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AccountingSurvey of Accounting (Accounting I)a. Discuss the purpose of the cash budget. b. If the cash for the first quarter of the fiscal year indicates excess cash at the end of each of the first two months, how might the excess cash be used?
a. Discuss the purpose of the cash budget. b. If the cash for the first quarter of the fiscal year indicates excess cash at the end of each of the first two months, how might the excess cash be used?
Carl Warren
1 The Role Of Accounting In Business2 Basic Accounting Systems: Cash Basis3 Basic Accounting Systems: Accrual Basis4 Accounting For Retail Operations5 Internal Control And Cash6 Receivables And Inventories7 Fixed Assets, Natural Resources, And Intangible Assets8 Liabilities And Stockholders' Equity9 Metric-analysis Of Financial Statements10 Accounting Systems For Manufacturing Operations11 Cost-volume-profit Analysis12 Differential Analysis And Product Pricing13 Budgeting And Standard Costs14 Decentralized Operations15 Capital Investment Analysis
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a. Discuss the purpose of the cash budget.
b. If the cash for the first quarter of the fiscal year indicates excess cash at the end of each of the first two months, how might the excess cash be used?
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Probably not a good solution, but it works.
I was also using an Excerpt plugin. What I eventually did was to turn off the markups.
This way the image isn't showing anymore.. (only the featured one does, which I don't mind). This might not be the perfect solution but it's still one..
Not sure which markups I can keep and which ones I shouldn't but a bit of experimenting should do it..


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Q: Is layout-compatibility in the c++11 (working draft) standard too weak? Of course, the answer is "no", because the people who wrote it thought really hard about it, however I want to know why.
Considering that (template-less) classes are often declared in header files, which are then included in several files which are compiled separately, sub-consider these two files:
file1.c
#include <cstddef>

struct Foo {
public:
   int pub;
private:
   int priv;
};

size_t getsize1(Foo const &foo) {
  return sizeof(foo);
}

file2.c
#include <cstddef>

struct Foo {
public:
   int pub;
private:
   int priv;
};

size_t getsize2(Foo const &foo) {
  return sizeof(foo);
}

In general Foo will be declared in a header file and included in both, but the effect is as shown above. (That is, including a header is no magic, it just puts the headers content on that line.) We can compile both and link them to the following:
main.cc
#include <iostream>
struct Foo {
public:
   int pub;
private:
   int priv;
};

size_t getsize1(Foo const &);
size_t getsize2(Foo const &);

int main() {
    Foo foo;
    std::cout << getsize1(foo) << ", " << getsize2(foo) << ", " << sizeof(foo) << '\n';
}

One way to do so, is by using g++:
g++ -std=c++11 -c -Wall file1.cc
g++ -std=c++11 -c -Wall file2.cc
g++ -std=c++11 -c -Wall main.cc
g++ -std=c++11 -Wall *.o -o main

And (on my architecture and environment), this shows: 8, 8, 8. The sizeof's are the same for each compilation of file1.cc, file2.cc and main.cc
But does the c++11 standard guarantee this, is it really OK to expect to have layout compatibility with all 3 Foo's? Foo contains both private and public fields, hence it is not a standard-layout struct as is defined in Clause 9 par 7 of the c++11 standard (working draft):

A standard-layout class is a class that:

*

*has no non-static data members of type non-standard-layout class (or array of such types) or reference,

*has no virtual functions (10.3) and no virtual base classes (10.1),

*has the same access control (Clause 11) for all non-static data members,

*has no non-standard-layout base classes,

*either has no non-static data members in the most derived class and at most one base class with non-static data members, or has no base classes with non-static data members, and

*has no base classes of the same type as the first non-static data member.

Since we are using structs, and to be thorough, the next par says:

A standard-layout struct is a standard-layout class defined with the class-key struct or the class-key class. A standard-layout union is a standard-layout class defined with the class-key union.

To the best of my knowledge, the standard only defines layout-compatibility between structs in standard layout (Clause 9.2, par 18).

Two standard-layout struct (Clause 9) types are layout-compatible if they have the same number of non-static data members and corresponding non-static data members (in declaration order) have layout compatible types (3.9).

So is it guaranteed all three Foo's are layout-compatible, and more importantly why?
Why would a (non-deterministic) compiler, which creates different layouts for Foo during compilation, not be a c++11 compiler?

A: The three Foos are layout-compatible because they are the same type, struct ::Foo.

[basic.types]
11 - If two types T1 and T2 are the same type, then T1 and T2 are layout-compatible types.

The classes are the same type because they have the same (fully-qualified) name and have external linkage:

[basic]
9 - A name used in more than one translation unit can potentially refer to the same entity in these translation units depending on the linkage (3.5) of the name specified in each translation unit.

Class names declared at namespace scope that are not declared (recursively) within an unnamed namespace have external linkage:

[basic.link]
2 - A name is said to have linkage when it might denote the same [...] type [...] as a name introduced by a declaration in another scope:
  — When a name has external linkage , the entity it denotes can be referred to by names from scopes of other translation units or from other scopes of the same translation unit. [...]
  4 - An unnamed namespace or a namespace declared directly or indirectly within an unnamed namespace has internal linkage. All other namespaces have external linkage. A name having namespace scope that has not been given internal linkage above has the same linkage as the enclosing namespace if it is the name of [...]
  — a named class (Clause 9), or an unnamed class defined in a typedef declaration in which the class has the typedef name for linkage purposes (7.1.3) [...]

Note that it is allowed to have multiple definitions of a class type appearing in different translation units, as long as the definitions consist of the same token sequence:

[basic.def.odr]
6 - There can be more than one definition of a class type (Clause 9) [...]  in a program provided that each definition appears in a different translation unit, and provided [...] each definition [...] shall consist of the same sequence of tokens [...]

So if the Foos had different names, they would not be the same type; if they appeared within an anonymous namespace or within a function definition (except an inline function; see [dcl.fct.spec]/4) they would not have external linkage and so would not be the same type.  In either case they would be layout-compatible only if they were standard-layout.

Some examples:
// tu1.cpp
struct Foo { private: int i; public: int j; };

// tu2.cpp
struct Foo { private: int i; public: int j; };

The two Foos are the same type.
// tu1.cpp
struct Foo { private: int i; public: int j; };

// tu2.cpp
struct Foo { private: int i; public: int k; };

ODR violation; undefined behavior.
// tu1.cpp
struct Foo { private: int i; public: int j; };

// tu2.cpp
struct Bar { private: int i; public: int j; };

Different names, so different types. Not layout-compatible.
// tu1.cpp
struct Foo { int i; int j; };

// tu2.cpp
struct Bar { int i; int j; };

Different names, different types, but layout-compatible (since standard-layout).
// tu1.cpp
namespace { struct Foo { private: int i; public: int j; }; }

// tu2.cpp
namespace { struct Foo { private: int i; public: int j; }; }

Internal linkage; different types.
// tu1.cpp
static void f() { struct Foo { private: int i; public: int j; }; }

// tu2.cpp
static void f() { struct Foo { private: int i; public: int j; }; }

No linkage; different types.
// tu1.cpp
inline void f() { struct Foo { private: int i; public: int j; }; }

// tu2.cpp
inline void f() { struct Foo { private: int i; public: int j; }; }

Same type by [dcl.fct.spec]/4.

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Converts the given attribute to an integer value.
Converts the given attribute to one or more strings.
Converts the given attribute to an string value.
Returns declaration annotations of the given symbol, as well as 'top-level' type annotations, including : Type annotations of the return type of a method.
Returns the value of the annotation element-value pair with the given name if it is not explicitly set.
Type annotations of the return type of a method.
Type annotations on the type of a formal parameter or field.
One might expect this to be equivalent to information returned by Type.getAnnotationMirrors(), but javac doesn't associate type annotation information with types for symbols completed from class files, so that approach doesn't work across compilation boundaries.


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Of recent note, Portland, Ore.-based Elemental announced that it's processing and encoding software is being used for Comcast's in-home live TV streaming app and cloud DVR for the MSO's X1 platform. In July, Elemental announced it was powering two services from U.K.-based Sky – its over-the-top TV service, NOW TV, and its mobile TV service, Sky Go.
"Elemental shares Amazon's passion for invention and putting the customer first," said Andy Jassy, SVP of Amazon Web Services, in a statement. "Together, we'll collaborate on deeper technology integrations and new infrastructure offerings so that media and entertainment companies can evolve their hybrid and cloud models as they continue to innovate their services for viewers."
"The media and entertainment industry is at a unique inflection point, and as a part of Amazon, we will be in an even stronger position to help our customers delight their viewers globally," added Sam Blackman, co-founder and CEO of Elemental. "We're thrilled to have Amazon supporting our growth and ongoing commitment to our customers' success."
Speaking on a call about the deal, Blackman reassured that Elemental's focus on the customer will "continue unabated" following the acquisition, and that those customers can expect to see accelerated innovation from the company and increased support.
Elemental and AWS said they'll be showing off some of their joint handiwork at IBC 2015, which gets underway next week in Amsterdam.
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Which leaves 75% and a big question mark. I'll come back to that.
Finally, Laurie on Merritt Island was nice to enough to email me to let me know that she also participated, but had to evacuate because of Hurricane Matthew (yikes!) so details are forthcoming. Just glad you are safe, Sister!
So, was this little social experiment a success? My best answer is yes and no. My original hypothesis was that people are naturally creative, resourceful and kind and the four Lauries who responded certainly embodied those traits. But my worry—that people will be creeped out that I found out their name, address and age—may have overridden any Lauries desire to participate. One Laurie sent her money back with a note saying she'd love to participate but it wasn't a good time. The other two just came back, practically untouched. In today's climate of Russian hackers, conspiracy theories, and anthrax, I can't say I blame them.
How would you have changed this experiment to get more responses?
How would you like to see me make a difference with the $35 extra dollars that boomeranged back to me?


Forex Morning Trade system is actually both a manual and automated trading system. It comes with the system's rules and videos, as well as the automated software. Forex Morning Trade system takes advantage of the phenomenon of the European opening. It is well-known that the start of Europe's trading day is often when the largest moves of the day happen; this is what Forex Morning Trade is capturing.
Forex Morning Trade is optimized for the GBP/USD cross, and trades only that pair. It can work with other pairs, but has been "tweaked" to use this specific market for its signals. You can either trade this system manually, or use the included expert advisor with a Metatrader 4 platform. The EA allows traders who don't live in the appropriate time zone to let the computer do the work for them. Those who buy Forex Morning Trade also receive access to Mark's live trading journal.
Forex Morning Trade is a good system for those who do not live in the UK or Europe as it can be automated to trade during those hours. (In fact, that is the designer's intentions.) It is a good alternative to waking up in the wee hours to take advantage of the best trading hours daily.
Forex Morning Trade has been shown to be a consistent winner in our testing, as it takes advantage of the all-important early hours of the trading day in London. It is a nice blend of a good trading system, plus the automated robot that makes Forex Morning Trade a great purchase in our opinion.
Forex Morning Trade truly is optimized for the British Pound, as it is set to British trading hours. Forex Morning Trade can possibly work with other pairs, but one suspects that you would have to adjust the time. For example, the Yen might be better served being traded at 8 a.m. Tokyo time. This wasn't tested by us, as we found Forex Morning Trades results as more than proficient to keep the gains rolling in.
Forex Morning Trade also gives free lifetime updates, which is a huge bonus as the markets can and will change over time. With the EA, guide, and updates, Forex Morning Trade is a solid winner. Add to that the fact that Forex Morning Trade comes with a 60 day money back guarantee, and we give this robot a buy rating.


Today, talk about 5G is unavoidable. The tech and telecom industries are focusing heavily on it, with thought leaders and industry publications trying to quantify what the rollout of 5G applications will mean for the marketplace.
So, what does this mean for optical component manufacturers? Increasing data rates and longer reaches of fiber both need active cooling to maintain peak performance.
The rollout of 5G applications will require enormous amounts of fiber, and the lasers, detectors and other optical components that transmit signals along all of that fiber will need to be cooled. Temperature fluctuations dramatically impact laser performance, for example, with wavelength shifting into nearby channels (also called "red shift"). Even small changes in temperature can result in channel overlap, leading to signal loss.
As a result, cooled optics are already in regular use, including in applications for 10G, 25G, and 100G. Cooled fiber optic TOSAs (Transmitter Optical Sub Assembly) are already used in many laser package types, including butterfly packages, pump lasers, and box TOSAs. TO can laser packages weren't being cooled as often just a few years ago, but today it's very common to use a TEC with TO cans for 10G applications. One thing is becoming clear: the optical component industry needs more innovation in active cooling to support anticipated 5G growth.
Many transceiver applications targeting 5G networks will require cooled lasers. Generally speaking, telecommunications applications require wider operating temperature ranges of -40°C to 85°C, often referred to as Industrial temperature or "I-Temp" range. This wider temperature range means lasers that traditionally got away with operating un-cooled in the narrower 0-70°C range (C-Temp, or Commercial Temperature) will now require cooling to meet I-Temp requirements. For example, the use of 10G, 25G and 50G WDM transceivers throughout the 5G network, especially between a baseband unit (BBU) located in the central office and the cabinet at the cell site, often require cooled lasers to accomplish the required transmission rate and reach.
Operating Temperature Range: This is the first requirement you'll want to consider. Ambient temperatures have been increasing into the I-Temp range in recent years. One good example of this is 100G I-Temp CWDM4. For the standard C-Temp version, uncooled lasers were sufficient because the wavelength spacing of the four channels is wide enough that there is no risk of overlap across the temperature range. In the I-Temp version, there is a chance the wavelengths can overlap, therefore, cooling with a TEC is required. With 5G, it's critically important to be able to predict TOSA performance in extreme temperatures. And since TECs are one of the larger consumers of power in a cooled laser package, it's also important to consider heat pumping efficiency and TEC power consumption at different operating points.
Active Heat Load v. Total Heat Load: Active heat load is easy to account for – it typically equals the input power consumed by the laser and other components on a TEC. But remember that total heat load must also be considered. The total head load includes the active heat load, any additional active loads (from drivers or modulators), and any passive heat loads. Passive loads may include convection or conduction heat through the wires of the laser assembly and are parasitic to the TEC. They can be as large as the active heat load itself, making it a significant factor.
Thermal Resistance: You'll need to consider the TEC's operating temperature difference (ΔT). This delta will be bigger than the difference between the laser and ambient temperatures and is very important when defining operating point and efficiency. Designs should account for thermal resistivity and additional ΔT of submounts, carriers and attachment materials (for example, solder or thermal epoxy). Strong laser package design aims for low "series" thermal resistance and high "parallel" thermal resistance in order to minimize parasitic differences in temperature.
TEC Reliability: Reliability is absolutely critical in demanding telecom networks, particularly when testing to Telcordia Generic Requirements (GRs) for equipment and systems standards. Consistent, high-quality performance isn't just expected by today's consumer – anything less is completely unacceptable. While the TEC is just one part of the laser package, it's a strategic opportunity for a transceiver manufacturer to differentiate from the competition. While most TECs are built in a lab, you should look for TECs that are assembled in an automated manufacturing facility that follows the best practices of semiconductor production. This will result in TECs that are long-lasting and offer consistent performance. Non-hermetic laser packages are one innovative, low-cost alternative to consider. However, you should carefully consider the design to ensure that that TOSA doesn't become susceptible to condensation since the laser temperature will be lower than the ambient temperature in most cases. Anyone considering a non-hermetic TEC solution needs to look for options that have been tested and proven in the field.


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Spurred on by Shaun Clark's excellent short NECK AND NECK which condensed Shakespeare Othello down to around 6 minutes I decided to try and see Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo in Othello at New York Theater Workshop. The decision was made partly to see how the play compared to the short, but also because I wanted to see what the two stars did with their roles.
What the star did with their roles was tear down the house. As good as they are in film roles both are better stage actors, especially where they have material that allows them to really emote and take charge. We need to give them more roles where they can physically attack one another and roll around on the floor. That is not a joke, the last act battle between the two men is truly gripping and makes me hope that in the future the two men can play enemies on the big screen
The setting for the play is a military barracks. Its all ply wood and hardware from Home Depot. The set is dressed with stuff from the army navy store. There is a real sense that you are there in the thick of things.The audience is on three sides of the stage in stadium seating. Mattresses and other barracks material are on the floor. All the lighting is natural, Lamps on stage, on the barracks seiling, or flash lights & head lamps. Some scenes take place in near blackness (an effect that will be lost should the play transfer to any sort of larger theater-and forget this working in a traditional one). We are close and in their space, allowing Oyelowo and Craig to really talk to the audience. When they address the audience, they are talking to each one of us, they are making us all co-conspirators.
While this is probably as a good a production as we are likely to ever see there are some bits that don't quite work as well as others. Some of the early dialog gets lost in large space. Matthew Maher as Rodrigo, comes off as too much a fool with the result that we feel nothing when he meets a bad end. The biggest problem is a bump in Oyelowo's Othello who goes from all around good guy to a man crazed with jealousy in an instant. There is no slow change, he simply chooses to believe that Desdemona is cheating and plots her demise. While the performance is excellent the lack of shading diminishes the character because we don't know how such a loving person can hate so quickly.
Ultimately none of that matters because Craig and Oyelowo are so forceful, so inviting, so (fill in you favorite rave term) that nothing matters anywhere along the way. We are seeing all of natures fury on stage and nothing can stand in the way. If this was a film they would win Oscars.If it were Broadway they would either end up sharing the Tony or end up fighting to death for it.
Peter Gutiérrez who went with me to the show said this was probably the best version of the play he's ever seen. The audience, who you could feel waiting to explode with joy and cheers, was on its feet with thunderous applause as soon as it was done. Several people joked they would have loved an encore but how could they encore (perhaps doing Hamlet or Lear?) when they pretty much dismantled themselves emotionally and left it all on the stage.
It's a great show and if you can grab some tickets I suggest you do so. Its's so good that when I was trying to go to bed after the performance I ended up on the phone with Alec Kubas-Meyer at 130 am trying to help him pick out seats.
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Lamar Odom's unhappiness has been well-documented this season. Since the Lakers traded him to the Mavericks, Odom has not been the same. Rumors of his marital issues with Khloe Kardashian have added to the speculation that Odom is not a happy camper, and a couple of recent reports from gossip magazines and websites are adding to that speculation.
According to In Touch Weekly (via Reality Tea), Odom is blaming Khloe and their reality TV series for his basketball struggles this season. Sources told the magazine things are "really bad" for the couple and that filming "Khloe and Lamar" during the trade made things worse.
"He resents the show for taking his focus off the game," a source close to Lamar reveals. The source adds that Lamar feels reality television and his association with the Kardashians has ruined his reputation! And Lamar is blaming the show for his trade to Dallas and the all the scrutiny over his personal life for his basketball woes.
As a result of his frustrations, Lamar is isolating Khloe and has even stopped being intimate with her! "He really shut down and told her to leave him alone for awhile," the friend shares. Lamar is so upset he's even stopped undergoing fertility treatments with his wife.
A separate report on HollywoodLife.com echoed the stories from In Touch Weekly, saying that Lamar wants to quit TV but that it "could come at the expense of his marriage to Khloe." Last year it came out that Odom reportedly wanted to quit reality TV after three days of filming, so while we're taking these reports with a grain of salt we wouldn't be surprised if they're true. Whether he quits the reality show or not, Lamar's life will always be reality TV now he's tied to the Kardashians.


The outside of the pages are RED! (… well they are on my copy).
But, you're probably here because you're wondering about the content of the book and not the cosmetics of it, right?
Well, let me tell you that this book starts with a bang! First chapter in and the excitement begins. Fast paced and immediately gets into the thick of the plot. I sensed good things from the start.
We follow five characters in the beginning. Bronwyn, Cooper, Nate, Addy and Simon.
Yes, I concede that there are things which happen in this story that you see coming a mile off, especially at the beginning. But that does not hold true for the rest of the book! There are things that pop up which were completely unexpected in a brilliant way.
There were characters which surprised me, mainly Addy. In the beginning I thought for sure she'd be a character I'd loathe. Her first main line was "What do we write with? There are no computers". This had me on the verge of tearing my hair out! But when you meet her mother you quickly deduce why Addy comes off the way she does, what with life advice such as "If you say no too many times then someone else will say yes" – and the mother of the year award goes too…. not you.
One line I loved was when a character named Vanessa couldn't keep her paws to herself, we hear the gem that is: "If Vanessa were a guy, somebody would've reported her for all the inappropriate touching she does" – TRUTH!
I love the relationships formed in this book. Both romantic relationships and friendships, plus the family units are not only present but well represented, no two family are the same which is brilliant because we get to see different aspects of these characters lives and why they may have grown up the way they have, plus having these different parental units is very representative of real life in a way.
I also immensely enjoyed one characters speech on how she's OK being single. Usually in a lot of books it's all about relationships and how they're sad being alone or they need a guy/girl in order to make them happy. Sometimes you get a little sick of that because, as we all know, that's not necessarily true. As human beings we are capable of being happy without with or without a partner. This development from a character, initially terrified at the prospect of no partner, was great to see.
At some point I started to get suspicious as to who it was that could have committed the crime. This was a slow build up with fast paced action that when it was all revealed I was excited to be proven correct and it still had a last twist thrown in to blow your mind at the conclusion.
It's safe to say that while my emotions ran high during this story, I was totally engrossed and think I finished it within one day. It kept me on edge and intrigued the entire time and all in all, I adored this book!


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When The Review stopped by the teepee this past Friday it did not appear that there were many fasters. (Stanford Review Staff)
The dwindling university endowment has caused budget reductions across Stanford programs, but no one has resisted them more fiercely than Concerned Students for Community Centers (CSCC). Their latest effort has been the organization fast, with its slogan, "4 Days, 1 Fast: Community, Transparency, Solidarity." The participants sat around their teepee located in White Plaza, from May 19 to May 22, for a few hours each day.
The CSCC insists that they are being "disproportionately" affected by budget cuts. Their flier claims, "community center staff are 25% of the staff impacted by budget cuts, despite being only 6% of [Vice Provost for Student Affairs] staff overall." Most of these staff cuts are reductions in salaries and benefits.
In their first letter to Vice Provost Greg Boardman, the group demanded that he "restore the community centers' staff to full-time positions." A.V. David '12, a chief organizer of the fasts, said that while only one community center staff member has been laid off, every full-time staff member will only be employed part-time during the summer. However, when asked why she believes the community centers' staff should be exempt from staff cuts when over 100 University staff have already been laid off, David responded she would be willing to accept staff cuts if these were done in a transparent and proportional fashion.
According to David, 62 students committed to fast. The initial plan was to have 52 students, divided into four daily groups of 13. Each person symbolizes one of the 13 community center staff that has seen reduced time. Cuts in staff wages have been the only budget reductions for community centers so far, though more are scheduled to take place beginning fall quarter.
Although all academic departments must reduce their budgets by 15%, the CSCC claims that, when taking into consideration the decreases in donations and staff salaries, their budgets will actually fall by over 30%. When I asked Pilipino American Student Union (PASU) member and Undergraduate Senator Michael Cruz '12, who also appeared on the campaign's YouTube promo, about the veracity of the statistics presented by the group, he said that it was significant that "Vice Provost Boardman has not refuted the statements."
The participants of the fast commit to not eat – according to Native American Center member Todd Phelps '12 – from the "moment they wake up to six or seven at night." Phelps, who fasted several days, added that asking participants to fast only one day was designed to increase student participation. If one oversleeps breakfast on regular occasion, the fast only asks that students skip one meal, lunch. Phelps also argued that the increase in graduation rates among Native-Americans would have remained at 50% had it not been for the opening of the Native-American House.
Rudy Orozco-Baes, '11, a student staff member at El Centro Chicano, argues that community centers should be exempt from staff reduction because they were "underfunded to begin with." Orozco-Baes made $6,000 at $11 per hour, programming events his freshmen year, but says that this year there would be reduced paid hours for student staff. He predicts that reduced hours will cause yearly wages to fall to the $3,000 range. He concluded by assuring that appropriate oversight exists to make sure employed students actually work, especially for those employed from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Orozco-Baes also commented on the controversial free printing service several community centers formerly offered. He stated that, "obviously, those had to go because of the budget cuts." Phelps also weighed in, though, he claimed his community center stopped offering free printing because non-members were also using their printer. Neither center had a problem subsidizing printing to minority students solely because of their minority status.
The CSCC's flier advocates that without community center support, "many of us would not still be here at Stanford." In the group's YouTube video, Leon Peralto '10 states, "if it weren't for the Native Center, I probably would not have achieved all the things that I have done in my time here at Stanford, probably may not even still be here." Leslie Mercado '09, chair of PASU, contends "that for many minorities on campus, the claim that these centers have kept people from dropping out is very true." She concluded by saying, "I think that the strong response from student of color to the proposed budget cuts are a testament to how important these places are for our community."
While past events such as the rally protesting community center budget cuts organized last month by the Students of Color Coalition (SOCC), a coalition of minority students which endorses candidates for the Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) elections, had more than 100 participants, and 241 students sent the CSCC's first protest letter to Vice Provost Boardman, the fast had significantly less adherence. After visiting the place numerous times, anywhere from 0 to 5 students were taking part in the event. Furthermore, when CSCC members distributed fliers in White Plaza on Wednesday at noon, few students stopped by the tent to learn more about the group.
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I bought the Yoga 720 13IKB Type 81C3 - Model 81C3005LPG - last week to use it for photo edit and I noticied that the screen have strong yellowish tint.
I tried to find a calibrated ICM (or ICC) color profile on the vga_drivers folder but could not find it.
Also tried to use the windows 10 color calibration tool with no satisaftory results.
I'm really disapointed and before start to tell the world on photo forums that this laptop is not suited to photo edit because of this super strong yellowish tint screen I decided to ask here if any members of the comunity or the Lenovo support team have any ICM color profile file that minimizes it.
Note that this model have the BOE06FA panel and not the LG (like some USA models I believe).
So this is the feedback that these forums have from Lenovo support? Like Zero? Good to know were to avoid future investments. Never again.
I think I'm not the only one with this issue so I'm sharing an acceptable (not perfect) color profile for Yogas 720 with BOE06FA panel.
1) Adjust the Intel Graphics Definitions to: Blue color luminosity: +20, apply and save the profile.
2) Then apply the windows color profile attached.
But if you're smarter than me just avoid Lenovo completely and go for a Dell XPS.
I had Dell laptops.. many of them. The most recent two were garbage. First one went back multiple times to fix the same issue and came back to me unrepaired. The most recent fried four motherboards in the two years I owned it.
Are you sure you didn't accentally switch on Windows' Night Mode?
Not the XPS line for sure.
Tks for the tip. I confirm that the night mode is off.
Unfortunately the 2015-2017 Dell XPS 13 and 15 are horrible devices. From batteriesballooning to the screen dieing and everything in-between. These companies choose form over function now and the end result is than and light laptops that don't even work out of the box.


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Inside Ingenuity with AeroVironment Part III: The Meaning of Martian Flight
By Abe Peck
Ingenuity gains operational status as it relocates from Wright Brothers Field. Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech
On Friday, May 7, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter left both Wright Brothers Field and the Perseverance Rover behind. Flying for 110 seconds, Ingenuity traveled 423 feet at a new height of 33 feet, capturing high resolution color images before landing at its new Red Planet home, which bears the tepid but significant name Airfield B. Ingenuity had become an operational scout in addition to its original role as a technology demonstrator.
In previous reports, key members of the AeroVironment team talked with Inside Unmanned Systems about the company's development of Ingenuity's airframe and some major subsystems, its collaborations with NASA, JPL and other aviation/aerospace companies, and the challenges involved with learning to fly in Mars' rarified atmosphere.
This final installment concludes with observations made at the time of the first flights and subsequent comments on the shift to operational status.
Comments have been edited and reordered for clarity. Alan Cameron, editor of Inside GNSS, contributed to this interview.
AeroVironment's Ingenuity engineering lead Ben Pipenberg. Credit: AeroVironment
Ben Pipenberg [AeroVironment engineering lead on the program; senior aeromechanical engineer; joined AV in 2014; worked on sub-scale and larger demonstrators and the final build]
The scientific value of Ingenuity is that it's going to lead to more capable science vehicles on Mars. The million-dollar question: "How do we apply that?" and there's a lot of discussion. One of the JPL engineers put it really succinctly in their media briefing: we shouldn't be the ones coming up with that; it should be coming from the science community. They're going to have the good ideas.
In general, there are a couple of options. There are much larger helicopters that are being designed kind of as a rover replacement—it's a big standalone science vehicle that can fly around, has instruments on board. There's paired concepts with a lander like [2018's] InSight. You have a smaller helicopter, or a quadrotor, or hexacopter, sort of like Ingenuity-size, that can go fly off and gather samples and bring them back. And then you've got scouts for mapping missions, where you have a small helicopter that is paired to a rover or a manned mission to Mars; it can gather better imagery, or just operational awareness of your surroundings. So there's a lot of different ways of this to go.
At AeroVironment, we are looking at future technologies that can help: new materials, new fabrication methods, new designs, various types of mechanisms that could be enabling for some of these missions. NASA has published a number of papers as well on kind of the Cadillac science mission; they're really big standalone helicopters. So there's a lot of interest, obviously, especially right now, with a lot of excitement. And I think the big hope here is that that generates really good ideas.
Is Ingenuity Autonomous?
Ben Pipenberg: So there's no decisions being made on board. In terms of trying to identify landing sites. When Perseverance landed, they used terrain-relative navigation, and they were making decisions based on outside observable data that they were collecting without human input. That would be an autonomous system. Ingenuity is not doing that. It's essentially using VIO—visual inertial odometry—just to navigate over the ground in a pre-determined flight path, uploading from Earth.
Jeremy Tyler [senior aeromechanical engineer, with AeroVironment for 14 years, significant mechanical design work for most of the metal and plastic components: servos, linkages, swashplates, landing gear, hinges, springs, latches]
I would say that it depends where you draw the line and how you define it, because it certainly is making autonomous decisions to get more cyclic to overcome a wind gust. It's managing its altitude, its managing its position, all by itself without any external intervention.
You could conceivably have the Rover camera watching it and sending it commands like a model airplane pilot would be here from Earth. But that's not the case. It's doing its own simple autonomy. But certainly no sophisticated mission planning or decision-making.
Matt Keennon [AeroVironment technical lead for rotor system development and an AeroVironment principal electrical engineer. Joined AV in 1996 and has worked mostly on micro-nano UAVs]
And it's inherently unstable. I mean, it can't fly for a half-second without making decisions based on the IMU and driving the control system. We've tried flying this type of helicopter without a control system. It goes bad quickly. It's just the configuration of a coaxial helicopter.
Jeremy Tyler: The coaxial router system has no gyroscopic damping whatsoever. So without a digital controller, without a gyro-based autopilot, it's entirely uncontrollable. It's much like a quadrotor would be without avionics system.
Ben Pipenberg: Working with JPL, I think we've learned a lot. It's a very AV project, it's this weird, first-of-its-kind vehicle, but JPL is the best at what they do by far, in terms of space robotics, planetary robotics, and there was a huge amount that we were able to learn from them. And I think that we'll be able to pull that into a lot of our work in future. It was really good teaming.
Wright Brothers On Mars?
Sara Langberg [aeromechanical engineer; joined the program in 2016; started with testing, especially on the blades; moved into mechanical design and fabrication, especially composites. Also swashplate geometry and building loads models for the blades and how that interacts with the servos, plus landing gear system in general]
I think it's very much a parallel Wright Brothers moment, in the sense that we're doing something that no one has ever done for the history of humanity for the very first time. Way back then, they were doing something everybody thought was impossible. Look at where aviation has taken us now. So I think there's a lot of parallels into how this is gonna open similar doors, but for space exploration.
Matt Keennon: It's not just that it's the Mars atmosphere being thin and gravity being different, because even if it was Earth, it still would be Wright Brothers moment. Because this thing is the first combination aircraft and spacecraft and that is such an insane level of stress put on the designers.
Jeremy Tyler: I'm certainly hesitant to put myself in the company of Orville and Wilbur. I agree there's unquestionable parallels between the first controlled flight on earth and the first controlled flight on Mars and, and it's an amazing accomplishment to even be in a position where someone would make that comparison to the Wright Brothers.
What really boggles my mind about this helicopter, though, is the fact that it's now flying 16 light minutes away from Earth. That's something that I think is far more mind-blowing than the Martian atmosphere or the temperatures or any other aspect of it.
Ben Pipenberg: The helicopter, by itself as a standalone thing, it's kind of different from the Wright Brothers moment, because, you know, they flew an airplane for the first time. The helicopter flying on Mars by itself, that's one thing. But the fact that technology has gotten to the point where we can have a helicopter on Mars 165 million miles away and getting farther—there's a lot of infrastructure and technology that has to go into just getting humanity to the point that we can do that. I think it's a good demonstration of where we're at in terms of autonomous vehicles, in terms of spacecraft, rockets, deep space communications, all of that is absolutely critical to making this work. So I think it was more than just a demonstration of flight on Mars, you know, it's a good demonstration of all of those technologies together.
This is really a labor of love, I think, for everybody on the project. One of the reasons why this was so successful is that everybody believed in it. We all really, really wanted to make this happen. And I think for all of us, the reason that we got into this career in general is that we love airplanes. A lot of us came from the model airplane world here at AeroVironment, and this is kind of the ultimate model airplane. If I wasn't doing this for my day job, this is what I would love to be doing as a hobby after work. So it kind of perfectly flows. There's a huge amount of pride, there's a lot of excitement, obviously, that it's flying on Mars.
[After Ingenuity's successful shift to operational status, Pipenberg offered additional observations.]
Ben Pipenberg: We're all extremely excited that Ingenuity's success on Mars has allowed NASA to transition the helicopter from a technology demonstration into an operational demo phase where we can assist the primary science mission with valuable data products. This shows that a lot of the technologies that were developed for Ingenuity are at a point where they can be directly applied to a more capable next-generation helicopter on Mars. The increased range and endurance demonstrated in the most recent flights can enable more advanced missions such as dedicated sensor platforms, mapping applications and sample collection systems.
We've had our fingers crossed that we would be able to show that Ingenuity can provide a new dimension to planetary exploration on the surface of Mars, and this next phase will allow us to do just that.
The AeroVironment Ingenuity team. Credit: AeroVironment
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Gamechanging comedy by Paul Feig that has the quite remarkable knack of being half chick flick half buddy comedy but is nonetheless one of the funniest comedies produced in recent times. Kirsten Wig and Maya Rudolph lead the line well but it's undeniably the scene stealing Melissa McCarthy's show! Hilarious!
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By Mark Fischer on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:00 am
The students of Central Visual and Performing Arts High School have channeled those back-to-school blues into their work with the new exhibit Backpack Blues. Designed as a companion piece to the simultaneous Legends of St. Louis Blues exhibit, the student work takes a decidedly multi-media look at musicians like Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. Meanwhile, the Legends show reveals the histories of seminal St. Louis musicians with archival photographs, illustrations, ephemera and biographies. These are just two of the six new exhibits opening Friday, September 25, at the Sheldon (3648 Washington Boulevard; www.thesheldon.org). The free "All-Gallery Opening Reception" pulls out all the stops with complimentary wine and hors d'oeuvres served from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Backpack Blues remains on display through Saturday, February 6, and Legends of St. Louis Blues is on display through Saturday, August 28. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday.
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The tale of human habitation of the Nile Valley is a long one and includes famine, disaster, global environmental events, and human resolve told against a background of ever-changing landscape. In this volume, Judith Bunbury examines the region over a 10,000 year period, from the Neolithic to the Roman conquest. Charting the progression of the river as it meanders through the region and over the ages, she demonstrates how ancient Egyptians attempted to harness the Nile's power as a force for good. Over the generations, they learned how to farm and build on its banks, and also found innovative solutions to cope in a constantly evolving habitat. Using the latest theories and evidence, this richly illustrated volume also provides a blueprint for the future management of the Nile.
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Judith Bunbury is Senior Tutor at St Edmund's College, Teaching Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, and member of the MacDonald Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. She has worked on several major sites in Egypt, including the Temples at Karnak and the Giza Pyramids.


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How Failing Power Utility Is Fuelling South Africa's Economic Crisis
by Jimmy Swira
Image: SABC News
By Mark Swilling
South Africa's state power utility, Eskom, is the biggest challenge facing the country. Mess up Eskom, and you mess up the country. And it looks as though key players are doing just that.
The past two weeks will be remembered as the start of a cataclysmic economic crisis caused by the failure of three powerful men to spend enough time in a room to find a comprehensive solution that would turn the current crisis facing the utility into a great opportunity for South Africa's energy and economic future. And to finally break from the country's past. By refusing to align their policies and strategies, the three ministers – from energy, finance and public enterprises – are responsible for triggering a crisis that will be resolved on the streets.
What we see in Chile, where public anger has spilled out onto the streets, is what can be expected to emerge as ordinary South Africans experience the true implications of this failure to decisively resolve the crisis.
What's at stake is not just the short-term crisis and how the country keeps its lights on. At the core, the crisis is about finally transcending the powerful minerals-energy sector (coal mines plus Eskom), which is a major pillar of the South African economy – a sector that has survived the end of apartheid.
The ministers, with decisive leadership from President Cyril Ramaphosa, had a golden moment to take the first step by releasing South Africa from the stranglehold of a debt-laden Eskom in an unstoppable death spiral.
But three opportunities were missed. They were: a new energy plan led by the Minister of Minerals and Energy; a roadmap for the power utility led by the Minister of Public Enterprises; and the medium term budget led by the Finance Minister.
They failed to combine their respective policies into an integrated framework for transitioning to renewables, transforming Eskom and managing the utility's ballooning debt.
In the final instance, it is the President who needs to call his ministers to order. The open question is whether Cyril Ramaphosa can act decisively to coordinate them to clearly and unambiguously address the Eskom crisis.
This will require managing competing interests. The assumption in South Africa is that nothing can be done unless everyone is on board. But in a crisis of this magnitude, big decisions need to be made that will make vested interests equally unhappy so that the best can be done for the nation as a whole.
On October 18 Minister of Minerals and Energy Gwede Mantashe announced a new energy plan (the Integrated Resource Plan) for the country. This was an opportune moment to set the country on a new trajectory in terms of energy generation. But that's not what happened. The lowest cost option – only renewables plus gas – was rejected. In addition to unlocking renewables and gas, the plan provides for 1500 MW of coal-fired power despite the fact that nearly all the biggest financial institutions in the world have said over the past 18 months they are divesting from coal.
On Tuesday October 29 the Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, announced a new Roadmap for Eskom. Here the focus was on unbundling. The mooted plan is to create a "transmission entity". There was also reference to a "just transition" – without saying how it will be funded – to manage the consequences of decommissioning most coal-fired power stations.
Mostly importantly, there was no reference to how the utility's R450 billion debt will be managed. Nevertheless, at least the Roadmap reinforced the notion of lowest cost option, repeatedly.
Next up was the Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, who delivered his medium term budget on October 30. The expectation was that he would set out how the National Treasury planned to manage the power utility's debt. The matter is urgent given that a restructured entity is expected to handle, at most, R200 billion worth of debt. But the Eskom debt is north of R450 billion. That leaves R250 billion worth of unserviceable debt.
Without clarity on how the unserviceable debt will be managed, the Roadmap for the utility cannot be effectively implemented because of complex cross-guarantees and the burden of running a utility that cannot service its debt obligations.
Expectations among South Africans, investors, businesses threatened by power cuts and international funders were high that Mboweni would relieve Eskom of R250 billion worth of debt so that it could be freed up to restructure.
But he didn't. Mboweni said he wants to see the restructuring plan implemented before he considers debt relief.
It needn't have been this way. There were alternatives.
On the debt front, as recommended by the Eskom Sustainability Task Team appointed by the President, the R250 billion should have been ring-fenced into a special purpose vehicle with agreements on funding flows to ensure that it is "ratings neutral". It was recommended that the funds for this would come from a number of sources, including the budget, revenues from the utility itself and carbon finance conditional on accelerated decommissioning.
This would have enabled Eskom to refinance itself. Without this kind of arrangement, Eskom is redirecting funds for maintenance and operations into servicing debt. If this continues it will face system collapse.
On restructuring, the Roadmap recommends a "Transmission Entity" that will be a subsidiary of Eskom Holdings. This is a good idea, but the unions will suspect it is the first step towards privatisation and will object.
On the energy plan, the lowest cost option to meet future energy needs should have been selected. The fact that it was rejected will cost South Africa an extra R100 billion just at the point when it needs the cheapest energy with maximum security of supply. This includes a rapid build programme which coal and nuclear cannot provide.
This means that – unlike most other countries which have accepted the inevitability of the energy transition – accessing climate finance (mainly grant funds, but also concessionary loans) to finance the transition becomes impossible. Again, this comes exactly when the country needs the cheapest possible finance.
The misalignment between the three ministers responsible for shaping the country's response to the Eskom crisis has produced an outcome that is out of line with the statement that President Cyril Ramaphosa sent to the UN Climate Summit on September 23, 2019. In it he made it clear that South Africa takes climate change seriously and that a just transition fund will be established. In his words:
In shifting to a low-carbon, inclusive, climate change resilient development path and embracing the global energy transition, we must ensure that we leave no-one behind.
Granted, the Roadmap echoes this by acknowledging that a global energy transition is underway and that the lowest cost option is preferred. And the energy plan does provide for 23,854 MW of additional renewables (wind and solar) by 2030.
But the failure of the medium term budget to provide for a ring-fenced facility to manage the debt Eskom cannot handle effectively reinforces the stalemate.
Mark Swilling is Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development, Stellenbosch University
Read the original article on The Conversation
Republished under the Creative Commons licence.
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