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Q: ASP.NET Core 2.1 - Stack overflow exception related to dependency injection I'm getting a stack overflow exception after I load 4 or 5 times a simple controller action. The web app is running on Azure and I was able to dump the exception information and the problem seems to be related to Dependency Injection.
    internal object GetService(Type serviceType, ServiceProviderEngineScope serviceProviderEngineScope)
    {
        if (_disposed)
        {
            ThrowHelper.ThrowObjectDisposedException(); --> this is executed
        }

        var realizedService = RealizedServices.GetOrAdd(serviceType, _createServiceAccessor);
        _callback?.OnResolve(serviceType, serviceProviderEngineScope);
        return realizedService.Invoke(serviceProviderEngineScope);
    }

Running the web app in my computer has no issues, it only fails in PROD.
This is how I captured the exception in Azure: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/benjaminperkins/2017/06/28/capture-a-stackoverflowexception-and-make-a-dump-0xc00000fd/
I opened the dump in Visual Studio and I could identify the code line where it failed (described above) but I still don't know how to fix it. All my dependencies are resolved with 'scope' lifetime.
Any help is appreciated.

A: I finally fixed it! I had a class that had like 20 dependencies and each dependency had more dependencies, maybe 4 or 5 level. There were no circular dependencies because this was working fine in my development environment. After I did a refactoring and reduced the dependencies, it worked out fine.
Because it was working fine in my development environment but not in Azure App Service, I assume there's some limitation on the dependency instances or levels you can define when the app is hosted in Azure.
This was my methodology to fix it:

*

*Find the simplest case that fails.

*Comment out all the depedencies and try again. It worked, ok, it's about dependencies.

*Dump the stack overflow exception in production as this error didn't occur in the dev environment.

*Confirm it's a dependency injection issue and examine .NET Core source code.

*Reduce dependency instances and levels.

*Deploy. If it doesn't work, go to (5). If it works, you are happy again :)
A few weeks later I had more issues and I finally decided to migrate to AutoFac. It's been working perfectly since then. AutoFac is much more mature than the built-in dependency injection.

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Die Schlafforschung studiert das Verhalten und sämtliche körperliche Prozesse und Bewusstseinsvorgänge während des Schlafs sowie die Wechselwirkung zwischen Schlafen und Wachen und dem Schlaf und der Umwelt. Es gibt Grundlagenforschung (Chronobiologie, Stoffwechselvorgänge, Gehirnaktivität, Träumen, Lernprozesse), Klinische Forschung (Schlafstörung) und angewandte Forschung (Schichtarbeit).

Somnologie ist ein allgemeinerer Begriff und bezeichnet die Lehre vom Schlaf, wozu neben der Schlafforschung auch die Schlafmedizin gehört. Ein Wissenschaftler, der sich mit diesem Gebiet beschäftigt, wird Somnologe genannt.

Die Schlafforschung als Wissenschaft ist ein relativ junges Teilgebiet der Medizin. Sie entstand erst, nachdem in den 1950er Jahren die REM-Phase (Rapid Eye Movement) beim Schlaf des Menschen entdeckt wurde. Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation unterscheidet in ihrer Internationalen Klassifizierung von Krankheiten 88 verschiedene Schlafstörungen. Diese sind neben den Grundlagen der Schlaf-Wach-Regulation Untersuchungsgegenstand der Schlafforschung.

So wurde beispielsweise entdeckt, dass Menschen ähnlich reagieren, wenn sie in der REM-Phase (Traumschlaf) geweckt werden. Sie sind, je nach Trauminhalt, rasch wach und können sich an einen Traum erinnern. Bei Weckungen aus dem Tiefschlaf dagegen fällt das Erwachen schwer und die Probanden können sich nicht so häufig an Trauminhalte erinnern. Heute ist bekannt, dass sowohl die NONREM- als auch die REM-Schlaf-Phasen maßgeblich an der Langzeitspeicherung von Gedächtnisinhalten beteiligt sind.

Die verschiedenen Schlafphasen erkennt man, indem man die Gehirnströme, Muskelaktivität und die Augenbewegung misst und diese visuell oder rechnergestützt analysiert. Der REM-Schlaf ist gekennzeichnet durch schnelle salvenartige horizontale Augenbewegungen, eine Lähmung der Muskulatur (Bewegungsunfähigkeit), hohe Gehirnaktivität und gelegentliche Zuckungen.

Geschichte

In der Spätantike wurde der Schlaf als Ausgleich des Wachzustandes im Rahmen der bei der diätetisch und hygienischen Lebensführung zu beachtenden sex res non naturales angesehen. Im Mittelalter wurde in den Vorschriften zu einer gesunden Lebensweise (Regimen sanitatis) dann auch die Beziehung des Schlafes zur Ernährung und Verdauung betrachtet. Auch spätere physiologischen Vorstellungen vom Schlaf gehen vorwiegend auf Vorstellungen von Aristoteles und Galenos zurück.

Über lange Zeit hinweg wurde davon ausgegangen, dass Schlaf eine Erholungsphase sei, bei der das Gehirn einfach "abgeschaltet" wäre. Folglich hielt man den Schlaf für homogen, und nähere Betrachtungen erschienen uninteressant. In der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts änderte sich das. Geräusche konnten Schlafende wecken, also konnte das Gehirn nicht völlig abgeschaltet sein.
Die Versuche zur Bestimmung der "Schlaftiefe" aus den Anfängen der quantitativen Erforschung des Schlafes sind mit dem Namen Ernst Kohlschütter und seiner Veröffentlichung zur "Messung der Festigkeit des Schlafes" verbunden.
Seine "Weckreizmethode" aus dem Jahr 1862 wählte die Stärke des Reizes, die zum Erwachen führt und als Weckschwelle bezeichnet wird, zum Maß für die Schlaftiefe. Die Weckreizmethode verwendet einen Pendelhammer, der gegen eine dicke Schieferplatte schlägt, als akustischen Weckreiz. Kohlschütters "Schlaftiefenkurve" zeigte eine zunehmende Schlaftiefe am Anfang des Schlafes über die Periode, die nach neuerer Sicht dem ersten Schlafzyklus entspricht, und eine Abnahme der Schlaftiefe ab dann bis gegen Morgen.

Weitergehende Untersuchungen des Schlafes ermöglichte die Entwicklung der Elektroenzephalografie (EEG), mit der
Hans Berger, Leiter der Neurologie am Landeskrankenhaus Jena, 1924 eine wichtige Grundlage für die Somnologie lieferte. Mittels EEG wurden in neurologischer Forschung und medizinischer Diagnostik Messungen der elektrischen Aktivität des Gehirns durch Aufzeichnung der Spannungsschwankungen an der Kopfoberfläche möglich, was im Zusammenhang mit Schlafstadien entscheidend ist. Zusammen mit weiteren Verfahren ist das EEG Teil der umfangreichsten Untersuchungsmethode im Schlaflabor, der Polysomnographie.

Ein wesentlicher nächster Schritt war die Beschreibung von Schlafstadien mittels EEG. Schlafforscher um Alfred Lee Loomis klassifizierten Schlafstadien, damals als A bis E bezeichnet, anhand der im EEG gefundenen Merkmale wie Schlafspindeln. Die Beschreibung der Merkmale ist noch immer Grundlage der Einteilung der Schlafstadien. A und B entsprechen dem, was derzeit als Schlafstadium N1 bezeichnet wird, C ist nun N2, D und E sind nun N3. REM-Schlaf wurde nicht beschrieben. Diese Einteilung wurde später mehrmals angepasst, erstmals durch die Ergänzung um den REM-Schlaf.

Eugene Aserinsky, ein Doktorand bei Nathaniel Kleitman an der Universität Chicago, konnte Abschnitte im Schlaf mit schnellen Augenbewegungen und höherer Gehirnaktivität im EEG aufzeigen, in denen Träume auftraten. Damit war der REM-Schlaf entdeckt. Aserinsky und Kleitman veröffentlichten 1953 darüber in der Zeitschrift Science. Kurz zuvor hatte sich William C. Dement an der Universität von Washington als Assistent von Kleitman in dessen Experimente zur Schlafforschung einspannen lassen. Dement sollte später wesentliche Impulse für die Schlafwissenschaft und in der Behandlung von Schlafkrankheiten insbesondere in den USA geben. Er half bei der Entwicklung des Multiplen Schlaflatenztestes, der die Müdigkeit einer Person beurteilen lässt und wirkte seit 1975 wesentlich an der Standardisierung der diagnostischen Klassifizierung im Bereich der Schlafprobleme mit. In seinem Buch The Promise of Sleep. A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep. von 1999 fasst er fünfzig Jahre Schlafforschung allgemeinverständlich zusammen. Er kritisiert, dass auch heute noch viel zu wenige Ärzte hinreichendes Wissen über die Pathologie des Schlafes haben und deshalb Patienten oft falsch behandeln. Übermässige Müdigkeit wird oft als Symptom statt als Ursache diverser Probleme diagnostiziert.

Alexander Borbély hat Forschungsergebnisse zu Modellen der Schlafregulierung veröffentlicht.

Zu den Pionieren der Schlafrhythmusforschung gehört auch Theodor Stöckmann (1872–1949), der etwa eine Nachtruhe ab 19 Uhr empfahl.

Der amerikanische Historiker Roger Ekirch gilt als Entdecker des segmentierten Schlafs. Seine um das Jahr 2000 veröffentlichten ersten Forschungsergebnisse legen nahe, dass es vor der industriellen Revolution in weiten Teilen der Welt, vor allem in Europa, üblich war, in zwei Phasen zu schlafen. Der "erste und zweite Schlaf", mit einer längeren Unterbrechung gegen Mitternacht, war ein gängiger Ausdruck in mindestens 13 europäischen Sprachen, der mit der Einführung künstlicher Beleuchtung (Gaslampen, Glühbirnen) völlig in Vergessenheit geriet.

Literatur
 Bücher
 Hannah Ahlheim: Der Traum vom Schlaf im 20. Jahrhundert. Wissen, Optimierungsphantasien und Widerständigkeit. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018 – Geschichte der Schlafforschung

 Stanislaw Kubicki (Hrsg.): Methoden der Schlafforschung ("Methods of sleep research"). Fischer, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-437-10950-2.
 Hans R. Mächler: Die Anfänge moderner Schlafforschung Juris-Verlag, Dietikon 1994, ISBN 3-260-05373-5 (zugl. Dissertation, Universität Zürich 1994).
 Peter Spork: Das Schlafbuch. Warum wir schlafen und wie es uns am besten gelingt. Edition Anaconda, Köln 2011, ISBN 978-3-86647-578-6.
 Jürgen Staedt, Dieter Riemann: Diagnostik und Therapie von Schlafstörungen. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-17-019467-0.
 Jürgen Staedt, Yehonala Gudlowski, Marta Hauser: Schlafstörungen im Alter. Rat und Hilfe für Angehörige. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-17-020384-6.
 Jürgen Staedt, Yehonala Gudlowski: Schlaf und Gedächtnis oder Schlafen, um zu erinnern. Kognitive Störungen in Neurologie und Psychiatrie. Hrsg. Calabrese P. & Markowitsch H.J.; Hippocampus Verlag 2012.
 Jürgen Zulley: Mein Buch vom guten Schlaf. Zabert Sandmann, München 2005, ISBN 3-89883-134-5.

 Zeitschriften
 Somnologie. Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin. Springer Medizin, Heidelberg 1997 ff

Weblinks
 Schlafmedizinisches Zentrum Regensburg
 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin (DGSM)
 Österreichische Gesellschaft für Schlafmedizin und Schlafforschung (ÖGSM)
 "Konferenz Schlaf" – 13. Berliner Kolloquium am 27. Mai 2009 – Vorträge, Präsentationen, Hintergrundinformationen, abgerufen am 29. Januar 2013

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Carl P. Svensson, egentligen Carl Petter Svensson, född 1835, död 1911, var en svensk möbelfabrikör, verksam i Stockholm vid slutet av 1800-talet.

Svensson startade sin firma 1860 och den ombildades 1896 till Aktiebolaget Carl P. Svensson. Till en början tillverkade och sålde man endast stoppade möbler, men efter att 1868 ha flyttat till Brunkebergstorg 11, tillkom en verkstad för möbelsnickeri. Sedan 1878 fanns dessutom avdelningar för möbeltyger, mattor och gardiner och från 1883 såldes även järnsängar, ljuskronor och lampor. Tapetserarverkstaden fanns i samma hus som affären, medan snickeriverkstäderna fanns vid Tunnelgatan 12 och firman sysselsatte vid sekelskiftet 60—70 arbetare.

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Q: Case issue in erlang Working with Erlang's case, I'm facing a problem. The problem is the following:
other languages:
switch(A)
{
  case "A" : case "B" :
   //do something
  break;
}

So, how to achieve the same thing using Erlang? Because sometimes it is very important to put conditions like these, to avoid overhead.

A: May be guards are what you want.
the_answer_is(N) when A == "A"; A == "B";

; - is OR
   , - is AND

A: You can use case expressions in Erlang. The syntax is:
case Expression of
    Pattern1 [when Guard1] -> Expr_seq1;
    Pattern2 [when Guard2] -> Expr_seq2;
    ...
end

To quote Pragmatic Erlang:

case is evaluated as follows. First,
  Expression is evaluated; assume this
  evaluates to Value. Thereafter, Value
  is matched in turn against Pattern1
  (with the optional guard Guard1),
  Pattern2, and so on, until a match is
  found. As soon as a match is found,
  then the corresponding expression
  sequence is evaluated—the result of
  evaluating the expression sequence is
  the value of the case expression. If
  none of the patterns match, then an
  exception is raised.

An example:
filter(P, [H|T]) ->
    case P(H) of
        true -> [H|filter(P, T)];
        false -> filter(P, T)
    end;
filter(P, []) ->
    [].

filter(P , L); returns a list of all those elements X in L for which P(X) is true. This can be written using pattern matching, but the case construct makes the code cleaner. Note that choosing between pattern matching and case expressions is a matter of taste, style and experience.

A: Not my favorite style, but you can do something like:
case A of
  _ when A == "A";
         A == "B" -> do_ab();
  _ when A == "C";
  _ when A == "D" -> do_cd();
  _               -> do_default()
end.


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    it( 'should allow optional spaces at the beginning and end of the partial', function( ) {
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Everyone will be welcome to then come upstairs for some Piccolino Pizza and Sausages – as well as a cold drink. We will be unlikely to do match presentations on the night, however there will be some announcements.
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'Game, set, match, Mrs. Williams': Serena…
'Game, set, match, Mrs. Williams': Serena victorious at Wimbledon
PUBLISHED: July 3, 2018 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: July 11, 2019 at 12:00 am
LONDON — Now that she's "Mrs. Williams," per the Wimbledon chair umpire, now that she's a mother, now that she is back on tour, Serena Williams is ready to rediscover her full complement of shots and full ability to dominate.
"Not only do I expect to win," she said Monday after picking up a victory in her first match at the All England Club in two years, "I expect to win emphatically."
Williams found herself in a bit of a jam against 105th-ranked Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands, down by a break in the second set on a windy afternoon. And then, a five-game run and 25 minutes later, Williams had completed the 7-5, 6-3 result.
"I have such high expectations of myself," said Williams, whose 23 Grand Slam singles championships include seven at Wimbledon, so she was seeded 25th even though her ranking is 181st following an extended absence. "I don't go out there expecting to 'do well' or 'see what happens.' That's just not me."
Day 1 at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament featured some mild surprises, such as U.S. Open champion and French Open runner-up Sloane Stephens' third first-round exit in the past five majors, and losses by No. 5 Elina Svitolina and No. 6 Grigor Dimitrov (to three-time major champion Stan Wawrinka).
Also drawing attention was eight-time Wimbledon champ Roger Federer's new clothing sponsorship, during his easy-as-can-be victory at Centre Court.
Nothing feels as significant in tennis today, though, as what Williams does — because of what she's accomplished in the past and because of what she's trying to accomplish in the present, with a baby in tow. Not that she's unique: Other mothers who won Monday included 57th-ranked Tatjana Maria of Germany, who beat Svitolina 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-1; former No. 1 and two-time Australian Open titlist Victoria Azarenka of Belarus and 120th-ranked qualifier Evgeniya Rodina of Russia.
"The tougher balance, for me, is to be able to spend time away from my son and be OK with taking, sometimes, time for myself, which is a struggle sometimes, because I really want to spend every second with him," said Azarenka, who faces No. 7 seed Karolina Pliskova next.
Williams has won 15 matches in a row at Wimbledon, a streak that encompasses titles in 2015 and 2016, although Williams said that hadn't occurred to her until a reporter mentioned it. The 36-year-old American sat out the tournament last year while pregnant; she gave birth to a daughter in September and married Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in November (hence the change from "Miss Williams" over the arena microphone).
This is only Williams' second major tournament in nearly 1 1/2 years. She returned at the French Open in May, and won three matches there before withdrawing with an injured pectoral muscle.
She went a few weeks without even attempting to serve, while healing, and insisted she wasn't entirely sure how she'd fare with that stroke Monday.
Rus rolled her eyes at that notion after the match, saying: "I mean, she doesn't start a tournament if she's not prepared."
Maybe so, but Williams double-faulted on the initial point, and dropped in some offerings in the low 80s mph, rather slow for her.
Then she revved it up, getting to 115 mph in each set.
"Serving good," Rus observed. "Hard."
Still, Williams had her issues. She lost her footing and tumbled at one point. She got upset by a line judge's mistaken call that led to the replay of a point she should have won but instead lost. She was down love-30 on her serve and trailing 3-1 in the second set after a run of 7 of 8 points for Rus.
"Almost," Rus lamented later, "like a double-break."
Almost, but not quite.
Williams came back to hold there and wouldn't drop another game the rest of the way, dealing better with the wind that whipped this way and that at No. 1 Court and marking terrific passing shots with those customary cries of "Come on!"
Her sister, five-time Wimbledon champion and 2017 finalist Venus, had far more trouble across the grounds at No. 2 Court, slipping to the turf a couple of times and barely moving on with a 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-1 win against Johanna Larsson of Sweden, who dropped to 0-8 at the All England Club.
The Williams siblings aren't playing doubles in this tournament, the way they did at Roland Garros, and that's a good thing for Mom.
It gives her more time with her child.
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Lamberto is a Staff Accountant in D'Arcangelo & Co., LLP's Rome office, located at 200 East Garden Street. She graduated from Utica College with a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, and graduated from SUNY IT with a Master's degree in Accounting. Lamberto resides in New Hartford, New York.


Agriculture is facing the threat of extinction with the youth losing interest in farming and turning their attention towards computer technology.
This will have an impact on the agriculture sector, said Mysore APMC officer Prof Devraj.
Speaking at the inauguration of market week at APMC in Chikkamagaluru on Monday, he said that a large population of the country dependent on agriculture.
The youth play a vital role in preserving agriculture. However, parents do not allow their children to become farmers. The future of agriculture sector is not encouraging.
He further said that the APMCs should motivate people to conserve agriculture. With natural resources available in abundance, one has to develop a will power to manage the resources towards agricultural productivity.
APMC President Ningegowda said that the farmers should sell the crops grown by them to APMCs directly, without handing them to middlemen. The farmers should be able to get suitable price for their crops without paying bribe, he said.
He promised of providing all facilities to the farmers if they sell their crops directly to the APMC.
During the slash in the price, the farmers should make use of mortgage loan facility introduced by the APMC committee.
Under Raita Sanjivini scheme, compensation would be provided to the farmers meeting with accident provided the APMC is contacted within 100 days of the accident.
APMC Vice President B P Irappa Gowda, members T Manjunath, S T Chandregowda and others were present.


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Mix the flour and salt in a bowl and create a well in the middle. Combine the milky water with the egg, pour into the well while stirring with a whisk, continue to stir until the batter is smooth. Cover and leave to stand at room temperature for approx. 15 mins. Heat a little clarified butter in a non-stick frying pan. Pour half of the batter into the pan. Reduce the heat. Once the underside is cooked and separates from the pan, turn the omelette and finish cooking, then remove. Repeat these steps with the remainder of the batter. Roll up the omelettes and cut into thin strips.
Bring the stock to the boil. Add the omelette strips and heat gently. Garnish with parsley and chives.
Instead of meat stock, use vegetable or chicken stock.


Mr. Laurent (de L'Ardèche) passant devant le banc des ministres. Un discours entrelardé d'apostrophes.
The top half of this lithograph shows Paul Marie Laurent de L'Ardèche (1793-1877), a lawyer for the defense in the April trials. The lower half shows members of the National Assembly responding to a speaker at the podium.
Published in: Le Charivari, February 18, 1851.


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Anyway, amid my shoppin frenzy I saw these. For FREE.
It's called a Water Watcher card. It's for owners of private pools and it's for that person who usually says "I'm watching them..." referring to a bunch of swimming kids. Then when that person gets up and moves away from the water he or she can pass the lanyard to someone else, so there's always someone to be a designated Watcher.
Summer is my favorite time of year but with a two and four year old who are not afraid of anything (yet) it would give me comfort to see one of these at the private pools we sometimes visit (don't worry, Grandma, I'm bringing you one).
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Desert Varnish Study
Desert Varnish Study Proposal: Andrew Bishop
The great desert of the west is an iconic American landscape, large swathes of which are coated by the distinctive red-brown layers of desert varnish. This surface deposit consists of multiple layers of organic material interspersed with manganese and iron oxides. Its widespread occurrence reflects one of the most quantitatively significant distinctive geochemical processes on Earth, but a phenomenon considered enigmatic by most geoscientists. Much is now known of what constitutes desert varnish and how it forms, as well as some indications of its environmental significance. It has the potential to be an essential record of paleoclimatic change in desert environments, a setting mostly lacking the availability of such proxies. Starting this summer, UCR research associate Dr. Andrew Bishop will begin studies detailed below.
Environmental Significance
It is postulated that the dark, manganese-rich layers in desert varnish form during wetter climatic intervals (Broecker and Liu, 2001). Thus, the layering may reflect climatic variation on the century to millennium scale. In these examples, the potential climate record represents the latest Pleistocene through the Holocene, spanning an interval of substantial global temperature change. Bishop's research will address the hypothesis that desert varnishes and their lamina contain a proxy for determining desert paleoclimatic conditions. If so, this work will enable a robust deconvolution of Holocene climate change across the desert southwest. Such an understanding would provide fundamental calibration for estimates of future climate change across this region.
The primary objective of the evaluation will be to determine if the lamina patterns observed are consistent and reproducible at multiple, disparate locations around the Coachella Valley. A statistical approach will be employed to ensure that lamination intervals are compared systematically and objectively. Once the ages of the lamination are also determined and correlated, we will determine whether they show a direct linkage to other patterns of regional environmental change (e.g. Salton Trough lacustrine intervals) and global paleoclimate trends (including comparison with Holocene climate models).
Nature and Character of Desert Varnish
Fig. 1 shows photomicrographs of desert varnish (plane polarized light), for two locations in California (a. Searles Lake; b. Panamint Lake), as published by Liu and Broecker (2007). The thickness of these varnish examples is ca. 250mm, with total dated maximum ages of 16,800 and 18,400 years respectively. Distinct layering is evident in both these examples, which appears to be a typical characteristic. The light layers are composed primarily of clay minerals and organic matter, whereas the darker laminae are dominated by birnessite (a manganese oxide mineral).
Proposed Work Program
To test if the desert varnish is applicable to paleoclimate investigations, a streamlined validation/calibration study is proposed, utilizing locations in and around the Coachella Valley.
Sample locations
Recent extrusive volcanics, which have or can be reliable dated, provide an absolute maximum varnish age, e.g. Rhyolite dome, southern Salton Sea
Previously characterized locations described in the external literature, allow direct comparison of published examples with in-house data
Notable locations of geographic significance, affording early impact results, e.g. dating the age of major alluvial fans in proximity to urban development
Analytical Work Plan
Samples will be characterized primarily at UCR using available instrumentation.
Conventional Microscopy
Thin sections will be examined using the standard facilties available in Earth Sciences
Reflected light microscopy will be conducted in association with collaborators at Southern Illinois (Prof. Sue Rimmer): This analysis represents a novel application.
Utilizing the facilities of the microscopy group at UCR, prepared polished blocks will be characterized by backscatter imagery and elemental mapping
Stable Isotope analyses and Radiocarbon Dating
Organic matter concentrations, isotopic compositions, as well as dating will be performed
This study will provide a fundamental test of the efficacy of these methods to study the relationship of desert varnish to paleoclimatic conditions, and if successful, provide a springboard for broader application across this region. If proved useful, the application of organic petrography for desert varnish characterization would be a notable discovery. Similarly, the demonstration that alluvial fans in the Coachella Valley can be reliably dated would be an important insight for local stakeholders in the community and would in all likelihood lead to many more such studies.


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Sourcefabric promises a free, multi-platform solution for news outlets
Sourcefabric, a non-profit, has announced it is working on a new platform: Superdesk, an open source newsroom tool designed by journalists that covers the entire journalistic process from source to signal.
When it is released in summer 2012 Superdesk promises to be a tool newsrooms can use to pull in news feeds from social media and APIs, and then output the signal to a range of different platforms, such as television, radio, mobile, tablets and online.
As free software it can be used by organisations of all sizes, from hyperlocal or global, and by print or online. As with Sourcefabric's other two open source platforms, Superdesk will be accessible through any web browser after being installed on one Linux server.
Although not yet publicly available Superdesk is already being used by new Swiss online-print hybrid paper TagesWoche, launched last month in Basel, 14 months after the city's liberal Basler Zeitung was sold to investors. By using the platform the news organisation is helping Sourcefabric shape its development.
An announcement from Sourcefabric states:
Superdesk is a newsroom tool made by journalists, for journalists, which will offer new ways to source, manage, verify, process and present the facts behind a story.
Whether you source your news from Reuters or random RSS, stringers or Storyful, citizens or Open Calais tags, Superdesk streamlines your workflow.
It centralises and standardises your content allowing you to move it around the newsroom to other journalists, editors or translators for further editing or sign off. Superdesk will then deliver the finished article to any platform or device – web, mobile, print, radio, television. All will be at your disposal.
Adam Thomas from Sourcefabric told Journalism.co.uk that the software has been developed by journalists who understand exactly how newsrooms work.
We have this ethos of creating once and publishing everywhere to really create efficiency within the newsroom.
Sourcefabric has two existing platforms: Newscoop, a CMS, and Airtime, for radio stations.
Newscoop is a content management system, a demo of which provides a taster. As with Superdesk and Airtime, Newscoop needs to be installed on a Linux server and can then be accessed using any web browser from a device running any OS.
Asked how it differs from WordPress Thomas said:
WordPress is great for blogs and Newscoop is great for newsrooms. It's built by journalists for journalists and has lots of tools that journalists really like, like workflow hierarchies. It's multilingual, you can upload to SoundCloud, it's very friendly to audio and works very nicely with images.
Being multilingual is key for the software, Thomas explained.
We work in a lot of post-conflict areas, a lot of transitional democracies, where a multitude of languages are often spoken, so it is multilingual both in the back end, for the journalists, and also for the front end, so readers can get the news in different languages.
Airtime is Sourcefabric's open source radio automation package. Thomas explained how it works:
It allows radio stations, for free, to download software and set up a professional radio station and manage a media archive, build shows and then output via webstream, by FM or digital.
One of the radio stations using Airtime is West African Democracy Radio, a radio network operating out of Senegal but covering the whole of the West African region.
They use Airtime alongside Newscoop. They get the journalists to write the articles on Newscoop, they take these and prepare them as scripts, give them to the radio shows who then broadcast via Airtime.
Airtime records automatically to SoundCloud so then these shows are recorded to SoundCloud, uploaded to the web, and then shared by Facebook and Twitter.
Sourcefabric launched in its current form, as a non-profit organisation, in April 2010 but the seeds of the organisation and platforms date back as far as 1999, when a team first started creating digital newsrooms.
The current incarnation of the organisation has bases in Europe and North and South America: in Prague, Berlin, Toronto, Warsaw, Guatemala, Serbia and Minsk.
The software is actually only seven months old. We've re-factored and made new versions, we've renamed them so these are new products. We have really tailored then for the web and for modern journalism.
This entry was posted in Handy tools and technology, Hyperlocal, Mobile, Multimedia, Online Journalism, Social media and blogging and tagged Adam Thomas, Airtime, content management systems, Newsoop, sourcefabric, superdesk, TagesWoche on November 22, 2011 by Sarah Marshall.
#MozFest – Build 'social video' using Popcorn Maker
A still from "History in the Streets"
Imagine being able to add tweets, maps, and Wikipedia information to online video without coding skills. Consider having the ability to layer video with images from Google Street View as easily as hypertext allows you to link together web pages.
You can now do exactly that using the Popcorn Maker, a tool launched in alpha on Friday at the Mozilla Festival on media, freedom and the web in London.
Popcorn Maker is a web application that allows journalists who cannot code to add YouTube or Vimeo videos and select to add tweets, Flickr images and maps, plus use additional plugins to include images from Google Street View and even primary source documents from Document Cloud. Users of Popcorn Maker drag the elements onto the timeline using a platform that looks like Final Cut and other familiar software. Completed projects can then be embedded into news stories.
Online video journalism has had the tendency to follow TV conventions of talking heads, noddies (a cutaway of an interviewee nodding his or her head to hide an edit) and narrated video packages. What Popcorn offers is an easy way to create a web-native form of video storytelling. And because it is "social video" or "semantic video" experiences are dynamic, constantly updating, and customised right in the web browser for each user.
Popcorn.js is Mozilla's HTML5 media toolkit, a javascript library for integrating the web into video production, launched version 1.0 at the festival.
The challenge of building Popcorn was first launched a year ago and since then the library has been gathering plugins thanks to an army of open source developers.
Popcorn has already being used in some newsrooms but until the launch of Popcorn Maker it has required embedded developers to code the mashups.
Brett Gaylor, project lead for Mozilla's Popcorn told Journalism.co.uk what Popcorn offers video journalism.
It's the ability to link to the relevant content that that video is about.
The basic function that Popcorn serves it to act as a timing layer over a video or audio file which means you are able to link times within video or audio to other content on the web.
For example, between 30 and 40 seconds into a video you could show a map of where where this interview took place. Or if you are doing a report on the second world war and you what to show where the Canadians were in Dieppe you could have a Wikipedia article that would appear at that given time.
And because it has the ability to link out to changing web content, a video, say, on the credit crisis will link to a hashtag and give the latest tweets.
In the above test example I added a YouTube video and grabbed the Twitter tool (bottom right), adding it to my timeline and searched for the #MozFest hashtag.
Gaylor hopes the beta version of Popcorn Maker will launch late spring 2012, with a polished, finished product by the end of next year.
We are now working on how to allow the user to lay those out on the page. We've conquered how to do it and now we have to make it a pleasing experience for the author to place those items on a page.
There several inspiring demos online, including History in the Streets, which links to Google Street View, and, on Wired.com, there is the documentary the One Millionth Tower, premiered at the festival and showing at the Frontline Club this evening (Monday 7 November) and produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
Popcorn gave filmmakers the ability to control a 3D environment and augment that environment with real time information from Wikipedia, Yahoo Weather API, Flickr and Google Maps.
Still from "The One Millionth Tower"
Ideas and examples of potential uses shared by Mozilla:
Pull a football player's real-time stats, Wikipedia entry or twitter feed right into the action of a game or sportscast;
Pull a politician or pundit's "truth score" history or voting record into an online interview;
Dynamically inject photos from Flickr as "b-roll" or context for video or audio stories;
Match footage about an oil spill with real-time footage of the spill's present size in real time;
Annotate political speeches or newscasts with viewers' own media, commentary and social responses;
Pull Google Street View onto the screen to dynamically explore depicted neighbourhoods and places.
Examples of uses of Popcorn so far include:
PBS Newshour used Popcorn to annotate President Obama's 2011 State of the Union Address. The French/German broadcaster Arte augmented current affairs programming using the platform. Both implementations involved developers working in the newsroom to code the social video.
Popcorn's ability to augment video also applies to audio. Radio pioneers Radiolab used Popcorn to invite fans to create accompanying visualizations for their "seeking symmetry" episode, while Danish Radio augmented their broadcast with an innovative "hyper-transcript" that allowed viewers to see a dynamic transcript of the audio, and select parts of the broadcast to tweet to their followers.
Semantic video pioneer RAMP is using Popcorn to augment commercial content like the People's Choice Awards. RAMP's MediaCloud technology produces automated tags and transcripts across 1800 videos and seamlessly integrates celebrity content from across the web into their video archive.
Video-conferencing and other applications
At the application layer, the open source web conferencing platform Big Blue Button has adopted Popcorn for playback of presentations and webinars. The educational platform Grockit also uses Popcorn to provide richer feedback from learners and teachers.
Project lead Brett Gaylor told Journalism.co.uk technology correspondent Sarah Marshall more about Popcorn.
Popcorn.js, an HTML5 javascript library for integrating the web into video production by journalismnews
This entry was posted in Multimedia, Online Journalism and tagged #MozFest, brett gaylor, Mozilla Festival, online video, popcorn maker on November 7, 2011 by Sarah Marshall.
#wef11: 'Many journalists are slaves to a CMS – think beyond that'
There was a fascinating session at the World Editors Forum today titled 'looking beyond the article', which saw a number of speakers discuss the news game, and the ways news outlets are using gamification methods to offer wider context and understanding to news stories, events and scenarios.
One of the first speakers, Bill Adair, who is founder and editor of PolitiFact said he felt there was "a tremendous lack of imagination" in the industry in how to take advantage of new publishing platforms.
It's like we've been given a brand new canvas with this whole palette of colours and we're only painting in grey. We need to bring all the other colours to this new canvas.
He later said:
Many of us are slaves to our content management systems, which are slaves to the old way we were publishing. We have to think beyond that.
Scott Klein, editor of news applications at ProPublica, shared many examples of news apps which are doing just that. Klein's presentation of these examples can be found at this link.
He told the conference that as well as adding context a news app has the ability to personalise and place the user at the centre of the story and offer them the ability to see the impact on them, "it doesn't just tell a story, it tells your story", he said.
You can hear him speak more about this in the audio interview below:
Scott Klein of ProPublica by journalismnews
Another member of the panel was Bobby Schweizer, co-author of Newsgames: Journalism at Play. He said video games give the opportunity to look beyond the traditional news story and called on conference delegates to try and "make something".
And he himself is trying to help make this happen, working on the development of new software called the Cartoonist to help journalists produce their own news games, a project which won Knight News funding last year.
In the short audio clip below I ask him more about what this software will offer journalists:
Bobby Schweizer, co-author of Newsgames by journalismnews
When asked about the implications of news games being able to be created quickly and potentially running alongside more breaking forms of the story, Schweizer said news outlets and journalists need to ask themselves why they are making the game.
You have to ask what do you have to gain over a written article? If you only need to answer who, what, when and where maybe you don't need a game. This has to be a balance that each organisation will have to find for themselves.
This entry was posted in Events, Journalism, Multimedia, Online Journalism and tagged #wef11, Bill Adair, Bobby Schweizer, games, gaming, PolitiFact, propublica, Scott Klein on October 15, 2011 by Rachel Bartlett.
You can now add SoundCloud recordings to Storify
Storify and SoundCloud have joined forces, enabling those curating social media to add recordings posted on the audio platform.
Users of Storify, which allows you to drag and drop content from social media, including Twitter, Flickr and YouTube into stories, were already able to add AudioBoo recordings.
The addition of SoundCloud adds possibilities for journalists and those curating stories using Storify. Although the audio platform started out as a music sharing and commenting site, SoundCloud is increasingly used for spoken word.
The integration of SoundCloud in Storify provides a tactile experience in digital news consumption, particularly when using a tablet, and allows users to read and listen to stories, utilising SoundCloud's visual commenting system to jump to a particular point in the interview or audio.
Journalism.co.uk added SoundCloud recordings in this Storify of news:rewired created on the day the audio platform was first enabled as a source. Both platforms were present at the conference, where Storify co-founder Xavier Damman (pictured above) suggested "journalists should be re-branded as information engineers" as they make sense of the noise of social media by filtering it into stories.
In order to add SoundCloud go to Storify / Settings (below your name icon in the top right hand corner) / Sources.
This entry was posted in Handy tools and technology, Multimedia and tagged Audio, Digital storytelling, SoundCloud, storify, visual storytelling tool, xavier damman on October 10, 2011 by Sarah Marshall.
Slideshow of winning images from Picture Editors Guild awards 2011
The Picture Editors Guild presented its awards last night, with Associated Press photographer Matt Dunham named as photographer of the year. Matt captured the widely distributed image of Prince Charles and Camilla inside their car as it was attacked last year.
We have created a slideshow of some of the winning entries for this year's contest:
This entry was posted in Awards, Events, Multimedia, Photography and tagged Awards, Matt Dunham, picture editors guild, press photography on September 21, 2011 by Rachel Bartlett.
Tool of the week for journalists – Collaborative video editing platform Stroome
Tool of the week: Stroome
What is it? A free online video editing tool which allows you to collaborate with others
How is it of use to journalists? When it won $200,000 of funding in last year's Knight News Challenge, Stroome's ambitions as a useful tool for broadcasters were outlined:
Through the creation of a virtual video-editing studio, this project hopes to simplify the production of news video by enabling correspondents, editors and producers to upload, share, edit and remix content with others. This will reduce the need for expensive satellite truck technology.
Stroome is handy if you find yourself working on a computer without editing software (there is also YouTube's online video editor) although most people will no doubt favour editing within an application rather than within a browser due to the speed of upload and processing.
Stroome offers interesting possibilities to work collaboratively with others, not just journalists. One idea is that local news sites could encourage readers to upload footage of a severe weather event and collaboratively build a video using Stroome.
Share your ideas of how Stroome could be used by journalists and news sites by leaving a comment below.
This entry was posted in Multimedia, Tool of the Week and tagged online video, stroome, tool of the week, video editing on September 20, 2011 by Sarah Marshall.
Radio Times: Vote for the greatest broadcast interview of all time
Inspired by the BBC College of Journalism's Art of the Interview season, the Radio Times is calling for people to vote for the greatest broadcast interview of all time.
Contenders include Robin Day's 1959 ITN interview with the Japanese Foreign Minister, in which Day was accused of "treachery"; drunken antics from both sides when Bill Grundy interviewed the Sex Pistols on ITV in 1976; more drunken antics from both sides when Francis Bacon took Melvyn Bragg out for lunch in 1985; David Frost's "When the President does it, that means it is not illegal" interview with Richard Nixon; Sarah Palin's excruciating inability to name a newspaper she reads when asked by Katie Couric on the 2008 campaign trail; and Adam Boulton's lively spat with Alastair Campbell during the tense 2010 general election negotiations.
You can see the full shortlist at this link and cast your vote here.
This entry was posted in Broadcasting, Journalism, Multimedia and tagged BBC, Broadcasting, interviews, poll, Radio Times on September 9, 2011 by Joel Gunter.
Q&A: Audioboo founder on the riots, Libya and 'friendly competitor' SoundCloud
Mark Rock, CEO of Audioboo. Photo by Kate Arkless Gray.
Since it launched in 2009, Audioboo has become widely used by journalists and so-called citizen reporters. You can add a picture and geolocate your Audioboos and simply engage with the community or use it as a audio player in a blog post.
Stephen Fry's love of the audio recording and sharing platform, as well as the committed community of users have helped to cement it as a popular tool for journalists, and app on the reporter's phone.
The Guardian listed the top 10 most-listened-to Audioboos back in June. We have been finding out about the latest developments by speaking to Mark Rock, CEO and founder, about Storify, the riots, Libya, its API and his thoughts on "friendly competitor" SoundCloud.
How has Audioboo developed, particularly now Audioboos can be added to Storify stories?
Part of the reason behind Audioboo is that the spoken word has been a really neglected area on the internet. All the innovation has been around music when it comes to audio, and the spoken word is a really evocative and emotional medium for reporting stories. If you just look at the Audioboo trending lists today probably several of the most listened to clips are from Libya.
What we set out to do was to make it as easy as possible for people to report or tell the stories or share an experience. Part of the deal with Storify is to be able to integrate that in a journalistic medium for not only reporting a story but also retaining it for future reference and use.
How was Audioboo used during the riots?
The riots were really interesting in that most of the journalistic output, so the Guardian, the Telegraph, Sky News, were using Audioboo to rebroadcast stuff they had already done.
I think where it really came into its own was people on the ground, with their mobile phones actually recording their experiences and some of the recordings are quite incredible in terms of what you can hear in the background: the riots, the sirens and fires blazing.
It's a technological experience that even five years ago was not possible. And the audio was uploaded in two, three, four, five minutes of the recording being made and traditionally that would be a day or two days later.
And Libya?
We've seen the same in Libya. There are stories there which would probably would not get into a traditional radio broadcast. Very powerful stories, a lot of them done by non-journalists.
There's a fantastic blogger called Libya17 who phones people up from America, phones people up in Tripoli and throughout Libya, and gets them to recount their stories live and then puts them up to Audioboo [you can hear the Audioboos from feb17voices here]. It's a fantastic social record, I think.
You've opened your API. What are you hoping will come of that?
Even though we have mobile apps and a website, we really see ourselves as a platform to be used and abused.
Part of the Storify use was them accessing our API and just making it very easy for people to drag Audioboos into a Storify story.
We have a public API which does everything that we do so you can pull down clips, search, record, playback. All of that is out there now.
What we have done recently is a couple of things on the mobile front. There is an iPhone plugin. We have taken all our code for recording and playback and put it into a library for iPhone, which if you are an iPhone developer takes you about 20 minutes to integrate into an existing app. That's been used by about four or five news outfits in Germany and Absolute Radio in the UK has incorporated it into three of its apps. It's essentially a new way of citizen reporting or radio phone-in but with metadata and photos with location and tags.
What we also did recently is we open-sourced the code for our Android app. Android is a really difficult platform to support when you are a small company because a HTC works differently than a Motorola etc. We've actually stuck the entire codebase at github.com so that other developers can continue working on it.
Where do you see Audioboo in relation to SoundCloud?
SoundCloud has actually been going a year longer than us and I know [founders] Alex [Ljung] and Eric [Wahlforss] really well so we are friendly competitors.
SoundCloud is a fantastic system, a lovely website, lovely embed tools but it is 99 per cent music. Alex is a sound guy, loves that, and that shows in the product.
Where Audioboo works is in the spoken word. We've always been primarily about that.
Hopefully they can coexist. I know SoundCloud is looking to push much more into other areas of audio. But I think where we excel is on the stories that audio allows people to tell. Up until now that's been news stories so we've been known as a news platform. We're rapidly going to push out into other areas, whether its musicians talking about their music or sports people talking about their training, and we should see the result of that fairly soon.
Have you any plans to change the price and accounts structure?
We have a five-minute limit for free accounts. Hopefully soon we are launching a 30-minute account to appeal to podcasters. We think we can convert a good proportion of users to a paid service and that is going to be £50-a-year and with that you get additional stuff like a better iTunes listing and the ability to post to Facebook pages.
And we have our professional service which is used by BBC London, Absolute and Oxfam, which is much more about the curation and moderation of other people's content.
Audioboo and SoundCloud have some differences when it comes to the player. Are you planning any developments to yours in the near future?
The commenting on the [SoundCloud] audio player is nice and I think it works for music and I would question as to whether it works that well for news. If I had a bigger team I'd love to have it. SoundCloud is 60 people, we're five. We have a list of stuff we can do.
Any plans to cope with the problems of iOS native apps (such as the Journalism.co.uk iPhone app) which does not display the Flash Audioboo player in blog posts and news stories?
We currently have a player which, if you have Flash installed, will play in Flash. If you're on an iPhone or an iPad, it will plays back in HTML5. That's all in place for the site but where we haven't got that at the moment is in the embedable player, where you can take the code from the site and put it in your own blog. It's on a list at the moment. Stay tuned, is all I can say.
Any other developments in the pipeline at Audioboo that we should know about?
We're continuing to improve the paid product. One of the things we're doing is bringing back Phone Boo, which allows you to telephone call into the Audioboo website. If you haven't got a smartphone and you haven't got access to the web you can just make a telephone call and we record that and put it up on the web. We have partnered with an HD voice telephone provider so if you have an HD enabled phone it will record in infinitely better quality than a telephone call and it also means it integrates quite nicely with Skype.
We launched Boo Mail a couple of weeks ago. That's the ability to send in a file by email, a bit like Posterous.
And for our Pro users we're launching pre and post rolls. That is the ability to specify a sting or an ad or whatever you want at the beginning or the end of an Audioboo and that automatically gets stitched on.
Audioboo CEO Mark rock on reporting the riots, Libya and their "friendly competitor" (mp3)
This entry was posted in Broadcasting, Citizen journalism, Handy tools and technology, Multimedia, Social media and blogging and tagged Audio, Audioboo, Libya, Mark Rock, riots, SoundCloud on September 7, 2011 by Sarah Marshall.
Visual.ly – a new tool to create data visualisations
Visual.ly is a new platform to allow you to explore and share data visualisations.
According to the video below, it is two things: a platform to upload and promote your own visualisations and a space to connect "dataviz pros", advertisers and publishers.
Visual.ly has teamed up with media partners, including GigaOM, Mashable and the Atlantic, who each have a profile showcasing their data visualisations.
You will soon be able to create your own "beautiful visualisations in minutes" and will "instantly apply the graphics genius of the world's top information designers to your designs", the site promises.
Plug and play, then grab and go with our push-button approach to visualisation creation.
The sample images are impressive, but journalists will have to wait until they can upload their own data.
You can, however, "Twitterize yourself" and create an image based on your Twitter metrics.
This entry was posted in Data, Design and graphics, Handy tools and technology, Multimedia and tagged Data journalism, data visualisation, Visual.ly, visualisation tool, visualisations on July 28, 2011 by Sarah Marshall.
Guardian and Citizenside team up for Tour de France photos
The Guardian is gathering spectators' photographs from the 2011 Tour de France by partnering with citizen media agency Citizenside.
The Tour de France 2011 page of the Guardian's website features a slideshow dedicated to sharing the experience of being a spectator.
Citizenside is paying the citizen photographers using fund from the Guardian, editor-in-chief of Citizenside Philip Trippenbach told Journalism.co.uk.
The slideshow includes shots from local eyewitnesses from every stage of the race and spectators are encouraged to post pictures by a series of geo-targetted campaigns.
The Guardian has so far used 645 spectator photos from Citizenside, averaging 38 photos per stage for the first 17 stages of the Tour de France.
In a release, Philippe Checinski, co-founder of Citizenside said:
We're very excited to be providing our members with such a great opportunity to share their experiences of the Tour de France. It's not every day that locals from those remote towns get their own photos published on the fifth most visited news site in the world.
Matt McAlister, director of digital Strategy at the Guardian, added:
Working with Citizenside has given us a chance to explore some new ways of partnering with other communities and platforms that share our approach to openness.
Other stories on Citizenside are at this link.
This entry was posted in Citizen journalism, Multimedia, Photography and tagged Citizenside, sports stories, The Guardian on July 22, 2011 by Sarah Marshall.
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Senior Homecare By Angels is proudly present Ma. Lorlie Almelia, our Caregiver of the Month. We are grateful for Lorlie for her dedication, loyalty, and commitment. Her work performance was excellent. According to our client that she is currently assigned with, "Lorlie was very good. She had worked for me for 4 years, and willing to do everything that I asked." She was very compassionate, caring, and just love helping people especially the elderly.
For Lorlie, it was a very rewarding experience for her to help others, and could be a challenge too especially if they are exhibiting changes on their behaviours. She understood what the clients had been going through, and she continued to empathize them and provide support doing from personal care, making meals, listening to them and just helping their ADLs if unable to do it.
Lorlie has been working with Senior Homecare By Angels since January 2014 and currently working full time with our client in a facility setting. Her educational background was Midwifery and Bachelor of Science in Education back from her home country. She has been working as a Personal Support Worker for 15 years, and currently taking a program in Massage Therapist and Food Server. She also worked as a caregiver for 5 years in Taiwan. She had an experience working with clients who had Alzheimer's and Dementia.
Lorlie enjoys doing physical activities such as exercise, yoga, and watching movies during her spare time.
Thank you Lorlie for your amazing work and everything that you did for our clients! We are so blessed to have you on our team. You rock!


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by Gregg Makuch | May 13, 2019 | Blog | 0 comments
Recently, Syntonic CEO Gary Greenbaum had the opportunity to sit down with Fred Dingemans, CEO and Founder of Opari, an important Syntonic partner.
What is Opari?
Opari provides an open digital commerce platform connecting the online economy to service providers. It's a marketplace for publishers, marketers, and the online economy to engage with mobile subscribers. Opari is a privately-held company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. It was initially incubated and was then spun out of Tata Communications. Fred expands on this below.
How Syntonic's Unique Capabilities Help Opari
Fred describes Syntonic technology (Revenue Generation Platform), breadth of capabilities, and ease of doing business as key factors.
Opari's Launch with Safaricom in Kenya
Fred describes Opari's first commercial launch with Safaricom, the largest mobile operator in Kenya. The company has almost 30 million out of Kenya's 46.6 million phone subscribers. Opari is enabling specific application segments, including ride-sharing and mobile banking.
Opari's Vision: Unlimited Appetite for Data
"We really see a limitless appetite for mobile connectivity," says Fred Dingemans, CEO of Opari.
The Opari / Syntonic Partnership
Gary concludes his conversation with Fred with some thoughts on the partnership and where it's going from here – mobile commerce, mobile advertising, and content monetization.
Full Interview with Opari CEO and Founder Fred Dingemans
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I must add in a few comments.
First, Thomas Bossert is not the first in the administration to deviate from the President's opinion. But I have never seen a President have an opinion so different from the vast majority of his administration. Disagreement is healthy, but not about Russia.
I am also of the opinion that Russia hacked anything connected to the internet, it's just a matter of time, expertise, and money, in most cases, before you can hack into anything.
This might mean they do not yet have complete forensic evidence. It is a long, laborious, tedious, and lengthy process to get legal evidence. Tracking back a hack is relatively simple, but gathering legal evidence is completely different.
He does not mention, but I believe he is also referring to the propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, and active measures deployed by Russia to influence the US election. That effort was very obvious and will take a lot of time and effort to fully quantify what Russia did. Quantifying actual effects, however, are much more difficult.
Second, in the following article, I invite you to read between the lines and also to extrapolate logically from what is said. To me, it says the US is pursuing gathering that forensic evidence, but we are also gathering intelligence. I am positive we probably have SIGINT which must be further analyzed. I am sure HUMINT is being developed which will show intent, and who actually pulled the trigger.
The author, however, tries to tie too many extraneous subjects into the article, when he mentions Robert Mueller's investigation into other Russia issues.
In a break with his boss, Thomas Bossert said Russian entities clearly tried to meddle in the 2016 race.
ASPEN — President Donald Trump's chief counterterrorism adviser said Thursday that the Russian government clearly tried to manipulate the 2016 election, and declared that the Obama administration's retaliatory sanctions didn't go far enough.
"There's a pretty clear and easy answer to this and it's 'yes,'" Thomas Bossert said when asked whether the Russians worked to manipulate the U.S. election — a widely held conclusion that his boss in the Oval Office has repeatedly questioned.
The Obama White House's response — kicking out 35 diplomats and closing two Russian diplomatic facilities in December — "wasn't adequate in my mind," Bossert, a top national security aide under former President George W. Bush, added during a wide-ranging discussion at the National Security Forum in Aspen.
Trump has repeatedly questioned the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election with the intent of helping Trump win. Trump said he pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin on the issue during their recent meeting at the G-20 in Germany, but the two sides offered different accounts, with Russia saying Trump accepted Putin's denials.
The hacking and subsequent release of stolen Democratic National Committee emails last year were "unacceptable efforts and behaviors by a foreign nation state," Bossert said on Thursday. He stressed, though, that there had been no manipulation of ballot counts.
The administration is not yet in a place to crack down harder on Russia, Bossert said, but is exploring how to deter cyberattacks. There's "no evidence," he said, that offensive cyber operations deter foreign hackers, so the White House is exploring more "draconian" retaliations, like financial penalties.
Those cyber policies are in the works, he said, but their implementation — including potential responses to aggressive cyberattacks from countries like Russia — will take longer than most would prefer.
"We'll satisfy you, but we won't satisfy you in enough time," Bossert said.
The question of Russian interference in the 2016 election — including whether any of Trump's associates colluded with the Kremlin — has clouded Trump's presidency. Special counsel Robert Mueller and multiple congressional committees are probing not only the issue of election meddling, but other related issues — including whether Trump obstructed justice by firing FBI Director James Comey.
Bossert touched on several other controversial topics, including Syria, U.S. detention and interrogation policies, and the creation of a biodefense force.
The administration continues to explore long-term detention facilities for captured combatants overseas, including the use of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, Bossert said. Further, the White House is keeping "all options open" when it comes to reopening notorious black site secret prisons overseas, he said.
Bossert underscored the Trump administration's commitment to Syria, but said Syrian President Bashar Assad's departure was not a top priority. The White House has reportedly ended a covert program dedicated to arming anti-Assad groups.
The Trump adviser repeatedly chastised his interviewer, New York Times national security reporter David Sanger, about his newspaper's coverage of classified U.S. programs. He also strongly objected to a Times article that he said unfairly implied the U.S. has responsibility for the effects of computer vulnerability exploitation programs designed by the U.S. government which fall into foreign hands and are used for malicious purposes.
Bossert also said the Trump administration would develop a comprehensive plan to defend the nation against bioterrorism, an issue he said has been dangerously neglected, and which has taken on new urgency because of rapidly advancing biotechnology that allows for the creation of synthetic viruses.
Bossert said scientists may now be able to create a synthetic smallpox virus without access to the only two known laboratory samples of the deadly disease — a prospect he called terrifying.


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namespace hare {
class Timezone : public Copyable {
public:
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  bool valid() const { return static_cast<bool>(data_); }
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A new scholarship program hopes to attract more underrepresented groups to the E-school.
Learn about Carla Williams, UVA's new athletics director.
Learn about UVA's Student Council president, the Honor Committee and University Judiciary Committee chairs, the editor-in-chief of the Cavalier Daily, and the co-chairs of the Housing & Residence Life program.
Editor S. Richard Gard Jr. provides a preview of the magazine's Winter offerings.


Tutorials - What does All Free Ringtone Maker do?
What does All Free Ringtone Maker do?
The step-by-step instructions below will help you get started using All Free Ringtone Maker. Simple instructions, format presets & direct cutting are provided for easier operation, better output quality & more time saving.
You need only 3 steps to get your beloved ringtones. All you need to do is to install and launch this maker & follow the instructions.
Click "Load form file" and choose an audio file of supported format to input. You can also click "Load CD" to input the tracks on the inserted audio CD. The maker will display the file in waveform which is convenient for visual editing. You can zoom the waveform by the zoom buttons or your mouse wheel.
Now you should select a part of the waveform to edit as ringtone. You can specify the start and end frame to the millisecond precision. Then, click "Trim" to trim the selected part. You may add some effects like echo and fade-in/fade-out as well as adjust the volume of the portion. You may now preview selected part by clicking on the play button.
Select a location to store the output files. We provide 4 output formats in "Export Format" menu (MP3, WAV, WMA and OGG) and you just need to choose one of them as needed. Then, if you want to adjust the output quality, you should click the "Settings" button to use the well-configured quality presets for every format; you can also enter the specific parameters you want. After the quality adjustment, click "Save Now" to output. When the processing window disappears, the ringtone creation is finished. You don't have to remember where you output the file as we provide a "Find Target" button to directly open the output location. Get your DIY ringtone transferred to your mobile phone now!


Why is the Third Lap in a Mile Repeat the Most Important Lap?
Question: Why is the third lap in a mile repeat the most important lap?
I hope this is not a trick question and that you are not trying, as the Car Guys on NPR say, "To stump the chumps."
All kidding aside, it is not just the third lap of mile repeats that is the most important lap. It seems that the third 1/4 of any repeat is where we tend to back off the pace as the fatigue starts to build up. I suspect that we slow down as we tell ourselves to save something for the last lap or remaining 1/4 of the distance. That last part is where we want to be able to kick or at least to not die a slow death.
So to answer, your question I would say that the third lap is where you want to practice staying on pace so that in races you don't let big gaps open up. You want to be ready to push it in order to stay in contact.
Here is a one mile (1600M) example.
Lap 1 - Use your adrenaline to run the lst lap 2-3 seconds faster than goal pace. The nervous energy will allow this faster pace while keeping the effort even.
Lap 2 - Now run the second lap at goal pace arriving at the 800 still a couple of seconds ahead of pace.
Lap 3 - Concentrate on not letting the pace slip away knowing that the effort is now going to seem greater than the first two laps, but expect that the pace will slow a bit. You will start to feel a bit sorry for yourself because you have committed to feel such pain of fatigue and you will probably tell yourself that you need to save something for your kick. If so, expect to slow down at couple of seconds off goal pace. But now you will start the last lap exactly on goal pace.
Lap 4 - According to your strength as a runner (speed or endurance), start kicking all-out at the appropriate point of the last lap.
Win or lose, you will have at least run a good time.


LYON, France (Reuters) - France's Lyon airport halted flights on Monday when a driver being chased by police smashed his car through a terminal building and onto a runway.
More than a dozen police cars and a helicopter pursued the fugitive over a distance up the wrong side of a motorway before he broke through security barriers at the Lyon-Saint-Exupery international airport.
"Pursued by police, he smashed through Terminal 1 before reaching the runway area," the government prefect's office said in a statement.
The car then hurtled across the runway zone before coming to a halt on rough terrain beside the tarmac. The intruder sought to flee on foot but was tackled by officers and arrested.
The motive of the driver, whose identity has not yet been made public, was not clear, the source said.


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John Oliver – The next Jon Stewart
Duo-Wei Yang|May 20, 2015
Although many fans of Jon Stewart continue to lament the loss of one of the top televised comedians, they might not need to look too far to regain their dose of regular hilarity.
Possessed with a sassy British attitude and wittiness and having worked previous on The Daily Show for eight years, John Oliver on HBO show Last Week Tonight promises the same quality of comedy as Stewart's.
His show, Last Week Tonight, appears to be a weekly version of The Daily Show, filled with news segments from the previous week for Oliver to criticize and satirize.
The show's news segments often are serious topics that most comedians would not think of at first to use, such as student debt from colleges, net neutrality and the recent attention to police brutality.
Oliver easily makes scathing yet witty remarks such as "so there you have it, ladies! If you can just remain single, not accidentally have children and never turn 44, you're gonna be golden!" when sarcastically talking about American's gender wage gap problem.
His take on less serious news of the week is also refreshing to watch. Episodes and segments include the criticism of the Miss America Pageant to the construction of a salmon cannon that he used to shoot fish onto celebrities of different shows, such as Jon Stewart, Christian Anderson on Anderson360 and Meredith Grey from Grey's Anatomy.
Even though Oliver claims to only be a comedian, the serious subjects he makes fun of often have political impacts.
Last year, his and Last Week Tonight's took on net neutrality's potential effects on internet users, essentially forcing the less wealthy have slower lanes as a result of having two speeds of the internet according to how much you paid.
This caused the Federal Communication Commissions (FCC) website to crash from public commentary. Oliver denies too much action on his part, but the movement managed to help stop the net neutrality bill to pass.
This year, he and the show made headlines again when Last Week Tonight had a government surveillance episode and brought Edward Snowden back to a topic of discussion again.
He even managed to get an interview with Snowden all the way in Russia and hilariously explained the amount of information the government could access, most notably photos of a certain part of men's anatomy.
His show will be renewed for two more seasons and he will be sure to not disappoint.
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Democrats' lack of action causes worry for future elections in Georgia
What is wrong with the College Football Playoff?
Ever since the inaugural College Football Playoffs (CFP) in 2014, we have seen our share of highly competitive games. Likewise, we have also seen some...


Ronald Munson received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology at Harvard University. He taught as a Preceptor in Philosophy at Columbia College (Columbia University) and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California, San Diego, the Harvard Medical School, and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has served as bioethicist for a National Institutes of Health multicenter study, the National Cancer Institute, the Monsanto Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, and the Washington University School of Medicine Human Subjects Committee. His expertise is in medical ethics and the philosophy of science and medicine. His articles have appeared in Philosophy of Science, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophy of Science, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, and New England Journal of Medicine. His work has also been anthologized numerous times. He has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for Humanities, the Weldon Spring Fund, and the National Science Foundation. His book Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics (Wadsworth), now in its 7th ed., is the most widely used medical ethics text in the United States. His other books include Reasoning in Medicine: An Introduction to Clinical Inference (with Daniel Albert, M.D. and Michael Resnik, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), The Way of Words (Houghton- Mifflin), Man and Nature: Philosophical Issues in Biology (Delacorte), Elements of Reasoning, 5th ed. (with Andrew Black, Wadsworth). His most recent books are Outcome Uncertain: Cases and Contexts in Bioethics and Raising the Dead: Social and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation (Oxford University Press). He has acted as a source on biomedical ethics and been interviewed by (among others) the New York Times, Washington-Post, U.S. News and World Report, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Science Digest, Smithsonian Magazine. Literary Ronald Munson is the author of three well-received novels: Nothing Human; Fan Mail and Night Vision.
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Cute story about a budgie's beauty parlour showing a bird being washed and groomed.
C/U of a hand holding a cobalt budgie, it is being cleaned with a cotton bud. C/U of the face of 66 year old Captain Bill Moody who is grooming the bird. C/U of the budgie in the foreground, Bill is washing it with soapy water and a toothbrush. C/U of the toothbrush being dipped into the soapy water in a plastic box. There are several pairs of scissors and clippers round it. The narrator says Bill used to be a big game hunter and now has this unique salon.
C/U of the budgie with soap on its head, the narrator says it is a secret formula foam shampoo. Various shots of the budgie being shampooed with the toothbrush. Bill wipes the shampoo off with cotton wool and a cotton bud, the bird flaps about a bit. The camera moves over to show his wife Eve who takes the budgie and wraps it in a cloth. C/U of Bill's face. M/S of Eve with the budgie, C/U of her face, the camera moves down to show her stroking the budgie's head with a cotton bud. C/U of the budgie looking sleepy.
L/S of the couple, Bill picks up a cage from the floor and puts it on the table, Eve gets up and walks away. Bill opens the cage door to get another budgie out. C/U of Eve's face watching him.
L/S of Bill with the bird in his hand. C/U of beauty implements laid out on a cloth, there are clippers, scissors and tweezers. C/U of the budgie in his hands having its claws clipped. M/S of Bill grooming the budgie. M/S of him spraying something onto the budgie's claws. C/U of the budgie's face and C/U of Bill's face. M/S of him blow drying the budgie with a hairdryer. C/U profile of Bill. M/S of the budgie. C/U of Eve smiling. M/S of the budgie sat of a perch attached to a small round mirror. C/U of the budgie admiring itself in the mirror.
Note: Bill's full name is Captain William Farquhar-Moody.