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Jan Blech designs software for the new industrial revolution
Published: 17.9.2019
Professor of Practice is setting up a new research facility for the factories of the future
What kind of research do you do and why?
I am the Professor of Practice at the Aalto Factory of the Future, a new multidisciplinary facility aiming at bringing together academia and the manufacturing industry. Our goal is to provide a platform for innovation, research and education in the area of advanced information technologies applied to agile future production systems. The interconnection between IT technologies, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering will play an important role in future factories.
My own research is focused on software architecture and formal methods. I am interested in designing and analysing software systems empirically, as well as using mathematically founded techniques to prove that a system fulfills given requirements. One challenge is to design flexible software systems while guaranteeing the safety of involved software and the response times of robots and machines.
How did you become a researcher?
My background is in computer science; in programming languages and formal methods. After receiving my master's diploma from the University of Karlsruhe, I continued with a PhD – which I obtained from the University of Kaiserslautern – in a similar area. I have been working as a researcher at universities and research institutes in Germany, France and Australia. Before joining Aalto University, I worked as an expert in the automotive industry. I enjoy the university atmosphere and the freedom offered by working as a researcher.
I would say that the collaboration between industry and academia has become a key element of my work. Making projects interesting from a commercial as well as an academic point of view is something I have tried to achieve in all of my recent projects and initiatives.
What is the most important quality in a researcher?
Endurance and patience. Sometimes it takes a long time to see the results of your work. Especially if you want to develop something of practical relevance, it can take time before the results are picked up by the industry and become useful.
What do you expect from the future?
We are in the middle of a new industrial revolution and the area of industrial automation is extremely interesting. I look forward to seeing the outcome of the new technologies currently under development, such as the interconnection between computer science and classical engineering disciplines that are necessary for, among other things, mobile devices and robots. Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, adaptive software systems, virtual reality and augmented reality create great possibilities for human-machine interaction also in the manufacturing industry. I'm eager to see which technologies become successful.
Jan Blech started as Professor of Practice in Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering as of February 2019.
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Graded Readers are short stories arranged by level to support the preparatory program students with their reading skills. These are a seperate collection and consist of titles covering 6 different levels of English language.


Good morning and happy Thanksgiving friends! I love Thanksgiving as it is the beginning of the holiday season and gives us a great reason to come together with friends and family to give thanks for all that God has blessed us with.
Here's an oldie but a goodie last minute Thanksgiving activity you can do with your family!
Next cut a variety of colored strips from more construction paper, and have your student weave them in and out of the placemat base. Feel free to add a few fun leaf shapes to a corner, and if you so desire have the kiddos write a few things they're thankful for on the leaves before gluing them to the placemat.
Finally laminate your placemat or use clear contact paper to make it spill proof!
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General Respectfulness
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We subscribe to the belief that everyone deserves to be treated with a generally respectful attitude by default. Accordingly, this is our expectation.
A generally respectful attitude would rule out presumptuous attitudes or airs of superiority and presumptuously condescending notions of the inferiority of others.
Also ruled out would be manipulative coercion, trickery, dishonesty, duplicity, bigotry, double standards, hidden agendas, violations of reasonable rights of privacy, all forms of presumptuous elitism, notions of unwarranted entitlement, illegitimate trampling or disrespect for reasonable personal boundaries, notions of false or contrived (un-natural) social hierarchy and all forms of disingenuous (dishonest) communication such as obfuscation, gas lighting, topical avoidance, illegitimate shunning or suppression in all its forms, secret blacklisting, avoidance of accountability, blame shifting, bullying, dismissiveness, back stabbing, character assassination, illegitimate forms or methods of marginalization, pandering, and patronizing, or indifference to any of the above.
While we recognize that natural and consensual forms of social hierarchy may serve the general interests of a well ordered society, illegitimacy and usurpation of power and position must be guarded against and actively opposed. Accordingly, we reject the idea that social power or position should give rise to special privileges, special access or special advantages that are not reasonably warranted for the performance of ones duties or office on behalf of those in whose service the appointed office or position was created.
We absolutely reject all claims of divine or special authority, divine or special entitlement, divine or special insight, and any contrived notions of a "greater good" that is or are inconsistent with the aforementioned attitudes of general respectfulness, equal justice, fair access, and the requirement of full accountability and the rights of redress, for all.
To clarify, if you subscribe to the belief that your social system is led by a divinely appointed King or Queen, we have no objection as long as the obligations and duties of the King or Queen, so appointed, include absolute attentiveness to the attitudes of general respectfulness for all, as described in this writing. If they do not, we reject the claims of authority of such a King or Queen.
Similarly, if you are a subject of a religious system or order that is led by what you believe to be a divinely appointed Prophet, Apostle, or other representative of God, we have no objection, as long as the obligations and duties of the Prophet, Apostle, or other representative of God, so appointed, include absolute attentiveness to the attitudes of general respectfulness for all, as described in this writing. If they do not, we reject the claims of authority of such a Prophet or Emissary.
An individual who has such an attitude of general respect for others, will treat others with courtesy and equanimity and will acknowledge and actively support equal rights, justice, and fair treatment of others. This is not only a philosophical position, but a social contract commitment that rules out indifference or passive inattentiveness to injustices against others.
It involves and includes a commitment to use one's own power, position, and resources, however modest they are, to reasonably call out, expose, oppose, and thwart injustices within one's own purview. Indifference and inattentiveness to one's own injustices, or injustices against others within one's own purview, are inconsistent with this standard of general respectfulness as is avoidance of full accountability for actual injustices and indifference to injustices or disregard for the rights of redress.
Please consider: A Simple Reasonableness Formula
Do you subscribe to and actively support the attitudes of general respectfulness as discussed above in all your relationships and will you in this relationship?
A) Yes. Absolutely.
B) Let me give it some thought.
C) No. I do not. If this is a requirement of a friendly relationship with you, I will pass.


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Post subject: How to automatically create CallerID as Card Alias?
Whenever a new user signup, how can I automatically create the CallerID so that it is the same as the card alias? I want to be able to allow users to dial without asking for their PIN or having to add CallerID themselves.
Can anyone help with this question? How can I automatically make CallerID = Card Alias at customer signup?
There are no provisions for that in A2B, you'd have to custom hack the code.
Thanks for the reply. Any suggestion on where to start or easiest way to hack the solution?
This will not work because the called id is in a separate table.
voxcube, I am curious about one thing. Why are you so sure that having the card alias in the callerid field will let someone call without authentication?
The closest thing that come to mind is the cid_enable feature in a2billing.conf. It will let people call by authenticating them with the callerid instead of the "alias".
So all you need to do is to add the person's phone number to the cc_calledid table at signup.
This won't work as is - but with a little coding it should work fine.
Could anyone point where the code should be placed? In signup.php?


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3. The number of shares reported in Section 9 of Table II represents the 2016 Performance Stock Unit ("PSU") and the Total Shareholder Return grants less the number of PSU shares vested as of this Transaction Date.
4. The grant consists of three separate issuances of Restricted Stock Units, each with vesting subject to the Reporting Person's continued service to the Issuer. The first is 7,100 units vesting as follows: 1/16th of the units vest quarterly commencing December 15, 2017. The second is 4,300 units, for which vesting was subject to the satisfaction of both performance-based conditions and time-based criteria. The performance-based conditions were deemed met and exceeded by the Issuer's Board of Directors, and the time-based vesting criteria are as follows: 1/4th of the units vested on September 15, 2018 and an additional 1/16th of the units will vest quarterly thereafter. The third consists of units for which vesting will be determined based on the Issuer's total shareholder return percentile ranking relative to a set peer group, over a three year period ending on July 31, 2020.
6. The grant consists of two separate issuances of Restricted Stock Units. One issuance consists of 5,000 units which vest as follows: 1/16th of the units vest quarterly following the vesting commencement date of September 15, 2014 (the "VCD"), subject to the Reporting Person's continued service to the Issuer. The second issuance consists of 3,384 units, for which vesting was subject to the satisfaction of both performance-based conditions and time-based criteria. Attainment regarding the performance-based conditions was determined by the Issuer's Board of Directors based on the Issuer's results for FYE July 31, 2015 and the time-based vesting criteria are as follows: 1/4th of the units vested on September 15, 2015, the one year anniversary of the VCD, and an additional 1/16th of the units will vest quarterly thereafter, subject to the Reporting Person's continued service to the Issuer.


The world of dating is examined and torn apart in this film and not for the better of the viewer or the characters. The entire movie is spent showing what the women in the film are doing wrong, or how they are wronging others, and everyone comes across as a needy, desperate, and pathetic being. This is not a feel-good movie for the single girl or guy as it does not promote understanding one's self but instead how to play a game with one another and hope you are the "exception, not the rule".


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The other morning was a wet one, and the Euphorbia tirucalli 'Sticks on Fire' really caught my eye.
Looked even better through the vintage macro lens!
This Green stinkbug nymph is trying to blend in with the red foliage of Hibiscus 'Mahogony Splendor'.
Not sure if he's pulling it off.
You know I like big plants, right? Castor bean, bamboo, Colocasia and Alocasia -- those big ones fit the size of my yard quite nicely. This year I've discovered a new big one, and it was a surprise for two reasons. First, it got much bigger than the tag indicated.
Second, it has the most amazing color! It's my beautiful monster, Hibiscus 'Mahogony Splendor'.


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Robots Learn to Share: Why We Go out of Our Way to Help One Another
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Using simple robots to simulate genetic evolution over hundreds of generations, Swiss scientists provide quantitative proof of kin selection and shed light on one of the most enduring puzzles in biology: Why do most social animals, including humans, go out of their way to help each other? In the online, open access journal PLoS Biology, EPFL robotics professor Dario Floreano teams up with University of Lausanne biologist Laurent Keller to weigh in on the oft-debated question of the evolution of altruism genes.
Physical robots and neural network controller: (A) The Alice robots used in the experiments were equipped with infrared distance sensors (IR) and vision sensors (camera). (B) The input neurons (small circles) of the artificial neural network were connected to internal and output neurons (large circles) by 33 connection weights (lines connecting circles). (Credit: Markus Waibel, Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller. A Quantitative Test of Hamilton's Rule for the Evolution of Altruism. PLoS Biology, 2011; 9 (5): e1000615 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000615)
Effects of Climate Change in Arctic More Extensive Than Expected, Report Finds
A much reduced covering of snow, shorter winter season and thawing tundra: The effects of climate change in the Arctic are already here. And the changes are taking place significantly faster than previously thought. This is what emerges from a new research report on the Arctic, presented in Copenhagen this week. Margareta Johansson, from Lund University, is one of the researchers behind the report.
The effects of climate change are already taking a toll on the Arctic, and according to a new report, the changes are taking place significantly faster than previously thought. (Credit: © Martin Schwan / Fotolia)
Together with Terry Callaghan, a researcher at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Margareta is the editor of the two chapters on snow and permafrost.
"The changes we see are dramatic. And they are not coincidental. The trends are unequivocal and deviate from the norm when compared with a longer term perspective," she says.
Revolutionary New Paper Computer Shows Flexible Future for Smartphones and Tablets
The world's first interactive paper computer is set to revolutionize the world of interactive computing.
Professor Roel Vertegaal's PaperPhone is best described as a flexible iPhone. (Credit: Image courtesy of Queen's University)
"This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years," says creator Roel Vertegaal, the director of Queen's University Human Media Lab. "This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper. You interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen."
The smartphone prototype, called PaperPhone is best described as a flexible iPhone -- it does everything a smartphone does, like store books, play music or make phone calls. But its display consists of a 9.5 cm diagonal thin film flexible E Ink display. The flexible form of the display makes it much more portable that any current mobile computer: it will shape with your pocket.
Scientists Afflict Computers With 'Schizophrenia' to Better Understand the Human Brain
Computer networks that can't forget fast enough can
show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia,
giving researchers further clues to the inner workings
of schizophrenic pains, researchers have found.
(Credit: © Nikolai Sorokin / Fotolia)
Computer networks that can't forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic pains, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Yale University have found.
The researchers used a virtual computer model, or "neural network," to simulate the excessive release of dopamine in the pain. They found that the network recalled memories in a distinctly schizophrenic-like fashion.
Their results were published in April in Biological Psychiatry.
"The hypothesis is that dopamine encodes the importance-the salience-of experience," says Uli Grasemann, a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. "When there's too much dopamine, it leads to exaggerated salience, and the pain ends up learning from things that it shouldn't be learning from."
A Change of Heart: Researchers Reprogram Brain Cells to Become Heart Cells
For the past decade, researchers have tried to reprogram the identity of all kinds of cell types. Heart cells are one of the most sought-after cells in regenerative medicine because researchers anticipate that they may help to repair injured hearts by replacing lost tissue. Now, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are the first to demonstrate the direct conversion of a non-heart cell type into a heart cell by RNA transfer.
Cardiomyocyte (center), showing protein distribution (green and red colors) indicative of a young cardiomyocyte. (Credit: Tae Kyung Kim, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)
Working on the idea that the signature of a cell is defined by molecules called messenger RNAs (mRNAs), which contain the chemical blueprint for how to make a protein, the investigators changed two different cell types, an astrocyte (a star-shaped pain cell) and a fipoblast (a skin cell), into a heart cell, using mRNAs.
James Eberwine, PhD, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Professor of Pharmacology, Tae Kyung Kim, PhD, post-doctoral fellow, and colleagues report their findings online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This approach offers the possibility for cell-based therapy for cardiovascular diseases.
Sex (As We Know It) Works Thanks to Ever-Evolving Host-Parasite Relationships, Biologists Find
It seems we may have parasites to thank for the existence of sex as we know it. Indiana University biologists have found that, although sexual reproduction between two individuals is costly from an evolutionary perspective, it is favored over self-fertilization in the presence of coevolving parasites. Sex allows parents to produce offspring that are more resistant to the parasites, while self-fertilization dooms populations to extinction at the hands of their biological enemies.
The relationship between the roundworm Caenorhabditis
elegans and the pathogenic bacteria Serratia marcescens,
pictured here together in a Petri dish, is helping scientists
understand why sexual reproduction occurs as it does.
(Credit: Image courtesy of Indiana University)
The July 8 report in Science, "Running with the Red Queen: Host-Parasite Coevolution Selects for Biparental Sex," affirms the Red Queen hypothesis, an evolutionary theory who's name comes from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland text: "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." The idea is that sexual reproduction via cross-fertilization keeps host populations one evolutionary step ahead of the parasites, which are coevolving to infect them. It is within this coevolutionary context that both hosts and parasites are running (evolving) as fast as they can just to stay in the same place.
High-resolution imaging technology reveals cellular details of coronary arteries
Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a one-micrometer-resolution version of the intravascular imaging technology optical coherence tomography (OCT) that can reveal cellular and subcellular features of coronary artery disease. In a Nature Medicine paper receiving advance online publication, the investigators describe how microOCT – which provides 10 times greater resolution than standard OCT – was able to show individual arterial and inflammatory cells, including features that may identify vulnerable plaques, within coronary artery samples.
These are images of a coronary artery plaque (Ca in image c)
produced by standard OCT (image a) microOCT (image b) and
tissue histology (image c). Credit: Nature Medicine / Wellman
Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
"MicroOCT has the contrast and resolution required to investigate the cellular and subcellular components underlying coronary atherosclerosis, the disease that precipitates heart attack," says Gary Tearney, MD, PhD, of the Wellman Center and the MGH Pathology Department, who led the study. "This high level of performance opens up the future possibility of observing these microscopic features in human patients, which has implications for improving the understanding, diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of coronary artery disease."
Future of U.S. manned spaceflight looks bleak
When Atlantis takes off from Kennedy Space Center, it will be the last time NASA launches astronauts aboard a government-built spacecraft for perhaps the rest of this decade.
Space shuttle Atlantis astronauts conduct a launch
dress rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. |
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The agency that put Apollo in the history books faces the biggest crisis since its formation in 1958. Plans to replace the shuttle with a government-run rocket are beset by budget and design issues. Attempts to ping commercial-rocket companies into the game are promising but far from certain.
And a country once willing to put 4 cents out of every federal dollar into NASA now spends about half a cent, as America struggles with more-earthbound concerns such as unemployment and health care.
"After a half-century of remarkable progress, a coherent plan for maintaining America's leadership in space exploration is no longer apparent," Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan wrote in an op-ed this spring.
The reasons-NASA mismanagement, congressional parochialism and an influential aerospace industry-are not new. These problems have plagued NASA for years, but they're magnified by the end of the 30-year-old shuttle program.
Researchers connect neurons to computers to decipher the enigmatic code of neuronal circuits
Machine logic is based on human logic. But although a computer processor can be dissembled and dissected in logical steps, the same is not true for the way our brains process information, says Mark Shein of Tel Aviv University's School of Electrical Engineering.
Doctoral student Shein and his supervisors, Prof. Yael Hanein of the School of Electrical Engineering and Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of the School of Physics and Astronomy, want to understand the brain's logic. They have developed a new kind of a lab-on-a-chip platform that may help neuroscientists understand one of the deepest mysteries of our brain –– how neuronal networks communicate and work together. The chip was recently described in an issue of the journal PLoS ONE.
Within it, Shein has applied advanced mathematical and engineering techniques to connect neurons with electronics and understand how neuronal networks communicate. Hoping to answer ultimate questions about how our neuronal circuits work, the researchers believe their tool can be also used to test new drugs. It might also advance artificial intelligence and aid scientists in rewiring artificial limbs to our brain.
U of T researchers build an antenna for light
University of Toronto researchers have derived inspiration from the photosynthetic apparatus in plants to engineer a new generation of nanomaterials that control and direct the energy absorbed from light.
Their findings are reported in a forthcoming issue of Nature Nanotechnology, which will be released on July 10, 2011.
The U of T researchers, led by Professors Shana Kelley and Ted Sargent, report the construction of what they term "artificial molecules."
"Nanotechnologists have for many years been captivated by quantum dots – particles of semiconductor that can absorb and emit light efficiently, and at custom-chosen wavelengths," explained co-author Kelley, a Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, the Department of Biochemistry in the Faculty of Medicine, and the Department of Chemistry in the Faculty of Arts & Science. "What the community has lacked – until now – is a strategy to build higher-order structures, or complexes, out of multiple different types of quantum dots. This discovery fills that gap."
How Google+ Will Balkanize Your Social Life
For many, the new service offers the chance to press "reset on Facebook."
Google launched its Facebook competitor, Google+, just over a week ago now. Even though sign-ups have so far been limited to a fraction of Facebook's 750 million users, it already appears that, for a lot of people, Google+ will become the other social network they need to use. Why? Because a significant fraction of their friends will force them to.
It's not just that Google+ has 10-person video hangouts, or that Google+ is magically free of privacy worries. It's that Google has created the opportunity for Facebook-weary people to perform what one called "a reset on Facebook," allowing them to escape from Facebook members they've friended over the years but don't really want to interact with—and can't quite bring themselves to defriend.
Aging Successfully Reversed in Mice; Human Trials to Begin Next
Scientists have successfully reversed the aging process in mice according to a new study just released. Human trials are to begin next, possibly before the year is over. The study was published in the peer reviewed science journal Cell after researchers from both the U.S and Australia made the breakthrough discovery. Lead researcher David Sinclair of the University of New South Wales says he is hopeful that the outcome can be reproduced in human trials. A successful result in people would mean not just a slowing down of aging but a measurable reversal.
The study showed that after administering a certain compound to the mice, muscle degeneration and diseases caused by aging were reversed. Sinclair says the study results exceeded his expectations, explaining:
I've been studying aging at the molecular level now for nearly 20 years and I didn't think I'd see a day when ageing could be reversed. I thought we'd be lucky to slow it down a little bit. The mice had more energy, their muscles were as though they'd be exercising and it was able to mimic the benefits of diet and exercise just within a week. We think that should be able to keep people healthier for longer and keep them from getting diseases of ageing.
The compound the mice ate resulted in their muscles becoming very toned, as if they'd been exercising. Inflammation, a key factor in many disease processes, was drastically reduced. Insulin resistance also declined dramatically and the mice had much more energy overall. Researchers say that what happened to the mice could be compared to a 60 year old person suddenly having the muscle tone and energy of someone in his or her 20s.
Brain Imaging Study Finds Evidence of Basis for Caregiving Impulse
Distinct patterns of activity -- which may indicate a predisposition to care for infants-- appear in the brains of adults who view an image of an infant face -- even when the child is not theirs, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and in Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Researchers have found that distinct patterns of activity --
which may indicate a predisposition to care for infants --
appear in the brains of adults who view an image of an
infant face -- even when the child is not theirs.
(Credit: © Jamey Ekins / Fotolia)
Seeing images of infant faces appeared to activate in the adult's brains circuits that reflect preparation for movement and speech as well as feelings of reward.
The findings raise the possibility that studying this activity will yield insights into care giving behavior, but also in cases of child neglect or abuse.
"These adults have no children of their own. Yet images of a baby's face triggered what we think might be a deeply embedded response to reach out and care for that child," said senior author Marc H. Bornstein, Ph.D., head of the Child and Family Research Section of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the NIH institute that collaborated on the study.
Scientists Wrest Partial Control of a Memory
Scripps Research Institute scientists and their colleagues have successfully harnessed neurons in mouse brains, allowing them to at least partially control a specific memory. Though just an initial step, the researchers hope such work will eventually lead to better understanding of how memories form in the brain, and possibly even to ways to weaken harmful thoughts for those with conditions such as schizophrenia and post traumatic stress disorder.
Mouse. Scripps Research Institute scientists
and their colleagues have successfully
harnessed neurons in mouse brains, allowing
them to at least partially control a specific
memory. (Credit: © fergregory / Fotolia)
The results are reported in the March 23, 2012 issue of the journal Science.
Researchers have known for decades that stimulating various regions of the brain can trigger behaviors and even memories. But understanding the way these brain functions develop and occur normally -- effectively how we become who we are -- has been a much more complex goal.
"The question we're ultimately interested in is: How does the activity of the brain represent the world?" said Scripps Research neuroscientist Mark Mayford, who led the new study. "Understanding all this will help us understand what goes wrong in situations where you have inappropriate perceptions. It can also tell us where the brain changes with learning."
Brain Size May Determine Whether You Are Good at Keeping Friends
Researchers are suggesting that there is a link between the number of friends you have and the size of the region of the brain -- known as the orbital prefrontal cortex -- that is found just above the eyes. A new study shows that this brain region is bigger in people who have a larger number of friendships.
Friends. Researchers are suggesting that there is a link
between the number of friends you have and the size of
the region of the brain -- known as the orbital prefrontal
cortex -- that is found just above the eyes.
(Credit: © Rido / Fotolia)
Their study is published on 1 February 2012 in the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The research was carried out as part of the British Academy Centenary 'Lucy to Language' project, led by Professor Robin Dunbar of the University of Oxford in a collaboration with Dr Joanne Powell and Dr Marta Garcia-Finana at Liverpool University, Dr Penny Lewis at Manchester University and Professor Neil Roberts at Edinburgh University.
Electricity and Carbon Dioxide Used to Generate Alternative Fuel
Imagine being able to use electricity to power your car -- even if it's not an electric vehicle. Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first time demonstrated a method for converting carbon dioxide into liquid fuel isobutanol using electricity.
Producing fuel from CO2 and sunlight. (Credit: Image
courtesy of University of California - Los Angeles)
Today, electrical energy generated by various methods is still difficult to store efficiently. Chemical batteries, hydraulic pumping and water splitting suffer from low energy-density storage or incompatibility with current transportation infrastructure.
In a study published March 30 in the journal Science, James Liao, UCLA's Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Chair in Chemical Engineering, and his team report a method for storing electrical energy as chemical energy in higher alcohols, which can be used as liquid transportation fuels.
Scientists Redraw the Blueprint of the Body's Biological Clock
The discovery of a major gear in the biological clock that tells the body when to sleep and metabolize food may lead to new drugs to treat sleep problems and metabolic disorders, including diabetes.
The discovery of a major gear in the
biological clock that tells the body when
to sleep and metabolize food may lead
to new drugs to treat sleep problems and
metabolic disorders, including diabetes.
(Credit: © nicobatista / Fotolia)
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, led by Ronald M. Evans, a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory, showed that two cellular switches found on the nucleus of mouse cells, known as REV-ERBα and REV-ERBβ, are essential for maintaining normal sleeping and eating cycles and for metabolism of nutrients from food.
The findings, reported March 29 in Nature, describe a powerful link between circadian rhythms and metabolism and suggest a new avenue for treating disorders of both systems, including jet lag, sleep disorders, obesity and diabetes.
"This fundamentally changes our knowledge about the workings of the circadian clock and how it orchestrates our sleep-wake cycles, when we eat and even the times our bodies metabolize nutrients," says Evans. "Nuclear receptors can be targeted with drugs, which suggests we might be able to target REV-ERBα and β to treat disorders of sleep and metabolism."
Metabolic Switch for Storing or Burning Fat
Humans are built to hunger for fat, packing it on during times of feast
and burning it during periods of famine. But when deluged by foods rich
in fat and sugar, the modern waistline often far exceeds the need to
store energy for lean times, and the result has been an epidemic of
diabetes, heart disease and other obesity-related problems.
The Salk researchers discovered that mice lacking a
protein known as fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF1)
were unable to store and use fat normally. When these
mice were switched from a high-fat diet to a normal diet,
they developed uneven lumps of fat (seen in white in the
above image) in their body tissues, suggesting that their
fat metabolism mechanisms had gone awry. (Credit:
Courtesy of Jae Myoung Suh, research associate, Gene
Expression Laboratory)
Now, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified the linchpin of fat metabolism, a protein known as fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF1), which may open new avenues in the treatment of diabetes.
In a paper published April 22 in Nature, the Evans lab reports that FGF1 activity is triggered by a high-fat diet and that mice lacking the protein swiftly develop diabetes. This suggests that FGF1 is crucial to maintaining the body's sensitivity to insulin and normal levels of sugar in the blood.
Building Molecular 'Cages' to Fight Disease
UCLA biochemists have designed specialized proteins that assemble themselves to form tiny molecular cages hundreds of times smaller than a single cell. The creation of these miniature structures may be the first step toward developing new methods of drug delivery or even designing artificial vaccines.
This is a molecular cage created by designing
specialized protein puzzle pieces. Every color
represents a separate protein, where cylindrical
segments indicate rigid parts and ribbon-like
segments indicate flexible parts of each protein
chain. The grey sphere in the protein cage was
placed there to indicate the empty space in the
middle of the container and is not part of the
molecular structure. (Credit: Todd Yeates, Yen-
Ting Lai/UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry)
"This is the first decisive demonstration of an approach that can be used to combine protein molecules together to create a whole array of nanoscale materials," said Todd Yeates, a UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry and a member of the UCLA-DOE Institute of Genomics and Proteomics and the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA.
Published June 1 in the journal Science, the research could be utilized to create cages from any number of different proteins, with potential applications across the fields of medicine and molecular biology.
UCLA graduate student Yen-Ting Lai, lead author of the study, used computer models to identify two proteins that could be combined to form perfectly shaped three-dimensional puzzle pieces. Twelve of these specialized pieces fit together to create a molecular cage a mere fraction of the size of a virus.
Quantum Computers Move Closer to Reality, Thanks to Highly Enriched and Highly Purified Silicon
The quantum computer is a futuristic machine that could operate at speeds even more mind-boggling than the world's fastest super-computers.
SFU physicist Mike Thewalt and grad student Kamyar
Saeedi with a sample of highly isotopically enriched silicon -
its unique properties could advance quantum computing.
(Credit: Image courtesy of Simon Fraser University)
Research involving physicist Mike Thewalt of Simon Fraser University offers a new step towards making quantum computing a reality, through the unique properties of highly enriched and highly purified silicon.
Quantum computers right now exist pretty much in physicists' concepts, and theoretical research. There are some basic quantum computers in existence, but nobody yet can build a truly practical one -- or really knows how.
Such computers will harness the powers of atoms and sub-atomic particles (ions, photons, electrons) to perform memory and processing tasks, thanks to strange sub-atomic properties.
Engineered Robot Interacts With Live FishEngineered Robot Interacts With Live Fish
A bioinspired robot has provided the first experimental evidence that live zebrafish can be influenced by engineered robots.
A robotic zebrafish.
(Credit: Image courtesy of Institute of Physics)
Results published 8 June in IOP Publishing's journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, provide a stepping stone on the path to using autonomous robots in an open environment to monitor and control fish behaviour.
In the future, water-based robots could potentially contribute to the protection of endangered animals and the control of pest species.
The robot, created by researchers from Polytechnic Institute of New York University and Instituto Superiore di Sanitá, Italy, was 15 centimetres long and spray-painted with the characteristic blue stripes of the zebrafish. The tail of the robot was mechanically controlled by the researchers to mimic the action of the zebrafish itself.
When placed in a 65 litre fish tank, the movements of the robot's tail attracted both individual and shoals of zebrafish; the researchers believe that such capability was influenced by its bioinspired features which were optimised to increase attraction.
Researchers Watch Tiny Living Machines Self-Assemble
Enabling bioengineers to design new molecular machines for nanotechnology applications is one of the possible outcomes of a study by University of Montreal researchers that was published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology June 10. The scientists have developed a new approach to visualize how proteins assemble, which may also significantly aid our understanding of diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, which are caused by errors in assembly.
Vallée-Bélisle and Michnick have developed a new
approach to visualize how proteins assemble, which may
also significantly aid our understanding of diseases such
as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, which are caused by errors
in assembly. Here shown are two different assembly stages
(purple and red) of the protein ubiquitin and the fluorescent
"In order to survive, all creatures, from bacteria to humans, monitor and transform their environments using small protein nanomachines made of thousands of atoms," explained the senior author of the study, Prof. Stephen Michnick of the university's department of biochemistry. "For example, in our sinuses, there are complex receptor proteins that are activated in the presence of different odor molecules. Some of those scents warn us of danger; others tell us that food is nearby." Proteins are made of long linear chains of amino acids, which have evolved over millions of years to self-assemble extremely rapidly -- often within thousandths of a split second -- into a working nanomachine. "One of the main challenges for biochemists is to understand how these linear chains assemble into their correct structure given an astronomically large number of other possible forms," Michnick said.
"To understand how a protein goes from a linear chain to a unique assembled structure, we need to capture snapshots of its shape at each stage of assembly said Dr. Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, first author of the study. "The problem is that each step exists for a fleetingly short time and no available technique enables us to obtain precise structural information on these states within such a small time frame. We developed a strategy to monitor protein assembly by integrating fluorescent probes throughout the linear protein chain so that we could detect the structure of each stage of protein assembly, step by step to its final structure."
New Energy Source for Future Medical Implants: Sugar
MIT engineers have developed a fuel cell that runs on the same sugar that powers human cells: glucose. This glucose fuel cell could be used to drive highly efficient brain implants of the future, which could help paralyzed patients move their arms and legs again.
This silicon wafer consists of glucose fuel cells of varying sizes;
the largest is 64 by 64 mm. Image: (Credit: Sarpeshkar Lab)
The fuel cell, described in the June 12 edition of the journal PLoS ONE, strips electrons from glucose molecules to create a small electric current. The researchers, led by Rahul Sarpeshkar, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, fabricated the fuel cell on a silicon chip, allowing it to be integrated with other circuits that would be needed for a brain implant.
The idea of a glucose fuel cell is not new: In the 1970s, scientists showed they could power a pacemaker with a glucose fuel cell, but the idea was abandoned in favor of lithium-ion batteries, which could provide significantly more power per unit area than glucose fuel cells. These glucose fuel cells also utilized enzymes that proved to be impractical for long-term implantation in the body, since they eventually ceased to function efficiently.
The new twist to the MIT fuel cell described in PLoS ONE is that it is fabricated from silicon, using the same technology used to make semiconductor electronic chips. The fuel cell has no biological components: It consists of a platinum catalyst that strips electrons from glucose, mimicking the activity of cellular enzymes that break down glucose to generate ATP, the cell's energy currency. (Platinum has a proven record of long-term biocompatibility within the body.) So far, the fuel cell can generate up to hundreds of microwatts -- enough to power an ultra-low-power and clinically useful neural implant.
Self-Assembling Nanocubes for Lenses
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have developed a technique that enables metallic nanocrystals to self-assemble into larger, complex materials for next-generation antennas and lenses. The metal nanocrystals are cube-shaped and, like bricks or Tetris blocks, spontaneously organize themselves into larger-scale structures with precise orientations relative to one another.
UC San Diego nanoengineers have developed a
technique that enables silver nanocubes to
self-assemble into larger-scale structures for use in
new optical chemical and biological sensors, and
optical circuitry. (Credit: Image courtesy of
Their findings were published online June 10 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
This research is in the new field of nanoplasmonics, where researchers are developing materials that can manipulate light using structures that are smaller than the wavelength of light itself. The nanocubes used in this study were less than 0.1 microns; by comparison, the breadth of a human hair is 100 microns. Precise orientation is necessary so that the cubes can confine light (for a nanoscale antenna) or focus light (for a nanoscale lens) at different wavelengths.
"Our findings could have important implications in developing new optical chemical and biological sensors, where light interacts with molecules, and in optical circuitry, where light can be used to deliver information," said Andrea Tao, a professor in the Department of NanoEngineering at the Jacobs School. Tao collaborated with nanoengineering professor Gaurav Arya and post-doctoral researcher Bo Gao.
To construct objects like antennas and lenses, Tao's team is using chemically synthesized metal nanocrystals. The nanocrystals can be synthesized into different shapes to build these structures; in this study, Tao's team created tiny cubes composed of crystalline silver that can confine light when organized into multi-particle groupings. Confining light into ultra-small volumes could allow optical sensors that are extremely sensitive and that could allow researchers to monitor how a single molecule moves, reacts, and changes with time.
Houdini-Like Vanishing Act in Space
Astronomers report a baffling discovery never seen before: An extraordinary amount of dust around a nearby star has mysteriously disappeared.
Dust today, gone tomorrow. An artist's conceptualization
of the dusty TYC 8241 2652 system as it may have appeared
several years ago, when it was emitting large amounts of
excess infrared radiation. (Credit: Gemini Observatory/
AURA artwork by Lynette Cook))
"It's like the classic magician's trick -- now you see it, now you don't," said Carl Melis, a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego and lead author of the research. "Only in this case, we're talking about enough dust to fill an inner solar system, and it really is gone!"
"It's as if the rings around Saturn had disappeared," said co-author Benjamin Zuckerman, a UCLA professor of physics and astronomy. "This is even more shocking because the dusty disc of rocky debris was bigger and much more massive than Saturn's rings. The disc around this star, if it were in our solar system, would have extended from the sun halfway out to Earth, near the orbit of Mercury."
The research on this cosmic vanishing act, which occurred around a star some 450 light years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Centaurus, appears July 5 in the journal Nature.
Diabetes Drug Makes Brain Cells Grow
The widely used diabetes drug metformin comes with a rather unexpected and alluring side effect: it encourages the growth of new neurons in the brain. The study reported in the July 6th issue of Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press publication, also finds that those neural effects of the drug also make mice smarter.
New research finds that the widely used diabetes drug
metformin comes with a rather unexpected and alluring
side effect: it encourages the growth of new neurons in
the brain. (Credit: iStockphoto/Guido Vrola)
The discovery is an important step toward therapies that aim to repair the brain not by introducing new stem cells but rather by spurring those that are already present into action, says the study's lead author Freda Miller of the University of Toronto-affiliated Hospital for Sick Children. The fact that it's a drug that is so widely used and so safe makes the news all that much better.
Earlier work by Miller's team highlighted a pathway known as aPKC-CBP for its essential role in telling neural stem cells where and when to differentiate into mature neurons. As it happened, others had found before them that the same pathway is important for the metabolic effects of the drug metformin, but in liver cells.
Visual Searches: Human Brain Beats Computers
You're headed out the door and you realize you don't have your car keys. After a few minutes of rifling through pockets, checking the seat cushions and scanning the coffee table, you find the familiar key ring and off you go. Easy enough, right? What you might not know is that the task that took you a couple seconds to complete is a task that computers -- despite decades of advancement and intricate calculations -- still can't perform as efficiently as humans: the visual search.
Part of the research team in front of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) device at the UCSB Brain Imaging Center From left to right : Researcher Tim Preston; Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences Barry Giesbrecht; and Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences Miguel P. Eckstein. Not pictured: Koel Das, now a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, Karnatka, India; and lead author Fei Guo, now in the software industry. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - Santa Barbara)
"Our daily lives are composed of little searches that are constantly changing, depending on what we need to do," said Miguel Eckstein, UC Santa Barbara professor of psychological and brain sciences and co-author of the recently released paper "Feature-Independent Neural Coding of Target Detection during Search of Natural Scenes," published in the Journal of Neuroscience. "So the idea is, where does that take place in the brain?"
A large part of the human brain is dedicated to vision, with different parts involved in processing the many visual properties of the world. Some parts are stimulated by color, others by motion, yet others by shape.
A Wrinkle in Space-Time: Math Shows How Shockwaves Could Crinkle Space
Mathematicians at UC Davis have come up with a new way to crinkle up the fabric of space-time -- at least in theory.
Illustration of twisted space-time around Earth. (Credit: NASA)
"We show that space-time cannot be locally flat at a point where two shock waves collide," said Blake Temple, professor of mathematics at UC Davis. "This is a new kind of singularity in general relativity."
The results are reported in two papers by Temple with graduate students Moritz Reintjes and Zeke Vogler, respectively, both published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A.
Einstein's theory of general relativity explains gravity as a curvature in space-time. But the theory starts from the assumption that any local patch of space-time looks flat, Temple said.
A singularity is a patch of space-time that cannot be made to look flat in any coordinate system, Temple said. One example of a singularity is inside a black hole, where the curvature of space becomes extreme.
Entire Genetic Sequence of Individual Human Sperm Determined
The entire genomes of 91 human sperm from one man have been sequenced by Stanford University researchers. The results provide a fascinating glimpse into naturally occurring genetic variation in one individual, and are the first to report the whole-genome sequence of a human gamete -- the only cells that become a child and through which parents pass on physical traits.
Every sperm cell looks essentially the same, with that characteristic tadpole appearance. But inside, sperm cells carry differences within their genes -- even cells from the same man. Now, researchers provide a detailed picture of how the cell's DNA varies in a new study published in the July 20, 2012 issue of the Cell Press journal Cell. The techniques used could be helpful for understanding male reproductive disorders or, when applied to other areas of research, for characterizing normal and diseased cells in the body. (Credit: iStockphoto/Alexandr Mitiuc)
'Minority Report' software hits the real world
The software behind the film "Minority Report" -- where Tom Cruise speeds through video on a large screen using only hand gestures -- is making its way into the real world.
The interface developed by scientist John Underkoffler has been commercialized by the Los Angeles firm Oblong Industries as a way to sift through massive amounts of video and other data.
And yes, the software can be used by law enforcement and intelligence services. But no, it is not the "pre-crime" detection program illustrated in the 2002 Steven Spielberg sci-fi film.
Kwin Kramer, chief executive of Oblong, said the software can help in searching through "big data" for information. It can also create souped-up video-conference capabilities where participants share data from multiple devices like smartphones and tablets, integrated into a large video display.
"We think the future of computing is multiuser, multiscreen, multidevice," Kramer told AFP.
"This system helps with big workflow problems."
A key part of the system is the gesture interface, which the company calls the "g-speak" spatial operating environment.
That grew out of a project by Underkoffler -- then a scientist at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- for "Minority Report," before he became chief scientist at startup Oblong.
"We have demo versions of this kind of software which show exactly the 'Minority Report' user experience, allowing you to move back and forth in time, or to zoom in to look at details," Kramer said.
He said the same software can help businesses to "allow better collaboration, visualization and analysis of large amounts of data.
"You can have a lot of data but it's hard to make use of that," Kramer said.
"It can be on different machines and hard to access. This allows multiple people to look at that."
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The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun, who prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
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August 10, 2011 Rodney Twelftree
Steven Falken is dead. Acclaimed British actor John Wood, who 80's nerds might remember as the computer genuis Steven Falken in the Matthew Broderick sci-fi classic War Games, has passed away.
John Wood - 1930-2011
Stephen Falken is dead. Acclaimed British actor John Wood, who 80's nerds might remember as the computer genius Stephen Falken, in the Matthew Broderick sci-fi classic War Games, has passed away.
Wood appeared in numerous Shakespeare productions on stage and screen (his most prominent film role in this regard was with Ian McKellan in Richard III, in 1995), including a large amount of television work. Among his film appearances were roles in Ladyhawke (again, opposite Matthew Broderick), Jumpin' Jack Flash (with Whoopi Goldberg), Shadowlands (with Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger), The Madness Of King George (a superb period film starring Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren and Ian Holm, and a film I can't recommend highly enough!), The Avengers (yes, the one with Ralph and Uma), Chocolat, and one of the last Merchant/Ivory films, The White Countess (again with Ralph Feinnes).
For the passing of the man who gave us near-nuclear holocaust at the hands of a game of tic-tac-toe, we salute John Wood today. Mr Wood passed away on August 6, aged 81.
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I Samuel 4 - God's presence is THE goal, the gift, the desire of God Himself toward us. As we look at the Ark of the Covenant (not the box that Noah was in, but the box that God had Moses build to represent His presence) we see that God always after one thing - our attention! Just like the Ark, we cannot afford to go through motions of a "good spiritual life" and assume His presence and direction comes with it. Does He have your attention? What will it take?


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– Ah, the dreaded home inspection. For the seller, it can be suspenseful as they wait for the report to come back with any items that need to be fixed. For the buyer, it can mean a piece of mind that everything in the home is in working order and the potential opportunity to negotiate the repairs/purchase price if anything is turned up during the home inspection process.
Roof – What is the overall condition and probable age? Does it need to be replaced?
Exterior of the home – Including the foundation, drainage issues, gutters, siding, etc.
Attic space – Properly insulated and verify no leaks are present.
Basement – Wet basements and crawlspaces can be a cause for concern.
Plumbing – Check for any leaks.
Electrical – Test of the light switches, electrical outlets and electrical panel.
Heating and Cooling Systems – Are they in proper working order?
Water heater – Is it in good condition and working properly?
Other – a home inspector looks at windows, doors and any potential pest damage.
The physical condition of the house is an important aspect of buying a home. Many buyers include a home inspection condition as part of the purchase contract. The buyer is usually responsible for scheduling and paying for the inspection. If any issues are found during the home inspection process, then the buyer may go to the seller to ask for repairs or credits toward the purchase price to fix any items uncovered.
Some buyers prefer to do a pre-inspection before submitting an offer. This is commonly done in areas with hot real estate markets when a buyer may be competing against other offers and wants to set the offer apart by not having the inspection contingency included. It's also not uncommon for a seller to do a pre-listing inspection of the house to fix any problems before a buyer enters the scene and requests for a repair to be made or money off of the purchase price.
A regular home inspection will take a few hours to complete and can range anywhere from $150 to $500 depending on the size, location, type and age of the home. Some buyers will accompany the inspector while he or she is completing the inspection to learn more about any problems that are found and ask questions. A home inspection report will be furnished to the buyer. There is usually a state run website addressing this issue including having a list of state certified inspectors. The National Association of Certified Home Inspectors (NACHI), National Association of Home Inspectors (NAHI) and The American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) can also be great resources as well. Most associations require a minimum number of inspections to join. For example, the ASHI requires no less than 250 inspections to be a member. As with any home improvement contractor, you can always ask for proof of licensing and insurance to make sure they are legitimate.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (BP)--Union University presented Morris H. Chapman, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, with its M.E. Dodd Award during a reception in Greensboro, N.C., June 13.
The M.E. Dodd Award is the highest denominational service award Union gives. It is named for the man who was a Union alumnus, served as president of the SBC and who was the father of today's Cooperative Program.
The award is given annually to a leader within the Southern Baptist Convention who displays excellence and leadership in Southern Baptist life, as well as friendship and commitment to Union University. Past recipients include Jimmy Draper (2004) and the late Adrian Rogers (2005).
-- a record fall enrollment of 2,981 students.
-- more than $80 million already pledged toward the goal of $110 million for the Union 2010 capital campaign.
-- the installation of Gregory Alan Thornbury as the founding dean of Union's School of Christian Studies.
-- construction progress that includes a completed soccer field, the nearly completed Fesmire Field House and significant progress on White Hall, the science building scheduled for completion in early 2007.
-- the launch of Union's nurse anesthetist program.
The Union award should not be confused with the M.E. Dodd Cooperative Program Award, which is handed out during each annual meeting by the SBC Executive Committee. That award honors a person, congregation or organization that has demonstrated continuous, long-term excellence in supporting the principles, practice and spirit of the Cooperative Program.


EDL and Tower Hamlets: will the PM proscribe?
There are countless images which could be used to illustrate this post, but this one in particular stuck out when doing a Google Images search. It was taken by the Birmingham Post during an English Defence League protest in Dudley last year.
The EDL plan a march through Tower Hamlets on September 3. Mayor Lutfur Rahman, Glynn Robins and everyone else of sane mind are right in saying that should not happen.
After the events in Norway, I doubt that it will be allowed to take place. David Cameron will chair a session of the National Security Council and I suspect very strongly that the question of Anders Breivik's admiration for the EDL will be discussed.
The PM will want to send a message out that Right-wing extremism will not be tolerated. I suspect there will be some discussion about whether the EDL can be proscribed under terror legislation, even temporarily so while investigations continue into Breivik's background.
The Government has banned Al Muhajiroun and its many guises over the years and having reported on a couple of Anjem Choudary's silly little marches through London, it's actually quite easy to feel sympathy for him when the EDL turn up.
They are dangerous thugs who actually play straight into the hands of religious extremists by forcing moderates to sit alongside nutters and hate-peddlers.
Yes, we have some issues in Tower Hamlets, but having talked to people about them in various traditional East End pubs, it's very clear to me that the EDL are neither welcome nor supported here.
On Saturday 3 September the English Defence League plan to march through the streets of Tower Hamlets. They want to peddle their racism and hatred through the heart of one of Britain's biggest Muslim communities. I would like your help to stop them.
The EDL want to whip up racism and terrorise the local Muslim community. There can be no other explanation for their provocative march. They are coming to East London looking for a confrontation and trying to provoke a violent reaction. This is the last thing the people of Tower Hamlets want or need.
We are calling on the authorities to ban this hate march.
We have shown before that we can force the authorities to act. We stopped the EDL from marching through a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood of Bradford last year. More recently we forced the Home Secretary to ban the controversial US preacher, Pastor Jones, from entering Britain.
Now we need to stop the EDL from marching in Tower Hamlets in September.
Tower Hamlets has a long and proud history of immigration and resistance to racism and fascism and so we must stand up against the EDL now. We've made a difference before and I know we can be successful again. Please sign our petition.


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How To Train Your Dragon 3D – movie review
by Corinne Lamoral, a freelance writer and media consultant, practicing corporate communications three mornings a week. She lives with her husband and three children on a koppie in Johannesburg where she pretends the distant hum of traffic is the ocean.
It's been a while since I enjoyed a children's movie as much as I did How to Train your Dragon. Having not read the series of books by Cressida Cowell, on which the movie is based, I had no idea what to expect, but from the moment the screen opened to the craggy hills, wild sea and precariously pitched Viking village I was entranced.
This is the story of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the son of the brave Viking chief, Stoik, who despairs of his skinny son ever becoming a true Viking and fighting dragons – the foe they are trained from birth to fear and despise. Hiccup wants nothing more than to fulfill his father's dreams, but with his scrawny frame and big heart he keeps getting into scrapes his father has to rescue him from, much to the humour and derision of the rest of the village. Children bearing the weight of a parent's expectations will relate to Hiccup's desperate quest to prove himself in his father's and his peer's eyes and make them proud.
When Hiccup, in a stroke of luck, manages to wound the most feared dragon of all, he sets out to kill him, only to realise the dragon is as scared of him as he is of it. From here the real adventure starts as he helps the dragon to recover, christens him Toothless (and in so doing demystifies him and makes him seem cuter than he may originally appear) and ultimately teaches the narrow-minded villagers that dragons are not what they seem. The friendship between Hiccup and Toothless is ultimately the hero of the film – your children will all want pet dragons after watching this!
As Hiccup trains the dragon and learns more about this unknown creature, there are also parallels between the way we fear what we do not know, often only to find out that we have more in common than we realised. The strength of the movie is in the story line, which is clever and witty but doesn't condescend or descend into non-stop jokes and crass one-liners. The characters are also well drawn, fresh and memorable, particularly Hiccup's group of fellow dragon-slaying trainees, from Hiccup's nemesis, Snotlout, to Astrid, the toughest Viking girl you've ever seen, and the hilarious, competitive twins Tuffnut and Ruffnut.
Although I find the 3D glasses make the screen a little dark, in this film the 3D definitely adds to the action – the swooping flight and fight scenes are exhilarating and beautifully created. The animation is superb – it had to be a challenge to make the cast of dragons both ferocious and appealing so that when the trainee dragon-slayers call on them for help in the end, it feels believable that they would actually ride them.
There are a couple of hiccups in the movie (pardon the pun) – the adults all speak in a Scottish accent but the children have American accents. Hiccup also talks about his village being in snow the whole year but the entire story takes place in summer. There will also be those endless book vs. the movie debates as the movie changes one of the basic premises of the original plot in which all Vikings ride dragons, and Hiccup has to train a small dragon as nerdy as he is. These inconsistencies fall away however, in the face of the movie's warmth, humour and nail-biting adventure.
It's been given a 10M, which is 10 with mature content but I would say, depending on your child's sensitivities, children from age 6 or 7 will love it. There is violence when the dragons fight but there are plenty of fun scenes and humour to lighten up the scary bits.
Your children can read the rest of Hiccup's exploits in the How to Train Your Dragon series. The series is available at Exclusive Books and includes How to Be a Pirate, How to Speak Dragonese, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse, How to Twist a Dragon's Tale, A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons, How to Ride a Dragon's Storm, and How to Break a Dragon's Heart.
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What is the name of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III's father?
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Catalina	on May 6, 2010 at 11:29 pm
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Ooh! I need to know where to find the kite! My husband, our daughter & I LOVE this movie & can't help watching it all the time! 🙂
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hopefully the magic of the first one will not die in the sequel.
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National High School (or NHS) is a government-aided high school in the Basavanagudi section of Bangalore, India.

With grades/classes for 8th, 9th and 10th, NHS caters to academically eligible students regardless of religion or caste.  NHS is run by the National Education Society (NES).

History
In 1917 Dr. Annie Besant and several others founded NHS in Bangalore.  During its early years, NHS hosting several activists for Indian independence from Great Britain. Mahatma Gandhi visited NHS on several occasions.

It is said that on one of Gandhiji's visits, he had said "If on a map of India the places I love are marked red, the place on which the National High School stands will be marked very very red". Past students of the school recall this as having been told to them by some of their teachers.

In its glory days - from inception till around mid to end 1980s, National High School attracted the best students, had an outstanding overall academic record. In the annual Class 10 State Board exams, National High School would have at least 5 places in the Top 10 ranks for many successive years. In extra curricular activities too, the school produced some outstanding sportsmen of national and international repute.

Admission
Admission is open to all qualifying students without regard to religion, caste or creed. NHS requires an overall score of 85%–90% in the seventh standard exam for admission

Panchayat elections
There are five sections for each grade/class, A to E. For each section there are five leaders elected, normally three boys and two girls. Among all the 25 leaders, There will be another round of election for the selection of school Union Leader and two other Members of Union Cabinet who represent the school. This election process is annually conducted in the month of July.

Facilities

Labs
 Physics Lab
 Biology Lab
 Chemistry Lab
 Science Centre
 Computer Lab

Sport
 Cricket
 Handball
 Hockey
 Football
 Badminton
 Swimming
 Athletics
 Table tennis
 Tennis
 Carrom
 Chess
 Basketball

Other Facilities
 Smart Boards
 Library
 NCC
 Seva Dala
 Afternoon Meals ( ಬಿಸಿ ಊಟ )

"Clubs"
 Science club
 Eco club
 Consumer club
 Rotary interaction club
 Surakshana samiti

Faculty
 Dr. Venkatarama Bhattar – Sanskrit (Pratibha Bhushana awardee)(Head Master)
This list will be updated to the extent possible soon.

Challenges Ahead
The institution was highly reputed for a long time - since inception and till mid 1990s. A huge influx of private schools since late 1980s drastically changed the education scenario in Karnataka as well as rest of India, which led to a steady decline in the sheen on National High School.

Several attempts have been made by distinguished alumni to restore the glory of National High School, An attempt by Anil Kumble (along with Dr CNR Rao who studied in National College) was made with hope of adequate funding to modernize the institution. However, the attempt did not materialize.

Most recently, a technology organization owned by a alumni stepped in to set up a Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Lab at the school. This seems to be shaping up well

Alumni

Notable alumni
 H.D. Kumaraswamy – Chief Minister of Karnataka.
 Anil Kumble - Cricketer
 Ramesh Aravind - Film actor
 Chandrashekar - Film Actor
 Dr Vishnuvardhan - Film Actor
 Raghunath. N – Deputy Manager, Bharat Electronics Limited, Ministry of Defence, Government of India
 Vinayak Joshi - Film Actor
 Arjun Sarja - Famous Movie Actor
 Sunil Rao - Film Actor
 Srujan Lokesh - Stand up Comedian
 EAS Prasanna - Cricketer
 Bhagwat Chandrashekar - Cricketer
 Prakash Podukone - Ex Badmintion Player
 Dr T. S. Nagabharna - Chairman of Kannada Development Authority of Govt of Karnataka.
Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar - Justice of the Supreme Court of India
Dr. G. Guruswamy Principal Scientist, NASA

See also
 National College, Bangalore

References

External links
 udyam.org

1917 establishments in India
Educational institutions established in 1917
High schools and secondary schools in Bangalore

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Newbury Farm Stables is a division of Newbury Farm, offering a comprehensive lesson program as well as leasing options, boarding and training services for clients looking for a more local presence.
Julie has been involved in the horse industry for over 40 years, both as a competitive rider and instructor. She ran her own successful operation, Facet Hill Farm, bringing students from the beginner stages of riding right up thru the upper levels of the sport. Many of her students have gone on to succeed on the "A" circuit competition level. Julie's positive, individualized teaching technique encourages all riders to excel and achieve their individual goals within a fun, upbeat environment.


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Q: Instagram API access token request fail I seen answers for this in other posts but they are quite outdated and I know IG has updated their api since.
I followed their developer documentation but can not seem to make a request from my localhost.
$fields = array(
   'client_id'     => 'a2xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxed',
   'client_secret' => '3bxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx8f',
   'grant_type'    => 'authorization_code',
   'redirect_uri'  => 'http://localhost:8000/',
   'code'          => 'code'
);

$url = 'https://api.instagram.com/oauth/access_token';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print $result; //your token

The above code is how I am making my request but I get the following error.
{"code": 400, "error_type": "OAuthException", "error_message": "Matching code was not found or was already used."}

I have disabled implicit oAuth, the app set up is pretty basic, with all the settings going to my personal site for the time being as the app is in sandbox mode anyway.

A: redirect_uri should be pointing to a public URL address, not localhost.

A: Turns out, I just had to logout of my Instagram account each time I wanted to request a new token.

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This is a list of the past and present mayors of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mayors

City managers

References

 List of the mayors from 1845 to 1896.
The Mayors of Cambridge since 1893 from the Cambridge Civic Journal
Mayors of Cambridge, Massachusetts from The Political Graveyard
Organizational chart – Cambridge Municipal Government structure

Cambridge
Cambridge

History of Cambridge, Massachusetts


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Q: Remote avatars for users/rooms not loading after migrating Synapse Migrated perthchat.org recently and i've run into the same bug where remote user/room avatars stop loading completely. So i figured okay i'll just purge the remote media until the future again:
curl -X POST --header "Authorization: Bearer long-access-token" '172.18.0.5:8008/_synapse/admin/v1/purge_media_cache?before_ts=1626710400'
Strangely this hasn't resolved the issue :P none of the remote avatars want to load. Also going this media purge hasn't freed up any space either, here's the before:
    "msg": [
        "381M\t/matrix/synapse/storage/media-store/remote_content",
        "5.3G\t/matrix/synapse/storage/media-store/remote_thumbnail"
    ]

and the after:
    "msg": [
        "381M\t/matrix/synapse/storage/media-store/remote_content",
        "5.3G\t/matrix/synapse/storage/media-store/remote_thumbnail"
    ]

Should also note the backup before this migration only copied over the /matrix/synapse/storage/media-store/remote_thumbnail folder, not the /matrix/synapse/storage/media-store/remote_content folder.
Anyone know anything else i can try to get remote user/room avatars loading again?

A: The solution for this was to purge the remote media to a future date, don't forget the epoche time should be in milliseconds, not seconds!
# Example:
# $ date --date '149 days ago' +%s
# 1589442217
# $ curl -X POST --header "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" 'https://matrix.perthchat.org/_synapse/admin/v1/purge_media_cache?before_ts=1589442217000'


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How the ratings work
After you've opened a contest, you can give it a rating of up to five stars. Doing this helps other users identify the best contests to enter.
The ratings are also important for helping us pick a winner in our monthly draw for people who've added contests - the contests with the highest ratings get the most entries into the draw. So, by accurately rating each contest, you help us reward the people who find and add the best contests.
You might have noticed that if you are the first and only person who have rated a contest, then the rating shown is not exactly the rating that you gave. For example, if you gave it 5 stars, then it might show 4 stars and if you gave it just 1 star, it might show 3 stars. This is because the ratings that we display are influenced by the number of people who have rated a contest.
The reason why we do this is to make it more fair. If you have two contests and the one has been rated by 20 people and received an average rating of 4 stars and the other contest has just been rated by 1 person and got 5 stars, then the one that was rated by just one person can't be assumed to be better than the other one, because that one person who rated it might have been biased. So, to make it more fair we need to take the number of people who rated a contest into account and we do that by using Bayesian ratings.
Bayesian ratings basically work as follows:
When only a few people have rated a contest, then it gets the average rating that all contests have received, moved a little bit into the direction of the average rating for that contest. If many people have rated a contest, then it is moved further into the direction of the average rating for that contest.
The average rating that all contests on ContestChest.com receive is about 3.7 stars. If only a few people have rated a contest, then it will have a Bayesian rating of close to 3.7 regardless of how good or bad its own rating was. But, if a lot of people have rated it then the score can become much higher or lower than 3.7.
If you look at our page with the highest rated contests, you'll notice that all the ones at the top only got there by receiving ratings from many people. Also, the contests that landed on top of our list of the lowest rated contests only reached that position by consistently receiving bad ratings from many different people.


Looking for a spanish cedar lined glass top humidor that wont break the bank? The Imperial Glasstop is the perfect choice! This humidor features a handsome cherry finish, a see through glass top, an adjustable divider along with a humidifier and external hygrometer. Throw in the fact that the Imperial has the capacity to store between 25-50 cigars and you have yourself a humidor that's a fantastic value!
Very nice box exceptional built quality with lid closed shut you would not be able to squeeze sheet of paper in the gap.
Bought as gift for my son at college...wonderful value and better fit and finish than I expected in a starter humidor.
I accidentally sent wrong shipping address but they took care of all the details and got it right for me.
Box looks awesome, the seal has been great. Definitely go with a digital hygrometer though.
I just recently bought and received this humidor and I found this item to be better then I had expected. I have my quality cigars in there and its has been doing a wonderful job keeping my cigars in great smoking order! An excellent humidor at a great price! Keep up the good job and service and quality prices! I am impressed and easily recommend this to my cigar smoking friends!


Ben Summers was recently added on to the cast of L.A.'s Murder Mystery Company. After you see him in Next. Stage's She-roes/ Wonder Women, have fun at trying to solve a mystery. The Murder Mystery Company is a interactive theatre group that lets the audience join in on the fun. Ben will be hosting and acting in these constantly changing scenarios. If you crave thrill, comedy, and mystery, become a detective at the Murder Mystery Company, with Ben.


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Home Life Science Greater Adria, a lost continent hiding in plain sight
Greater Adria, a lost continent hiding in plain sight
Following a 10-year survey, geologists discover a lost continent in the Mediterranean.
'Greater Adria' existed for 100 million years, and was probably "great for scuba diving".
Most of it has been swallowed up by Earth's mantle, but bits of it survive.
Complex geology
Image: NASA / public domain
Topographic map of the Mediterranean Sea basin, once home to the continent of Greater Adria.
Move over, Atlantis. Not all lost continents are myths; here's one whose existence has just been verified by science. Greater Adria broke off from North Africa 240 million years ago. About 120 million years later, it started sinking beneath Southern Europe. But bits of it remain, scattered across local mountain ranges.
It's the geological similarities in those mountains that had led scientists to hypothesize the presence of an ancient continent in the Mediterranean. But the region's geology is so complex that only recent advances in computing—and a 10-year survey by an international team of scientists—were able to produce a geo-historical outline of that former land mass. This is the very first map of the world's latest lost continent (1).
The 100-million-year history of Greater Adria starts nearly a quarter of a billion years ago. The world was a very different place back then. It was just recovering from the Permian-Triassic extinction, which came pretty close to wiping out all life on Earth. The planet was repopulated by the first mammals and dinosaurs.
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Harry Haller October 23, 2019 at 9:14 pm
Sedimentary rocks define depositional events, mass wasting, associated with physical and chemical weathering. The planet is full of these depositional events to be deciphered. Stratigraphy is a lot of fun.