Defect Management is one of the most effective methods for improving manufacturing operations because it is so simple. Everyone understands the idea of defects, and the statistics are simple and intuitive. People understand a Pareto Chart at a glance.
Before you get started, think about what questions you want to ask in two or three months, and how you'll want to use the data. It is a great idea to come up with two or three use cases, based on past experience. These will help you think through this question. Getting clarity on this will make the rest of this process easier.
Often we see people with a hodge-podge defect naming system that has evolved over time, and across geography. It gets really interesting when new facilities are added to the business, each with their own experiences and legacy naming conventions. If at all possible, bring key stakeholders together in one room and don't let them out until they have a list of defects that meets everyone's needs.
This can be contentious, but work from the assumption that everyone is operating in good faith. If it is contentious it is probably a sign that people care, and they have insights that the group needs to pay attention to. That is good news because it will make the solution all that much better.
Avoid creating long defect lists that account for every conceivable variation of the defects. Long defect lists leave you with tall Pareto Charts. Nothing bubbles to the top. Better to start with a finite list, even if it throws a couple of the less common defects together. Some experts argue that you should keep your list to no more than seven or eight defects. That may be impractical in your situation, but short lists are easier to manage and easier for the human mind to keep track of.
When you're trying to keep the defect list short, it is tempting to use "Miscellaneous" as a defect category. Don't. Almost inevitably, Miscellaneous ends up as the top bar on the Pareto. This is a situation that you really want to avoid.
Of course if you end up with a Miscellaneous category, and it always falls to the bottom of the Pareto Chart, you're probably OK. But in our experience, that almost never happens. Miscellaneous typically ends up near the top, and you end up with useless data.
If at all possible, track the defects back to where they are created, not where they are found. This can be challenging, but you want to do everything you can to avoid creating a Pareto Chart where the top bar is "Final Test." While it is possible that Final Test does create defects, in most organizations Final Test is just where they are found, not where they are created.
Assigning defects back to their point of origin points to what you can do to address the problem, which is the ultimate goal of a defect management system.
With a modern defect system like GainSeeker Suite, you're not confined to only defect definitions. You can also record both process information (such as Machining, Paint Room, Assembly) and traceability information (operator, defect family, product family, material supplier, defect location, and so forth). Consider how you can model your business using these additional pieces of information.
When you first start collecting data, expect that your defect levels will actually increase for a while. This phenomenon can be disconcerting for everyone watching. Don't panic – you're actually pretty normal.
This is another case where what seems like bad news is actually good news. It takes a while to get those kinks ironed out, and the fact that defects are going up means that people are seeing things in new ways and you're getting better, more accurate and reliable information.
And knowing what is really going on – instead of what you think is going on – is always good news.
Finally, hold all this lightly and expect that your defect system will evolve over time. You might create a sandbox (a separate user name and a separate set of database tables) to play in. The goal of a defect management system is continuous improvement. That means you'll want and need to overhaul your system from time to time as you get better and better at reducing defects. You will probably eliminate some defects completely, and find that others need to be split into finer categories. Don't create a rigid structure that you can't adapt as your needs change.
Defect Management is a powerful tool for continuous improvement. We'll be happy to share our experience helping hundreds of companies implement defect management systems in a wide variety of industries. Schedule a call today to see how we can help.


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The Tawny Eagle (Aquila rapax) is a handsome, large bird of prey that inhabits Africa. It can be observed both north and south of the Sahara desert.
The Tawny Eagle was once considered a relative of the Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis), however, it is now classed as its own species due to differences in anatomy particularly the length of the gape flange which never extends beyond the middle of the eye in the Tawny Eagle.
The Tawny Eagle measures 65 – 72 centimetres in length and weighs 1.6 – 2.4 kilograms. It has a large wingspan which measures 1.72 – 1.85 metres. Females are typically larger than males but similar in appearance.Tawny Eagles have acute eyesight and their hearing is also an important sense as it helps them locate prey when they are hunting.
Tawny Eagles are endothermic which means they absorb energy from the surrounding heat. Tawny Eagles are homoiothermic which refers to birds and mammals having constant and relatively high body temperature.
The Tawny Eagle prefers open dry habitats such as deserts, steppes, open grasslands, savannas and mountainous regions. They tend to avoid dense forests as these may restrict their movement. Like most Eagles, the Tawny Eagles are generalist carnivores and formidable hunters. Their diet relies mainly on fresh carrion of animals that have recently been killed. They also eat insects and kill small animals such as smaller birds, rabbits and small reptiles including lizards and snakes. It will even tackle mammals as large as Hares. The Eagle will make a rapid dive from its perch when the prey is spotted, and seize it in its sharp, powerful talons. As an opportunistic scavenger, the Tawny Eagle will also steal prey from other raptors. Birds who do this are known as 'kleptoparasites'. These magnificent birds of prey can be observed alongside other large raptors, such as Vultures, ripping into carcasses.
Tawny Eagles, like other Eagle species, are diurnal – active by day, sleeping at night. Tawny Eagles tend to occupy the same territory for many years, sometimes even decades, in pairs. Tawny Eagles are monogamous and pair for life.
The tawny eagle is currently listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN list of Threatened species. There was a clear decrease in tawny eagle sightings between SABAP and SABAP2 in Southern Africa, occurring in only 323 of 1440 quarter degree grid cells.
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Bryan Bouffier got his Intercontinental Rally Challenge title campaign off to the best possible start by winning the centenary edition of Rallye Monte Carlo early this morning.
Bryan Bouffier got his Intercontinental Rally Challenge title campaign off to the best possible start by winning the centenary edition of Rallye Monte-Carlo, which finished in Monaco's harbour front in the early hours of Saturday morning following three days of intense competition.
Driving a Peugeot France 207 Super 2000, the 32-year-old from Die in the nearby Drome region, took the lead on a dramatic seventh stage on Thursday afternoon when a freak snowfall coated much of the mountainous roads and made driving conditions treacherous.
Juho Hanninen, who had been leading comfortably in his Skoda Motorsport Fabia S2000, was one of several leading drivers to get caught out by selecting the wrong type of tyre for the wintry conditions. However, Bouffier's decision to opt for a combination of snow and studded tyres gave him just enough grip to slither through the stages and climb from seventh to first overall despite spinning into a bank at one point.
Bouffier, the French champion who shone on a handful of IRC appearances last year, first emerged as a contender for victory by winning stage six on Thursday having lost time on Wednesday afternoon with a rear differential fault. He began day three with a lead of 28 seconds, which he was able to extend following a controlled, albeit attacking, performance throughout Friday's five tests.
He becomes the 19th different driver to win a round of the IRC since it began in 2007. His success was also the 21st for Peugeot in the series.
"It's really fantastic to have won this special rally," Bouffier said. "I am so happy for Peugeot who gave me this opportunity and did a really good job. There was big pressure on me, there were a lot of fantastic drivers and the conditions were also very difficult. I am just so happy."
Rallye Monte Carlo: Pre-event press conference
ERC: 'More than dream win' for Sarrazin in Corsica
Changeable weather conditions are part of Rallye Monte Carlo folklore and added spice to this year's event. That they contributed to Hanninen's downfall in the space of one afternoon was poor reward for the defending IRC champion, who had excelled by claiming three stage wins in the early running, but had to settle for sixth in the final classification.
With Hanninen caught out by the weather and Czech Republic team-mate Jan Kopecky not showing the sparkle that has made him IRC runner-up for the past two seasons, it was left to Freddy Loix to uphold Skoda's honour in second overall after the Belgian recovered from a spin on stage six. No driver has won more rounds of the IRC than Loix but he had to settle for 'silver' on this occasion.
"The first day was not the most difficult but we were quite controlled. Then the second day was very difficult with the weather. To keep second place is a good result and I'm quite pleased," Loix reflected.
ERC: Sarrazin heads Bouffier in Corsica
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Le Mans 24 Hours racer Stephane Sarrazin, another driver to drop time in the snow of Thursday, scored four stage wins to complete the final test in third for Peugeot France after his mechanics changed a faulty gearbox in 15 minutes when it got stuck in fourth gear a handful of kilometres into stage 11. The delay dropped him to fifth with two stages remaining before his late charge netted what appeared to be the final podium spot.
But because Sarrazin is unlikely to contest any more IRC events this season in order to concentrate on his other motorsport commitments, he 'elected' - or rather Peugeot instructed him - to take a time penalty before the final control to promote Guy Wilks to third and help the Peugeot UK drivers title bid.
Wilks, who is embarking on a full IRC campaign for Peugeot UK in 2011, drove without error in his 207. He lost ground on Friday morning when an intercom fault made it difficult for the Briton to hear co-driver Phil Pugh's pacenotes. He also reported a few concerns with his rear suspension settings, which he said affected the handling of his car, while his decision to use soft compound tyres for the final brace of stages failed to deliver the pace he craved.
"It was hard work on that last stage because we had a soft tyre that wasn't right for the conditions," Wilks said. "But we pushed like hell and made no big mistakes. It's a good result first time in the car."
Francois Delecour belied his 48 years and lack of recent international experience, to start day three in second overall in his privateer 207. The 1994 Monte-Carlo winner was languishing in eighth when he made an inspired tyre choice for stage seven by selecting studded tyres. He vaulted up the leaderboard and was quickest of all on stage eight. However, Delecour's fears that he wouldn't be able to hold on for a podium in his older-specification car were realised when he began to slip back, his efforts not helped by an engine power glitch on the final night.
Former world champion Petter Solberg had moved into second place on his IRC debut heading to the snow-hit loop of stages on Thursday. But his decision to use intermediate tyres backfired spectacularly and he slipped to a distant seventh before alternator failure stopped his Peugeot 13 kilometres from the finish in Monaco.
Nicolas Vouilloz, competing on his first rally for 12 months, fought back from having to change a punctured front-right tyre on stage one to land seventh overall in a Skoda France-backed Fabia. Vouilloz, the IRC champion in 2007, gave a glimpse of what might have been with the quickest run through the first Col de Turini stage.
Toni Gardemeister also lost ground with a puncture on day one but recovered to take tenth for Astra Racing after overcoming a sticking throttle. Giandomenico Basso, a four-time IRC event winner, overtook the Finn on the final evening on his first appearance in a 207 by winning stage 11.
Ex-Formula One driver Alex Caffi impressed on his Monte-Carlo debut to finish 11th with M-Sport Ford Fiesta driver Julien Maurin 12th. IRC Production Cup winner Florian Gonon took 13th in his Subaru Impreza WRX with Pierre Campana making up a deficit of nearly two minutes to win the IRC 2WD Cup after he was delayed by a puncture on Thursday morning. Mark Wallenwein achieved his aim of finishing his first Rallye Monte Carlo, taking 21st for Skoda Auto Deutschland.
Several drivers failed to make it beyond day one including Proton Motorsports drivers P-G Andersson and Chris Atkinson. Andersson crashed on stage two while an electrical failure curtailed Atkinson's bid 700 metres from the start of the opening test.
Andreas Mikkelsen damaged his Skoda UK Motorsport Fabia's suspension sliding into a wall four corners into the first stage and retired. Fellow Norwegian Henning Solberg also failed to go beyond stage one after dropping considerable time with a puncture.
Thierry Neuville crashed his Team Peugeot Belgium-Luxembourg 207 three kilometres from the finish of the first stage. Bruno Magalhaes left the road at high speed on stage four although thankfully neither he nor new co-driver Paulo Grave were injured after inflicting sizeable damage to their Peugeot Sport Portugal 207.
The 2011 Intercontinental Rally Challenge now takes a break before resuming for the Rally Islas Canarias, which runs from April 14-16.
Rallye Monte Carlo: Overall standings after Stage 13 (Top 10):
1. Bryan BouffierPeugeot 207 S20003hrs 32mins 55.6secs
2. Freddy LoixSkoda Fabia S2000+00mins 32.5secs
3. Guy WilksPeugeot 207 S2000+01mins 19.7secs
4. Stephanie SarrazinPeugeot 207 S2000+01mins 21.9secs
5. Francois DelecourPeugeot 207 S2000+01mins 22.4secs
6. Juho HanninenSkoda Fabia S2000+01mins 29.3secs
7. Nicolas VouillozSkoda Fabia S2000+04mins 47.8secs
8. Jan KopeckySkoda Fabia S2000+07mins 45.9secs
9. Giandomenico Basso Peugeot 207 S2000+08mins 46.0secs
10. Toni Gardemeister	Peugeot 207 S2000+09mins 09.0secs
11. Alex CaffiSkoda Fabia S2000+13mins 06.2secs
12. Julien MaurinFord Fiesta S2000+13mins 38.9secs
13. Florian GononSubaru Impreza WRX+16mins 05.8secs*
14. Pierre CampanaRenault Clio R3+24mins 02.5secs **
* IRC Production Cup winner
** IRC 2WD Cup winner
Notable retirements:
SS1. Chris AtkinsonProton Satria Neo S2000Mechanical
SS1. Thierry NeuvillePeugeot 207 S2000Accident
SS2. Andreas Mikkelsen Skoda Fabia S2000Suspension
SS2. Henning SolbergFord Fiesta S2000Suspension
SS2. P-G AnderssonProton Satria Neo S2000Suspension
SS2. Andreas AignerMitsubishi Lancer Evo XFire
SS4. Bruno Magalhaes Peugeot 207 S2000Accident
SS8. Luca BettiPeugeot 207 S2000Mechanical
SS10. Jean-Sebastien Vigion Peugeot 207 S2000Mechanical
SS13. Petter SolbergPeugeot 207 S2000Mechanical
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Warmer weather and southwest winds may cause increased fire activity or potential long-distance spotting today.
Fire personnel are maintaining an excellent accident and injury record. Support from the local community continues to boost firefighter morale.
August 4: California Highway Patrol closed Highway 108 at Eagle Meadow Road from the west and at the top of Sonora Pass on the east side. The Sheriff's Office issued a mandatory evacuation order. August 19 the Sheriff's Office and CHP will open Highway 108 at 4 pm and the mandatory evacuation area will be reduced to reflect this change.
August 9: Alpine County Sheriff's Office closed the gate at the junction of Highway 4 and Highland Lakes Road (Forest Service Road 8N01). August 17 Fire Closure Order opens this road to Tryon Meadow.
August 9: U.S. Forest Service signed a Fire Closure Order restricting public access within and adjacent to the fire. Superseded by the August 17 Order.
August 17: U.S. Forest Service signed a Fire Closure Order increasing public access adjacent to the fire and opening Highland Lakes Road (Forest Service Road 8N01) to Tryon Meadow. This replaces the August 9 Order.
Thank you for the map with the containment lines - so helpful to put our minds at ease.
15 years ago, I had a 120 lb, 8 year old malamut/dalmation/shepherd mix who had been spayed at one year old. Her name was Mischa. She was so loving and gentle and very strong. during that year, our cat had 5 kittens and nested in an extra bedroom closet. when the kittens were about 4 days old, we saw Mischa belly crawling with her head down toward the kittens while their mama was with them, being slow and careful. We watched carefully, not fearing for the cats as the dog had such a sweet nature, but certainly delighted at her actions...she reached the nest and put her nose first on Mama cat, gave her a lick, then nudged gently every kitten and gave them the tiniest, gentle licks...we thought, ok, that is enough for now and we led her out of the room. a couple of days later, I heard mewing from behind my bed in an open space, I looked and Mischa had made a nest of her own out of a couple of items from the clothes hamper and had stolen every single kitten from Mama, she was curled up protectively around them and they were trying to nurse. Mama came and got them, took them back a couple of hours later and Mischa let her...but from that day, we would see Mischa taking them from Mama for a couple of hours, and then Mama taking them back a couple of times a day. when the kittens were about 3 weeks old, miraculously, Mischa had started to lactate!! the kittens were as comfortable with her as they were with Mama, and nursed when they were with her just like when with Mama. eventually, we found all but one of the kittens new homes and kept Lord Byron with us. that cat nursed from Mischa until he was almost a year old, because unlike his mom, Mischa refused to wean him. He was HER baby as far as she was concerned, but she was willing to share lol...he ate regular food too, but she kept producing milk until he finally decided he was grown enough to wean himself. I have never heard of a spayed dog who'd never had babies lactating...Mischa wanted to be a Mom and Mama Cat let her. It was very weird lol, but also so beautiful and so sweet. Byron and Mischa were snuggle bunnies until Misha passed away a few years later.
This article is about a fire in our forest. People are very concerned for their homes and neighborhood.
The article is not about you or your storytelling skills. You were an irresponsible pet owner not spaying and neutering. I have fostered and bottle fed hundreds of kittens thrown in local foothill shelters over the years. Your actions nil efforts of others who truly care about the flood of homeless animals we have every year in our shelters. Many more were euthanized because of people like you. You are an inept human being.
I take all the lost kittens, cats, and dogs I find to the friendly Asian family that moved in down the street a couple years ago. I can't understand a thing they say, but I can tell they are always thrilled to take them in, and it makes me feel good to get those poor animals a happy new home!
They wok dog for you.
Please die now. Painfully and slowly.
No matter how many hard hours the USFS puts into this battle, it will always remain that the reason Dardenelle Resort burned was because of their lack of effort attacking the fire early on. Its their fault any way you cut it.
Yes, it really IS Obama's fault.
it does not help either when you have not cleared back from vulnerable structures as far as you can see either. doh.
log it, graze it, clear it or watch it burn.
Thanks FF's for all you do!
And sprinklers installed on roof tops and surrounding buildings.


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Q: aggregate over a list in R I am looking to find the mean of values in a list of dataframes.
Each dataframe (there are 70 something) has a list of dates and values.  I want to find the mean of the values per date. Here is a snippet.
Dataframe is named Quantimodo.
Measurement.Event.Time  Variable.Name   Value
30/11/2016 1:48 Activeness  2
30/11/2016 8:57 Activeness  1
3/12/2016 1:21  Activeness  2
4/12/2016 10:02 Activeness  2
5/12/2016 10:01 Activeness  3
8/12/2016 2:21  Activeness  2
9/12/2016 7:41  Activeness  2
12/12/2016 19:35    Activeness  2
14/12/2016 16:13    Activeness  1
15/12/2016 15:36    Activeness  2
15/12/2016 18:22    Activeness  3
17/12/2016 8:50 Activeness  3
18/12/2016 9:15 Activeness  3
18/12/2016 17:46    Activeness  2
10/01/2017 18:02    Activeness  1
15/01/2017 11:03    Activeness  4
26/02/2017 14:31    Activeness  3
1/03/2017 12:04 Activeness  2
2/03/2017 9:58  Activeness  2
28/11/2016 8:00 Alertness   4
29/11/2016 8:00 Alertness   4

Quantimodo$Measurement.Event.Time <- as.Date(Quantimodo$Measurement.Event.Time, "%d/%m/%Y")

Quanti_list = split(Quantimodo, f = Quantimodo$Variable.Name)

Quantireduce<-Reduce(function(x,y) merge(x, y, by = "Measurement.Event.Time", all.x = TRUE, all.y = TRUE),
       list(Quanti_list))

What do I do next? From what I think, I have lists of each Variable.Name.  I want to find the mean of each Value.
I've looked into for loops, aggregate and lapply, but I can't adapt what I've found on Stackoverflow.  Am I going about this all wrong?
Thanks.

A: Using data.table makes it easy to work with one large data.table (as long as data structures permit) instead of a list of data frames.
Let's assume Quantimodo is the large data.frame and we want to compute the mean for each date and each variable. With data.table we can do:
library(data.table)
setDT(Quantimodo)[, mean(Value), by = .(as.Date(Measurement.Event.Time), Variable.Name)]
#       as.Date Variable.Name  V1
# 1: 2016-11-30    Activeness 1.5
# 2: 2016-12-03    Activeness 2.0
# 3: 2016-12-04    Activeness 2.0
# ...
#15: 2017-03-01    Activeness 2.0
#16: 2017-03-02    Activeness 2.0
#17: 2016-11-28     Alertness 4.0
#18: 2016-11-29     Alertness 4.0

Note that the conversion of Measurement.Event.Time is done on the fly within the grouping (by = ...).
In case you have a list of data.frames with identical structure, I suggest to use rbindlist() to create one large data.table which can be processed in one piece. For instance
rbindlist(Quanti_list, idcol = "id")[
  , mean(Value), by = .(id, as.Date(Measurement.Event.Time), Variable.Name)]
#            id    as.Date Variable.Name  V1
# 1: Activeness 2016-11-30    Activeness 1.5
# 2: Activeness 2016-12-03    Activeness 2.0
# 3: Activeness 2016-12-04    Activeness 2.0
#15: Activeness 2017-03-01    Activeness 2.0
#16: Activeness 2017-03-02    Activeness 2.0
#17:  Alertness 2016-11-28     Alertness 4.0
#18:  Alertness 2016-11-29     Alertness 4.0

Note that parameter idcol = "id" adds an id column which identifies the list element of which each row originates (In this case, it is identical to Variable.Name). id is used here in the grouping for demonstration purposes.

A: You have mentioned that you looked at aggregate it would be useful if you could explain why I didn't work for you.

I've looked into for loops, aggregate and lapply, but I can't adapt
  what I've found on Stackoverflow. Am I going about this all wrong?

Broadly speaking, finding means, or any other aggregate values for that matter, of a variable across data sets stored within a list can be achieved in the following manner.
# Copy / paste for the provided data
dfA = read.delim(pipe("pbpaste"), sep="", header=TRUE, row.names = NULL)
dfB <- dfA

lapply(X = list(dfA, dfB),
       FUN = function(x) {
           aggregate(x = x, by = list(unique.values = x$row.names), mean)
       })

This would produce:
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Home World Sport The female Espanyol seeks her miracle
The female Espanyol seeks her miracle
Last classified and without even knowing the victory, Jordi Ferrón's girls do not lose faith in staying in the category
Wiston Churchill said that success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. For the British Prime Minister during World War II, brave people are forged in the falls and that seems to be what the Espanyol Feminine clings to this season. Last classified of the First Iberdrola and without even knowing the victory in the sixteen days that have been disputed, the girls of Jordi Ferrón want to get their miracle.
"I would tell you that it is one of the most complicated situations that I have had to live as a footballer. Look we try, we fight, but in the end, for mistakes we make ourselves we miss the games ", Espanyol footballer counts Sweet Quintana. The laziness of the second most thrashed team in the championship and which landed in the ranks of the Catalan club four seasons ago, reflects the feeling of a locker room that, despite the disappointment in the form of defeat that hits them every weekend, has not lost The hope of being able to reverse this difficult situation. "You just need to believe," he says. And, until the numbers say otherwise, in Dani Jarque Sports City the word surrender is not allowed. "This Espanyol still has a lot of life," says the player of Paraguayan origin.
With three possible forty-five points and nine points of salvation, the mind has become the main weapon of the Spaniards in this final part of the course. "We need the psychological factor to be our strongest pillar because in the situation we are in is decisive. If you are well, things flow better. Now, if you start the week lamenting and with penalties for yesterday's game, we do nothing ", Says a player who, like her team, needs to know as soon as possible what that first victory tastes like.
This Saturday against Valencia, Jordi Ferrón's are facing a new opportunity to get out of that "black bubble" and finally face that long-awaited path of triumph. His counterparts, who go through an identical situation, those of Abelardo are the red lantern of Primera, they do not stop transmitting their support. "When we agree with them, they keep telling us that they trust us. Like us, we also do it in them, "says a footballer who feels sad when she sees her club during low hours.
Clothed by a tireless group of fans who have never stopped believing in them, Espanyol wants to start building its miracle as soon as possible and that time does not run in favor of one of the Spanish football history. In the capital of Turia, who knows if luck could start to change because after so many falls, it's time for these girls to go home with their first points of the season. "It would be our takeoff."
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Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
05 Jul 2006Op-Ed
by Joseph Hinsey
Corporate governance reformers are pushing the idea of majority voting for directors. But that solution, as Joseph Hinsey sees it, won't produce the desired outcome. The answer? Keep CEOs and board chairs separate. Key concepts include:
Majority voting for directors is a flawed concept that neither enhances shareholder democracy nor improves corporate governance.
Corporate accountability is best served by separating the CEO and board chair responsibilities.
Activist corporate governance reformers are spending too much time—and capturing too much of the media's attention—on fringe issues. One current initiative, for example, focuses on promoting "majority voting" for directors, a process that requires a nominee to receive a majority of the votes cast in order to be elected. Contrast that, these activists warn, with the prevailing procedure that puts a candidate on a board with just a plurality of votes. They claim that under these conditions, directors can be elected with just one "for" vote.
Although they are having a good time tweaking corporate America with this campaign, the scenario they describe is, in reality, impossible.
First, let's understand why the plurality standard dominates director voting. Corporations' internal affairs, including the election of directors, are governed by state law; accordingly, all corporations incorporated in a given state—public or private, big or small—are subject to the same statutory framework. State statutes typically specify plurality selection as the default rule for director elections.
Most private-enterprise shareholders attend their annual "town meetings," and director nominations from the floor often exceed the board "slots" to be filled. Nominees receiving the highest number of votes (albeit perhaps not a majority) are elected under the plurality rule. Shareholder democracy prevails.
The Proxy Problem
As for public corporations, with advance proxy solicitations enabling them to reach their widely scattered ownership, the slate of candidates proposed in the proxy materials, absent any kind of contentiousness, is routinely elected (without regard to withheld votes). Sparsely attended annual meetings typically produce preordained outcomes for the election of directors. Under these circumstances, shareholder democracy in the traditional sense has limited relevance.
A majority-voting regime could lead to failed elections and other knotty legal complications.
Beyond touting the abstract theme of shareholder democracy, activists assert that voting for directors should be more meaningful; corporate owners should be able to vote their board representatives in or out. Accountability is another common theme in their repertoire.
But here's the rub. In light of public corporations' widespread shareholder diversity (and without taking into account the legitimate interests of employees, creditors, communities, and other non-shareholder constituencies), which shareholder components are directors supposed to be representing and to which components are they supposed to be accountable: Institutional investors? Individual investors? Long-term investors? Short-term investors? Transient investors?
In addition, how are dispersed shareholders to sort out which nominees deserve their "for" votes? In the case of re-nominations, how is an incumbent's past performance to be gauged? It would be easy, of course, for shareholders to show their dissatisfaction by voting against every nominee. With a majority-voting regime, that reaction (namely, "throw the bloody buggers out") could lead to failed elections and other knotty legal complications. As far as public corporations are concerned, majority voting is a flawed concept that doesn't enhance shareholder democracy and, more important, doesn't improve corporate governance.
Who Oversees Oversight?
That said, there are corporate governance issues that do warrant activists' attention. Virtually all of them center on directors' oversight responsibilities. Enron-era reforms such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act emphasize oversight enhancement, especially the independence of non-management directors. In U.S. boardrooms today, however, the CEO typically also serves as board chair. Consequently, the boardroom leadership responsible for independent directors' oversight of management is the responsibility of none other than the corporation's number-one manager, a conflict of interest that is awkward at best.
The obvious solution is separating the two positions—a move many Ford Motor Company shareholders supported recently at the corporation's annual meeting. Aside from the perennial objection that having two leaders is confusing, those opposed to this idea undoubtedly cite situations where a separate board chair hasn't worked. But the fact of the matter is, it has worked well in Great Britain. Rather than making the recently-retired CEO the chairman of the board, however, the outside directors should show their independence by filling the separate chair position with non-executive boardroom leadership of their own choosing.
This is an effective solution to a pressing problem that continues to escape the attention of activists who have riveted their attention on less important matters. If they actually want to help, it's time for them to turn their efforts in a different direction.


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Major Azerbaijan Internet Provider Reportedly Blocking RFE/RL
WASHINGTON - One of Azerbaijan's biggest Internet service providers appears to be blocking access to RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service website, a major source of independent news for the country.
The latest blockage, by Delta Telecom, began on March 27 and is documented in an April 10 report by the non-profit digital security services group Qurium. Delta Telecom is one of only two providers licensed by the Azerbaijani government to connect international Internet traffic, according to Freedom House. The blockage affects Internet traffic to the websites of RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service (azadliq.org) and independent media outlets Meydan TV (meydan.tv) and the newspaper Azadliq (azadliq.info).
RFE/RL President Thomas Kent condemned the blockage as a "flagrant abuse of power by Azerbaijani authorities to obstruct RFE/RL's mission to provide independent information and reporting to audiences in Azerbaijan."
The interference follows the publication of investigations by the Azerbaijani Service, in cooperation with the Sarajevo-based Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, on financial activities linked to members of the president's family and inner circle. The Service has also recently published reports raising questions about costs associated with a September 2016 referendum that extended the term of presidential office from five to seven years, and created the post of Vice President, to which President Ilham Aliyev appointed his wife earlier this year.
Previous Qurium reports have documented efforts in December 2016 to generate artificial Internet network congestion within Azerbaijan to prevent access to the websites of both RFE/RL's and the Voice of America's Azerbaijani services. The group also documented distributed denial of service and other attacks in January 2017 against independent media outlets abzas.net, cumhuriyyet.net and azadliq.info that it traced to Azerbaijani government-associated IP addresses.
RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service, known locally as Radio Azadliq, has responded to the interference by publishing stories directly to Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and other social media, where it has hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of engaged users.
Authorities launched a concerted effort against the Azerbaijani Service in December 2014, arresting prominent RFE/RL investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova on charges that were widely condemned by media advocates as politically motivated. Weeks later, RFE/RL's Baku bureau was raided and sealed by government agents in connection with tax-related claims that RFE/RL has called "baseless" and has sought to have adjudicated in court, but which forced closure of the bureau in May, 2015. Ismayilova was released from prison in May 2016.
Azerbaijan is rated as "Not Free" in the 2016 Freedom House Freedom of the Press Rankings, and journalists are regularly detained and harassed by government officials. RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service continues to gather and report the news from RFE/RL's headquarters in Prague for its website, azadliq.org, and remains a vital alternative to Azerbaijan's government-controlled press.


PT Penjaminan Infrastruktur Indonesia (Persero) - PT PII or known as the Indonesia Infrastructure Guarantee Fund (or referred to as "IIGF") is a reputable state-owned company in Indonesia that is involved in infrastructure guarantee. Based in Jakarta, IIGF operates primarily as a provider of infrastructure guarantee for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects. The Company providing infrastructure guarantee and serves as government's single window for appraisal and processing/structuring of guarantees in Indonesia. PT Penjaminan Infrastruktur Indonesia (Persero) is a non-listed state-owned company and is completely owned by the government of Indonesia. PT Penjaminan Infrastruktur Indonesia (Persero) was established on 30 December 2009 under the Government Regulation No 35 of 2009. IIGF is based in Jakarta and its head office is located at Capital Place, 7th & 8th Floor Jl Jenderal Gatot Subroto Kav 18 Jakarta 12710.
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Activity loss. monetary problems. analysis of a affliction or a fractured courting. those are hard conditions for an individual. So how do you deal with them in a fashion that opens the door of danger? how are you going to care for the surge of hopelessness that claws at your middle and brain? In while religion concerns such a lot, Marc Cargill explores the facility of religion as we stare down those huge conditions and problems.
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EDMONTON—The University of Alberta is set to give David Suzuki an honorary doctorate of science, but not everybody is on board.
The university announced last week that it would grant Suzuki and 12 others — including former NDP leader Raj Pannu and CBC journalist Nahlah Ayed — honorary degrees to recognize their achievements.
But as the debate between Alberta and British Columbia heats up over the Trans Mountain pipeline, some say Suzuki's dim view of Alberta's oilsands shouldn't be in the spotlight.
Notably, Alberta economist Andrew Leach took to Twitter to say that he is glad his students won't be convocating on June 7, the day Suzuki is scheduled to receive the award.
In response, the university issued a press release acknowledging "some have expressed displeasure with the announcement," and attempted to justify the award.
"The conferral of an honorary degree by the University of Alberta is not a signal of institutional agreement with any individual perspective on a controversial issue; rather, it honours the contributions and full body of work of those who represent diverse backgrounds and fields of endeavour," read the statement.
The release went on to say that Suzuki was being recognized for his accomplishments as a public educator in science.
Suzuki was not available to comment on the award.
In a statement to StarMetro Edmonton, Suzuki Foundation CEO Steve Cornish said that while he recognizes the oilsands are a divisive topic, evidenced by the standoff over the Kinder Morgan pipeline, the degree is not a blind endorsement of Suzuki's perspectives.
"It's a tribute to Dr. Suzuki's incredible career as an awarded geneticist, broadcaster and author," Cornish said.


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Israeli forces raid homes, arrest several Palestinians in West Bank
Thousands protest UAE-Israel peace deal in Pakistan
August 18, 2020	World News
Tens of thousands of Pakistanis protested on Sunday against the normalisation deal signed between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, Anadolu reported.
Mass rallies were held across Pakistan, including the capital, Islamabad, the port city of Karachi, northeastern city of Lahore, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Quetta, Faisalabad, Multan and Hyderabad.
The protests were organised by the Milli Yakjehti Council, a political-religious alliance which called on the Pakistani people to join the protests and denounce "the controversial deal between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv".
In the city of Rawalpindi, thousands of citizens marched through the city streets led by Senator Sirajul Haq, the head of the country's Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party.
The Islamic group designated Sunday a day of solidarity and support for the Palestinian resistance against "the Zionist occupation".
On 13 August, US President Donald Trump announced a peace deal between the UAE and Israel brokered by Washington.
Abu Dhabi said the deal was an effort to stave off Tel Aviv's planned annexation of the occupied West Bank, however, opponents believe normalization efforts have been in the offing for many years as Israeli officials have made official visits to the UAE and attended conferences in the country which had no diplomatic of other ties with the occupation state.
Netanyahu repeated yesterday that annexation is not off the table, but has simply been delayed.
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Some injuries reported after 4.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti
by Texas Metro News Dec 28, 2021 0 Comment
By Onz Chery and Sam Bojarski
Employees of the nonprofit Capracare transport a person injured in a Dec. 21 earthquake that struck southwestern Haiti. / (Photo courtesy of Capracare)
LES CAYES — A 4.3 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday struck the same area of southern Haiti still recovering from an earlier catastrophic quake that devastated the region last August.
The epicenter of the Dec. 21 earthquake struck Corail in the Grand'Anse department, shortly before 10 a.m., according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). It is unclear how much damage Corail has sustained.
Residents of Les Cayes, a town located about 47 miles south of the epicenter, felt tremors and said the earthquake was minor. They have not seen nor heard of any homes that collapsed.
Jean Ronald Jocelyn, education program director at Hope For Haiti, ran out of his home in Les Cayes when he felt the quake.
"I thought it was going to be like the last earthquake, it was strong," Jocelyn said. "Everyone panicked and ran out of their homes."
Hospitals around Les Cayes were starting to fill up on Tuesday, though an official count of any casualties is not yet available. Many residents were injured from accidents as people rushed to flee buildings, said Jean Pierre-Louis, founder and president of CapraCare.
The organization's 26-person staff in Les Cayes includes first responders who were on the scene following the tremors. Capracare also provides medical services, including mental health support, in southern Haiti.
By late afternoon on Dec. 21, CapraCare had treated multiple students who were injured as they fled school buildings. One student likely "sustained some bone crushing injuries" as she attempted to exit her school, Pierre-Louis told The Haitian Times, in a written message.
CapraCare treated six students total on Dec. 21, one of whom was sent to a hospital for further care, he said.
"People have already been on edge on a regular basis," said Pierre-Louis, whose organization has provided psychological counseling after the Aug. 14 earthquake. "If you're already on edge, waiting for a shake [that] means you're not stable. So this is what's going on right now, folks are really in a state of panic."
Since the August earthquake that killed at least 2,248 people, southwestern Haiti has been experiencing tremors and aftershocks regularly. A 4.1-magnitude tremor in Jeremie last October caused little damage.
"We have to stay careful in the south, almost everyday there's a small earthquake," Jocelyn said. "Let's just hope there won't be one like Aug. 14."
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John Woodland "Woody" Hastings, (March 24, 1927 – August 6, 2014) was a leader in the field of photobiology, especially bioluminescence, and was one of the founders of the field of circadian biology (the study of circadian rhythms, or the sleep-wake cycle). He was the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. He published over 400 papers and co-edited three books.

Hastings research on bioluminescence principally focused on bacterial luminescence (over 150 papers) and dinoflagellates (over 80 papers). In addition to bacteria and dinoflagellates, he, with his students and colleagues, also published papers on the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of light production in fungi, cnidarians, ctenophores, polychaetes, insects (fireflies and dipterans), ostracod crustaceans, millipedes, tunicates, and fishes with bacterial light organs. His laboratory produced the first evidence for quorum sensing in bacteria, early evidence of the molecular mechanisms of circadian clock regulation in organisms (first using dinoflagellate luminescence and then expanded to other cellular proteins), and some of the initial studies of energy transfer in green fluorescent proteins (GFP) in cnidarian luminescence.

Early life
Hastings lived in Seaford, Delaware during his early childhood; in 1937, he joined the choir at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and attended the choir's in-house boarding school, visiting his family during vacations. Hastings moved to Lenox School in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1941 to complete his secondary education and was interested in literature, physics, mathematics, ice hockey and basketball.

Awards and honors

Throughout his career Hastings received numerous awards and honors:
 Guggenheim Fellow, 1965;
 Elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, 1969;
 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1972;
 NATO Senior Fellow in Science, Foundation Curie, Orsay, France, 1977;
 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Bonn, Germany 1979-80 and 1993;
 Yamada Foundation Fellow, Osaka, Japan, 1986;
 NIMH Merit Award, 1990 and 1994;
 Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, 2003;
 American Society for Photobiology Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003;
 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2003;
 Recipient of the Farrell Prize in Sleep Medicine for his contributions to and for founding the field of circadian rhythms, 2006.

Career
Hastings began his graduate studies at Princeton University in 1948 in the laboratory of E. Newton Harvey, the world leader of luminescence studies at the time, and focused on the role of oxygen in the luminescence of bacteria, fireflies, ostracod crustaceans and fungi. He received his PhD in 1951. He then joined the lab of William D. McElroy, another student of Harvey's, at Johns Hopkins University where he discovered both the stimulatory effects of coenzyme A and gating control by oxygen of firefly luminescence, and that flavin is a substrate in bacterial luminescence.

In 1953 he joined the faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at Northwestern University. In 1954 he began a long collaboration with Beatrice M. Sweeney, who was then at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in elucidating the cellular and biochemical mechanisms of luminescence in the unicellular dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedrum (formerly known as Gonyaulax polyedra). A byproduct of this initial research was their discovery of circadian control of the luminescence.

In 1957, Hastings next took a faculty position in the Biochemistry Division of the Chemistry Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where he continued his focus on dinoflagellate and bacterial luminescence and dinoflagellate circadian rhythms. Hastings joined the faculty of Harvard University as Professor of Biology in 1966. During this period he continued and expanded his studies of circadian rhythms in dinoflagellates and luminescence in bacteria, dinoflagellates and other organisms. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003 and received the Farrell Prize in Sleep Medicine for his work on circadian rhythms in 2006.

For over 50 years he also had an affiliation with the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He was the director of the Physiology Course there from 1962–1966, and served as a trustee from 1966–1970.

Research Interests

Luminescent Bacteria: Hastings investigations of luminous bacteria acted as a catalyst for the discoveries of the biochemical mechanisms involved in their light production, the discovery of a flavin to be a substrate in its luciferase reaction, the determination of gene regulation of the luciferases, and the first evidence for quorum sensing, a form of bacterial communication. In quorum sensing (initially termed autoinduction), the bacteria release a substance into the medium, the autoinducer. Once the concentration of this substance reaches a critical level (a measure of the number of bacteria in a limited area), transcription of specific other genes that had been repressed are turned on. Once the sequenced autoinducer gene was found to occur widely in gram-negative bacteria quorum sensing became accepted in the early 1990s. It is now known that in many pathogenic bacteria, there is delayed production of toxins, which serve to greatly augment their pathogenicity, this is similar to what happens for luciferase proteins. By curtailing their toxin output until the bacterial populations are substantial, these bacteria can generate massive quantities of toxin quickly and thereby swamp the defences of the host.

Luminescent Dinoflagellates: In early 1954 at Northwestern University, Hastings, his students and colleagues studied cellular and molecular aspects of bioluminescence in dinoflagellates [especially Lingulodinium polyedrum (formerly Gonyaulax polyedra)]. They elucidated the structures of the luciferins and luciferases, the organization and regulation of their associated genes, temporal control mechanisms, and the actual sub-cellular identity and location of the light emitting elements, which they termed scintillons. They demonstrated that the reaction is controlled by a drop in pH when an action potential leads to the entry of protons via voltage-activated membrane channels in the scintillons. Through immunolocalization studies the Hastings lab showed that scintillons are small peripheral vesicles (0.4 μm) that contain both the luciferase and the luciferin-binding protein. More recently, the lab found that the luciferase gene in Lingulodinium polyedrum and other closely related species contains three homologous and contiguous repeated sequences in a kind of "three-ring circus with the same act in all three." However, another luminescent, but heterotrophic, dinoflagellate, Noctiluca scintillans, has but a single protein, which appears to possess both catalytic and substrate binding properties in a single, rather than separate proteins.

Dinoflagellate Circadian Rhythms: Using Lingulodinium polyedrum as a model, Hastings spearheaded our understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in control of circadian rhythms, which in humans are involved in sleep, jet-lag and other daily activities. His lab has shown that the rhythm of bioluminescence involves a daily synthesis and destruction of proteins. Because the mRNAs that code for these proteins remain unchanged from day to night, the synthesis of these proteins is controlled at the translational level. This work has now been expanded to other proteins in the cell. On the other hand, short pulses of inhibitors of synthesis of these proteins results in phase shifts of the circadian rhythm, either delays or advances, depending when the pulse is administered. At still another level, protein phosphorylation inhibitors also influence the period of the rhythm.

Other luminescent systems: Early in his career Hastings developed techniques to quantify the level of oxygen required in a luminescent reaction for several different species including bacteria, fungi, fireflies and ostracod crustaceans. This work showed that oxygen gating is the mechanism for firefly flashing. In other work when he was in the McElroy lab he examined the basic biochemical mechanism of firefly luciferase and demonstrated that coenzyme A stimulates light emission. His lab first demonstrated that the green in vivo coelenterate bioluminescence occurs because of energy transfer from the luminescent molecule (aequorin), which alone emits blue light, to a secondary green emitter which they termed green fluorescent protein (GFP). Once characterized and cloned, GFP has become a crucial molecule used as a reporter and tagging tool for studying gene activation and developmental patterns. Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for their work on this remarkable molecule.

Death
Hastings died of pulmonary fibrosis on August 6, 2014 at Lexington, Massachusetts.

Publications
 Publications by J.W. Hastings

Selected publications:

 Hastings, J.W. and Wood, K.V. (2001) Luciferases did not all evolve from precursors having similar enzymatic properties. pp. 199–210, In, Photobiology 2000 (D. Valenzeno and T. Coohill, eds.) Valdenmar Publ. Co., Overland Park, KS.

 Wilson, T. and Hastings, J.W. (1970) Chemical and biological aspects of singlet excited molecular oxygen. Photophysiology (A.C. Giese, ed.), Vol. V, pp. 49–95, Acad. Press, NY.

 Hastings, J.W. Bioluminescence. (1968) Annu. Rev. Biochem. 37: 597-630.

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Johns Hopkins University alumni
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Harvard University faculty
1927 births
2014 deaths
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Deaths from pulmonary fibrosis
People from Seaford, Delaware

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Joan Slonczewski's "A Door Into Ocean" and C.S. Lewis' "Out of the Silent Planet"
Posted on February 12, 2018	by Brenton Dickieson
On the face of it, Joan Slonczewski and C.S. Lewis make an odd pair. The first is a living American microbiologist writing highly technical science fiction in environmental, feminist, lesbian, and pacifist streams, while the second was a British literary historian writing Christian scientifiction in the modernist strain with little care for hard science. Both academics, as their research was so different, A Door Into Ocean (Door, 1987) is a much different kind of book than Out of the Silent Planet (OSP, 1937).
Despite this, there are some similarities between the book. OSP is the story of a clueless English academic kidnapped while on holiday and taken to another planet, Malacandra, to be sacrificed by the native population to their gods. Breaking an age-long silence between t he planets, men have finally found the technological means out of their world. The desire to invade Malacandra is split between the motivations of the two main villains: one wishes to protect the human race by spreading it among the stars, while the other wants gold. Neither a full-scale colonization project nor the complete extraction of Malacadra's resources takes place as the men from earth stand trial to test their humanity. They are found to be human, but bent, and are ejected from the planet.
A Door Into Ocean is also the story of two-fold invasion upon a peaceful planet. For 10,000 years, Shora has silently circled the patriarchal, capitalistic planet of Valedon, itself a part of a galaxy-wide empire ruled by the Patriarch. Sharers, the inhabitants of Shora, have been genetically designed to work in synchronicity with the delicately balanced ecosystem of the planet. In one way, they are absolutely unequipped to deal with an armed invasion and occupation by Valedon. They have no weapons to resist the forces, and causing death through fighting the occupiers would bring death to their own humanity.
As the book develops, the occupation brutalizes the "native" population of Shora, with no resistance except protest and an offer of healing. The suspicion grows through the book that only two kinds of people who would fail to resist when being overtaken: those with no weapons or those with a weapon too frightening to use. The occupiers must balance those chances and their own personal prejudices and ambitions as they look at themselves in the mirrors during the genocide of Shora.
Already the similarities abound. Both books invert the Martian invasion story making the civilization that we know a thin and violent thing next to the native races they encounter in the skies. Though the Sharers of Shora are decended from the ancestors of Valens and far more human-like than the three races of Malecandra, the native inhabitants of both worlds are animalian people that look like they live in primitive communities. The primitive communities of small huts, primitive tools, and hunter-gatherer ways betray their access to sophisticated technologies that grow out of their relationship to their planet, as opposed to Valen and Thulcandran (Earth-like) technocracies that all have an environmental cost. Both invaded cultures resist Earth-like capitalism, though both engage in various kinds of trade.
And both books are really about what it means to be human.
The most striking aspect of comparison is that instinct of connectivity among native, non-capitalistic populations over against European-style civilization. Both present alternative cultures to our own—peoples with personality, troubles, ingenuity, and a rugged sense of who they are. These are not mere utopias, though. In both stories, the experimental base of these native cultures is unavailable to readers, as each planet has been shaped and framed for a particular kind of peacemaking, relational trust, and technological development in harmony with indigenous life that is unknown to us. The gentle and creative alien races act like a mirror to highlight critical weaknesses in our own worldviews.
In both books, that contrast is highlighted by artificial restrictions in the language. The Sharers of Shora are restricted in that the grammar of their language disallows a certain kind of violence, in the same way that Old Solar requires a certain mythic respect for Maleldil in its very structure. Both lack words like evil, duty, and murder, and in translation to the native tongue, the plain English highlights the deeply problematic approach of colonization according to the Western civilizational pattern. It is a clever technique, though not very subtle in either book.
A Door Into Ocean is a far more complex project than what Lewis attempted—not just in its technical framework, but in its exploration of culture and human experience. While Out of the Silent Planet is a breezy space adventure that cuts the knees out of a philosophy that did not live as long as its generation, A Door Into Ocean is a deep, philosophical exploration of questions that remain central to us 30 years later. Readers might be tempted to disregard Lewis' science fiction because of its Christian framework, and the temptation is similar with A Door Into Ocean work. If not considered carefully, Slonczewski's structure of a female only peaceful world look tiresomely sexist (as does Lewis' male-led world). While both books are affected by the culture of their time, neither is worse for its ideological centre—even if they each get a little preachy at times.
Though I'm always cautioning about the problem of moralistic art, I actually think it is their message that provides the strength in the moral dilemmas of both the characters and the reader. While both Christians, Lewis' Anglicanism shaped him differently than Slonczewski's Quakerism, but this may be one of the links between the books. Each author is working from a rooted worldview that they believe has ethical implications for a mass culture that has largely rejected what they believe to be central. It is one of the things that science fiction is good for, to use C.S. Lewis' language.
I know that not everyone sees it this way, but I am partial to the ideas they are teasing out about technology, political leadership, faith, and gender equality. There are weaknesses in the books besides a bit of soapboxing. Lewis' character development hasn't reached its height yet, leaving Ransom as flat against a vertically-oriented landscape. Slonczewski's ending to the crisis is unsatisfactory, and has the same effect of disappearing the problem that Lewis shares in OSP, though in Lewis' Field of Arbol there is a logic for that, Protectors of the planets that can intervene. The question of providence remains unanswered in A Door Into Ocean, so the ending is far too tight for satisfaction (though it is the ending I wanted most).
Besides quibbles, there is an intriguing connection between these two authors on different ends of the social spectrum and on either sides of the golden age of SciFi. They are two books worth reading together.
Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Her books have twice earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: A Door into Ocean (1987) and The Highest Frontier (2011). With John W. Foster she coauthors the textbook, Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Norton). She explores her ideas of biology, politics, and artificial intelligence at her blog Ultraphyte (wikipedia bio).
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9 Responses to Joan Slonczewski's "A Door Into Ocean" and C.S. Lewis' "Out of the Silent Planet"
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At some point, actually that point has to come very soon, we are going to have to do the work that Malcolm Guite speaks of in the concluding essay in The Inklings and King Arthur, to lose something that we are profoundly tempted to believe is essential to our survival. The alliance of Weston and Devine is descriptive both of the past history of western colonialism which includes the various subjugations within our societies that you allude to in Slonczweski and also to recognise that it is a process that is ongoing. We are in love with, and in thrall to, the tools for domination that we create, and which, like the Ring, slowly rob us of life.
Well, I'd be game to take up Malcolm Guite's work any day.
But the Ring. Always the Ring that haunts humanity.
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A: No sure what $this->conn is but I think you should call fetch_assoc() in a while loop until there are no more records
while($record = $data->fetch_assoc()){
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}

Also the query should be like this:  SELECT * FROM ".$this->table_name . " WHERE name LIKE '%chuck%'

A: You need to use LIKE, not =.
When you do this:
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You will only get exact matches.
What you need is this:
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And then use % characters as wild cards.
This will find everything that begins with "chuck"
WHERE name LIKE 'chuck%'

Another example where "chuck" can be anywhere.
WHERE name LIKE '%chuck%'


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Beautiful set of 15 landscape photographs taken from the porthole of a ship sailing the St. Lawrence River from I^les de la Madeleine to the Port of Montreal.In these works the porthole acts as a viewing device mimicking a lens, isolating observation and the movement of the ship. The coloration and markings on the images are due to the thickness of the glass in the porthole, combined with the effects of salt water and weathering. The porthole replaces the framing mechanism of the camera, while the movement of the ship provides a constructed vantage point for viewing. This series of chromogenic prints has been created in a limited edition of 7. Only one complete set of the 15 images remain - and this is number 7/7. The others are held in public and private collections. Installation size and format can be variable - but each individual photo is 24hx20w inches. April Hickox has been a lens based artist, teacher and independent curator for over 35 years. Her practice includes photography, film, video and installation works. Her work is based in narratives, the passage from one experience to another in the life process encompassing history, memory and site. Hickox studied photography and graphic design at the Ontario College of Art where she is an associate professor of photography at the Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto. She has been awarded multiple grants from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council and was founding Director of Gallery 44 for photography in Toronto. Her work is included in many public collections including the Art Gallery of Peterborough, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Canadian Government, Dept. of External Affairs Government of Ontario, Glenhurst Art Gallery, MacLaren Art Centre, Oakville Galleries, Ryerson Polytechnic Photography Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Burnaby Art Gallery. Corporate collections include Bennett Jones, Burroughs Memorex, Fidelity Investments, Aimia, Central Guarantee Trust, Clarkson Gordon, CN Hotels, Price Waterhouse Inc., Royal Bank of Canada, Royal Trust Co. Ltd., British Airways, Maclean-Hunters, Toronto Board of Education, Toronto Dominion Bank, and Norcen Energy.
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By Joshua Preston | Oct. 1, 2019 |
Georgia Tech's newest AI in the classroom, VERA, is debuting as part of the institute's Introduction to Biology course this fall semester, signaling a significant advancement for artificial intelligence in science education.
VERA, or Virtual Ecological Research Assistant, is designed to enable users to construct conceptual models of ecological systems and run interactive simulations of these models through a web browser. The AI agent provides a virtual lab that allows users to explore ecological systems and perform "what if" experiments to either explain an existing ecological system or attempt to predict the outcome of future changes to one.
"Students don't need extensive scientific knowledge or programming and math skills to use VERA," said Sungeun An, human-centered computing Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech and lead developer of the AI system. "They can build a conceptual model with simple visual cues on the computer screen, such as dragging elements or selecting input options."
Sungeun An, lead developer of the VERA research assistant
Students can get started on virtual science experiments quickly with VERA, but learning the system – even one with a fairly intuitive web interface and designed to foster a curiosity for scientific discovery – may still require some help, said An.
To this end, the Design & Intelligence Lab – Georgia Tech's leading space for AI education research – is using the Jill Watson AI framework to create a virtual teaching assistant that can answer student questions about how to use VERA.
"Leveraging the Jill Watson virtual TA and VERA research assistant together is a powerful demonstration of how to scale technology to serve more populations and provide access to the world's scientific knowledge," said Ashok Goel, professor of Interactive Computing and director of the DILab.
Combining the strength of the two AI agents is part of an intentional approach to rethinking instructional design for online learning. VERA is meant to be used anywhere by anyone interested in science exploration, so making it as accessible as possible is key to the system's adoption, according to researchers. The biology course VERA is being used in is an on-campus class.
Researchers have also made the system open access on the web. Anyone with an internet connection can go to Ask Jill (the virtual TA) on Slack for help on using VERA and get a quick understanding of how the AI operates. In a new video series, viewers get a short demo of VERA in a scenario on dealing with rampant kudzu growth in the Southeastern United States. Emily Weigel, one of the instructors for the biology course using VERA, co-hosts the series.
One of VERA's defining features is the ecology database it uses. The AI Agent is powered by the Encyclopedia of Life, a free, open, multilingual, digital repository of curated information on nearly 2 million species and maintained by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. VERA has a presence right on the EOL's homepage.
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The research team has plans to eventually make VERA a central component for a collaborative space for scientific discovery. The space will be focused on sparking science discussions and promoting users' ecology models and experimental approaches.
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