The Self-Repairing Cities annual event took place this year on 20 June at the University of Birmingham and was a lively affair. It brought together just under 60 people from academia, industry and public sector organisations to discuss current challenges in maintaining city infrastructure systems and how state of the art robotic technologies can be used to address those challenges, improving infrastructure resilience and reducing disruption from streetworks.
The event heard from a diversity of speakers including: Kevin Paine (University of Bath), Dan Hook (ASV Global), Tony Rachwal (UK Water Partnership), Graeme Cleeton (ULC Robotics), Stuart Jauncey and Steve Crossland (Balfour Beatty), as well as a number of talks from Self-Repairing Cities project partners.
Thank you to all the speakers who have kindly allowed us to share their presentations, you can find links to these below.
Dan Hook, ASV Global – Where water meets city infrastructure – the use of marine robotics for inspection (pdf). Please note that the original presentation included video that is not available in this version.
Graeme Cleeton, ULC Robotics – The Role of Robotics in the Cities of Tomorrow (pdf). Please note that the original presentation included video that is not available in this version.
Stephen Prior, University of Southampton – Drone Revolution (pdf). Please note that the original presentation included video that is not available in this version.
Stuart Jauncey and Steve Crossland, Balfour Beatty – Digital Balfour Beatty (pdf). Please note that links to the videos presented are listed on the last slide.
Many thanks to Manu Sasidharan, University of Birmingham, for additional support with photography on the day.
Our first keynote, Kevin Paine talks about the Materials for Life project and self-healing concrete.
Mark Miodownik, UCL, picks up the theme of self-healing materials , describing the work Self-Repairing Cities on asphalt.
Dan Hook, ASV Global, talks about the challenges of looking after coastal infrastructure and the opportunities for robotics to help in the future.
Graeme Cleeton, ULC Robotics, outlines the developments they have made in sealing leaking gas pipes from within, reducing the need to dig the roads up.
Stephen Prior, University of Southampton, outlines some of the physical and regulatory constraints that need to be taken into account when developing drones for infrastructure applications.
Time for a spot of lunch and a look at the displays, here is our bridge bearing inspection robot, courtesy of Harriet Peel and the team at the University of Leeds.
Tony Rachwal, UK Water Partnership, talks about the infrastructure underworld of pipes and the need for body-scanner equivalents for our streets.
Stuart Jauncey, Balfour Beatty, picks up from colleague Steve Crossland to talk about how the digital world can be used to allow infrastructure work to be conducted safer and smarter.
Dan Hook and other attendees listening very intently, getting ready for some keen-edged questioning later.
Where is all this leading? Time to discuss what innovations are round the corner and down the road.
There is always one group creating trouble in the corner – how about using technology to drive towards cities with fewer roads and more green spaces – far future or possible soon?


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England's Anderson ruled out of second Ashes test
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Cricketer-turned-commentator Robin Jackman passes away
England cricket great John Edrich dies aged 83
England likely to tour Sri Lanka despite Covid-19 concerns
Kallis appointed as England's batting consultant
Cricket faces tough test as long bio-bubble stays add to mental stress
The ECB said here Anderson underwent an MRI scan this week and that it confirmed a calf issue.
England fast bowler James Anderson has been ruled out of the second Ashes test due to a calf injury, the country's cricket board (ECB) said on Tuesday.
Anderson, who had struggled to be fit for the series opener against Australia at Edgbaston, pulled up injured on day one of the first test, which the hosts went on to lose by 251 runs.
He has now been ruled out of the next match, which starts at Lord's on Aug. 14.
"As a result of the injury, he will commence a rehabilitation programme working with the England and Lancashire medical teams," it added.
The ECB said Anderson's chances of playing in the rest of the series would be reassessed on "an ongoing basis".
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Bangladesh cricket pioneer Raisuddin Ahmed passes away
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Michael P. Owens is Co-Founder + Managing Partner of influence group, a leading producer of content and events in real estate, technology, design and construction.
The 2019 Higher Ed Facilities Forum brought together over 100 heads of facilities from the nation's top universities with the industry's leading suppliers in Hollywood, FL for three days of knowledge exchange and quality networking.
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High Point University President Understands the Importance of Facilities
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The Iowa Official Register, also called the Redbook or Red Book, is a publication of the State of Iowa.  It contains mini-biographies and photos of Iowa's elected and appointed officials, records of elections, essays on selected topics in Iowa history, and general statistics of the state, among other topics.  It was first authorized by law by Iowa's 24th General Assembly in 1892, with an official mandate to include "historical, political, and other statistics of general value, but nothing of a partisan character," though earlier editions had been published, primarily by Iowa Secretaries of State.  The book's origins can be traced to the 7-page 1860 booklet entitled "Eighth General Assembly," and the name "Iowa Official Register" was first used in a 19-page 1873 booklet, though it appeared under other titles during the following years.  It eventually gained the nickname "Redbook" from the fact that since 1907, it has been published with a red cover.  Today, the Register has a fairly-standardized format, including a biannual publication scheme, and runs 450 to 600 pages in length.

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One of the main things that I believe make live engineers worth their day rate is the ability to create a great mix very quickly. Given no time constraints and the proper tools, I'd say almost anyone who has a good musical ear can create a great mix, but not many can do this under pressure in a live situation. Festivals are a perfect example of this.
Now the band is checking and the singer is about to step up to the mic. You know this is going to be short and sweet so focus on the vocal.
Step 3. EQ the vocal using a broad Q factor to make it as natural-sounding as possible. Typically for me this just involves pulling out some of the low-mids up to 1k, but leaving enough warmth as to not sound sterile. I will rarely pull HF out of vocals using EQ.
Step 4. Now pull up C6. Start by dropping the master threshold down just a bit until there is light compression on most of the frequency bands. The bands are usually right on (I've found that the only frequency band I ever adjust on my preset is the upper parametric band, which I use to hone in on harsh frequencies). Then, as you're listening to the post-EQ vocal, adjust the threshold on the bands that you think need to be compressed. The light blue and orange bands are great for cleaning up the vocal, helping tremendously with clarity; and if harshness is an issue, the purple band will compress it out like magic.
Step 5. Adjust the channel comp if necessary.
Step 6. If you are hearing any harsh S's, pull up the R-DeEsser and drop the threshold down just enough until they fade away. Be careful not to de-ess too much, as the vocal will start losing clarity and you will dig yourself into a hole trying to fix it.
A lot of times I will add Q10 to the signal chain, in case I run into any feedback issues, as this is a perfect tool for weeding out those frequencies.
Finding a balance between equalization and multiband compression is key to creating a great, natural-sounding vocal in a live environment. As with anything, the more you do it and become familiar with the process, the quicker you will be able to discern what you need to do to correct that vocal (or any other input) and dial it in on the console.
When you're not on the road, it's not a bad idea to find some raw vocal stems, fly them into your DAW, set up the channel like you would live, and just practice using the plugins and going through the process. If it gets boring... time yourself to 20 seconds.


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Lecithocera myopa is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.

The wingspan is 11–12 mm. The forewings are purplish grey, irrorated (sprinkled) with dark fuscous and blackish. There is a small whitish-ochreous spot at the base in the middle. The discal stigmata are cloudy and dark fuscous. The hindwings are rather dark grey.

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The implementation of the transaction remains subject to the approval and passing of the required resolutions by DRDGold shareholders.
Sibanye-Stillwater said on Thursday it had received approval from South African competition authorities for its R1.3 billion transaction with DRDGold in which Sibanye will vend surface gold resources into a partnership in return for a stake in the gold retreatment company.
Late last year, Sibanye-Stillwater agreed to vend selected gold surface processing assets and tailings storage facilities at its West Rand Tailings Retreatment Project, Gauteng, for a 38 percent stake in DRDGold.
The deal will see Sibanye exchange selected assets for about 265 million newly issued DRDGold shares and be granted a call option to subscribe for the option shares so as to attain a 50.1 percent shareholding in DRDGold. The deal is seen as a bid to create an industry-leading surface mining partnership.
"Should Sibanye-Stillwater elect to exercise the call option within a period of 24 months from the approval date … Sibanye-Stillwater shall inform the Commission of its decision within 20 business days of exercising the call option," it said in a statement.
The implementation of the transaction remains subject to the approval and passing of the required resolutions by DRDGold shareholders. It is anticipated that the outstanding conditions will be fulfilled in the second quarter of 2018.


The Blue Cat's Gain Suite free volume control plugins offer the ability to link several instances of the same plugin to control them with a single slider. This tutorial shows how to use this capability to control the balance between two tracks (the drums and bass tracks in this example) with a single slider.
This tutorial uses Cakewalk Sonar as a host, but you can use any other VST or DirectX compatible host application.
Note that moving one single slider lets you record the the gain parameter variations as automation curves for both plugins at the same time. Next steps show you how to do it.
This tutorial has shown you a very simple way to control the balance between two tracks with a single slider. It is a simple example of the grouping capabilities of the Blue Cat's Gain Suite free plugins.


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10 Reasons Why Colonialism Strengthened Rape Culture In Latinx Communities
July 31, 2017 / Mala Muñoz
Content Warning: Sexual Assault, Violence Against Women
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In order to heal our communities from sexual violence, we have to understand its origins.
For the past three years, I have worked as a Crisis Counselor-Advocate at a rape and domestic violence agency in Los Angeles. In my time as an advocate, I have worked one on one with survivors of sexual and domestic violence, the vast majority of whom have been Latinas, other women of color, and youth.
On a regular day, an advocate like me or any of my coworkers might answer crisis calls, provide in-person emergency response to local emergency rooms, SART Centers, courthouses, and police stations to lend support to survivors.
The survivors we work with come from many walks of life — from undocumented mothers to Chicana high school students, undocuqueer Latinxs, to indigenous child sexual abuse survivors and Central American survivors of migratory assault.
It seems there is no Latinx experience completely free from sexual violence.
In this work, I am stuck asking myself: Why do people assault, exploit, and abuse Latinas at such alarming rates? Why do our own people abuse us this way? What are the origins of this violence?
People who sexually assault Latinas are usually acquaintances, partners, and other people we know.
Since attackers usually live in the same community as their victim, addressing sexual violence is a matter of community healing as much as it is about policy and structural change.
As people of Latin American descent, we often discuss the widespread colonial era rape of Indigenous and Black women to understand and contextualize our racial identities.
As a Xicana, I grew up learning about mestizaje and the role that sexual assault played in the colonization of our tierras.
It is important use a critical lens to talk about the legacies of rape and colonialism in our home countries.
Not only do we need to understand the histories of sexual violence in our communities, we have to have real conversations about how our communities have internalized sexual violence, and continue to enact violence against one another.
Understanding the roots of violence is the first step towards healing.
How Does Sexual Violence Impact Latinxs today?
Sexual violence against Latinas often intersects with other forms of violence.
On International Women's Day, 41 Guatemalan girls were burned to death at a government-run shelter after they disclosed that they had been sexually abused by shelter staff.
Recently, a judge in El Salvador sentenced a teen rape survivor to 30 years in prison for giving birth to a stillborn baby.
It is estimated that nearly 80% of Central American women and girls are sexually assaulted in Mexico on their way to the United States and the US- Mexico border is a place where American Border Patrol agents are known to sexually assault immigrants.
The rape and femicide of Mexican women has become so widespread and brutal that it has been described as a pandemic.
Sexual violence against Latinas doesn't just happen in Latin American countries. Latinas in the US experience significant rates of sexual violence as well as sexual harassment at school and work.
To get a better idea of why Latinxs experience such prevalent rates of sexual violence today, we must look back to the colonial and precolonial era.
Below are 10 facts exploring the connections between colonization and sexual violence in Latinx communities that help make sense of how we've gotten here.
1. The Terms "Rape" and "Colonization" Have Similar Meanings
According to Professor Rita Laura Segato, who has studied gender based and sexual violence against Indigenous and Black women in Brazil the word "rape" has the same etymology as rapiña, meaning predatory behavior in Spanish, and rapaz, or young man in Portuguese.
During the colonial period, conquistadores not only looted, terrorized, and stole from Native people, they also sexually assaulted Indigenous Americans.
2. Native Societies Had Their Own Forms of Patriarchy Before Colonization
Native societies in the Americas had their own forms of patriarchy before colonization, known as low impact patriarchy.
Colonialism imposed European-brand patriarchy as well as European views on gender, race, sex, and religion onto Native people. The result was the development of a type of a more insidious form of Latin American patriarchy known as machismo.
3. Rape and Colonization Are Both About Power and Control
Colonization was the process of taking power and control of land and labor from Indigenous and enslaved African people. Colonizers used rape as a way to take power and control of Indigenous people's bodies away from them and dominate Native societies.
Damary Rodriguez, a Dominicana advocate, blogger, and Database and Resource Assistant at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center explores this more in depth:
Sexual violence […] was used as way to control people during the colonial period. Sexual violence is now used to control intimate partners. The connection is that sexual violence was used on a grand scale during colonialism and is now being used on more of an interpersonal level.
4. Conquistadores Raped Both Native Land and Native Bodies
During colonial times, the theft and exploitation of Indigenous land was accompanied by widespread assault and forced pregnancy of Indigenous women in the Americas.
Professor Rita Laura Segato explains:
"In the old conventional wars, with conquered territories came the insemination of women's bodies. Soldiers raped the women of conquered territories as if women's bodies were extensions of those territories"
5. Widespread Colonial Rape Played a Large Role in Decimating our Native Comunidades and Ancestros
It is estimated that almost 90% of the Native populations in the Americas were completely wiped out only 150 years after Cristobal Colon's arrived at Hispaniola — the island we now know as Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Colonizers sexually assaulted large numbers of Native people, often spreading fatal diseases and infections which raised the overall colonial death toll.
6. Racism and Sexism Are Used to Legitimize Colonization and Sexual Violence
European conquistadores often used racism and dehumanization of Indigenous and African people to justify colonization, genocide, land theft, and slavery.
Similarly, contemporary rape culture uses victim-blaming and dehumanization of survivors to justify or excuse rape and other forms of assault and harassment.
Dr. Chiara Sabina, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware, explains:
"Misrepresentations of natives and victims [were used] to legitimize conquest and violence. Views of inequality sustain[ed] maltreatment."
7. Sexual Assault Was Used as a Tool to Maintain Power and Control Over Enslaved Africans and Afrodescendientes in Latin America
Latin American nations, much like the United States, were built on centuries of legal slavery. After Native American populations were nearly wiped out, conquistadores looked to the African continent to enslave Africans for forced labor in Latin America.
Black Latin American women were routinely subjected to both enslavement and rape, doubling the impact of the oppression against them as their bodies were exploited for both labor and sex by European slave owners.
8. The Traumatic Effects of Colonization and Sexual Violence Have Long-Lasting Impacts
Trauma has a way of sticking with people and can be passed between generations in a cycle of generational violence.
Colonization was profoundly traumatic on multiple levels and took place over hundreds of years. Native and African ancestors who survived colonialism most likely experienced sustained sexualized and gender-based violence in our Latin American home countries.
The trauma that our ancestors lived through lives on through us. This is known as historical trauma or intergenerational trauma.
9. Latinx people in the US are Often Exposed to Both Latin American and US Forms of Rape Culture
Latin Americans leave home countries, many with high rates of violence against women, and relocate to the United States, which has its own history of sexual violence in policy and society.
Latinx youth are likely exposed twice to Latinx and U.S. forms of rape culture which perpetuates and reinforces sexually violent behavior.
10. Colonial Sexual Violence Influenced Laws and Institutions Which Still Exist And Negatively Impact Latinx Survivors Today
The history of sexual violence against Latin American women can still be felt today in sexist, isolating, and victim blaming laws, policies, and social institutions.
Colonial laws in Latin America made violence against women (including murders of women) a "private matter" which could be legally justified if a husband felt his wife somehow deserved it. Colonial laws also stripped women, especially Black and Indigenous women, of their civil rights to divorce, own property, work, vote, control their own bodies, and decriminalized sexual and domestic violence perpetrated against women.
Latin America is not the only region on Earth with a prevalence of sexual and gender based violence and Latinxs are not the only group living with intergenerational and historical trauma.
Sexual violence is a reality for most countries, races, and ethnic groups — though the severity of violence certainly varies from place to place.
Unfortunately, many of our beautiful places of origin in Latin America are also homes to long histories of invasion, violence, pain, and trauma.
The first step towards healing from the intergenerational trauma of colonialism and sexual violence is to learn about it and stay conscious. This way, we can share what we learn with friends and familia, be better advocates for survivors, and do more to bring an end machismo.
Mala Muñoz is an Everyday Feminism Reporting Fellow. Mala is a writer, advocate, and crisis counselor from Los Angeles. Her writing has been featured in VIBE Magazine's online Latinx platform, VIBE Viva and the Huffpost Blog. A third generation Xicana and one half of the podcast Locatora Radio, Mala's work online and in real life focuses on the creativity, genius, and legacies of women and survivors of color.
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Machida previously played for Roasso Kumamoto in the J2 League.

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It's only when you time-phase your project budget that you can visualize and report on your forecasted spend and cash-flow over a timeline. To get a sense why that's important, have a read of this article.
As mentioned, in 4castplus there are five different time-phasing plans that can be setup on a project (there are in fact 10, since you can time-phase the cost budget separately from the revenue budget; but we'll tackle the meaning of that in another article).
Why five you might ask? 4castplus maintains four distinct cost budgets: Baseline, Current, Pending and Forecast. The Current is the baseline plus any approved change orders; and the Pending is the Current plus any proposed change orders. All these budgets are of course connected: the current, pending and forecast all inherit the properties of the baseline (including the baseline time-phasing). Nevertheless, each of these budgets are uniquely managed by the system. The Forecast Budget is a bit different in that it is built up as the baseline plus any forecasts. For more on forecasting, please have a look at this article.
Each of those four budgets have their own time-phasing plan that can vary uniquely from each other. As mentioned, they each inherit the baseline time-phase plan; but the budget additions and subtractions included in the change orders or forecasts are time-phased uniquely from the baseline.
This brings us to the main topic of this article: The Remaining Budget. This is the fifth time-phase plan, and by far the most complex of the five. Time phasing the remaining budget is tricky because you have to factor in historical variances. To get an idea of what that means, have a look at Figure 1 below.
The example in Figure 1 shows the time-phasing of an activity over 6 monthly periods, February-July. At the time this snapshot was taken, it was April, so February and March were considered historical periods. As you can see in this example, the Actual Cost for both February and March differed from the time-phased plan for both those periods. Using March as an example: according to the time-phased plan, $15,000.00 was meant to be spent during that period, however only $14,000.00 was actually spent (see #1 and #2 arrows). This left an extra $1,000.00 in March alone that is now unaccounted for in the time-phasing (see #3 arrow). Collectively, March and April accumulated a variance of $1,666.67. A key element to time-phasing the remaining budget is to determine what to do with that variance. Where does it go? How do you reallocate it into future periods?
In the example in Figure 1, we used the Reallocate function to let the system auto-redistribute the variance into all future open periods. Of course, you don't have to reallocate like that, you can also manually enter the exact period(s) you want to allocate the variance into. The Reallocate function divides the variance evenly among the open periods. Had this been a negative variance – i.e. previous periods over-spent – then the reallocate function would have evenly deducted the variance from future periods.
Of course, redistributing variance isn't the only thing you can do with time-phasing the remaining budget. You can also take the opportunity to make any other changes to the baseline/current time-phasing to update with current information.
4castplus provides several specialized reports out-of-the-box that show Remaining Budget time-phased over a timeline curve as it compares to other key curves like Current Budget, Baseline Budget and Forecast. There is also time-phase tabular reports that compare month-over-month cash flow of remaining budget alongside current and also actual costs.
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import org.zalando.riptide.Plugin;
import org.zalando.riptide.opentelemetry.OpenTelemetryPlugin;
import org.zalando.riptide.opentelemetry.span.StaticSpanDecorator;

final class OpenTelemetryPluginFactory {
    private OpenTelemetryPluginFactory() {

    }

    public static Plugin create(final RiptideProperties.Client client) {
        StaticSpanDecorator decorator = new StaticSpanDecorator(client.getTelemetry().getAttributes());
        return new OpenTelemetryPlugin(decorator);
    }
}

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Patent Law Updates: New Test for Design Patents; Enforcement Activities Create Personal Jurisdiction over Patent Holder in Declaratory Judgment Action
It's been another busy week for patents at the Federal Circuit. In two key decisions, the Federal Circuit changed the standard for finding infringement of a U.S. design patent, and it also found a patent holder subject to personal jurisdiction in a state where the patent holder's only activities were actions to enforce the patent itself.
Design patents infringed if "ordinary observer" would find designs similar. In Egyptian Goddess, Inc. v. Adi Torkiya, the Federal Circuit tossed out the "point of novelty" test for finding infringement of a design patent. The court explained that the test led to "disagreement over whether combinations of features, or the overall appearance of a design, can constitute the point of novelty." Instead, the court applied the "ordinary observer" test, which requires that the accused and patented designs appear "substantially the same" to an ordinary observer. Under the "ordinary observer" test, "infringement will not be found unless the accused article "embod[ies] the patented design or any colorable imitation thereof." The court explained that the ordinary observer test will discourage arguments over individual features of a design patent, and instead put the focus on the "claimed design as a whole."
The court also noted that claim construction is not always required in design patent cases. Instead, the question of whether or not a design patent claim requires verbal characterization is left to the discretion of the trial court judge.
Enforcement actions can support personal jurisdiction against patent holder. In The Campbell Pet Company v. Theresa Miale and Ty-Lift Enterprises, a California-based patent holder attended a trade show in the State of Washington. While there, the patent holder accused Campbell Pet of patent infringement, asked the convention manager to remove Campbell Pet's display, and told potential customers that Campbell Pet was infringing the patent. When the patent holder later sent Campbell Pet a cease and desist letter, Campbell Pet filed a declaratory judgment action in the State of Washington. The patent holder sought to dismiss the case, asserting that its actions were not sufficient to support personal jurisdiction within the state.
The court disagreed. Although it did acknowledge that "without more, a patentee's act of sending letters to another state claiming infringement and threatening litigation is not sufficient to confer personal jurisdiction," the court found the patent holder's activities at the convention to be sufficient to support jurisdication in Washington. The court reached its conclusion after looking at past cases where license negotiations, in-person meetings, and similar activities were found sufficient to support personal jurisdiction.


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We're in Baltimore, MD at the university of maryland school of medicine.
I'll both make no promises but do as much as a I can.
> Thanks for the email, Ben!
> months...which means our own budgets have been bled dry!
>> Yes and specifically our conference.
>>> I'm guessing this is what you're talking about?
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Do not underestimate intelligent automation in utilities
Randall Cozzens
The traditional utilities business model is under pressure worldwide. The move to green energy, prosumer clients, and diminishing regulations is significantly impacting business models around the world. The industry needs to move toward digital more aggressively. More agility and business intelligence are required.
Intelligent automation is the path to that future. It will manage the balance between demand and supply, boost efficiencies across the entire value chain, reinvent the customer experience, and transform business models.
Intelligent automation is the combination of automation and artificial intelligence to create systems that make real-time changes and adaptations to operations based on input from sensors. The Capgemini Research Institute (CRI) recently spoke with 530 business leaders about intelligent automation in energy and utilities, including oil and gas, electricity, water, and energy services.
The report analyzed more than 80 use cases to assess maturity, complexity, and benefits. Not surprisingly, it shows the forerunners are leading the way to a new energy and utilities dynamic.
Seize the opportunity
The CRI report showed many utilities are targeting the wrong projects. More than one third of energy and utilities companies (38%) are focusing on projects that are easy to implement but which deliver small benefit. Fewer than one in five (18%) are targeting the sweet spot of quick wins with big value.
It is time to push forward and be bold. Think beyond support projects and get real results, like some of these companies:
Xcel Energy, a US-based electric and gas utility, uses data from sensors on wind turbines to develop high-resolution wind forecasts through AI techniques. The company reduced costs to end customers by $60 million annually by increasing the efficiency of generation.
GE Renewable Energy is using machine learning to support yield optimization. It builds virtual wind farms in a cloud-based platform that mimics a real-world, physical design. The model runs wind patterns and calculates electrical output to optimize production on an individual turbine level. GE expects to generate a 20% boost in energy production, resulting in $100 million in savings over the lifetime of a 100 megawatt farm.
Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO) uses advanced data science and machine-learning techniques to develop a hyperlocal weather forecasting system. It applies this weather model to all its solar and wind farms in Vermont, and has reduced average energy forecasting errors by 6% for solar and 9% for wind. Every 1% of load reduction means better resource allocation and saves ratepayers $1 million per year.
Better complaints management has made a significant difference for Exelon, a US-based electricity and gas utility. Its AI-powered chatbot, developed to resolve customer complaints on issues such as outages and bills, has reduced customer churn and generated deeper insights into their consumers' needs.
Swiss Energy leader Alpiq has implemented its Gridsense technology, which uses algorithms to measure parameters such as grid load, electricity consumption and generation, weather forecasts, and electricity prices. It provides better insights into consumer behavior, optimizes generators, reduces peak loads, balances loads, and stabilizes the distribution grid.
Automation and AI will be instrumental in meeting the new demands of the market, including addressing climate change. It is time to seize the opportunity of intelligent automation and the power of digital technologies.
Randy Cozzens is an Executive Vice President and North American Energy, Utilities, and Chemicals Market Unit Lead at Capgemini and can be reached at randall.cozzens@capgemini.com.
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An algorithm to detect gerrymandering
by Juan Siliezar, Harvard Gazette
Ohio's districting map (shaded box, left) alongside one of 5,000 alternative maps the researchers simulated. Credit: Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology Project
New waves of statisticians, including a team at Harvard, have developed tools they think can help police the longstanding problem of gerrymandering of congressional and legislative districts in states by parties seeking to tip the scales for their candidates.
Gerrymandering has been part of American politics since the 1800s, with results that are at the very least controversial and sometimes illegal, particularly if it's done to dilute the voting power of communities of color. The battle is renewed every decade in state legislatures when Census figures show which districts need to be rebalanced owing to population shifts. Sometimes violations appear blatant but often they are more subtle, and in either case they can be difficult to prove.
By harnessing the quantitative power of big data computing, these statisticians have developed algorithms that can identify likely gerrymandered maps by putting redrawn districts through hundreds, even thousands of computational tests and simulations. These tools—developed over the past decade often through open sourcing—provide powerful evidence of whether a plan falls outside the norm of a "fair" plan. The tests recently have been gaining traction and increasingly are being used as evidence of illegitimacy in court.
One method started at Harvard in 2020 has been quickly making an impact. It's been used by researchers, journalists, and election analysts, and has played significant roles in recent legal cases where legislators were forced to throw out gerrymandered maps.
Called "redist," the tool creates a vast pool of alternate nonpartisan plans (upwards of 5,000 to 10,000) that can be compared to a map that's being proposed or has already been enacted by local legislators or redistricting committees. This pool of nonpartisan baseline maps makes it possible to see whether the new map fairly represents the new shifts shown in the Census, or is an outlier.
"What the algorithm does is that using the geography and distribution of different voters within the state, it shows what kind of partisan outcome we should expect," said Kosuke Imai, a professor in the departments of statistics and government. "But if we see something very different in comparison to this nonpartisan baseline, favoring one party under the enacted plan, that's evidence that there are some other factors influencing when the plan was drawn."
For example, researchers say, consider a case in which the tool runs 5,000 simulations and finds that on average the legislative minority party should be winning about five to seven seats. But simulations using a map pushed through by the majority party has its rival winning only two seats. This signifies a rare or almost impossible occurrence and supports the likelihood of partisan gerrymandering, the researchers said.
Graph looks at how each district of Ohio's enacted plan compares to the set of simulated districts. Credit: Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology Project
Imai developed redist with Cory McCartan, a Ph.D candidate at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences focusing on statistics. The pair found traditional methods for evaluating the fairness of redistricting plans weren't working well, because they didn't provide a neutral baseline to make objective comparisons. Fairness often became a subjective call, they said.
"For a long time, people have done gerrymandering and the question is "OK, how do I prove it?'" McCartan said. "It's one thing to say, "Hey, I think that map looks unfair because the boundaries are super squiggly." But these things get litigated in court, so a judge has to clearly be able to decide: Is this fair or not?"
The redist software uses what's called the sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) algorithm to run its simulations. The software starts with a blank map, then draws one district map at a time, then does it again and again. Each alternative map is drawn in parallel and incorporates that state's population, demographic data, and districting laws. Once these alternative maps are drawn, the redist software uses visualization tools to help users understand the data with charts and graphs summarizing the simulations.
Unlike most similar algorithms, the SMC algorithm doesn't start from a single map and keep altering that one. Instead, the algorithm starts with a blank map and generates new alternative plans from new blank canvases. This random generation enables the algorithm to efficiently explore more unique alternatives and generate a representative sample of plans. Existing algorithms that don't do this run the risk of exploring plans that are very similar to the starting map, which may already have a partisan bias, the researchers said.
"Say the enacted plan is favoring Democrats," Imai said. "If an algorithm only explores very similar plans [because it starts with this enacted plan], then maybe all the simulated plans based on it also favor Democrats. When this happens, that enacted plan doesn't look like a gerrymander."
Redist has been used by plaintiffs in gerrymandering cases, including actions in Alabama, New York, Ohio, and South Carolina. In New York, an elections analyst used the SMC algorithm to produce 10,000 maps to help show the map drawn by New York state's Democratic legislature was an "'extreme outlier' that likely reduced the number of Republican congressional seats from eight to four." A state Appeals Court ordered the map be redrawn.
In Ohio, Imai was called as an expert witness for plaintiffs accusing the Republican-controlled redistricting commission of gerrymandering. The SMC algorithm generated 5,000 maps for the case, none of which was as favorable to Republicans as the commission's proposal. The state Supreme Court ordered that body to revise.
Maps show partisan lean across Alabama in a typical statewide election, and the share of minority voters around the state. Credit: Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology Project
The algorithm is also being used in a case brought before the U.S. Supreme Court involving allegations of racial gerrymandering in Alabama. Imai served as an expert witness for the plaintiffs, arguing that its new congressional map intentionally dilutes the Black vote. The case, which relies on protections in the Voting Rights Act, could eliminate one of the few remaining nationwide safeguards against rigged legislative maps.
Redist has become a major focus in Imai's research group at Harvard called the Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology (ALARM) Project. The group recently launched the 50-State Redistricting Simulation Project and is using the software to evaluate the redistricting plans across the country by producing 5,000 alternative maps for each state.
The easy-to-use tool lets users select a state and explore the maps. To make the data more accessible and digestible, ALARM provides a breakdown of how many congressional districts exist in that state, its redistricting requirements, its political geography, and a summary of what the computer found, including graphs and tables.
All the data can be downloaded. The source code is provided so it can be used as a template to generate simulated plans under different specifications.
The ALARM group members—who includes undergraduates, graduate students, and even high school students—say the process is rigorous since each state has different rules that need to be translated into the algorithm, and they need to run diagnostics to make sure everything goes smoothly.
Still, they believe the effort is worth it.
Up next for the ALARM Project is a plan to explore expanding redist from looking at the partisan bias of gerrymandering to racial gerrymandering, and to evaluate gerrymandering at more local levels.
"There's always a question of how different ways of drawing boundaries can benefit some voters and harm others," Imai said. "It's important for social scientists to understand the nature of these types of political manipulations and address it."
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New Zealand Bill of Rights Act: A Commentary, 2nd edition, is the authoritative text on the law relating to the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. Written in a lively style, the commentary contains a detailed analysis of this short but important piece of constitutional legislation.
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'There's a very real risk of UK-manufactured tear gas or rubber bullets being used against George Floyd protesters' - Oliver Feeley-Sprague
Responding to numerous reports and video footage of excessive and disproportionate police and National Guard responses to protests in numerous US cities over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis a week ago, Oliver Feeley-Sprague, Amnesty International UK's Military, Security and Police Programme Director, said:
"After the shocking images of the police and National Guard using excessive force against Black Lives Matter protesters in Minneapolis, the UK should immediately freeze all policing and security equipment export licences to the US where there's a clear risk of further misuse - something the UK is obliged to do under its own laws.
"Given the evidence emerging from numerous US cities, there's a very real risk of UK-manufactured tear gas or rubber bullets being used against George Floyd protesters in dangerous and highly inappropriate ways - something that ministers need to respond to.
"Ministers should be making detailed, case-by-case assessments of any requests for equipment from individual US police forces - withholding exports from any that have clearly acted irresponsibly during the current crisis.
"The UK has a dreadful track record of looking the other way when UK arms and security equipment is misused overseas, even, in some cases, seeking to justify such misuse. Now is the time to start changing that."
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Though official UK Government data on export licences issued for UK arms and security equipment often provides little detail over the precise quantities of equipment sent to particular countries over any given period - and nor does it provide information on the companies that have manufactured the equipment - the limited publicly-available information nevertheless shows that in recent years the UK has approved licences to the US military and law-enforcement authorities for the supply of a wide range of crowd-control and security equipment, including: riot control shields, CS hand grenades, crowd control ammunition, smoke canisters, smoke/pyrotechnic ammunition, tear gas/irritant ammunition and tear gas/riot control agents. Some of this equipment has been supplied to the US under two wide-ranging "Open Individual Export Licences" issued in 2015 (see page 338 of this link) and 2018 (see page 673 of this link), allowing multiple shipments to take place.
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Yesterday, Amnesty warned that the "excessive" militarised police response to Black Lives Matter protests in numerous US cities was "exacerbating a tense situation and endangering the lives of protesters".
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Q: Angular: List or show existing forms in $scope How can I detect, if a form is currently existing in $scope at a given time? (maybe there is a link: "show current forms in the current controller's $scope")
How can I list existing forms in the $scope? (No VanillaJS)
PSEUDO-CODE:
console log ( existing forms in $scope ) -> list of existing forms

EDIT: Please consider $scope, thank you!

A: if this is your form tag:
<form name="myForm" >

then your can reach your form (from controller)like this:
$scope.myForm

A: Forms are html elements and therefore you can select them with a simple javascript query and then cast them as angular elements (wich at the end are jQuery or jqLite elements):
<form name="formNumber1"></form>
<form name="formNumber2"></form>

Then you could do:
var myForm1 = angular.element('formNumber1');
var allFormsOnThePage = angular.element(document.getElementsByTagName('form'));

Take into account that the allFormsOnThePage will be an array you can iterate on.
Read here for reference: https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/function/angular.element
Furthermore angular creates a variable in $scope with the same name as your form, for validation and error tracking, so you can check if a concrete form is present just checking if it's not undefined:
if ($scope.formNumber2) doWhatYouWant();

A: There is no general method to scan child scopes, that's the point of scopes.
For simple case you can:
<form name="myForm" ng-init="register(myForm)">

where 'register' is method of your top controller.
If you want something more clever - write directive
<form name="myForm" register-directive="register(myForm)" unregister="unregister(myForm)"

Directive should simply run register on creation and unregister on scope.$destroy.

A: before access form object you need to wait for angular create them, use a $watch to access them inside controller.

var myApp = angular.module('myApp',[])
.controller("MainCtrl",['$scope',function($scope){
    $scope.$watch("forms",function(oldV,forms){
     console.log("Number of form:"+ Object.keys(forms).length);
     angular.forEach(forms,function(form,index){
         console.log(form.$name);
        });
    });

    $scope.showCurrentForms = function(){
         console.log($scope.forms);
    };
}]);
<script src="https://code.angularjs.org/1.4.7/angular.min.js"></script>

<div ng-app="myApp" ng-controller="MainCtrl">
    <form name="forms.myForm1" >
        <input name="input1"/>
    </form>
    <form name="forms.myForm2" >
        <input name="input2"/>
    </form>
     <form name="forms.myForm3" >
        <input name="input3"/>
    </form>
    <form name="forms.myForm4" >
        <input name="input4"/>
    </form>

    <button ng-click="showCurrentForms()">Current Forms</button>
</div>

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Citation: Is there a formula for LOVE? (1949, November 26). The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 – 1982), p. 20. Retrieved September 30, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52267907
Is there a formula for
LOVE?
Love – the love of two comparative strangers of the opposite sex for each other – is neither straight-forward, uncomplicated, nor especially constant.
It is an alarming and uncontrollable state of mind which causes those afflicted to be lifted suddenly to the most astonishing pinnacles of happiness and to be dropped with equal suddenness deep down into the darkest well of despair and misery.
THE fact that in the long run – whatever the romantics say – despair and misery pre-dominate over happiness does not deter the mass of young people all over the world from wishing constantly, fervently, desperately to achieve this state.
And, having achieved it, or believing that they have achieved it, what happens then? They marry. And, having married, what then do they do?
Some live together happily ever after.
Some live together happily for a while, and then relapse into a state of mutual and benign resignation.
Some live together happily for a while, and unhappily for the rest of the time.
Some – and this section constitutes a very large proportion of the whole – live together happily for a while, and then separate and divorce and try again.
We can assume, therefore, that somehow, somewhere, all is not well with this method. It can't be – not with the divorce rate the way it is.
There are, in fact, two kinds of love, and there is a distinguishable difference between the real kind, the rare one, which causes people to marry and live happily ever after, and the other one, the one which causes them to marry and divorce.
There is on the surface no difference between them. They both produce roughly the same symptoms in the sufferer. Those who are afflicted with the wrong kind of love, the one that leads to divorce, cannot usually tell that it is so until too late.
First, we'll take the real love, the rare one, the maker of fine marriages.
What is that kind of love made of? Obviously it is a complex sensation comprising a number of different feelings, but I personally believe that in it there are two main ingredients mixed in approximately the following proportions:
60 per cent. profound affection and respect.
40 per cent. intense sex attraction.
Now, this is a rare mixture. It is rare enough to find it in one of the two lovers, and rarer by far to find it in both; but when that happens you can be fairly sure that you'll get the fairy-tale result.
The important point about this kind of love is that affection and respect (which must be deep) predominate over sex attraction (which must be intense). For as the years go by the sexual life of the two people passes inevitably through its various phases, beginning with excitement and passion, moving on to pleasurable normalcy.
Thus something, which was an important ingredient of their original love for each other slowly begins to disappear. But the marriage holds fast, because this diminishing and disappearing thing was not the most important part of their love.
The most important ingredient was affection, deep affection. It cannot diminish with time – nor can it stand still. It can only increase. And thus, slowly but smoothly, the original ingredients of this love begin to alter their proportions. Affection increases. Sex attraction decreases. As the latter disappears, the former takes its place, and love remains entire.
And now the other kind of love, the wrong one, the bringer of divorces. What is that made of?
The formula here varies a good deal. It could be any of the following:
70 per cent. intense sex attraction, 30 per cent. genuine affection and respect.
100 per cent. deep affection and respect, sex attraction negligible.
100 per cent. intense sex attraction, affection and respect negligible.
The first of these three is the most common. It is sincere and intense and causes much mutual happiness. But it is temporary. It is bound to be so, because in it sex attraction, which becomes less intense with time, predominates too strongly over affection, which, though genuine, is not strong enough to increase.
Even if it did increase, it couldn't catch up fast enough. It was left behind at the start. Thus there would be a gap. The percentage would not be 100. The love would not remain entire. A marriage contracted on this basis is almost certain to fail, although many manage to survive purely through the determination, self-sacrifice, give and take, hard work, and consideration for the children.
But it isn't much fun.
The second of the three, where love is made up of 100 per cent. deep affection and respect, is bound equally to fail – except, of course, in the unusual event of both persons feeling the same way. Where one partner experiences no strong sex attraction while the other does, then failure is inevitable.
But what of the third type, where love is wholly sex attraction and nothing else? The romantics will argue that this is not love – not true love, anyway. But, on the contrary, it is. Those who fall in love in this manner are just as strangely and strongly afflicted as the others, just as irrational and lovelorn.
Many of them, believing that this is the real thing, proceed in all good faith to get married, only to discover, when it is too late, that their love was built of too flimsy stuff.
This kind of love is the most dangerous of them all. It is the quickest coming, the most powerful, the most natural, the most exciting, and the quickest going. It is a trap for the young ones, the gentle ones, the virtuous ones, and also for the fools. It is an exact definition of the phrase "love at first sight."
"Love at first sight" is a sensation which the average teenager, perilously ignorant of its implications, longs fervently to experience. The average movie story is usually based upon "total sex-attraction love,"' often dished up in the form of "love at first sight:" and the story ends with happiness and marriage, and seldom goes on to reveal the inevitable crash.
Their most cherished ambition is a swift, exciting falling in love, a rapid courtship, a sackful of sentimental sloppery, and then, then marriage. And so it happens; and in a short while, when the novelty of sexual relations has worn off, both young man and young wife suddenly discover that they are living with someone whom they do not know well and do not care much about.
Young people hoping for love and contemplating matrimony can at any rate arm themselves with the knowledge that the most publicised and glamorised form of "love" is the very one which they should beware.
The problem resolves itself into this: Is a person who is deeply in love capable of making an accurate and impartial analysis of the type of love with which she (or he) is afflicted? Is she capable of giving a true answer to the question, "How much is profound affection and how much is sex attraction?
Personally, I doubt it. She could try; and if she were an exceedingly intelligent person, then I think she might even answer herself correctly. Unfortunately, it is a fact that those who suffer from "total sex-attraction love" are the very ones who will swear that their love is based upon nothing of the sort.
If, on the other hand, she is one of those rare girls who still value the advice of their parents, and if the parents have the sense and sensitivity to understand the problem, then they too may be able to help her to find the answer.
I know of one remarkable case in which a shrewd father saved his daughter from making a crazy choice. His daughter was fiercely in love with a handsome young man. The father had no objection to the boy, but at the same time he was convinced that his daughter's love was based upon 100 per cent. sex attraction.
lt happened that the young man was called away for a while. The father one evening pretended for a while to be reading his paper, then suddenly looked up and spoke:
FATHER: I saw old Archie Swan-son to-day. He said he'd just spent a week up in Manchester and he'd seen your Johnny. Apparently he's got a rather bad attack of boils, on his face and neck and down his back,
DAUGHTER: Daddy, it isn't true!
FATHER: I'm afraid it is. The doctors don't seem to be able to find the reason for it. First they thought it was his teeth and they sent him to a dentist. They extracted about a dozen, including three front ones, but even that hasn't helped the boils.
It is a fact that the daughter cried a lot that evening, and it is also a fact that her love for Johnny began to cool from then on.
The father, seeing this, and knowing that Johnny would soon be coming back with a spotless complexion and with his own good teeth, confessed all to his daughter, and finally managed with great difficulty to convince her that although he was a liar and a cheat, he had nevertheless demonstrated a most important truth, namely, that his daughter's love was of the wrong type. Had it been the kind of love that makes good marriages then it would have taken a great deal more than boils and artificial teeth to shake it.
Much has been written in recent years about trial marriages in which young people live together for a period with the object of checking their chances of a successful partner-ship.
This method is totally unacceptable to any but a few extreme "moderns."
And, though it may seen sensible and reliable to these few, it is not in fact so simple as all that. Many factors, particularly of morality and responsibility, are involved.
Nowadays, of course, many people who would be horrified at the mere mention of a trial marriage do not raise an eyebrow at the mention of divorce.
The difference is a legal and an ethical one.
The weakness of the trial marriage is not that it is necessarily illegal, but just that it is a trial. The couple cannot have the same outlook as those who have entered into sacred bonds and there is not the same impulse to make a success of an arrangement that can be broken at will.
In marriage, one is expected to be guided almost entirely by that most mercurial, unreliable, deceptive, and powerful thing called love, and by little else, not even by one's parents these days, not even by one's own common sense, for one hasn't got any of that when one's in love.
Hence the divorce rate.
Hence the millions of struggling, just surviving, unhappy couples.
Hence, also, the cynicism of some people who know that love exists, who are glad that it exists, but who have learned that it is a wayward thing, not always to be trusted.
Don't be guided by it too much. Don't let it take hold of you completely and carry you away in a rosy swirl of sugary vapor.
And remember that it is the quiet little people, the calm ones, the cool ones, the gentle ones, the thoughtful ones, the slow-moving ones, who always seem, somehow, to succeed in choosing right.


RICHFIELD, Utah - A Utah day care worker faces charges after an incident involving a picture frame and a playpen left a 22-month-old child with possible permanent brain damage, according to KSTU.
According to Richfield Police, the Country Loving Day Care called 911 about a child who was not breathing and had no pulse on May 15.
When first responders arrived, they immediately started CPR on the boy and were able to get his heart beating again.
Authorities rushed the child to Sevier Valley Hospital and then later to Primary Children's Hospital where doctors told his family they fear he may have permanent brain damage.
Family members have identified the boy as Kastyn Tyler Latham.
Richfield Police said they learned a picture frame was placed over his playpen and he got his head stuck between the playpen and the picture frame and couldn't breathe.
Tuesday officials confirmed felony charges against day care worker Casey Bertelson, 28, for recklessly causing a physical injury on a child.
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From a number of different builders. Deck, cockpit, and coach roof have undergone a number of changes since first introduced in 1958.
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Vizhinjam Rock Cut Cave Thiruvananthapuram Kerala.
Vizhinjam Rock Cut Caves is an ancient rock cut cave temple situated in Vizhinjam, around 17 km from Thiruvananthapuram city, Kerala. This historic monument features 8th century rock cut sculptures which was left unnoticed for a long time. Vizhinjam Rock Cut Cave Temple is a single-celled shrine with a sculpture of Vinandhara Dakshinamurthi – an aspect of Lord Dakshinamurthy. The outer wall of the cave temple features half completed carvings of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati.
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