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A seven-letter word containing three vowels, four consonants and three syllables… hmmm… kinda sounds like something you might see on a Scrabble board, right? Maybe… but… beyond the technical language stuff, "Nizlopi" also happens to be the name of one of the most creative sounding UK acts I've come across in a while and comprises two latter-day disciples of musical genius.
OK, so let me try and break this down some more.
The second reference is aimed at Luke and John, the dynamic duo whose collective talents make up Nizlopi and whose meeting on a school bus when they were just thirteen years old, has since taken them on a magical, mystical tour that's also very much on-going.
When it comes to originality, Luke and John appear to have gone where no men have gone before in terms of bending and shaping sounds that are both meaningful and appealing to a wide audience as per their recent showcase gigs at the "South By Southwest" annual music festival in Austin,Texas.
In addition, the guys have also got one of the most incredible Websites I have ever come across! So, in case you thought you'd been there, done it and seen it as far as the www is concerned, please allow me to inform you that the cybergoalposts have just been moved.
In support of their latest release, the JCB Song, a track taken from Nizlopi's critically acclaimed album, Half These Songs Are About You, a mere click of your mouse on www.jcbsong.co.uk will take you directly to an absolutely amazing cyberplayground!
Click on the pencil – while simultaneously holding down your left mouse button – and it'll let you write your name on the cover of the exercise book that welcomes you… click on the dog-eared corners of the exercise book pages and you'll find all sorts of interesting info about the band as well as some background about the JCB Song… go to the doodle page and if you click on the pencil again, you can do just that… leave a message for the band and the font comes up like you were 5 years old again and learning to write… click on the animated JCB and it'll take you back to the home page! Wonderful stuff and very cleverly designed.
When Bruce Springsteen made his speech at U2's recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame he said something along the lines of: "…in art, love and rock and roll, the whole had better equal much more than the sum of its parts, or else you're just rubbing two sticks together searching for fire…"
I couldn't agree more and I think those particular words of wisdom just about sum up Nizlopi… a totally original name for a totally original band with a totally original sound… way to go guys.
UK No.1 18.12.05 – JCB Song Congratulations Nizlopi!!


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Politicians are weighing in on President Trump's Supreme Court Justice nominee, and while Congressman Chris Collins supports President Trump's choice, Democrats have doubts.
Collins says President Trump stayed true to his conservative principals with his SCOTUS pick.
"I fully anticipate that [Judge Neil Gorsuch] will continue interpreting laws as they are written and defend the constitutionally protected rights all Americans hold dear," said Collins. "I urge my Democrat colleagues in the Senate to recognize the clear message American voters sent on Election Day and quickly confirm Judge Gorsuch."
But his Democrat colleagues are anything but on board with President Trump's choice.
Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) is worried about the judge's far right stance and says he will heavily scrutinize Judge Gorsuch during his hearing.
"I am concerned that far right groups presented an edict to Donald Trump when he was a candidate, demanding that he select a nominee from their approved list," said Casey. "These same organizations have pushed for legal rulings that rig the system in favor of big corporations and against workers, stacking the deck against everyday Pennsylvanians."
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer says he has "serious doubts" that Judge Gorsuch is within what Democrats consider to be the legal mainstream.
"[Gorsuch] has repeatedly sided with corporations over working people, demonstrated a hostility toward women's rights, and most troubling, hewed to an ideological approach to jurisprudence that makes me skeptical that he can be a strong, independent justice on the Court," said Schumer.
Schumer says the senate "must insist" on 60 votes for any Supreme Court nominee. This would require bipartisan support.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says the government should stand on the side of the citizens, and does not feel Gorsuch represents the interests of the citizens.
"The Supreme Court is supposed to be the ultimate arbiter of justice for our citizens," said Gillibrand. "Unfortunately, Judge Gorsuch has proven to have a judicial philosophy outside of the mainstream and time and again has subjugated individual rights to those of corporations. I fundamentally disagree with his ruling that a boss should be able to make family planning decisions for an employee and that corporations are people."
Gillibrand says she will stand up for individuals over corporations and will also insist on 60 votes for a nominee.

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Author Ralph White Date April 24, 2016
Hot Indie News: Tom, since you're the patriarch of the family that would make you the founder of the band in more ways than one. How did you first get involved in music and tell us more about the formation of the Sky Family band?
Tom Sky: I have been involved with music since the Beatles and because of that have always loved songs with melodies. Over the years I've been in many genres including acid rock, adult contemporary, Christian rock and jazz. But what caught my attention was this contagious Celtic music that was so different from the mainstream. As a family one of the very few concerts we attended was an outrageously entertaining Acadian [French Canadian] fiddle band. What we experienced changed my whole concept of performing. They made the evening about the people not about themselves. They were self-effacing and made a real connection with the audience, putting lots of humor into the mix. And it seemed to be a great medium for conveying the joy found in a personal relationship with Christ. From that point we jumped into Celtic music and launched into a whole new world for us. Instruments were added and then dance until over the years it became one of Canada's premier Celtic music/Irish dance productions.
Hot Indie News: The Sky Family has been touring for ten years now. What has changed in the band and your performances over the years?
Tom Sky: Well, we've gotten better, ha ha. The dance, the production, new lighting – everything has gotten tighter and more polished. Also, we have become something of a model for those who want a career in music without going through the mainstream channels of a record deal. We have put together our own promotional program, complete with postering, newspapers, radio, online bulletin boards, etc. There are tons of free resources which can be accessed if you can get organized. When we rent a facility, rental fees must be balanced with how many people can realistically be drawn to the concert. It can be a bit of a juggling act to not overspend or equally important not under-spend in advertising.
You also must be prepared for plain hard work. Music is a job and every job boils down to work. If you're prepared to work you can have a career in music. We have proved that point.
Hot Indie News: When you perform locally what is your favorite venue and why?
Tom Sky: We live on the extreme east coast of Canada but tour so extensively that our local venues can be in Victoria BC [extreme west coast of Canada] or Texas. A few unusual venues which have been a real highlight were performing outdoors in Times Square, Central Park and in front of the Alamo.
In NY we encountered so many people who supposedly have the world as their oyster but in reality they are mainly depressed and empty. What a pleasure it was to bring a stab of joy and laughter into that environment – joy that comes not from money and power but from the presence of God. In fact one of our best songs came from that experience. It's called 'Send Down the Rain' and it's about God sending a life-renewing outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon those who are without hope.
We have greatly enjoyed many venues in New England and New York. That's really is our local area. We love to bring light and laughter into areas where people are despondent. That's one of the rewards of our efforts.
Hot Indie News: Who does what in the band?
Tom Sky: Miriam is our [dare I say?] diva. She has a beautiful voice which we feature her on our most prominent songs. She also plays keyboards and is a terrific dancer.
Gabe is our lead dancer. We're glad he joined our band before Riverdance recruited him. He also plays guitar and keyboards and Irish whistle well. Might I add as a dad I rarely get the opportunity to say these things about my kids!
Joel is our fiddle player. He practices hours a day and it is reflected in his many times flawless performances. He also plays the sax and Irish whistle and wrote one of our most dynamic piano instrumentals.
Seth holds down the bass and is our tech man for lights and sound.
Our newest member is Daniel Brocke from New Brunswick who plays drums. He has been a great addition since joining the team a year ago. Many times we wonder how we ever got along without him.
Seth Sky: Tom is the father of the troop and plays lead guitar, second fiddle [?!] and piano. Most everyone sings adding to the complex vocal harmonies.
Hot Indie News: How would you describe The Sky Family's sound?
Tom Sky: Because of the diverse influences the SKYS' sound is pretty unique. It reflects traditional and modern elements. You can hear early Coors, Rankin Family, Leahy, and lots of Petra. We call it Celtic pop-rock.
Hot Indie News: What act would you like to open for?
Tom Sky: Rolling Stones. To that you may ask, "Why would you want to perform with a group that has sympathy for the devil when you proclaim the Gospel of Christ?"
Just for that reason. The Stones have been leading many people into the same darkness they live in for so long I think it's about time someone graphically demonstrated there is another way – a better way, a way that is full of light and hope. I would love to have the contrast set before the masses of people who attend their concerts so they can at least make an educated decision.
Hot Indie News: What would fans be surprised to know about the Sky Family?
Tom Sky: That we care nothing about fame or money, we just love our job. We love each other and do what we do because we want to bring joy to others. I also think most people would be surprised to learn that we do what we do with no backing, financial or otherwise.
We hit the road hard with the determination to reach as many people as we can and do whatever needs to be done to make it happen. We have a great team. Each one has laid down their ego which is mandatory for surviving as a band.
Hot Indie News: Miriam, what's it like to be the only girl on stage with this gang of guys, and do you have to fight for the spotlight?
Miriam Sky: Well, I get asked that question a lot and I'll tell you what I tell others - my dad and brothers, and now my husband, have always been so great to me - they're just the most thoughtful and understanding guys! So it is absolutely wonderful working with them all the time! :)
And as far as the spotlight, we each gladly give it to each other so that we can all speak or sing whatever is on our hearts to share with each audience. Actually, over the years I've overcome quite a lot of shyness because the mic is freely handed to me so often! lol
Tom Sky: We are more than proud of our best looking, best singing member and are always glad to put that best foot forward, ha ha.
Hot Indie News: Joel, are you self taught on the violin or did you have formal training?
Joel Sky: The formal training I had was on the piano. Actually, each one of us, started on the piano. Then we all branched out from there. Dad and I picked up the fiddle and started learning it together back when I was around nine years old but it wasn't until I was twenty-one that I started trying to learn it more seriously.
The coolest thing that I have learned over the years about playing an instrument is that humility is the key. That might sound strange to suddenly add in here but I add this because it has everything to do with my fiddling. I've learned this: there is ALWAYS someone or many out there who is better at your instrument than you are. When you learn this it does something really cool.
One, it can inspire you to play better which is REALLY fun. Two, it removes the intense competitive pressure and pride from you so that you actually can relax while you are on stage. There is so much pressure to be the best or if there are other musicians in the audience to feel like you have to prove something. But by being humble you can learn to not take yourself too seriously and focus on trying to simply be a blessing to your audience. This is the goal. Not trying show off andsay, "wow, look at me!" Nobody likes a show-off (AND, I find being like that tends to dramatically increase my odds of making blunders. LOL
Trying to be a real blessing to the people who come--this is what matters. There are other stresses besides that and you really want to practice beforehand and try your hardest to give a good performance but if you make mistakes while you are performing, people actually don't mind, especially if you don't take yourself too seriously, because then you can just laugh it off, make some kind of joke with the audience and move on. People appreciate that and this is what I strive for as a musician.
Hot Indie News: Gabe, the Sky Family is as much of a musical group as it is a dance troupe. How did that evolve?
Gabe Sky: There is a very strong Celtic influence where we are from in eastern Canada, and when we launched out as a Celtic group, we wanted to have dance as an integral part of our show. Our dancing in the earlier years was the Canadian step dance style, but when I saw Riverdance I was deeply inspired by the Irish dance, both in the skill and precision, and in the form.
Knowing that God is the creator of all good things, I immediately asked for His blessing to help me change my style of dance, and after about three years of work, completed the transition from Canadian to authentic Hard Irish Dance which is what our show specializes in now. From the first year of dance, it has been an outward expression of the joy that I have in the Lord, and I can truly say that it is my pleasure to be on the road sharing that joy with others! "I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise shall continually be in my mouth!"
Hot Indie News: Seth, you not only play bass but you take care of the lighting and sound at performances. How do you do it all?
Seth Sky: It just takes a little bit of pre-planning or maybe a lot actually! I spend months pre-programing lighting for all the songs in the show so that when we head out on tour everything is ready to go. Then it is just a matter of not making a mistake in keeping up on all the cues for it. It's a lot of fun and I really enjoy it!
Lighting is a little bit like learning how to paint only with light. Every color interacts with the other colors that are hitting the stage at the same time. It can be a little challenging to work with all the blending that happens from all the different angles but the end result is always worth it! And of course there is no end of how good you can get so it gets more and more fun the farther I get into it.Group
As far as audio goes we do some things a little different from most – the mix is actually run from the stage. The house is first analyzed and flattened and any global EQ is made from the center of the venue. After adjusting the mains and vocals the front of house units are moved to the stage where they are controlled as we go. Though there are certain small drawbacks from this there are huge advantages. Our show is tweaked and mixed very carefully and it takes all the margin of error away from a sound man that may not know our show as well as well as we do. Many sound men to today focus largely on only two elements, bass and drums. The music really shines if these two rowdy members can be tamed a little.
Hot Indie News: Dan, as the drummer for the Sky Family you're the only one not directly related to the rest of group by blood. What's that like for you when it comes to the dynamics of making music and performing together?
Dan Brocke: Well, I've played drums for my church for a couple or years and that was fun….. But, nothing is like playing with the Sky Family! It is so much fun, the songs are upbeat and joyful and the family is the best to play with! They make you feel like your part of the family even if your not.
Sure it was a bit of a challenge to learn the songs but, with spending time in prayer and asking for Jesus' help with the songs, within two months I was on tour playing with the group. So Jesus really helped me a lot! Servant of Jesus Christ, Daniel A. Brocke.
Hot Indie News: You make some pretty cool music videos. Tell us about them.
Tom Sky: Seth is our master mind in video and editing. Editing is what makes all the difference. We have a few humorous videos as well as music videos. They are called H.I.T. Videos and your readers may enjoy them as well.
Our videos start with a concept of conveying the message of the song. The concept and rough story board are presented to the whole group and interesting ideas are added and adjustments are made. After the filming I throw a bunch of ideas at Seth who is a genius at adding background and editing. In a short while the concepts become reality. The H.I.T. Videos get really creative.
But the best music videos are in the making right now so stay tuned…
Hot Indie News: Any other artists you'd like to musically collaborate with and why?
Tom Sky: Unfortunately most of our favorite artists are dead or no longer performing with the exception of Petra. Our favorites include Twila Paris, Second Chapter of Acts, Keith Green, Barry McGuire and Petra. We really belong to another era, ha ha. Were they available to collaborate we would gladly do so not only because of their musicianship but because of their wonderful commitment to make the show about the audience and about Jesus. We hope to pay a visit to Barry McGuire later this year when we tour the west coast.
Hot Indie News: How do you feel about the current state of the entertainment business?
Tom Sky: Much of the music of the day is homogenized both on the secular and Christian sides. One person comes out with a new sound and then every song after that must emulate it or be passed over by the gatekeepers. I'd like to get back to a day of more variety, which of course is what we're working toward.
Hot Indie News: What about the world?
Tom Sky: On the world scene much of the music has become very dark, very depressing. It has led to a lot of suicidal tendencies. Again, we want to bring light and hope through the old fashioned gospel mixed with upbeat music. I guess that's what 'Celtic Revival!' is really all about.
Hot Indie News: How can our readers find you and your music?
Seth Sky: Well the first is type in 2 words – Sky and Family
Tom Sky: Thanks so much for your interest in the group. We appreciate all you're doing. God bless, The Sky Family


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How To Stop Self Pinging & Trackbacks In WordPress- a Simple Tutorial
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Earlier pingbacks and trackbacks were useful as they enabled websites to learn that their posts or pages were linked on a different website.
Today, websites keep track of backlinks via SEO tools like SEMerush and Ahrefs (you can read my SEMrush vs Ahrefs guide next). And pingbacks and trackbacks are almost exclusively used by spammers to gain backlinks.
In this article, we'll show you how to disable pingbacks and trackbacks and protect your website from spammers.
How To Disable Self-Pining And Trackbacks
There are two ways in which you can disable self-pinging and trackbacks.
Those are:
1. The plugin way
2. The manual way
We'll cover them both.
#1- Disable Self-Pinging And Trackbacks With Plugins
Before we show you exactly what steps you need to take, we strongly recommend taking a backup. Installing plugins can cause websites to break.
Better be safe than sorry right?
Now, simply install the No Self Ping plugin on your website. And that's it.
There is no configuration required. The plugin automatically disables self-pinging and trackbacks on your website.
While there are many other plugins on the WordPress repo that'll help you achieve the same, we strongly suggest that you avoid them.
At the time of writing this, every pingback disabling plugin on the repo is falling behind in updates. Installing non-updated plugins can cause your website to be hacked.
That said, if you are not too keen on installing another plugin on your website then we recommend the manual way.
#2- Disable Self-Ping And Trackbacks Manually
If you want to go the manual way, there are two things that you need to do:
- Disable pinging and trackbacks for new posts and pages;
- Disable pinging and trackbacks for existing posts and pages.
a) Disable For New Posts And Pages
Go to Settings > Discussions. Then deselect the option, "Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new posts".
Next, scroll down and click on Save Changes.
That's all folks!
b) Disable For Existing Posts And Pages
Step 1: Go to Post > All Posts. At the upper right-hand corner of the page, select Screen Options.
As the Screen Options expand, you should see No of items per page.
Step 2: The number is set to 20 by default. Change it to 900. (If you have more than 900 posts, write down the exact number or a slightly bigger number).
Don't forget to hit Apply.
Step 3: Next, select all the posts simply by click on the box that appears right beside Title.
Step 4: Click on Bulk Actions, and from the drop-down select Edit. Then, hit Apply. A new set of options should appear on the same page.
Step 5: Now, click on the drop-down beside Pings. Then select Do not allow and don't forget to hit Update.
That's it, folks! You have successfully disabled self-pinging and trackbacks.
Disabling self-pinging and trackbacks are just one way to stop a spammer from gaining backlinks from your website. We suggest taking security measures like installing a security plugin, using strong username & passwords, and keeping your plugins & themes updated to protect your website from spammers and hackers.
We hope you found my guide useful. If you have any questions, I"ll be happy to answer. Just drop a comment below.
Thanks for reading.
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By Louise Palmer Masterton, Stem & Glory
'A Life on our Planet' is the new documentary by David Attenborough.
He described it as his 'witness statement' and it contains compelling statistics that define the devastating problems we face if we do not stop destroying our planet. The film shows the numbers for the rapid increase in the global population, the increase in carbon in the atmosphere, and the accompanying sharp decrease in unfarmed natural land.
It's a stark message. By losing the biodiversity of our land, we're accelerating towards extinction as our planet struggles with the excessive demands placed upon it. The earth has finite commodities, but we're acting like they are limitless.
However, the documentary ends with a ray of hope: Attenborough lays out the steps we need to take to quickly redress the balance and allow the planet to recover:
- Population control – end poverty and increase access to education for all people, which will naturally lead to population control. This, of course, requires global commitment.
- Rewild the rainforests to restore biodiversity. Rewild more farmland.
- Stop eating meat. For every one carnivore in nature there are at least 100 prey animals, so for 11 billion humans to be carnivores is completely unsustainable. It's an absolute no brainer.
- Abandon fossil fuel in favor of renewable energy. Everyone knows this, but with pension funds and big business still investing in fossil fuels there is a substantial way to go.
- Land use. Using less land in more intelligent ways to produce more food, such as vertical and urban farming.
- Stop Waste. Period.
So how can businesses play their part?
You may be thinking that most of this list is beyond the sphere of influence of an individual or an individual business, with international action and financial incentives needed for this to happen on a global scale.
It's correct that international action is needed, but we can all instigate actions that make a difference. Some of these involve supporting non-profits in a financial sense, but many of the actions we can take are changes within our own supply chains which are not disruptive or costly. They simply involve making more ethical choices in our purchasing decisions.
And a recent Futerra survey showed that 88% of consumers want brands to help them be more sustainable and many people utilize their purchasing power as a way to make their mark, so it's also a sound business decision to make positive changes within our own businesses.
Consider donating a small part of your income. Attenborough states that to achieve the eradication of poverty, education, particularly of women, plays a huge part. Camfed, a charity directly impacting the education of women is one such example of an organization working towards this aim.
Work with the many new ethical suppliers who are themselves making a difference. For example, we work with a tea supplier called Reforest Tea. For one 500g bag of breakfast tea, costing £12, they are able to plant 6-8 trees. Perform your own sustainability audit (there are also individuals and organizations that can conduct this for you, or you could simply do it yourself).
More vegan meals
Obviously, as a plant-based brand, we are hoping that the whole world will eventually refrain from eating meat. But even if you are not vegan, the fact that 65% of all the mammals on this planet are farm animals, their devastating carbon impact, and land use cannot be overstated. But what does this mean for a business or for one that serves meat? Fortunately/unfortunately it means you need to pivot your business model. Although it might feel like your offering is well supported now, it will become increasingly regarded as unethical in the future.
If you have a staff canteen, look to increase the plant-based offerings. Educate your staff about eating less meat (whether that's avoiding it for a few days a week, or putting less on the plate). If you host events that involve food (whether canapes or a full sit-down), ask your caterers to provide a good choice of plant-based options, or even choose to make your events 100% vegan.
I am not lecturing here, but don't count on people wanting to continue eating meat in the future as they do now. So now is the time to explore plant-based options that suit your brand, and develop new products that have a lesser carbon impact.
Using Renewable Energy
In pursuit of renewable energy, businesses can make a huge impact by simply moving to renewable only energy sources. There are a number of these now, including the most established Ecotricity and Green Energy. But we can go one step further. Who are your investors? What are their green credentials? Do they invest in fossil fuels? Who are your partners? Who are your landlords? Scrutinize everything. Take every opportunity you can to bring attention to this.
Vertical Farming
I visited Amsterdam in February. There are some super exciting projects there with vertical and urban farms. They are a big exporter of vegetables because of this. They get greater output from a much smaller footprint in this way. It's now also breaking into the hospitality sector. I visited a restaurant called Juniper & Kin which is on the top floor of a tall hotel building. They have a green-house on their roof and grow a high percentage of their produce there.
Probably the biggest issue of all – waste
Packaging Waste
There is a huge amount of misinformation out there on this subject, especially with regards to single-use. I watched a short film recently, called Our Planet, Our Business, and one of the experts said, 'there is no such thing as waste, it's just a commodity in the wrong place at the wrong time'. That really struck me. Packaging is a complicated subject that we've been immersed in researching for some time, and here is what we have learned:
- The only truly sustainable, circular solution for packaging is to use products that are made from 100% recycled post-consumer waste, which are then endlessly recycled. So, we are no longer using single-use anything.
- Compostable is not the answer to the issue of single-use, as compostable containers are widely made from virgin materials, which increase the carbon footprint of the product, and do nothing to solve the issue of mass disposability.
- When the world is truly plastic-free, then it may be that recycled packaging which is also compostable could play a part. But, whilst we have such huge amounts of post-consumer plastic waste, the most responsible thing we can do is recycle it. If demand for 100% recycled plastic were greater, demand would also increase for manufacturers to buy post-consumer waste plastic. And so it goes on.
- Of course, responsible use of recycled plastic products requires education, and we need to invest energy into just that. It's a big step for us all to make in our heads because plastic has been vilified for so long, but research shows it's moving away from single-use anything that has the greatest carbon impact. The leap we all need to make is to start viewing plastic (and everything else on this planet) as a valuable commodity.
Other Waste
At Stem & Glory, we are currently fitting out a new site in Cambridge. The driver behind our decor is to reuse and recycle as far as possible. It's been great to see that there are so many new products on the market that are composed of recycled post-consumer waste. We predict that this will explode massively in the coming months and years. From table-tops to worktops, paint, flooring, concrete, lights, innovation is everywhere. And it looks completely fab! As part of this process, we have also been able to get our entire team on board – from designers to contractors, all are now also committed to the reuse and recycle way of living.
And this is probably the best way we can win hearts and minds to tackling climate change. Never underestimate the contribution that an individual or individual business can play. By changing ourselves we generate spirals of positive influence – the R number of sustainability! The more you make changes and tell others, the more people you will influence for good.
Louise Palmer-Masterton is founder of multiple award-winning restaurant Stem + Glory; a hip and trendy but accessible plant-based restaurant, serving delicious gourmet vegan food from locally sourced ingredients that are 100 per cent made on site. Stem & Glory also offers click-and-collect and local delivery in London and Cambridge.
The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.


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The Texas Tribune
Events Producer
The Texas Tribune is hiring an Events Producer to serve as the lead executor and project manager for all Texas Tribune events and live programs including being on-site for all events. We are looking for a confident and detail-oriented events professional with experience planning, producing and promoting events of varying sizes and managing projects at all stages — from conception and pre-event planning and promotion to on-site execution and post-event analysis. The Events Producer works closely with the events team, Technical Director and A/V Engineer to manage events — including working very closely with The Texas Tribune Festival production team. This position manages cross-departmental relationships to oversee the production and distribution of event production materials, sponsorship deliverables and other needs and requests. In short, the Events Producer is the Tribune's lead event manager and executor. This position reports to the Director & Experiential Producer, Events.
The salary for this position starts at $60,000 + depending on qualifications.
Duties Include
Lead the production and execution of around 50 Tribune events and live programs annually, including virtual events and in-person, on-site production, according to the editorial strategy and goals
Lead the project management of all events & live programs from conception to execution to post-event analysis
Manage event speaker schedules and pre-event communications related to their appearance
Manage event expenses to budget and submit production invoices
Heavily support various aspects of Texas Tribune Festival planning and production
Anticipate needs and troubleshooting to ensure that all events run smoothly
Work closely with the Tribune's technical director to provide guidance on event production capabilities and best practices
Manage event RSVPs and contacts
Write copy and distribute event-relation materials as needed, including promotional materials such as the weekly events newsletter, email invitations and social media scripts
Coordinate with the Tribune art team on the development and design of event promotional materials, programs, signage, etc.
Collect audience data and event metrics, run post-event evaluation and produce reports for stakeholders
Support professional and personal development opportunities and feedback for Texas Tribune reporters and editors to practice public speaking, presentation and on-stage moderation
Travel to events across the state to execute on-site event production (approximately 15-20 nights away each year; no earlier than Dec 2021)
BA/BS degree and 3-5 + years of event production, with virtual experience preferred OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
A valid driver's license for in-town and out-of-town travel
Excellent writing and communication skills
Organized and detail-oriented with the ability to juggle multiple projects and tasks on time and on budget
Willingness to travel and work evenings and weekends as needed
Facility with Splash, Zoom, Mailchimp, Airtable and Salesforce
Strong discretion and courtesy when dealing with all Tribune contacts and relationships
The ability to remain cool under pressure and work well both independently and on teams
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David Harmsworth, Applied Mathematics
By Lisa Kabesh, Communications Associate, CTE
David Harmsworth, a Lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics, has known he wanted to focus on teaching since he made the jump from an undergraduate degree in the arts to focusing on mathematics two decades ago. A desire to make mathematics clear and accessible to his students, perhaps especially to those students who are studying math for degrees in other programs, is what animates this instructor's teaching philosophy.
It's a matter of "knowing your audience," Harmsworth says. Since starting his career at Waterloo, Harmsworth has been tasked with teaching both engineering and mathematics students, and he notices a difference in how those two cohorts approach the subject. For engineers, he points out, math is largely a tool. It's not the end goal. So when Harmsworth sets out to teach a course for engineering students, he shakes things up. In fact, he gets students working backwards. "I turn the theorem-proof, theorem-proof, theorem-proof style on its head," says Harmsworth. Traditional mathematics textbooks begin with a theorem and then turn to the proof. Harmsworth starts with the proof and guides the students as they work deductively to arrive at the theorem. "They can see the theorem coming," explains the instructor. Harmsworth sees this anticipation—this ability to observe and formulate potential solutions, or to approach mathematics from the perspective of a problem solver—as central to the relationship future engineers will have with mathematics.
Harmsworth calls this type of problem solving a form of intuition. "It's about getting students to think about why things work the way they do," he explains, "rather than memorizing and proving every step."
The former linguistics major believes that his focus on clarity in communication is also a big help. When he wrote the course notes for his first-year calculus class, Harmsworth set out with the goal to "make calculus readable." It looks like he has reached that goal—one student went as far as to call the course notes a "page turner," likening them to a Sherlock Holmes novel. Like his lectures, Harmsworth's course notes begin with a typical case or problem and position the reader as a problem solver—a detective, almost—who systematically puzzles through the problem to arrive at an applicable theorem. Here we can see the efficacy of Harmsworth's "backwards" teaching method.
In our interview, Harmsworth also talked about where there is room for improvement in his teaching: getting more feedback from students as a term progresses. That he would mention student feedback comes as no surprise from an instructor who so clearly prioritizes the student perspective and clear communication of course outcomes. Many instructors have found success with mid-term feedback, one-minute papers, exit tickets, assessment as feedback, and early low-stakes assignments. We can't wait to see what this linguistics-major turned mathematics instructor will try next.
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"A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health
and deserves the same quality of support"
(Kate Middleton)
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. The World Health Organisation's definition states that "Mental Health not just the absence of mental disorder. It is defined as a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community."
At Horbury St Peters and Clifton CE VC Primary School, our intention is to promote positive mental health and wellbeing for all of our school community which includes children, staff, parents and carers. We recognise how important mental health and emotional wellbeing is to our lives and education in just the same way as physical health. We understand that children's mental health is a crucial factor in their overall wellbeing and can affect their learning and achievement. All children go through ups and downs during their school journeys and some face significant life events; how we support children and how they build their resilience to cope with these events will affect their mental health and wellbeing. In 2017, about 1 in 10 children aged 5 to 16 have a diagnosable mental health need and these can have an enormous impact on quality of life, relationships and academic achievement. In many cases it is life-limiting.
In addition to promoting positive mental health through our PSHE curriculum including Jigsaw sessions every week, we aim to recognise and respond to mental ill health. By developing and implementing practical, relevant and effective mental health policies and procedures we can promote a safe and stable environment for pupils, staff and parents/carers affected both directly, and indirectly by mental ill health.
Our goal is to support and develop every child whilst building resilience to mental health problems and to be a school where:
Our school has a key role in supporting children's positive mental health and helping to prevent mental health problems developing/occurring.
Through PSHCE we teach the knowledge and social and emotional skills that will help children to be more resilient, understand about mental health and be less affected by the stigma of mental health problems.
Jigsaw offers a comprehensive Programme for Primary PSHE including statutory Relationships and Health Education, in a spiral, progressive and fully planned scheme of work, giving children relevant learning experiences to help them navigate their world and to develop positive relationships with themselves and others. With strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health, Jigsaw properly equips our school to deliver engaging and relevant PSHE within a whole-school approach. Jigsaw lessons also include mindfulness allowing children to advance their emotional awareness, concentration and focus.
Our identification system involves a range of processes. We aim to identify children with mental health needs as early as possible to prevent things getting worse and to provide support and help as soon as possible.
We believe that all staff have a responsibility to promote positive mental health, and to understand about protective and risk factors for mental health. Some children will require additional help and all staff should have the skills to look out for any early warning signs of mental health problems and ensure that children with mental health needs get early intervention and the support they need.
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The German science fiction series explores time travel in the small town of Winden. This small German town has their people mostly work in the nuclear power plant nearby and weird events start to happen. Dead birds fall out of the sky and sheep end up being found dead with damage done to their ear drums. Turns out there is an old missing child's case where the child turns up dead with their ear drums also burned out. This brings suspicion and mystery to the similarities of death, and get everyone worried about what will their fate be next.
One episode starts off by saying that black holes are considered to be the hell-mouths of the universe. Those who fall inside disappear forever, but where is that? What lies behind a black hole? What else falls there besides space and time? Are space and time an endless cycle? What if everything from the past was influenced by the future?
One of the main characters, Jonas, seems to find the God particle in the local nuclear power plant. He experiments with time travel and starts to wage a war against God and time. His future self comes to visit Jonas in the present and tries to destroy the God particle without success.
Jonas and friends are walking through the woods searching for a recently missing kid, when his brother Mikkel goes missing. It begins to rain heavily as all are running around trying to find him. Somehow Mikkel trips and falls into a wormhole of time, where he is greeted by him father trying to knock down a door that would give him the ability to save his child.
This is an odd series where time travel times seem to be from 2053 all the way back to 1921. This shows the adult and child versions of each character, and it is very well cast as they really do look like the older and younger versions of each other.
I would highly recommend this mysterious series and would definitely watch it in the day time as it gets pretty scary from point to point.
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Zomato, the restaurant discovery service, has almost become synonymous with the word 'food'. It has earned itself an estimable position in the Indian startup scene. Not to mention the head-turning advertisements that it uses to market itself and its new schemes. Zomato has seen exponential growth since its inception in July 2008. It has its headquarters in Gurgaon, Haryana. With its content sets it apart, Zomato is the sole restaurant and nightlife guide with menus, pictures and map locations.
The segment that Zomato serves comprises of the young population and working professionals. The startup ensures that the users make an informed choice before spending their hard earned money on food from a particular restaurant. The team gathers information from restaurants on a regular basis to make sure the data is accurate.
Not only does the company provide information about food outlets but also allows users to order food online. One can also make reservations at a restaurant of their choice on the app. This feature was not a part of the rudimentary business model but was added later in 2015. Zomato felt the need to expand its reach with the growing competition and customer demand.
Founder and CEO, Deepinder Goyal, said in a statement, ""We want to give our app a human touch. There is a story behind every delivery executive that comes to deliver food to us – they aren't just a dot on a map that you can track. This is our endeavour to bring the larger community closer to each other, and also enable our customers to help these delivery executives realise their dreams for themselves and their families."
Deepinder Goyal, now Founder and CEO of Zomato, along with a friend of his, Prasoon Jain, started a venture in Delhi NCR called 'Foodlet'. They came up with the idea when they found that foraging for restaurants and food menus was a very cumbersome task. Thus, an idea for a restaurant directory struck their minds.
Foodlet can be identified as a less polished version of Zomato which did not go far. Prasoon Jain soon left for Mumbai leaving the venture behind. It was a tumultuous phase for Foodlet which marked a period of struggle for Deepinder Goyal. This was when Pankaj Chaddah stepped in to bolster the growth of the innovative venture. Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah started a new company in 2008 under the name 'Foodiebay' while the primary idea remained the same.
With a considerably small team of merely six individuals, Foodiebay grew beyond anyone's expectations. In a span of only 9 months, it became the largest restaurant directory in the Delhi NCR region in the latter part of 2008. The company operated for two years and gained momentum. Owing to the growing popularity of Foodiebay, the founders felt the need to rename it to 'Zomato' in November 2010.
By 2011, Zomato had started operating in Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. It further branched overseas to the United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, Qatar, the United Kingdom, the Philippines and South Africa. In 2013, the company launched in New Zealand, Turkey, Brazil and Indonesia with its website and apps available in five languages: Turkish, Brazilian, Portuguese, Indonesian and English. Presently, the apps and websites are available in 10 languages. Zomato expanded its services to Portugal, followed by launches in Canada, Lebanon and Ireland in April 2014.
The acquisition of Seattle-based food portal Urbanspoon marked the firm's entry into the United States, Canada and Australia and brought Yelp, Zagat and OpenTable into direct competition with it. Zomato also acquired MapleOS in 2015 to target a new market and build a new customer database.
In September 2017, the company claimed to have turned profitable in all the 24 countries that it presently operates in. Moreover, it had announced the implementation of a 'zero commission model' to help uplift small-scale restaurants and catalyse their growth. The company claimed that their revenue grew by 81% that year.
In 2015, Zomato acquired Urbanspoon in the States and rebranded the company as their own. This acquisition was a major setback having failed miserably because the venture did not work out according to plan. In the same year, the company had to lay off 300 employees to recover from losses. 10% of these layoffs happened to be from the United States.
2016 proved to be one of the tardiest financial years for the startup with Zomato having to rollback its operations in 9 countries.
The most astronomical setback that the 10-year-old startup has faced, happened in the month of May 2017. A hacker breached the security system and gained access to 17 million user records. People expressed concern about overpayment and access to card details but the company claims that only the names, user IDs, email addresses, usernames and password hashes had been disclosed.
However, they found a way out of the predicament after having a conversation with the hacker. Apparently, he only wanted to prove that there were loopholes in the security system.
Deepinder Goyal is the co-founder and CEO of Zomato. Goyal hails from Muktsar, Punjab. He is an IIT Delhi Graduate. He graduated in 2005 with a degree in Mathematics and Computing. Prior to starting Zomato, Deepinder worked as a management consultant with Bain and Company in New Delhi.
It was at Bain that Deepinder conceived the idea of an online restaurant directory after noticing a surging demand for food menus and good restaurants among his colleagues. He left Bain in 2008 to start Zomato (then Foodiebay) out of his apartment and has since overseen strategy and product development in the company.
On the other hand, Pankaj Chaddah was the COO of Zomato in addition to being the co-founder. He is from Gurgaon, Haryana. With a degree in BTech, Mechanical Engineering, he graduated from IIT Delhi in 2007.
He worked at Bain and Company in New Delhi before founding Zomato in 2008. Chaddah worked at the position of overseas sales and operations manager. He was also responsible for mobile development and distribution of the company across various platforms. Pankaj Chaddah recently hung his boots at the food technology firm that he co-founded. He quit in the month of March in 2018.
Between 2010-13, Zomato received its biggest funding of approximately US$16.7 million from Info Edge India, giving them a 57.9% stake in Zomato. In November 2013, it raised an additional US$37 million from Sequoia Capital and Info Edge India.
In November 2014, Zomato completed another round of funding of US$60 million at a post-money valuation of ~US$660 million. This round of funding was being led jointly by Info Edge India and Vy Capital, with participation from Sequoia Capital.
In April 2015, Info Edge India, Vy Capital and Sequoia Capital led another round of funding for US$50 million. This was followed by another US$60 million funding led by Temasek, a Singapore government-owned investment company, along with Vy Capital in September.
In October 2018, Zomato raised $210 million from Alibaba's payment affiliate Ant Financial. Ant Financial received an ownership stake of over 10% of the company as part of the round, which valued Zomato at around $2 billion. Zomato had also raised an additional $150 million also from Ant Financial earlier in 2018.
Currently, Zomato has 1000-5000 employees working under it. Its net worth is 237 Crore as of March 2018 after the latest funding round. The revenue of the startup is $74 million as of 2018 which shows a 45% growth in revenue as compared to last year.
The operating cost as of 2018 is $11 million as compared to $15 million in 2017. The company has 280k+ active subscribers across their two subscription programs: Zomato Gold and Zomato Treats. The app has been downloaded more than 10 million times on Play Store.
Zomato has a host of competitors that are trying to make their mark in the food technology business. Some of them are: Dine Out, Uber Eats, Foodpanda, Swiggy et cetera. While Uber Eats is rather new, it has 30 million app downloads on Play Store. It is in close competition with Zomato and its parent company, Uber, has given it an impetus in the market owing to the already established trust.
The estimated annual revenue of Uber eats is $10.8 million while Dineout's estimated annual revenue is $11.5 million. Swiggy earns annual revenue of $20.3 million with Sriharsha Majety as its CEO. Foodpanda, on the other hand, earns $2 million as annual revenue. These startups can potentially affect the growth of Zomato in the near future.
Earlier this month, Zomato acquired Lucknow-based drone startup TechEagle Innovations. TechEagle was founded by Vikram Singh Meena, an IIT Kanpur alumnus and manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles with a focus on custom-made drones capable of carrying up to 5 kgs of payload.
For the past few years, there had not been any technological conversations about food tech players in India. They remained in the stories only for offering huge discounts and grabbing large chunks of venture money. However, Zomato's latest development may open up a whole new chapter for food tech businesses in India. And with the announcement of India's drone policy, startups like Swiggy and Uber Eats may also enter into the drone delivery sector to compete with Zomato.
The waters have been choppy for Zomato in the last few years but things are certainly leaning on a positive side since 2017. With potential products and services such as Zomato Gold, Zomato Base and Zomato Treats, the startup is definitely gaining popularity among the masses. Zomato has experienced its share of crests and troughs but has always put its best foot forward. Do you agree? Please share your opinions in the comments.


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Young Thug has just dropped an official video for his track "Just How It Is." The song, which serves as the intro to his latest album So Much Fun, is paired with a bunch of anesthetic-induced visuals that may or may not have drawn inspiration from the artist's recent spell in hospital. Watch above.
The self-directed video sees Thugger entering an alternate reality after being anesthetized. The rapper's subconscious realm is rendered in black and white and features snakes, goats, and some characteristically bold fits. Browse through the behind-the-scenes shots below.
"Just How It Is" was produced by Wheezy and Nick Mira and is the latest video from So Much Fun, his first Billboard number one album.


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Background: Written by Rhett Akins (Thomas Rhett's Dad!) Ben Hayslip and Kyle Fishman, "Small Town Boy" is the second single from Dustin's forthcoming third studio album. It is also Dustin's fastest chart-rising hit to date.
Going On Now: Dustin wraps up his stint as opener on Florida Georgia Line's Dig Your Roots tour later this month.
What's Next: Dustin hits the road with Brad Paisley this summer, opening on his Life Amplified World Tour through September.
Dustin says, "You know, 'Small Town Boy' is about a guy and a girl who love each other for the real them. Right? What they're about. What they stand for, and I think that's cool. For me, being in this line of work in this industry and traveling as much as I do, I love singing that song every night because it kinda takes me back to my upbringing. You know, my hometown of Tullahoma, Tennessee, and kind of what life's all about for me."


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Last issue, I mentioned that there is a performance gain to be had in a front-wheel-drive car by making the car markedly nose-heavy and using larger tires in front than in back. This was in a rather lengthy response to a reader's question partly relating to the Pontiac Grand Prix GXP. I have recently noticed in magazine reports about this car that GM is in fact using larger tires on the front of the V8 versions of this car: 255 section on the front, 225 on the rear.
I have heard two schools of thought on tire pressure for winter driving. This applies to driving on snow-covered roads. The first is that tires should be kept at the upper end of the manufacturer's specifications to help in cutting through the snow. The thinking is that the contact patch is smaller, hence more weight per square inch, as well as less sidewall deflection – which may decrease the potential for hydroplaning on the snow. The other is that running the pressure at the lower end allows for better bite for the tread in the snow, and more stability. What do you think?
I'm with the low-pressure school.
It's said that one measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. Really, you'd think this might be measurable. Surely somebody has tried measuring, say, how steep a hill a vehicle can climb, at various tire pressures. I would be willing to defer to any actual measurement that contradicts my expert opinion.
That said, I offer my expert opinion, and that expert opinion is based on a lot of time spent in Wisconsin, where there are long, snowy winters.
First, tire pressure effects in snow are surprisingly subtle compared to other variables, and effects due to other variables are surprisingly large. That explains why there is controversy about inflation pressures, even though people have been driving cars through more than a hundred winters now.
One reason tire testing was moved indoors, with rollers or belts substituting for pavement, is that even on hard, dry pavement, weather, surface contamination, pavement temperature, pavement age, and other factors make enough difference that small variations in tire performance are hard to measure repeatably.
When we're dealing with snow, we have similar variability, exaggerated at least tenfold. Snow and ice come in dozens of different varieties and depths, and all of these have properties that are highly temperature-sensitive. Compared to snow, pavement is simple and consistent.
The explanation I have heard from sources that advocate high tire pressures is that the tire needs to penetrate the snow and get to the pavement, where it can find traction. But clearly, in most snow conditions that never happens, at any inflation pressure. If it did, we'd see bare pavement where the tire passed.
Instead, we see compacted snow, with an imprint of the tire tread. Or at least we see that if the tire is rolling, and not spinning or sliding – and if we are dealing with snow that has not already been compacted. We also usually see a small area alongside the track where the snow appears slightly raised, apparently having been pushed out of the way, perhaps just by the sidewall. This is not a lot of snow, however. Most of the snow stays put horizontally, and gets compacted vertically.
The tire evidently gets traction by packing the snow into a relatively solid form, and simultaneously interlocking with it. To break traction, the compacted snow projections residing in the tread grooves must be sheared off, and the layer of snow lying under the tread blocks must also fail in some manner.
The failure of the snow in the grooves is easily visualized as simple breakage. The failure of the snow under the tread blocks is a bit harder to visualize. It appears that the snow under the tread blocks contributes more to traction than one would imagine, because the tire's grip is greatly improved by siping the tread blocks. It also helps to roughen the surface of the tread blocks.
I do not claim to perfectly understand the mechanics of structural failure of snow in a tire contact patch, but I do know that it is normally a combination of breakage and melting. Ice (and snow is ice crystals) can be melted by mechanical pressure – or, stating it a bit differently, the melting point of ice is lowered by mechanical stress, either compressive stress or shear stress. Anyplace that the snow or ice liquefies, its mechanical strength disappears, and it turns into a lubricant. The closer the ice or snow is to its melting point, the less mechanical stress is required to turn it to liquid.
So, when we compact snow, we make it stronger, but only up to the point where we start to get localized melting. The unit loading required to reach this point depends on how cold the snow or ice is. Moreover, short of the point where we encounter melting by compression alone, we see an increased likelihood of melting by the combination of compression and shear. In other words, as unit loading increases, we gain hardness but lose melt resistance. The hardness gain is fairly
independent of temperature. The melt resistance loss is heavily affected by temperature, or at least its importance is.
From this, we might logically expect that the ideal contact patch size would be smaller in really cold weather than when we're near thaw temperature.
I suspect that this is academic, however. I think the optimum contact patch size is far bigger than we can ever get with a tire. Consider the transportation devices that people have devised specifically for snow: snow cats, snowmobiles, snowshoes, cross-country skis. All of these operate by compacting the snow minimally, over a large area, and then trying to get maximum purchase on that large interface. For best performance on snow, or any other soft surface, we really want a belt or track, not a tire.
It would seem to follow that the more we can get a tire to act like a track, the better it should work. That would suggest a radial tire, at low pressure.
Note that it does not necessarily follow that we want a wide tire. It is generally agreed that for most winter conditions, a tire should be narrow. I think, based on the reasoning above, there will be winter conditions where a wide tire may be preferable. These may include bare ice and hard-packed snow, probably even shallow soft snow. But in snow of significant depth, narrow tires are better.
The reason for this doesn't have to do with an increase in traction when the tire is narrow, as such. Rather, it has to do with the force required to move the tires, which is less when the tires are narrow.
As the tire rolls forward, it is resisted by the snow in front of it. To advance, the tire must, in effect, climb a ramp of snow. The ramp of snow is not strong enough to support the tire, and it is continually collapsing under the weight of the car. The amount of collapse is fairly similar regardless of the width of the tire; for any practical tire size, we will compact the snow to a pretty solid state, no matter what. Yet the snow has substantial resistance to this compaction, and this translates to a resistance to the wheel's forward motion. The taller and wider the mass of snow we must compact, the greater the resistance to motion. The height of the snow we must compact depends on the snow's depth. The width we must compact depends on the width of the tire.
It would also seem that a narrow tire should provide more directional control, since it is better shaped to act like a blade or rudder.
From this reasoning, we might expect that the ideal tire for deep snow would resemble a bicycle tire. Such a tire would be easy to push along, and should have good directional stability.
However, it doesn't quite work that way with really narrow tires, as anybody who has tried riding a bicycle in deep snow will attest. The problem is that the ramp of compacted snow that the tire rides on is so narrow that the tire is forever sliding off the side of it into the soft snow alongside. As soon as the tire moves forward again, another narrow compacted ramp is formed beneath it, and again it
slides off one side or the other – no predicting which side. The result is that the tire absolutely will not run straight.
So there is such a thing as too narrow. The tire needs to be wide enough to sit on top of the compacted ramp it is making for itself. A square-shouldered profile, or one with concave shoulders that compact a sort of retaining berm along the side of the main compacted ramp, also can be expected to help.
Returning to the question of inflation pressure, this also affects resistance to forward motion. And even this relationship is not as straightforward as one might think. Based on our experience with tires on pavement, on a smooth, hard surface, the higher the inflation pressure, the easier the tire rolls, at least within practical limits.
But on a rough surface, a softer pressure can actually roll more easily. For this to be so, the surface must have roughness as opposed to waviness: the ups and downs must come fairly close together. The tire rolls easier because it can yield to the bumps rather than having to climb over them. This was realized very early in the history of the pneumatic tire. John Dunlop immediately noticed that his new pneumatic tire would roll further across his bumpy back yard than a solid tire.
This has relevance to driving in snow because often the situation that gets us stuck is one where one or more wheels are in a fairly modest-sized depression, and we have to move the tire over the lip of the depression with the meager traction available. In at least some such situations, soft inflation will make getting over that lip easier.
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The browser performance could be maybe be explained by the browser itself is doing mitigations in userspace, if it detects it is disabled in the kernel? 🤔
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With AMD Zen 4, It's Surprisingly Not Worthwhile Disabling CPU Security Mitigations
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Originally posted by david-nk View Post
That doesn't explain why browser performance is down by 40%. The browser shouldn't spend enough time in kernel mode for any kernel performance differences to make much of an impact. That definitely requires further investigation.
With browsers you have one nearly complete machine either interpreting or performing a JIT on untrusted code that it then passes on to the operating system. The OS then takes that and tells the hardware what to do. A lot of mitigations go into preventing that untrusted code from doing anything nefarious to the rest of the system, so it's not surprising there's operations common to all the browsers and in the kernel and system libraries that AMD is optimizing at the processor level.
When you know you're going to reach Z by path X, then it makes sense to review the path X takes in your hardware then optimize X's road surface as much as realistically possible. Known question always results in known answer via proven path. Proven path has certain inefficiencies. Remove inefficiencies. Proven path is then traversed more quickly, say 2 instructions rather than 4 or 5.
It's really not that much different in concept going from a CPU that can only do addition to adding a path that can manage multiplication. Both manage to reach the same conclusion, but the CPU with multiplication can do it in 1 instruction rather than N number.
While I think it would be worthwhile to find out exactly what the details are with the code paths that have been optimized, I don't find the result all that surprising given a 30k ft view of what's going on in browsers since Spectre was discovered.
Like I said earlier, it's impressive work. I just wonder if the optimizations are robust, or if they're brittle - that is whether they break less easily or more easily given unexpected circumstances.Last edited by stormcrow; 30 September 2022, 05:12 PM.
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Originally posted by ssokolow View Post
Maybe they tuned the branch predictor to expect the patterns embodied by the mitigations. Mispredictions could explain it being worse when you turn them off.
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Could this baffling performance be at least in part because linux or other software no longer expect to run without mitigations and thus that option has become under optimized?
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Originally posted by JosiahBradley View Post
They did. They now calculate 2 predictions per cycle, something that would easily help here when going to the safe branch that was now calculated already. They also increased the btb size in both L1 and L2
Also, this isn't really a case of mitigations having ~zero cost. It's a case of mitigations improving performance by large margins in several benchmarks and small margins in some more, and hurting performance by large margins in enough others that the average is close to zero. That needs to be explained.
I guess Selenium W.i is WASM imageConvolute, which is presumably some kind of streaming DSP workload, and the others with high margins are also DSP. They all sound like nearly pure userspace benchmarks, which have been largely insensitive to mitigations until now.
Wild-ass guess: It's speculative store bypass disable. The affected workloads are bandwidth-bound at some level of the cache hierarchy, and incorrectly speculated loads waste slots in the bottleneck. If that's correct, maybe speculative store bypass was discovered before the design of this CPU was finalized, and the SSB-enabled case was not given very much die area/engineering effort.
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Originally posted by yump View Post
Isn't defeating the branch predictor the intended effect of the mitigations? If it's predicting through the mitigations, does that mean that the data leak has possibly been reintroduced?
Also, didn't this happen with an Intel processor before?
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Like it or not, these mitigations are VERY strong signals to the CPU as to what the software will do next. And CPU designers looking for optimizations LOVE such signals.
It's not that hard to imagine that AMD have tuned their design and made optimizations _expecting_ the usage patterns that they themselves recommend. If the CPU is tuned to *expect* a memory barrier at specific points and you don't issue one, then you do so at your detriment.
If I were to hypothesize, one possibility is that issuing a memory barrier tells the CPU that it can forget about past state, and that frees up microarchitectural registers to prefetch the next bit of processing. A simple optimization *built on the assumption that mitigations=on.* It could also, ironically, be a very helpful signal to prediction and prefetch when done correctly.Last edited by Developer12; 30 September 2022, 09:05 PM.
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Originally posted by milkylainen View PostNope. Not believing that more code and worse code is going to do better than them removed.
Something is fishy here.
It's a crazy theory but what if AMD has found that in-built mitigation at the CPU hardware level turned out to be a more elegant solution that a software / OS solution a la mitigations=true? Someone has got to reach out to AMD and satisfy all of our curiosity. We are all agreeing that this makes zero sense but the answer could be much simpler than we realize.
Of course, how will it compare to Intel's 13th gen? Will Intel have baked in the mitigations at the CPU level to advantage themselves as it seems AMD may have? Will it produce the same net negative result via mitigations=off? Man, I am freaking curious about this whole thing now.
Come AMD, don't be coy. Out with it.
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Originally posted by GunpowderGuy View PostCould this baffling performance be at least in part because linux or other software no longer expect to run without mitigations and thus that option has become under optimized?
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Originally posted by yump View PostIsn't defeating the branch predictor the intended effect of the mitigations? If it's predicting through the mitigations, does that mean that the data leak has possibly been reintroduced?
This suggests that effectively optimizing away mitigations is not as wise an approach as relying on software to detect they're unnecessary and automatically disabling them.
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My kids and I saw Disney's The Nutcracker and the Four Realms this week, but I'm not sure what to say about it.
I've always loved Disney, and my family always enjoys a good fantasy film with impressive effects, costumes and music. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms was entertaining, and my kids liked it. But for me, it lacked strength, feeling too much like a blend of many other movies that have come out in recent years.
The Nutracker and the Four Realms is about Clara (Mackenzie Foy) who on Christmas Eve receives a gift from her deceased mother. It's an egg-shaped box with a foretelling note "Everything you need is inside," but she doesn't have the key to open it. Her godfather Drosselmeyer (Morgan Freeman) leads her to it at his annual holiday party, where she is led to a magical, parallel world of the Four Realms. Here she meets a soldier named Phillip (Jayden Fowora-Knight), a gang of mice, and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. But there's also a fourth realm, which is odd and ominous one, and ruled by Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren). Clara and Phillip must fight a battle to retrieve the key and save the four realms – a battle passed on to Clara by her highly regarded mother.
It's important to note that this movie is inspired by the familiar story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Tchaikovsky ballet, but it isn't the actual story. There's not a lot of dancing; if anything, it seems forced when there is any. It's mainly used to tell Clara the story of her mother, and it's used to bring her closer to her father. In the beginning, Clara's sad, widowed father firmly asks to dance with both Clara and her sister at a party. Her sister seems charmed, but Clara doesn't want to, which angers her father. His relationship with his independent daughter Clara was rocky, and there was too much emphasis on dancing together, as if that alone would make things right. The whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth.
There were ballet sequences with Misty Copeland, the first African-American principal dancer in American Ballet Theatre, which was nice to include. In fact, the whole movie was diverse, with several lead African-American characters. However, I felt that it could have had more diverse representation (why no Asians?).
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For parents of young kids? I would suggest not bringing really young kids. There are some dark and scary scenes, including when Clara first meets Mother Ginger in the fourth realm, and then when she meets Mother Ginger's aggressively playful clown gatekeepers (they were freaky – particularly on a big screen). The movie is otherwise family-friendly and empowering for girls (for the most part – as girls are still dolled up and pretty in this movie).
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I have snapmirror traffic between two datacenters where there is a separate CDOT cluster in each datacenter. Should I be expecting all snapmirror traffic to go over port 11104 and 11105 on the intercluster network or should I be expecting snapmirror traffic to be using ports 10565-10569?
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Ask your network team to enable 10565-10569 ports from their side. Then you need to configure inter cluster ports.
thanks for reply - Yes - but will snapmirror use 10565-10569 once the intercluster networking is configured? Or will it use 11104 and11105?
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DId you get this answered. I have the same issue.
My network team sees 11104 and 11105 - which happen to also be used by H.323. We're rolling the dice in our Cisco WAAS configuration that optimizes the SnapMirror, if any actual H.323 hits those ports it won't be happy, but the extra WAN optimization is worth the small gamble (only 2 ports out of the 11000-11999 range specified by the standard.)
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