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It's coming up towards the end of a gruelling night shift. So far today, the craziness included helping drag a drunk, near-drowned teenager out of a park lake, which meant I had to head back home to get a dry shift of clothes.
Of course, since this is towards the end of our shift pattern, I didn't actually have any more clean shirts (my break days are usually eaten up by catching up on sleep and doing laundry. It's a pretty rock and roll lifestyle, this being a police officer business), and so I got on the rap-rod to the sergeant.
"Hey skip," I said.
"Delito! How's the kid?"
"I don't know, actually. She was breathing when she came out of the lake, and LAS are taking care of her." I said, referring to the capable hands of London Ambulance Service, who were at the location nearly immediately.
"Did they look you over?"
"No, I'm serious. You know we can't be going into lakes; you don't know how many needles are in there, and what sorts of poisons or bugs. This is London, remember, not Lanza-fucking-rote."
"Okay, I'll have a chat with my GP," I lied. I know the waterways around our borough are hardly virgin spring water, but damn, I've been scuba-diving in all sorts of crap, so I doubt a little pond water is going to be the end of me.
"Anyway, what's up?"
"Well, I went home to grab some clean clothes, but I've just discovered I'm out of shirts and trousers."
"Break out your civvies, then. I know there's only a couple of hours left of the shift, Delito, but we're desperately short staffed, and I'm afraid we'll need all hands on deck."
"I can do that."
"What car are you in?"
"A panda."
"Right. Could you bring it back and swap with one of the Q-cars?"
"Yes yes."
"Cool, see you in a minute," he said, and rang off without another word.
As I'm standing there in my living room, stark-bollock naked, still holding my mobile phone, I see someone walking past outside. Of course, they glance in through the curtains. I make a little yelp, and dive into the hallway to protect what little modesty I might have left. Great. Now I've accidentally flashed my neighbours too.
I've grabbed a towel and wrapped it around me, as a loud banging sound comes from the door not six feet away from me.
"Police, open up!"
What the...
I open the door, and see Pete and Kim standing there. Holy... Did I just flash the both of them?
Pete looks at me, sternly.
"Sir, you are in the Queen's service, and what you do in your spare time is none of my concern, but flashing people..." Finally he cracks up, and hoots with laughter. Kim joins in too.
"Aw..." she says, gasping for breath, as her and Pete are practically leaning on each other to stay upright. "I missed iiiit!" she adds, in a teenage schoolgirl kind of way, before they are both overcome with fits of giggles again.
Yup, definitely the last night shift of a 6-day shift pattern: Everyone gets awfully tired and hopelessly giggly.
"What are you doing out here anyway?" I ask. "Cup of tea?"
They nod in perfect unison, and I flick the kettle on, still dressed only in my towel.
"You know your way around the kitchen, Pete." I say. Which was true -- he had lived with me for a couple of months recently, when his apartment block had a huge fire in it, and was declared unsafe for a while. Then, just as weirdly, the engineers suddenly changed their mind, and declared that there was nothing wrong with it at all. Why that had to take several months I will never understand, but then I am not a structural engineer. Besides, it was great to get to know Pete a little better, outside of work.
I dart up the stairs to my bedroom, pull on some clothes, and make it down before the kettle has even boiled.
"We just popped by to swap cars," Kim said, as I poured milk into her and Pete's tea. "Sarge said you needed the Q-car, and we're still in uniform... Unlike some people," she winked. Now, Pete was standing right next to me; I asked him later. I will swear on a bible that she glanced down at my crotch when she said that, which obviously means that she wants me. Pete says I'm full of shit, that I see what I want to believe, and that I'm playing with fire. Anyway, Pete is not telling this story; I am. And she definitely glanced down at my crotch.
A swift cup of tea and some stale chocolate hob-nobs later, we've done the formal exchange of cars, which is a surprisingly chunky procedure, and includes doing a full inspection of the car, signing several things in a log book, and so on and so forth. When it is finally over and done with, I high-five Pete and give Kim a quick hug, before leaping (well, flopping -- it is 4am, after all) into the dark grey Honda Jazz. Yeah, I know; a bloody Jazz. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice enough motor, and it doesn't half confuse people when they get pulled over by a Jazz, but, well, it ain't great for making haste through town. I'm suspecting it was a car that was used in a crime or something, and then they never found an owner for it. They do that with high-end Audis and BMWs and such; turn them into police cars as a PR stunt. "Car used for crime will now stop crime" kind of thing. And then they get the first maintenance bill from the Audi dealer. Once they recover from the sudden loss of blood to the brain (presumably after a few stiff gin and tonics in the nearby pub), the Powers That Be quickly get rid of the car.
I get on the radio, switching it to the support channel.
"Mike Delta receiving 592?"
"592, go ahead."
"I've swapped cars, and am now in a new motor. Q-car. Could you assign me a callsign please?"
"Sure. You're now Mike Delta 54."
"Is there anyone with you?"
"Nope, just me. I don't have an MDT," I transmit, explaining to the operator that since I don't have a Mobile Data Terminal (that's Metropolitan Police speak for 'computer') in my car, they can't send me jobs directly. It's not a huge problem; the radio works fine. "But if you have something for me to do, have at it."
"It's not too busy... I don't suppose you fancy going to a burglary do you?"
"You suppose correctly. I don't fancy that."
The operator laughed.
"I figured. No bother, the burglary squad will get to it, I'm sure. We've had some reports of people looking into cars up north in the borough. Possible theft from car, although we haven't actually had any reports in. Perhaps you could just have a drive-around and see if you see anything?"
"Yeah, of course. Was he spotted on CCTV?"
"Yes yes. IC3 male, medium height and build. Red baseball cap. Dark hoodie. Last seen with the hood down, but CCTV says he keeps putting it up and down."
"Yeah. Well, he's up by North Street when we lost him, so have a peek-about!"
"Will do!"
I switched my radio back to the main despatch channel. Hunting car thieves is quite fun, actually, especially if you're in an unmarked car. Of course, no self-respecting car thief would go out unarmed (even if it's just with some knuckle-dusters or a screwdriver), and there's only one of me, so it remains to be seen whether I can actually arrest him if I find him... But that'll be a challenge for another time -- I've got to find him first.
The good thing about the Q-cars is that, unlike our pandas and other police cars, they have radios in them. Radios, in the traditional sense. BBC and all that. I turn it on, and find that it's tuned to Heart FM. I can't tell whether that's Kim and Pete playing a joke on me, but hey, Heart FM works just fine for some gentle cruising around.
I'm not in any rush, and the light drizzle means that most people -- criminals included -- are staying indoors. It's nearly 5am now, and most of the domestics have fizzled out by now. A blissful silence on my personal radio is filled in nicely by a spot of Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes. Lovely.
There's scarcely any cars around at this time of night, so I do a quick check on a few of them. Whether they are stolen, and whether they are insured and taxed; that sort of thing. They all come back as "no, yes, yes" respectively, which makes for a rather welcome change.
As I'm waiting at a red light, I spot a set of blues coming up from behind me. The car moves over to the right lane, and careens through the red light at a lofty pace.
"Bloody hell." I mutter to myself. I know this intersection very well, and I'd never dare go through this particular red light at more than a few miles per hour -- there are always people crossing at high speed, frequently well beyond the speed limit, and no amount of blue disco-strobes is going to make their brakes defy the laws of physics.
I also spot that, much like my car, the car is quite unusual. Mine is unusual for being a shitty small family car with a crappy engine and no handling worth speaking of. His is a Mazda RX-8. I grab my radio.
"VRM check," I call, as I'm hurrying along through the now-green light, following the small red sports car driving with blue lights on.
"Go ahead."
"Foxtrot Uniform 57" I call out the car's vehicle registration mark (or 'index number', or 'number plate' -- whatever you want to call it. We tend to call them VRMs). "Oscar Golf Mike."
"No trace."
"That should be a red Mazda RX-8. It is driving on blues. Do we know whether it's allowed to do that?"
"Stand by."
I concentrate on my driving for a while. The RX-8 isn't going particularly fast -- only about 40mph or so -- but it is a 30 zone. On the other hand, he doesn't drive as if he's had much training in driving on blues and twos -- In the two minutes I've been following him, he's stayed very neatly in his lane, for example. Me; if I'm on a blue-light run, there's no way I'd stay in lane, as close as I can get to the parked cars. It's too easy for someone to pop out of one of the cars, or to step out from between them. No, sirree -- if I'm doing a blue-light run at 4 in the morning, I'll be in exactly the middle of the road (it's not like anybody is going to overtake me) -- as far as I can get from the cars on either side, and in the best possible position to look as far ahead as I can.
At the same time, I don't want to attempt to pull this guy over either; he could, conceivably, have a permit for driving on blues, and I'm not going to pull over someone who might be on their way to save a life. So, until I figure out what's going on, I'm just going to follow him from a safe distance.
"Mike Delta 54?" my radio pops into life.
"Go ahead."
"Can you repeat the VRM?"
"Sure. Foxtrot Uniform five seven Oscar Golf Mike."
"Yeah, that's what I got the first time. The VRM is unknown."
"As far as we can tell, that VRM has never been issued by the DVLA."
"That's... Odd?"
"But he's on blues?"
"Yeah. He has one set hidden in the grille at the front, and another set on what seems to be small television screens or something in the rear window."
"If he has them, he hasn't used them yet."
"Where is he?"
I tell them, and very soon after, I hear a call on the pan-London channel. A couple of nearby traffic officers are pulled in this direction, and India 99 -- the helicops -- are in the area as well. They just finished a job, so they join the hunt.
I give a running commentary of where the red sports car is, as traffic and the helicopter continue on their way.
"We have a red Mazda RX-8", the operator summarises to everyone, "VRM Foxtrot Uniform 54 Oscar Golf Mike. No trace on the VRM. Could be a computer problem, but we haven't had any other problems tonight; as far as we can tell, that's not a valid number plate. He is exceeding the speed limit, running on blues."
How bloody bizarre.
"Okay, I've set up, and if he doesn't turn off, he is coming toward me," one of the traffic cars says. "Up the Gloucester Road. I am stopped in the bus lane."
It's going to be interesting to see what happens when the red Mazda comes across a police car. I am still following him at speed -- the Gloucester road is pretty large; it's a single carriageway, but with four lanes, so plenty of space. The Mazda is currently doing around 80mph in the 40 zone. We have both been caught by a series of speed cameras, but if the Mazda cares at all, he certainly doesn't care enough to slow down.
As we come around a long, lazy left bend, I spot the police car in the bus lane; he is stopped with his red warning flashers on, bright enough to be spotted from the moon. Our friend in the Rex must have seen it too; his blues immediately go off, and he goes on the brakes, slowing down so fast that I have to hit the anchors as well. Of course; the RX-8 has way better brakes than my poor little econo-box, so I change lanes just in case I can't slow down fast enough. I nearly catch up with the Rex, but do manage to slow down in time. I curse at myself; not knowing your car is one of the cardinal sins in advanced driving, but I must have been pretty tired: Of course a flashy, low-slung sports car was always going to have better brakes than a glorified grocery-cart.
"The RX-8 slowed down sharply on spotting the traffic car." I said. "He also turned off his rear blues."
"His front blues went off as well," the traffic cop confirmed.
"That," I observe drily, "Doesn't seem like the behaviour of someone who is a member of the emergency services."
"Shall I yank him?" the traffic cop asks, as his Range Rover effortlessly catches up with us. He perfectly brings his car up next to mine, and sticks his hand up to me as a greeting.
"Yes yes," I say. Before I even get my second 'yes' out, the Range Rover's blues go on. Ever so briefly, the RX-8 accelerates, and my heart does a little jump. Are we going to have a bona-fide car chase?
Luckily, the RX-8 thinks the better of it, and he slows back down after less than half a second. Perhaps he spotted the helicopter, up and ahead of us, or perhaps he realised that even in his 200 horsepower beastie, he wasn't going to get away from us.
I say 'luckily' because car chases are inherently unpredictable and quite dangerous. If we need to stop somebody, it's always better if we don't have to chase them down, and risk the life and limb of our officers, our runaway, and the general public.
Okay, now that I've written the above, I'm sure the Metropolitan Police PR team is happy. Now; I can tell you my real reaction: I was a little bit gutted, actually. Of course, it is better if we don't have to do car chases in inner-city London. It's far safer for everybody concerned. And given that I was in a 1.4L Honda Jazz with the grand total of six and a half horsepowers and brakes that are so under-rated it's a bloody miracle (and, I hasten to add, some rather quick thinking on my behalf) that I didn't slam into the back of the car I was following, so I couldn't realistically have been involved in the chase anyway. But dammit, I'm an advanced driver, I'm trained for stuff like this, and my bloody god is it exciting.
Not today, however.
The driver of the Rex steps out of the car, and the traffic officer takes care of him right away.
"Hi there, sir. We need to talk to you, but I appreciate it is raining, would you mind coming to sit in our car instead?" Smooth move -- yes, it is raining, and that's an excellent reason to invite them, but the police Range Rovers are also fitted with microphones and video covering the rear seats of the car; it's basically a mobile interview room.
The driver walked up, hopped into the car, and closed the door. I made to take a seat next to the RX-8 driver, but the traffic copper shook his head and pointed to his passenger seat instead. Only later did I realise why; the rear doors on the Range Rovers have the child locks turned on, and the windows are disabled: If the driver kicks off, we can just get out of the car and leave him inside whilst we figure out how to deal with him. So this particular car is both a mobile interview suite AND a portable jail. How bloody clever.
"I need to advise you that this car has audio and video recording. You are under caution, and anything you say may be held in evidence. That includes the video and audio recordings. Is that OK?"
The expression on the man's face said it all; no, that wasn't OK in the slightest.
We ended up arresting the RX-8 driver; he had a suspended a driving licence. That in itself would be bad enough, but it just kept piling on. The car's VRM was a fake -- or, more precisely, he was driving around with two of the digits on the VRM swapped -- it should be Oscar Mike Golf. So, his real number plate spelled 'OMG'. You just can't make this shit up. He claimed to be dyslexic, and to never have noticed that the plate was wrong, but the way he was racing through speed cameras made me think the re-arrangement was anything but an accident. Either way; that would be up to a prosecutor and defence team to decide; for us, it's pretty simple: You either have a correct number plate, or, as far as we are concerned, you don't have one at all. The traffic cop checked the car's VIM number, and realised that it had been tampered with in one way or another. The VIM number on the car didn't come back as suspect, but since it's an offence to do anything to a VIM number, that was another reason to arrest him; we now suspected him of driving a car that had been stolen at some point (it turned out that the VIM number swap was incredibly well done, but that the original engine number was still on the car, which meant we were eventually able to trace the car back to one that was stolen more than a year ago). Finally, we just had to ask him...
"Sir, are you a member of the emergency services?"
"Er... What do you mean?"
"What do you do for a living?"
"I'm a plumber."
"A... What?"
"Don't be a fucki... I beg your pardon. Don't be stupid. You know what a plumber is."
"Okay; so were you on your way to a plumbing emergency?"
"I was, yes."
"And does this emergency warrant the use of blue lights on your car?"
"I don't know, does it?"
"The answer, as you well know, is 'no'."
And that was the end of it. The Traffic unit did spend a few weeks on the case, trying to find out where and how he ended up with blue lights professionally installed in a stolen sports car. The fraud division briefly checked him over to find out where he would have gotten the money for the posh car (turns out that that wasn't actually a problem; this particular plumber may have been paid a lot of money, but it all seemed to be clean). And finally, he was locked up for an impressive mélange of traffic and handling stolen goods offences.
The only thing I'm genuinely gutted about, is that the Met didn't decide to use the car as a Q-car. I mean... C'mon! Not only was it a bright red, 200-horsepower sports car, but it had the lights already fitted!
Sadly, no luck; such is life at the Met
Matt Delito is a pseudonym for a policeman working for the Metropolitan Police. All Notes from the Frontline are not entirely "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," due to the sensitive nature of the business, but are all based on actual events. These days, he's on Facebook and Twitter as well.
Matt has a book based on his Notes from the Front Line column out now - you can get it from Amazon, in paperback or on Kindle.
If you missed his previous columns on Giz UK, check them out over here.
Image credit: Police image from Shutterstock.


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Bill Protecting Planned Parenthood From Secret Recordings Draws Fire
Critics say the measure goes too far on both First Amendment and equal protection grounds.
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Planned Parenthood-Backed Bill Faces ACLU, Media Backlash In California
California lawmakers have OK'd a Planned Parenthood-backed bill that creates new penalties for distributing secret recordings of discussions with health providers – but civil rights and media advocates say the measure goes too far. The bill, which passed Friday and now goes to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown's desk, targets activists such as the Center for Medical Progress -- which last year released secretly recorded videos purportedly showing activists discussing the purchase of aborted fetal body parts with Planned Parenthood representatives. (9/7)

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Preparing for an interview
An employer will often interview several qualified applicants for a job. An interview can be a simple, informal meeting between you and your potential employer, or it can be a formal interview between you and a group of people with set questions. To prepare, learn about interviews according to four steps: planning, interview materials, interview, after the interview.
When you are contacted to schedule an interview, you can ask if there will be a test as part of the interview process. You can also ask how many people will be at the interview.
When you prepare for an interview, plan and rehearse answers to potential interview questions. It may be useful to memorize your training, skills and experience, and be ready to answer questions on what you did and how you did it.
Confirm the scheduled interview time and arrive early. Find out ahead of time where you are going and how long it will take to get there. Drive or travel the route a day or two ahead, at the same time of day as you will on the day of the interview. Set aside at least an hour for the interview.
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Carry a folder or envelope to the interview that contains:
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Let the interviewer or panel members take the lead and set the tone. Make eye contact, and answer the questions in a firm, clear, confident voice. Relax and sit naturally. Be prepared to tell the interviewer more about your education, training and skills, work experience, and the personality traits that make you right for the job.
Ask for more explanation if you do not understand a question. It is better to ask for clarification than to answer inappropriately.
During the interview, you may be asked if you have any questions. Prepare a couple of questions that show you are informed about the company. Ask for more information about the position for which you are being interviewed.
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After an interview, you may wait days or weeks to hear if you were successful. What can you do in the meantime?
Write a letter to the interviewers: Thank the interviewers for taking the time to interview you. Restate your interest in the job and remind them of your qualifications. If possible, mail or e-mail the letter the same day as your interview.
Go over the interview in your mind: Consider what parts went well and did not, what you feel worked and what did not, what you would say or do differently the next time. This will help you learn from each interview.
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Ask questions: If you find out you did not get the job, you can ask why. "Can you tell me what would have made me a better candidate for the position?" Ask if the employer knows of any other job openings in your line of work. Always thank the employer or personnel manager for considering you. Be professional and polite. Even if you do not get the job, you never know when the employer may be hiring again.Source: http://www.jobbank.gc.ca/content_pieces-eng.do?cid=208


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When Lord El-Melloi II, the later Waver Velvet, gets asked to claim his inheritance over Adra Castle, he travels there with his apprentice Gray to do so. But they are not the only ones called that way. The will of the previous owner states that the assembled contestants—including Luviagelita Edelfelt—must compete in a game of wits to win the castle. (Source: MAL)


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ISSD Africa: Burundi National Seminar
The National Seminar was organized in Bujumbura on March 1st, 2016 by the Burundi National Seed Committee. The seminar was opened by Mr Alexis Ntamavukiro, IFDC Country Representative. Thirty five participants representing public and private stakeholders in the seed sector as well as representatives of donor organizations attended the seminar.
The seminar was one of 10 organized by ISSD Africa in countries where Action Learning Projects have been implemented over the last 2 years. One of the main objectives of these seminars was to present findings of the action learning projects across the continent to seed sector stakeholders and policy makers and to see how these could be integrated into national agendas.
During the one-day seminar, participants followed presentations on 3 topics. The first topic was related to the context that resulted in the launching of the ISSD Burundi project. The second one was about lessons learnt from other projects on entrepreneurship. Both of these presentations were made by Alexis Ntamavukirowho is also the ISSD Burundi Chief of Party. The third presentation dealt with lessons learned from other activities on access to varieties in the public domain. It was led by Peter Gildemacher from KIT, the Netherlands.
In the workshop, participants had the opportunity to share knowledgeon several topics such as
- Quality control and certification mechanisms for different crops in different seed systems
- Access to finance for seed production
- How to make a viable seed business with a low profit margin?
- How new available varieties can be supplied?
- How to institutionalize the pre order system of first and second generation seeds?
Following discussions, participants agreed on some priorities that should be key points of attention not only for Burundi but also for a next phase of the ISSD Africa project.
- Facilitate the grant of agricultural inputs.
- Strengthen seed internal control capacities.
- Develop participatory action researches to improve the availability of quality seeds.
- Harmonize seed laws and regulations.
- Harmonize national approaches to sub regional, regional or continental regulations and laws.
Alexis Ntamavukiro and Jean Pierre ISSD Africa, Burundi
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By Derek Manners
My name is Derek Manners and I'm currently a law student at Harvard Law School. I have been receiving SSI since I was 18 and SSDI once my mom qualified for it since I was 24 due to the fact that I am blind. When I graduate in May 2016, I plan to work at a law firm in DC making approximately $167,000 a year. SSI, SSDI, and Vocational Rehabilitation Services have played a vital part in allowing me to get this far in my career. Without the funding, I would not be nearly as successful. Nevertheless, the current structure of SSI and SSDI has been a direct cause of the fact that it has taken me about a decade to graduate with my undergraduate and JD degrees.
After working on President Obama's election campaign in 2008 for a year as an unpaid volunteer, I quickly got a job at the Lighthouse for the Blind in Austin, TX so I could start saving up for college while I was awaiting residency. To my dismay, my effective pay, after SSI deductions were taken into account, was about half the minimum wage, despite my nominal wage being $8.00 an hour. Given that I had to commute 2.5 hours each way to work for $3.00 and change an hour, it just didn't seem worth it.
So, I sat around for a year without a job until I finally had Texas residency and started attending community college. Because I was under the impression that owning a car that was more valuable than the 2009 asset cutoff would prevent me from maintaining SSI, my partner and I were not able to get a reliable vehicle. If I had a more reliable vehicle, I would have been able to take more classes to graduate faster at other campuses within Austin TX. I was relegated to taking classes that I could get to via walking or public transportation. This situation delayed my transfer to the University of Texas by an additional year. I did ultimately graduate summa cum laude in 2013.
This summer, I will be working at an internship, receiving $3,000 a week for 10 weeks at a top 40 law firm in the U.S. This will probably eliminate my ability to rely on SSI and SSDI for my third year in law school, despite the fact that every dollar I make will be subtracted from my financial aid. While this will likely not prevent me from graduating and probably won't elicit a lot of sympathy from most folks, it should be noted that, in essence, this decision to work this summer will actually cost me money and require me to take more student loans. While I am hoping that this internship will turn into a job offer, if that prospect were not available, I would probably work for free doing something in the public interest field.
The asset and income requirements for SSI and SSDI have put tangible roadblocks in my path and have altered my decision-making in a way that is not beneficial for me or society in the long run. My story is also hardly the rule, it is the exception. Many people on SSDI and SSI will never have the chance to transition from these programs and will simply face the prospect of making an effective wage below the minimum wage while being penalized for saving money and being responsible. These policies prevent people from making decisions that will better their lives and increase the likelihood that they will remain on these programs indefinitely.
Many people like Derek face challenges because of current Social Security disability benefits policies. You can help Kathleen and other young adults in similar situations by signing our CareerACCESS petition to reform current federal policies to allow young adults with disabilities to pursue their career goals and achieve independence. You can also follow CareerACCESS on Facebook and Twitter and share our updates and posts.


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After the success of the startup contest at the university level in 2017 and the top 10 techfest Vietnam, the Anti-Ppro project – Difference from Nature has been honorably appointed by National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Development (NATEC) The Ministry of Science and Technology to participate in the exhibition at Taiwan Innotech Expo in 2018. After returning to the country, the project has made very positive connections with the business partners and established a start-up company named Scitech Science and Technology Joint Stock Company.
Discussion at Teabreak with mentors
Establishing the company is a new improvement of Anti-HPpro. Recognizing the market value and potential of the Anti-HPpro project's economic, social and health contributions, NATEC continues to connect the United Kingdom's Newton Fund to enable the project of Anti-HPpro to get the fellowship for the commercialization of product.
Anti-HPpro with foreign researchers from 4 Asian Countries
Through hundreds of applications and the 3 selection rounds, the Anti-HPpro project has become one of 14 science and technology projects of Vietnam and also the only startup project of the Northern mountainous region attending the training course of commercialization of research results at the Royal Academy of Engineering in Junuary 2019. The scholarship funded the Anti project to attend this training course in the UK for 14 days and continued to support the project for 6 months in Vietnam after completing the course.
The training attracted the participation of 54 excellent entrepreneurs, innovators and researchers from 4 Asian countries including Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. Attending the training course, Anti-HPpro had the opportunity to learn business knowledge, management skills, entrepreneurship skills, business model by the leading trainers, experts and mentors from the word leading universities of the United Kingdom such as Oxford and Cambridge. Besides, the representative of Anti-HPpro atttended pitching events in the host country, updating the advanced technology trends in the world. The training also had to Entrepreneur talks and workshops as a fruitful opportunity to get practical experiences from the share of young entrepreneurs in England. More improtantly, participating in the training, Anti-HPpro will benefit from a network of more than 700 researchers and creators of 16 countries around the world as well as being in connection with the UK's startup ecosystem.
Anti-HPpro in Pitching session
At the end of the course, the Royal Academy of Engineering has hosted a pitching session for 4 Asian countries, which is livestreamed all over the world. Anti-HPpro has successfully presented the project in front the board of judges as well as promoted the image of Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry internationally.
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Man has a tendency to overdo things due to impatience and over zealousness to achieve immediate and instant results. These are the reasons why steroids have been blamed for horrific physical disfigurements, organ failures and even, death among consumers. Despite its infamousness, steroids are still famous among bodybuilders and athletes.
Among the numerous types of safe steroids one can use for that bulk and vigor, it would be best that one go through which of the listed substances would benefit him and grant him the results he seeks for. Responsible usage and disciplined intake are essential for these substances to be unlikely to cause any danger. Popular anabolics have been tested to have more positive outcome than bad results when used properly.
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Anavar is known to be gentle on the organs. Since Anavar has minimal effects on the sex organs, women can also use it without fear of developing male-like genitals. One can even take increased dosage of this steroid due to its very mild ingredients.
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A random number is a number generated by a process, whose outcome is completely unpredictable, and which cannot be subsequently reliably reproduced.
Although random numbers are required in many applications — from cryptosystems to gaming — their generation is often overlooked. In order to guarantee absolutely random numbers, RNGs must not be vulnerable to prediction or bias, and thus dictated by true randomness.
The problem arises from how the keys are created. Most systems use a process called 'Pseudo Random Number Generation' (PRNG). Why 'pseudo'? Because, due to their deterministic nature, conventional computers cannot generate true randomness. Information from inputs such as mouse movements, keyboard pressures, disc interrupts or system timers are all placed into a 'pool' of numbers, from which a 'seed' is picked. This 'seed' is then used in the PRNG which generates the keys.
The better solution is to use hardware random number generation. However, not all hardware random number generators are equally good. Many hardware random number generators still rely on classical physics to produce what looks like a random stream of bits. In reality, determinism is hidden behind complexity for RNGs that do not exploit quantum physics.Contrary to classical physics, quantum physics is fundamentally random. It is the only theory within the fabric of modern physics that integrates randomness. Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNG) use these quantum-random properties to generate truly random numbers.
In addition, QRNG have the advantage over conventional randomness sources of being invulnerable to environmental perturbations and of allowing live status verification.
An infinite sequence should not be compressible by any known or unknown technique.
In the case of a finite sequence of numbers, it is formally impossible to verify whether it is random or not. It is only possible to check that it shares the statistical properties of a random sequence – like the equi-probability of all numbers – but this a difficult task.
To illustrate this, let us for example consider a binary random number generator producing sequences of ten bits. Although it is exactly as likely as any other ten bits sequences, 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 does look less random than 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0.
In order to cope with this difficulty, definitions have been proposed to characterize "practical" random number sequences. According to Knuth, a sequence of random numbers is a sequence of independent numbers with a specified distribution and a specified probability of falling in any given range of values. It is a sequence that has the same statistical properties as random bits, is unpredictable and cannot be reliably reproduced.
A concept that is present in both of these definitions and that must be emphasized is the fact that numbers in a random sequence must not be correlated. Knowing one of the numbers of a sequence must not help predicting the other ones. Whenever random numbers are mentioned in the rest of this paper, it will be assumed that they fulfil these "practical" definitions.
Computers are deterministic systems. given a certain input, a program will always produce the same output.
Because of this very fundamental property, it is impossible for a program to produce a sequence of random numbers. The sequence may have some of the properties of a random sequence, and thus pass some statistical randomness tests, but it is always possible to reproduce it.
As the sequences they produce look like random sequences, these generators are called pseudo- random number generators. It is however clear that they do not fulfil the definitions. Pseudo-random number generators consist of an algorithm into which some initial value – it is called the seed – is fed and which produces by iteration a sequence of pseudo-random numbers. Although their period can be made very long, the sequence produced by such a generator is always periodic. When working with large sets of random numbers or long sequences, it is important to verify that the period is large enough.
One of the properties of the sequences produced in this way is that, as soon as one element of the sequence is known, all the other elements of the sequence, both preceding and following, can be determined. It is immediately obvious that this property is especially critical when such numbers are used in cryptography for key generation. The sequences produced by a good pseudo-random generator initialized with an appropriate seed, pass most statistical tests. However, it is also important to realize that if the sequence considered is long enough, it will always fail at least some tests, because of periodicity.
The seed.
One important issue when using pseudo-random number generators is the choice of the seed value. If one does not want to continuously cycle through the same sequence, it is essential to change periodically the seed value. How should this seed value be chosen? Ideally, it should be random. As a pseudo-random generator is used, it is likely that no random number generator is available. It is a catch-22 situation.
A solution, which is not always satisfactory, is to use entropy gathering. System information – the clock, the time interval between keystrokes, etc. – is combined to produce a seed. This technique however requires extreme caution.
Same seed, same output.
A security problem encountered by Netscape with its browser in 1995 illustrates the risks associated with the use of pseudo-random numbers in cryptography. At the time, the web was full of promises for online commerce and Netscape had developed a protocol, called SSL and still in use today, to secure communications over the web.
Like in the case of other cryptographic protocols, the security of SSL crucially depends on the unpredictability of the key. The company implemented this protocol in its browser, but relied on a pseudo-random number generator for key generation. Two Berkeley graduate students reverse-engineered the code of the browser and revealed a serious security flaw. They noticed that the seed used by the pseudo-random number generator depended on the time of the day and some system information. They showed that it was relatively easy to guess these quantities, and thus to reduce the number of possible keys that one should try to crack the protocol.
This attack reduced the time for a brute force attack of the protocol from more than thirty hours to a few minutes, and as little as a few seconds in some special cases. This problem is also serious in other industries. For example, in 2014, a group of hackers managed to make millions by targeting and hacking slot machines from a well-known brand in the gaming industry. Casinos from US to Romania to Macau were the main victim of the scam.
It appeared that the hackers managed to figure out how to predict the slot machines' PRNG behavior. After a prolonged observation and analysis of the slot machines' behavior, they could identify thepattern of the PRNG's algorithm that was used in the slot machines. This security flaw illustrates why pseudo-random number generators are usually considered inappropriate for high-security cryptographic or other applications.
In spite of the fact that they do not produce random numbers, such PRNG generators do have some advantages. First, their cost is virtually zero, as they can be implemented in software and numerous libraries are freely available. Second, their main disadvantage – namely that the sequences they produce are reproducible – can in certain cases represent an advantage. When using random numbers for scientific calculations, it is sometimes useful to be able to replay a sequence of numbers when debugging the simulation program.
This is one of the reasons – the other being the lack of good physical random numbers generators –why these generators are widely used in these applications.
However, it is important, even in this field, to remain careful when using pseudo-random numbers. They have been shown to cause artefacts in certain simulations. A good approach is to use pseudo- random numbers when debugging, and then resort to a physical generator to refine and confirm the simulation.
In applications where pseudo-random numbers are not appropriate, one must resort to using a physical random number generator. When using such a generator, it is essential to consider the physical process used as the randomness source.
This source can be either based on a process described by classical physics or by quantum physics. Classical physics is the set of theories developed by physicists hundreds of years ago, which describes macroscopic systems like falling coins. Quantum physics is a set of theories elaborated by physicists during the first half of the 20th century and describes microscopic systems like atoms or elementary particles. Some examples of generators based on each of these theories, along with their advantages, are presented below, after a brief discussion of biased random number sequences.
A problem encountered with physical random number generators is their bias. A binary generator is said to be biased when the probability of one outcome is not equal to the probability of the other outcome.
Bias arises because of the difficulty to devise precisely balanced physical processes. It is however less of a problem than one might expect at first sight. There exists some post-processing algorithm that can be used to remove bias from a sequence or random numbers. The simplest of these unbiasing procedures was first proposed by Von Neumann. The random bits of a sequence are grouped in sub sequences of two bits. Whenever the two bits of a subsequence are equal, it is discarded. When the two bits are different and the subsequence starts with a 1, the subsequence is replaced by a 1. When it starts with a 0, it is replaced by a 0. After this procedure, the bias is removed from the sequence.
The cost of applying an unbiasing procedure to a sequence is that it is shortened. In the case of the Von Neumann procedure, the length of the unbiased sequence will be at most 25% of the length of the raw sequence.
We mentioned previously that randomness tests basically all amount to verifying whether the sequence can be compressed. An unbiasing procedure can be seen as a compression procedure. After its application, the bias is removed and no further compression is possible, guaranteeing that the sequence will pass the tests. Other unbiasing procedures exist. The one proposed by Peres, for example, is significantly more efficient than the Von Neumann procedure.
Deterministic complexity
Macroscopic processes described by classical physics can be used to generate random numbers. The most famous random number generator – coin tossing – indeed belongs to this class. However, it is very important to realize that classical physics is fundamentally deterministic. The evolution of a system described by classical physics can be predicted, assuming that the initial conditions are known.
In the case of a coin, a physicist knowing precisely its weight, its initial position, the force applied to it by the hand, the speed of the wind, as well as all the other relevant parameters, should in principle be able to predict the outcome of the throw. Why is that, that in practice this prediction is not possible? Coin tossing is a chaotic process. Chaos is a type of behavior observed in systems whose evolution exhibits extreme sensitivity to initial conditions.
Coin tossing is not the only physical system with chaotic evolution. Turbulences in a flow (turbulences in a lava lamp have been used to generate random numbers) or meteorological phenomena are good examples of chaotic systems. The evolution of these systems is so sensitive to initial conditions that it is simply not possible to determine them precisely enough to allow reliable prediction of future transformations. In spite of its popularity, coin tossing is clearly not very practical when many random events are required. Other examples of physical random number generators based on chaotic processes include the monitoring of an electric noise current in a resistor or in a Zener diode. Formally, the evolution of these generators is not random; just very complex. One could say that determinism is hidden behind complexity.
Although their random numbers are likely to pass randomness tests, these generators are difficult to model. This means that it is impossible to verify, while acquiring numbers, that they are operating properly. In addition, it is difficult to ensure that the system is not interacting – even in a subtle way –with its environment, which could alter the quality of its output.
Quantum world: true randomness
Contrary to classical physics, quantum physics is fundamentally random. It is the only theory within the fabric of modern physics that integrates randomness.
This fact was very disturbing to physicists like Einstein who invented quantum physics. However, its intrinsic randomness has been confirmed over and over again by theoretical and experimental research conducted since the first decades of the 20th century. When designing a random number generator, it is a natural choice to take advantage of this intrinsic randomness and to resort to the use of a quantum process as source of randomness.
Formally, quantum random number generators are the only true random number generators. Although this observation may be important in certain cases, quantum random number generators have other advantages.
This intrinsic randomness of quantum physics allows selecting a very simple process as source of randomness. This implies that such a generator is easy to model and its functioning can be monitored in order to confirm that it is operating properly and is actually producing random numbers.
Contrary to the case where classical physics is used as the source of randomness and where determinism is hidden behind complexity, one can say that with quantum physics randomness is revealed by simplicity. Until recently the only quantum random number generator that existed were based on the observation of the radioactive decay of some element. Although they produce numbers of excellent quality, these generators are quite bulky and the use of radioactive materials may cause health concerns. The fact that simple and low cost quantum random number generators did not exist prevented quantum physics to become the dominant source of randomness.
Optics is the science of light. From a quantum physics point of view, light consists of elementary "particles" called photons. Photons exhibit in certain situations a random behavior.
One such situation, which is very well suited to the generation of binary random numbers, is the transmission upon a semi-transparent mirror. The fact that a photon incident on such a component be reflected or transmitted is intrinsically random and cannot be influenced by any external parameters.
In this configuration we have a balanced beam splitter with equal transmissivity and reflectivity. so that classical light entering any of the two 2 input ports would be divided into two streams of the same optical power, half going through and half reflecting. If we have a single photon in one input and the vacuum in the second, we cannot divide the power and we have the desired path superposition. Conceptually, the simplest way to produce random numbers from this path division is placing two detectors D0 and D1, one for each output, and generate a bit every time we detect a photon.
Clicks in D0 would produce a 0 bit and clicks in D1 would pro- duce a 1. Optical QRNGs using spatial superpositions usually apply variations on this basic scheme. In fact, in the original QKD application (Rarity et al., 1994) the random number generator was not fully implemented as a separate device controlling the measurement basis in the receiver. Instead, they used a passive implementation where the beam splitter took the input state and sent it with equal probability to one of two measurement setups, one for each possible basis. A complete implementation with a beam splitter and two photomultiplier tubes as detectors was first deployed as a subsystem in the ex- perimental implementation of a Bell test (Weihs et al., 1998) and later developed as a standalone device (Jen- newein et al., 2000) with some modifications. The most important difference is the way the random sequence is created, with a random digital signal as an intermediate step. In the modified model, detections in D1 take a dig- ital signal to a high level and detections in D0 to a low level. The result is a random signal with changes in a time scale of the order of the inverse of the mean pho- ton detection rate. If we sample this signal with a clock with a frequency sufficiently below the photon detection rate, assigning a binary 0 when the state is low and a 1 for high state, we obtain a constant stream of random bits. The same procedure was tested with polarized pho- tons in a linear 45◦ state and a polarizing beam splitter with essentially the same results.
In (Wang et al., 2006) there is an alternative take on polarization to path con- version with a weak laser source with linear polarization attenuated to the single photon level and a Fresnel prism that separates the positive and negative circular polar- ization components and directs them to two avalanche photodiodes. This kind of polarization generator can be modified to provide adjustable probabilities for each bit value if we include an electronically controlled polarizer at the source, like in the fiber-based QRNG of (Xu et al., 2015) or the decision making system in (Naruse et al., 2015), which adapts the probability to previous results.
QRNGs with optical path branching can show a few problems. All types of photodetectors have some kind of dead time after a click. This can generate anticorrelation of neighbouring bits. A detection at some time makes it less likely to find a photon immediately after due to the "blunted" sensitivity of the detector before full recovery. Also, for real detectors and beam splitters we will find slightly different detection efficiencies and coupling ra- tios that can introduce some bias. There are a few other concerns: afterpulsing can create correlated bits, pulses with multiple photons can produce simultaneous detec- tions and the presence of dark counts means there will be occasional clicks when there are no photons. In practice, these effects, particularly dead time, limit the maximum generation rate to a few Mbps, which could be improved with detectors with a smaller recovery time.
There are many ways to counteract these problems. For instance, the generator in (Jennewein et al., 2000) includes a setup phase in which the tube voltage and the detection threshold of the photodetectors can be adjusted to compensate detection efficiency and path coupling dif- ferences. Another popular method is applying an unbias-ing algorithm that distils a random sequence at the cost of losing some bits.


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Early in the morning around 3 AM, deputy chair Jingsu Chen at Wuxi people's hospital in Jiangsu acquired a lung donor, several thousand miles away, but they had a maximum of 9 hours to make the transplant. China Southern Airlines shift manager claims that because the flight was going to take off in 15 minutes and he wasn't given enough notice that he had to refuse to let the transplant board the plane, delaying them half an hour. Fortunately, because of Shenzhen airline's support they were able to fly from Guangzhou to Wuxi. Netizens think that this garbage director should be fired.
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Under the current watching guidelines boat skippers are obliged by law:
- not to approach within 100m(110 yds) of any whale.
- not to approach within 300m(330 yds) if three or more other
vessels are within 300m of that whale.
- not to approach a whale head on,
- not to herd or chase or otherwise prevent the free movement
of whales, and
- not to separate a group of whales or to come between a mother
and its calf.
Within 300m of a whale, a boat skipper shall:
- manoeuvre constantly at less than four knots,
- avoid any sudden changes of direction,
- allow motors to idle before stopping and raise outboards,
- idle motors before moving off slowly until 300m away, and
- abandon contact at any sign of a whale becoming disturbed or
In addition
- Swimmers and divers shall not approach within 300m (1000 feet)
of a whale.
- You must not attempt to feed whales or to throw rubbish into
the water in the vicinity of whales.
- Aircraft must stay above 300m (1000ft) over whales.
- A helicopter cannot be used for whale watching.
Pleasure craft Whale Watching Guidelines
Skippers and passengers on pleasure craft must also observe the regulations. Signs prominently displaying the regulations are located at harbours and boat ramps. Venturing into Hervey Bay is for experienced skippers with local knowledge.
Boats must be seaworthy and be equipped for open water passages. Carry additional fuel, water and food. Wathumba Creek estuary
provides limited shelter in an emergency. Northern Fraser Island is a remote area without facilities and with few visitors.
Skippers should maintain radio contact with Hervey Bay Air Sea Rescue (call sign VMR466) or Bundaberg Air Sea Rescue (Burnett Heads) VMR488.
Listening to channel 68 on the VHF marine band may direct you to whale pods.
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This year's Cannes Lions saw RSA productions win several awards.
Adobe's 'In The Time It Takes To Get There' won Bronze in the Social & Influencer category for Social Film. Directed and written by Zach Braff, the entertaining and imaginative short centers on a 19th century social media influencer played by Florence Pugh, and also stars Alicia Silverstone, "The Office's" Leslie David Baker and Andy King of Netflix's FRYE documentary. And adding to the creative firepower, Academy Award-winning cinematographer Mauro Fiore.
'In The Time It Takes To Get There' was inspired by Boston University student Sam West's winning poster from agency Pereira O'Dell and Adobe Creative Cloud's #MoviePosterMovie contest campaign, which celebrates spontaneous inspiration and creativity. The film was also shortlisted for Film Craft/Script, Entertainment/Fiction Film and Talent, and Social & Influencer/Innovative Use of Influencers and Consumer Durables.
Ridley Scott's sensory odyssey for Hennessy – 'The Seven Worlds' – was awarded a Bronze Film Craft Lion for Visual Effects from MPC and received two shortlists in the general Film category for broadcast and online. The epic short film directed by Ridley Scott via agency DDB Paris creates a visual journey that explores Hennessy's seven tasting notes in a surreal, sensorial and immersive narrative. It was lauded for its originality and aesthetic by a wide range of media tastemakers, with Muse by CLIO describing the film as ' … a surreal and sumptuous marvel.' The broadcast version debuted during the Oscars.
And Jamie Delaney's 'U+U+' ViiV Healthcare campaign picked up the Silver Pharma Lion. This follows from being awarded one of only two Golds given out for Film Advertising at the Creative Pool Awards in May. The campaign, created with healthcare agency of the year Havas Lynx, is aimed at people living with HIV, to communicate the benefits of the Undetectable=Untransmittable, message and what this means in their everyday lives, for them and their loved ones.
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