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Behind The Name – Vizag
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Situated in the heart of the city, the Central Park brings that much needed lung-space for the city.
Quiet and pristine amidst the hustle and bustle of a super-busy neighbourhood that includes the APSRTC complex on one side and thoroughfares on the other three, the Central Park is the cynosure for Vizagites eyes. With ample parking spaces that aren't obtrusive for the city-traffic, this 22 acre stretch is definitely worth a visit.[/vc_column_text][TS_VCSC_Lightbox_Gallery content_images="7394,7393,7392,7391,7390,7389,7388,7387,7386,7385,7384,7383,7382,7381,7380,7379,7378,7377,7376,7375,7374″ content_style="SlickThumb" el_file1=""][/TS_VCSC_Lightbox_Gallery][vc_column_text]With its entrance right behind the RTC complex, the first thing that you'd notice about it will be the shade of the green trees. In fact, it has over a 100 trees in its vicinity; no trees were cut down to make the park, except the ones that fell during the Cyclone HudHud. Constructions have happened around the existing greenery, with the result that the region is steeped in different shades of that colour. Many avenue plantations have also been added to the region, and stretches of grass have been laid out to make a trip here an alluring visit.
With five distinct zones, the park offers many attractions. These include a 1.5km long walking track, a maze for children to play in, bonsai garden, a bamboo garden, amphitheatre, an arena for yoga that includes fish pedicure ponds and a cycling track. An animal park which has different animal-shapes made out of wire mesh and covered with plants is another attraction. Internal and external jogging tracks are also present. A huge lawn that can hold up to 500 people, makes it possible to conduct open air events too. Work is also on at the amusement park where a pool is slated to come up along with water slides and facilities for rain dance. Its strongest attraction however is the huge auto-synchronised musical and colourful fountain that has a jet to shoot up water to a height of 40 feet, making it the first such venture of its kind in the city and the third highest in the country.
However, these are just a few of the attractions here. The park that is seeing a footfall of thousands, also accommodates food stalls and promises a wonderful evening spent with the entire family. The entry fee for the park is Rs. 20 while tickets for the musical fountain are priced at Rs. 40. Cyclists can use the track for Rs.50 per hour while walkers need to pay an annual sum or Rs.500 to use the facility.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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"beguiles and disturbs in equal measure" – Flickering Myth
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World Premiere at FrightFest 2018
Available On Demand, Digital HD and DVD June 4, 2019
LOS ANGELES (April 29, 2019) – RLJE Films will release THE CLEANING LADY On Demand, Digital HD and DVD on June 4, 2019. Directed by Jon Knautz (Goddess of Love), he co-wrote the script with Alexis Kendra (Valentine's Day). Kendra also stars in the film along with Rachel Alig ("Officer Down"), Stelio Savante (Starship Troopers 3: Marauder) and JoAnne McGrath(The First Date). RLJE Films will release THE CLEANING LADY on DVD for an SRP of $27.97.
On the surface, Alice (Kendra) seems like a woman who has it all: a gorgeous apartment, a booming career, a stunning physique, and a handsome boyfriend. The only problem is he's married to someone else. Looking for a way to simplify her life, Alice hires Shelly to clean her house. As Alice begins to confide in Shelly about her illicit affair, their friendship grows… and so does Shelly's twisted obsession with her new employer. It soon becomes clear that Shelly has motives that reach further than a normal cleaning lady. Shelly wants to cleanse Alice's entire life and will stop at nothing until she's done.

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Seven West Media's lawyers have reportedly launched contempt of court proceedings against Amber Harrison that could see the 40-year-old sent to prison.
As reported on B&T last week, Harrison, who famously had an affair with Seven CEO, Tim Worner, has regularly posted inflammatory comments about Seven's management to her Twitter account in clear violation of a court order from mid-July preventing her in doing so.
Harrison has been ordered to remove the offending tweets, something she has refused to do.
Last month Harrison even told The Australian she was prepared to "go to jail to defend my right to have an opinion". It's not clear if Harrison were imprisoned what length of sentence she could expect.
Fairfax Media is today reporting that Seven's lawyers have "expedited" contempt proceedings against Harrison over at least a dozen breaches that Harrison is alleged to have committed in defiance of the court order preventing her from doing so. Fairfax is reporting that the case will go to court in 10 days time.
Seven are also unhappy that Harrison appeared on both ABC TV and ABC radio a day after she was ordered not to speak about her time with Seven, her affair with Worner and her termination.
During the radio interview, Harrison admitted she knew of the consequences for speaking publicly. "I am liable for imprisonment or sequestration of property," she said.
Harrison has also reportedly refused to hand over sensitive documents and laptops that she agreed to do as part of her termination package from 2014. Harrison was to be paid as much as $400,000 to remain silent and return Seven's property. When she failed to do so, Seven stopped the payments.
In August, rogue blogger and self-confessed "citizen journalist", Shane Dowling, was jailed for the three months for contempt of court after he published the names of Channel Seven on-air talent that Harrison had wrongly accused Worner of also having had affairs with.


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Q: Unix script on startup in /etc/init.d not working I've been trying to get my Java application to run as a daemon in the background after startup. I've followed the instructions given in the top answer here and to no avail.
This is my /etc/init.d/myapp file:
#!/bin/bash
# MyApp
#
# description: bla bla

case $1 in
    start)
        /bin/bash /var/lib/myapp/start.sh
    ;;
    stop)
        /bin/bash /var/lib/myapp/stop.sh
    ;;
    restart)
        /bin/bash /var/lib/myapp/stop.sh
        /bin/bash /var/lib/myapp/start.sh
    ;;
esac
exit 0

as for the /var/lib/myapp/start.sh, it looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
java -jar myapp-1.0.0RC.jar &

and works fine when run from a terminal via ssh.
i also ran the update-rc.d myscript defaults command, and was only given a warning about headers and LSB
After this, once i reboot the server, the app isnt running. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

A: When bash scripts are run, they are not automatically ran from the same directory that contains them.
You will either need to update your scripts to change directory to that which holds the scripts before starting the jar:
#!/bin/bash
cd /var/lib/myapp/
java -jar myapp-1.0.0RC.jar &

Or, refer to the jar file with a full path:
#!/bin/bash
java -jar /var/lib/myapp/myapp-1.0.0RC.jar &

A: Check if your service is registered properly via chkconfig
$ chkconfig --list

If not you can see your service listed on the output, then try adding this lines to your script
#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 2345 95 20
# description: bla bla
# processname: myapp

and then run
chkconfig --add myapp

For more information you can check the man page for chkconfig

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Molekul. It's kinda like a interest search engine where people can search for the interest and bond over a common interest. We aim to help people build communities based on their own hobbies and make new friends. We were inspired when we realised that there's lack of social media mobile apps that can help people bond based on passion.
A social platform that connects people who share the same passion and enthusiasm about any subject while allowing everyone to discover and explore new interests and topics.
Every topic forms a channel and it is up to you to polish and nurture it and let it grow.
Built as an iPhone app on iOS platform. Adopting the concept of channels for users to subscribe and contribute to. The main emphasis is on usability and user experience. Minimalistic and material design for better aesthetics.


SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn't stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices organisation, based in Oost-Vlaanderen Belgium.
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In data analysis it is often nice to look at all pairwise combinations of continuous variables in scatterplots. Up until recently, I have used the function splom in the package lattice, but ggplot2 has superior aesthetics, I think anyway.
5) panel.cor function using pairs, similar to ggcorplot, but using base graphics. Not sure who wrote this function, but here is where I found it.
…shows that splom is the fastest method, with the method using the panel.cor function pulling up the rear.
6) given by a reader in the comments (get her/his code here). This one is nice as it gives 95% CI's for the correlation coefficients, AND histograms of each variable.
7) a reader in the comments suggested the scatterplotMatrix (spm can be used) function in the car package. This one has the advantage of plotting distributions of each variable, and providing fits to each data with confidence intervals.


We hope you will join us for Sarah's Circle's 24th annual Winter Walk! We will walk "a mile in her shoes" through the Uptown neighborhood, increasing awareness about homelessness in our city and raising critical funds for Sarah's Circle.
We ask that participants be ready at 1pm at Truman College to listen to a client share her story of facing homelessness and how she rebuilt her life with help from Sarah's Circle. Then, we will brave the winter cold together as we walk a mile through Uptown, stopping along the way to hear more real-life stories of how women have overcome homelessness thanks to Sarah's Circle's support.
We will meet back at Truman College where we will enjoy a lunch generously provided by Vienna Beef, consisting of Chicago style hot dogs, soup, salad, and dessert. We will also be joined by Illinois State Senator Heather Steans, who will speak about the need for services for the homeless population. There will also be time for Q&A where you may ask Sarah's Circle staff questions about the women we serve and our programs.
The Winter Walk is a wonderful opportunity to better understand homelessness through the eyes of those who personally struggle with it. This is a family friendly event with special children's activities, including tips on how to talk to children about homelessness, and a shortened Winter Walk route.
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On behalf of the women we serve, thank you for supporting our cause. We cannot wait to see you at the Winter Walk!


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Forensic Exams with Transgender Sexual Assault Survivors
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Diagnosing Difference (Film screening) »
Archived Recording
(Webinar originally recorded on April 10, 2014)
Medical and Forensic Considerations in Caring for Transgender Sexual Assault Survivors
Navigating medical services and advocacy with transgender survivors may be uncharted territory for forensic nurses and advocates. Transgender sexual assault victims may differ from other survivors in body configurations, high levels of polyvictimization, increased discrimination and denial of services from other providers, as well as often discordant relationships with their body in general. For these reasons and more, it is critical for forensic exam settings and providers to be culturally aware of trans-specific differences in order to provide sensitive and effective services. This webinar will focus on some of the key transgender inclusions in the National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations, case examples of medical advocacy with transgender survivors, and discussion of unique differences (both challenges and solutions) in providing care and advocacy to transgender survivors. Guest presenters include Kim Day (International Association of Forensic Nurses) and Eric Stiles (National Sexual Violence Resource Center).
National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ovw/241903.pdf
SAFE Protocol: Trans-specific annotation
In April 2013, the Office on Violence Against Women announced publication of the 2nd edition of the National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations, Adult/Adolescent (SAFE Protocol, 2d.), available at https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ovw/241903.pdf. The 145-page document discusses transgender survivors 25 times. In nearly every case, the content truly is trans-specific (as opposed to "LGBT"), including a major section on pages 38-39. This annotated handout provides additional information about each of the references in the Protocol.http://forge-forward.org/wp-content/docs/SANE-protocol-trans-inclusive-handout-2.pdf
Transgender Medical Forensic Care References/Citations
http://forge-forward.org/wp-content/docs/webinar-forensic-citations-04-2014.pdf
Victim Centered Care handout (forensic webinar)
http://forge-forward.org/wp-content/docs/webinar-forensic-victim-centered-care-04-2014.pdf
http://forge-forward.org/wp-content/docs/gender-neutral-bodymap.pdf
What is most important to transgender survivors
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Guest presenter: Kim Day, International Association of Forensic Nurses
Kim Day, RN, FNE, SANE-A, SANE-P, is a technical assistance provider and forensic nursing clinical content expert at the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN). Mrs. Day provides assistance around the National Protocol for sexual assault forensic examinations of adults and adolescents through the SAFEta project. She is a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, certified as a SANE-A and SANE-P by the International Association of Forensic Nurses. Ms. Day coordinated a local community hospital SANE program and the county wide Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) for 8 years before beginning her current position in 2006.
Mrs. Day has worked on many national level projects such as: the Prison Rape Elimination Act medical protocol advisory committee, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center's SANE Sustainability project, the National Commission on Correctional Healthcare's PREA standards training for correctional healthcare personnel, the Southwest Center for Law and Policy's SAFESTAR project's curriculum development and the advisory group for the Dartmouth Interactive Media Lab's interactive DVD: Sexual Assault: Forensic and Clinical Management. She also has participated as a roundtable participant in the Office on Violence Against Women's (OVW) DNA Backlog Roundtable and the White House Roundtable on Sexual Violence. Mrs. Day also participated in the Office for Victims of Crime's (OVC) Vision 21 project. She is a member of the National Coordination Committee on the American Indian/Alaska Native SANE-SART initiative and the Attorney General's Violence Against Women Federal/Tribal Prosecution Task Force and the NIJ SAFER Working Group Steering Committee.
Mrs. Day worked with SAFEta project partners to author and present a training called: Creating a Community Protocol for community teams working to develop sexual assault protocols. She has also spoken at many national, state and local conferences and webinars on the National SAFE Protocol, VAWA Forensic Compliance and the medical forensic examination. She has authored chapters and/or contributed to the textbooks: The Atlas of Sexual Violence, The Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment SANE/SAFE Forensic Learning Series, Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Lifespan and co-authored The Clinical Management of Children and Adolescents Who Have Experienced Sexual Violence: Technical Considerations for PEPFAR Programs in 2013. Mrs. Day participated in a two day collaborative multidisciplinary capacity building meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with USAID and in country stakeholders. She has written articles for Sexual Assault Report, Women Police and Forensic Healthcare on Line, and been featured in interviews in Cosmopolitan Magazine and Nursing Spectrum. She also has delivered multiple webinars on topics related to the National Protocol such as: victim centered care, forensic compliance and the medical forensic exam.
Guest presenter: Eric Stiles, National Sexual Violence Resource Center
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2½ miles and six locks to start with
Ironville Locks, Cromford Canal, Derbyshire (1978)
My blog-article about the Cromford Canal caught the attention of Hugh Potter, the Archivist of the Friends of the Cromford Canal, partly because of the 1963 image of the west portal of the Butterley Tunnel, which is no longer recognisable because of the construction of the A61 Ripley by-pass.
Hugh asked what other images I had from that period, and very kindly rescanned them for me to a higher resolution than my scanner can achieve. They're now displayed on the Friends' website at http://www.cromfordcanal.info/archives/mharchive/mh1.htm.
The Friends exists to work towards the entire restoration of the Cromford Canal, including its Pinxton and Lea Wood branches. This is clearly the work of a generation, at least.
When I pottered around the canal in the 1960s it was virtually intact. In the time it took me to go through secondary school and university, a great bite was taken out of it at Ambergate to build a gas-processing plant, and other stretches were lost to road improvements and opencast coal working. The current state of the entire line can be seen at http://www.cromfordcanal.info/images/map_large.jpg.
At the moment, only six hundred yards of the Cromford Canal are accessible from the inland-waterways system: above the first lock at Langley Mill, a stretch exists as moorings for boats that have travelled up the Erewash Canal.
Beyond that, the course of the canal was obliterated by opencast mining in the 1960s: six locks and 2½ miles of waterway must be completely rebuilt to connect with the surviving flight of locks to Ironville.
Here, well-intentioned but over-enthusiastic flood prevention works have wrecked the top locks which were, until 1985, virtually intact, though the gates had been removed and concrete cills installed to carry overflow.
What would have been a restoration will now become a major rebuilding. Now is not the time to expect enormous financial support from outside bodies, but the Friends quietly beaver away reversing the decay and encroachments of nature: http://www.cromfordcanal.info/restoration/eastern.htm.
It's the work of volunteers and their determination, for which 'heroic' is not too strong an adjective, that kickstarts the recovery of amenities which shouldn't have been squandered in the first place.
One day, boats will sail again up to Ironville and to Pinxton, and in time through the Butterley Tunnel and on to Cromford.
It worked on the Rochdale and Huddersfield Narrow Canals, and it's happening on the Chesterfield.
It's only a matter of time – and timing.
The 56-page, A4 handbook for the 2010 Waterways & Railways across the Derbyshire Peak tour, with text, photographs, maps, a chronology and a reading list, is available for purchase, price £15.00 including postage and packing. To view sample pages click here. Please send a cheque, payable to Mike Higginbottom, to 63 Vivian Road, Sheffield, S5 6WJ.
This entry was posted in Transports of Delight, Waterways & Railways across the Derbyshire Peak on January 5, 2014 by Mike Higginbottom.
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Kim Soo Hyun who is triggering the "Soo Hwon virus" through MBC hit drama The Moon that Embraces the Sun is becoming the King of CF.
On March 10th, 2012, the management agency of Kim Soo Hyun said that the popularity of Kim Soo Hyun rapidly increased due to The Moon that Embraces the Sun, and had signed 10 CF contracts recently. In addition to 3 CFs that have already been shot and another 2 which will be confirmed soon, there are a total of CFs currently endorsed by Kim Soo Hyun, earning a total income of about 5 billion South Korean wons (about 4.5 million US dollars).
The CFs cover a wide range of industries, from clothing, camera, electronic products and so on. The continuous invitation to CF has proven again the high popularity of Kim Soo Hyun which is irresistible.
As the number of CFs is too many, Kim Soo Hyun immediately started the shooting for CFs after the end of The Moon Embracing the Sun's shooting.


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[OKFest14] Liveblog
BY the engine room | Thursday, July 17 2014
This post is part of the live coverage of the 2014 Open Knowledge Festival in Berlin by the engine room. For more information you can read the intro post, follow the liveblog, read the flash interviews and follow us on Twitter.
Final Update
The last update of our live blogging is up: we are happy to announce that we are now in the afterglow of an Open Knowledge Festival jam-packed with insightful creations, deep (and deeply important) conversations, and ideas for the future of open data. We wanted to thank all the people who helped keep the live blog up to date, contributed information about sessions, and shared insightful thoughts on their projects and work around the world.
Special thanks to the OKFN team for making the event happen, and for WeGov for giving us the space to capture reflections about the event on their site in real time. It has been a real pleasure.
Update July 17, 5PM CET
How to teach open data
School of Data, Peer to Peer University and Open Tech School organized a world-cafe' style workshop to share their experiences in designing and conducting training processes, online and offline.
The areas covered were:
How to organise tech and data workshops
Building effective curriculum and accreditation
Type of education activities: a blended offline, online
Designing passion driven communities
Robert Lehmann from Open Tech School and Emma Prest from DataKind UK shared key lessons learned about the process of organization and setup of tech workshops. In a perfect world, the dream ratio of trainers to participants should be 1:3, to realy make sure eveyr participant is followed and heard. It is important to actively go and ask how participants are getting on, without waiting for questions. Telling stories explains what they are going to learn, what they have accomplished and how it fits into a bigger picture of their work. The concept of "parking lot" was discussed - a place to put thoughts and questions not included in the agenda or curriculum to come back to at the end, or for participants to discuss between themselves after the sessions, or take back home as points of insight. It is also important to make sure participants leave the workshop knowing what's possible and where to look for help, and are armed with a problem-solving mentality.
The panelists also raised some flags, or things to be aware of: it is important not to run "installation parties" because they remove the momentum and don't bring enough participatory learning in the room. It is also important to remember that feedback unfortunately won't be completely honest. Ultimately, it is important to adapt and make the material relevant to the participants.
Juan Manuela Casanueva from SocialTIC expanded on their lessons and experiences with working and hacking the School of Data curriculum. They learned three things:
know who your audience is, what activities they do and what they need to learn, and what skills they have
training is process, not syllabus - expand training into an experience
Help people participate in different ecosystems
They try as much as possible to blend practice and tools: asking people, "What does this data tell you?" is good, but it is best to use the group's everyday data. Helping the participants work with practical know-hows on their own data, like scraping, pivoting or filtering, helps build skills that the participants will be able to use in their everyday work.
Ignasi Alcalde from IA Knowledge management also shared his main lessons learned from his experience:
don't leave people alone between workshop. Build online processes.
let people learn by doing - let them crash, learn from failure
adapt datasets for your audience
learn participants' skills beforehand (through surveys), make sure there's a mix of skills in a group
think about a path for your audience: badges, propedeutics
Type of education activities: a blended offline, online experience
In Brazil, the Scola de Dados (brazilian chapter of the School of Data) wsnted to create a blended online and offline experience for people who didn't have reliable acceess to internet. The two chosen topics were introduction to programming, and introduction to data journalism.
They decided to take advantage of the MOOC, while providing participants with weekly live check-ins, to help combat the main problem of MOOCs, i.e. people dropping out because of lack of motivation. It shows people the course is really happening, and helps participants follow through: engagement with participants is crucial.
Escuela de datos (the Spanish chapter) organizes 4 types of training activities, on data-driven journalism and open data, that can be
3-day events,
monthly sessions of 3 hours,
data expeditions and
production workshops.
An example they presented was a data expedition on energy. While digging into data about energy, politics, sustainability and the huge plethora of data, it showed that if you choose a theme that you don't know anything about (public transoirt in China for example) it will make for an unsuccessful experience. It is important to take a dataset that is familiar to the participants, and is specifically tailored to the profiles of people in the room.
Heather Leson and Rebecca Kahn shared their experiences in building communities, and helping to create fruitful and meaningful experiences for individuals through the power of social connections.
The first lesson of the table is that learning individually doesn't work, or at least not as well as within a group. By creating a social wrapper, a peer grop, much more meaningful learning experiences can be built, and are the main reason behind trying to create a community. That perspective gives the opportunity to start designing learning experiences for communities.
Creating community-based learninf processes is also key for creating a healthy individual process, so that participants can also contribute while they are learning. Everyone comes to a community with different needs, style and asks: some learn by making, and others by teaching. It is important to include systems for defining and including different experiential styles in a community. Groups can also be sub-divided per skill, or other aspects (like favorite music group) that makes for a different social cohesion.
One important point presented was the importance of creating a safe and comfortable space for participants, that will give them the opportunity to share their lack of skills in a safe and inclusive way, and give participants the opportunity to get deeply involved in a learning process that is tailored to them.
The concept of defining learning partners resonated particularly: pairing up with another person helps keep check-ins and progress in line, and it also helps when coping with emotionally difficult themes, such as datasets of death and immigration in Europe.
Neelie Kroes, the Vicepresident of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda gave a stirring talk about the role of open data in the EC's thinking about access to information across borders. She is on the way out of her digital post and cited the need for an entriely new mindset at the EC and a generational shift in thinking about the role of openness in innovation, transparency, and fairness. She was also one of the first speakers to lay out a theory of change in open data:
Being open means better information, which means better decisions, which means better government.
And in an ironic twist, Kroes called for an open internet (to much applause) for all in Europe, while her speech was blocked on the livestream of OKFest for those with an IP address from Germany.
The second keynote session saw Eric Hysen from Google expanding on the tech giant's vision for openness. Hysen compared our current situation with the development of turnpikes in the UK from the beginnings of last century, where horse-drawn carriages were capable of traveling in a relatively fast manner, but were slowed down by the terrible state of the roads. The UK turnpike development project improved the roads, introduced milestones and set up a system of tolls that managed to drastically reduce travel times. The parallel with today is open access and open source, and how improving access mechanisms will improve the entire ecosystem of open.
In his keynote, Hysen made thre statements for improving the concept of "open":
Open isn't enough: there is a need for projects to be structured, updated and licensed correctly, in order to support sustainability and profitability
Interoperable data: interoperability is key. It is far too hard to connect different types of data together, and it is crucial to be able to do so in order to scale efficiently. An example of interoperability is the wifi protocol, which permits us all to connect to the internet and between devices, without looking at type, model or producer.
Ecosystem, not apps With a slightly provocative statement that killer apps don't exist solely on top of open data, Hysen made the case that ecosystems are crucial for success because they consider the community and the larger picture and ensures connections between the project and the context in which it is being built.
CrisisNET: an Interactive Guide to Streaming Crisis Data
Jonathon Morgan from CrisisNET presented the project, through a quick intro and a demo, followed by Q&A and group discussions.
CRISISnet collects disparate information from various sources and combines them into a single data pipeline for leveraging in visualizations and aggregates. It can then extract knowledge into a map, and let users filter and visualize data, as well as creating their own API to use with their projects. Some of the sources of information are Ushahidi, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and ReliefWeb.
As initial use case, CrisisNET collaborated with Elliot Higgins, a crowdsourced data journalist who is an expert in collecting enormous amounts of data from social networks and other online sources, and then analyzing them to provide journalists with investigation threads or credible evidence. CrisisNET pulled all the content that Higgins collected on Syria and inserted it into the system, which is publicly available on their website.
Unlike other apps, CrisisNET only gives out data, builds plumbing. In Jonathon's words:
We don't care about what you do with your data, we just provide the API. We like to have the information available and let the users choose what is reliable and what is not
Some very insightful questions came from the room, especially about reliability of sources, and strength of methodology behind the process. While it is still a very young project, CrisisNET is thinking about how to implement verification checks. Also, the entire platform is open on GitHub and developers are encouraged to improve upon it, use it offline and modify it for their own uses.
The final discussions were held around some of the most important questions that any data collection project needs to look into, like what barriers for data availability exist, how to find narratives inside a dataset and how data generators (the communities) can actually make use of that data. The room provided insights like knowing the audience, ensuring that data collection is actually useful and usable, and involving communities in participatory processes.
Ground-up Open Data Intermediaries: Who? Where? How?
Governments are increasingly opening data, but so what? Who's using it? And how? The Open Data Research Network has 17 research projects looking who's using open data and, crucially, who's acting as intermediaries and what they're up to. During this session three of these projects spoke about their research and we delved further into the different kinds of intermediaries.
What do we mean by intermediary? They are the people or organisation who act as the link between the supply of data and the users of data. This role can go beyond usual suspects and includes local sources of information such as traditional chiefs. The intermediairies are not the users of the data, but rather the ones who add value to the data by analysing, curating and presenting it.
They are powerful players, able to shape the supply of data. Intermediaries can act as the suppliers of data themselves as they often collect a lot of data that governments can't reach and is not accessible to citizens.
Cases presented:
The South Africa project looked at whether data being supplied was being used public higher education institutions.
They found that the providers of data were department of education, as well as the universities which supply individual data.The intermediaries were an NGO which was repackaging that data as indicators and a private company getting data from same source and creating data dashboards which the universities paid for.
Transparent Chennai, an Indian NGO, looked at the quality of government data. They found it was patchy and inconsistent and couldn't be used by governments for planning, nor by citizens to hold government to account.
In Nigeria, they looked at how budget data was being used and find out how citizens engaged with it. The intermediaries in this case three NGOS: Budget Nigeria, which created web-based visualisations of budget data; Follow the Money which added geolocation to the budget data to map it; and the Center for Social Justice summarised data visually and disseminated it in print for communities without internet access.
During the session we broke down the intermediaries into NGOs, community groups, government, media and private sector. It quickly became clear that relationship and functions of the players involved couldn't be broken down into data providers, data intermediaries and data users. As is often the case - the real world is messy, complex and not easily categorised.
The Problem with Participation
This session was designed to unpack the oft used word associated with data projects: participation. The session, facilitated by Linda Raftree, included presentations from three different activists who had examples of unintended dynamics of participation.
Nancy Schwartzman from @circleof6app discussed the power dynamics in personal relationships in which many women and girls around the world are constantly surveilled. This undermines their ability to take part in seemingly open dialogues. She also addressed the case studies of mapping harassment and how it has been done well (and with careful curation and participation of users) and how it has been done badly (throwing a map up on the internet and assuming that women will feel comfortable to report incidents of harassment).
Lina Srivastava addressed the explicit irony that their is no data on undocumented migrants. Where there is no data it is difficult to use analysis of trends to make decisions and call for change. She also highlighted the way that competing narratives can result in stalled change and sometimes regression. Citing the case of data on immigrants ofn the US Mexican border, she pointed out that the new numbers showing there are fewer immigrants illegally entering the US, but more are dying at the border is considered a success by conservatives.
Simeon Oriko presented a few great examples about mapping projects in Kenya that didn't take into account realities in the country. For a mapping project designed to document crime in the slums, there was little consideration of the fact that no one wants to report crime with their smart phone - their smart phone will just get stolen. He also made the obvious, but fantastic point that when a hospital runs out of medicine, the last thing a patient wants to do is to whip out their smartphone and report that.
The session then broke into a few groups to tackle concrete, crowd-sourced problems that participation projects have had and found that issues of informed consent, communicating and recruiting for diversity and inclusion, and longterm learning about how to widen the circle of participation were common across all projects.
Tools tools and more tools: building the data pipeline
In this session, the facilitators Zara Rahman, Gabriela Rodríguez and Marcos Vanetta presented the concept of the data pipeline, and how to find the right tools for each part of the pipeline. The session was inspired by the data handbook, with a goal to build an OKFest toolbox, sourced from the participants themselves.
The data pipeline is defined through the following steps:
Acquire data
Extract data
Clean data
Present data
And the participants were split into groups to think about which tools are the most useful for the specific steps. Through this very hands-on session, a number of specific steps were developed, and documented on the session's online collaborative pad, accessible here.
Update July 17, 10AM CET
Good morning from the OKFest! This morning we will be following the live keynotes from Neelie Kroes
Morning start and keynotes (10:00 - 12:00)
Keynote – Neelie Kroes: Embracing the open opportunity
Keynote – Eric Hysen
Sessions and panels
Money, Politics and Transparency
Just Do One Stupid Thing, and Other Secrets of Making Political Art With Data
Taking privacy considerations forward- the role of the data publisher
You can check where our live bloggers are at any moment on their online schedule pages: Alix Dunn and Tin Geber.
We will also be live tweeting these session on @engnroom, with hashtag #OKFest14.
We Want You
Are you in or around OKFest? Are you meeting interesting and insightful people, having your mind blown by incredible new projects? Tweet us @engnroom or send us an email on liveblog@theengineroom.org.
4PM Session
Can Open Data Go Wrong?
This session, co-organized by the engine room team, was an open conversation about concrete cases where opening data has gone wrong. The session started with a presentation of examples to start conversations about where open data has gone wrong, through actual practical use cases of people who either worked on the projects or have an intimate knowledge of them. Following this, we asked the participants to share their horror stories from open data gone wrong, and ask questions to the panelists. The session was held under the Chatham House rule, so names of participants will be omitted rom this writeup. The panelists agreed to share their names publicly.
Janet Gunter from the Restart Project shared horror stories from the land data field. Janet mentioned riding white trucks into development areas as conveying of power and disturbing in different scenarios - data sets and data can be like Lexuses in developing countries. Janet talked about the Bhoomi case study in Bangalore. Publshed in 2007, it is an ethnographic research of what happened when indian authorities in Bangalore decided to digitize 20 million land records. IT companies wanted to get this data, aimed to remove "messy" politics and deal directly with outside investors. As a result, the land process became more corrupt, and people were exposed to more risks, with land speculators and privileged access to data.
when we open data sets, think beyond the "net positive", who is empowered by this activity
Friedhelm Weinberg from HURIDOCS presented their work with opendata.ge, which - contray to the name - is not open data, but gathering FOI requests from 4 major Georgian NGOs. The goal of the website is to make FOI data mroe transparent, but also to pool information to ensure that same responses are given and cross-referenced. Which public instutuions are always late, or on time? Is there disparity between these agencies?
The main problem here is aggregation of this data: Comparing perfomance and categories is the logical way forqard, but there is a fundamental problem: even NGOS don't agree on what a FOI request is.
There was no agreement on what to use as performance indicators, and requests were different. But, you have to already work with those doing this work.
Reuben Binns spoke about the UK national health service, where citizens first go to general practioners, and then get refered to specialists. In 2012, the Health and Social Care Information Center decided to aggregate this data from GPs. The data was divided in red and green. Red was PII but would be stored on their servers and not published, while green was safe to share. There was also "amber": "soft anonymisation", where identifiable information was replaced by "code" (pseudonymous) and linked to hospital visists throughout datasets.
Amber data was not processed with best practices for this kind of anonymisation. It was occasionally also uploaded to Google for big data analysis by private firms, or uploaded to Earthware and was publicly searchable until they realised about the mistake.
Use of "open data" is a label which doesn't apply to pseudonymous data which is sold for a profit; the Open Data community needs to be careful about how the terminology is used.
Mushon Zer-Aviv from the Public Knowledge Workshop, a volunteer based NGO, with more than 100 volunteerss working on different projects.
We are the Don Quixote of israeli democracy - fighting a lot of windmills
In 2010, the Israeli government decided to open their budget. Unfortunately, it was uploaded in a very complex fashion, but still celebrated as government transparency. So the Public Knowledge Workshop developed a new way to visualize that data that is much more accessible by the public and has actually been used by the parliament as a visual table of contents. So while this website was wildly popular, they realized that it missed 10% of the data: in fact, up to 10% of the budget can be reshuffled after it signed off and the website doesn't capture that information. So in order to fix this, they are currently working on a new website that can be more communicative and present a full context of what's happening in these transactions. Trying to work to make budget transparent by design, and find themselves in a position to discuss budget transparency.
Now what? we are software devs, not financial analysts. who are we to define discussions on budget? we have a bias toward things that we cannot quantify. If it can't be quantified, it doesn't mean it's not important. Not everybody can know everything to do a dataset.
After the panelists, the room started sharing their own stories of open data gone wrong, in a surprisingly rich and active fashion. While we won't mention names or specifics, some use cases discussed are an example of government policy being made into law without any notice to the person who actually wrote the initial brief; a science story trending on Reddit about how "farts can change DNA and cure cancer", calling upon a research paper that says nothing of the kind; examples of stories in which opening data can atually be fatal to investigatvie journalists; reminders on the inability of tech to fix everything; creating of mapped data for a big international agency where large commercial mapping companies closed off what was intially open data; and more.
2PM Sessions
E-waste exploration: Opening up our gadgets and looking into what happens when they die
Sometimes it's the most out of place sessions that trigger the most thinking and learning. The Restart Project, an outfit based in London, is pushing for a rethinking of how the "global north" uses electronics. All of the tech innovation and exponential growth of computational process discussed at events like OKFest requires hardware. Hardware gets old, and it gets old fast. And in the global north we throw away devices as fast as we can upgrade them, racing to distance ourselves from yesterday's technology. The Restart Project encourages learning about how the devices we depend on actually work. They also encourage shifting attitudes about fixing culture. How can we learn from peers in the global south and start fixing things instead of throwing them away? And what economies and geo-political evils do we support by buying without thinking?
To spark this discussion, the Restart Project brought dead equipment and encouraged participants to dissect it. No expertise required. After the body parts of printers and computers were splayed on the table, they led a discussion about what kinds of elements and parts these devices are made of.
To motivate data brains in the room, Restart also facilitated discussion seeded by participant inspiration. Based on this hardware and discussion about the materials inside of them, they asked what investigations would make sense to pursue.
If you have ideas about the kinds of things data can do to shine a light on the price the world pays for accelerated development of new technologies (and bad design and disposal practices) tweet with the #OKFestEE hashtag and follow @RestartProject if you want to learn more about their work!
Packaging your Message, Mobilizing the Public: Collaborative Music Production for Everyone
This session was sponsored by Artists without a Cause and led by African musicians Juliani frm Kenya and Valsero from Camroon, and coordinated by grassroots activist Sasha Kinney. The goal of the session was to present music as a powerful alternative to tell data stories, and combine different participatory methods to build a shared message. Valsero presented his take on the power of music as vehicle for emotions, especially when using data as basis for the creatio of the message.
In our culture, music is the way to express everything. Music is everywhere. You cry, you laugh with music. You want to use music to change the world.
Thanks to its emotional instinctive power, music can be a very powerful alternative to the usual suspects in data-driven advocacy such as visualizations, data-driven journalism or campaigning by numbers. As an example, Valsero spoke about HIV data in his country, and how 5% HIV-positive population can be translated, musically, in a much stronger message than just words on paper.
Musicians are seen as artists of engagement. They create word visualizations for people to absorb more easily. Their role is to create imagery that conveys emotional messages, and in that process they can move far away from actually naming the thing they are singing about.
To illustrate this concept, artist Juliani sourced ideas for creating the OKFest anthem from the participants, in order to build a list of concepts that are close to their hearts. As a second step, Juliani then asked participants to translate these concepts into imagery, such as:
transparency for powerful, privacy for the weak - 2-way mirror
CSV files - common language
Free software - robin hood
digital security - curtains in the bathroom
hack the bank - turning the piggy bank on its head
After that, participants took turns to rap the words that express their imagery into a mic, recorded by the event's crew. Will we have a hip-hop, social, activist, open source, collaborative OKFest anthem soon?
Ingrid Burrington and Josh Begley, two US data artists, presented their concepts and thoughts on digging through concepts in an iterative way in order to find the specific aspect of information that can convey the most meaning to the spectator.
Through examples from Ai Wei Wei, González-Torres and others, Burrington made the case that art is very much about context and deep dives. Doing one thing and iterating over it allows a person to know more, starting with one dumb thing that makes them look at other pieces.
.@lifewinning's favourite #dataviz: González-Torres candy pile http://t.co/Pjz2c5GYDn #okfest14 pic.twitter.com/g727dlIH27
— Zara Rahman (@zararah) July 16, 2014
Josh Begley spoke about how his fascination with specific single things took him to a virtual trip all over the united states to uncover the geographic impact of the state prison system, which he then published on http://prisonmap.com/. Josh also told the story of Metadata+, an app that tracks US drone attacks. In his own words,
in terms of stupid things and doing them over and over, I think that describes every project I ever did.
Save the Titanic: Hands-on anonymisation and risk control of publishing open data
The Open Development Institute organized a hands-on, hour-long anonymization exercise using a dataset of Titanic passengers. Participants were encouraged to think critically about what constitutes direct and indirect identifiers, i.e. what data can directly identify a person, and what data can help identify a person if other information is already known. Some techniques the session covered are:
normalization, or averaging a range of numbers so that real information is "hidden" (representing ticket prices through a 1-100 range instead of actual prices)
removing outliers (the very recognizable edge cases)
adding noise (randomly changing a range of numbers, while still keeping statistical validity)
sampling (picking only a subset of the dataset)
aggregation of data (showing only averages)
Throughout the exercise, it was clear that anonymization is an exercise in balance between richness of information and privacy protection, and it is necessary to gauge the level of sensitivity of data and anonymize accordingly. ODI's suggestion to the group was that, should an org wish to publish aggregate data, they are probably in the clear. However, should they want to publish individual-level data, they should speak to an experienced analyst.
Defining and Designing Successful Data Journalism Initiatives in Developing Countries
At the beginning of her session on how to define and design data journalism initiatives in the developing world, Eva Constantaras explains a key difference between media sectors in the developed and developing world:
In a lot of the countries we work in, the media environment and industry is doing just fine. There is no crisis yet, it's coming but their print media has high circulation and is doing ok.
In that kind of environment, how can support organizations encourage innovation in data journalism? In the global north, innovation in data journalism has been led by scared media outlets who are innovating to protect against erosion of their slipping market share.
The session continued with a crowdsourcing of the challenges faced in the work of supporting data journalism in the developing world. Other challenges included:
lack of availability of non-mundane data
limited data literacy
editorially data is difficult to use
ego of editors
fewer specialists
profitability - few cases of that to point to (even in the "developed" world")
format: how do you tell data journalism over radio?
Small groups brainstormed successful approaches for support and a few highlights included:
prioritizing long term engagement
not getting too ambitious in terms of the number of different projects a data journalism support project can work on
embedding data journalists but making their role in one project explicit
prioritizing the needs of the audience over everything else
not getting caught up in tech glitz
Have you seen other examples of effective data journalism support efforts in the global north or south? Let us know at liveblog@theengineroom.org.
Update July 16, 12PM CET
The opening keynotes were very different, but highlighted the importance of the role of advocacy, investigation, coalition building, and other types of heavy lifting to not only generate open knowledge, but to do something with it.
Patrick Alley described several information chains in effective Global Witness campaigns and highlighted the need for more open data, more communication between investigators, targeted advocacy when using open data, and how shining the light on the intersections of states, companies, money, and power can lead to more openness. When this openness is combined with targeted advocacy, it can sometimes lead to change.
"We are losing our ability to translate our voices into meaningful actions when it matters" great point by @kenyapundit #OKFest14
— Anahi Ayala Iacucci (@anahi_ayala) July 16, 2014
Beatriz Busaniche focused on the challenges facing the open knowledge movement in intellectual rights. She made the case for using historical discussions about intellectual property to move past the current debate and into a more rights-based understanding and campaigning for freedom of information. Like Alley, she emphasized the prominence of on-the-ground advocacy and coalition building as key to gaining ground.
Final rallying call from @beabusaniche "don't reinvent human rights, use them" #okfest14
— OKFestival (@OKFestival) July 16, 2014
Good morning from Berlin, where the first official day of events is heating up.
These are the sessions we'll be covering today:
Tools tools and more tools – Wall
Keynote – Patrick Alley
Keynote – Beatriz Busaniche
Fireside Chat – Ory Okolloh
The 2014 Open Knowledge Festival has started!
In the picturesque setting of Kulturbrauerei, a dismissed brewery re-imagined as North Berlin's cultural and creative hub, the Open Knowledge team kicked off the three-day event with an evening of sponsor presentations, an open faire and artists from around the world.
After presenting the main sponsors of the event, Google, Omidyar Network, Making All Voices Count and the Partnership for Open Data, the participants moved to the Faire space, to learn more about new and interesting projects in the Open Knowledge arena.
Some of the projects on show are:
the Peer Library, an open source project that wishes to provide researchers with a collaborative platform where users can upload PDFs of scientific papers, and annotate them publicly or in private groups. The Peer Library sees the original document as seed for future insight and research, and hopes to provide a more balanced access to peer research for people with difficulties of accessing the formal academic peer research networks.
Opening Closistan, a seed project by OKF Egypt to produce tools and tactics for opening data in countries where governments don't wish to collaborate, or are downright hindering the open process.
School of Data, an organization that works to empower civil society organizations, journalists and citizens with the skills they need to use data effectively.
Open Access Button, a browser plugin that lets users report a paywall when trying to access a publication. The Open Access Button team then does their best to find ways to provide that information to users.
The Faire was moved to dance and perform thanks to artist exhibitions by csv soundsystem (electronic music inspired by and enmeshed with code, visualizations and data manipulation) and Politaoke, an event sponsored by Artists Without A Cause (AWAC), where participants perform karaoke using famous political speeches instead of songs.
We're looking forward to tomorrow's opening session with keynotes by Patric Alley, director of Global Witness, Beatriz Busaniche from Via Libre, and a fireside chat by Ory Okolloh from Omidyar Network.
This liveblog post is a dashboard of the engine room coverage of OKFestival 2014. We will be updating it throughout the next three days with snippets of coverage. If you want to submit information or photos/videos for inclusion, email us at liveblog@theengineroom.org! Also follow us on twitter @engnroom and #OKFest14 to keep tabs on the event.
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Welshest Wales – Writing … or Just Practicing?
One of the nice things about working for a UK company but being on permanent assignment to a US one is that you get twice as many public holidays. While I'm not sure we want a Black Monday here in Little Olde England, maybe we could come up with some excuse for celebrating Thanksgiving. Perhaps without the turkey. Even though it's a moveable feast (the fourth Thursday of November) it usually coincides with our wedding anniversary, so it's a great opportunity for a few days away.
This year it was South Wales, and I managed to avoid the usual "going to Wales" joke (Q: How do you get two whales in a Mini? A: Across the Severn Bridge). Talking of the Severn Bridge, you have to pay £5.70 for the privilege of crossing it to get into Wales, but they say it's not so bad because there's no charge to get out again. Except we came back a different route via Monmouth, so where do I go to get my £2.85 refunded?
But once you get past Swansea to somewhere like Mumbles and Knab Rock, the whole outlook changes. Old-fashioned towns and villages with superb views across the estuary, and the wonderful hospitality (though the waiter in the cafe was Polish, so still no Welsh accent).
Then, the next day, one of the most beautiful places I've ever been in the UK. Llanstefan is like somewhere time forgot. Wide open and deserted beaches and mud flats, incredible views towards the valleys, and a sense of peace and tranquility that you never expected after going through places such as Port Talbot and Cardiff.
There wasn't a breath of wind that morning, and all you could hear was a farm tractor slowly plodding up and down a distant field. What an amazing place. OK, so I suppose you can't expect the only shop and tea-room to be open in late November, even though there was a huge sign saying "Open All Year" (it didn't say which year).
Next stop, Saundersfoot. No, I have no idea where the name came from. Strangely, the further West you go in South Wales, the less Welsh the place names get (think Pembroke, Haverfordwest, and Fishguard). Maybe we passed through Welshest Wales and out of the other side. But Saundersfoot is a nice little seaside resort where we were told to go and try the local delicacy named "Cawl". Supposedly it's a kind of mutton stew, though the place we were recommended to serves it with beef and cheese bread. It was nice, but cost about the same as a three-course meal here in the wilds of Derbyshire where I live.
But the highlight of the trip was to see Tenby. We watched an edition of Grand Designs on TV some weeks ago that featured a couple who had converted the old lifeboat station into an amazing house. The town and beach looked so nice in the program that we thought it was worth a visit, and we weren't disappointed.
The old town is quaint, though it would have been even quainter if the tide hadn't been out, and if local council hadn't been digging up all the cobbled streets that week. However, the views from the cliff are wonderful, and the deserted South beach provides an opportunity for a pleasant stroll along the coast. Preferably in the same direction as the 40 mph wind is blowing.
Coming home, we motored into the valleys planning to see the scenery and the Brecon Beacons, but were defeated by the sudden change to cold, wet, and misty weather. I managed to shoehorn in a brief diversion to the Brecon Mountain Railway, in the delightfully named village of Pant, but other than the cafe it was closed for the winter. The one highlight was in Neath Valley when the weather calmed down for a short while. A brisk and refreshing walk up a beautiful valley to the local waterfalls proved well worthwhile. OK, so it's not quite Victoria or Niagara, but it's a beautiful place.
If I had to define "Welshest Wales" – I'd probably go for either the heart of Cardiganshire, or the west of Snowdonia (where the accent is not what you'd expect) – definitely not where you went.
Hi Hwyl, Thanks for this, especially the information about the Landsker Line. I never knew about that (I suspect few non-Welsh people do!). According to wikipedia "The language boundary is a fascinating example of a cultural frontier that has persisted, without the assistance of any legal status, for ten centuries or more." Amazing.
We are regular North West Wales visitors, but this is the first time we've been past Bridgend in South Wales. Though we have friends who have just moved to near Carmarthen so we'll be in the Welshest bit more often!


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     * @internal param array $options
     */
    public function createAClient($login, $password)
    {
        $options = [
            'Login' => $login,
            'Password' => $password
        ];
        $command = '/Clients.json';
        $contents = $this->sdkService->SDKCommand('POST', $command, $options);
        return $contents;
    }

    public function deleteAClient($sid)
    {   $command = '/Clients/'.$sid;
        $options = [
        ];
        $contents = $this->sdkService->SDKCommand('DELETE', $command, $options);
        return $contents;
    }

    public function changeClientsPassword($sid, $password)
    {   $command = '/Clients/'.$sid;
        $options = [
            'Password' => $password
        ];
        $contents = $this->sdkService->SDKCommand('PUT', $command, $options);
        return $contents;
    }

    public function getListOfAvailableClients()
    {   $command = '/Clients';
        $options = [
        ];
        $contents = $this->sdkService->SDKCommand('GET', $command);
        return $contents;
    }

    /**Incoming Phone Numbers**/

    /**SMS**/

    public function sendSMS($from, $to, $text)
    {
        $command = '/SMS/Messages';
        $options = [
            'From' => $from,
            'To' => $to,
            'Body' => $text,
        ];
        $contents = $this->sdkService->SDKCommand('POST', $command, $options);
        return $contents;
    }

    public function getListOfSMSMessages()
    {
        $command = '/SMS/Messages';
        $options = [
        ];
        $contents = $this->sdkService->SDKCommand('GET', $command, $options);

        return $contents;
    }

//•	List of contacts
//•	Free app to app messages, including self-destructing messages, delete/edit message
//•	App to SMS message - connect to relevant SMS provider(s)
//•	Free app to app calls (VoIP)
//•	User profile, including status
//•	Non-VoIP calling – connect to providers such as Voxbeam using least cost routing, for international calls to mobiles/landlines
//•	Calling/SMS Credit
//•	Add menus to the website for the following:
//•	Purchase credit
//•	Send SMS
//•	Send free message (to other app users)
//•	View contacts (show other app users at the top of the list with an icon)

}

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////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// DISCLAIMER
///
/// Copyright 2014-2022 ArangoDB GmbH, Cologne, Germany
/// Copyright 2004-2014 triAGENS GmbH, Cologne, Germany
///
/// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
/// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
/// You may obtain a copy of the License at
///
///     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
///
/// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
/// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
/// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
/// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
/// limitations under the License.
///
/// Copyright holder is ArangoDB GmbH, Cologne, Germany
///
/// @author Jan Steemann
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#include "StandaloneContext.h"
#include "StorageEngine/TransactionState.h"
#include "Utils/CollectionNameResolver.h"

struct TRI_vocbase_t;

namespace arangodb::transaction {

StandaloneContext::StandaloneContext(TRI_vocbase_t& vocbase)
    : SmartContext(vocbase, Context::makeTransactionId(), nullptr) {}

/// @brief get transaction state, determine commit responsibility
/*virtual*/ std::shared_ptr<TransactionState> StandaloneContext::acquireState(
    transaction::Options const& options, bool& responsibleForCommit) {
  if (_state) {
    responsibleForCommit = false;
  } else {
    responsibleForCommit = true;
    _state = transaction::Context::createState(options);
  }
  return _state;
}

/// @brief unregister the transaction
void StandaloneContext::unregisterTransaction() noexcept {
  TRI_ASSERT(_state != nullptr);
  _state = nullptr;
}

std::shared_ptr<Context> StandaloneContext::clone() const {
  auto clone = std::make_shared<transaction::StandaloneContext>(_vocbase);
  clone->setState(_state);
  return clone;
}

/// @brief create a context, returned in a shared ptr
/*static*/ std::shared_ptr<transaction::Context>
transaction::StandaloneContext::Create(TRI_vocbase_t& vocbase) {
  return std::make_shared<transaction::StandaloneContext>(vocbase);
}

}  // namespace arangodb::transaction


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Three New Attorneys Join Carr & Carr
Serving Oklahoma Since 1973
Carr and Carr Attorneys at Law, an Oklahoma based personal injury and social security law firm, is excited to announce we have brought on three new attorneys.
Our law firm has been serving injured Oklahomans since 1973 and we are excited to be expanding our practice.
Continue reading below to meet the new additions to Carr & Carr.
Lark Zink, Disability Attorney
Lark Zink graduated from the University of Oklahoma where she obtained her Juris Doctor.
Prior to attending law school, Lark received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French from the University of California at Berkeley.
Click here to read the rest of Zink's bio.
Blake Beeler, Injury Attorney
Blake Beeler was born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He graduated from Casady School in 1994. Beeler attended the University of Oklahoma graduating with a degree in history in 1998. He then attended the University of Oklahoma College of Law graduating in 2002.
Blake has spent the bulk of his career representing persons injured by the negligence of others. He has litigated cases in all four corners of the state as well as all three Federal District Courts in Oklahoma.
Click here to keep reading Blake Beeler's bio.
Ryan Dexter, Disability Lawyer
Ryan Dexter has focused his legal career representing clients in Social Security Disability cases for over 10 years. He has helped thousands of people across the United States who have become unable to work due to various physical or mental impairments.
Dexter has represented clients at all levels of appeal with the Social Security Administration and handled Social Security appeals to the United States District Court. Dexter understands that when injury or illness interferes with a person's ability work, it puts that person in a vulnerable position financially, mentally, and emotionally.
Visit Attorney Ryan Dexter's bio page for more information.
When An SSD Attorney Can Help
American Heart Month


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The Present And Future Heat Waves Of Chicago
By Shannon Heffernan
Children play in the spray of an open fire hydrant Chicago's south side in this 2012 photo. Sitthixay Ditthavong/AP, file
In the coming days, Chicago temperatures are expected to soar, with a maximum heat index of 110.
Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communication says it is preparing for the possibly dangerous weather. It says the city will be making calls to elderly citizens and deploying emergency response workers to check-in on people. Chicagoans who need to cool off can seek refuge at cooling centers around the city.
Dr. Jeffrey Schaider says Chicago's heat is dangerous, in part because of the humidity. That's because our bodies use sweat to cool off. But in humid weather, sweat doesn't evaporate efficiently.
"So even if you are in the shade, in these really high temperatures and very high humidity, your body temperature may will just increase higher and higher," Schaider said.
Click play above to hear an extended interview with Dr. Schaider.
During extreme heat, people without air conditioners are advised to keep blinds closed but windows open. Citizens are asked to check on their neighbors and keep an eye out for vulnerable populations, including children and the elderly.
Officials are also warning drivers not to leave pets in the car. Animal control in Portage, Indiana is adding parking lot patrols to check for trapped pets. If animals are found alone in the car, police will be called to locate the owner or to open the vehicle, and drivers will be ticketed.
The weather in Chicago varies and Midwesterners expect some extreme temperatures every now and then. So the massive heat wave that is predicted to the middle of the country isn't by itself an indication of a warming planet.
But when scientists zoom out and look at the broader global picture, it's clear that something big is happening. According to NASA, every month in the first half of this year, has broken global heat records. That's after 2015 set the record for the hottest year in modern weather history.
These trends are consistent with what scientists predict to happen from global warming. Chicago has a climate action plan that includes ways the city can adapt to rising temperatures, including combating the urban heat island effect.
The Union of Concerned scientists says if humans do nothing to curb carbon emissions, heat related deaths are predicted to quadruple by 2050. In Chicago, deadly heat waves like the one in 1995 could occur three times a year by the end of this century.
Shannon Heffernan is a reporter for WBEZ follow her @shannon_h. Susie An and Jenn White contributed to this report.
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This collection includes six adorable American "4th of July" dolls, each with cute little button eyes, rosy cheeks, stitched mouths, and American flags - one has a red and white polka dot dress and a matching headband, one has a pretty green and red dress, one has a pretty red dress and a red and purple hat, one has a blue and white striped dress, matching headband, and flip flops, one has a pretty blue dress, and one has a pretty blue and green dress. This collection also includes two Americana balloons word art graphics - "America" and "USA." This set contains 8 graphics.


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Will Jenkins
"I am a 1st generation creative in my family. I've had to make my way as an artist on my own while developing as a person."
Will Jenkins (Sir Will) is a digital content creator specializing in video, mixed media, and photography. "I am a 1st generation creative in my family." Will didn't grow up in an arts community but always saw photography as a way to capture moments and document his life. His work is highly influenced by the style and culture developed uniquely in the South from the warm colors to the inherited symbols of status such as gold grills and cars on big rims. Will photographs with the intention of documenting the world around him while creating with the southern elements he idolizes. Expanding upon the work created through photography he works to transform portraits into new captivating and interactive works.
More About the Artist:
Will graduated from Winthrop University with a double major in Business Management and Marketing Communications where he was able to develop his skills while working to create content for his clients. Will has exhibited at the Elder Gallery, Mint Museum, and Harvey B. Gantt Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, Atlanta, Georgia with the Chinese Food Collective, and Durham, North Carolina with Golden Belt Gallery.
Currently Based NC, USA
@http://sirwilltheartist
Partners Atrium Health


From Leadership Development Program to Ugandan Parliament | Christian Blog on Child Poverty.
I already had a ton of respect for Compassion International and what they do. If you're not sponsoring a child and engaged with him/her through letters, you need to be.


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Q: zend framework - hidden element has no value even when specifying it I create a hidden element that way:
$this->addElement('hidden', 'id', '1');

but what I get is this:
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="" id="id" />

I've also tried like this:
$this->addElement('hidden', 'id', array(
    'value' => 1
));

but it didn't work better.
What's wrong?

A: You might be using
$form->populate($someData);

or
$form->isValid($someData);

somewhere in your code ;)

A: You can use the setValue method of Zend_Form.
Try it like this:
$this->getElement('your-name')->setValue(1);

A: I think you have to put in your form class:
public function populate(array $values) {
    parent::populate($values);
    $this->addElement('hidden', 'hidden');
    $el = $this->getElement('hidden');
    $el->setValue(1);

}

A: Perhaps before render you do $form->setValue() and param id is null.

A: It works for me (zf 1.1) with an int or a string, but have you tried passing the value as string?:
$this->addElement( 'hidden', 'id', array('value'=>'1') )

A: Answer is simple:
//$form <- is your zend form element;
$form->get('element_name')->setValue(1);

Worked for me! :)
As those before me said: make sure that there are no form elements setters in your way (populate, setValues, etc). :)

A: After problem with this I used (In form class)
$hidden = $this->createElement('hidden','hiddenElement');
$hidden->setAttrib('xxx','my value');
$this->addElement($hidden);

Extract value with
$form->hiddenElement->getAttrib('xxx');

It migth not be an optimal solution but it workked for me.

A: Have you tried setDefault?
$this->addElement( 'hidden', 'id', array(
    'default' => 1
) );


Unsure - I need help.
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From the 2020 BIO International Convention: leading with equity and inclusivity in mind
diversity & inclusion in STEM / open innovation / startups
Over seven-thousand people worldwide attended this year's BIO (Biotechnology Innovation Organization) International Convention from June 8-12, 2020, which was held online for the first time. Our team participated in the historic event and enjoyed catching up with old SeedSprint members, meeting new ones, and attending world-class sessions like a fireside chat with Dr. Fauci(!!) and several sessions led by BIO's new President and CEO, Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath.
The week-long event highlighted how global and diverse our community is and the unique perspectives each of us bring to the fields of biotechnology and open innovation. Both at the convention and outside of it, many of us have been engaging in essential public dialogue about equity and the dire need to better support and foster the development of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx members of our community and others who are underrepresented in STEM and open innovation. Many have expressed the need for real change, and we are excited that so many thought leaders in our field—from BIO to AUTM to the Innovation Research Interchange (IRI)—are contributing to the much-needed conversation. We recommend checking out AUTM's reading list, the IRI's statement as well as some words from member companies like Michelin and General Electric, and our plan of action for furthering social justice through our work at SeedSprint.
BIO contributed to the conversation on equity and inclusivity by hosting a series of sessions on these topics during the convention. Our team attended a few of these talks, including "Leading Through Crisis: Speaking Up and Out on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Issues Impacting our World." In the session, Black biotechnology company CEOs, allies, and BIO leaders shared their perspectives as pioneers in their fields. They discussed the challenges and victories they've encountered along the way and suggested tangible ways for other biotechnology leaders to advance social justice in their organizations. Dr. McMurry-Heath hosted the session and speakers included Dr. Ted Love, president and CEO of Global Blood Therapeutics; Dr. Jeremy Levin, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Ovid Therapeutics; and Dr. Tony Coles, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cerevel Therapeutics. The speakers covered topics including the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on underrepresented populations, what we can do to drive systematic change in our businesses, and the importance of advancing diversity in clinical trials. You can watch the full session (and several others!) here.
We should all be looking for tangible ways to make our workplaces more inclusive, and Dr. Coles spoke to this point. He shared that at his company, the first step he took was to have frank conversations with employees about diversity and inclusion and ask how he and other leaders could help Black, Indigenous, and Latinx employees feel valued and supported at work. He suggested practical steps that biotechnology CEOs can take to advance this mission, like hiring people from diverse backgrounds. He emphasized that diverse representation within the company can build trust not only within the organization itself but also among the communities the company serves.
Dr. Love echoed Dr. Coles' sentiment, urging organizations to be intentional about diversity, work to bring the best out in everyone, and keep in mind that since we serve a diverse population, we have to get input from everyone. We can only build a strong team when we include diverse voices and focus on the value employees contribute to the organization, he said. Both Dr. Coles and Dr. Love pointed out that instead of feeling ashamed of what has happened in the past, we should instead put our energy into making tangible improvements in our own organizations and communities. Dr. Levin added that if we fail to live, lead, and act with equity and inclusion in mind, we will eventually lose our way and fail to adequately address the needs of the communities we aim to serve.
As Dr. Love summarized, we have to move from emotions to actions. Dr. Levin urged us to lead by example by setting high standards for ourselves, proactively and consistently communicating these standards to our teams, and being relentless about having these conversations on a daily basis. He continued by asking the audience to pay special attention to team dynamics, support opportunities for teamwork and team bonding, and be intentional about building a culture of collegiality.
At SeedSprint, supporting the diverse and international community of inventors and innovators as they take their technology from the lab to the marketplace is at the heart of our mission. We're thankful for organizations like BIO for helping us advance this mission and we look forward to learning more from BIO and other thought leaders about how we can work together toward achieving greater equity and inclusivity in open innovation and STEM!
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