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Philippine Independence Day 2017
Message of Secretary (Minister) Ramon M. Lopez
Today, we celebrate the 119th year since we first declared our nation's independence.
In remembrance of our heroes, who sacrificed their lives for the country, we mark the 12th of June every year to treasure the gift they have bequeathed for all Filipinos.
Though it has been 119 years since we first won our independence as a nation, there are struggles that we continue to bear--one for independence from poverty, given that many of our fellow countrymen are trapped at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is at the forefront of the attempt to bring shared prosperity for all. Guiding our efforts is President Rodrigo Duterte's 10-point Socio-Economic Agenda and "Dutertenomics," which aims to widen the gains of the Philippines' economic development, to address inequality, and to uplift the quality of life of all Filipinos.
Whether by attracting investment interest from traditional and non-traditional trading partners or through government support programs that help our micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) that serve as the backbone of our economy, DTI's initiatives help create more jobs and income opportunities, while also improving the lives of our countrymen.
The country posted one of the fastest growth rates in Asia in 2016 at 6.8 percent. The growth trajectory is projected to carry on at 6.4 percent this year and 6.6 percent in 2018, as projected by the World Bank. Crucial to sustaining such robust growth is our efforts to improve the business climate in the country through accelerated infrastructure spending, prudent economic management and good governance. Our industry-level reforms and implementing programs also continue to encourage foreign investments.
Increased investor confidence is at a high point, as evidenced by the number of exploratory visits from other countries. Foreign direct investments grew 13 percent to US$689 million in the first month of 2017 from $605 million in the same period last year. Meanwhile, exports grew by 21 percent from US$4.61 billion in March 2016 to US$5.58 billion in March 2017, while imports grew 24 percent from US$6.36 billion in March 2016 to US$7.88 billion in March 2017.
The Board of Investments (BOI) had approved investment pledges worth P154- billion of projects from January to April, up 31 percent year on year. This is equivalent to 46,018 jobs to be generated compared to 16,366 generated last year or a growth of 181 percent.
Furthermore, the Philippines is currently ranked 99th out of 190 economies as measured in the 2016 Doing Business report, a significant gain of 49 spots in the Doing Business report since 2011, which is the largest in ASEAN.
At the domestic front, public service initiatives continue to progress. Of the 488 Negosyo Centers operating nationwide, 241 were established since President Duterte assumed office and these centers have assisted a total of 473,969 MSMEs by rendering 645,925 services. These centers along with the other infrastructures of entrepreneurship help existing and aspiring Filipino MSMEs in their unique entrepreneurial journeys. We would also like to mention that our microfinancing program, the Pondo sa Pagbabago at Pag-asenso (P3), which provides microenterprises an alternative source of financing, has now been launched nationwide.
Lastly, with the Philippines helming the ASEAN regional meet this year, DTI has managed to push for an inclusive, innovation-led growth by putting our MSMEs at the front and center of our trade agenda with our regional neighbors.
As the Philippines' premier trade agency, DTI remains committed in its goal to promote the local trade and industry to wider world even as it pursues greater business opportunities that would help our Filipino countrymen share in the benefits of country's economic growth.
The Philippines, as an independent nation that is proud to stand on its own, is ready to do business with the world.
Mabuhay!
Ramon M. Lopez (signed)
Department of Trade & Industry


PLAYER OF THE GAME: Jorge Posada. Posada went 3 for 4 with 4 RBI's and two runs scored, including a 3-run homerun in the sixth inning.
PLAY OF THE GAME: Hideki Matsui's homerun in the fourth that put the game out of reach.
TURNING POINT: Alex Rodriguez's RBI fielder's choice that gave the Yankees a 4-3 lead. Mark Teixiera's hard retaliation slide prevented an inning-ending double play and helped pump the team up a little bit.
Posada's throwing error in the fourth ended the Yankees record 18 game errorless streak.
Jeter extends his hitting streak to 16 games, while Teixiera's halts at 14 games after going 0-2.
The Yankees move to 10 games over .500 for the first time this season. According to YES, they did not reach that mark until the 100th game last year.
With Teixiera getting hit twice, and Burnett knocking down Nelson Cruz, who hit a 3-run homer, look to see if there is any carry over for the rest of the series. Each team got a shot in though, so I wouldn't expect anything.


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SOLOMON STRYKER
Full Name: Solomon Stryker
Organization: Stryker Security
Occupation CEO
Creator: Terry Manning
Time Span: 2014 - 2014
Solomon Stryker is the CEO of Stryker Security and Investigative Services (SSIS).
According to the blurb for the first recorded adventure: "Born a prodigy, Solomon's life is a life that all genius' have to live, endure and to discover their many abilities and unique learning curves. He astounded his parents as he grew up, graduating high school at a very early age, his first Doctorate came at an early age as well. He also graduating from Julliard as a concert pianist. Yet with all of those accomplishments, he was left looking for something more. The Military is where he found his calling as an officer in Special Forces dealing mainly with terrorists. His elite team was feared and rightfully so. While in the military, tragedy struck his family, leaving him with no clues as to his past, his parents past or their ethnicity. Even with all of the events occurring in his life, Solomon yearned for more. That is when he created his own security and investigative service. He worked hand in hand with any and all governments, that needed his help. His company was growing and doing well."
In the prologue to that adventure, we learn a ton more about this man: "Solomon Stryker, a name that strikes fear in the hearts of the evil in this world! If you were causing problems for one of the customer's of Stryker Security and Investigative Services, you lived in fear! If you ever got in the cross hairs of either Stryker or one of his teams, death was definitely in your future! Stryker hated terrorism most of all! Anyone attempting to dominate people by forcing their ideology on them faced a deadly force to ready to bring them down! If you made people fear you by force, terror, or death, Stryker Security and Investigative service brought hell down on you! There would be no surrender, just absolute annihilation! Terrorists avoided getting on his radar! Mohammed Al Akbar and The Brotherhood were the exception. They either had a death wish or were complete morons for having no fear of Stryker."
"Stryker lived by a belief tattooed on his right bicep "Death Before Dishonor" a belief that he continually lived by."
It would go on to tell that Stryker, in addition to owning SSIS and its very impressive headquarters, also owned the Wars End Bar and Restaurant where he likes to hang out when not on a world-wide mission.
Stryker is in love with a journalist named Candace who brings with her some baggage in the form of the Chicago Mob.
Number of Books: 2
First Appearance: 2014
Last Appearance: 2014
1 Wars End
Written by Terry Manning
Solomon Stryker's security business was flourishing with contracts from numerous governments needing his team's expertise. One major case was finding who was individual high up in America's government that was causing so much trouble. And then trouble in the form of female journalist walked in and suddenly Stryker is also battling the Chicago mob.
2 Stryker's Move
As Solomon Stryker and his love Candace continue their struggles with the Mob, Stryker must also deal with the fact that his old nemesis, the Ghost, may be wounded but is definitely not out. And there is the crazed kidnapper who has snatched eight girls to be found and dealt with.
The several pages of the prologue tell in biographical style enough information about Solomon Stryker and his background as to make me believe there was another whole book that came before the first one. I know the book was revised prior to the version I got so it might be that it was pared down considerably with the first ?half? turned into the prologue. Not sure. I am sure it is confusing.
I also know the author adores the exclamation mark. It is everywhere! This, of course, is to let we the readers know how dramatic the statement is but it gets old very quickly. He also loves long, long paragraphs with conversations of several people pushed inside it. Following along is a pain.
The character of Stryker is far too perfect to be believed. I tried to suspend my logic for the fun of it but wow! Too much!
My Grade: B-
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Joint Chinese college to offer international courses
Li Wenfang
CHINA - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, received approval from the Guangdong provincial government on Monday to open its doors to students.
The new university is a joint venture between the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shenzhen University and is located in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.
The Ministry of Education gave its stamp of approval on March 21, a year and a half after preparatory work for the university began.
It will be one of the few universities in China to adopt an international-based curriculum in the mould of New York University Shanghai, a joint programme between the New York-based institution and East China Normal University, located in Shanghai.
Peng Peng, a senior researcher at the Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences, said CUHK Shenzhen will combine the resources from the two universities.
For mainland students who wish to attend a university in Hong Kong, CUHK Shenzhen is a convenient choice in both location and the cost of tuition fees, he said.
CUHK Shenzhen is currently looking to recruit 300 students for undergraduate majors in marketing, international business and economics this year. The university expects to eventually have a student body of at least 11,000.
Mainland students can apply for the university with their scores from the gaokao, or the national college entrance examination. Students holding foreign passports can also apply.
Students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan will not be able to apply for CUHK Shenzhen this year because their deadline to register for the college entrance examination has passed.
Xu Yangsheng, president of the university, said in a statement that CUHK Shenzhen is vital to the development of Shenzhen as it endeavours to become an internationally recognised city and a source of innovation for China.
Xu said the university is currently focused on hiring staff members from global pools and recruiting students.
He added that the university wants to recruit students from all over the world. English will be the primary language used in classes and he said most students will have the chance to interact with students from foreign countries.
Tuition will cost 95,000 yuan (S$19,300) a year, similar to that for CUHK. Scholarships will be provided.
Graduating students will receive a degree certificate from CUHK and a graduation certificate from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.


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Male workers paid 19% more than female counterparts
The gap is largest in the financial and insurance sectors, as well as other professional roles
Male workers are paid on average 19% more than their female counterparts in almost all areas of the workforce, according to research from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES).
Opportunities and outcomes in education and work: Gender effects found that women working in financial and insurance sectors as well as other professional roles are most affected by the gap in pay, with some earning almost 40% less than men.
There is also a large gap in what males and females are studying at university. From 2005/6 to 2013/14 the number of women taking science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees rose by just 2%, while take-up for men across the same period grew by 24%.
In some sectors the ratio of male to female workers has increased dramatically over the past decade. In computer science, for example, men now outnumber women almost five to one, which represents a 40% increase from 2005/6.
UKCES assistant director Vicki Belt said that the research drives home the reality of gender inequality at work in the UK. "In spite of women's real achievements in education the gender pay gap stubbornly remains," she said.
"Our research shows that occupational segregation is a key factor at play here. Women are under-represented in a range of sectors and occupations that offer higher paying roles – for example fewer than 10% of British engineers are female."
She added: "As almost a quarter of women work part-time they are also disproportionately affected by the low quality and poor progression opportunities offered by much part-time work.
"It is welcome that the government is moving to bring more transparency here, by introducing a requirement for the public sector and larger firms to publish information on gender pay differences. However, there is clearly more that could be done by employers, education providers, and careers advisers to create more and better opportunities for women and tackle patterns of occupational segregation."
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Fairs are an excellent venue for meeting our partners and customers and a particular opportunity for ascertaining their level of satisfaction and identifying their specific needs.
Moreover, we also aim at providing the best possible support to those wishing to build a long-term relationship. Being able to meet again after months of distant work is gratifying and gives us the feeling of knowing each other a bit better, as well as sharing a project.
We always try to present innovations for the products and services we offer, in addition to an overview of the ongoing and future developments for the various product lines.
Visiting our stand also provides the opportunity for collecting the latest marketing material. The annual fairs and events in which we will directly participate are Arab Health and Medica Fair.


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Rundfunkgeschichten für Kinder; Radio Stories for Children (1927-1933)
Between 1927 and 1933, Benjamin produced around eighty radio broadcasts, mostly for children. The recordings are lost, but around one third of the radio scripts have been preserved. They have recently (2014) been published in English translation for the first time.
It is significant that Benjamin, arguably the most important media theorist of the twentieth century, embraced the new medium of radio and worked as a radio broadcaster. In this way, his writings about new technological media are also informed by his own radio work.
The broadcasts include the following topics: Berlin dialect, Berlin street markets, Berlin puppet theatre, Demonic Berlin, Berlin Toys, Berlin Tenements, the Borsig locomotive factory in Tegel (a Berlin suburb), the graphic artist Theodor Hosemann, the writer Theodor Fontane, a brass-works, witch trials, bandits in olden days, gypsies, the Bastille, Caspar Hauser, Dr. Faust, Cagliostro, forged stamps, bootleggers, Naples, the destruction of Pompey, the Lisbon earthquake, the Firth of Tay train disaster, the Mississippi flood of 1927, and shaggy dog stories.
Literarische Rundfunkvorträge; Literary Talks for Radio
The scripts of five literary broadcasts for adults have been preserved: (1) on children's literature, (2) André Gide, (3) Thornton Wilder and Ernest Hemingway, (4) Paris literary life and (5) Friedrich Sieburg.
Walter Benjamin, Radio Benjamin, ed. by Lecia Rosenthal, trans. by Jonathan Lutes, with Lisa Harries Schumann and Diana Reese (London and New York: Verso, 2014)


The Old Foodie: On gods, mice, and leaves.
The Temple of Apollo on the Palatine Hill in Rome was dedicated on this day in 28 B.C.E. Apollo was the god of music, poetry, light, healing, truth and prophesy. He was also the god of justice, order, and reason – although it appears that he did make unreasonable requests of the beautiful river nymph Daphne, who had sworn a vow of virginity. Daphne, so the story goes, was fleeing his advances and appealed to her father, the river god Peneus to save her, whereupon he changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo, grief-stricken (and chastened?) swore always to wear a laurel wreath on his brow in remembrance of her.
Apollo was also a god in the Greek firmament, and laurel leaves - which we usually now call Bay leaves - were used in rituals at Apollo's temple in Delphi, perhaps because sufficient bay oil is mildly narcotic. On the Aegean island of Tenedos however, Apollo was associated with mice – although the reasons are obscure – and priests certainly used mice in rituals there, perhaps even eating them.
So, today's theme being bay leaves and mice in ancient Rome, what do we do for recipes? The Romans were known to enjoy a dormouse or two, and there are recipes to prove it, but dormice are not, technically speaking, mice. They are both rodents, but the scientists have placed them in different families, which matters not a whit to us, as substitution of ingredients is a time-honoured technique in cookery.
The edible dormouse (Glis glis) gets its common name from its habit of sleeping up to three-quarters of its life (dormir = to sleep), and its scientific name refers to its luscious fat (gliscere = to grow). The Romans reared them for the table in pens called gliraria, supposedly feeding them on hazelnuts which must have improved the flavour no end.
If, perchance, you are unable to procure dormice for today's recipe, you could substitute another rodent such as squirrel, beaver, guinea-pig or nutria for example. The green sauce with bay leaves, "for fowl", would surely go well with the dormouse flesh?
Pepper, Caraway, Indian Spikenard, Cumin, Bay Leaves, all kinds of green herbs, Dates, Honey, Vinegar, Wine, Little Broth, and oil.
Is stuffed with a forcemeat of pork and small pieces of dormouse meat trimmings, all pounded with pepper, nuts, laser, broth. Put the dormouse thus stuffed in an earthen casserole, roast it in the oven or boil it in the stockpot.
perhpaps i might partake in a dinner of cuy to commemorate this special day.


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Q: Op-Amp with Voltage Controlled Gain and Unity DC Gain I have a car seat motor that I am driving via PWM and am aiming to measure its position by counting the minor variations in voltage across a current sensing resistor attached to the low side of a FET as the motor rotates. At higher duties the Vpp is significantly less (30mV) than those at 25% duty (4.7V). I currently tap the signal for measuring by a microcontroller ADC at two different gain stages to handle this, but desire to make this all happen in one stage with a variable gain circuit so only 1 ADC is needed.
Before I go into what I've attempted I want to state my primary question. How do I dynamically adjust the gain of my waveform to output a signal at a constant Vpp when my input Vpp ranges from 30mV to 4.7V?
I use a TI LMV344 op amp with rails on 0V and 5V. The motors are 12V.
Currently the circuit flow is:

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*Sensing Resistor Output

*Diode voltage clamp to remove DC bias

*High gain, non-inverting LPF op amp. Filters out 20kHz PWM signal

*Diode clamp to reduce bias. I now know that I can put a capacitor between the resistor an ground on the gain portion of the above LPF

*Sallen-Key LPF to further reduce 20kHz PWM signal. Low gain. This is where I tap for low duty signals as any more gain causes the lowest of duties to cause the current signal to saturate the op amp.

*Diode clamp to reduce DC bias.

*Another Sallen-Key LPF identical to the above filter, no tap. I really wanted to filter out that noise.

*High gain, non-inverting LPF op-amp. Higher duty signals are tapped here.

The problem that I have run into is that at the highest duty, the Vpp output is low enough that its sometimes hard to make out pulses. At the cross-over duty, around 60%, the Vpp on the high duty side is saturating and the Vpp on the low duty side is too small.
My current attempt to solve this issue is to use the PWM signal used to drive the motor as a means of adjusting gain on a separate gain only amp. The gain is set to put the high duty signal at the desired Vpp. As the duty increases and inverted copy of the duty is filtered into an analog signal (represented by V3) and fed through a voltage follower connected to the inverting pin on the amp with the gain stage. But when I do this, the DC outputted in step 5 causes the signal to saturate at the op amp's upper rail when low duties are used. If I put a diode clamp between the signal from step 5 and the gain only amp, I can control the gain as I had hoped. When I put a capacitor between the gain resistor attached to ground and ground to reduce DC gain to unity and eliminate the need for the diode clamp, the gain is no longer controlled and the DC gain isn't unity. The diode clamp needs to be replaced since the various Vpp values need different offsets so they won't saturate.
Here's that last paragraph as a schematic. The op-amps are LMV344 op-amps, not LMV324 as the illustration suggests. The input signal has a Vpp from 30mV to 4.7V depending on the motor duty.

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
And here are two examples of the input signal. THe first is the current draw waveform at 100% duty and the second is the current draw at 25%  duty.
How can I get a variable gain circuit, amplify signals with Vpp between 30mV and 4.7V to around 4.7V, while avoiding saturation due to input DC levels? Thank you in advance. This has consumed me for the past month.

A: One issue is that the filters to get rid of the PWM may be attenuating the signal you want to measure, so I would suggest a notch filter to get rid of much of the PWM signal.
The Fliege notch filter is a versatile and somewhat forgiving filter, and I have run one up for the 20kHz:

It has this simulated response:

The notch depth is -55dB here, although I would expect -40dB as a more realistic response with real devices and layout. The bandwidth between the -3dB points is about 2kHz.
As this filter is unity gain at DC, it would be simple to introduce a DC offset to run on single supply.
Note that R7 is only present to enable the simulation to converge, and the notch depth is proportional to the ratio \$ \frac {C_0} {R_0} \$
You could then use a high pass filter to attenuate any harmonics of the PWM drive signal which may simplify the rest of the signal chain.

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Luin Living set out to create a stylish, indulgently soft hair towel and has since grown into a full range of home spa and home decor products for the whole family.
Finnish lifestyle brand Luin Living will bulk up its presence in Japan for the Christmas season by opening pop up shops in seven large department stores around the country.
Luin Living has been growing in Japan after a successful fair in Tokyo in July 2017, when it was still known as Luin Spa. The growth has kept its local importer busy and opened department store doors to its products.
Now the Finnish lifestyle brand will pop up in department stores in some of Japan's largest cities in time for Christmas shopping: Tokyo's Isetan, Seibu and Maruhiro, another Maruhiro in Kawagoe, Osaka's Hankyu Senri and Hankyu Kawanishi, and Sapporo's Daimaru. Its products will also be on sale in smaller lifestyle and interior design stores and in some online stores, such as Rakuten Brand Avenue.
Luin Living has also generated interest in the local press, featuring among other places in world-renowned, Japanese fashion newspaper Senken Shimbun.
Explore how a hair towel inspired two friends to create a whole lifestyle brand in our feature article.


Newlywed Angela Scanlon has the secret to a happy marriage cracked already - lots of solo global travel.
The bubbly redhead is run off her feet fronting RTE travel show Getaways, but she said married life couldn't be going any smoother.
"I was speaking to someone who said the key to a lasting marriage is lots of travel - separately," she joked.
Globe-trotting comes with the job description now for the 29-year-old who already divides her time between London and Dublin.
"It's very over and back at the minute, we get a week together and then I'm off again but it works," she told the Diary.
Stylist Angela wed businessman Roy Horgan (below) in June and even had to cut her honeymoon short for work.
But the busy Meath native is loving every minute working away in her dream gigs.
Angela nabbed the jet-setting presenting role alongside Joe Lindsey when Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain quit the series.
"I've been loving every minute - it's so busy but I'm also getting to have a ridiculous amount of fun."
"Maybe I'm slightly oblivious to it but I haven't felt any pressure because I've been allowed tackle a great mix of subjects that I'm really interested in," she said.
Although she's now happily wed, the patter of tiny feet is not on the immediate horizon for the loved-up couple.
"I 100pc want children down the line. I'd love to have kids but for the minute I have him babysitting my niece and that's about it," Angela revealed.
"It's been on the tip of everyone's tongue since we got married," she added.


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Q: Structure Automata CAML I have a problem with the CAML light language... I need to write a CAML light prog that given three 3-letter words search if the letters are present in the given words and in that case it will return true otherwise false. The program must use the deterministic automata.
Do you have any idea? Thanks.
Program without automata:
let string_check c1 c2 string = (index_char string c1)>0 && (index_char string c2)>0;;

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Molecular epidemiology and integrated management of Huanglongbing (asiaticus and a...
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Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
Associated scholarship(s): 17/03122-0 - HLB management enhancement using spatio-temporal analyses of the disease and its vector (Diaphorina citri), BE.EP.DR
The citrus industry is an important agro-industrial activity in Brazil and much of the production is concentrated in São Paulo, which accounts for 73% of citrus production in the country. A major challenge for São Paulo citrus industry is the current epidemic of Huanglongbing (HLB), a disease considered the main threat to world citrus production. The HLB is associated with the bacterium 'Candidatus Liberibacter spp.' and its dissemination that occurs by vector Diaphorina citri. The management of HLB is based on chemical vector control, eradication of infected plants and planting of healthy seedlings. However, when these control measures are applied only locally, for example on a property surrounded by areas of diseased plants, it can not reduce the effects of primary dissemination. This primary dissemination occurs by the migration of D. citri infective adults, from surrounding areas maintained with inoculum sources. Thus, new infections occur even in areas under strict management of the disease (in this case meant eradication of plants and the use of insecticides). In this scenario, epidemiological studies are needed to determine the effectiveness of these control measures, to estimate their cost/benefit analysis and propose management alternatives. In this research proposal will be determined the spatial and temporal progress of HLB in orchards of citrus property that takes control strategies described above but suffers in different magnitudes, the influence of neighboring areas, with and without the management of HLB. Therefore, it will be adjusted the monomolecular, logistic and Gompertz temporal models to data of eradication of stands of plants: i) located on the edge and more internally on the property; and ii) with different planting densities (5.0 to 6.5 m 1.5 x 2.5 m). To spatial progress of HLB, will be adjusted disease gradient models and determined the edge effect. Furthermore, the correlation between the fluctuation of the vector population and its magnitude in the rate of progress of the disease and the edge effect is observed. Finally, the Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation method will be applied to spacial-temporal progress of HLB to estimate the effects of primary and secondary disseminations. The results obtained will serve as a model for the establishment of new strategies for the presence of citrus HLB.
News published in Agência FAPESP Newsletter about the scholarship:
PAZOLINI, KELLY; ARRUDA, JOSICLEA H.; CHINELATO, GRESSA A.; BERGAMIN FILHO, ARMANDO; BELASQUE, JOSE. Temporal Progress of Huanglongbing Epidemics and the Effect of Noncommercial Inoculum Sources on Citrus Orchards in Sao Paulo State, Brazil. PLANT DISEASE, v. 105, n. 9, p. 2472-2483, SEP 2021. (13/20296-1, 16/01796-1)
(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)
PAZOLINI, Kelly. Spatial distribution and temporal progress of Huanglongbing in areas with strict disease management. 2019. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) Piracicaba.


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Category: UNC-Chapel Hill
We turned our eyes to Manhattan, we turned our eyes to Washington D.C., we turned our eyes to a lonely field in Shanksville, Pa., and then we turned our eyes to ourselves: Who, we wondered, will we become now?
Jake Lawler came to UNC in 2017 with a football scholarship, a passion for movies and a talent for writing. A longtime foe followed him there, one that he had known since middle school — when he wore crooked glasses and ill-fitting clothes and was teased for being a mixed-race kid.
Next Research Launch: Carolina's Own Satellite
Andrew Mann told all the universities who interviewed him for faculty positions that he planned to buy his own CubeSat, but Carolina's response intrigued him: "They said, 'Don't buy it. Build it.' "
To Build a Cure
They're the most promising cancer assassins to come along in your lifetime, but their mission is far from complete. CAR-T is still largely experimental — a futuristic, staggering, frustrating therapy that sometimes works and sometimes does not.
Custom-Made Therapy Comes With Sticker Shock
(sidebar to "To Build a Cure") What's the difference between commercial CAR-T therapy and the cancer treatments that have come before it? The same things,…
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The Banghart Way
Last spring, Courtney Banghart earned the job of a lifetime when she was named the first new Tar Heels women's basketball coach in 33 years, replacing a coach and taking over a program whose shine had faded under the tarnish of scandal and disconnection. The role is tailor-made for Jim Banghart's daughter: An opportunity to repair a beloved thing that has fallen out of favor, to patch its holes and mend its stitches — and then go out and win with it.
Posted on August 12, 2019 February 5, 2021
The Student Body Shop
What you see, smell and hear here is shop class and home economics refurbished for the digital age. Hundreds of willing participants know this as BeAM, or "be a maker," UNC's answer to the worldwide makerspace movement — the collaborative culture of making physical objects using both digital and traditional tools. Now entering its fourth year, BeAM makerspaces are leading the Carolina community and its students through a re-emergence of know-how, in and out of the classroom.
The Art of Perseverance
Students are incredulous when Walters proffers this deal. "You're going to give me more time and a higher grade? What's the catch?" But that's how making and inventing works in the real world, he said. Like pumping gas in a Vermont winter, the first decisions you make often are not your best.
The BeAM School of Engineering
Of the 15 colleges Charlotte Dorn was considering, only Carolina didn't offer the mechanical engineering degree she wanted. The High Point native's family had a good laugh about that.
Can I Make You Something From the Davie Poplar?
D. J. Fedor rummages through a drawer in his office in the BeAM makerspace at Hanes, a no-nonsense room scattered with woodworking supplies. From these unpretentious surroundings, he brandishes a pen, laying it gently in your palm as if it were a royal scepter.
Posted on May 23, 2019 February 8, 2021
Ultimate Rising: UNC's Darkside Overshadows its Rivals
When Mike Denardis started playing ultimate Frisbee at the University of Iowa more than 20 years ago, the game — for the uninitiated, think soccer…
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Why Not? The Art of Believing
When Katie Ziglar believes in the power of an idea or a project, it persists — across the decades, across continents, through the halls of the Smithsonian, in the mansions of maharajas, over the demolition of gender barriers and through her polite-but-persistent, lifelong takedown of the phrase, "That can't be done."
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First, Do No Harm
For Dr. Tim Ives, who worked in a Utah methadone clinic during his pharmacy residency in the early 1980s, the OxyContin era is the latest in an endless cycle of drug epidemics in the U.S.
"It's pharmaceutical Whac-A-Mole," Ives said. "Nothing's changed. It's just the products have changed. We're getting better at measuring [drug abuse]. Now we've got to start getting better at treatment — and treatment is not a drug. It's mental health. People are still out there who have a medical condition, and the condition is substance dependence."
Unlikely Choice, Visionary Leader
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Don't Lecture Me
Kelly Hogan's new normal began one day in 2010 when Bob Henshaw, an instructional consultant at UNC's Center for Faculty Excellence, placed a troubling collection of statistics on her desk. They showed that underrepresented students — blacks and first-generation college students — were disproportionately scoring Ds and Fs in her classes.
The Missionary
"Isn't this a great view?" Shirley Ort asks in her elegant, lilting voice of the scene outside her Pettigrew Hall window. Ort's office is modest, but the world beyond it is indeed spectacular, an October burst of yellow and orange across the expanse of McCorkle Place, with ruddy brick walkways crisscrossing the fading summer grass, all paths paved with opportunity. This view was unthinkable to Ort at 17, a world of higher consciousness closed to a girl from an impoverished rural family.
Posted on July 20, 2015 February 5, 2021
Farewell to an Icon
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Citizen Smith
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The Champion and Runner-Up
Karen Shelton's cap, as always, was pulled down low on her forehead, and her ponytail sat at attention through the adjustable band at the cap's back. She rested her arms at 90-degree angles on the table in front of her and listened calmly as her players, raw and emotional, fidgeted their way through the torturous ritual of crystallizing for a handful of media the meaning behind the moment: What were you thinking when you fell to the ground, sobbing, as time ran out? Can you talk about what it has meant to be a part of this team for four years, to play in four title games and win only one of them?


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package com.ajjpj.afoundation.collection;

import com.ajjpj.afoundation.collection.ACompositeIterator;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

/**
 * @author Roman
 */
public class ACompositeIteratorTest {
    @Rule
    public ExpectedException expectedException = ExpectedException.none ();

    @Test
    public void testHasNextPlusNext() {
        final ACompositeIterator<Integer> iter = new ACompositeIterator<> (Arrays.asList (
                Arrays.asList (1,2,3,4).iterator (),
                Arrays.asList (5,6,7,8).iterator (),
                Arrays.asList (9,10).iterator ()
        ));

        int expected = 1;
        while (expected <= 10) {
            assertTrue (iter.hasNext ());
            int elem = iter.next ();
            assertEquals (expected, elem);
            expected++;
        }
        assertFalse (iter.hasNext ());
        expectedException.expect (NoSuchElementException.class);
        iter.next ();
    }

    @Test
    public void testPureNext() {
        final ACompositeIterator<Integer> iter = new ACompositeIterator<> (Arrays.asList (
                Arrays.asList (1,2,3,4).iterator (),
                Arrays.asList (5,6,7,8).iterator (),
                Arrays.asList (9,10).iterator ()
        ));

        int expected = 1;
        while (expected <= 10) {
            int elem = iter.next ();
            assertEquals (expected, elem);
            expected++;
        }

        expectedException.expect (NoSuchElementException.class);
        iter.next ();
    }
}


Apostolic Revelation: Why Did God Punish Humans When Satan Is The Cause Of Sin?
Why Did God Punish Humans When Satan Is The Cause Of Sin?
Why God Should Destroy His Own Creation When He Is A Good God?
Question : Because of our sin nature it is very difficult keep our body as a Temple of God? We did not fall into sin by our self, we were cheated by Satan and so he was the guilty one and not we. Do you see any differently than this? It is not a righteous justice I think from God, because God had known everything about the fall of Lucifer and his rebellious angels even when He created them and knew that they will all one day take side with him against Him and also against us humans who are made in the image of God. Why I say it because God is omniscient to know the end from the beginning itself and that is why we call Him omniscient. To me it looks like a game which was planned by God. I think punishment in the lake of fire should belong to Satan and his evil angels, and not for us humans. Why human should be punished? Why he created humans? Why destroy his own creation which is in this world? Why did he let Satan to live since he became Satan, if God had finished Satan at that movement itself when he sinned, there would have been no sufferings in this world. I have doubt about all these things. May be I am wrong but I have to ask this because this matter is always questioning me to think logically and decide where the fault line is.
Answer : It is true that we have a sin nature that lures us to sin because it works in direct opposition to the new nature that will help us stay in God's holiness (Gal 5:17). The antidote to sin nature is walking in the Spirit. Walking in the Spirit is supplying spiritual food of God through meditating in the Word of God, prayer, praise, thankful heart, singing songs to the Lord, desiring and loving to walk in God's will and righteousness by faith, hating lawlessness, etc...to the spirit that will empower the new nature within us to make it deny the lust of the flesh when it tries to overcome it (Gal 5:16). Walking in the old nature of sin by feeding the self will only empower the pull of sin to make the work of the flesh evident (Gal 5:19-21), but because we are Christ's, we have crucified the flesh with its passion and desires when Jesus was crucified on behalf of us (Gal 5:24). So even though sin might make us fall whenever we try to walk the Christian life by our own strength, but it cannot have dominion over us to make us indefinitely do its own will because the Spirit quietly comes back to help us after we have confessed our mistake to God as we belong to Christ (Gal 5:18; Rom 6:14; Jam 4:6-7). So the bottom line is, though it is impossible to maintain our body in holiness as the Temple of God in our own strength, it can be easily done when we are in partnership with God and know that the One who is in us is greater then the one who is in the world (1 John 4:4; Luke 18:27).
You are right and it is true that we were cheated by Satan and he was one of the main guilty one, that is why God cursed Satan more than anyone who is under the curse of sin (Gen 3:14-15; Job 1:7). But God graciously allowed the woman Eve who was deceived by Satan only to experience the curse of sorrow and conception, pain while giving birth and husband ruling over her and nothing more than that (Gen 3:16). And also God did not directly curse Adam like he did for Satan for his deception, instead again God graciously only cursed the ground which yielded herb for eating much less than what it can and then that curse made Adam to toil and shed his sweat of the face to produce only enough bread for daily existence because of the weeds of thorns and thistles which made life very difficult for him and his descendants until physical death (Gen 3:17-19). So God rightly have given out his judgment and there is no partiality with him (Rom 2:11; Acts 10:34; Psa 9:8). Satan as the deceiver was judged first by God and then He pronounced His righteous judgment upon Even and then Adam. Clearly the Bible says that Adam our forefather sinned and sin entered the world of humans, so once sin have entered in to world of humanity bringing death to all, all have sinned by sin nature taking root in humans, and therefore humans by their ability to take conscious decisions have become responsible for further sin even though in their sinful state they have become powerless against it (Rom 5:12, 6).
Just because God is omniscient and know the end from the beginning doesn't mean that he has influenced anybody to take any decision to sin (Isa 46:10; Jam 1:13). He is like a Divine Movie director who knows the end of the story because it is He who has written it, but in this real life story, the actors by their own will they take decisions to participate both in the good or bad part of it by their personal choice. God knew about Satan's fall much before it happened (Isa 54:16), but as a God who in His Sovereign will had written the story line before hand (1 Peter 1:20; Rev 13:8; 4:11; Eph 1:4-6), He knew that in spite of the personal cost of giving up His own Son Jesus to die for humans who will come to be tempted and fall in to sin because of Satan and his demonic minions (Rom 8:32), He chose to reveal His Glory through us humans through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ who is the real hero of the whole story along with us who have become the sons of God to redeem the earth and give a happy ending to it all (1 Cor 2:7; Col 1:27; Rom 8:14, 19; Php 3:21). A game is an activity that one engages in for amusement or entertainment, but life is not a game because God already had a purpose for creating the earth and everything in it, and that purpose was to find Himself who hides Himself though He is closer to all humans than the air they breathe because they exist in Him (Isa 45:18-19, 15; Acts 17:26-28). The purpose of finding God is no entertainment like a game because the outcome of it will decide where a human will live the rest of their eternity, either in hell fire where there will be no trace of God because of God withdrawing His Presence or in heaven where God will fully reveal Himself to all those who dwell there for eternity (Matt 25:41, 46; 2 Thess 1:8-9; Mark 9:47-48; Rev 20:11-15; John 14:21; Isa 65:1).
Actually the lake of fire according to God has been made beforehand for Satan and his demonic cohorts who have sinned and rebelled against God, but those who want to join Satan and do not want God by living for themselves will end up there in that hell fire by their own choice. We cannot ask God why He created humans cause we did not create Him but He created us and has sovereign rights over us (Rom 9:19-23), we should accept that in His will He has created us to find and know Him intimately (Rom 9:16; John 17:3). Rather than God destroying His own creation, actually our sins make Him do something that He doesn't like to do; because justice has to be fulfilled through a just God who rules over all His creation without partiality (Isa 45:7; Ezek 18:23, 26-27; Deut 32:4; Psa 7:11; 11:5). As you wrongly assume, if God lets his creation to do evil as it wants without ever judging to destroy the wicked, the world will become a living hell uninhabitable because of the wickedness of humans and that is what happened at the time of Noah before God judged the whole world righteously by destroying it by the worldwide flood (Gen 6:11, 12-13).
God allowed Satan to live since He became Satan and did not destroy him because God wanted to test humans through this evil being who challenged God to let the humans on their own if He is really a righteous God and see how they turn again Him and will curse Him to His face, but Job the righteous man proved that Satan's challenge to God was because of his own jealousy over God's righteousness and His deep intimate relationship with humans (Job 1:6-12, 20; 2:1-10; 42:10-17). Without an evil villain, God's creative story line would not have been so interesting as you see nearly in all the movies. So suffering in this world is God's megaphone through which God makes people notice that He is present to solve their problem and be their friend. Ultimately God wants to bring His goodness to the whole of humanity and bless them in every way very soon, and that is why Jesus Christ came in to this world first to save people from their sins and then bless people apart from sin for their righteousness of faith for eternity ahead (Gal 3:13-14; Matt 1:21; Heb 9:28). Praise the Lord!
No matter what doubt you have, turn to the Bible with faith to read it and ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten His Word, it has all the answers for this life, and in the life to come giving meaning and purpose for our human existence. Doubt your doubt, but never the Word of God. Satan wants to create doubt and make you ineffective in your Christian life and living. The fault line is always with us humans who with the glass of sin see God and then call it as logical thinking to decide wrongly that God is not good or at least not fully. Such thoughts completely destroy the faith of God and cause worries that causes more doubts and confusion in our life and through us in others. So I pray that you may read the Word of God daily to grow in faith and glorify God with your life because He is always good though you may not always feel that way (Rom 10:17; Psa 145:9; 73:1; 135:3).


Education: I was born into a "theatre family" and grew up in and around theatre and learned much by doing and observing. I studied at Worth-Tyrrell Studios School Of Performing Arts in Morristown, NJ and with various teachers in NYC and L.A. Currently studying acting at Matthew Corozine Studio and voice with Michael Warren and Martin Hurt in NYC.
Select Credits: Christian in Cyrano de Bergerac! Carl Perkins in the Las Vegas company of Million Dollar Quartet, Jake in The Understudy (Cape May Stage, NJ), several roles/productions of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Regional credits include Fulton Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre, Arvada Center, Ogunquit Playhouse.
Why theater?: I almost had no choice! ;-) Both my parents were actors and I'm a fourth generation performer (3rd generation AEA member) so I almost HAD to go into theatre! Well, that, and I happen to love it.
Who do you play in Cyrano?: Christian, the tongue-tied cadet who borrows Cyrano's eloquence to win the love of the beautiful Roxanne.
Tell us about Cyrano: It's the classic story of Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant speaker, poet and swordsman, who lacks confidence with women because of his looks, particularly his very large nose. He is in love with the beautiful and equally eloquent Roxanne but believes he has no chance with her. She falls in love at first sight with the handsome cadet, Christian, who is "speechless, dumb" with women until Cyrano agrees to feed him the words he needs to win her. Comedy and tragedy ensue. Our script was adapted for 8 actors by Gabriel Barre (who also plays Cyrano), Rick Sordelet and Alexander Sovronsky based on the Anthony Burgess translation. It's raucous, incredibly fun, and moving.
What is it like being a part of Cyrano?: It's been a whirlwind, so far. With only 8 actors in the cast, almost everyone is playing at least 2-3 other roles, beside their primary, and playing instrumental underscoring and accompaniment so there is little, if any, down time. It's both terrifying and exhilarating!
What's your favorite showtune?: It's not your typical showtune but "Rose's Turn" from Gypsy is one of my absolute favorites. It's a perfect encapsulation of Rose's story, brilliant story telling with a tremendous arc and haunting musical accompaniment.
I'd go back and watch my grandparents in vaudeville.
What show have you recommended to your friends?: Something Rotten! It's clever and hilarious. Also, keep an eye out for Between Riverside And Crazy which I had the good fortune to catch lat year at Second Stage Theatre starring the incredible Stephen McKinley Henderson. I hear there's a Broadway run coming up.
What's your biggest guilty pleasure?: Disco...Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band, Chic!


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Seborrheic dermatitis is a very common skin condition that contributes to "combination skin" and complicates therapy for many skin conditions. Seborrheic dermatitis is the only skin condition that occurs frequently at age two weeks or at age 90. It affects millions of people.
It starts in infants as cradle cap (persistent scaling in the baby's scalp) and sometimes as a red scaling persistent rash over the face. It can involve the neck as well as the armpits, groin and body creases of the baby. Babies typically outgrow it by age 6 months. They may experience seborrheic dermatitis again as a teenager, as scalp dandruff or facial problems.
In teenagers and adults, seborrheic dermatitis most often presents as a red scaling patchy facial rash, or as a contributing part of a stubborn facial or body rash. It often complicates acne therapy.
Are your doctors unsure whether your skin problem is allergic, eczema, or psoriasis, or just difficult "combination skin"? Your problem may be underlying seborrheic dermatitis.
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Inexpensive, safe and effective medications for seborrheic dermatitis are disappearing. Prescription medication for seborrheic dermatitis is typically $150 or more.
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        Navn:
        <input type="text" id="name" name="name" placeholder="Fulde navn">

        Studieretning:
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"Pink Star" Diamond Sets a Record
A diamond sets a record.
FOX's Lilian Woo reports:
A pink diamond which looks larger than a Charms Blow Pop, pulling in a record $71.2 million at auction in Hong Kong to a jeweler there. That is the most for any jewel, according to Sotheby's.
The 59.6 carat "Pink Star" is the largest flawless fancy vivid pink diamond ever graded by the Gemological Institute of America. It was actually sold for an even higher price back in 2013 in Geneva, but diamond cutter Isaac Wolf defaulted on his bid of $83 million.
Sotheby's says it's not concerned about this week's winner Chow Tai Fook because the bidders were vetted.
Lilian Woo, FOX News.
Follow Lilian Woo on Twitter: @LilianNY


A man has appeared in court accused of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a woman and leaving her with horrific injuries as she returned home from a night out.
Robbie Lowther is accused of attacking the woman, leaving her with abdominal injuries, in Tayport, Fife, around 1am on Friday.
Lowther, 23, of Cross Street, Tayport, appeared in private on petition at Dundee Sheriff Court on Saturday.
He faced a charge that on January 2 in Craig Road, Tayport, he assaulted the 22-year-old woman by seizing hold of her and striking her with a knife or similar injury to her severe injury, permanent disfigurement and danger of life and attempted to murder her.
Lowther made no plea or declaration and the case was continued for further examination.
Sheriff Elizabeth Munro remanded him in custody ahead of a further appearance next week.
Police Scotland said the woman suffered serious abdominal injuries and was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee where she was said to be in a stable condition.


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Q: How does a multiple select list work with model binding in ASP.NET MVC? If you have a select list set to multiple in ASP.NET MVC, how does the modelbinding work?
What does it return for your selected items, an array?
<SELECT NAME="toppings" MULTIPLE SIZE=5>
    <option value="mushrooms">mushrooms</option>
    <option value="greenpeppers">green peppers</option>
    <option value="onions">onions</option>
    <option value="tomatoes">tomatoes</option>
    <option value="olives">olives</option>
</SELECT>

A: In VegTableViewmodel:
public IEnumerable<MultiSelectList> Vegetables { get; set; }

In the Controller:
Get vegetables list, and then pass it to the VegTableViewModel's Vegetables property.
viewmodel.Vegetables = vegetables .Select(d => new MultiSelectList(d.VegName));

In the View:
@Html.ListBoxFor(m => m.L, new MultiSelectList(Model.Vegetables.Select(d => d.Items))

A: Yes, by default a multiselectlist will post through an array of the selected values.
This article has further information, including how to use strongly-typed views with a multiselectlist.
From the linked "article":

*

*Your model or view model class needs a collection property for the IDs for the selected option items, e.g. List<int> ToppingIds.

*In the controller action method to which the form containing your multi-select-list POSTs, you can access the selected option items thru the collection property you added to the model or view model class.

A: Yes, it returns an array.
View model:
public class MyViewModel
{
    public int[] SelectedIds { get; set; }
    public IEnumerable<SelectListItem> Items { get; set; }
}

Controller:
public ActionResult Index()
{
    var model = new MyViewModel
    {
        // fetch the items from some data source
        Items = Enumerable.Select(x => new SelectListItem
        {
            Value = x.Id,
            Text = "item " + x.Id
        })
    };
    return View(model);
}

View:
@model MyViewModel
@Html.ListBoxFor(x => x.SelectedIds, Model.Items)


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Q: Howto enable spellchecking in Canadian English (incl in LibreOffice) for all users / system-wide It seems that no one gets the benefit of spell-checking in LibreOffice on our Ubuntu computers.
We have them generally set up with Canadian English as default languages, but apparently there is no spell checking for Canadian English.
The fix seems to be for each new user to do the following, within LibreOffice:
Go to Tools/Options/Language Settings/Languages.
 For "Default language for documents," pick English (USA) or
English (UK).
It allows dozens of flavours of English, BUT spelling is
disabled for all the ones that don't have the little blue tick
ABC icon beside them.
That is not good, since in Canada we have spelling that is more flexible than US or UK.
However, my question is how to set this up for everyone, at the system level, so that each user does not need to figure this out?

A: Canadian spell-checking is available.
sudo apt-get install hunspell-en-ca


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Q: Using Variation of Parameters to Find the General Solution of $u''-u=\frac{2}{e^x+1}$
I am trying to use variation of parameters to find the general solution to the inhomogeneous ODE
  $$u''-u=\frac{2}{e^x+1}$$

By computing the characteristic polynomial of the homogeneous equation $u''-u=0$, I have found $$u_H=c_1e^x+c_2e^{-x} \ \ \ \ c_1,c_2\in\mathbb{R}$$
Hence $u_1(x)=e^x, u_2(x)=e^{-x}$. So,
\begin{align}
v'_1(x)&=-\frac{u_2(x)f(x)}{W(x)} \\
v_1(x)&=\int \frac{e^{-x}}{e^x+1} \ dx \\
&=-e^{-x}+\ln|e^{-x}+1|+C_1
\end{align}
and similarly,
\begin{align}
v'_2(x)&=\frac{u_1(x)f(x)}{W(x)} \\
v_2(x)&=-\int \frac{e^{x}}{e^x+1} \ dx \\
&=-\ln|e^{x}+1|+C_2
\end{align}
Hence the general solution is given by
$$u(x)=v_1(x)u_1(x)+v_2(x)u_2(x)=\left(-e^{-x}+\ln|e^{-x}+1|+C_1\right)e^x+\left(-\ln|e^{x}+1|+C_2\right)e^{-x}$$
But this is incorret. Is my method valid?

A: First,
$$W(x)=\det\left(\begin{bmatrix}\exp(x)&\exp(-x)\\\exp(x)&-\exp(-x)\end{bmatrix}\right)=-2\,.$$
That is, with a proper constant of integration,
$$\begin{align}v_1(x)&=-\int\,\frac{u_2(x)\,f(x)}{W(x)}\,\text{d}x
\\&=-\exp(-x)+\ln\big(1+\exp(-x)\big)=-\exp(-x)-x+\ln\big(1+\exp(x)\big)\,.\end{align}$$
Likewise, for an appropriate choice of the constant of integration, we have
$$v_2(x)=+\int\,\frac{u_1(x)\,f(x)}{W(x)}\,\text{d}x=-\ln\big(1+\exp(x)\big)\,.$$
Thus, a particular solution is
$$\begin{align}u_p(x)&=v_1(x)\,u_1(x)+v_2(x)\,u_2(x)
\\&=\small\exp(+x)\,\Big(-\exp(-x)-x+\ln\big(1+\exp(x)\big)\Big)-\exp(-x)\,\ln\big(1+\exp(x)\big)
\\
&=-1-x\,\exp(x)+2\,\sinh(x)\,\ln\big(1+\exp(x)\big)\,.\end{align}$$
Hence, the general solutions are of the form
$$u(x)=u_p(x)+a\,\exp(+x)+b\,\exp(-x)\,,$$
where $a$ and $b$ are constants.  My result agrees with you.

Alternatively, note that
$$\frac{\text{d}}{\text{d}x}\,\exp(x)\,\big(u'(x)-u(x)\big)=\frac{2\,\exp(x)}{\exp(x)+1}\,.$$
That is,
$$u'(x)-u(x)=\int\,\frac{\exp(x)}{\exp(x)+1}\,\text{d}x=2\,\exp(-x)\,\ln\big(\exp(x)+1\big)-2A\,\exp(-x)$$
for some constant $A$.  That is,
$$\frac{\text{d}}{\text{d}x}\,\exp(-x)\,u(x)=2\,\exp(-2x)\,\ln\big(\exp(x)+1\big)-2A\,\exp(-2x)\,.$$
Ergo,
$$u(x)=\exp(+x)\,\int\,2\,\exp(-2x)\,\ln\big(\exp(x)+1\big)\,\text{d}x+A\,\exp(-x)\,.$$
Using integration by parts, we obtain
$$\int\,2\,\exp(-2x)\,\ln\big(\exp(x)+1\big)\,\text{d}x=-\exp(-x)-x+2\exp(-x)\,\sinh(x)\,\ln\big(1+\exp(x)\big)+B$$
for some constant $B$, and so we conclude that
$$u(x)=-1-x\,\exp(x)+2\,\sinh(x)\,\ln\big(1+\exp(x)\big)+A\,\exp(-x)+B\,\exp(+x)\,.$$

A: For particular solution, we can use differential operator method for $D(u''-u)=\dfrac{2}{e^x+1}$ then
$$(D^2-1)u=\frac{2}{e^x+1}$$
$$u=\dfrac{1}{D-1}\left(\dfrac{1}{D+1}(\frac{2}{e^x+1})\right)$$
let $v=\dfrac{1}{D+1}(\dfrac{2}{e^x+1})$ then
$$e^xv'+e^xv=\dfrac{2e^x}{e^x+1}$$
gives the function $v=e^{-x}\int\dfrac{2e^x}{e^x+1}dx=2e^{-x}\ln(e^x+1)$. Now
$$u=\dfrac{1}{D-1}\left(2e^{-x}\ln(e^x+1)\right)$$
or
$$e^{-x}u'-e^{-x}u=2e^{-2x}\ln(e^x+1)$$
therefore
$$u=e^{x}\int2e^{-2x}\ln(e^x+1)dx=\color{blue}{e^x\ln\left(e^{-x}+1\right)-e^{-x}\ln \left(e^x+1\right)-1}$$

A: $$u''-u=\frac{2}{e^x+1}$$
$$u''-u'+u'-u=\frac{2}{e^x+1}$$
Substitute $s=u'-u$
$$s'+s=\frac{2}{e^x+1}$$
$$(se^x)'=\frac{2e^x}{e^x+1}$$
Integrating
$$se^x=2\ln({e^x+1})+K_1$$
$$(u'-u)e^{-x}=2e^{-2x}\ln({e^x+1})+K_1e^{-2x}$$
$$(ue^{-x})'=2e^{-2x}\ln({e^x+1})+K_1e^{-2x}$$
After integration
$$u=2e^x\int \ln({e^x+1})e^{-2x}dx+K_1e^{-x}+K_2e^x$$
$$u=-\ln({e^x+1})e^{-x}+e^x\int \frac {e^{-x}}{e^x+1}dx+K_1e^{-x}+K_2e^x$$
Finally
$$u(x)=-\ln({e^x+1})e^{-x}+e^x\ln( {e^{-x}+1})-1+K_1e^{-x}+K_2e^x$$
or
$$u(x)=\ln({e^x+1})(-e^{-x}+e^x)-1-xe^x+K_1e^{-x}+K_2e^x$$

Edit
I think the $−xe^x$ is wrong
It's not wrong I think it comes from the
$$e^x\ln(e^{-x}+1)=e^x\ln (e^x+1)-xe^x$$


APRIL 13 UPDATE: The action franchise that keeps on giving for Universal soared to $3.18bn worldwide thanks to an estimated $259.2m worldwide weekend haul that boosted the running total to $801.5m.
UPDATED: Fast & Furious 7 delivered a confirmed $198.7m internationally for $550.5m after crossing $500m in 11 days – a new speed record for the studio. Imax delivered $14m worldwide for $41.5m.
The film ranks number one in all 67 territories and has already out-grossed the international lifetime total of every film in the franchise after it overtookthe $550m final tally of Fast & Furious 6 on Monday.
Fast & Furious 7 arrived in style in China, Russia and Poland. The $68.8m (420m RMB) Sunday opening in China in 5,454 theatres scored the biggest single day of all time in the territory.
The action kicked off with $8m (48.6m RMB) from midnight shows at 10,397 venues drawing 1.3million admissions; record figures that overtook $3.5m (20.8m RMB) and 496,000 admissions set by Transformers 4.
Imax reported $870,000 from midnight shows in China that also overtook the previous Transformers 4 mark of $618,000. The Imax opening day is understood to be $5m, which again shatters the Transformers 4 score of $3.4m.
Russia generated a record $15.9m (Roubles 857m) four-day opening weekend from 1,182 sites, while Poland produced $2.1m from 199 for Universal and franchise records.
In the second weekend Fast & Furious 7 climbed to $39.7m in Mexico and $38.5m in the UK, $27.6m in Germany, $24.2m in Brazil, $23.1m in Australia and $20.2m in India.
France has generated $20.3m, Taiwan $19.5m, Argentina $16.5m, Italy $15.9m and South Korea $16m.
The film is already Universal's highest grossing film of all time in 23 territories: Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Paraguay, Peru, Thailand, Turkey, UAE and Vietnam. It opens in Japan on April 17.
Fifty Shades Of Grey stands at $401.9m internationally and $567.8m worldwide. Germany comedy Half Brothers (Halbe Brueder) arrived in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and German-speaking Switzerland on $855,205 in 490 venues. Germany delivered a $741,000 number five debut in 412. Ex Machina stands at $6.6m from six territories.
Wu Jing's Wolf Warriors starring Yu Nana and Scott Adkins earned a further $18m as the running total climbed to $68.5m.
UPDATED: DreamWorks Animation's Home crossed $100m on the back of a $15.7m session in 57 markets that boosted the running total to $113.4m. It opened in Brazil on $2.3m from 675 and added $2.3m from 837 UK screens to reach $27.9m after four sessions. Australia has generated $10.3m after the same period.
Kingsman: The Secret Service added $8.9m from 33 for $267.6m and boosted its China tally by $7.6m from 4,104 to $70.7m after three weekends.
The Longest Ride ventured into its first 28 markets and took $2.9m. The highlights were $1.1m in Australia from 213 screens and $488,000 from 253 Mexican screens.
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel stands at $46.2m, while Battle For Sevastapol has taken $5.4m in Russia, rising to $5.8m including Ukraine.
Cinderella added $12.6m from 54 territories to reach $256m. China remains the lead market on $69.8m, followed by the UK on $22.2m, Italy on $15.9m, Mexico on $15.1m and Australia on $11.8m.
UPDATED: Divergent grossed $7.9m from 83 markets for $134.7m and has amassed $14.2m in France, $11.3m in the UK, $10.9m in Brazil, $9m in Mexico and $8.2m in Russia.
The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water used a $3.2m weekend in 35 territories to climb to $142.3m. The family film has reached $3.9m after two weekends in Australia and $9.5m after three in the UK. It opens this week in Thailand.
UPDATED: The first releases of Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 earned $2.6m from four markets led by Germany on $1.6m from 509 screens and the UK on $665,000 from 392. Annie stands at $47m from Sony markets.
UPDATED: Focus starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie added $2.1m from 53 markets for $94.8m and has reached $11.2m in the UK, $8.8m in Mexico, $8.7m in Russia, $6.7m in Australia and $5.9m in Italy.
Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard grossed $1.5m from 13 for $13.6m and after three sessions stands at $6.3m in the UK and $3.7m in Australia.
German release Der Nanny added $1.3m in its third weekend in Germany for $10.3m.


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I get stuff done on one computer and then remember that I need to transfer it to the other. This often doesn't work. Yuck.
I have these saved messages about blogs and I realized that it is because I was going to put them on the other computers Net News Wire.


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Moore: Are the Sixers really built for the NBA playoffs?
tmoore@couriertimes.com
Brett Brown and the 76ers are ramping up for the playoffs.
Ten days into workouts in the Orlando bubble, the Sixers open their three-game preseason Friday afternoon against the Grizzlies. They begin the eight-game regular season Aug. 1 vs. the Pacers en route to the Aug. 18 start of the playoffs.
Brown said he only plans to play his "heavyweights" — namely, all-stars Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons — about 20 minutes apiece in the preseason opener. That number would gradually increase until what he hopes will become 38 minutes for Embiid in the postseason, along with a similar amount for Simmons, who leads the Sixers in average minutes during the 2019-20 campaign.
While he'd like to win as many regular-season games as possible, Brown has been around long enough to know the most important thing is to be heading into the postseason playing well and with a relatively established nine-man rotation.
Brown has said he thinks the Sixers are better suited to the playoffs than the regular season, which is an interesting concept.
Asked about it during a Zoom call, Brown said the main reason he believes it is the Sixers' defense.
"I think there's a defensive presence — a physicality (and our) length and height — that makes me say that as much as anything," Brown said.
The disruptive presence of Embiid inside, coupled with Simmons' ability to defend so many positions well and his league-leading 2.1 steals per game, are the biggest factors for the Sixers at the defensive end. Rookie guard Matisse Thybulle also provides high-level "D" off the bench.
Brown can go with a big lineup or a smaller, quicker group, depending who is on the floor for the other team and the circumstances in the game.
But conventional wisdom would seem to suggest the Sixers aren't ideally suited to the grind-it-out, halfcourt offense that the playoffs tend to come down to, particularly in the closing minutes.
Embiid can be a dominant force in the low post with his remarkable footwork and ability to score in different ways. The caveat is he must be in good enough shape to be able to utilize his skills at crunch time, which wasn't the case in his first two postseasons due to injury and illness.
(Brown admitting Tuesday that he has yet to pair Embiid with Al Horford in Orlando restart practices would appear to indicate Horford, who was signed for a guaranteed $97 million last July, will serve almost exclusively as Embiid's backup.)
The Sixers' lack of an elite 3-point threat that opponents must constantly be concerned with now that J.J. Redick plays for the New Orleans Pelicans could factor into the offensive equation.
And it'll be intriguing to see Simmons' role in the offense, especially when he's playing point forward with Shake Milton initiating the offense. How involved and effective will he be? Can he cause problems posting up or playing at the elbow?
"The fact that our offense, at times, has struggled for different reasons — for me, it's space — gives you a little bit of pause," Brown said.
The Sixers are capable of going deep in the playoffs. I could see them reaching the conference finals for just the second time since 1984-85 (the other was 2000-01). I wouldn't be surprised if the Sixers are eliminated by the Celtics or Heat in the first round, either.
How efficiently they run the halfcourt offense late in close games will help determine which way things go.
Tom Moore: tmoore@couriertimes.com; @TomMoorePhilly


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New for The Nation: "Which Version of A Love Supreme Reigns Supreme?"
Credit to Lewis Porter and Ashley Kahn: Anyone writing on this topic is indebted to their pioneering work, not just Porter's biography of Coltrane and Kahn's book on A Love Supreme, but also their superb liner notes to both the deluxe reissue of A Love Supreme and the new A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle.
The "score" in Coltrane's own hand:
The payroll statement for the December 9, 1964 session at Van Gelder's:
Bits and pieces that didn't make the finished essay:
[From the essay: "Acknowledgement" is a groovy vamp, "Resolution" plaintive swing tune, "Pursuance" a burning fast minor blues, and "Psalm" a poem over a drone.] The euphonious key structure of the four pieces — F, E-flat, B-flat, and C — maps out the cellular information of much of the melodic material, 4/5ths of a pentatonic scale.
Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance, Psalm
The opening fanfare is comprised mostly of E, F-sharp, and B, all notes "out of key" from the rest of the suite; a dramatic "neighbor note" (and also a partial pentatonic) implying the vast amount of chromatic elaboration Coltrane will employ to ornament his basic modal structures.
In addition to dry technical details, the work is grounded by a vibrant emotional rhythm: Love of life and of God.
Omree Gal-Oz has created a score-scrolling video of A Love Supreme for YouTube. The final section, "Psalm," where Coltrane performs his poem (at 26 minutes) is particularly exciting, for Gal-Oz makes the relationship of text to tone completely obvious.
It's a bit unfair to bring up Plays Duke Ellington, for this LP might have simply been the record label's idea: producer Bob Thiele had recently signed Ellington to Impulse! and probably this was an attempt at some kind of cross-pollination. There's a somewhat surprising amount of Coltrane/Ellington back and forth. Not only did McCoy track an album of Ellington covers, but Coltrane and Ellington made a classic album together; eventually Elvin's first gig after Trane was with Duke.
A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle is "Volume Two" of Live in Seattle, first released as a 2-LP set in the '70s, then expanded with more tracks on compact disc in the '90s.
All the music recorded that week has a similar shape, especially thanks to a new chaos demon in the form of Donald Garrett on second bass. Garrett and Garrison are totally in their own zone, it's almost as if they aren't even listening to anyone else. When Coltrane calls "Out of this World," the bassists immediately strum low E together. Tyner gently plays an octave E-flat for a while, trying to get them to find the right key, before giving up and grimly settling into E-flat dorian to support Trane's impassioned preach of the old Harold Arlen tune. All the while, the bassists don't let up, they just stay in the land of "noise bass on the open strings." It actually kind of works, but it's also pretty damn nuts. It's easy to understand why Tyner left shortly after.
Yeah: If you like extended avant-garde bass, the Seattle music has you covered, especially during A Love Supreme. Garrison and Garrett wander around together after the opening fanfare, offer no less than 12 minutes of solo and duet interludes in the middle, and keep playing after the suite is over.
There are plenty of other highlights, including fervent solos by Sanders and Ward. Still, nobody but Coltrane and Elvin Jones knows the music. Even Tyner forgets that "Pursuance" is a blues form and blows a fierce uptempo solo in the "one key" style of '65 — although to be fair, maybe the pianist thought that trying to delineate dominant to tonic with two basses working against him was just too hard a job.
If I had to chose, I'd suggest that Live in Seattle is even more essential than A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle, especially for the extraordinary blowing from Coltrane and Tyner on "Body and Soul" and "Out of This World." Together, Coltrane and Tyner had reimagined the Great American Songbook in their own image, and this is the final document of that astounding journey.
The McCoy Tyner quote, "All black peoples of the earth always improvise their music. We never sit down and systemize everything" comes from the Joe Brazil site curated by Steve Griggs. Brazil recorded all the Seattle material; Griggs was the one to discover the Seattle Love Supreme tapes in the Brazil archive. Many thanks to Griggs for all this vital work! The Brazil site is a treasure trove, and the Seattle Love Supreme is a magnificent addition to the discography.
The release of A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle has been unanimously praised by critics. I praise it myself. We must validate Coltrane's quest, noisy bassists and all.
(Footnote: I love my editor, Don Guttenplan, but almost had a heart attack when I saw his subhead, "Is the latest posthumous addition to his canon released today the Holy Grail—or the tainted fruit of a system that denied Coltrane's collaborators royalties or credit?" I could never call anything by Coltrane tainted. He told me sternly, "Writers don't get to dictate their headlines," but I threw myself on his mercy and he took out "tainted.")
For a time I toyed with trying to write about the conflict of old and new from a musician's perspective, perhaps trying to honor those who didn't like the freer music made after Ascension. In the end I'm letting it lay. Trane was right. Of course.
Not too many consecrated African-American musicians have criticized Trane in public, but Jimmy Heath hints at the opposing viewpoint in I Walked with Giants:
I was working at Slugs in the East Village with Art Farmer when Coltrane died on July 17, 1967. We played late sets, and I was very tired when I went to the funeral on July 21 at the old gothic-style Saint Peter's Lutheran church at Fifty-fourth Street and Lexington Avenue, with the Reverend John Gensel as pastor. That building predated the Citicorp Center site where the church is currently located. I sat next to Sonny Stitt during the funeral. I had been asked to be the pallbearer, but I couldn't handle it. I was in tears when I saw Trane in the coffin. His face didn't look anything like him. It resembled a puffed doll. I noticed his hands, which were just as they had been, and then it hit me that it was John. His whole life flashed back on me, and I was overwhelmed with sorrow. I had been so close to him during all those years with Dizzy and the many practicing sessions. I remembered when he was in Philly practicing all day and hanging out.
People were at the funeral from all over the country and the world. It was a big event, and I realized that the humble beginnings he had come from where similar to my own — more even than I realized at the time. For him to have risen to such a point and to then to have been snuffed out made me think of the old expression "Life begins at forty." Lying in the casket, he was forty and gone. He was out of here. It was overwhelming, and I couldn't really handle it. Dizzy was sitting in back of me, and there were musicians in the balcony playing free jazz. Dizzy said, "If they play that stuff when I die, Lorraine [Dizzy's wife] will come in here and shoot all of them."
Heath is too discreet to mention the musicians performing, but they were big names, Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler, and their performances from that day can be heard online. I wrote about the Ayler medley in "Albert Ayler at 80." Ornette's "Holiday For A Graveyard" is also beautiful.
While working on this essay, I noticed for the first time that McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones did not perform at Coltrane's funeral. Perhaps this surprising omission indicates just how big the rift really was.
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October 22, 2021 Ethan Iverson
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What an honor it is to be your 107th NCRA President
As professionals, we continually pursue the path of greatness. We strive to perfect our skills and pursue additional credentials. We are always improving ourselves. We embrace new technology and progress forward in serving new markets. We are a timeless and ageless profession walking boldly into the future.
NCRA is proceeding in its execution of a powerful five-year plan, Vision 2018, which focuses on key issues and opportunities in the stenographic court reporting profession. We are prepared to go into the marketplace and tell today's generation why court reporting is a career worthy of their time and consideration. The livelihood of our profession is dependent on our ability to resonate with potential students, and I am confident that we are going to make an impact with our efforts.
If you think back to the late-1990s and early-2000s, you may recall that headlines screamed of an immediate nursing shortage. The timing was ideal. The economy suffered after 9/11, and young people were concerned about securing full-time employment after college. The nursing profession took advantage of these conditions to talk about its unfilled need and assured the public that plenty of nursing jobs awaited those who received the necessary training. As a result, many pursued nursing degrees, despite the fact that nursing is a challenging career! Because of the potential for financial success and practically guaranteed job placement, parents across the country were more than happy to support their children's decision to pursue nursing.
Let's turn those headlines in our direction. The stenographic court reporting profession is facing a shortage as well. The independently produced Industry Outlook Report offers a startling look at what could happen if we do not produce enough skilled court reporters in just a few short years. It's as simple as this: The demand for court reporting services will soon exceed what the current pool of court reporters can provide. There is demand for more court reporters. Our profession is not on life support. Our profession is strong. We can guarantee job placement and financial wellbeing for those who consider court reporting as a profession. And this is good news.
In fact, this may be the best news we have received in a long time.
We can prove to today's parents that court reporting is a profession that their children should pursue. We belong to a profession that demands a closer look. We have something amazing to offer, and at just the right time, too. Traditional college degrees are expensive and don't necessarily guarantee job placement. Millennials are seeking careers with flexibility and the opportunity to grow and learn something new every day. Most notably, they are fully equipped to be the technological leaders of the future workplace. It seems to me that court reporting is the perfect answer.
What we are going to do is launch a national campaign to put stenographic court reporting in the spotlight. It's going to be shining bright on us in the months and years ahead. We are going to get more students into schools. We are going to work with our court reporting programs like never before in order to get more students out of those schools. This path ahead does bring challenges. It's not going to happen overnight, and we have a lot of catching up to do, but I know we are heading in the right direction. [Ed. Note: More info on this project can be found here and in future issues of the JCR. Or visit crTakeNote.com for more details.]
I look forward to our paths crossing because together, we can guarantee our future shines bright. This is our time!
Sarah E. Nageotte, RDR, CRR, CBC, is NCRA's President. She can be reached at president@ncra.org. This column is adapted from her presidential speech given during NCRA's 2014 Convention & Expo in San Francisco, Calif.
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StumbleUpon Revamps iOS App With Improved Navigation, Page Previews, And 'StumbleDNA'
StumbleUpon is releasing a new version of its iOS today — I've played with a little, and it's a good-looking, intuitive-feeling app that could make the content discovery service more addictive than ever.
Cody Simms, the company's new vice president of product, tells me this is the first big product update since he joined the company in June, and it reflects three general ideas that StumbleUpon will be focusing on moving forward. First, it will be to giving users more of a personal identity within the service. Second, there will be them ways to "stumble" through content. Last, Simms aims to add more ways for users to find recommended content.
So for starters, when you open the app there's a new home page. You can just dive into the content that's recommended for you based on your interests and past activity, but there's also a separate section for Trending content, and another where you can see the Activity of your StumbleUpon connections, and yet another called Interests, an area for recommendations from experts in various interest types.
Above all the different content areas on the homepage is a new color bar called your "StumbleDNA." Basically, it represents your different interests in the app — as you read and "like" different articles the bar should become more varied in color.
"Color-based representation is just the start of helping you build a personal identity within StumbleUpon," Simms says.
And once you actually start browsing the content, the navigation has changed as well. Perhaps the coolest change is a new "Slide" interface — when you open a new page, a small preview window opens while the full page is loading int he background. That way you can quickly assess whether the content is interesting to you, and if it's not, you can slide on to the next page without waiting for this one to load. There are also toolbars that make it easy to like, dislike, or share a piece of content.
Simms says some of these features are mobile-specific, while others are just making their appearance on mobile first (mobile is StumbleUpon's fastest growing area), but could eventually make their way to other parts of the service. For example, I wouldn't be surprised to see the StubmleDNA bar appearing on the website soon. And yes, StumbleUpon is planning to make similar improvements on Android, Simms says.
"This is really just the beginning the next phase of StumbleUpon's product evolution," he adds. That doesn't just mean adding new features to the existing products, but also a bigger vision for expanding StumbleUpon's model of content exploration. "Imagine a world where you're, for example, sitting on your couch using this new interaction model to swipe through content on your phone, and it's showing up on the big screen."
You can download the new app here.


With the weather warnings and the drop in temperature, it is essential to pack a few essential items in your car's boot to make sure you're ready just in case you end up stuck out on the roadside in the cold.
These are basic items but winter must-haves nonetheless. Legally, you must keep your front and rear windscreen clear of snow and ice before driving.
Don't solely rely on your phone! It is unlikely the phone light will give you visibility if you're stuck by the side of country road in winter. Keep a large torch with spare batteries in your car, in case you get stuck in the dark. It's also worth having a paper road atlas in case of diversions or getting lost, and having no phone battery!
Keep a phone charger in your car so you can top up your phone battery even when you are out and about.
It's sensible to have some warm clothes to wrap up in case of a breakdown - a big coat, gloves, a spare jumper, hats and gloves!
This is crucial if you are stuck at night, and could save your life!
Flat or dead batteries can happen to any car at any age, especially in cold weather. Always have some jump leads in the car just incase!
Keeping an empty fuel can means you can get to a petrol station if you have broken down and run out without worrying.
Try to keep some food and drink supplies in the car, especially if you are setting off on a long journey. Hot drinks in a flask can help on long winter drives too.