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Building relationships – Niina Ahtiainen
Niina Ahtiainen is a Sales Manager who has worked at Symetri for six months. As a new employee she is still learning the ropes and building relationships with both customers and colleagues.
Niina works for our Building and Infrastructure sales team in Vantaa, Finland.
"It's a pretty small team," she says. "There are around 20 people in the office, so we are a tight-knit group. But I feel like it's been easy to become part of the team."
As a Sales Manager Niina's job is based a lot on building relationships with customers and prospects.
"Every workday is a bit different. There's not really one day that's exactly like another. But it's a lot about being in contact with customers, keeping them satisfied and helping them in any way we can." Niina explains.
To Niina, the variation is what keeps her motivated.
"The best part of the job is the variety of it, and of course seeing the results of your work. That gives extra energy to the every-day work." she says.
Before coming to Symetri Niina already worked in the industry but working for Symetri came as a bit of a surprise.
"Well basically I got head-hunted," she says, and continues "It was kind of a surprise for me that I ended up switching jobs, but I'm really happy I did. I have a lot more responsibility here so it's a step forward."
Though she had experience in the industry there was still a lot to learn in the beginning of course.
"It's not always easy, there's a lot you need to understand. But I feel like the team here is like a small family. Everybody was very helpful, so I felt really welcome from the start." she says.
Starting a new job right before the Covid-19 crisis is of course a unique situation, but thankfully, the collaboration within the team is maintained.
"If I have questions or a problem, I can contact anyone and ask" she says. "Even now when we don't see each other I can call or send a message and be sure that it doesn't take a long time before I get an answer"
Changing jobs can be a big decision, so what made Niina choose Symetri?
"I was kind of balancing which way to go. Every time you change jobs it's a bit of risk - you never know how it turns out" she says and continues "I remember I went to the website and read Symetri's values and felt really good about them. Also, I already had a positive impression from the interview. So that's what made the decision for me".
Thankfully, she wasn't disappointed once she started her job.
"It was nice to see when I started that my impression was accurate, I was really pleased with that. Sometimes you have 'values', but it's just empty words that don't have any impact. But I feel like here, our values are really how we live." Niina explains.
So far, the colleagues have been the best part of working at Symetri for Niina.
"I really like my job but it's also important to have great working culture and colleagues. So that I feel happy to go to work every day, meet my colleagues and feel respected. It's crucial that everyone is treated equally and that everyone's opinion matters." She says and continues." I feel like here people are willing to go the extra mile for others. It's not just 'me, me, me', it's really all about helping each other and doing things together."
Are you looking for a new opportunity and want to know more about Symetri? Don't hesitate to get in touch.
Connect with Niina on Linkedin.
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Twitter among SF tech companies that may face new payroll tax
City leaders estimate the tax could generate $120 million annually that would be earmarked to curb homelessness and the housing shortage in SF.
Twitter, Zendesk and a host of other tech companies may face a U-turn in San Francisco's favorable tax policies if a proposal by two city supervisors to reintroduce payroll levies gains traction.
Late Tuesday afternoon, city supervisors Eric Mar and Aaron Peskin introduced a ballot measure that would institute a 1.5 percent tax on the payrolls of the city's tech companies. Revenue from the tax, which Mar estimated could total $120 million a year, would be earmarked to address San Francisco's chronic homelessness and shortage of affordable housing.
Six of the city's 11 supervisors need to approve the measure for it to appear on the ballot in November. The supervisors could vote as early as August.
The proposal represents the increasing discomfort many San Franciscans feel about the influence of tech companies and their money on the city. An influx of relatively well-paid techies has pushed up prices, particularly rents, and made the city one of the most expensive in the country.
Voters could decide whether Twitter and other San Francisco-based tech companies will have to pay payroll taxes.
"The surge in housing demand brought on by the rapid growth of tech sector and its highly paid workforce makes it increasingly difficult for working people to remain in their homes in San Francisco, live near where they work, and contribute to our city," Mar said in an email. "By making tech corporations pay their fair share (in taxes), we can better keep small business running and ensure everyone who calls San Francisco home."
The measure would also lower registration fees for small businesses with gross receipts of $1 million or less, Mar added.
Known as the Homeless and Housing Impact Technology Tax, the proposal comes after San Francisco revised its tax structure four years ago from a payroll tax to a gross receipts tax. Mar and others say that benefits tech companies.
That 2012 revision came a year after the city adopted the controversial "Twitter tax break," which eliminated taxes involving payroll and stock options for six tech companies, including customer service software firm Zendesk, as an incentive to house their headquarters in the city.
The deal saved those companies a combined $34 million in payroll tax in 2014 and has been credited by Mayor Ed Lee and civic leaders with revitalizing parts of the city's rugged Mid-Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods.
Twitter declined to comment. Meanwhile, Zendesk said in a statement Wednesday they share the city's concerns over affordable housing and homelessness, issues that were not created by tech industry and cannot be "exclusively solved" by it.
And, Alex Tourk, a spokesman for SF.Citi, an advocacy group for San Francisco tech companies, criticized the proposal.
"The city spends a quarter of a billion dollars on homelessness," Tourk said. "Extorting more money from an industry who has helped ensure that we have the lowest unemployment rate in the country is ludicrous."
In an another example of friction between the city and the tech industry, short-term rental company Airbnb is suing San Francisco to block changes to a rental law requiring the startup to remove hosts who haven't registered with the city.
More than 75 percent of Airbnb's 7,000-plus hosts in San Francisco are not registered as required and continue to list on the site, according to the city.
Updated June 30 at 12:15 p.m. PT: Adds comments from Zendesk and Airbnb's lawsuit against San Francisco.
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All Audio Irish Mythology Podcast
Non-Indo European Influences in Irish
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in this case, we're talking about the influence of the pre indo european and non Celtic languages that were spoken in Ireland. Prior to the Iron Age participate presents as evidence a large number of words in old irish with no indo european ethnology. And while old welsh also has many loan words of, you know, pre indo european Entomology, most of them aren't shared between the two, so they would have been adopted after the Celtics speakers arrived in Ireland and Britain, respectively. Old middle and modern irish also have in many cases a different verb subject object order than other indo european languages. So one that is shared with the Berber language of North Africa and ancient Egyptian in these languages rather than saying Marcus edits the podcast or Marcus does the dishes, it might be something like does Marcus the dishes or edits Marcus the podcast. Perhaps we also have a consonant mutations in irish depending on what kind of word comes before. So in irish, you have an eclipse is um in the irish word for this is in peru. Uh, he was also the word for just like a normal eclipse. My my, my best, my favorite joke that might one of my favorite songs is the total area of the heart, How I always remember what that word is anyway and the mission, which is, is a shavoo in irish. And these change the sound and spelling of the word by either putting a word in front or a letter in front of a word or a letter after the first letter of the word, if that makes sense. So these changes saying the spelling of the word. So for example, a cow in irish is bo uh, and you'll remember that from our episode of bone, but the, but when you have the definite article in front of it there, cow, it's on vote while his cow is mo uh, interestingly, you'll also find this phenomenon in languages native to north West africa, for example, Full B irish is an indo european, insular health took language that shares common elements with old North African and North West African languages that has also got loan words from basque and then later on latin, old north norman french and english. And so what we're seeing is famous for assad's perfect language constructed from the aftermath of Babel in metaphor, of course. And then on the other hand, in the own, we're seeing the formal Celtic language of magma that wasn't for the rustics. So it makes you think that maybe the people who wrote this stuff knew more about the origins of language and things than we give them credit for, or at least the people who are orally passed these stories down for centuries did in conclusion, we can probably say that we approve of Obama's anti work policy, but not so much the elitist approach to learning employed by his followers. I think that is just about all we have time for today. If you've been enjoying the show so far, you might consider becoming a patron br Acma, be our god of poetry and podcasts. The irish mythology podcast will of course always be free to listen to on the usual podcast platforms, but it isn't free to make your financial support can help us keep making it and invest in things like additional court recording equipment, recording at locations associated with the saga, and paying actors and crew to make full cost productions of the saga that you love. Uh, Samuel Jackson for the role of Alma. Uh, there's a range of benefits at different price tiers and for just €3 you can get early access to each episode, longer cuts of each episode, story scripts for every episode, links to art, each tier loads. I'm not reading it that massive list. Look, there's loads of it going Patreon you control, you quit like sure it's a lockdown, there's no one's going out on the set anyway. Our patriot patriot dot com forward slash irish mythology podcast. And you can also find us on twitter at irish mythology p on facebook, just irish mythology podcast on instagram at irish mythology and on the World wide Web, at irish mythology podcast that I and if you're listening on Apple podcasts or another platform that includes ratings and you'd like to show this a favor, go on, gives a five star rating and because it helps us reach a wider audience so slow and live, thanks for listening is being a great audience. And if you find yourself


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Q: Couldn't get acceleration using OpenMP while reading files I try to read a 500M file in C++ using OpenMP. I split the file into some blocks and load "killed" record each time in parallel,repeat.
I'm working on ubuntu using gcc to compile the file(g++ mytest.cpp -o mytest -fopenmp).
Here I provide the code:
(I've deleted some of my code to make the ReadFile function more prominently.)
map<unsigned int, int> Node2Num;
typedef struct {
    unsigned int num;
    set<unsigned int>adj;
}node;
node Gnode[4800000];

void ReadFile()
{
    ifstream input("./soc-LiveJournal1.bin", ios::in | ios::binary);
    cout << "start to read the file..." << endl;

    //to get the size of the file
    input.seekg(0, ios_base::end);
    size_t fileSize = input.tellg();
    input.seekg(0, ios_base::beg);

    //to split the file into ReadTime blocks
    int EdgesInFile = fileSize / 8;
    int ReadTime = EdgesInFile / PerEdges;
    unsigned int buffer[2*PerEdges];

    int tid, i, j, killed;
    unsigned int src, des;
    volatile int cnt = 0; //all the nodes stored in the file

    #pragma omp parallel for num_threads(16) private(i,buffer,killed,j,src,des,kk,tid) firstprivate(ReadTime,EdgesInFile)
    for(i = 0;i < ReadTime+1;i++){
        #pragma omp critical
        {
            input.read((char*)buffer, sizeof(buffer));
            cout<<"Thread Num:"<<omp_get_thread_num()<<" Read Time:"<<i<<endl;
        }
        killed = PerEdges;
        if(i == ReadTime)
            killed = EdgesInFile - ReadTime*PerEdges;
        for(j = 0;j < killed;j++) {
            src = (unsigned int)buffer[j];
            des = (unsigned int)buffer[j+1];
            #pragma omp critical
            {
            //to store the src and des...
            }
        }
    }
    cout << "finish the reading!" << endl;
    input.close();
}

int main()
{
    clock_t T1 = clock();
    ReadFile();
    clock_t T2 = clock();
    cout<< "Reading Time:" << (double)(T2 - T1) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC << "seconds" << endl;
    return 0;
}

The file I read in my code stores a graph,consisting of continuous lines,each line(8bytes)includes two continuous nodes——source node(4bytes) and destination node(4bytes).Node number are stored as unsigned int type.
But I couldn't get any acceleration by adding the #pragma clause.The reading time has nothing to do with OpenMP,nor does it have a connection with the num_threads I set in the #pragma clause .The reading time is the same,about 200 seconds.
Could anyone tell me where is problem?

A: You are right adding #pragma omp critical before I/O operations !
However

The omp critical directive identifies a section of code that must be
  executed by a single thread at a time.

Most of your code inside your loop is in omp critical section. And the rest of your code is not CPU consuming.
Therefore what you observe is normal.
You will hardly get improved performance on I/O operation with using OpenMP unless you are using parallel filesystem.
OpenMP is really for improving CPU intensive section.

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I am a graduate student in Auburn University's Master of Technical and Professional Communication Program. I am also the graduate assistant for the ePortfolio Project, which is housed in the Office of University Writing.
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For the rebirth of the Fourth International!
Documents of Struggle
Why Things Fell Apart
Is Russia Imperialist?
Marxism & Islamic Reaction
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Full index of 1917
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TB #1: Only Trotskyism Can Defend the Gains of October
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Other materials from the revolutionary period of the Spartacists
For a Labor-Socialist Ticket in 1968
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Spartacist number 11, March-April 1968
The 1968 elections come at a time of enormous discontent over the Vietnam war, deeply-felt and violent outbursts of disillusionment among the Negro masses, and an upsurge in labor militancy and rash of hard-fought strikes. The exposure of the Democratic Party as the party of savage racist oppression in the American cities and imperialist intervention in Vietnam sharply poses the necessity of a break with the two capitalist parties in favor of a Freedom-Labor Party based on a working-class program which can link up the issues of the war, the ghetto and the labor struggle. The 1968 Presidential elections offer the best opportunity in 20 years for the intervention of radicals in the electoral arena through the form of a labor-socialist ticket—to consist for example of a local trade union leader and a socialist, one of whom might well be black—which could build wide support for a decisive break with capitalist politics and lay the basis for a movement to struggle for a Freedom-Labor Party.
Need for a Working-Class Party
The United States is the only advanced capitalist country which does not have some kind of mass party of the working class. The need for such a party of working-class struggle has long been recognized by Marxists and was included as one of the basic points of the Transitional Program of the Fourth International. The increasing recognition of the role of the Democratic Party in the maintenance of the capitalist status quo poses this question sharply as the necessary consequence not only of the objective situation but of needs which are becoming widely subjectively felt by broad sections of the population—student radicals, ghetto militants and now, following a period of relative labor quiescence, sections of the working class.
Yet the American Left, faced with such immense possibilities for the intervention of a radical program, exhibits increasingly its lack of any perspective for this period and turns more and more to passive enthusing and mindless activism combined with an essential cynicism toward a relevant perspective for social change.
American radicalism has long been confronted by the seemingly permanent situation of a working class which has shown itself, even in periods of great militancy and willingness to fight for economic demands, politically pragmatic and complacent, with an explicit philosophy, on the political scene, which is essentially passive—"rewarding the (so-called) friends of labor and punishing its enemies." Such a situation, of course, is not an abstract and a priori phenomenon, but exists in the context of the historic betrayals and misleaderships of the working class by those who presumed to speak in the name of radicalism. One of the healthy features of the New Left movement, and certainly one of the formative factors of its ideology, has been the rejection of the example of the old Communist Party—the New Left generalizes this to "the Old Left"—with its history of capitulationist politicking which found its clearest expression in the support of Roosevelt and the New Deal and continues today as the "Reform Democrat" orientation.
Political Struggle, Not Abstentionism
But the New Left, while presuming to have rejected this approach to radical politics, has actually taken over one of the basic underlying conceptions of this outlook—the equating of struggle on the political front with cynical maneuvering toward the various enemies of the working class. The New Left has instead embraced a concept of non-political and even anti-political militancy and activism. It mindlessly throws its energies into self-destructive physical "confrontation" with the "war-makers" and passively and enthusiastically applauds the directionless and programless ghetto outbursts which leave the situation of the black masses unchanged. The New Left rejects out of hand the possibility for working-class struggle, viewing the political passivity of the workers as given, rather than the result of the absence of a revolutionary leadership. By rejecting an orientation to revolutionary political struggle, the New Left dooms its efforts to failure, and its cadres to disillusionment and disorganization. Impatience and cynicism do not make a program.
The result of this rejection of any kind of political struggle by the radicals is the continuation of the reformist status quo. The recognition of the need for political struggle and the utilization of this recognition remains in the hands of the reformist fakers, best exemplified by Irving Howe and his ilk, to whom politics is synonymous with "coalitionism." The demonstrated militancy of the trade unions remains tied to the liberal trade union bureaucracies; the black ghetto, despite its deep disgust with and rejection of the liberal establishment, still votes Democratic at election time. All opportunity for political struggle remains the monopoly of those whose only concept of politics is maneuvering within the capitalist system.
Failure of the CNP
The spectacular failure of the Conference for New Politics only serves to demonstrate this lack of a political perspective for the radical movement. The participants at the Conference were unable to distinguish between independent working-class politics and the use of the forms of independence to further the aims of coalition politics within the system. Common to all the competing political alternatives was the attempt to build an outside base of a temporary sort from which to exert pressure within the existing framework. With the limits of such a perspective, the radicals were unable to break from those whose aims are an admittedly temporary break with the Democratic Party because its naked exposure as the primary tool of racist brutality and imperialist slaughter is an embarrassment and a threat to the maintenance of capitalist rule. Those at the Conference who were perhaps opposed to this underlying conception of political action could see no alternative but the diffuse and unrewarding perspective of "community organizing" without a program.
SWP's Opportunism
The announced presidential campaign of the Socialist Workers Party in the 1968 elections must be seen in this context. The whole role of the SWP in radical politics has been to reinforce the fragmentation of current struggles into isolated compartments of militancy, without a perspective for linking up these struggles into an anti-capitalist one. While the SWP gives lip service to some acceptable demands and even includes in its formal program the call for a labor party, it accepts the present vacuum on the left as given and, instead of intervening to change it, actually seeks to head off the development of a broader perspective by jumping into the ring a year early in order to "cop the field" for its own candidates.
Towards a Labor Party!
The Spartacist League, at this juncture, calls for the formation of a broadly-based labor and socialist ticket, as a concrete step in the building of a political party of the U.S. working class. Such a campaign, which would link up the anti-war sentiment to which the SWP seeks to appeal with the broader felt needs of the masses, would transcend the sterile concept of a "protest vote" in posing the need for independent working-class political action on a real scale. The fight to build such a campaign would provide a focal point for rank-and-file struggle in the unions around the issues of the Vietnam war, the rights of black workers, union demands and strike struggles, rank-and-file control of the unions, the fight to break the unions' reliance on and ties with the capitalist state, a fundamental break with the Democratic and Republican parties and the enfranchisement of the working people in a political party to fight for their needs. Out of this struggle could come the forerunner committees to a Labor Party.
Thus the Spartacist League does not at this point endorse any of the essentially defective variants, rather seeking to help shape a real alternative to capitalist politics. If this fuller perspective has not materialized by the summer of 1968, it would then be necessary to choose from among whatever supportable possibilities exist at that time. In the interim, we will seek to assist the SWP, as we might any tendency within the working-class movement, to meet the technicalities of ballot entry, while calling upon them to indicate their willingness to withdraw at least part of their ticket in favor of a labor-socialist one and to work for the formation of such a ticket.
FOR A LABOR-SOCIALIST TICKET IN '68!
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Chantal Bellehumeur is the author of 15 books of various genres, available to purchase on Amazon. One of them includes the 12 short stories originally published in The Suburban Online Magazine. Some of her work was also featured in other online magazines as well as anthologies, and her memoir of motherhood was included in a compilation book. Because her memoir was so special to her, she also published it independently. Chantal also published a few articles for a local newspaper.
I always loved to write. As a child, I would staple pieces of papers together to make little books. In my teenage years, I started working on short stories and novels but never finished anything. I also started a movie script with my sister, which never got finished either.
I never actually thought about publishing anything until a friend of mine told me I should. This was after completing my first novella "Veronica's Soap Opera Life" in 2009.
Before that, I was more interested in acting. I performed in a couple of amateur stage shows and joined a Youth run Theatre Company. I was also an extra in a few commercials, TV shows and movies.
My love for acting soon got replaced with the love for my son. I made him my number one priority.
I found it easier to write on my spare time than to work around other people's schedules to act. I discovered that I had to use some of my acting training to write since I had to put myself in the shoes of the characters I created.
I can't stop thinking of story ideas and am often in my own little world now. Some people think I am weird, and I take it as a compliment. I would hate to be normal."
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Encompasses theories, methodologies and tools for modelling, analysis, design and optimisation of self-regulating systems, with an emphasis on uncertainty and robustness of feedback systems. A control system uses sensor measurements to monitor a system's behaviour and generate/apply feedback to the system-appropriate control actions, to achieve the desired performance. Such systems are ubiquitous in natural and engineered systems, e.g. in aerospace, automotive, energy, manufacturing, robotics, intelligent mobility and transportation, communications, biology, biotechnology and healthcare, power electronics, smart grids, wind turbines and chemical processing.
New research challenges include analysis and design of large-scale, complex, heterogeneous and distributed systems, including those with humans-in-the-loop. This research area underpins a number of others across the engineering and physical sciences research base.
Outcomes and Ambitions
Evidence sources
We will maintain this research area as a proportion of the EPSRC portfolio during the course of the Delivery Plan. Although Control Engineering underpins a number of research areas, to date there has been no overarching community-driven research strategy. Over the Delivery Plan period, we will work proactively with the community to deliver a community-owned research strategy which seeks to elevate its presence in the wider engineering and physical sciences (EPS) community.
We will work with the community to understand and address, where possible, any leadership or related skills challenges, particularly in relation to early-career researchers, to support the future sustainability of control engineering within the UK.
Specifically, by the end of the Delivery Plan period, we aim to have:
A community that seeks to establish greater communication at a strategic level in order to foster collaboration on fundamental and applied research challenges. This will enable a greater focus on the balance between developing new fundamental control theory and the use of existing control theories in new application areas
Investigated how control engineers can increase awareness of the research area amongst the wider EPS community and industry, to enable better engagement of underpinning control expertise at the outset. In this way, we can maximise the potential impact from other research areas through informed design at an early stage, similar to how medical engineers engage with clinicians at a project's outset to ensure results' relevance to end-users. In conjunction with a focus on major research challenges (e.g. in aerospace, automotive and energy), this will maximise the resulting impact.
Control engineering is critical to the success of numerous engineering applications and underpins areas including power electronics, smart grids, wind turbines, aerospace, automotive, chemical processing, robotics, and manufacturing (Evidence source 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8).
Over the last Delivery Plan period, research in this area declined relative to the overall EPSRC portfolio, contradictory to the planned trajectory. Direct action and community ownership are needed to ensure no further decline.
Training is supported through associated Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs), although none are specific to Control Engineering, and allocations through the Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP). While the community does not use centralised facilities, as capital requirements vary based on research needs, each research group has access to (often unique) facilities within their department to meet their requirements.
Overall, Control Engineering supports developments in multiple disciplines within EPSRC's remit (with strong links to Sensors and Instrumentation, Electrical Motors and Drives/Electromagnetics, Robotics and Quantum Technologies) and plays an implicit role across the whole EPSRC portfolio. There is a need to ensure that novel control engineering is embedded accordingly into core application areas. Greater co-ordination and capability within the academic community will be required to realise these and other opportunities (e.g. those across priority research areas such as Robotics and Quantum Technologies).
By focusing activities on key application areas, and connecting theories with applications, research in Control Engineering will contribute to a step change in delivering the Ambitions outlined in the Delivery Plan, and particularly:
P1: Introduce the next generation of innovative and disruptive technologies
Control Engineering is particularly critical to developing such technologies across a range of application areas.
R1: Achieve energy security and efficiency
This research area will contribute through successful implementation of the smart grid.
C2: Achieve transformational development and use of the Internet of Things
This research area will contribute through development of novel control theories and applications.
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National Infrastructure Commission, Smart Power (PDF), (2016)
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Tuesday, 2020-01-28
WOSP-C 2018
Keynote: Performance Engineering for DevOps Using Survivability Evaluation of High Availability Systems
Alberto Avritzer, [Sonatype]
As our society evolves, more and more aspects of our daily life depend on large-scale infrastructures such as software intensive computer infrastructures, rails and road networks, gas networks, water networks, power networks, and telecommunication networks, including the internet, wired and wireless telephony. Critical infrastructures are everywhere and they are becoming increasingly more interconnected and interdependent.
Open source software repositories (e.g. Sonatype Nexus) have become central to these critical infrastructures, as they are used to support continuous system integration in several critical domains such as telecom, banking, airlines and government.
In this keynote, we present an approach for Survivability Evaluation of Critical infrastructures and its application in a DevOps environment. We present examples of application to Water, Gas, Power, and Computer infrastructures.
This work is the fruit of open global research collaboration with many colleagues in several Universities and research Labs.
Alberto Avritzer received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and the B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He is currently Lead Performance Engineer at Sonatype.
Before moving to Sonatype, he held Senior positions at Siemens Corporate Research and at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In these positions he developed new tools and techniques for performance testing and analysis. He spent the summer of 1987 at IBM Research.
His research interests are in software engineering, particularly software testing, monitoring and rejuvenation of smoothly degrading systems, and metrics to assess software architecture, and he has published over 60 papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings in those areas. He is a Senior Member of ACM.
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This Friday the 13th trivia quiz has 12 multiple-choice questions. Answers to the Friday the 13th trivia questions can be found at the end of the quiz. Thank you for your participation.
1. According to superstition, Friday the 13th is considered a day of ________.
2. Which of the following is a notable symbol of Friday the 13th?
3. Friday the 13th's superstition originated from which culture?


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Founded in 1856, Burberry is one of the most recognised luxury brands globally.
Leeds City Region Textiles Showcase
Thomas Burberry was just 21 years old when he founded his outfitting business, however, it was in 1879 that he secured his legacy as a visionary and innovator with his invention of gabardine. Celebrated explorers and adventurers turned to Burberry gabardine in the years that followed, including Sir Ernest Shackleton who wore gabardine for his expedition to Antarctica. Gabardine is still used in the manufacture of Burberry Heritage Trench Coats and Burberry's operations in Leeds City Region are at the heart of this. Burberry started making fabric at a mill in Keighley in 2010 and in 2012 took over the site that is now known as the Burberry Mill. It is here that gabardine is woven.
The fabric is then shipped to Burberry's factory in Castleford where both the Trench Coat and other fashion styles have been made by hand since the 1960s. In 2017, the company further strengthened its ties with Yorkshire, opening Burberry Business Services in Leeds, bringing together teams from Finance, HR, IT, Procurement and Customer Service. Burberry contributes to local economies and drives positive change in the communities who support the luxury industry. In Leeds City Region, it does this through Burberry Inspire, run by The Burberry Foundation.
The first project of its kind, Burberry Inspire aims to give young people deep and varied experience of arts and culture while studying the impact on their development.


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Q: 'elif' not working inside 'while' loop I am trying to create a program; however, even when 'y' or 'yes' is entered, the code still goes to the 'n'/'no' loop. Any suggestions?
no = input("How many messages?")
intNo = int(no)
msgno = input("2 different msgs? [y/n]:")
message = input("Message:")
message2 = input("Message 2:")

run = True
pyautogui.click(x=980, y=805, button='left')
while run == True:
    if msgno.lower() == "n" or "no":
        pyautogui.typewrite(message, interval=0.00001)
        pyautogui.press('enter')
        intNo = intNo - 1
        if intNo <= 0:
            run = False
    elif msgno.lower() == "y" or "yes":
        no = no / 2
        pyautogui.typewrite(message, interval=0.00001)
        pyautogui.press('enter')
        pyautogui.typewrite(message2, interval=0.00001)
        pyautogui.press('enter')
        intNo = intNo - 1
        if intNo <= 0:
            run = False

A: You have to add two conditional statements to each If statement. Like this: if msgo.lower() == 'yes' or msgo.lower() == 'y' If you have just a variable that exists or a value, it will default to True, so where "no" was defaulted to True and went into the code-block.


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Community Foundation awards $200K in grants
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MUNCIE, Ind. — The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County awarded $217,716 to 11 organizations during the second Quarterly Competitive Grant cycle of 2020.
The Community Foundation's purpose is to improve the quality of life in Muncie and Delaware County for this generation and generations to come. Quarterly Competitive Grants are awarded to fund projects for which there is a demonstrable community benefit in one of the following areas of interest: arts and culture, human services, economic development, education, and community betterment, according to a news release.
The City of Muncie received $25,516 (from the Unrestricted Fund of the Community Foundation, Ball Corporation Community Betterment Fund, John and Janice Fisher Quality of Place Endowment Fund, and Bill and Nancy Mitchell Living Well in Delaware County Fund) for phase one of improvements to Cooley Park, which includes safety and ADA compliance renovations to the restroom facilities.
MORE LOCAL GRANT NEWS:
United Way receives $1.1 million COVID-19 Economic Relief Initiative Grant
Community Foundation grants additional $11,000 in COVID-19 response funding
Teachers awarded $1,698 for creative, innovative classroom projects
Crossroads of America Council, Boy Scouts of America received $10,000 (from the Stefan and Joan Anderson Unrestricted Fund, J. Robert and Joanne N. Baur Fund, Jane Harrell Buckles Fund, David and Mary Jane Sursa Fund, and Faye Wingate Fund) to provide after-school STEM Scout programming to more than 100 children at North View, South View, Royerton and Yorktown elementary schools.
East Central Indiana Regional Partnership, Inc. received $10,000 (from the Unrestricted Fund of the Community Foundation and J. Robert and Joanne N. Baur Fund) to promote the 10-county East Central Indiana region, including Muncie-Delaware County, for new business investment and talent attraction.
Little Red Door Cancer Agency received $12,500 (from the Bassett Family Fund, Gordon and Pam Cox Fund, Roni Johnson Fund, Jeanne and John Smith Fund, and Jeanne and John Smith Unrestricted Fund) for the Nutrition Supplements Program, which provides supplements to cancer patients to mitigate the negative effects of chemo and radiation treatments like fatigue, unhealthy weight loss, and loss of independence.
Motivate Our Minds received $20,000 (from the Unrestricted Fund of the Community Foundation, Linda and Connie Gregory Fund, Jane E. Hughes Fund, Francis Lafferty Fund, MutualBank Charitable Foundation Fund, and Charles and Claudia Sursa Unrestricted Named Endowment Fund) to support quality academic instruction for more than 200 children in Muncie and Delaware County.
Muncie Arts and Culture Council received $23,000 (from the Unrestricted Fund of the Community Foundation, Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Fund, and KAKATU Foundation/David and Joanna Meeks Fund) to provide organizational capacity support.
Muncie Delaware Senior Citizens Council received $21,700 (from the Unrestricted Fund of the Community Foundation, MutualBank Charitable Foundation Fund, and Nancy J. Smith Fund) to replace aging refrigerators and freezers at the Senior Center.
Muncie Home Ownership and Revitalization received $20,000 (from the Unrestricted Fund of the Community Foundation, Esther Ball Fund, John and Janice Fisher Unrestricted Endowment Fund, and Mid-West Metal Products Fund) to defray the cost to build a home in partnership with Muncie Area Career Center Building Trades students that will provide a home-ownership opportunity in Muncie's McKinley Live Learn Neighborhood.
Psi Iota Xi Charities received $30,000 (from the Unrestricted Fund of the Community Foundation) to restore the Wolfe Home facility, which houses The Bargain Box.
Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana received $20,000 (from the Unrestricted Fund of the Community Foundation, Jim and Mary Rosema Fund and Martin D. and Helen B. Schwartz Unrestricted Fund) for Forward S.T.E.P.S., an initiative that builds relationships and connections across the community to increase the economic stability and vitality of under-resourced households.
TeenWorks received $25,000 (from the Unrestricted Fund of the Community Foundation, Jeff and Beth Lang Fund, and Youth as Resources Fund) to support wages of 60 Delaware County teens participating in the Summer Employment Program.


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Community Reinvestment Act Reform: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?
by the Consumer Financial Services Group
We are joined by Kenneth Thomas, who is widely-viewed as the nation's leading CRA expert and has advised federal regulators on CRA reform. After reviewing CRA's origins and previous reforms, Ken shares his views on the current OCC/FDIC proposed changes, including why reform is a White House priority, differences in perspectives among CRA regulators, the proposal's deposit-based approach to assessment areas and performance standards for larger banks, using a phased-in approach to reform, and the Presidential election's impact on reform.
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How the U.S. Supreme Court Will Decide the Threat to the CFPB's Funding and Structure: Part II with Adam J. White, a Renowned Expert on Separation of Powers and the Appropriations Clause and a Close Follower of the Supreme Court
How the U.S. Supreme Court Will Decide the Threat to CFPB's Funding and Structure: Part I, with Adam J. White, a Renowned Expert on Separation of Powers and the Appropriations Clause and a Close Follower of the U.S. Supreme Court
An Update on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Consumer Financial Services Industry, with Special Guest Naomi Mercer, Senior Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, American Bankers Association
Is the U.S. Payments System Failing Business and Consumers? A Discussion with Special Guest Dan Awrey, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
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This podcast is a periodic publication of Ballard Spahr LLP and is intended to notify recipients of new developments in the law. It should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents are intended for general informational purposes only, and you are urged to consult your own attorney concerning your situation and specific legal questions you have.
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This week's podcast episode: A look at the joint Community Reinvestment Act proposal issued by the OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve Board, with special guest Kenneth Thomas, President of Community Development Fund Advisors, LLC
A Look at the Joint Community Reinvestment Act Proposal Issued by the OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve Board, with Special Guest Kenneth Thomas, President of Community Development Fund Advisors, LLC
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There is more than one way for a light bulb to produce visible light. An electric current can be passed through a filament—creating either incandescent or halogen light— between two electrodes in a gaseous tube, which is called fluorescent lighting. Another method is to electrify a semiconductor diode, which utilizes a light-emitting diode (LED). This is regarded as the safest and most efficient method to produce light.
Because an LED bulb produces light without heating a filament or gas, there is no risk of burning surrounding objects. Even leaving an untended LED bulb for a long period of time beside thin fabrics or dry plants is safe. A lit LED bulb is safe to touch and does not overheat like an incandescent bulb. This means that an LED bulb will not burn out and pop in the way a traditional bulb would. It would also not experience heat loss. Furthermore, while an incandescent bulb cannot provide "instant on" lighting due to a delay caused by heating the filament, LED bulbs are capable of illuminating instantly.
Atlanta Light Bulbs, a commercial and industrial lighting specialist, offers Philips' A-shaped LED light bulbs as a replacement for everyday lighting uses. These bulbs match the luminosity of other light bulbs while delivering the safety benefit of a heatless source.
Since it doesn't require gas or produce any heat, an LED light doesn't create ultraviolet light. While the amount of UV light emitted by other light bulbs is small and considered safe, UV rays are known to cause long-term health problems.
Atlanta Light Bulbs offers Feit's BR30 and A19 bulbs, which are both red spectrum enriched. This wavelength, though not UV, is capable of activating photosynthesis and growth in plants.
An LED light bulb does not burn out like other bulbs. Rather, it will lose luminosity and the color of the light produced will shift. Though standard white light may dim and become slightly blue in color. This eventual color shift marks the end of the LED bulb's lifetime.
A traditional incandescent light bulb may last about 5,000 hours. Halogen bulbs last even less—sometimes just 3,000 hours. An LED bulb, however, can last four or five times longer. The TCP A21 bulb has a dimmable LED bulb rated for 25,000 hours with a 5-year warranty.
The efficiency of a light bulb is measured primarily by how well it produces light. This is expressed in a formula that generates a bulb's lumen-to-watt ratio. The higher the ratio, the more efficient the bulb.
The traditional lumen-to-watt ratio of a standard incandescent bulb is between 13 and 18, while a CFL bulb's range is between 55 and 70. On the other hand, the average lumen-to-watt ratio of an LED light bulb is 100.
Furthermore, LED manufacturers have been increasing product efficiency year after year. It is predicted that by 2020, LEDs should reach a ratio of 150 or greater.
According to Clean Technica, the efficiency of an LED bulb may accrue $135 or more in savings during the lifetime of the product.
LED lighting products are a smart replacement for traditional lighting sources. The wide range of Atlanta Light Bulbs' LED and OLED products are low cost and highly efficient bulbs that minimize risk.


On the other hand, when the music gets away from the California beach sound and turns to Hawaiian influences, it starts to advertise the sun and surf like reggae promotes the Caribbean. As an aside, I�ve never been to Jamaica, I don�t worship Haile Selassie and I�m sure I�d be a sad sight in dreadlocks, but I can�t get enough of good reggae. Which only strengthens my conviction that I don�t need to ride the waves in order to cast judgement on the sounds of surf-rock.
Fortunately, around the halfway mark this album gets rolling in a new direction. The fatuous guitar twangs fade out, Hawaiian percussion fades in on the cue Bombora, and then, riding the crest of a wave if you will, we get some soulful tunes, some laid-back but gritty blues and a fine orchestral theme.
The best two tracks, however, are the titular song and the title theme. The first is an earthy (so to speak) offering from Brett Hunt whose gravelly blues-style can best be described as the drawl of Tom Petty combined with the no-frills delivery of Lou Reed. While the instrumental title is a well-constructed orchestral track that serves to echo the wide open spaces from a beach-side perspective, in much the same way that sci-fi soundtracks and Western scores honour their respective frontiers.


If you've been reading my blog for a while, you know that I write a lot about my first-time buyers and their new homes. I rarely share about my sellers. For whatever reason, blogging about the other side of the transaction seems to be a little bit taboo in our industry. We don't take a photo of our happy sellers on closing day. We don't congratulate them on social media. We might brag about the final price or how many offers they got, but that's about it.
That said, I've got to tell you about Jacob.
We met a few years ago when I was selling his neighbor's condo in Old Town. Jacob invited me to see his place and asked what I thought it might be worth. As it turned out, he decided not to list at that time, and I didn't hear from Jacob for more than a year. Last summer, his name popped up on my phone out of the blue. We were texting rapid-fire back-and-forth, and by the end of our conversation, I had a listing agreement on its way to Jacob's email inbox.
His condo in Old Town was one of my favorite listings to date. We got almost ten offers in one weekend (my boyfriend played bartender on Jacob's patio during the open houses) and celebrated a quick sale.
A week or two later, Jacob was under contract on his next place: an incredibly unique condo in Wicker Park. The home had fantastic bones and a kitchen that was just begging for a rehab. We closed his Old Town sale and Wicker Park purchase seamlessly, and then Jacob spent some time making his new house feel like his home.
He invited me over a few months ago to see his place. It was late afternoon and the sun was just beginning to set in the sky, filling the living room with warm golden light. I walked over to the front bay windows, marveling over the tree-top views of Evergreen Street and pausing to admire his crown molding (it was not there before).
Slowly, I moved toward the piece-de-resistance. A stunning juxtaposition of chic mixed metals and farmhouse touches, the kitchen is so unlike most. Jacob installed the most high-end appliances money can buy, a subway tile backsplash with dark grout (favorite!), soft white cabinets with brass pulls and open glass shelving. He tied it all together with two incredibly cool sunburst chandeliers.
I headed up a small set of stairs to see the two bedrooms, two bathrooms and outdoor space. On the way, I took note of the floors. They had been refinished to a light grey color, a welcome change from espresso or maple. Everything felt fresh, right down to tiny details like the oil-rubbed bronze door hinges and knobs.
After seeing the rest of his home, I sat with Jacob to talk about life and real estate. His job was taking him overseas, and as much as he wanted to stay in the home he had created, he told me he had to leave the city. I assured him I'd find him a buyer who would love this space just as he did.
This week, I'll list this condo for $469,900. Please contact me if you'd like a private showing.


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When I met with Steven Spielberg to talk about Interstellar
Posted on November 2, 2014 by preskill
Today I had the awesome and eagerly anticipated privilege of attending a screening of the new film Interstellar, directed by Christopher Nolan. One can't help but be impressed by Nolan's fertile visual imagination. But you should know that Caltech's own Kip Thorne also had a vital role in this project. Indeed, were there no Kip Thorne, Interstellar would never have happened.
On June 2, 2006, I participated in an unusual one-day meeting at Caltech, organized by Kip and the movie producer Lynda Obst (Sleepless in Seattle, Contact, The Invention of Lying, …). Lynda and Kip, who have been close since being introduced by their mutual friend Carl Sagan decades ago, had conceived a movie project together, and had collaborated on a "treatment" outlining the story idea. The treatment adhered to a core principle that was very important to Kip — that the movie be scientifically accurate. Though the story indulged in some wild speculations, at Kip's insistence it skirted away from any flagrant violation of the firmly established laws of Nature. This principle of scientifically constrained speculation intrigued Steven Spielberg, who was interested in directing.
The purpose of the meeting was to brainstorm about the story and the science behind it with Spielberg, Obst, and Thorne. A remarkable group assembled, including physicists (Andrei Linde, Lisa Randall, Savas Dimopoulos, Mark Wise, as well as Kip), astrobiologists (Frank Drake, David Grinspoon), planetary scientists (Alan Boss, John Spencer, Dave Stevenson), and psychologists (Jay Buckey, James Carter, David Musson). As we all chatted and got acquainted, I couldn't help but feel that we were taking part in the opening scene of a movie about making a movie. Spielberg came late and left early, but spent about three hours with us; he even brought along his Dad (an engineer).
Though the official release of Interstellar is still a few days away, you may already know from numerous media reports (including the cover story in this week's Time Magazine) the essential elements of the story, which involves traveling through a wormhole seeking a new planet for humankind, a replacement for the hopelessly ravaged earth. The narrative evolved substantially as the project progressed, but traveling through a wormhole to visit a distant planet was already central to the original story.
Inevitably, some elements of the Obst/Thorne treatment did not survive in the final film. For one, Stephen Hawking was a prominent character in the original story; he joined the mission because of his unparalleled expertise at wormhole transversal, and Stephen's ALS symptoms eased during prolonged weightlessness, only to recur upon return to earth gravity. Also, gravitational waves played a big part in the treatment; in particular the opening scene depicted LIGO scientists discovering the wormhole by detecting the gravitational waves emanating from it.
There was plenty to discuss to fill our one-day workshop, including: the rocket technology needed for the trip, the strong but stretchy materials that would allow the ship to pass through the wormhole without being torn apart by tidal gravity, how to select a crew psychologically fit for such a dangerous mission, what exotic life forms might be found on other worlds, how to communicate with an advanced civilization which resides in a higher dimensional bulk rather than the three-dimensional brane to which we're confined, how to build a wormhole that stays open rather than pinching off and crushing those who attempt to pass through, and whether a wormhole could enable travel backward in time.
Spielberg was quite engaged in our discussions. Upon his arrival I immediately shot off a text to my daughter Carina: "Steven Spielberg is wearing a Brown University cap!" (Carina was a Brown student at the time, as Spielberg's daughter had been.) Steven assured us of his keen interest in the project, noting wryly that "Aliens have been very good to me," and he mentioned some of his favorite space movies, which included some I had also enjoyed as a kid, like Forbidden Planet and (the original) The Day the Earth Stood Still. In one notable moment, Spielberg asked the group "Who believes that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe?" We all raised our hands. "And who believes that the earth has been visited by extraterrestrial civilizations?" No one raised a hand. Steven seemed struck by our unanimity, on both questions.
I remember tentatively suggesting that the extraterrestrials had mastered M-theory, thus attaining computational power far beyond the comprehension of earthlings, and that they themselves were really advanced robots, constructed by an earlier generation of computers. Like many of the fun story ideas floated that day, this one had no apparent impact on the final version of the film.
Spielberg later brought in Jonah Nolan to write the screenplay. When Spielberg had to abandon the project because his DreamWorks production company broke up with Paramount Pictures (which owned the story), Jonah's brother Chris Nolan eventually took over the project. Jonah and Chris Nolan transformed the story, but continued to consult extensively with Kip, who became an Executive Producer and says he is pleased with the final result.
Of the many recent articles about Interstellar, one of the most interesting is this one in Wired by Adam Rogers, which describes how Kip worked closely with the visual effects team at Double Negative to ensure that wormholes and rapidly rotating black holes are accurately depicted in the film (though liberties were taken to avoid confusing the audience). The images produced by sophisticated ray tracing computations were so surprising that at first Kip thought there must be a bug in the software, though eventually he accepted that the calculations are correct, and he is still working hard to more fully understand the results.
http://condenastl3cdn.cust.footprint.net/videos/5446f00e61646d41b4130000/d9013528-b384-4abf-b3a3-236b905daaf3low.webm
I can't give away the ending of the movie, but I can safely say this: When it's over you're going to have a lot of questions. Fortunately for all of us, Kip's book The Science of Interstellar will be available the same day the movie goes into wide release (November 7), so we'll all know where to seek enlightenment.
In fact on that very same day we'll be treated to the release of The Theory of Everything, a biopic about Stephen and Jane Hawking. So November 7 is going to be an unforgettable Black Hole Day. Enjoy!
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17 thoughts on "When I met with Steven Spielberg to talk about Interstellar"
Movie Masticator on November 2, 2014 at 10:14 pm said:
Really interesting article. Can't wait for the movie! Got IMAX tickets 😱
If you get a moment, read my 10 Reasons Why You Should Be Even More Excited About Interstellar http://bit.ly/1zCppEc
Art Brown on November 3, 2014 at 12:31 am said:
As I recall, Dr. Thorne also did the wormhole physics for Sagan's novel "Contact", which was filmed by Zemeckis, with Foster and McConaughey starring. (Yes, the same McConaughey as in "Interstellar".) Based on what I've seen so far, I'll wager "Contact" is the better flick. (It's certainly the shorter.)
Art Brown on November 3, 2014 at 8:55 am said:
Oh, it turns out "Contact" runs 150 minutes, so the two films are of comparable length. I didn't remember it being that long.
preskill on November 3, 2014 at 7:44 am said:
Yes, when Sagan was working on Contact, he sought Kip's advice regarding long-distance space travel, and Kip suggested wormholes. Kip started doing some calculations to back up the suggestion, which turned out to have a big stimulative effect on Kip's own research.
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Paul Ginsparg on November 6, 2014 at 9:11 am said:
Apparently they needed you to stay with it (though it doesn't necessarily sound all that much lamer than "computer-produced robot extraterrestrials wielding incomprehensible M-theory computational power"):
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/space_20/2014/11/interstellar_science_review_the_movie_s_black_holes_wormholes_relativity.single.html
I suppose that some of these points will be addressed in Kip's book. For example, to explain the time dilation, the black hole would have to be rotating at a nearly extremal angular velocity …
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rrtucci on November 6, 2014 at 10:35 am said:
Well, I don't care what the rest of the world thinks. I think "Silent Running" is one of the best science fiction movies EVER made.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running
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nir on November 23, 2014 at 6:59 am said:
Interstellar, for its few flaws from a purely filmmaking perspective, delivered massively from an imaginative ambitious story perspective. More sci-fi movies should have a scientists imagination powering them. On that note, how do I get Kip Thorne's job, of a science consultant?
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Q: is there any way to represent irrational numbers with a finite amount of integers? I know that rational numbers can be represented with two integers $\frac{a}{b}$.
But is there any way to represent irrational numbers with an finite amount of integers?
My best guess is $\frac{a}{b} ^ \frac{c}{d}$.
it can represent any root of any number, but I don't know if it can represent things like $\sqrt{2}^\sqrt{2}$.

A: There are uncountably many irrational numbers but there are only countably many finite sets (or lists) of integers. So it is impossible to represent every irrational number using only finitely many integers.

A: Suppose you have an encoding scheme allowing you to express a subset $C\subseteq \mathbb{R}$ of real numbers using, for each, a finite number of integers. Then you have a bijection between $C$ and
$$
\cup_{k\in \mathbb{N}} \mathbb{N}^k
$$
and since this is countable, then so is $C$. But the irrational numbers are uncountable.

A: If ${\frac{a}{b}}^{\frac{c}{d}}=\sqrt{2}$ then $(\log{\frac{a}{b}})*{\frac{c}{d}}=\frac{log{2}}{2}$, which implies
$\frac{a}{b}=2, \frac{c}{d}=\frac{1}{2}$.
But if ${\frac{a}{b}}^{\frac{c}{d}}=\sqrt{2}^\sqrt{2}$ then $\frac{c}{d}=\sqrt{2}$, and we would have found a rational number equal to $\sqrt{2}$. This is impossible, consequently there is no solution for ${\frac{a}{b}}^{\frac{c}{d}}=\sqrt{2}^\sqrt{2}$ among the rational numbers and, more generally, there can be no way of writing every real number using only a finite number of rational numbers and operations.


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The phrase 'Trump Effect' has been all over the news lately. Donald Trump, the republican nominee for the 2016 U.S presidential election has become a sour topic for a newly published study. The Southern Poverty Law Centre conducted a survey on what his running for presidency has caused America, specifically in classrooms. The results were disturbing to say the least.
His presence has brought out all the gun trotting, bigots, racist and Nazi enthusiasts out of the woodwork. Racial divides are at peak levels since last recorded in the 60's, sexual assault cases are on the rise and hate crimes are at an all-time high. This has had a trickling effect right down to the classrooms. The reports indicate kids have become bigger bullies, the general atmosphere being 'tense and charged'.
On the world map, if you zoom in on Africa, even closer to the east lies Kenya. I choose to talk about this because of the obvious relations our country has with the west. The urban culture in this country is heavily influenced by the west, our policies are directly affected by decisions made in the U.S for 'foreign diplomatic affairs'.
Donald Trump is one man causing a country to turn on itself, a credible example of what an 'unfit' leader could mean to an otherwise peaceful democratic country. He didn't get there by chance, millions of people braved harsh weather conditions to make sure he won that ticket to run for presidency, women included. Education is supposed to bridge the gap in our social order, so why do we still vote on race, ethnic affiliation, political royalty, amount of wealth and not on qualification and merit?
He has been accused severally of gross misconduct, over a dozen women have come forward to accuse him of sexual harassment. Time and again he has shown his lack of respect for women even towards his own daughter. So why are there some women still supporting him and eager to see him in power? If elected, what lessons will children learn from this? That it's okay to be disrespectful, egotistic, and a megalomaniac because you can still be president? And what kind of children will they be? We don't put much thought into these issues because a lot of people live in the now.
Often, good candidates for leadership positions are looked over for the louder, rowdier, corrupt individuals with the deepest pockets. The truth is, what is happening in America scares me; we know all too well the consequences of electing the wrong leaders because of what it has cost this country (Kenya) in the not so distant past. Are we bound to repeat the same mistakes? Or have we grown enough to make different educated choices?
Kenya is a beautiful country, abundant in nature and natural resources. Electing the right leaders could steer us to economic bliss, away from all the debt, insecurities and social struggles affecting us. We have the ability to see this happen so why don't we take charge? Every vote counts, but not all of us go to the polling stations. We wake up the next day and bicker about those who won. How they could have won? We then quickly make peace with it hoping this time will be different. Is it ever? The potholed road I use every day to go to work begs to differ.
Kenyans are quick to forgive, and very easily forget those terrible events that shake up our country. The power of social media has been abused all too often, serious conversations giving way to funny photos that make light of serious situations e.g "land grabbing and private developers". We are all guilty of sharing one or two of these; yes they are funny, but the implications of these issues are not felt until it's too late. We don't need to be pushed all the way to the wall for us to wake up and do something about it, we don't need to wait until the last tree falls for us to start replanting, we don't need an elected commission to look into cases of corruption whose findings never see the light of day, not when we have the power in our hands to prevent all that. We are so quick to point out the issues, yet no follow-throughs are made. Rarely are people in power held accountable for their actions.
This is a democracy, those people are in power because we elect them. We can choose differently as women, as citizens of this country. Our elections are around the corner, so, in that cubical at the polling station, your voters' card is the pen you use to sign your fate for the next five years. Make it count! No one has to know who you vote for. It's your civic right.
A truly inspiring article. Sometimes I wish Obama could do one more term but it doesn't work that way in the real world we will be faced with corruption and injustice but we can be the first to make the changes we want to see in the world.


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Call for Papers: Global Morrison, 27-28 June, 2017
Christine von Gall	Calls for Papers / Calls for Articles	 April 5, 2017
Call for Conference Papers
'Global Morrison'
University of Greenwich, London
27th and 28th June 2017
Conference Coordinator: Dr. Justine Baillie, University of Greenwich, London
Toni Morrison's articulations of race, slavery, gender and history have secured her place within the literary canon and garnered extensive comment in contemporary criticism. Less evident are examinations of Morrison's fiction and essays that emanate from global, transnational and diasporic perspectives and allow for an understanding of her engagement with global movements of peoples, Black Atlantic cultures and emerging postcolonial interest in ecocriticism, universalism and cosmopolitanism. Early Morrison scholarship necessitated important critical interventions as forms of strategic essentialism to emphasise the racial specificity of her novels by privileging folk oral tradition as an authentic source of African-American literature. Morrison's international stature, and her elaborations on post-racial, post-nationalist identities now reverberate with wider, global concerns in literary criticism and theory. In The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison (2013) Tessa Roynon refers to the 2010 Toni Morrison Society Conference in Paris as 'a watershed moment – the first event of its kind to be held outside the United States, it included scholars from every continent, whose readings of her work took for granted and worked within her status as a central figure in transnational intellectual history' (Roynon, 2013: 112).
Rather than reiterate Morrison's importance as an African-American writer then, the conference, 'Global Morrison', will draw together scholars to analyse the transnational and diasporic dimensions of her work; investigate, problematise and renew the critical language of postcolonial/transnational studies through attention to the relationship between canonicity, gender and fundamentalisms in a post-9/11, post-Obama world; consider the as yet unexplored inter-textual relationship between Morrison's work and the novels of West African writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NoViolet Bulaweyo and Taiye Selasi. The complexities involved in translating Morrison's work will also be investigated and there will be contributions exploring the reception of her fiction and criticism across the world, for example, in France, Japan, South Africa and the Caribbean.
Proposals that address the above, as well as the following questions, are welcome:
What is the significance of Paris as a nexus of the Black Atlantic for Morrison's work?
How are idealisations of transnationalism or cosmopolitanism complicated by reading Morrison's work?
What is the significance of Morrison's work for contemporary postcolonial/transnational theory?
How does attention to ecocritical, gender, translation concerns broaden an understanding of Morrison's work within a global context?
What does Morrison's work reveal about questions of space, time and economic flows in relation to the transnational?
Abstracts of 2-300 words, accompanied by 100 words biography, for 30 minute papers to be sent to j.j.baillie@gre.ac.uk before 24th April 2017.
Cambridge Scholars have expressed an interest in publishing an edited collection of the conference proceedings.
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Ellen Kemp on July 23, 2019	 July 23, 2019
#Crucial21DbW: I Am Not a Witch directed by Rungano Nyoni
Mixing bleak realism with satire, and modest moments of warmth, I Am Not a Witch is an unforgettably powerful debut feature from Welsh-Zambian director, Rungano Nyoni.
I Am Not a Witch is the story of Shula, a seven year-old orphan who, upon being accused of witchcraft by local villagers, is bound to a white ribbon to prevent her from flying away, and given a choice: cut the ribbon, and transform into a goat, or admit to being a witch, and be detained indefinitely in a government-run witch camp.
From this absurd point of departure the story unravels much like the taut, weighty yet enchantingly elegant spools of ribbon that confine the accused witches. Mixing bleak realism with satire, and modest moments of warmth, I Am Not a Witch is an unforgettably powerful debut feature from Welsh-Zambian director, Rungano Nyoni.
The film's humour is brutal, yet carefully orchestrated: Nyoni laces her tragicomedy with moments of irony and bathos, gradually intensifying the dizzying preponderousness of the seemingly essential role that witchcraft plays in local affairs. After, unsurprisingly, choosing to accept her accusation, Shula is whisked around the region by a government official, becoming the designated 'civil witch' used to settle court cases, forced to perform rain dances, even taken on a talk-show to promote a range of witch-branded products.
But despite the alienating, twisted logic of the situation, Nyoni never loses sight of the seriousness of real-life witch accusations that still plague modern Africa. Instead she deploys her cinematic gags, such as the unexpected bursts of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, in order to jolt the viewer into recognising the incongruity of Shula's suffering, refusing to romanticise. Dark humour is nestled in subtext, veiled just enough to administer the audience an unsettling dose of doubt. Indeed, while the film's tension is built upon nervous silences and raw threats of violence towards Shula, Nyoni's wordless directorial commentary invites the sharp scrutiny that makes the film compellingly political, without becoming didactic.
But I Am Not a Witch also goes beyond the issue of witchcraft to shed a harsh light on the anachronistic remnants of the distorted superstitions that grow through the cracks in the corrupt bureaucratic structures of our postcolonial world. It is a rich and revelatory insight into opportunism and the exploitation of fear, the relevance of which is unlikely to dwindle any time soon.
I Am Not a Witch is available to stream on Amazon, Google Play, Vudu, and YouTube. Follow on Facebook, Twitter and the film's website. Find out more about Rungano Nyoni on her website.
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Ofcom's Annual Pricing Trends report 2020
Gulistan Ladha2021-07-22T10:46:02+00:00
Ofcom has published pricing trends for residential phone, mobile, broadband and TV in the UK in 2020. The data shows that broadband and mobile customers are benefiting from better services and lower pricing:
The average amount of broadband data households used increased by 342%.
The average download speed increased by 178%.
The average new customer prices for superfast broadband and landline bundles were 20% cheaper in real terms compared with 2015.
The average cost of mobile services, based on average use across all mobile users, was over 20% cheaper in real terms than in 2015
4% of broadband users (around a million) took a standalone broadband service in November 2020 (no fixed line).
75% of traditional pay-TV services are bought as part of a bundle.
24% of households said they had switched either their fixed landline, mobile, broadband or pay-TV service in the previous 12 months.
Several fixed telecoms providers offer targeted discounted tariffs (on a voluntary basis) for people with affordability issues.
During the pandemic, providers have been offering support to ensure that vulnerable households could get connected to the services they needed to access home learning and information resources. This included providers zero-rating data to a number of educational services and websites to help inclusive allowances go further, and giving additional data to support disadvantaged children and NHS staff. The BBC launched an extensive educational initiative to help ensure that students had the opportunity to continue to follow the appropriate core parts of the national curriculum online.
The full report can be found here.
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Policy & Programme Manager
Prior to joining BSG in August 2019, Gulistan worked in the corporate telecoms and tech sectors.
Her last role was in the BT Group Regulatory Affairs team where she specialised in consumer policy and regulation. At EE (previously T-Mobile and One2One), Gulistan was involved in launches of new products and services, including mobile number portability, iPhone and Apple watch, 3G, 4G (LTE), Voice over WiFi, Auto-Switching and Mobile Bill Capping. She also worked on government projects such as the Emergency Services Network, eCall, 999, 101 and NHS 111 services and programme managed security and resilience audits.
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