page cannot be displayed Any ideas ? Just checked the logs and also tried to access the page using lynx on the server. The logs show no requests from my machine using SSL, but shows http:// requests. When using lynx it does the certificate thing and then goes to login.php, so obviously a network problem ? Not sure what though !


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Pankaj Jaiswal [Plant Ontology; lab website]
Sinisa Todorovic [lab website]
Eugene Zhang [lab website]
Laurel Cooper [Plant Ontology; Jaiswal Lab]
Justin Elser
Justin Preece
Austin Meier
Dennis Stevenson [lab website]
Chris Mungall [lab website]
Seth Carbon
Elizabeth Arnaud [Crop Ontology Website]
Marie-Angelique LaPorte
Leo Valette- Integrated Breeding Platform [IBP website]
Vilma Hualla, Omar Benites, Reinhard Simon- International Potato Center (CIP) [CIP website]
Karithika Rajendran, Shiv Kumar- International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) [ICARDA website]
Agbona Afolabi, Peter Kulakow- The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) [IITA website]
and many other partners at all the CG Centers
John Doonan, University of Aberystwyth, UK [lab website]
George Gkoutos University of Aberystwyth, UK
|Collaborators and Affiliations
|UK: John Doonan & Georgios Gkoutos (Coordinators; Aberystwyth Univ), Paul Kersey EBI, Luke Ramsay and Dave Marshall (J. Huttion Inst.), Chris Rawlings (Rothamstead). France: Cyril Pommier, Jacques Legouis, Francois Tardieu (INRA). Germany: Fabio Fiorani & Uli Schurr (Julich) Bjorn Usadel (Aachen Univ.),
|Eva Huala (Stanford Univ.), Doreen Ware (Gramene Database), Chris Town (Arabidopsis Information Portal); Chris Rawlings (ERA-CAPS)
|Mary Schaeffer (MaizeGDB), Carolyn Lawrence (Iowa State University), Doreen Ware (Gramene Database).
|TriticeaeCAP (Jean-Luc Jannink), ERA-CAPS, Doreen Ware (Gramene Database).
|Susan McCouch (Rice Diversity), Ken McNally (IRRI and International Rice Information Portal), Saurabh Raghuvanshi (Delhi University, India), Yukiko Yamazaki (OryzaBase, Japan), Doreen Ware (Gramene Database).
|Andy Paterson (UGA, outgoing letter) and Zhanguo Xin (USDA-ARS)
|Doreen Maine and Sook Jung (Genomics Database for Rosaceae/GDR)
|Nicola Vitulo (CRIBI, Italy)
|Rex Nelson, David Grant and Steve Cannon (SoyBase); Ethy Cannon (Legume Information System); Leonardo Borges (Legume Morphology Symposium 2015)
|Naama Menda (Solgenomics/SGN), Sandra Knapp (Natural History Museum, London)
|Doreen Ware (DOE-KBase)
|New crop models
|Elizabeth Arnaud (co-PI) sorghum, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut (ICRISAT), banana, cassava, common bean, cowpea, potato, sweet potato, yam (Simon Reinhard), CIAT. Fiona McCarthy (AgBase)
|Pines and Wood
|David Neal and Jill Wegryzn (Dendrome, TreeGenes and Pine Genome project), Frederic Lens (Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Leiden University, Netherlands)
|Stefan Rensing (Physcomitrella genome at COSMOSS)
|Open Biomedical Ontologies
|Suzi Lewis (Gene Ontology Consortium), Phenotype and Trait Ontology (Georgios Gkoutos), Open Biomedical Ontology (Barry Smith), Cathy Wu (Protein Ontology)
|Phenotype Standards
|Carolyn Lawrence (Iowa State University), (formerly Eva Huala, Stanford Univ.) (Phenotype RCN). Co-develop the standard methods for ontology-based phenotype annotations for plants.
|Sandra Knapp (Natural History Museum), Flora of North America (Hong Cui)
|Industry Partners
|We are working with them and will be discussing the prospect of funding and synchronizing public-private efforts in future. Robert Benson (Syngenta Inc.), Clara Augustine (Monsanto Inc.), Hazera Genetics (Shuly Avraham).
|Infectious Plant Disease Ontology
|We are working with the National Program Staff at the USDA-ARS to find support for developing the plant infectious disease ontology and its applications extending towards analyses of gene expression, phenotype and genotype datasets from the host and the interacting agent (pest/pathogen/mutualist/etc.).
|Host the Planteome portal at iPlant (Steve Goff)
|Database of curated pathogen-host interactions PHI-Base (Alistair Irvine)


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HuffPo: Right-Wing Tilt Drives Washington Examiner
Terry Krepel, a senior web editor at Media Matters and founder and editor of ConWebWatch, has a great piece up at Huffington Post about how the Washington Examiner is driven by its right-wing tilt.
Here's just a taste:
In early February, Washington Examiner editor Stephen G. Smith gushed over his new chief political correspondent, Byron York, calling him "a prototype of the modern journalist, equally at home in print, on television and on the Web."
One word not uttered by Smith, however, was "conservative" -- as in the political orientation of York's former employer, the National Review. Indeed, York has regularly peddled conservative misinformation from his National Review perch.
York is one of the latest manifestations of the rightward skew of the Examiner, a free tabloid daily created four years ago when conservative billionaire Philip Anschutz took over a chain of suburban papers and refashioned them after the publication he owns in San Francisco -- an interesting move since Anschutz himself hasn't talked to the media in decades.
The Examiner has had a conservative skew from its inception, as exemplified by its early hiring of Bill Sammon, a former Washington Times staffer who penned several books laudatory of George W. Bush and his presidency even while serving as a White House correspondent. Sammon moved last year to Fox News, but he left no ideological vacuum behind.
Ostensible "news" positions at the Examiner have become increasingly stocked with opinion-minded right-wingers -- for instance, Matthew Sheffield, executive editor of the conservative blog NewsBusters, is managing editor of the Examiner's website, and Chris Stirewalt, who has been lauded for his "outspoken conservative perspective," is political editor.
Be sure to check out the entire piece.


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Will My Insurance Rates Change if I Move?
Question: I am in the process of moving to Orlando, Fla. Is there a way to determine what part of town is cheaper than another for insurance? Also, when applying for my new policy, do I need to list an old accident and ticket? Can they find out about it since it was out of state?
Answer: In general, when moving to a city, you'll find that outlying suburban areas will be less expensive for auto insurance than the metropolitan areas, such the heart of downtown. The difference between them can be several hundred dollars a year.
Car insurance providers use statistics about different areas or "territories" as a way to help determine rates. (See "How your ZIP code drives up your car insurance")
If one area of Orlando has higher occurrences of hit-and-run accidents, fraudulent injury claims (Florida is a no-fault state), accidents, vandalism or theft, than car insurance rates will normally be more expensive since auto insurers will see insuring you, and your vehicle, in this area as a higher risk.
We've got the perfect way to help you see how rates differ across the Orlando area. Our Nosy Neighbor Car Insurance Tool allows you to put in a ZIP code for any state in the U.S. and see the average rate in that area. Then, by click on surrounding ZIP codes you can see how the rates vary in different parts of a city.
For instance, if you put the ZIP code of 32805 for Orlando you'd see that the average rate given is $1,550. If you go south toward Kissimmee near Disney World, rates drop but only to $1,411 because that is a congested tourist area. And if you head north of Orlando to the suburban area of Lake Mary, rates go down to $1,245.
Whether you are moving out of state, within the same state or just to a different area of town, our ZIP code tool can help you see how living in a different area can really have a huge effect on what you pay for auto insurance.
Viewing average rates in ZIP codes will help paint a picture of what areas of town may be the most affordable; however, auto insurance companies use much of their own information when calculating their risk factors. Thus, premiums can vary from one insurer to the next even within the same ZIP code, making it crucial to shop around with multiple car insurance companies when looking for your new policy.
When applying for a new car insurance policy, you will indeed need to list any accidents or tickets that are within the time frame that the insurance company is asking about (typically three to five years), even if the incident is from your former state, since for new residents insurers will usually check your driving record from your previous state.
An auto insurer will also check your claims history. It will show accidents and claims filed for the last seven years, no matter where the incidents took place since this is a nationwide record.
If you fail to list on an auto insurance application any accident or traffic violation conviction for the time period asked about, then your rate quote isn't going to be accurate.
Your misrepresentation about your record may make a company not want to insure you or send you a notice for an additional premium for you to pay in order to keep your policy intact.
The original article can be found at CarInsurance.com:Will my insurance rates change if I move?


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Google has released the final developer tools for Android's next version and announced that it will be named Marshmallow.
The company first unveiled Marshmallow as Android M at its I/O developer conference in May, but kept its full name under wraps until now.
Google outlined most of Marshmallow's capabilities back then, but it provided more information on Monday, including that the OS has a new model for requesting user permissions.
Instead of asking users for permission to do everything when they install an app, Marshmallow apps can ask for access to features like location information and the microphone when they're needed.
Developers running the beta version of Marshmallow — also known as Android 6.0 — on a compatible Nexus device will get a new over-the-air update as well that includes a number of changes over its predecessor. Google says that most of the changes are minor, though a couple of the bigger updates include the finalized user interface for requesting new permissions and tweaks to the new fingerprint recognition functionality.
In addition to the availability of the Android 6.0 software development kit, Google also released version 23 of the Android Support Library, which allows developers to implement features enabled in Marshmallow while remaining backwards-compatible with other versions of Android.
The Google Play Store has been updated to accept apps that target the new Android Support Library, so developers can start sending out any apps they've built for compatibility with Marshmallow. The company recommends that people releasing a Marshmallow compatible app roll it out as a beta test first before deploying an update to all of their users. However, developers can choose to send a Marshmallow-compatible update to everyone starting today.
Consumers will still have a while to wait before they get their hands on Marshmallow. The operating system is slated for launch this fall, and users will then have to wait for smartphone manufacturers and mobile carriers to adopt the update before it's made available for their phones. While the developer preview of the operating system is in a nearly finalized state, Google said consumers shouldn't run out to install it on their devices, especially since doing so would require them to erase and restore their device in order to get over-the-air updates to Marshmallow's consumer-centric branch.
The announcement comes about a month before Apple is rumored to be hosting a press event where it's expected to announce a new version of the iPhone and consumer availability of iOS 9, the next version of its mobile operating system.


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Dream in Extreme Motocross Comforter in Blue from Extremely Stoked
Dream in Extreme in this super comfy, premium quality, crafted in USA & Eco friendly lifestyle comforter from our Extremely Stoked Motocross Bedding collection!
Our top of the line and made in USA microsuede fabric is used for the design side of the comforter. Microsuede fabric is a level up in print quality and durability. Microsuede is smooth and soft to the touch. Motocross comforter is backed in a soft, comfortable and breathable 320 count cotton sateen.
- Comforters are hand sewn in the USA and fully stuffed with a down alternative filling for maximum comfort.
- We use Eco Friendly water based dyes so design on bedding never fades.
- Motocross bedding is made to order and crafted in the USA.
- Motocross bedding is machine washable. Wash on gentle cycle in cold water and tumble dry on low heat. Do not dry clean or iron.
- Extremely Stoked products are made to order by skilled artisans in the USA-please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery.
- Motocross Bedding comforters are available in toddler, twin, twin xl for college dorm beds, full/queen and king sizes.
- Toddler Comforter Measures approx. 42"x 58"
- Twin Comforter Measures approx. 68"x 90"
- Twin XL Dorm Room Comforter Measures approx. 68"x 95"
- Full/Queen Size Comforter measures approx. 90"x 90".
- King Comforter Measures approx. 104"x 90"
- This listing can also be purchased as a Comforter AND Sheet Set which includes comforter, pillowcase(s), fitted and flat sheet.
Fitted and flat sheets are made from a comfy micro fleece fabric with eco friendly water based dyes so design never fades! Motocross Bedding sheets will soften after several washes.
Motocross Bedding pillowcases/shams are made with our soft micro suede fabric on top and backed in a super nice and comfy 320 count cotton sateen.
Toddler comforter set includes comforter, 1 toddler size fitted sheet, 1 toddler size flat sheet with 1 standard pillowcase/sham.
Twin comforter set includes 1 twin size fitted sheet, 1 twin size flat sheet with 1 standard pillowcase/sham.
Twin XL college dorm size comforter set includes comforter, 1 twin XL fitted sheet, 1 twin XL flat sheet with 1 standard pillowcase/sham.
Queen size comforter set includes comforter ,1 queen size fitted sheet, 1 queen flat sheet with 2 standard pillowcases/shams.
King size comforter set includes comforter, 1 king size fitted sheet, 1 king size flat sheet with 2 king size pillowcases/shams.