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António Carvalho, de son nom complet António José Pereira de Carvalho, est un footballeur portugais né le  à Guimarães. Il évoluait aux postes de milieu gauche ou d'arrière gauche.

Biographie

En club
En 1979, il commence sa carrière professionnelle dans son club formateur le Vitória Guimarães qui évolue en première division portugaise.

Jouant peu avec le Vitória, il est transféré en 1981 à l'AD Sanjoanense, club de deuxième division.

De 1982 à 1984, il revient en première division sous les couleurs du SC Salgueiros.

Il est transféré au Portimonense SC en 1984, club qu'il représente pendant deux saisons.

Il est à nouveau joueur du Vitória Guimarães de 1986 à 1991.

Lors de la saison 1990-1991, il évolue au FC Paços de Ferreira.

Après deux saisons successives en deuxième division avec les clubs de Moreirense FC et de Ronfe, il raccroche les crampons en 1994.

Il dispute un total de 279 matchs pour 12 buts marqués en première division portugaise. Au sein des compétitions européennes, il dispute 12 matchs en Coupe UEFA et un match en Coupe des vainqueurs de coupes.

En équipe nationale
International portugais, il reçoit deux sélections en équipe du Portugal en 1987. Le , dans le cadre des éliminatoires de l'Euro 1988, il dispute un match contre l'Italie (défaite 0-3 à Milan). Le , il joue contre Malte (victoire 1-0 à Ħ'Attard).

Entraîneur

Après sa carrière de joueur, il devient entraîneur.

Palmarès
 Vitória Guimarães
 Supercoupe du Portugal (1) :
 Vainqueur : 1988.

Références

Liens externes

Footballeur international portugais
Joueur du Vitória SC
Joueur du SC Salgueiros
Joueur du Portimonense SC
Joueur du FC Paços de Ferreira
Joueur du Moreirense FC
Entraîneur portugais de football
Naissance en décembre 1960
Naissance à Guimarães

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Performances: Seven performances from April 21st to April 29th at Responsible Grace Church, 204 Elm Street, Somerville.
Tickets: You can buy tickets in advance, or make a reservation to pay at the door, on our Tickets page.
In March and April of 2016, we presented an original full-length adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic tale of nonsense and whimsy, Alice in Wonderland , adapted by Mindy Klenoff and Jeremy Holstein and directed by Mindy Klenoff. For this performance, we managed to do all sound effects fully practical. The matinées featured games and activities for our younger audience members.


Religious extremism isn't a new phenomenon, so what makes the challenges we face today different from those that have come before? Is religious extremism really on the rise, or does it just have a new look for a modern, technologically-advanced age? Given the pressures caused by an expanding global population in an increasingly interconnected world, is a clash of faiths inevitable?


Army Commander, Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya has been promoted to the rank of General by the President, the Army's Media Unit said. The promotion is with effect from June 01.
General Jagath Jayasuriya is the 19th Commander of the SL Army and the first to be appointed to the post in the post conflict era. He assumed duties as the Army Commander in July 2009 and was the Commander, Security Forces Wanni before he took over the mantle of the Army and was involved in the planning and operations in the Wanni. .
He is a past pupil of Royal College, Colombo and showed his prowess in the field of sports and athletics and brought fame to his school at national and international level.
Joining the Sri Lanka Army as a Cadet Office, he passed out first in order of merit of the Intake-10 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 23rd January 1980. Subsequently he rose to the ranks of Lieutenant (1981), Captain (1984), Major (1988), Lieutenant Colonel (1993), Colonel (2001), Brigadier (2001) and Major General (December 2005) respectively.
General Jayasuriya is the recipient of several awards and military decorations, including the Vishishta Seva Vibhushanaya (VSV), Uttama Seva Padakkama (USP), Army 50th anniversary medal, Long Service Medal and Clasp, 50th Independence Medal, Desha Puthra Sammanaya, North and East Operations Medal, Poorna Bhoomi Padakkama, Riviresa Campaign Service Medal.
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Top off our tofu patties with a variety of fat-free toppings: lettuce, sliced onion and tomato, sprouts and mustard.
Coat a large nonstick skillet with cooking spray. Add carrots, scallions and garlic; sauté until carrots are tender, about 4 minutes. Add tofu and sauté for 1 minute more; transfer mixture to a medium-size bowl.
Stir in bread crumbs, teriyaki sauce, egg whites, salt and pepper. Shape into 4 equal-sized patties, pressing firmly with your hands.
Wipe out sauté pan and coat it with cooking spray again. Fry patties on both sides until crisp and brown, about 3 minutes per side. Serve on rolls.


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Coronavirus In Wisconsin
Wisconsin National Guard members administer COVID-19 tests in a parking lot Monday May 11, 2020, in Milwaukee. Morry Gash/AP Photo
Rural Northwoods County Has Wisconsin's Highest Active COVID-19 Infection Rate
Iron County Had Few Cases For Months. Now It's Seeing High Virus Activity.
By Rob Mentzer
Thursday, July 30, 2020, 6:30am
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One of the most sparsely populated counties in Wisconsin now has the state's highest rate of active COVID-19 infections.
The steep infection curve in far-northern Iron County in July follows four months when the county's total number of infections was in the single digits. Health officials say the outbreak isn't tied to any single event or institution. Rather, one public health official said it appears to be the result of "quarantine fatigue" that led people to cast aside social distancing practices for graduation parties, Fourth of July gatherings and other social events where the disease spread.
As case counts increase in much of Wisconsin, the rural area is one of several places in the state to have seen a spike in new cases in recent weeks. It also exemplifies the disease's continuing spread from Wisconsin's urban centers into areas that previously had seen only minimal activity.
Zona Wick, the former county health officer who has been rehired as a public health nurse during the crisis, said the county's low numbers throughout the first months of the crisis meant some residents became complacent about the risks.
"They said, 'We're rural, our numbers are very low, so we're safe to have gatherings here in our community,'" Wick said.
There have now been 75 positive cases in the county — 68 among residents and seven among nonresidents, who may include those with seasonal properties there. Thirty-eight people have recovered; three have been hospitalized; one has died. Wick said cases are distributed across the county and not tied to a particular cluster. For example, the county's nursing homes have had no cases.
In absolute terms, there are plenty of places in Wisconsin with more cases and more deaths. But for a county of 5,676 residents, the spike means Iron County's per capita rate of active cases now is higher than in any of the state's urban centers. That's in part because the great majority of cases recorded in initially hard-hit places like Milwaukee, Racine and Brown counties have now recovered, leaving them with a much smaller proportion of active cases compared to their cumulative totals.
In new data published by the state Department of Health Services on Wednesday, only four of Wisconsin's 72 counties showed more active cases than recovered ones: Iron, Juneau, Langlade and Menominee counties. Two others, Taylor and Washburn counties, had the same number of active and recovered cases. All six are rural counties.
They aren't the only places in Wisconsin to see a recent spike in new cases. On Wednesday, Trempealeau County public health nurse Kaila Baer said in a statement that the western Wisconsin county was "on the edge of moving to severe risk." It had the seventh-highest case rate in Wisconsin per 100,000 people, according to Baer.
Meanwhile, Chippewa County saw COVID-19 cases double in the last three weeks, according to a report from WQOW.
There is no hospital in Iron County, and Wick said residents have traveled to Minocqua, Ashland or Ironwood, Michigan for tests. Because of an increase in new cases, the Health Department requested a National Guard-assisted testing event held in Hurley on July 24. Not all results from that event have yet been returned.
"Our numbers stayed low for March, April, May and June," Wick said. "For four months, our numbers didn't go above 10.
"Quarantine fatigue is a real thing," she said. Those low numbers "lulled people into complacency, into saying, 'Hey, things are safe here. It's just our family. It's just our friends. It's just people we know.' … And the virus doesn't care."
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Drought, frost clip potato stocks in S Ostrobothnia
Published : 08 Nov 2019, 02:21
Photo source: Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) by Veikko Somerpuro.
In the middle of October, farms had 203 million kilograms of ware- and food-industry potatoes in stock, of which ware potatoes accounted for 167 million kgs, said the Natural Resources Institute of Finland (Luke).
The total amount of potato stocks was nearly 10 million kilograms and ware potato stocks more than seven million kgs higher than that in October 2018, said a press release.
The previous growing season was closer to an average year after many years of difficult growing conditions.
However, weather conditions changed greatly from one region to the next this year, as well. The potato yield was high in Satakunta and Tavastia Proper. The yield in the whole of Finland was at the previous year's level at 31 tons per hectare.
"Drought and cold nights reduced yields in main potation production areas in Ostrobothnia where the potato yield was 29–33 tons per hectare," said Anna-Kaisa Jaakkonen, a senior statistician at Luke.
Jaakkonen said potato stocks in Southern Ostrobothnia were a quarter smaller than that during the previous autumn. In Northern Ostrobothnia, the increase in the cultivated area by 158 hectares from the previous year covered the decrease in yields.
"Food-industry potatoes accounted for a significant part of this increase. Even though Luke estimated in August that the total potato yield will be smaller than in 2018, the ongoing study of crop production statistics seems to indicate that the total yield will be higher than last year, at least on farms included in the stock level survey. Above all, this can be explained by the increased cultivation area," Jaakkonen added.
Ostrobothnian ELY Centre regions have been significant in terms of ware potato production year after year. In the middle of October, 75% of ware potato stocks, i.e. 125 million kilos, were on farms located in these three regions. Tavastia Proper was the fourth largest region in terms of ware potato stocks.
In addition to Ostrobothnia, Satakunta is another key region for food-industry potato production. There, food-industry potatoes covered 60% of the total ware and food-industry potato in the area. In Satakunta, potato stocks were half filled by food-industry potatoes.
Frost during the growing season had an impact on the quality of harvested potatoes. Its final impact can only be seen during the stock period. Drought in turn caused potato scab.
The ware potato producer price was EUR 19.69 per 100 kilos in September, being slightly higher than in September 2018 when the producer price was EUR 18.70 per 100 kilos. In Europe in general, this year's potato yields were normal, with an increasing cultivation area compensating for drought in Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
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Located on the southwest side of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Parnassus campus, the new Kirkham Childcare Center accommodates 75-90 children of UCSF employees. The facility's programmatic and design vision was developed after careful study of numerous day care centers around the Bay Area and incorporates the latest models in child-centered learning environments.
Sited on a steep hillside, the building is entered from the uppermost area of the site where level parking and protected parent access to the facility is provided. A welcoming entry court and reception spaces promote a sense of community among staff, students, and parents. Classrooms for the younger children are located on the main level, near the front entry for ease of access, while spaces for the older children are located on the lower level. Through successful collaboration with neighborhood groups, the building is designed with varied residentially-scaled materials appropriate to the neighborhood.
Significant to the overall design solution, the project utilizes prefabricated modular unit construction, ultimately reducing the overall construction costs all the while maintaining a contextual design aesthetic, fulfilling the unique programmatic space requirements, and mitigating the complex site conditions.


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Texas Children's Hospital in Houston opened its Texas Children's Hospital Pavilion for Women after recently expanding a new West Campus in an effort to meet growing needs and a shift in population base. And with this growth, said Rick McFee, director of supply chain management at Texas Children's, there came an excellent opportunity to streamline the system's supply chain.
"Due to both of those projects as new projects, we had the ability to look at supply chain and how we were managing all that activity," he said. "It gave us the opportunity to look at new ways of doing that."
McFee, based on his experiences, outlines six keys to supply chain management.
1. IT systems should support maximum flexibility. When deciding on an IT system, said McFee, the organization chose to look, first and foremost, for one that gave them maximum flexibility. "We were making sure we could manage multiple types of items," he said. "For example, not every item can fit into the same box or container, so we needed to make sure we had maximum flexibility." Having a close-cabinet system, he added, results in more limitations than an open-cabinet system, putting the emphasis on barcoding to streamline processes. "So as long as you can grab that item and scan its barcode, or have the barcode label close to the item's location, the system works," he said. "That was one of the things we were looking for: the flexibility to manage multiple different types and sizes of projects without limitations to the physical constraint."
2. Try to manage utilization at the floor level. Within Texas Children's facilities, said McFee, a nurse can pick up an item and see barcoding from both the manufacturer and the facility itself, allowing them to scan either code and document the inventory. "From a nursing perspective, they can scan it when they're pulling it off the shelf, or when they have it in their hand," said McFee. "In all of these systems that we used, the key concept is to try to manage the utilization at the floor level to the point where the user – the nurse, the technician, whoever – is basically documenting their use of that item." And, in the background, McFee continued, the system manages the generation of, say, a replenishment request automatically, "without someone having to go up and count every shelf," he said.
3. Include nurses on compliance efforts. McFee said they both train and monitor nurses on their compliance efforts, while identifying folks who may be having issues maintaining compliance. "We're talking down to the individual level or groups of folks," he said. "So if we find an item that's consistently not being captured, we work with nursing on how we can improve that, and how [we] can handle [this] in a different way." McFee added nurses also took a hard look at their own utilization patterns, which allowed the organization to dramatically reduce numbers when shifting to a new system. "We reduced the numbers for what [nurses] thought they'd be using," he said. "In some cases, they had a 10- to 12-day supply sitting on the shelves, and they were down to three to five a day for most items. That was a dramatic reduction."
4. Be aware of utilization patterns. An advantage of using a system to help streamline supply chain efforts is having the ability to key in your "true utilization patterns," he said. "All of these systems manage those utilization numbers, and they allow you to tweak those numbers to fit the true utilization patterns," he said. Communication with nurses and this function, McFee said, played a large part in the overall reduction in the inventory sitting on the floor. "That was through a multiple step process," he said. "We went through to right-size our inventory for the right volume of activity they were expecting."
5. Review yourstandardization
and have a strong value analysis process. This is an "old stand-by" point, said McFee, and includes making sure you don't duplicate products in your supply chains. "And that means a pretty robust value analysis process, and one that's looking for opportunities, especially where we may be using a different manufacturer for achieving the same functional requirements," he said. "It's also looking at what you can do to reduce those number of overall lines." The value analysis process, he added, should look at any addition to the supply chain from a value perspective, while comparing it to what an organization currently has in stock. "We're always looking to use the best, most efficient and most effective product," he said. "[For example,] if you have a product and you're getting a great price on it, but in reality, you're using two or three of them when one should be working – finding these issues and those items and working closely with the clinical staff to identify those opportunities for change. It's part of what our value analysis does."
6. Don't forget about the data. Lastly, said McFee, you can't forget about the data. "Data, data, data," he said. "If you're not tracking it and you don't have your utilization activity through your ERP system or your point-of-sales system, you need that utilization data on everything." He added that purchasing systems should be linked to a point-of-sales system, allowing for a "single item master," he said. "So if someone goes to order something, if it's an item that's already out there, we may prevent them from creating a PO if they could get it from our warehouse," he said. "Or, we may have a contract established for an item with a vendor. We may not stock it, but the pricing has been established, which cuts out a significant amount of time within our purchasing function."
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Twitch Plays Pokemon: Humanity in a Nutshell
In the three weeks or so since its inception, Twitch Plays Pokemon has come very close to taking over the internet. It has spawned its own memes and in-jokes, its own subculture, has been reported on by major news networks around the world and has somehow persuaded hundreds of thousands of people at the time to repeatedly type 'up' into a chat menu in the vain hope their input will make a difference. And somehow, this all makes for surprisingly compelling viewing.
The idea is brilliant in its simplicity: a stream of a Pokemon videogame broadcast live over Twitch TV, with a mod for the chat that allows viewers to enter onscreen commands that will effect gameplay- so somebody typing 'down' into the chat will cause the player character to move down (assuming, of course the command is not received whilst the character is in the midst of stepping from one tile to the other. Thus, people from all over the world are forced to work together, or at least in something vaguely approaching sychronicity, to progress through the game, and the more people they are the more chaotic and hard to control the whole business becomes. Naming Pokemon is a quite hilarious farce. With no central control of the game, viewers are forced to try and negotiate immediate aims and decisions through the ever-scrolling chat before even attempting to implement them, and if no clear consensus is reached then the character is essentially condemned to walking back and forth around a city or other immediate area whilst everyone attempts to move in different directions. And, this being the internet, there are more than a few trolls- those who delight in the inherent chaos of the game and make it their job to hamper progress wherever they can.
Somehow, the image of a pixelated figure walking randomly about the screen has proved wildly popular, with hundreds of thousands of people watching and contributing to the adventures, functioning as a group brain that has become known as the Hivemind. The nature of the stream has led to a large number of somewhat bizarre oddities compared to a regular Pokemon playthrough- with the game playing day and night with a rotating cast of controllers, grinding for hours on end to level up Pokemon is less soul-destroying on the player and will quite often continue for hours on end as the Hivemind endeavours to decide what to do next. As such, Pokemon tend to level up fairly quickly and battles, even against Gym Leaders, are relatively speaking straightforward to win. However, successfully walking to where the Hivemind 'wants' to go, unlikely to have been considered a challenge by the original developers, is a far more taxing business. A series of one-way ledges in the early days of the stream took over a day to navigate, and a subsequent mountain pass had to be attempted on multiple occasions after several 'accidental' uses of Dig took them back to the start- the 30 second delay between the chat and the screen doesn't exactly help. An attempt to deposit the offending creature in the PC, another unintended yet extreme challenge involving multiple successive 'correct' button presses, ended with the party's two best Pokemon being released and lost for all eternity, and attempting to buy a water stone (after many hours of heated debate) ended in similar failure. One maze required the entire nature of the stream to be restructured as 'Democracy mode' was initiated- hell, even getting through the door to the Pokemon Centre has baffled users for more time than it has any right to.
But perhaps the main motivator behind TPP has been the lore and humour developed within. A veritable religion has sprung up surrounding the Helix Fossil, an early game item that, being early up in the items list and unusable in general play, was consulted on many occasions- the player character was said to be 'looking to the Helix for guidance'. Its counterpart, the Dome fossil, has become a Satanic figure, with several particularly annoying game features (such as the aforementioned user of Dig) becoming 'servants of the Dome'. The chat has also come up with its own nicknames for the selection of Pokemon with strings of random letters for names and has more recently (at time of writing) become fixated with the captured 'Doges' (this is the internet after all), aka the Pokemon Poochyena.
So… why am I talking about this? Well, other than because I find the thing faintly amusing, I find what TPP represents truly fascinating, and I think it exists as the perfect microcosm of, and metaphor for, human existence and society. Think about it- we have thousands of people united only by a common goal (completing the game), yet each with very little power to achieve said goal. They do what they can, hampered by the limitations of the world they find themselves in, and a chosen few rise above the rest and at least attempt to give the masses direction toward they go. But all do not function in harmony- different voices all compete for attention, with every participant sure they have a way to make things so much simpler if only everyone would agree. Others act as saboteurs and dissenters, criminals if you will, their efforts in a stroke undoing the hard work of others as they contentedly giggle to themselves from the sidelines, whilst still others just go about their duties almost randomly in the hope their efforts will count for something. In doing so, the Hivemind has developed its own gods, religions, folklore and history, providing the entertainment and distraction needed for the stream to keep going. Sometimes, these distractions and other differences of opinion have held the stream up for hours, halting forward progress. And yet, despite all obstacles, despite what should surely be unmitigated chaos, this stream has achieved things many would have thought impossible. They have overcome their obstacles, put aside their differences and (after a fashion) made decisions, have captured some of the rarest and trickiest to obtain of all Pokemon (most notably the singly-occurring Zapdos hidden in an obscure corner of Pokemon Red) and ultimately completed two games (Pokemon Red & Crystal). They are even making good progress on a third (Emerald) at time of writing.
Society at large is, to me at least, not too dissimilar. Each and every one of us goes about our daily lives, doing what little bit we can in the grand scheme of things. Some of us attempt to make the world a better place and do so, others have no such lofty goals but end up doing so anyway, whilst others, either deliberately or through well-meaning but failed attempts, end up dragging us down as a collective. Some have risen to 'lead us', many of whom make very little difference to the way we each individually function, whilst other things, from organised religion to what's on TV this evening, have kept us distracted and motivated to keep on going. We have struggled, we have failed, we have bogged ourselves down for aeons as we all pull in different directions, and yet somehow we have prevailed- and not just that, we have thrived. We have built this amazing world around us, a society that puts the food in my belly, the roof over my head and the internet connection that lets me write this and watch the very stream that has inspired this post. The Hivemind of planet Earth has somehow achieved great things, and for those cynics among you who so often wonder how, I would look no further than Twitch Plays Pokemon.
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Web vs. Money
Twice now, this blog has strayed onto the subject of legal bills attempting to in some way regulate the internet, based on the idea that it violates certain copyright restrictions, and everything suggests that SOPA, PIPA and ACTA will not be the last of such attempts (unless ACTA is so successful that it not only gets ratified, but also renders the internet functionally brain-dead). However, a while ago I caught myself wondering exactly why the internet gets targeted with these bills at all. There are two angles to take with regards to this problem; why there is any cause for the internet to be targeted with these bills, and why this particular problem has bills dedicated to it, rather than simply being left alone.
To begin with the second one of these- why the web? Copyright violation most definitely existed before the internet's invention, and many a pirate business even nowadays may be run without even venturing online. All that's required is a copy of whatever you're pirating, some cheap software, and a lot of blank discs (or USB's or hard drives or whatever). However, such operations tended to be necessarily small-scale in order to avoid detection, and because the market really isn't large enough to sustain a larger-scale operation. It's rather off-putting actually acquiring pirated stuff in real life, as it feels slightly wrong- on the web, however, it's far easier and more relaxed. Thus, rather than a small, fairly meaningless operation, on the internet (which is, remember a throbbing network with literally billions of users) piracy is huge- exactly how big is hard to tell, but it's a fairly safe bet that it's bigger than a few blokes flogging ripped off DVD's out of the boot of a car. This therefore presents a far more significant loss of potential earnings than the more traditional market, and is subsequently a bigger issue.
However, perhaps more important than the scale of the operation is that it's actually a fairly easy one to target. Modern police will struggle to catch massive-scale drugs lords or crime barons, because the real world is one in which it's very easy to hide, sneak, bury information and bribe. It can be impossible to find the spider at the centre of the web, and even if he can be found, harder still to pin anything on him. Online however is a different story- sites violating the law are easy to find for anyone with a web connection, and their IP address is basically put on display as a massive 'LOOK HERE' notice, making potential criminals easy to find and locate. The web is a collective entity, the virtual equivalent of a large and fairly open ghetto- it's very easy to collectively target and wrap up the whole shabang. Put simply, dealing with the internet, if a bill were to get through, would be very, very easy
But… why the cause for dispute in the first place? It's an interesting quandary, because the web doesn't consider what it's doing to be wrong anyway. This is partly because much of what a corporation might consider piracy online isn't technically illegal- as long as nothing gets downloaded or made a hard copy of, streaming a video isn't against the law. It's the virtual equivalent of inviting your mates round to watch a film (although technically, since a lot of commercial DVD's are 'NOT FOR PUBLIC PERFORMANCE', this is strictly speaking illegal too- not so online as there is no way to prove it's not from a public performance copy). Downloading copyrighted content is illegal and is punishable by existing law, but this currently often goes unregulated because the problem is so widespread and the punishment for the crimes so small that it is simply too much bother for effective regulation. The only reason Napster got hit so hard when it was offering free downloads is because it was shifting stuff by the millions, and because it was the only one out there. One of the great benefits that bills like SOPA offered to big corporations was a quick, easy solution to crack down on copyright violators, and which didn't entail lengthy, costly and inconvenient court proceedings.
However, downloading is a far smaller 'problem' than people streaming stuff from Megavideo and YouTube, which happens on a gigantic scale- think how many views the last music video you saw on YouTube had. This is what corporations are attempting to stop- the mass distribution of their content via free sharing of it online, which to them represents a potentially huge loss in income. To what extent it does cost them money, and to what extent it actually gets them more publicity is somewhat up for debate, but in the minds of corporations its enough of a problem to try and force through SOPA and PIPA.
This, really is the nub of the matter- the web and the world of business have a different definition of what constitutes violation of copyrighted content. To the internet, all the streaming and similar is simply sharing, and this is a reflection of the internet's overarching philosophy- that everything should be free and open to everyone, without corporate influence (a principle which is astoundingly not adhered to when one thinks of the level of control exerted by Facebook and Google, but that's another story in itself). To a corporation however, streaming on the huge scale of the web is stealing- simple as that. And it is this difference of opinion that has led to such controversy surrounding web-controlling bills.
If the next bill proposed to combat online piracy were simply one that increased the powers corporations could take the prevent illegal downloading of copyrighted content, I don't think anyone could really complain- it's already definitely illegal, those doing it know that they really shouldn't and if anyone wants to grumble then they can probably stream it anyway. The contentious part of all the bills thus far have been those which attempt to restrict the streaming and sharing of such content online- and this is one battle that is not going to go away. At the moment, the law is on the side of the web. Whether that will stay the case remains to be seen…
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Strapline: "The Most Dangerous Place on Earth"
A climbing expedition on Mr. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm.
Everest centres on the story of Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) whose expedition tour company Adventure Consultants paved the way for paid expeditions to Everest. His men and $65,000 a-pop customers attempt to make their way to the summit. Accompanying Hall is Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal) a rival tour operator heading for the summit at the same time with his group of men.
I enjoyed Everest it's a good movie, just not a great one. This tale of real-life tragedy on the mountain never quite hits the height it should. Despite the visual grandeur of its setting and the haunting drama of its true story (it's a retelling of the disastrous 1996 ascent of the mountain in which a number of climbers, both amateur and professional, lost their lives), it's story never penetrated me the way it should have done.
The experienced cast work well together and despite being perhaps the heaviest billed poster this year, all stars mesh nicely together, one upmanship is firmly out of site. Clarke front and centre gives a solid turn as the decent and likeable Hall. With a performance thankfully a world away from his this summer's John Connor in Terminator Genisys, much more similar to his role in Dawn of the Planet of Apes (2014). Jake Gyllenhaal is perhaps the most feisty male explorer, as one might expect, but feels slightly sidelined, and whose character is underdeveloped. Josh Brolin as Beck Weathers is good but also underwritten.
This is also the case for the Sherpas and the female characters, including perhaps the most affecting tale of the movie. Yasuko Namba (Naoko Mori) a customer of Hall's, recounts that she has climbed six summits, and this is the last on her list. This story which is easily the most interesting is just brushed over. Emily Watson who puts in the movies best performance as base camps mother hen is also underwritten. Keira Knightley and Robin Wright as the wives of Jason Clarke and Josh Brolin respectively, though play the stereotypical worried wives back home.
As I mentioned at the start of this review I saw it in IMAX 3D, and this movie was made for that experience, although not filmed in native 3D. So to get the full impact, I implore you to follow my lead in that regard. The movie from a visual standpoint is pretty thrilling. There are some great moments that show you just how insignificant humans are when it comes to the sheer scale of this locale.
The vistas and drops with the aid of an IMAX screen and 3D effect come to life and at times I felt I was on that mountain with them. The on-location footage and CGI blend nicely, which I must admit heading in was one of my worries. My only issue with the visuals is that Kormákur never stays for long on any one shot, so although impressive there are no absolute stomach churning moments. The sound by the way is also excellent and really adds to the experience.
Visuals aside what Everest did manage to convey was just how horrific this true life undertaking really is. One minute you are at base camp swigging tea, checking kit and calling loved ones and the next you are fighting for every breath as you are literally shutting down in sub zero temperatures. As Jason Clarke's character nicely puts it "The human body is just not designed to function at the cruising altitude of a 747".
My issue with Everest is that the human drama never gets any real traction, it's like it slipping on ice. It's just lost to the sheer majesty of the visuals. At one point in the movie at base camp, the guys (decked out in defacto thick wooly jumpers), swap stories of why they are attempting to make summit, but due to the weak script I could not connect with them as I did not know enough about them. Therefore when the film started to tragically unravel during the last act, my heart went out to the real people of course, just not the characters on screen.
Visually Everest is a must-see. Especially in IMAX 3D. Stunning vistas, drops and set pieces keep this movie afloat, aided by excellent sound design. The movie conveys the horror and majesty of this undertaking well, but despite good performances from an experienced cast, the memory of the brave men and women lost has been robbed by weak script and a severe lack of character development.


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New boss at Lloyds in line for a £5.6m pay package: HSBC wealth wizard Charlie Nunn picked to succeed Antonio Horta-Osorio
By Lucy White For The Daily Mail
A father of four who grew up in a village outside Southampton is set to scoop one of the biggest jobs in British banking.
Charlie Nunn, a keen cyclist and runner, has been recruited by Lloyds Bank to replace its outgoing boss Antonio Horta-Osorio next year.
The 49-year-old banker, who was educated at Brookfield Comprehensive in Southampton before graduating from Cambridge University, is HSBC's chief executive of wealth and personal banking.
Top job: Charlie Nunn, a keen cyclist and runner, has been recruited by Lloyds Bank to replace its outgoing boss Antonio Horta-Osorio next year
He has previously worked in the US, France and Switzerland and is fond of India – he proposed to his wife on the roof of the luxurious Lake Palace hotel in Udaipur.
Lloyds Banking Group poaches HSBC banker Charlie Nunn to be...
And while he watches over around £18billion of clients' money in his current job, he faces a tough few years at the helm of Lloyds as the bank battles with a stuttering economy, record low interest rates and billions of loans expected to turn sour.
Nunn's maximum pay, at £5.6million, will also be 20 per cent lower than his predecessor's – though the hefty sum has still raised eyebrows around the City at a time when the banking industry is facing so many headwinds.
He will be paid a basic salary of £1.13million, a fixed share award of £1.05million, and benefits and pension funding worth 4 per cent and 15 per cent of his salary respectively.
But the big money comes with his performance share award, which could hit 140 per cent of his salary, and his long-term share incentive award, which could reach 150 per cent.
Nunn will also rake in share awards at Lloyds to replace those he will lose by moving from HSBC, and any bonuses he would have been handed in his old job. It is not yet clear what this will amount to.
He said: 'I feel particularly lucky to be joining Lloyds Banking Group at this important time.'
But Luke Hildyard, director of the High Pay Centre, said: 'Charlie Nunn would be earning more than 212 times the lowest-paid quarter of Lloyds employees on the basis of a £5.6m payout.
'To some extent, bankers' pay is still a legacy issue – it's difficult to get people to accept less money than the terms they were employed on.
'So changes in key staff are an absolutely critical test of whether banks are serious about changing the culture of vast internal pay gaps. This is a real failure of that test.'
Horta-Osorio was widely credited with returning Lloyds to private ownership nine years after its £20.3billion bailout in 2008 – a feat which rival Natwest is still trying to accomplish.
Antonio Horta-Osorio (pictured with wife Ana) was widely credited with returning Lloyds to private ownership nine years after its £20.3bn bailout in 2008
Lloyds was in such a state when Horta-Osorio took over in 2011 that just nine months into the job, he was forced to take eight weeks off with stress-induced insomnia.
After time at high-profile rehab facility The Priory, he became an advocate for mental health issues.
But his time at Lloyds has been mixed. He has failed to put the HBOS Reading scandal squarely in the bank's past.
Crooked bankers defrauded business customers out of millions of pounds. Lloyds has paid more than £100million in compensation so far, but it is estimated that the total bill could top £500million.
And he was also forced to apologise to employees for an extra-marital affair, denying that he had used more than £3,000 of company expenses to woo his lover after the pair were pictured together during one of his business trips to Singapore.
Nunn will hope to put Lloyds' chequered past behind it when he takes over – though he still has a six-month notice period at HSBC and up to six months of gardening leave, meaning it might be a year before he starts.
New Lloyds boss Charlie Nunn in line for £5.6m pay package


The Kansas City Royals will head north to take on their AL Central rival Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field. NBC Sports Chicago will broadcast the matchup. The game is scheduled to get underway at 8:10 p.m. ET.
Chicago (-130) is the favorite over Kansas City (+120) and oddsmakers have put the Over/Under for this one at 9.5 runs. The odds for wagering on the game's total stand at +100 for the over and -120 for the under. The game's current runline odds sit at -175 for taking the Royals +1.5 runs and +155 for the White Sox -1.5 runs.
The Royals are 5-10 SU and are 8-6 against the spread (ATS). They've lost 6.1 units for moneyline gamblers through the early part of the year, despite having gained 1.8 units ATS. Kansas City's covered the spread four times in its last seven games and the total has gone over in four of those seven. The White Sox, on the other hand, are 5-9 SU and 4-9 ATS. They've lost 3.4 units for bettors taking the moneyline and 8.3 units ATS. Chicago has covered the spread only once in its last seven games and the total has gone over in five of those seven.
Chicago games have had an over/under record of 10-3 so far in 2019. Kansas City has also been a decent over bet with a total record of 10-3-1.
Heath Fillmyer (0-0, 15.00 ERA) is projected to get the start for the visiting Royals. The right-handed Fillmyer started 13 games last year while finishing the season 4-2 overall with a 4.26 ERA and a 1.34 WHIP.
The White Sox will be turning to righty Ervin Santana (0-1, 17.18 ERA), who started 5 games last year and finished the season 0-1 overall with an 8.03 ERA and a 1.62 WHIP.
Kansas City's pitching staff allowed 5.5 runs per game and its starters own a 4.68 ERA, 1.31 WHIP and 8.82 K/9. The bullpen has an ERA of 6.93, along with a WHIP of 1.31 and a K-per-9 of 7.48.
The Royals offense has slashed .251/.323/.433 on its way to 4.9 runs scored per game in 2019, including 5.0 runs per game against divisional foes and 6.2 per game over the team's last five contests (3-2 SU).
Kansas City's offensive production has been led by second baseman Whit Merrifield and outfielder Alex Gordon. Merrifield is slashing .328/.357/.522 with 22 hits, seven RBIs, 14 runs and five steals. Gordon (.360/.452/.640) has produced 18 hits, three homers, 13 RBIs and 13 runs scored.
For the home team, Chicago's pitchers have given up 6.4 runs per game overall in 2019. Its starters have an ERA of 6.78, a WHIP of 1.61 and a strikeouts-per-nine of 9.1. The bullpen has a 5.55 ERA, 1.46 WHIP and 9.1 K/9. In five games against AL Central foes, White Sox starters have an ERA of 2.79 and the bullpen's ERA is 8.31.
Chicago's offense has put up 4.6 runs per contest, including 5.2 per game against divisional foes and 4.0 per game over its last five. The team has hit .222/.293/.392 over its last five matchups and is 2-3 SU during that stretch.
Shortstop Tim Anderson and third baseman Yoan Moncada have led the charge for the White Sox hitters this year. Anderson is hitting .429/.440/.653 with three home runs, 10 RBIs, nine runs and five steals, and Moncada's line is .328/.371/.586 with three homers, 13 RBIs and 13 runs scored.
The Royals have lost 4.0 units and are 6-4 ATS when facing a right-handed starting pitcher this season. The over has cashed in eight of those games, compared to two that've gone under against righties. On the other hand, the White Sox have lost 3.2 units and are 2-6 ATS when facing a righty starter. The over's cashed in seven of those games, compared to one that went under the total.
Kansas City has recorded 23 extra-base hits over its last five contests. Chicago has 15 XBH over its last five.
Chicago has posted 21.8 Runs + Hits + Errors per game over its last 10 games and 18.0 over its last five.
The Royals have hit 14 home runs in their last 10 games, including 10 over their last five.
The Royals have a total OPS of .756 this season and an OPS of .770 against right-handed pitchers. The White Sox' OPS sits at .710 overall and .732 against righties.


"Congratulations to Kevin Stitt, his family, and his campaign staff on a hard-fought victory.
"Tonight, voters chose the conservative principles. They want government that is both effective and efficient. They want to keep taxes low and regulations minimal to allow our economy to grow and our people to flourish. It is clear tonight that Oklahomans are tired of tax increases and constant demands for more revenue.


After leaving Plymouth, the Countrywide Great Tour crosses the border into Cornwall on 18 August.
The route continues near Fowey and goes along the coast at Gribbin Head, with its red and white striped daymark.
From there, the tour takes the riders along the Polperro Heritage Coast and inland to Bodelva, home of the Eden Project.
The team can enjoy a rest at this world-famous attraction before heading off on stage 47 of the event on 19 August.
In the morning, the riders will pedal along past several of Cornwall's fishing communities, including Pentewan and Mevagissey, before spending the afternoon travelling along the Roseland Pennisula, passing the town of St Mawes and St Just.
The tour will arrive in the dockyard town of Falmouth, where they can stop to enjoy the sights and sounds before setting off again the following day (20 August) towards the Lizard coastline.
From here, the route travels along towards Marazion, where riders will be able to look across to St Michael's Mount and take an overnight rest.
On 21 August, the tour will set off for Land's End before tracking up north again towards Carbis Bay and the hustle and bustle of St Ives.
Stage 50 sees the riders head up the coast past Portreath, St Agnes, Perranporth and Holywell before heading through Newquay.
Then it's time to enjoy a well-earned rest when they reach their destination in the fishing village of Padstow.
On 23 August, the team will follow the north coast before crossing the border back into Devon.


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Q: Do I need the "lang"-tag for Chrome translation? do I need the -tag for the Chrome translation? Or does Chrome also analyze the words used in the body-part to check in which language the page was written?
Or do I need to add the -tags at divs at the site?
An what when I use more than one language?

A: The Chrome browser can identify the page language by looking at a number of factors:
1.the character encoding.
2.the HTTP headers.
3.the encoding meta tag.
4.Analysis of the actual characters or words on the page.

So yes you need -tag.
If you want to use multiple languages for some content u can use elements such as span or div around the content. Here is an example:

If you want to wish hello to someone in hindi.You would say  नमस्ते . Namaste

A: per the HTML spec:

Authors are encouraged to specify a lang attribute on the root html element, giving the document's language. This aids speech synthesis tools to determine what pronunciations to use, translation tools to determine what rules to use, and so forth.

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About - Staff Member - Megan Petersen
Megan Petersen
Senior Director of Policy, Public Sector and Counsel
Megan Petersen serves as ITI's Senior Director of Policy, Public Sector and Counsel. She works closely with ITI member companies to develop and advocate for positions on policies, legislation, and regulations governing the acquisition, adoption, and implementation of innovative capabilities by federal civilian and defense agencies.
Megan brings years of federal government experience in IT acquisition and related issues and policies. Most recently, she served as Counsel to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In this role, Megan advised the CIO on developing and implementing FBI programs for supply chain risk management, cloud adoption and migration, data management, cybersecurity, and acquiring innovative technologies.
Megan previously served as an FBI procurement attorney, where she advised contracting officers on all aspects of acquiring and managing IT services, hardware, and software. She also worked as an FBI contracting officer, awarding and administering large IT services contracts and enterprise license agreements.
Megan began her government career with the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. She focused on legal and policy issues relating to contingency contracting practices across the Department of Defense, Department of State, and United States Agency for International Development.
Megan received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from University of California, Davis, and a Juris Doctor from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. She completed extensive volunteer legal work in Kampala, Uganda.
Blog Posts by Megan Petersen
Honoring Leaders in Advancing Innovative Tech Solutions in Government: ITI Announces Winner of its Inaugural Public Sector Government Acquisition Award (November 18, 2021)
Federal contractors play a vital role in ensuring the U.S. government has access to the innovative technology solutions necessary for mission performance. So do those who serve as federal contracting officers ...
Advancing Policies that Support the LGBTQ+ Community in the Workplace (June 28, 2021)
Building on the Supreme Court's historic decision to protect LGBTQ+ workers in the federal workplace and President Biden's recent Executive Order expanding on those protections, those of us in the tech ...
Accessible Technology: A Call for More than the "Minimum" in Federal Contracts (May 20, 2021)
In the early months of the Biden Administration, the federal government contracting world has received significant attention. While it is generally well-known that the government uses private sector contracts ...
Executive Order 13950: Wrong on both Substance and Procedure (December 03, 2020)
If one thing is clear from the past four years, it's that U.S. federal government operations have been anything but "business as usual." Recently, several White House Executive Orders have unilaterally ...


The New York Jets did the right thing by both firing Todd Bowles and waiting a few hours to make the inevitable announcement on Sunday so that he could leave Foxboro, Massachusetts after yet another humiliating loss to the New England Patriots and can talk with his players privately.
Following the gregarious Rex Ryan as Jets head coach isn't an easy feat for most NFL head coaches, but every postgame press conference with Todd Bowles was painful to endure. The now-former Jets head coach always came off as preferring to be at the dentist for a root canal than to be talking with the press about his team.
Bowles always had a painful expression when whipping out his one-sentence cliches such as "I have to look at the tape" and "We have to get better" when responding to every question posed to him following a Jets loss. He wasn't much more expressive after a rare Jets win.
I have a feeling that Eli was being facetious about the last point. He was thinking about attending law school after graduating from Ole Miss where he was an excellent student.
Unfortunately, it was a stinker of a game for the nearly 38,000 spectators who witnessed it as the University of Wisconsin rolled over the University of Miami by a score of 35-3. Four days later the Hurricanes head coach, Mark Richt, tended his resignation. I guess deep down he knew that his team shouldn't be allowed to play in a locale where the temperature is less than 70 degrees.
The best bull riders will be coming to Madison Square Garden this weekend, and that's no bull as the Monster Buck-Off kicks off the 2019 Professional Bull Riders season. The goal for each rider stays on these wild bovines for at least eight seconds to earn a score from the judges. It is very exciting, and some of these bulls are total hams as they will parade around the ring soaking up the applause after tossing an aspiring rider on his derriere before heading back to the pen. The CBS Sports Network will televise the action on Sunday.


These towns of north Worcestershire, though predominately brick built have many distinctive stone structures within them. In Stourport it's the river bridge and red sandstones used along the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal that add to the town's character. In nearby Hartlebury, the church and castle stand a stone's throw way away from a road-cutting through the same from orangey red sandstone from which they are built. In addition to buildings being made out of these local red sandstones, the relative softness of the rock has allowed homes to hewn into them. The most well know rock hermitage in the area is Redstone Rock, which is reputed to have been able to lodge 500 men. Kidderminster is a much larger town and houses many fine stone built churches and a grammar school. It is linked to Stourport via the canal.
The local sandstones of the area are commonly grouped together and referred to as New Red Sandstone as so to differentiate it from the Old Red Sandstone, commonly used as building stone in Herefordshire. However there are a wide range of differences between this group of building stones which make them distinctive to a particular area.


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Dobson v. Commissioner - 320 U.S. 489, 64 S. Ct. 239 (1943)
Congress has invested the Tax Court with primary authority for redetermining deficiencies, which constitutes the greater part of tax litigation. This requires it to consider both law and facts. Whatever latitude exists in resolving questions such as those of proper accounting, treating a series of transactions as one for tax purposes, or treating apparently separate ones as single in their tax consequences, exists in the Tax Court and not in the regular courts; when a reviewing court cannot separate the elements of a decision so as to identify a clear-cut mistake of law, the decision of the Tax Court must stand. In view of the division of functions between the Tax Court and reviewing courts it is of course the duty of the Tax Court to distinguish with clarity between what it finds as fact and what conclusion it reaches on the law. In deciding law questions, reviewing courts may properly attach weight to the decision of points of law by an administrative body having special competence to deal with the subject matter.
Respondent Commissioner adjusted petitioners' gross income by including recovery of certain previously claimed losses. Petitioners sought redetermination by the Board of Tax Appeals, contending that the recovery was in the nature of capital from which no gain or income was realized. In the alternative, it was argued that if the recovery could be called income at all it was taxable as capital gain. The Commissioner insisted that the entire recovery was taxable as ordinary gain and that it was immaterial whether the taxpayer had obtained any tax benefits from the loss deduction reported in prior years. The Tax Court awarded judgments based on the pertinent facts of the transactions as a whole, and determined that taxable gain was realized only where the deductions in prior years had offset gross income for those years. Certiorari was granted.
Under the circumstances, could the reviewing court overturn the Tax Court's decision?
The reviewing court held that the Tax Court's decisions improperly relied on reasoning not embodied in any statutory or regulatory precept, and thus were not in accordance with the law. The reviewing court, however, was not empowered to revise the Tax Court's decisions because of a difference of opinion on the existence of deficiencies. The Tax Court's decision settled matters of proper accounting, rather than questions of law, where no statute or regulation directed its method of deficiency determination. Since there was a rational basis for the Tax Court's factual determinations of petitioners' economic gain and tax benefit, the reviewing court possessed no compelling reason to substitute its judgment.
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JPMorgan's Dimon survives referendum
Shareholders at JPMorgan Chase will let Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO, keep both his jobs.
By Christina Rexrode | Updated on May 21, 2013
PMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Shareholders at JPMorgan Chase will let Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO, keep both his jobs.
At the bank's annual meeting, 32 percent of shareholders voted for a measure that would have required the bank to split the roles. Had the measure succeeded, Dimon would have had to relinquish the role of chairman.


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Q: Git: change content of previous commit and push I'm reviewing a repo and I'd like to make some comments, it would add more content like adding comments, make some changes ..etc.
How to change content of files of previous commit and do push, I'm aware that commit history would be changed and all affected files would be changed also, but would git compare the affected files with further commits (--> Master) and do change aggressively?

A: What you are asking for is to rewrite history n to 0 commits back.  This is generally a bad idea as it would make you repo out of sync from the remote and any other repo that is based on it.  This would further complicate things so that others wouldn't be able to merge anymore and would require any other repo to delete their branch and pull down the newly modified one.  In which case, you might as well just start a new branch and add the comments to that.  In any case, this'll get a little messy.
To do this, you have your merges that you would be reviewing (as an example, we'll use commits A, B and C) and then go back to A, branch off that (we'll call that branch review, and the original pull-request):
...A --B --C    (pull-request)
    \
     A'         (review)

git checkout HEAD{3}
git checkout -b review

Then do your comment modifications and check them in.
git add . # or specify the specific files
git commit -m "message" --author="original author"

Or if you want the same message/author and don't want to type it out, you can use the following, which I would either put into a script or an alias git command:
git add $(git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r <sha-of-A>)
git commit -m "$(git rev-list --format=%B <sha-of-a>)" --author="$(git rev-list --format=%an <sha-of-A>)"

Could also be done automatically by retrieving the appropriate sha from the appropriate parent, but I'm not exactly sure how to distinguish between the branch parent and the merge parent atm.
Next merge B into review
git merge <sha-of-B>

Then do your comment modifications and check them in. (see above).
Keep doing this till you're done and you have:
...A --B --C    (pull-request)
    \   \   \
     A'--B'--C' (review)

You can then merge back into your original branch if you wish or just give that review branch back to the person from which you are reviewing.


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Q: cv::goodFeaturesToTrack when input is a contour I am trying to solve the following problem: given a contour found on a binary blob, I want to create a list of ordered corners in order to track them over time. Blobs are quite irregular, and can be convex or concave. I am already taking the n-first corners, among all of the results of the cv::goodFeaturesToTrack function, and they tends to coincide with the most evident corner of the blob (since it orders corners for score instead of position). Thus, I am taking this output and swapping corners by starting with the top-leftmost coordinate, and then order the corner over the contour. Not rotation invariant, but for this first version it can be ok.
The problem is that the pixel positions of the corners, although very close, are not always on a contour pixel (I am taking all of the contour pixels, and not the extrema, by using RETR_EXTERNAL or RETR_CC_COMP). Even if I call cv::cornerSubPix, output will be a closer pixel, but still not necessarily on the contour. I am solving by performing an hand-made local search, substituting my corner with the closest point among the contour. Anyway, such solution "void" all the efforts made with cv::cornerSubPix, giving me some point that lies on the line (very close to the corner, but not in that point). Is there any other solution to solve this problem? Moreover, since ordering a set of points among the contour is quite an easy task... why the output of cv::goodFeaturesToTrack on a contour does not necessarily gives me points lying on the contour? Is there some error I made, or is there any reason that I am ignoring?


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What is electric fuse Byjus?
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An electrical fuse is a safety device that operates to provide protection against the overflow of current in an electrical circuit. An important component of an electrical fuse is a metal wire or strip that melts when excess current flows through it.
Answer: An electrical fuse is a low melting point copper or other metal wire that breaks due to heat caused by overvoltage or high load to avoid short circuit or failure to the device.
An electric fuse is an electric device which interrupts the flow of current in an electric circuit. It is installed in a circuit to stop the flow of excessive current. A fuse is usually a short piece of wire. … Normally an alloy of tin and lead is used as the fuse wire, as it has high resistivity and low melting point.
Electric fuse is a small piece of wire of a material having low melting point and high resistance. The device protects the circuit from overloading and short circuiting. A fuse wire is made of pure tin or of an alloy of copper and tin.
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A fuse is a safety device which limits current in circuit as a result it prevents damages to electrical circuits and possible fires. Fuses used in electrical appliances.
In electronics and electrical engineering, a fuse is an electrical safety device that operates to provide overcurrent protection of an electrical circuit. Its essential component is a metal wire or strip that melts when too much current flows through it, thereby stopping or interrupting the current.
The fuse breaks the circuit if a fault in an appliance causes too much current to flow. This protects the wiring and the appliance if something goes wrong. The fuse contains a piece of wire that melts easily. If the current going through the fuse is too great, the wire heats up until it melts and breaks the circuit.
Explanation: An electric fuse is a safety device used to limit the current in an electric circuit. The use of a fuse is to safeguard the electric circuit and the electric appliances connected in the electric circuit from being damaged.
Different Types of Fuses – Constriction, Working & Characteristics
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MCB stands for Miniature Circuit Breaker. It automatically switches OFF electrical circuit during any abnormal condition in the electrical network such as overload & short circuitconditions.
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An electrical fuse is a safety device in the circuit that protects electrical systems by breaking the connection when a short circuit is occurring. The fuse wire is made up of Sn (tin) and Pb (lead) alloy because of its high resistance and low melting.
The basic function of a fuse is to prevent fire.It breaks the electric circuit if there occurs a fault in an electrical appliance that causes too much current flow. The fuse protects the wiring and the appliance if anything goes wrong.


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Poll: Mobile Phones a Common Obsession Throughout the World
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- All over the world, people have got to have it -- "it" being their mobile phones. A Time mobility poll that surveyed 5,000 people spanning eight countries finds that a whopping 84 percent can't go one day with their mobile device at hand.
Our addiction to mobile phones is astonishing, with 25 percent of respondents saying they check it every half hour and one in five admitting that they need to take a peek every ten minutes.
It seems that our mobile devices go everywhere we go no matter where we live: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Africa, South Korea, the United Kingdom and of course, the good, old U.S.A.
This obsession carries over to our downtime too, with Time saying that three out of four people ages 25 to 29 will take their phones to bed with them.
As far as sexting and sending provocative photos of ourselves, Americans have a way to go to catch up to the rest of the world.
For instance, Brazil leads the pack with 64 percent of phone owners there claiming to have sent naughty images of themselves, 54 percent saying the same in India and 45 percent in South Africa.
Only 25 percent of Americans in the Time poll admit to sexting.
Overall, the need to be constantly connected is a little less crucial in America, with 76 percent agreeing that it's a good thing, compared to 90 percent of phone owners in Brazil and India.
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 5:31PM by Carmen Cox Permalink
tagged Mobile, Phones, Poll, Time in Business General
Google Design Chief Would Love to Collaborate with RIM
Joanna Stern / ABC New(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Take a look at the myriad Android phones on the market today and you'll notice that most of them no longer have actual keypads -- only virtual keyboards on their screens. But Google's director of Android User Experience, Matias Duarte, said he still hopes there will be Android phones with hardware keyboards.
"I am still a huge fan of hardware keyboards," Duarte told ABC News in an interview. "Many of the products I have worked on in the past have had them. I think there is a place for them -- it's all about choice and different types of devices. I would love, personally, to have a portrait oriented device, like we made at Palm."
Before joining Google, Duarte headed up software design at Palm and worked on the company's Palm Pre device, which had a physical keyboard and touchscreen.
On the heels of RIM's major loss and struggles to put out a new operating system and phones, Duarte said he would love to work with the BlackBerry maker. "If RIM wanted to work on Android devices, I would really welcome that. They clearly make great physical keyboards."
Duarte is one of the leads on Google's Android Nexus program, in which Google works closely with hardware partners to make phones or tablets to highlight the software. Google and Asus released the Nexus 7 tablet Wednesday with the new version of Android called Jelly Bean.
Just Thursday RIM announced plans to cut 5,000 employees after reporting lackluster earnings. The company does allow for Android applications to run on its own software, but has continued with its plans to develop BlackBerry 10, the next version of its BlackBerry software for its phones.
Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 11:25PM by Carmen Cox Permalink
tagged Android, Blackberry, Google, Phones, RIM in Business General, Technology/Electronics/Software
For Many, Being on the Phone Means Being on the Internet
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Using your mobile phone to only make calls is so landline.
The latest Pew Internet & American Life Project on cellphone use reveals that 88 percent of U.S. adults now own some kind of mobile device and 55 percent of them use their phone to go online.
In fact, 17 percent say that most of their Internet browsing is done on the phone and some admit they use it exclusively to get online, forgoing computers and other devices.
According to Pew, 45 percent of adults ages 18 to 29 do the majority of their browsing on their cellphones while 51 percent of African-Americans and 43 of Latinos rely on their phones go online.
In the phone survey of 2,254 adults 18 and older, the Pew report concluded, "Cellphones are convenient, always available -- 64 percent of cell-mostly Internet users mention factors related to convenience or the always-available nature of mobile phones when asked for the main reason why they do most of their online browsing on their cellphone."
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 9:18PM by Carmen Cox Permalink
tagged Cellphones, Internet, Mobile, Online, Phones in Business General, Technology/Electronics/Software
T-Mobile Bets Big on HTC One S, New $199 Phone
HTC/T-Mobile(NEW YORK) -- T-Mobile doesn't have it easy these days. Not only is it the only major U.S. carrier to not carry the iPhone, it's about to become the only carrier without a high-speed LTE network. But with some rebranding and some new phones the carrier is hoping to resurrect itself in the eyes of you, the cellphone-loving customer.
Wednesday, T-Mobile and HTC announced that their latest high-end Android phone, the HTC One S, will be available on the network starting on April 25. The phone will cost $199.99 with a two-year contract, and offers quite a lot.
It has a beautiful 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display, which makes images and webpages look great. It has a fast 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, and a high-quality 8-megapixel camera. It runs the latest version of Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, with HTC's Sense 4 software, which adds some enhancements.
On top of that all, the phone is only 7.8mm thick -- by comparison, the iPhone is 9.3mm thick.
All those specs add up to a very well-rounded phone, which is comfortable to hold and easy to use. But that key ingredient, LTE -- which is making its way into competing phones from Verizon, AT&T, and now even Sprint -- seems to hold it back.
But T-Mobile said its the new ad campaign, featuring an edgier "No More Mr. Nice Girl," is meant to take on this very challenge.
"The 'Alter Ego' campaign illustrates our market challenge and opportunity. With this campaign, we're telling the market, loud and clear, that T-Mobile is a competitor -- that we will win and retain customers by delivering affordable, innovative 4G services," T-Mobile Senior Vice President of Brand and Advertising Peter DeLuca told ABC News.
DeLuca said the One S will be featured loud and clear in the campaign: "The new image showcases our challenger approach and being more assertive about who we are and what we stand for, like network speed and delivering cutting-edge devices like the HTC One S."
It's an assertive move and the One S is a a very nice and well-rounded smartphone. But AT&T just announced Wednesday that its HTC One X, which is very similar to the S but has a larger display, will be available on May 6 for $199.99 with LTE.
So T-Mobile's likely to have a hard time no matter how hard it tries.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 2:38PM by Carmen Cox Permalink
tagged HTC One S, Phones, T-Mobile in Business General, Technology/Electronics/Software
Survey: More Wireless Devices than People in US
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Microsoft(WASHINGTON) -- The number of wireless devices used in the United States has officially exceeded the country's population, according to the trade group CTIA, which released its semi-annual survey Tuesday. The group found that Americans had also doubled the amount of data traffic they generate by using the Internet on their smartphones.
CTIA found that the number of mobile devices rose by 9 percent in the first six months of the year, to 327.6 million, which exceeds the number of people -- 315 million -- who live in the U.S. and its territories. Internet traffic also rose 111 percent, to 341.2 billion megabytes during that time.
More than one trillion text messages were sent in the past year, according to the report.
According to the survey's data, people keep more than one wireless device, including smartphones and tablets, in their possession. Some analysts believe the surge comes from people having greater access to more of these devices, which have dropped in price and become more readily available.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 3:14PM by Carmen Cox Permalink
tagged CTIA, Mobile Devices, Phones, Population, Wireless in Business General, Technology/Electronics/Software
Apps Provide Living History of the World Trade Center
Brian August(NEW YORK) -- As One World Trade Center rises in Lower Manhattan, three smartphone apps are helping to ensure that its larger predecessors and the stories they housed will forever be remembered and have a place in the New York City skyline.
Explore 9/11 and 110 Stories offer innovative ways to remember the towers and understand the events of 9/11 using photos, first person accounts and augmented reality.
Brian August, creator of the app 110 Stories, found the void the Twin Towers left troubling.
"I would draw pictures of the skyline and put the missing towers in," August told ABC News.
Originally inspired to create physical art installations that would place the towers in the skyline when they were viewed from a specific perspective, August, who's 50 and lives in Brooklyn, decided to create an app so that people could experience the towers from many locations. The app allows anyone within eyesight of where the towers stood to see an outline of them superimposed on the landscape and take a photo.
"The project really beautifully blends the lines between an art project and a tech project," August said. "The image of the towers that you're seeing through the app is very agnostic, it's simple looking. It's a symbol of the towers, it looks like the towers, but it's just an outline and it's kind of ghostly in the way it looks. It's beautiful."
Once users take a photo with the outline of the towers, they can add a note to it and share it through the app.
"I want people to use the app to express their feelings," August said. "Those stories get pinned to a map on the website and get maintained as a repository of our collective feelings about the stories we associate with the buildings."
Users can download 110 Stories for free and August says he views his app as a gift to people who want to remember the towers and to the generations who will never see them.
Explore 9/11 is the official app of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The app guides users on audio and photo tours of the site, offers a timeline of the event and uses GPS to display photos that were taken near where the user is standing.
"There is a real sense of intimacy and of closeness when you hear people's stories through your headphones or through your iPhone. That's something that makes it a very, very personal memorial experience," said Jake Barton, principal and founder of Local Projects, the company that designed the app. "Explore 9/11 becomes really this channel of almost direct accounts from people who saw and made history on that day. And so the phone in some ways becomes the perfect threshold for people to pass from the present moment into the past as they literally cup the phone to their ears to hear what exactly it was like to live through that day."
Barton says the app works as a living history of the World Trade Center site, constantly being updated so it not only tells the story of 9/11, but also the evolution and rebuilding of ground zero.
Local Projects also created the app Memorial Guide for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Memorial Guide, which will be released on Sunday, allows visitors to the site to learn about and see photos of the 2,983 individuals whose names are engraved around the two memorial pools. The app also enables people to search for and find specific names on the memorial as well as understand how the names are organized based on interpersonal relationships.
Both Explore 9/11 and Memorial Guide can be downloaded for free.
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 9:54AM by Carmen Cox Permalink
tagged 9/11, Apps, Phones, Twin Towers, World Trade Center in Business General, Technology/Electronics/Software


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Sing Something True
The Yuckiest, Stinkiest, Best Valentine Ever
Jemma Hartman, Camper Extraordinaire
Julia's Kitchen
Stigma Smashers
Jemma Hartman knows that her first summer at beautiful Camp Star Lake is going to be amazing. There will be swimming, sailing, and overnight trips—not to mention her best friend, Tammy, who moved away a year ago. But when Tammy's cousin, Brooke, decides to come to camp as well, Jemma's perfect summer starts to crumble.
Brooke never laughs at Jemma's jokes, and she thinks she rules the cabin. She even convinces Tammy to be her sailing partner, sticking Jemma with the camp weirdo. Jemma just can't understand why Tammy wants to spend all her time with Brooke. What ever happened to the best friends forever who planned on marrying twin brothers and raising their kids together? And is it really possible to make new friends but keep the old, like the song says, or does Jemma simply need to let go?
Brenda A. Ferber's second novel is a tender and endearing look at friendships lost and found.
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Ferber has drawn a realistic main character… The plot moves along swiftly, and Jemma's first-person narrative rings true, as do the issues and the camp experience.
For all the tweens who believe in BFF but find out, to their great disappointment, that it isn't for everyone, this is the book for them.
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Ferber has a fine ear for preteen dialogue and concerns, and her descriptions of overnight camp activities (especially sailing and waterskiing) will strike a chord with readers.
I took a seat in the boat and held tight to the mainsheet and tiller. Tammy unhooked the boat from the buoy and hopped on board. "Do you want to be the skipper or first mate?" I asked.
"I'll be the skipper."
"Okay." I scooted over so Tammy could hold the tiller, and I grasped the mainsheet. All of a sudden I felt the sail catch the wind, and we were on our way. We glided across Star Lake, not saying much to each other. I knew sometimes it was fine not to talk. Tammy and I had had plenty of times when being quiet together felt perfect. But this didn't feel like one of those. It felt more like there was so much that we weren't saying. That we couldn't say. Like that I wished Brooke wasn't at camp. And that I was afraid Tammy didn't like me half as much as she used to. I knew I wouldn't say any of that aloud. Because here we were, just the two of us in the sunset sailboat, and I wasn't going to ruin the moment.
Behind the Book
Q: Is this a true story?
A: No, but Jemma's story is inspired by some of my real life experiences at Camp Birch Knoll in Phelps, Wisconsin. I designed Camp Star Lake to look and feel as much like CBK as possible. At Birch Knoll, there really is a Firelighter award, and I really had to learn the difference between "earning" it and "winning" it. I really once sailed in a race on a blustery day and nearly sunk the boat. I really had a crush on the water-ski instructor, and I really embarrassed myself once when, unbeknownst to me, I had a booger hanging out of my nose while riding in the boat with him. And the truest thing of all? I really love camp just as much as Jemma does.
Q: What motivated you to write this book, which is so different from Julia's Kitchen?
A: Growing up, I loved going to overnight camp more than anything in the world. I knew I wanted to write about camp, but unfortunately, you can't write a book with just a setting. You need a character and a plot! So that's where the friendship story came into play. I wanted to explore the pain and growth that happens when you realize best friends forever doesn't always mean forever. Sometimes it means best friends for now.
When a romantic relationship ends, there is usually some sort of official break up. But with platonic relationships, it's more subtle. And sometimes, that makes it harder. Jemma struggles at camp because she feels the loss of her best friend drifting from her, but it's never addressed. It's never made clear. This kind of situation is a recipe for insecurity and heartbreak. I've experienced it. I've seen my daughter experience it. And I have to believe most people in the world experience it. It's not pretty or fun, yet the wisdom that comes from learning to cherish friendships no matter how long they last, coupled with the strength gained from being able to let go and move on when the situation requires it, is a recipe for resiliency. And resiliency is a theme I'm very attracted to.
So even though Julia's Kitchen and Jemma Hartman don't seem to have much in common on the surface, if you look a little deeper you'll find both stories are about loss and both are about resiliency.
Q: How do you come up with the names for your characters?
A: I sometimes like to name my characters after real people. The name Jemma Hartman comes from my sweet drycleaner, Jemma Jones, and my cousins, the Hartmans. Also, within the book, I included the names of a bunch of my camp friends as a way of honoring our time together. And because my daughter goes to Camp Birch Knoll now, I decided to use some of her camp friends for names, too.
Q: Is it possible to make new friends and keep the old?
A: I think so! It depends on the friend. Some friends are meant to be in your life forever. Others are temporary. But both kinds of friendships are valuable and should be treasured.
Jemma wonders if it's possible to make new friends and keep the old, like the song says. What do you think? What are the challenges in doing that?
Why is it so important for Jemma to be a camper extraordinaire? What do you think it means to be a camper extraordinaire?
Why does Tammy spend so much time with Brooke? Could she have handled the situation differently? What would you have done?
How is Delaney able to be herself so completely, even when her cabin mates think she's odd or different? Does she have any insecurities? If so, how does she handle them?
What do you think the next summer of camp will be like for Jemma and the other girls?
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Hand-picked specialty crops 'ripe' for precision agriculture techniques
Mar 2, 2017 9:15 am by Sharita L Forrest | Education Editor | 217-244-1072AgricultureEngineering
Precision agriculture techniques could have substantial financial benefits for producers of hand-picked specialty crops, according to a new paper by Richard Sowers, a professor of engineering and of mathematics at the University of Illinois. Recent Illinois alumnus Devasia Manuel, currently a machine learning researcher with Google and Sowers' co-author on the study, developed a mathematical model that determined the optimal time for transporting a grower's strawberries from the field to cold storage.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Timing the harvest and transport of highly perishable, hand-picked crops such as strawberries so these delicate products reach consumers at peak flavor and freshness is an intricate dance that partners Mother Nature with manual labor.
However, many of the "smart farming" techniques and technologies that help growers harvest more of what they sow faster and more efficiently have focused primarily on row crops like corn and soybeans, bypassing growers of high-value fresh produce.
"The large machines used to harvest row crops such as wheat, corn and soybeans provide a natural platform for improving efficiency," said Richard Sowers, a professor of industrial and enterprise systems engineering and of mathematics at the University of Illinois. "However, the story is radically different in high-value, hand-picked crops like strawberries, which may be many times more valuable per acre than corn. With hand-picked crops, precision agriculture lags significantly behind."
"A hundred acres of corn may have a value of just $800,000, while the same number of acres planted in strawberries may be worth $7.5 million," said Devasia Manuel, a recent Illinois alumnus. "Yet, strawberry harvesters use little to no precision agriculture techniques. It's quite astonishing."
Manuel, currently a machine learning researcher with Google, was the lead author on a paper with Sowers which explored a mathematical model for determining the optimal time for transporting a strawberry crop from the field to cold storage.
Sowers and Manuel's methodology is described in a paper published in the journal Natural Resource Modeling.
Sowers and Manuel, then a graduate student at Illinois, observed workers harvesting strawberries on Crisalida Farms in Oxnard, California. The researchers' algorithm explored the spoilage the grower might incur if they sent partially loaded trucks to the cooling stations, rather than waiting until their trucks were loaded to capacity to transport the fruit to cold storage.
Hand-picked fruits such as strawberries begin to decay immediately after being harvested, and the market value of the crop may decline by as much as 10 percent per hour if the harvested produce sits in the hot sun waiting to be transported to refrigerated storage, Sowers said.
"Growers would like to transport their crops to cooling stations according to an optimal policy, but that policy has to reflect a trade-off between the loss in quality and the rate of harvest," Sowers said.
Unlike machine-harvested crops, harvesting of hand-picked crops varies from worker to worker and by time of day as workers become hot and fatigued, the researchers noted in the study.
"If your workers pick 90 percent of a load in just 15 minutes and then slow down because of the heat, it would make sense to get the load to cold storage even though the truck is only partially full," Sowers said. "That's a very simplified picture, but that's what we were trying to get at. We thought through how to model these trade-offs and did some optimization and simulations, and we found that some significant savings might be possible."
Sowers declined to cite dollar values because their findings were theoretical and the model would need to be calibrated to growers' actual harvest and spoilage data.
However, the findings were encouraging, Sowers said, and the potential financial rewards should motivate researchers and crop producers to explore opportunities to apply precision agriculture techniques to the management of hand-picked and specialty crops.
Editor's notes: To reach Richard Sowers, call 217-333-6246; email r-sowers@illinois.edu
The paper "Optimal Transport to Cold Chain in Perishable Hand-Picked Agriculture" is available online or from the News Bureau
DOI: 10.1111/nrm.12124


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