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Hosted by David Barr, the program is an eclectic mix of roots, soul, blues, folk, contemporary Americana and African music.
"My main interest is music south of the Mason Dixon line and African music.
The southern part of the US has given us a rich legacy of wonderful and diverse music which has influenced popular culture worldwide .Much of contemporary mainstream music has its roots in the American south. In turn its roots can be traced back to the music of West Africa which was introduced by the slaves. The connection between the Blues and the music of the Sahel region is readily apparent and has brought about collaboration between African and Western musicians such as Ry Cooder, Justin Adams, Taj Mahal, Jeff Lang and many others.
The rich fabric that is American music also incorporates the Celtic folk music tradition from the UK and Ireland.
Drive Tuesday will reflect this musical diversity and I hope listeners will find an element of unpredictability about it."
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More Books about Japan
I read some books about Japan!
And as I'm always encouraging my students to write shitty book reports, I should lead by example. So here are my (brief) impressions of some books about Japan (aka shitty book reports).
Bay McNeil is a famous blogger on the expat-in-Japan blog scene. He writes over at http://www.locoinyokohama.com/, but that site is a bit wordy for me. Massive short attention span when in front of a screen. Need shiny photos. But a paper book is a different story!
From Amazon:
"Born to Love — Taught to Loathe In this powerful and controversial debut book, acclaimed blogger turned author, Baye McNeil (a.k.a. Loco), vividly illustrates with unflinching introspection and candor the birth and evolution of a racist and in doing so makes the persuasive argument that the only way to cure this social virus is by first engaging one's own susceptibility."
I thought this would be his accounts of crazy shit going down in Japan, written from a black American's point of view. I ended up being totally wrong. Instead, it is an account of crazy shit going down in general, written from a black American's point of view. New York in the 80s. The Five Percent Nation. 9/11. Japan.
The book was a surprise. If you don't like black people (seriously, I know a few dudes out here in Japan who are hella racist) you probably won't like this book. But as far as memoirs go, it was a good read. I think he mentioned Rakim and The Wu-Tang at one point, so it has that going for it. The chapters are relatively unconnected, though there is an overarching theme of growth and self-discovery.
Speaking of black dudes who wrote about Japan.
"THE YEAR OF NO MONEY IN TOKYO is an intimate, first-person, true story about triumphing over adversity, in the form of being poor and American, in Japan, during the country`s worst recession, since the Second World War."
I was at a friend's apartment, and this was the shortest book he had on the shelf. Judging said book by the cover, I thought I would be getting into a comical account of thrifty living in the capital city. Totally wrong. This is the story about some dude who loses his job, then lives off his four sugar mamas, all of whom he doesn't seem to like very much. Sure, that concept could be comical, but it was just sad and annoying to read. The writer comes off as being a dick.
Skip this one, unless you stay at my friend's pad and can read 162 pages in a couple days.
The title, "People Who Eat Darkness," is epic.
"Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave."
You can get the gist of the Lucie Blackman case by skimming the wikipedia article, or watching the 40 minute documentary on YouTube. It is your standard prostitute disappearance story, a common occurrence in the Japanese underworld. But this case was unique. A blond haired, blue eyed British girl and a zainichi mega-millionaire dude. A media-hungry father and an inept police force.
While "People Who Eat Darkness" is a little long (chapters and chapters full of minor details about people's childhoods), the way this whole thing went down is nuts. The book is written in a way that manages to save some suspense for an event that has already happened (spoiler, she was rape-killed and buried in a cave); no small feat.
"Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the yakuza."
Whether you are interested in Japan or interested in underworld in general, Jake Adelstein's "Tokyo Vice" is solid. I read it a while ago when I was on a Yakuza book spree.
I'll write a bigger review over at my ramen site (http://www.ramenadventures.com/) for this rad book, but here is a quick rundown.
"Ramen, Japan s noodle soup, is a microcosm of Japan and its historical relations with China. The long evolution of ramen helps us enter the history of cuisine in Japan, charting how food and politics combined as a force within Sino-Japan relations."
If you want what I thought this book would be about, ramen shops and modern ramen culture and what not, skip to chapter 10. Otherwise, get ready for a history lesson. "Slurp!" tells the story about how Japan became a country where a dish like ramen could thrive. Historically, Japan was a rice-miso-fish eating society. Most people know this already, but this book goes into the why. I find Japanese history in general to be a bit dry, but "Slurp!" fed me the details one delicious noodle at a time.
I'm ashamed of that metaphor. Weak!
Anyways, I can actually say that I am smarter after reading this book. Barak Kuchner is obviously a scholar, and he balances the academic level just right. He inadvertently makes a connection between Japan's colonization of much of Asia, and their eventual loss, with food culture. Awesome.
"A collection of outrageous and hilarious true anecdotes about the antics of English Teachers in Japan."
For what I thought the Loco book would be about, "Senseitional" delivers! This one is tiny, and the chapters are all random stories about the crazy antics that eikaiwa teachers get into. A lot of drinking and fucking in this one. The formula is simple as a pimple. Anyone with a pulse can come out to Japan after college and spend a year making money and partying. This leads to everyone breaking out of any kind of shell they were in before, and stories worthy of "Senseitional". Super short, super dumb.
And there is always Charisma Man!
Confined to a wheelchair, I spent all of September seated. Hence the lack of September photos. Hence the lack of anything really. I guess I could start a Babylon 5 blog, as a thoughtful friend of mine lent me his entire collection of the iconic series. Naw, you don't want to hear about that!
In October, the wheelchair was returned and the crutches borrowed. Crutches meant I would work, for the most part.
A note on handicapped life in Tokyo. If you live on the Oedo Subway line, I'm sorry, but no one is going to offer their seat to you. Even in the designated "Priority Seats" section, old people, pregnant ladies, and I all stood while overworked salarymen stared at their smartphones, acting like they didn't see us. It is disgusting, and would be a huge insult to the general population . . . but it is only the Oedo line! Seriously, I ride the train a lot more than the average person, so I think I gathered enough data to sufficiently say:
Fuck you salarymen on the Oedo line!
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Getting out of the apartment is swell.
Family Mart, the ubiquitous chain of convenience stores, has a line of 俺のスウィーツ - Sweets for Cool Dudes. I recommend the pudding or the cookie chou-cream.
Happy Halloween. I stayed at home to rest my leg. And watch Babylon 5.
On October 28th, I cast aside the crutches to walk unassisted. I've been given the go-ahead by the doctor to do whatever, while the physical rehab people say to take it easy. The days start with vigor and enthusiasm, and end with a puffy, swollen ankle. But each day is more of the former and less of the later.

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The college admissions scandal is all about inequality, too
Some of the 33 parents charged with cheating to get their children into prestigious schools may have paid enough in bribes to cover the full cost of a college education and then some.
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN
(CNN) -- Of course there's a way to buy your way into college, thought everyone who ever wondered how an admissions board separates one kid from another.
Now a raft of indictments against actors, business executives, doctors and lawyers suggests a nationwide conspiracy of very powerful and wealthy people paying exorbitant amounts to cheat their kids' way into college -- a scandal that hits squarely at America's striving middle class.
The episode offers yet another clue about why policy proposals many Democrats call progressive and some Republicans call radical have gotten such traction this year. Jobs guarantees, baby bonds, Medicare for All and free college tuition are just some of the ideas Democrats have proposed to take privileges from the wealthy and try to offer them to everyone else.
What's behind the appeals that Democrats, including some 2020 presidential contenders, are making is that the cards are stacked against anyone who follows the rules, and there's a side game only the rich are allowed to play. The college admissions scandal offers up some indication that they're right -- and what makes it so surprising is that, this time, the rich might have to pay a price.
The alleged scam has yielded headlines for implicating the actresses/overeager college moms Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin and Loughlin's husband, Mossimo founder Mossimo Giannulli, in criminal behavior.
The details of the indictments paint an unpleasant picture of college coaches and administrators playing along at cheating on college entrance exams. While many American high schoolers and their parents are agonizing over whether they can even pay for college, there's a subset of the country apparently agonizing over whether they can pay the $500,000 they'll need to sneak into the right college. That's $500,000 on top of the more-than-$50,000 tuition.
There are, of course, also many stories of wealthy people whose children found their way into top-flight schools despite nonstellar careers in high school. ProPublica and The Guardian wrote a very interesting tale about how the father of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's now-son-in-law, pledged to give $2.5 million to Harvard, paid in installments. Both of his sons got in. The payments were discovered by ProPublica from a subpoena by federal authorities of his charitable giving. At the end of the day -- and there's no direct evidence these three pieces of information are linked -- Harvard got a $2.5 million pledge. Jared Kushner got accepted. His dad got access to a tax deduction.
Trump once tried to sell the idea of Trump University to students who wanted his real estate know-how. He ultimately settled for $25 million with students who said they'd been defrauded.
While he thought his own image was enough to sell students on Trump U, he likes to brag that he got his own undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, what a great school it is and how smart he was to get in.


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Built in 1884 and commissioned by the founder of Singer Sewing Machines, Edward Clark, this building is truly one of a kind. I say that in truth not only to be poetic. Named Dakota since in the late 1800's this was the only building in his area. So far West and so far North, rightfully so named after the state that is so far away in comparison to New York.
This building so magnificent, comes 2nd only to Versailles and Buckingham Palace. No two apartments alike and cost ranging from $4 million – $30 million. Oddly in the 20th century the rent at the Dakota was affordable and after WW2 they declared rent control! Having the same architect as that of The Plaza Hotel… ever notice there are no fire escapes? That is because the genius minds discovered using MUD from the then new Central Park in between each brick floor layering – this made the apartments not only fireproof but soundproof too! My favorite, the entrance is so huge in order to let the Horse Carriages enter so the residents could steer clear from the weather, further – there were elevators that lift the carriages up to the exact floor that resident lived on!
Now, who lived in this marvelous building? Of course Edward Clark has his own apartment (with a floor made of sterling silver, of course) but also, John Lennon and his partner Yoko Ono owned 5 apartments at one time and Yoko still owns a few – John sadly passed away in front of entrance. Lauren Bacall lived here for over 5 decades, Judy Garland and fictionally Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky as well as Niles Crane from Frasier, he lived in the 'Montana' where the Dakota' exterior was used. The Dakota is invite only to move in, with this – who was rejected? Well.. Madonna for starters, along with Billy Joel, Melanie Griffith and Antonio, Cher and ARod – allegedly… very interesting.
Sadly filming is not allowed inside at all, there was a chance I could walk through, but I cannot go without bringing you guys! Luckily the lovely doorman left me with a story! Thank you in advance to him because this is a great one.
Supposedly.. a historian came by years ago and shared what I am about to tell. If you look at the entrance again, above you will notice two faces at the top left and right corners, the left is of Edward Clark and the right is his wife Caroline Jordan. Supposedly the couple went out one night with the French designer of The Statue of Liberty (I believe it is Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and not Gustave Eiffel who designed the interior). The designer and Caroline hit it off, had an affair and it is now HER face that he used a inspiration for Liberty's face! Again, this is only a story, I researched and could find no truth to this… however.. anything is possible
Enjoy the gorgeous building that became a Landmark in 1976!


Abe Scarr with the Illinois Public Interest Research Group Education talks about potentially dangerous toys.
Parents have a new worry when it comes to holiday shopping for the young people on their list this year — so-called connected toys that may invade children's privacy.
For the first time, the Illinois Public Interest Research Group Education Fund is alerting parents to be cautious about smart toys that collect data. The group releases an annual toy safety survey each year, available at www.toysafetytips.org.
This year the group cited as an example a doll called "My Friend Cayla," which the organization said has already been banned in Germany for privacy violations and is the subject of a complaint by several consumer groups to the Federal Trade Commission.
The doll connects with an app via Bluetooth, and can talk and interact, play games, share photos and read stories, according to the toy's website. The doll, however, records conversations between it and children and asks children for personal information, such as their mom and dad's names, school names and locations, according to a complaint filed late last year with the FTC by groups including the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood and Consumers Union.
The company behind the toy, Genesis Toys, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday morning.
"There is a digital privacy concern but also a very real physical safety concern that could put children in danger," said Abe Scarr, director of the education fund, about connected toys.
Earlier this year, the FBI issued a notice to parents to consider cybersecurity when buying toys that are smart, Internet-connected or interactive.
Additionally, the research education fund cited toys containing lead, powerful magnets, batteries that can overheat and small parts and balloons that could lead to choking. The report cited two models of fidget spinners previously sold at Target as examples of toys containing lead. Those spinners have since been pulled from Target's shelves, Scarr said.
The fund also says parents should be wary of excessively loud toys that can cause hearing loss, such as toy phones, and cited balloon toys that can become stuck in children's throats. Some balloon toys are marketed to children under 8 or have warning labels that make it appear that they are safe for children between ages 3 and 8, according to the report.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan also released her annual Safe Shopping Guide on Tuesday, listing toys and children's products that have been recalled over the last year. That report is available at www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov.
But she said it's important parents be vigilant about making sure their homes are clear of potentially hazardous toys.
She said dangerous toys are still out there in stores, despite federal laws and standards.
"This can happen in any store, from a dollar store to a drugstore to a big-box store to a high-end store, that can have a toy that has been recalled," Madigan said.


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Pluggable DB
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Instead of implementing a proprietary DB solution for Dragonflow or picking
one open source framework over the other, we designed the DB layer in
Dragonflow to be pluggable.

The DB framework is the mechanism to sync network policy and topology between
the CMS and the local controllers and hence control the performance, latency
and scale of the environments Dragonflow is deployed in.

This allows the operator/admin the flexibility of choosing and changing between
DB solutions to best fit his/her setup.
It also allows, with very minimal integration, a way to leverage the well
tested and mature feature set of these DB frameworks (clustering, HA, security,
consistency, low latency and more..)

This also allows the operator/admin to pick the correct balance between
performance and latency requirements of their setup and the resource overhead
of the DB framework.

Adding support for another DB framework is an easy process, all you need is to
implement the DB driver API class and add an installation script for the DB
framework server and client.

The following diagram depicts the pluggable DB architecture in Dragonflow and
the currently supported DB frameworks:

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    :alt: Pluggable DB architecture
    :width: 600
    :height: 525
    :align: center

Classes in the DB Layer
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The following sections describe the two main classes that are part of the
DB layer.

Applicative N/B DB Adapter Layer
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This component is the translator layer between the data model elements
to the DB driver which is generic.

This class should be used by all Dragonflow users that need to interact
with the DB (write/read).
For example: Dragonflow Neutron plugin, the Dragonflow local controller,
external applications.

This component was added for one main reason:
We didn't want to expose the DB driver to the internal data schema/model of
Dragonflow.
We didn't want that every new feature in Dragonflow will trigger changes in the
various different DB drivers.

This component has an interface to add/set/delete elements in our model (like
logical switches, logical routers and so on) and translate these APIs to a
simple, generic key/value operations that are done by the DB driver.

This component also define the Dragonflow data model objects and which fields
each one of the logical elements has.

The N/B DB Adapter has a reference to a DB Driver instance which is used to
interact with the DB framework.
We have identified that different DB frameworks might have different features
and capabilities, this layer is in charge of understanding the features exposed
by the driver and using them if possible.

DB Driver API
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DB Driver is an interface class that list the methods needed to be implemented
in order to connect a certain DB framework to work with Dragonflow as a
backend.

The DB driver is a very minimalistic interface that uses a simple key/value
approach and can fit to almost all DB frameworks.

In order for Dragonflow to be able to leverage "advance" features of the DB,
the driver has a way to indicate if a specific feature is implemented or not,
and if it is, provide an API to consume it.

Using this method, the applicative DB adapter can choose the best way to manage
the way it interact with the DB.

For example: the driver can state if it support publish-subscribe on its
tables, If it does, the local controller will register a callback method to the
driver to receive any DB notifications and instead of polling the DB for
changes, wait for the driver to send them.

If the driver doesn't support publish-subscribe, the controller will keep
polling the DB framework looking for changes.

Modes of DB
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There are three different modes for the interaction between Dragonflow and the
DB.

Full Proactive
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In this mode, all the DB data (policy and topology) is synced with all the
local Dragonflow controllers (each compute node).
Dragonflow saves in a local in-memory cache all the data that was synced from
the DB in order to do fast lookups.

Selective Proactive
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    :width: 600
    :height: 525
    :align: center

We have identified that in virtualized environments today with tenant
isolation, full proactive mode is not really needed.
We only need to synchronize each compute node (local-controller) with the
relevant data depending on the local ports of this compute node.
This mode is called selective proactive.

The following diagram depicts why this is needed:

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    :alt: Pluggable DB architecture
    :width: 600
    :height: 525
    :align: center

We can see from the diagram that each compute node has VMs from one network,
    and in the topology we can see that the networks are isolated, meaning VMs
        from one network can not communicate with VMs from another.

It is obvious than that each compute node only needs to get the topology and
policy of the network and VMs that are local.
(If there was a router connecting between these two networks, this statement
was no longer correct, but we kept it simple in order to demonstrate that in
setups today there are many isolated topologies)

Reactive
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This 2-Year-Old Boy Thought An Encanto Character Was Him and It Is The Most Wholesome Thing You'll See Today
ByBrittanie	Updated on January 11, 2022
Disney's Encanto is taking the world by storm. People everywhere just can't seem to get enough of it.
For one little boy, it was a total dream come true because This 2-Year-Old Boy Thought An Encanto Character Was Him and It Is The Most Wholesome Thing You'll See Today!
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2-year-old Kenzo was watching Encanto with his family when he noticed one of the characters, a young boy named Antonio, looked very much like him.
Kenzo's mom Kah, posted the moment on Instagram (which went viral) and said it made her happy that her son noticed and was able to feel seen.
"He seemed to be in awe, just smiling and staring at the screen," she told POPSUGAR. "Then he stood up and looked back at his dad and me, still smiling. For him, I truly believe that he thought he was seeing himself because of the resemblance between him and Antonio."
She continued:
"As a mom, I'm always trying to capture 'these' moments," she said. "I was amazed at his reaction. It just truly made me smile and my heart happy."
THIS! This is exactly why these movies matter. Kids feel special, represented and seen and that has so much power and value.
I love this so much and if you haven't watch Encanto with your kids yet, you should go watch it right now!
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HomeSimone Biles' Historic New Floor Routine Has A Jewish Background
Simone Biles' Historic New Floor Routine Has A Jewish Background
Jenny SingerAugust 13, 2019Image by Getty Images
This week, Simone Biles made history. It's a sentence that journalists may soon tire of writing — the 22-year-old Olympic gymnast is simply one of the most extraordinary athletes to have ever lived.
At the U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Kansas City this weekend, she won six U.S. all-around titles, tying for the most in women's gymnastics history. She became the first woman to land a double-double dismount off the balance beam. And she became the first woman — and one of the only people, ever — to do a triple-double during a competition floor routine.
If it sounds jargon-y, watch her change her sport in her Sunday night routine. She's the kind of athlete who can make you weep with wonder:
Please forgive your friendly Jewish publication if the proud Jewish dad in us feels compelled to point out the sliver of Yiddishkeit in all this — the brassy, thrilling jazz sting that greets Biles as she takes to the floor? That's a remix of "Big Spender," a hit from the 1966 Broadway musical "Sweet Charity."
The song is by Cy Coleman (given name: Seymour Kaufman,) the legendary Jewish composer who was nominated for a whopping 19 Tony Awards in his life, and won five, as well as a handful of Grammy and Emmy Awards. The ecstatic, sensuous music that underscores Biles' latest triumph was one of Coleman's most memorable tunes — he also wrote the Frank Sinatra hit "The Best Is Yet To Come" and "Hey, Look Me Over," which Lucille Ball made popular.
Coleman wrote "Sweet Charity" with Jewish lyricist Dorothy Fields and Jewish playwright Neil Simon. "Hey, Big Spender," remixed with a techno-beat for Biles' unreal performance, is, of course, about propositioning men.
And that's a little Jewish history to go with your double back somersault with three twists in two flips.
Jenny Singer is the deputy life/features editor for the Forward. You can reach her at Singer@forward.com or on Twitter @jeanvaljenny
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Amir Khan and the Penny Appeal in Cumbria. Picture Irfan Bostan.
Boxer Amir Khan and Wakefield's Penny Appeal have been to Cumbria to support flood victims.
After touring the streets of Carlisle and witnessing the devastation at first-hand on Saturday, the two-time world champion helped to move residents' furniture and other items.
The Penny Appeal,of Wood Street, helped organise a solidarity day at a community Centre, where Mr Khan served hot lunch to locals and handed out some early festive presents to young children.
He then went back on to the streets to hand-deliver food parcels and hot meals to the elderly and the isolated.


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Home/argentina/Why Obesity Changes Adipocyte Function – Digital AIM
Why Obesity Changes Adipocyte Function – Digital AIM
argentina November 22, 2018 argentina, Salud
Obesity is a disease that has become an important public health problem, as well as a risk factor for diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and some forms of cancer.
This study, conducted in humans, has shown the importance of changing epigenetic marks due to obesity. (Photo: Pixabay)
Although traditionally it is believed that this is due to an imbalance between energy consumption and consumption, which contributes to the storage of fat, it is now recognized that the interaction between environmental and genetic factors (the so-called epigenetics) plays a key role in its development,
Researchers at the Center for Biomedical Research on Diabetes and Related Metabolic Diseases (Ciberdem) from a group led by Joan Wendrell and Sonja Fernandez-Veledo at the Sanitary Research Institute. Peru Virgil (IISPV) (Catalonia, Spain), just given Another step in understanding the processes that cause these interactions of genes and the environment.
Experts have identified a new mechanism in which obesity leaves an epigenetic imprint on the precursor cells of adipocytes, which determines the malfunction of new fat cells that are generated.
Previous studies from the same group have already shown that adipocyte progenitor cells in patients with obesity do not work correctly. However, to date, the molecular basis of these changes is unknown.
"The fatty subcutaneous adipose tissue contains a dysfunctional set of adipocyte progenitor stem cells, and there is evidence of an association between obesity and loss of function of these stem cells," explains Sonja Fernandez Veledo, the last participant in the study, which ends for publication in the International Journal of Obesity.
Adequate functional population of adipocyte precursors is crucial for proper fat expansion, lipid management and lipotoxicity prevention under conditions of chronic positive energy balance (that is, when all calories consumed are not "burned"). ,
"We believe that a better understanding of the biology of this set of progenitor stem cells can contribute to the development of new strategies to combat obesity or promote the expansion of healthy adipose tissue," the expert adds.
For this purpose, stem cells derived from adipose tissue (precursors) and mature adipocytes of healthy patients suffering from thin and obese have been studied in this new work.
"Our work shows that obesity causes important epigenetic changes in the DNA of progenitor cells, which determines the malfunctioning of new adipocytes that are generated," says Joan Vendrell, leader of the Ciberdem group at IISPV.
"Obesity causes adipocyte progenitor stem cells with a dynamic loss of DNA methylation in certain regions, which may ultimately cause dysfunction of white adipose tissue and the development of metabolic syndromes in obesity," he explains.
One of the most modified genes is the transcription factor TBX15, a factor associated with adipogenesis, fat distribution and toasting (the conversion of white fat to brown fat, the last healthy and necessary for the body),
The study showed that TBX15 is one of the genes with the greatest changes at the epigenetic level in the progenitor cells of the obese, which means that it is over-expressed in these cells. "TBX15 shows a strong loss of epigenetic tags with a corresponding increase in the level of gene and protein expression," they explain.
It was found that TBX15 is a regulator of mitochondrial mass in mast adipocytes, the main organelle in the metabolic regulation of cells responsible for cellular respiration. "The increase in TBX15 in adipose tissue in obese patients causes a change in the mitochondrial network, producing changes in shape and quantity," the researchers added.
This new study, conducted in humans, demonstrated the importance of altering epigenetic marks due to obesity in the functionality of future adipocytes, supporting the theory of progenitor dysfunction as a key event in this disease.
"We are currently studying whether this epigenetic trace is reversible, that is, if weight loss can change the epigenetic changes caused by obesity," says Joan Vendrell.
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Pinterest: Covert Affiliate Link Scheme Exposed
David Angotti February 8, 2012
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Although nearly every start-up and fledgling company battles to find new ways to monetize its users, Pinterest appears to have been secretly capitalizing on its customer base through the use of affiliate links. The two year-old social network site, which allows users to "pin" photos, recipes, and products to a "virtual pin-board," has quickly grown to millions of visitors per week and is one of the top traffic referral sources on the Internet.
According to a recent discovery, which was made public by digital marketer and blogger Josh Davis, Pinterest is modifying links to ecommerce sites to include their own affiliate tracking links. Now, when a Pinterest user clicks through a "pin" on Pinterest and makes a purchase at an ecommerce site, Pinterest receives a percentage of the sale. Pinterest has been using the skimlinks service, which automatically adds affiliate links to any products that may be associated with an affiliate program, to quietly modify the links.
Davis said the following of the automatic affiliate link-swapping in his post:
"I, like many people, don't have a problem with Pinterest making money off of user content. The links are modified seamlessly so it doesn't affect the experience. Pinterest likely should disclose this practice to users even if they aren't required to do so by law, if only to maintain trust with their users."
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VectorCAST® Test Automation Platform now supports the latest versions of LynxOS and LynxOS-178 from Lynx Software Technologies
Aviation Electronics Europe, Munich, Germany, 20 April 2016 – Lynx Software Technologies, a world leader in the embedded software market and Vector Software, the leading provider of dynamic software testing solutions for embedded systems, today announced an integration between the LynxOS family of real-time operating systems and the VectorCAST test automation platform. VectorCAST now supports the dynamic testing of mission-critical LynxOS applications, including those deployed on LynxOS-178, the only RTOS to be awarded a Reusable Software Component (RSC) by the FAA.
Commenting, Robert Day, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Lynx, said, "LynxOS-178 offers developers a significant time to market advantage for safety-critical aerospace, defence and other applications by supplying OEMs and system integrators with proven software and artefacts that have previously been certified. The partnership between Lynx and Vector Software will minimize customers' development effort and risk by providing a streamlined path for creating any further artefacts they may need. As the VectorCAST and LynxOS tool environments both support the standards-based Eclipse foundation, the integration and subsequent use is a very straightforward process."
William McCaffrey, Chief Operating Officer of Vector Software added, "VectorCAST is an essential tool that supports the dynamic testing of mission-critical applications in industries such as aerospace and defense, avionics, automotive, industrial, medical and transportation. Our partnership with Lynx enables companies that are building safety critical applications on LynxOS and LynxOS-178 to easily access VectorCAST's broad spectrum of automated testing capabilities, including unit, integration, and system testing as well as code coverage analysis."
LynxOS-178 is the first and only DO-178B and EUROCAE/ ED-12B level A certified operating system to offer the interoperability benefits of POSIX® and support for both the ARINC 653-1 Application EXecutive (APEX) interface and the FACE™ (Future Airborne Capability Environment) security and safety profiles. LynxOS-178 has been awarded the first and only FAA-accepted Reusable Software Component (RSC) as defined by Advisory Circular 20-148. As an FAA-recognized RSC that meets the objectives of RTCA/DO-178B, LynxOS-178 may be used on more than one project without having to regenerate certification artefacts. Due to its modular architecture, LynxOS-178 is also the only COTS solution available which is able to support multiple processor architectures, including Intel® and PowerPC®, with a common set of certification artefacts.
Vector Software's VectorCAST solution is deployed worldwide to test automotive, aerospace & defense, business critical, medical, industrial embedded software so that it meets the same rigorous safety-critical standards. VectorCAST helps embedded system developers to cost-effectively comply with standards including DO-178, ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 regulations and deliver high-quality software products to the market with decreasing cycle times.
Press Release: Lynx and Vector Software partner to provide dynamic testing tools for mission-critical LynxOS applications
Lynx Software Technologies, a world leader in the embedded software market, is committed to providing the highest levels of safety and security in its RTOS and virtualization products. The latest product in the portfolio, the award winning LynxSecure offers a secure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor that forms a platform for the development of highly secure systems. Since it was established in 1988, Lynx Software Technologies has created technology that has been successfully deployed in thousands of designs and millions of products made by leading communications, avionics, aerospace/defense, and consumer electronics companies. Lynx headquarters are located in San Jose, CA. For more information, visit www.lynx.com.
The URL for this release is located at: www.lynx.com


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How Artificial Intelligence is enhancing the manufacturing industry: AI technology in China's factories | Daxue Consulting
Steffi Noël
Artificial Intelligence industry in China China companies China markets China's tech ecosystem Distribution China
In 2016, the Chinese government made a commitment to its Three-Year Guidance for Internet Plus Artificial Intelligence Plan that would focus on funding and the development of AI, which will boost its economy. At a subsequent year, the State Council released a New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan which contained details on China's strategy to build a $150 billion national AI industry in the near future. With this plan, China is on its way to becoming the leading AI superpower by 2030. Considering AI development and proliferation, the Government focus on integrating AI technology in China's factories to harness and adopt the practices of: Integrated intelligent systems, which includes networked vehicles, service robots, drones, video image identification systems, voice interaction system, smart sensors, neural network, and chips.
AI in China's manufacturing industry is now finding its ground as the smart factory technology in China is advancing and costs drop, and as manufacturers discover applications for which AI algorithms can make complex decisions. And as it becomes ubiquitous, the future of AI technology in China's factories already becoming feasible in emerging markets; showcasing better sensory capabilities; and, off the factory floor, predicting what will be needed and when.
Many medium and large manufacturers are starting to use data analytics to optimize factory operations, boosting equipment utilization, product quality while reducing energy consumption and production cost. With new supply-network management tools, factory operational managers have a clearer view of raw materials and manufactured parts flowing through a manufacturing network, which can help them schedule factory operations and product deliveries to cut costs and improve efficiency. Through the active use of data mining, engineers and technicians are gaining the new insight into a machine failure, so that to improve reliability. Smart, connected products are sending customer experience data to product managers to help them anticipate demand and maintenance needs and design better products.
General Concept and use of Artificial Intelligence in Chinese Factories
After the introduction of the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan, China became the new AI hub of the world. There was a tremendous increase in AI research institutes; the Government started funding AI start-ups, and Chinese companies are getting more investors from all corners of the world. The application of Artificial Intelligence in Chinese factories is more includes: the manufacturing process, product development, monitoring, logistics, and environmental safety.
The use of Artificial Intelligence in Chinese factories is classified be categorized into two sections; firstly,
Production research and development. This can involve the use of Facial Recognition, Voice Recognition, Deep Learning, Machine Learning Natural Language, and Neural Network.
The production process, improvement: This involves the use of Robot, monitors to an aide to ease the production process.
S/No Company Application
1 DJI Drones
2 Geek+ Logistic Robot
3 Ubtech Robotics Robotic
4 Sensetime Face Recognition
5 Cambricon Chips
6 Cloudwalk Face Recognition
7 Siasun Robot Automation and Robotics
8 Mobvoi Voice Recognition
9 Horizon Robotics Robotics
10 CloudMinds Cloud Intelligent Robot
11 Canbot Robotics
12 Roobo Robotics
13 Xiaoyi Robotics
14 Huanxin Robot Robotics
15 NewWay Water Rock Technology Robotics
16 Aqiu Technology Robotics
17 Turning Robot Robotics
18 Estun Automation Robotics
19 Shanghai STEP Electric Robotics
20 Hon Hai Automation and Robotics
21 Megvii Facial Recognition
22 Wangeng Technology Robotics and Automation
23 Mor.AI Voice Recognition
Artificial Intelligence as the main catalyst for advancing Chinese factories: how AI has improved the productivity of smart factory technology in China
With an increase in demand from China's consumers in the late 1990s and early 2000, most of the production companies begin to increase their production vehemently, minimizing their labor cost and maximizing the production capability. However, it's inarguably fact that Artificial Intelligence in Chinese factories is the smartest, surest, and the precise way of achieving optimal productivity. MEGVII is a world-class AI company with core competencies in deep learning founded in Beijing and is a pioneer in applying AI technology and computer vision algorithms to the Internet of Things (IoT) use cases. The Company's mission is to use innovative AI technology to deliver the value of AI in China's manufacturing industry and foreign industries as a whole.
MEGVII's first commercialized AI product was a facial recognition solution. The Company has developed its proprietary deep learning framework Brain++, which functions as a unified underlying architecture and provides critical support tailored for the Company's algorithm training and model improvement processes.
[Source: MEGVII "Algorithms Engine"]
[Source: MEGVII "Partners"]
Leveraging its strong software-hardware integration capabilities, MEGVII offers full-stack solutions to its customers and has achieved leading positions in several key vertical markets, including personal IoT, city IoT, and supply chain IoT. MEGVII is building an AI infrastructure to connect and empower various IoT devices, to solve real-life problems, pain points, and hitches that may hinder the success of AI in China's factories. MEGVII is dedicated to helping customers achieve specific goals such as user authentication and fraud reduction, traffic optimization, and labor efficiency gains.
AI technology in China's factories
AI in China's manufacturing industries through the use of deep learning algorithm has yielded to an inconsistency industrial profitability and reducing production cost. Changying Precision Technology Co., Ltd. Changying Precision" is a research and development, production and sales of intelligent terminal, mobile phone components, new energy automotive components, industrial robots, and automation system integration. AI Presently, Changying Precision has approximately 35,000 employees and has a global presence. The compound revenue growth rate of 2010-2017 is over 50%, and the compound profit growth rate of net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies exceeds 40%. In 2017, the company's operating income exceeded 8.4 billion yuan, and its net profit was 571 million yuan.
AI in China's manufacturing industry: Foxconn
As a leading technological solution provider and the largest producer of mobile phone component of the giant Apple, Foxconn Group has fully leveraged its expertise in software and hardware to integrate its unique manufacturing prowess with emerging technologies. Its expertise in the area of cloud Computing, Mobile Devices, IoT, Big Data, AI, Smart Networks and Robotics/Automation, the Group has expanded capabilities in four key technologies – Data Tech, Analytics Tech, Platform Tech, Operations Tech. Foxconn achieved NT$ 5.2 trillion in revenue and received an array of international accolades and recognitions: Foxconn Technology Group was ranked 24th among Fortune Global 100, 105th among Forbes Global 2000, 8th among Forbes Top Multinational Performers, and 215th among Forbes World's Best Employers. Foxconn has invested in more than 40 production bases in mainland China, by the end of 2017, it had applied for 54,600 patents and approved 29,900 patents in mainland China and Foxconn. There were 146,200 patent applications and 83,600 patent applications in various parts of the world. In mainland China, the average annual export volume was 3.9%, and the accumulated foreign exchange earned US$237.4 billion.
[Source: Foxconn "Intelligent Robot Arm"]
Facial Recognition algorithms have become a competitive advantage for China's factories
Due to the rapid development of information technology, computer science, and advanced manufacturing technology in China, manufacturing production has been changing from automated production to digitalized and intelligent production. SenseTime is one of the biggest unicorns in China which specializes in deep learning and computer vision technologies. In the field of automotive, they have provides a German automotive car manufacturing factory (Daimler) with a public face cloud service for face recognition, using authentication technology to help business development in the area such as Mercedes-Benz Finance and shared cars e.t.c. Also, they have signed a long-term cooperation agreement for five years, jointly deepening the autonomous driving technology, accelerating the research and development of smart cars, and jointly developing an L4-level automatic driving solution suitable for passenger car scenes. SenseTime has enhanced the use of AI in China's factories, having over 700 partners and customers, the company valued over US$4.5 billion after raising US$620 million in Series C+ funding, maintaining its position as the world's largest and most valuable AI unicorn.
[Source: SenseTime "Smart Car/ face Recognition and Intelligent Driving"]
[Source: SenseTime "Partners"]
Artificial Intelligence In Chinese Factories using Natural Language
Manufacturing technology in China has witnessed a drastic improvement from the 1990s to date. Xiaoyi is a leading artificial intelligence technology company, focusing on independent research and development and industrial application of cognitive intelligence. Based on multi-language natural language processing, deep semantic interaction, speech recognition, and machine learning and other artificial intelligence core technologies, it has formed diversified solutions and perfect professional service systems of AI in China's factories.
As a pioneer in the application of artificial intelligence industry, Xiaoyi covers the business of "smart +" customer service, "smart +" city and "smart +" hardware to finance, medical, education, automobile, electric power, manufacturing, and exhibition. Geographically, Xiaoyi established an Asia-Pacific center in Hong Kong to support multilingual interactions such as China, Britain, and Guangdong, and its business has expanded overseas. With more than ten years of project practice and hundreds of billions of human-computer interactions, Xiaoyi has precipitated a large-scale domain semantic library and industry knowledge base in various industries and fields.
[Source: Xiaoyi "Partners"]
Artificial Intelligence In Chinese Factories using Voice Recognition
The use of Artificial Intelligence in Chinese factories has broad application, Mor.AI focus on cognitive computing, natural language understanding, with autonomous voice interactive full-stack technology (noise reduction + speech + semantic + multi-round dialogue + knowledge map). Based on the dialogue platform, through the construction of the APP-based dialogue application, the voice interaction mode is used as the axis, and the multi-modal interaction mode is integrated to distribute the service, so that the device has the anthropomorphic interaction ability, construct the interactive AIOT network, and perform the scene.
In the automotive industry, it can provide the vehicle voice assistant, which supports multi-modal interaction, multi-screen interaction, multi-device collaboration, car home interconnection, IMOV car networking overall solution.
The company became the won in the field of C interconnection in [2018 BMW open innovation], acquiring A+ round of financing 10 million US dollars, also received 36 [2018 New Economic king of "Artificial Intelligence Voice Award"]. Its application in car automobile industry includes:
Car conversation application
[Source: Mor.AI "Car Conversation Application"]
Car Voice Processing (MorVoice)
[Source: Mor.AI "Car Voice Processing"]
Car networking platform
[Source: Mor.AI "Car Networking Platform"]
[Source: Mor.AI "Special Function"]
[Source: Mor.AI "Partners"]
The key success of AI in China's factories for product and production efficiency
Robot companies contribute to the development of Artificial Intelligence in Chinese factories. The Chinese robot market is forecast to grow at an average annual rate of 23.4 percent in the four years to 2019, much faster than global shipment growth of 13 percent, according to the International Federation of Robotics. China's robot makers aim to supply 50 percent of the domestic market by 2020, rising to 70 percent by 2025. Chinese industrial robot producers had performed remarkably well in 2018. In the same year, ESTUN earned the revenue of RMB735 million from industrial robots and intelligent manufacturing technology in China, an upsurge of 50.28% over last year, and with an anticipated growth rate of 20% in 2019. Brotherobot outperformed its goal by selling 15,788 manipulators and 5,137 robots (compared with only 351 units in 2017) and ranked first in China by the sales volume of robots made in China.
[Source: Estun "Intelligence Assembly and Inspection wheel"]
Shanghai STEP Electric Corp.
Is a small company that provides industrial robots along with control systems and software for industries like welding, packaging, construction, and machining. It has a market cap of just $870 million.
[Source: Shanghai Step Electric "Industrial Robot"]
SIASUN Robot & Automation Co. Ltd
SIASUN manufactures sells industrial robots such as automatic assembly and testing production lines for automobile, motorcycle, engineering machinery, and electronics assembly industries. Besides heavy industry applications, Siasun developed collaborative robots that can work with humans, an underground rescue robot as well as humanoid helpers for interpretation, meal delivery, information sharing, and nursing homes. The company has a partnership with GM Motors, Ford, AGCO Changzhou, Great wall motor, SANDISK, and Geely auto; it currently has a market cap of $4.23 billion.
[Source: Siasun "Spot and welding System"]
Use of AI in China's factories for production and distribution
Considering an increase in production, AI in China's manufacturing industry has recorded an unprecedented success in Logistics and Warehousing. Geek+ leads the technology revolution by applying advanced robotics and AI technologies to realize high-flexibility and intelligent logistics automation solution. Geek+ provides leading, reliable, one-stop enterprise-level service with strong technological strength.
With much solid research and practice experience in the fields of the robot, embedded development, software engineering, artificial intelligence, many of them have joined domestic/and international robotic contests and won the championship. All products are developed independently and possess the core patents, with a world-class level performance. FAW Group, a state-owned automobile enterprise with a yearly output of 3 million vehicles, has built up a research center for intelligent logistics technologies. As a world-class AI & Robotics solution provider, Geek+ has joined the FAW Logistics Lab. Its automated forklift has been applied in the automatic logistics system of FAW Changchun HQ factory. Geek+ also has a partnership with: DKSH Pharmaceutical, ACCA E-Commerce company in Japan, SF Express, Lianhua, Suning, Fiser logistics technology, VIP.com, and Tmall. Geek+ has delivered more than 5,000 robots across some 100 robotics warehouse projects in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Europe, and the United States.
[Source: Geek+ "Automated Forklift"]
[Source: Geek+ "Sorting Robot"]
Artificial Intelligence in Chinese Factories is accelerating economic development, and China'sglobal competitional power
With its biggest tech companies driving momentum for R&D, China is one of the leading global hubs of AI development. Its vast population and diverse industry mix have the potential to generate huge volumes of data and provide an enormous market. The wide adoption of AI technologies in China's factories could be crucial to future economic growth as the nation's population ages, heightening the need to accelerate productivity growth. Some of the required building blocks include a more open data environment and well-trained data science talent. But AI also poses complex social and economic questions that will require careful consideration.
China is currently leading the world of AI in terms of funding, research, and talent. However, data seems to be the fuel of AI, and China has the highest number of internet users on earth. According to Irakli Beridze (2019), Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, United Nations, said that "China's biggest strength is that the government, private sector, and academia are working hand-in-hand to achieve this national AI goal. He further expands on this, stating that China is currently the world's second-largest economy, and one of the first countries to announce a national AI strategy, which they did in 2016.
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Ranjnikanth was born as Shivaji Rao Gaekwad on 12 December 1950, his father was a police constable, he was named after the Maratha empire king Shivaji. He is youngest of the four sibling with two elder brother and a sister, and his mother was a housewife, but he lost his mother when he was nine. He did his schooling from a government school in Banglore. After his father's retirement from work, in 1956, they moved to suburb of Hanumanta Nagar in Banglore, and built a house there.
Upon completion of his schooling, he performed several jobs like coolie, and carpenter before joining Banglore Bus Transport. He continued to take part in plays after the Kannada playwright Topi Muniappa offered him a chance to act in one of his mythological plays. He decided to take up an acting course in the newly formed Madras Film Institute after coming across an advertisement. Though his family was not fully supportive of his decision to join the institute, his friend and co-worker Raj Bahadur motivated him to join the institute and financially supported him during this phase.
Rajinikanth began his film career with the Tamil filmApoorva Ragangal (1975), directed by K Balachander. He was cast in a small role as the abusive husband of the female lead played by Srividya. The film explored relationship between people with wide age difference and was deemed controversial upon release. However, it received critical acclaim and won Three National Film Award including the Award for best Tamil Feature at the 23rd National Film Award in 1976. A review from 'The Hindu' noted that: "Newcomer Rajinikanth is dignified and impressive".His next release was Puttanna Kanagal's portmanteau Kannada film Katha Sangama (1976).
In 1978, Rajinikanth had 20 releases across Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. His first film of the year was P. Madhvan's Shankar Salim Simon (remake of Amar Akbar Anthony), in which he was among the three leads.
Raijinikanth, who credited Hindi film star Amitabh Bachchan as his inspiration,began playing Amitabh Bachchan's roles in Tamil remakes of his films. This began with Shankar Salim Simon (1978), a remake of Amar Akbar Anthony(1977), followed by Naan Vazhavaippen (1979), a remake of Majboor (1974). He was subsequently cast in a series of roles modelled after Amitabh Bachchan in Tamil remakes of his films.Rajinikanth starred in eleven Tamil remakes of Amitabh Bachchan films, as well as a Telugu remake of Amar Akbar Anthony, Ram Robert Rahim (1980), alongside Sridevi. The most successful of these were remakes of Salim-Javed films, such as Billa (1980), Thee (1981) and Mr. Bharath (1986).
During this phase of his career, Rajinikanth abruptly chose to quit acting, but was coaxed to return with the Tamil film Billa (1980), a remake of the Bollywood blockbuster Don (1978), written by Salim-Javed and starring Amitabh Bachchan. Billa had Rajinikanth playing dual roles and eventually became his first ever commercial success.
After earning ₹26 crore (equivalent to ₹59 crore in 2018) for his role in Sivaji (2007), Rajinikanth became the highest-paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan at the time. He has worked in other regional film industries of India and has also appeared in the cinemas of other nations, including that of the United States.
Rajinikanth worked again with Shankar for the science fiction film Enthiran.The film was released worldwide in 2010 as the most expensive Indian film ever made, ultimately becoming the second highest-grossing film in India of its time. Rajinikanth was paid a remuneration of ₹45 crore (equivalent to ₹75 crore in 2018) for the film.
As of 2019, Rajinikanth has won six Tamil Nadu State Film Awards—four Best Actor Awards and two Special Awards for Best Actor—and a Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award. In addition to acting, he has also worked as a producer and screenwriter. Apart from his film career, he is also a philanthropist, spiritualist, and serves as an influence in Dravidian politics.
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Souleymane Djimou Cissé (born 1 January 1999) is a Senegalese footballer who plays as a defender for I liga club Górnik Łęczna.

Career

Club career

In 2019, Cissé signed for the reserves of Spanish La Liga side Celta, where manager Jacobo Montes said he "has a major drawback, and that is that he does not speak Spanish and he has a significant communication problem. He only speaks French and it is not a language that the members of the coaching staff speak". In 2021, he was sent on loan to Arenteiro in the Spanish fourth division.

In 2021, Cissé signed for French second division club Quevilly-Rouen. On 28 August 2021, he debuted for Quevilly-Rouen during a 0-1 loss to Paris FC.

On 13 August 2022, he joined Polish I liga side Górnik Łęczna on a two-year contract.

International career

He represented Senegal at the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

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1999 births
Living people
People from Sédhiou Region
Senegalese footballers
Senegal youth international footballers
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Ligue 2 players
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Obi, good to hear from you. You argue the negative points very well. When I said import details, of course, I meant shipping to be included in that. It could well be he killer.
As I said, what we need are numbers, and facts. We are arguing without data. It may very well be that Dynavox can't be beaten, but is can't really hurt to check into it. It's called giving luck a chance, around here at least.
A buying club doesn't have to be the importer, or deal with the factory. I don't know whom Dynavox deals with; there may be more in the middle than we think. But even in just dealing with Dynavox, there is strength in numbers. Car dealers have had to adapt to car-buying groups that go price shopping; the members save a good deal. When you buy ten or twelve cars, you get their "better than best" price right up front, and later an even better one.
Numbers, and facts. How many would some wholesaler require as a minimum order? At how much apiece? Where are they delivered? How is quality guaranteed? Can we get a mixed order, with more than one model woofer? All this sort of thing.
THEN, and only, then can we consider how many we can handle, how to handle them, how to pay for them. Also whether we'd overbuy, to later provide a source for members, and at what price, and, if so, then where and how to store them. And, who does all the work.
I worked in the distribution/importation/manufacturers rep business in the electronics field for several years back in the 80s so I pretty much understand how it works and how to cost things out as that was what my job was. The basics haven't changed but the actual costs sure have. The actual figures vary a lot for each kind of product and what is considered "large" volume for the product and what the profit margin is. The figures for vitamins are completely opposite from what they are for specialized electronics like replacement woofers for obsolete speakers.
Using woofers as an example they are relatively heavy, fragile and use large packaging for their weight. They can come packaged individually or in master cartons (probably 4 in this case) and shipping 1 or 4 takes the same time and effort. Actually, shipping a pallet load of them (probably 48 to 60 units) takes the about the same time and effort as shipping just 1 of them. Typically, the cost of shipping 4 master cartons or 8 individual packs or a pallet is roughly the same amount. to get a decent price on shipping, 1 order must be shipped to 1 address; if you split the shipping to 3 addresses, theyare considered individual shippments and are priced accordingly. The seller can also consider the order as being 3 orders and you lose the advantage of the volume discount.
Another point; Dynavox/Orevox is the master importer/distrigutor for these woofers. When they order them from the manufacturer, they have to order a container load full of them to get a decent price becuase they are custom made to their specifications and are not a common, off the shelf product. The problem here is that prices have risen since their last order a few years ago due to several factors, one of which is the dramatic drop in the value of the US dollar this year. Another major cost is the shipping which has doubled or tripled from China in the past 3 years (this applies to everything coming by boat or air). That is why the price has gone from $30 to $45 for this batch. Now, to get a volume discount you usually have ot buy at least 12 of any 1 product to get a 10% discount (shich is on the high side, 5% is more typical) which comes out to $4.50 per woofer. Buying a pallet load can save you maybe another 10% at best, so the secret here is large quantities of a single product shipped to a single address.
Cars are an entirely different story. They are large, heavy and have a high value and relatively low profit margins percentagewise and the quantity discounts from group purchases are much smaller percentagewise. Shipping is also costly but by grouping them into full transporter loads saves a lot of money but still a small amount percentagewise. It makes economic sense to buy cars sthis way which is why it gets done so much.
Vitamins are another different story. They weigh very little, you can get a lot of bottles into 1 reasonably sized box and have huge profit margins on them (typically 50 to 80% from importer to end user) so you can get larger volume discounts by bypassing the distributor and dealing direct. This only works if you can reduce the shipping costs by having lots of people who live or work close by to each other.
You just can't compare these 3 examples because they are all have completely different conditions to their sale adn shipping.
My point it; run the figures. You need to take everything into account: weight, volume, packaging, shipping. Without all of the specific information handy there is no way I can tell you if there are any real savings to be had from buying groups for each different kind of product but the one thing that people almost never take into account is that if they are dealing locally or at driveable distances ot pick up their products is their time and the cost of gas. I don't know about you guys, but my time is worth money so taking 2 hors to go and pick up 8 woofers in a car and the cost of gas can easily amount to more than the potential cost savings. If you have to ship them across the country or state, then the cost just goes way up.
Run the firgures for yourself and remember to count everything. YMMV tremendously. Don't assume that you will be saving tons of money by doing this; it might just wind up costing you more than just buying your own woofers. I speak from personal experience here; been there, done that , wound up costing me a fortune because I though I was doing the right thing out of principle.
BTW, ran some hypothetical figures on 24 woofers (3 people at 8 woofers apiece, living just outside reasonable driving distance) and the cheapest scenarios came out costing $22 to $41 more per order in a buying group VS individual orders, mostly due to shipping costs. The break even point seems to be around 48 woofers.
Hey,,, I got an e-mail from Ada Lin (dynavox person),, I've asked for permission to post it here,but have not heard back,,but here it is, in my own words---35.00 per woofer(either model) as of now,plus shipping. I had pitched to her a "group buy" idea,, whereas they would give us an even better price,,and then ship to the individual buyers,, following receipt of payment in the group buy account,,if you will. I'll report back as soon as I hear from them.
Great, George. Just as we hoped.
On the Asian front, I find that Chung Tai Electronic of Taiwan (founded 1960, and a major driver supplier), is as of 1998 moved to the mainland (Jiaxing City) and renamed Astrosound Electronics. So I can't get my friend to visit them, unless they still have an office on Taiwan. He sure won't go to the mainland, not even for pay. His family escaped that crap, in 1949. I could get him to call them, and maybe find out at least how to reach someone who can speak enough English for a chat with an American.
In the light of what Obi contributed, perhaps it's time to give up that idea, unless we come up with a huge order.
At $35, put me down for ten. Another $10 off and I might go 18.
The ones I bought came six in a box, a cube (actually 13X13X16") with a driver facing each side. Shipping weight was 22 lb.
Its good to have some exact figures and information Robert. Now at least it makes it easier to run some figures from actual data and get some real figures to work with and find out if the whole idea can fly or not.
Yes, now we have to advertise. We're already saving ten bucks per woofer. Where on the Forum should we post an announcement of this type? I checked all the headings, but nothing seemed to fit exactly, except right here on the Carver Speaker thread.
ALS WOOFERS via QUANTITY BUY DEAL on the Forum.
George - Just thought - did your inquiry mention the Original type (FL, as in flat) woofers as well? Many guys may need these, I know there was interest.
And another question -- buying and storing these indefinitely -- will the foam surrounds rot away packed in their cartons until some future date? That would make me really cry to open up the cartons to replace a blown woofer and find black dust and some ruined speakers!.
I don't think so, not for many years. I suspect if they're kept in the proverbial cool, dry place, and wrapped up fairly airtight, they wouldn't rot. I'm going on my own experience. Mine (some of them; don't ask) are 20 at this point and aren't rotten. They've been kept out of sun or direct heat, and air conditioned in summer.
Anybody out there that knows otherwise, chime in, please. For these drivers, not just in general. A lot of different materials have been used in the industry, and some were disastrous. What does rot them? Heat, humidity, UV, or does all the vibration finally do 'em in?
Robert R wrote: George - Just thought - did your inquiry mention the Original type (FL, as in flat) woofers as well? Many guys may need these, I know there was interest.
Yep,, ,, which is what I'll be ordering.
zoothorn wrote: in my own words---$35.00 per woofer(either model) as of now,plus shipping. I had pitched to her a "group buy" idea,, whereas they would give us an even better price,,and then ship to the individual buyers,, following receipt of payment in the group buy account,,if you will. I'll report back as soon as I hear from them.
I am glad I started this movement! After finding rot on 2 of my woofers I came to this forum and found who had em then called Ada and got a price of $45 but at first others were getting em at $25 in just 06 then they upped to $35 and now $45 so with the idea of finding cheaper (Needing) 8 woofers I ask for help! Boy I got it,,,THANKS!!!
Good move George I never could get more then "Sure we can give some kind of saving if you get 16 or more woofers" Well I will not contact Ada and wait to see how this unfolds your doing great!
Robert R wrote: I don't think so, not for many years. I suspect if they're kept in the proverbial cool, dry place, and wrapped up fairly airtight, they wouldn't rot. I'm going on my own experience. Mine (some of them; don't ask) are 20 at this point and aren't rotten. They've been kept out of sun or direct heat, and air conditioned in summer.
-since joining, youve purchased 2 prs of blocks !!!
yep, Mr Maxxx, that's true (although I'm not running the 4 blocks yet simultaneously!)-- and I'm definitely trying to figure out the budget to put aside for 8 honeycomb woofers at a good price! I think I can store them safely indoors on a closet shelf if I just move some other crap out of my life! lol I'll definitely pm Mr. m500t per your tip. Muchas gracias!
Any updates? Has any one got some Woofers or are we still hoping to find a way to get some price deals. I have backed off to see what happens but i will be needing them soon but can hold out another month.


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