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Daydreams of a cinephiliac
Gustav Deutsch, based in Vienna, is one of the masters of found footage films and, among those who keep an eye on latest developments in experimental cinema, a name already familiar from his impressive opus Film Ist. 1-12 (Avanto 2001 & 2002). For Deutsch, recycling old film footage is not an occasion for vague and superficial "media criticism", but instead a very natural and seemingly effortless way of observing the world in and through the magical radiance of cinema. For Deutsch, "accidentally discovered" material is more a result of long and arduous background research collecting factual evidence of almost archaeological dimensions from the dead angles and forgotten domains of the history of cinema.
Deutsch is now coming to Avanto with his brand-new film World Mirror Cinema (2005). The film takes as its starting points three street scenes in front of three cinemas nearly a hundred years ago: the Kinematograf Theater Erdberg in Vienna in 1912, the Apollo Theater in Surabaya and the Cinema São Mamede Infesta in Porto in 1929. Accidental passers-by in Austria, Indonesia and Portugal become the unwitting participants of Deutsch's surreal fantasy game. Time after time, the image zooms on a single person, after which we witness a historical episode from this person's (imaginary) life.
We will also screen a selection of early short films by Gustav Deutsch, which are described below. Some of them are so short and dense in their expression that Mr. Deutsch has requested them to be screened twice in succession!
GUSTAV DEUTSCH: World Mirror Cinema (93min, 2005, music by Burkhard Stangl and Christian Fennesz)
Episode 1 : Kinematograf Theater Erdberg, Wien 1912
Episode 2 : Apollo Theater, Surabaya 1929
Episode 3 : Cinema São Mamede Infesta, Porto 1930
EARLY SHORT FILMS BY GUSTAV DEUTSCH
Tradition ist die Weitergabe des Feuers und nicht die Anbetung der Asche
Film/spricht/viele/Sprachen
Tradition ist die Weitergabe des Feuers und nicht die Anbetung der Asche ("Tradition Is the Handing on of Fire, not the Worship of Ashes", 35mm, colour, 1min, 1999)
Some found footage - made of cellulose nitrate - the material
Fire - a threat to nitrate film - its theme
A quote - from Gustav Mahler - its message
The soundtrack - by Christian Fennesz - as the bridge.
(Gustav Deutsch)
Film/spricht/viele/Sprachen ("Film/Speaks/Many/Languages", 35mm, colour, 1min, 1995)
21 fragments of a feature film
found in Casablanca
re-worked in Vienna.
39 fragments of an Indian feature film with French and Arabic subtitles were found on Boulevard Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah. Of these, 21 were used to (re)construct a one minute story comprising 4 parts which take place in 4 locations dictated by the original material: 1-horse-drawn carriage, 2-swimming pool, 3-petrol station, 4-bar. The thematic areas are 1-love, 2-jealousy, 3-crime, 4-business dealings.
The length of each fragment is as found, the sequences re-ordered and separated from each other by a single monochromatic frame. Each of the four headings has a colour and a word assigned to it. The colours are as follows: 1-orange, 2-turquoise, 3-violet, 4--blue.
The words: 1-Film, 2-Speaks, 3-Many, 4-Languages. The words (in white letters) cover the whole area of the screen, with the appropriate colour as background. The pieces are preserved as found and seen as a film object - the accumulated damage, dirt, sound track and perforation are all visible.
Film ist mehr als Film
Film ist mehr als Film ("Film is more than film", 35mm, colour, b/w, 1min, 1996)
55/95, 35mm, b/w, 1min, 1994
24 formula on the medium film
24 sound quotes on film history
25 frames of a blink of an eye.
Film is the word which fills the screen, white on green, silent. And then things begin to move, the writing rolls and the impressions crackle. More, however, towards the passages of the ear than in the direction of the retina, even when one sees an eye again and again. An eye - alone and larger than life - a dissected person and a film for the ears. Not only in the films of Gustav Deutsch and not only sometimes, cinema follows a convoluted logic.
24 terms associated with cinema - food for the ears and eyes - 24 two-second minimal films about audio-visual art. You read "memory" while an orchestra plays an emotionally loaded abbreviation representing all the flash-backs in the history of cinema. Read "propaganda" to a short war-like drum roll. "Language" appears and an unknown voice postulates, correctly, Godard. "Passion" is a short dialogue between screen lovers and "Light and Darkness" a salvo of percussive revolver shots. Cinema is a battlefield and an amour fou, a time between two blinks of the eye or an artificially delineated territory between two signal beeps.
Perhaps this is an advertising film, but it is one which leaves its goal behind because in a few seconds, thousands of aspects of film watching, hearing and loving are packed in a nutshell - compressed "cinephilie". (Stefan Grissemann)
no comment - minimundus AUSTRIA
no comment - minimundus AUSTRIA (35mm, b/w, 13min, 1996)
A picture of Austria by Austrians with selected public views taken from home movies from the fifties. A fictional private newsreel in TV news style, without comment, with original soundtrack material from the archives.
Using private material from the years 1953 to 1956, Gustav Deutsch makes no comment - minimundus AUSTRIA the scene of a memorable collision between two systems of news reporting and identity mediation. From a distance of over forty years, two paradigms, two stylistic blooms, race towards one another. The good old black-and-white newsreel meets side tracks of cable Euro News. Under the logo of "no comment", almost meditative impressions of all the conceivable places and crisis spots of the world stand purely for themselves. Although in both cases the pictures appear to be interchangeable at first glance, the soundtrack and subtitles are crucial. With the newsreels preference is given to using silent material synchronised with sensational commentary and lively music. With "Euro News", the intention is that the original (perfect) sound can say more than a thousand words.
Deutsch also synchronises, that is to say he underlays the, for experimental film, opulent opening credits with fragments of optimistic obligato scores. A small girl steps from behind the Arc de Triomphe in the Carinthian Minimundus (miniature world). With this single step whole perspectives are shifted, just as a little later orchestra sounds and model railways run a competitive race. And then Deutsch adds appropriate sounds to the silent material and thus subverts the character of the no comment clips in that he invests a falsification with naturalistic authenticity.
(Claus Philipp)
Sa. 29 Juni / Arctic Circle
Adria-Urlaubsfilme 1954–68
Sa. 29 Juni / Arctic Circle (16mm, colour, 3min, 1990)
Two married couples on a journey from Vienna to the North Cape and back. On Saturday, 29th of June they cross the polar circle and stop by the sign which says "Arctic Circle".....
Adria-Urlaubsfilme 1954-68 ("Adria Holiday Films 1954-68", 16mm, colour, b/w, 35min, 1990)
A collection of countless holiday films filled with clichès. The material dates from the fifties and sixties when holiday filming was rather more common than now. Gustav Deutsch's approach was simple and effective: He ordered the clichès systematically, and edited them into small series. (Rotterdam Film Festival - Catalogue 1994)
World Mirror Cinema in Orion on Friday, November 18th at 17:00 and Saturday, November 19th at 21:00.
Early short films by Gustav Deutsch in Orion on Friday, November 18th at 21:00 and Saturday, November 19th at 17:00.
Gustav Deutsch will introduce both programmes in their first screening on Friday, November 18th.


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Q: Why am I getting a blank author in bibtex when it exists I have something like the following citation in my bibtex file. I am using IEEEtranN bibliography style.
@electronic{UT,
    author = {{Test}},
    title = {{Test Code}},
    url = "http://test.com"
}

However, for some reason the author does not appear in my bibliography but all the other information does;
——. Test Code. [Online]. Available: http://test.com

Can anyone tell me why this is happening and what can be done to stop it?

A: As Mico commented, this is the expected behavior for IEEEtranN (and the other IEEEtran styles), i.e., if an author is cited two or more times, then the name is printed only the first time and any subsequent repeated entries are printed with a horizontal line instead of the author name.
To change this behavior you can use the \noop approach. This is a workaround that is normally used to change the sort order of bibliography entries, see for example Sorting bibliography according to the order in .bib file. However, it can also be used to make two authors appear differently to Bibtex while they are printed equally.
The idea is that you add a command in front of the author name that does nothing, i.e., a non-operation or 'no-op'. This command just takes an argument and discards it, so nothing is printed. However, since the command is part of the author name field, it is used for sorting and also for determining if two author fields have the same contents. If one entry has a noop command and the other does not, or if they both have the command but with different arguments, then the author is 'different' and the full name is printed for the second entry instead of a horizontal line.
The special command should be defined in the preamble of the .bib file using a @PREAMBLE entry.
MWE, .bib:
@PREAMBLE{"\def\authornoop#1{}"}

@electronic{testone,
    author = {{\authornoop{T}}Test},
    title = {Test Code 1},
    url = "http://test.com"
}

@electronic{testtwo,
    author = {Test},
    title = {Test Code 2},
    url = "http://test.com"
}

.tex:
\documentclass{IEEEtran}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\begin{document}
\citet{testone} \citet{testtwo}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtranN}
\bibliography{mybibfile}
\end{document}

Result:

Note that this may change the sort order. You can modify the argument to \authornoop to correct this, and add another \authornoop to other entries if needed.
Alternatively, you can try a more robust approach by editing the .bst file, see for example Is it normal for BibTeX to replace similar author names with "------"?.
Note that if you plan to submit a paper to IEEE then they actually want to format repeated authors like this, so your modifications will likely be reversed on publication.

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What phones from straight talk use verizon towers?
I could be wrong, and please correct me if I am, but I believe you need to have a phone that was a Verizon branded phone FIRST in order to use Verizon towers. Just like the Samsung Galaxy II was 'first' an AT&T branded phone, then it will only work on the AT&T network through StraightTalk.
I own the LG Optimus Zip and my husband has the Samsung Galaxy Showcase. The Showcase is the closest phone to a Samsung Galaxy S4 but, it is considered to be the S1. It works ok. There are a lot of glitches on his phone. My phone was great until I started to get notices of low memory. I have every single possible thing moved to my SD card but, there are some apps you cannot move to your SD card and you have to just delete all of those. You also have to go into your settings, manage apps, and clear the Caches of every single app. Facebook takes up a lot of space and it cannot be moved to the SD card. My phone needs 25mb of memory to run the Android operating system but, on a daily basis if I do not clear memory, delete old texts, clear my call log... I only have about 18mb. Other than that I love the Optimus Zip because it has a full qwuerty keyboard. Both of our phones are on the Verizon towers. You cannot see online which phone is for which tower when you are browsing the straightalk website but, if you go to Walmart they can show you where to look on the box, the bottom right hand corner usually and it will say CDMA. They also have a picture of the USA with the areas in red marked where the phone should work.
I've had to deal with the lousy Sprint signal for a few years now. They, did, however send me a Sprint Airave that connects to your internet and boosts your signal. It works pretty good. I just don't know if you can buy one, but I'm pretty sure you can.
Yep--the Proclaim. I have one after researching which, (if any) android phones use Verizon towers through Straight Talk. I've had mine about 6 months now, works great. When I bought it, it was the only android they sold that did use Verizon. I've been with Straight Talk for about four years now and I love them. There was one time I bought a phone that used Sprint from them--same problem. I promptly returned it and have carefully researched each time I buy a new one.
You can use some phones that are not straight talk. its the BYOP (bring you own phone) program they are now offering. know several people that have used u.s cellular and Verizon phones just have to check the straight talk website for compatibility.
150$ after taxes. They no longer give them out. My area was busted up good after Sandy and they even turned me down.
I'm looking for a phone that is on verizon towers that has Android 4.0 for less than $200. Any ideas? I'm looking online but its pretty labor intensive looking at each phone.
Any ideas? It's for my Dad.
You are correct this device uses the Verizon service.
Galaxy Proclaim shows as Android 2.3, not 4.0. Looking to buy Android 4.0 using verizon towers for under $200.
They may have them cheaper just look around on ebay.
If you go to straight talk .com and select phones, enter in your zip code, the phones that come up with the red map are verizon phones. All others are AT&T and T mobile.
straight talk galaxy grand prime text messages not sending or recieving verizon line how to fix phone?
Verizon SIM card Straight Talk phone?
What Verizon android smartphones work with Straight Talk?
Unlocked phone to straight talk w verizon sim.
What verizon phones are compatible for straight talk using the Bring your own phone option?


What do you think the Olympian is listening to?!
This is exactly what we needed for Pride month!
Thanks to Billboard, we now know what songs Olympian Adam Rippon is jamming too. The list features some popular tracks, but there's definitely a curve ball or two thrown in there.
The most iconic quote from the article was, "I'm a huge Dua Lipa fan. I think her whole album is so cool. I could have put her whole album on this playlist and called it a day, to be honest." Same Adam, same -- shoutout to mt favorite Dua track "Begging!"
So what's on his playlist? Well Dua & Calvin's "One Kiss," Kim Petras "I Don't Want It at All" (legend), Kah-Lo "Fasta," and Maty Noyes "Say It to My Face," which was one of my previous Bops of the Week!
Click here to check out the full list on Billboard!


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Q: Meteor 1.4.1 release not functional on Windows I tried to install Meteor on another system. Installation go well, then I copied my project and I am running meteor run but
"Extracting meteor-tool@1.4.0-1" it is happening forever. Then I tried to update version number to 1.4.1 and run again "meteor run". Now I do not need to install 1.4.0.1 so it worked but got stuck on extracting on other modules.
Possible reasons can be extraction program of this is release is faulty. Would someone suggest a solution or how can I download 1.4.0.1 release of meteor directly?
https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/7688

A: I found the answer of this problem. This is problem with tar extractor.
I installed the newest 7zip and renamed the tar.exe in my GIT program folder ("where tar" command in cmd revealed, that somehow that exe was associated with .tar archives) to tar.exe.old.
If you can not find where is tar then run "where tar" command to get path of tar.exe
This solves the problem.

A: Take a look at this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40122752/6861101

Try adding the following to your local hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts):
54.192.225.217 warehouse.meteor.com
Then run a meteor reset in your app directory (warning - will wipe your local DB), then try starting your app again.

This worked for me.


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John Bosco Presents New Single "Lie To Me"
By Bobby Miles 3 weeks ago
New Music Out Now
Darien, Illinois – December 23, 2019 – Having lived around the world and then some, John Bosco came up with a varied love of music, in the end, it's culminated in a sound that touches a multitude of bases – each resulting in a home run with his latest single, "Lie To Me."
"Lie To Me" is both catchy and captivating all at the same time. With reggae undertones that transport one to the island intertwined with Afrobeats and modern pop, it's a song meant for mainstream audiences. Fans who love everyone from Travis Scott to Justin Bieber will appreciate the marriage of genres found within the confines of John Bosco's most recent release.
Growing up in Ghana, John Bosco was inspired by Afrobeats and hop pop early on, but when he started making his own music he noticed his love and talent for a more melodic approach. He notes, "As I got older, I wanted to stand out uniquely. So I combined my favorite genres (hip pop and Afrobeats) to create something different."
Both the single and the video for "Lie To Me" are available now. Those interested in adding new music to their hip hop or pop playlists, featuring the video on their site, or interviewing John Bosco can reach out via the information provided below.
To hear "Lie To Me" from John Bosco, please visit: https://youtu.be/0qsnUFijQCc
John Bosco took a lifetime of calling various places on the globe home, his upbringing, and a chill factor to the table to create his latest single, "Lie To Me," featuring Walt Jackson.
John Bosco
boscomusiq@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/originalbos
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/originalbosco
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/originalbosco
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1FGZFI8EUaODCDite48ga
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Abstract—Bioenergy is a renewable energy and is generated by treating biomass with various technologies. Depending upon the nature of biomass, it is more suitable for one technology than others, and they can further be treated with other technologies. Hence, the biomass follows a pathway of technologies, and the pathway is called bioenergy pathway. Currently, bioenergy pathways are created manually: either by manually sketching or by creating the data manually and generating diagrams from the data. Manually generated pathways are prone to human errors. A solution to this is creating semantic pathways automatically. In this paper, we present the bioenergy ontology to generate semantic pathways automatically. In particular, we have leveraged the Semantic Web technologies to represent the bioenergy knowledge and inferred the pathways. The case study has been carried out in one of the INTERREG Project and found promising results.
Index Terms—Bioenergy ontology, pathway, semantic pathway, bioenergy conversion pathways, bioenergy routes, biomass, bioenergy.
Krishna Sapkota, Pathmeswaran Raju, Craig Chapman, and William Byrne are with Centre for Knowledge Based Engineering, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK (e-mail: krishna.sapkota@bcu.ac.uk, path.raju@bcu.ac.uk, craig.chapman@bcu.ac.uk, william.byrne@bcu.ac.uk).
Lynsey Melville is with Centre for Low Carbon Research, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK (e-mail: lynsey.melville@bcu.ac.uk).
Cite: Krishna Sapkota, Pathmeswaran Raju, Craig Chapma, William Byrne, and Lynsey Melville, "Bioenergy Ontology for Automatic Pathway Generation," International Journal of Knowledge Engineering vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-8, 2015.


Knowing people are less inclined to crave hot coffee in warm weather, Costa Coffee partnered with ZenithOptimedia to build awareness of the brand's Iced Fruit Cooler range. Using Business Chain targeting on DoubleClick Bid Manager, the campaign reached people who were within a 25-metre radius of any of Costa's 2,000 stores or a competitor's store to achieve a front-of-mind position among consumers and drive in-store traffic.
In warmer weather people are less inclined to crave hot drinks, so Costa Coffee's ambition was to position its iced drinks range in consumers' front of mind during the summer. With the help of ZenithOptimedia, Costa created a seasonal campaign that aimed to encourage a young professional audience to get out of the office, have a cold drink and enjoy the weather.
"We chose to use DoubleClick because it really allows to hyper locally target consumers when they're out on the go."
While previously the brand had used an approach based around a hyperlocal Private Marketplace, this campaign outperformed those previous activities: using DoubleClick Bid Manager produced 82% extra reach, a 32% higher click-through rate, 30% lift in engagements around competitors' stores and 60% lower CPM.


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Irvington Bids Farewell To A Modern-Day Maria Montessori
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The ICC's departing director, Lynn Lutomski
By Barrett Seaman—
Working parents in the rivertowns have choices as to where to send their children while they are on the job, but there are day care centers and there are day care centers. And then there is the Irvington Children's Center, the ICC.
Over the years, hundreds of parents living within the Irvington School District have felt they had a choice above all others: the ICC, housed five days a week in the Sunday school wing of the Church of St. Barnabas on North Broadway.
The source of their confidence for many of those years was Lynn Lutomski, 65, the Center's director for the past 20 years and an uber-mom to hundreds of youngsters she watched over and guided since she began work there in 1996.
This past month, Lutomski bid farewell, as she and her husband Dave announced they were moving to the Eastern Shore area of Delaware, where Lynn, the author, so far, of seven children's books, plans to continue to write. She leaves behind her a trail of accolades, appreciative parents and a legion of loyal alums some of whom are now in their thirties. In a couple of weeks, Lynn plans to have coffee in New York City with one ICC graduate who is now 26.
The ICC is a state-registered program for kids from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade. "Children learn through play," is how the Center's web site explains its approach. It is not academic, as some after-school programs have become recently, although it does offer a special supervised homework room four days a week. Learning is achieved through participation in arts and crafts, board games and Legos, music, drama, cooking, science, sports, and movement. "Children have the opportunity to choose active or quiet play on both an individual or group basis," states the web site.
The school operates on three shifts, beginning at 2:30 and ending at 6:00 p.m. Tuition ranges from $105 a month for one day-a-week until 4:00 p.m. up to $600-a-month for five days until 6:00 p.m.
Lynn leads with a very light hand, gently steering her charges towards self-actualization, towards learning to make better choices after making a mistake, towards mastering a skill, whether it's a Lego castle or the jungle gym. "If there were no mistakes, there would be no erasers," she says in a rare resort to an aphorism.
She relies on imagination and shuns the use of technology in fostering active play. "There hasn't been a screen (cell phone, tablet or computer) in here in 17 years," she claims.
Her approach has won the confidence of generations of Irvington parents. "She has allowed women to go back to the work force and apply themselves and not worry about their kids," says Janine Thompson, who has two ICC alums in her household. "She has the innate ability to recognize that children shouldn't be looked upon as individuals of lesser intelligence," adds Thompson. "She believes every child is an individual waiting to become a grownup."
During her decades at ICC, Lutomski has had kids with learning disabilities, behavioral issues, diabetics and one child who was blind. Success is measured by their individual triumphs, not some theoretical benchmark. "I watch children make milestones," she says—like mastering the jungle gym. "When they feel validated and formed, they feel safe."
Parents can be as much or more of a challenge than their children, she acknowledges but adds: "95% of my parents have been wonderful." Enough said.
Lynn Lutomski first learned of the ICC through her son Dylan, now 32, when he came home from Dows Lane School and announced that he wanted to go to the Children's Center. "I want to be with my friends," he declared. She had never heard of the place but asked her friend Linda Pierpoint, who happened to be a parishioner at St. Barnabas. Linda introduced Lynn to Nancy Rote, the ICC's director. Not long after, Lynn joined Nancy as an assistant. It was the best of both worlds: "Dylan got to be with his friends. His mother landed the best job ever, and who was I kidding? I got to be with my soon after school every day."
Nancy Rote and Lynn saw the world of children the same way. "We shared similar philosophies about the importance of learning through play and the belief that children should always be heard and made to feel uniquely special. We were the female version of Fred Rodgers (or so we hoped) in our own little neighborhood."
When she first joined the staff, ICC had 55 kids. To meet demand, they raised their licensed limit to 69, hiring the requisite staff to meet the state's ratio of one adult to every ten children. The additional 14 youngsters, she said, made it seem like they were "working in a tornado." But they managed. Nancy Rote stayed as Director until 9/11 happened. It was a watershed event for her, leading to her retirement that year.
The year 2020 was also a watershed year for Lynn and the ICC, as it was for every individual and organization. Lynn shut the Center down in March of that year, praying that they would be able to re-open when the virus passed. When they did a survey of families that summer, the response was minimal. The ICC re-opened on September 21st last year with 15 children. Recognizing that the program's future was not sustainable, the vestry of St. Barnabas, their landlord, voted to suspend rent. "We started paying again this past March," says Lynn, "but at less than half what it had been."
"We wanted to do everything we could to support ICC, because we would be supporting all the families," says Rev. Gareth Evans, the Rector of St. Barnabas. "There is a deep symbiosis between our mission to care for the whole person and Lynn's care for the child."
"She was a steady hand as director for the past 20 years," says Jay Staropoli, a member of the ICC's governing board. "She made the board members' job that much easier because the children of the Center always came first in all the decisions she made as director."
One of the features of the ICC is something called "the change room." It is filled with various costumes and outfits, and the kids are free to go there and be want they want to be. It feeds their imaginations and hence their growth. After a quarter of a century, Lynn Lutomski is ready for a change. When she relocates to Delaware in September, she hopes to continue writing, though what exactly isn't clear. She has written seven rhyming children's books (e.g. "Emily Oliver and the Mess that Followed Her," and "Courageous Ignatius Will Not Be Contagious," a nod to the perils of the pandemic).
Janine Thompson thinks she should write about her experience and philosophy of learning. "To me Lynn is a modern-day Maria Montessori, resorting back to the basics of play, allowing the children to experience sheer joy while learning and practicing healthy social interactions."
Lynn's philosophy is entrenched in the way the ICC operates, as it will continue to under the leadership of her successor, Susan Daly, of whom Lynn wrote: "The Children's Center is far from done and will live on with a special new director with new visions, hopes and dreams. "It will come back better than ever with a brand new choreographer, wearing shiny new dance shoes, without missing a beat."
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CLEAR-COM INTERCOMS MAKE THE GRADE FOR LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY'S BUSTLING HDTV STATION
UTV HD Studio Employs Clear-Com Intercoms for Diverse Programming Schedule Clear-Com, a global leader in mission-critical voice communication systems, is proud to announce the delivery of its state-of-the-art intercom communications solution to ...
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UTV HD Studio Employs Clear-Com Intercoms for Diverse Programming Schedule
Clear-Com, a global leader in mission-critical voice communication systems, is proud to announce the delivery of its state-of-the-art intercom communications solution to the prestigious J. Scheidegger Center for the Performing Arts at Lindenwood University. Staff members and students at the facility's LUTV HD studio, a branch of the school's student-run television station, count on Clear-Com's Eclipse Median Digital Matrix and CellCom(r) Digital Wireless intercoms for fast, easy access to reliable communications across the performing arts complex, using the systems to coordinate the production of a wide variety of programming.
LUTV HD is one of the few university facilities built from the ground up for HD, and it offers students in the communications degree program hands-on experience in capturing and disseminating many different types of productions, from stage plays to weekly sports and news programs. Studio personnel needed a communications system that could handle all of the station's diverse programming, so they specifically sought out Clear-Com intercom systems.
"We rely on Clear-Com to give us the quality and flexibility we need to accomplish our extremely varied program schedule," says LUTV Director of Operations Ed Voss. "We produce news and talking head-type programs in our fixed-set production studio. However, we also need to cover the more than 43 different sports offered at the university, stage plays in our 1,200-seat Bezemes Family Theater and special programs produced in our 200-seat Emerson Black Box Theater. With a production cycle this complex, we felt that the Clear-Com Eclipse Median and CellCom systems were the only intercom solutions on the market that could handle the job."
Voss also appreciates the adaptability of the Clear-Com solutions. "When we have a production in the Emerson Black Box Theater, we can easily move the Clear-Com sets from the HD studio to the theater, along with our Hitachi HD cameras," he says. "We are able to maintain full communications without missing a cue. The software allows us to reconfigure the setup quickly and efficiently for all our needs. Clear-Com enables us to address the mission of the HD studio, while additionally providing traditional communications used for stage productions. That is pretty remarkable."
LUTV HD studio's package consists of a 48-port Clear-Com Eclipse Median frame, I-Series panels in the control room and a CellCom system with wireless handsets with coverage throughout the facility. The main stage and second stage theaters also have traditional powered wall plates, HS-6 telephone-style handsets and wired packs.
"Given Clear-Com's long history of supplying intercom equipment to the live performance industry, we were able to identify and provide solutions tailored very specifically to the needs of LUTV HD," says Michael Rucker, Senior Sales Manager, Central Region, Clear-Com. "The Eclipse Digital Matrix intercom, combined with CellCom, offers LUTV HD the perfect balance of sound quality and flexibility. We are happy to have been a part of this facility's communications success story."
The Eclipse Median, part of Clear-Com's popular Eclipse Digital Matrix intercom family, is a 6RU frame that houses two CPU and seven matrix slots with eight built-in interface module slots, uniquely designed for production environments where rack space is limited. The CellCom Digital Wireless System operates license-free in the 1.8 - 1.9 GHz frequency band, with a base station supporting up to 20 beltpacks. Key features include full-duplex digital point-to-point communications, easy linking to existing party-line channels and the ability to create custom groups.
About Clear-Com
Clear-Com, an HME company, is the global leader in mission-critical voice communication systems for professional productions. Since 1968, Clear-Com developed and marketed a comprehensive range of analog, digital and IP-based wired and wireless intercom technologies for party-line and point-to-point communications. Recognized for our legacy of intercom innovations, production teams around the world have come to depend on Clear-Com for clear, reliable and scalable communication solutions. More information about Clear-Com can be found at www.clearcom.com.
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A privately held company founded in 1971, HME has continued to be a leading provider of innovative technology focused on enhancing productivity and customer service for multiple markets including pro audio, sports, and restaurants. HME developed the first wireless intercom system for pro audio and continues to introduce exciting, cutting-edge wireless intercoms that enhance communications, increase productivity and facilitate creativity for virtually any application. HME's comprehensive line of wireless intercoms - including the award winning PRO850 UHF and DX Series Digital Intercoms - are designed with the user in mind. In addition to pioneering the first wireless intercom for the pro audio industry, HME was the first to develop the wireless headset system for the drive-thru quick service restaurant market. More information can be found at www.hme.com.
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UNIVERSIADE 2011 CHOOSES CLEAR-COM INTERCOMS FOR SUMMER GAMES
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Live Forms Latest - This documentation is for Live Forms 8.0 Not for you? Earlier documentation is available too.
This Tutorial will walk you through step-by-step instructions to embed frevvo within your own web application. We'll describe one specific path for integration that's most commonly used by our customers. Obviously, there could be differences depending on the outer (embedding) application and its design. This Tutorial will also use the Java API – embedding with the .NET API is very similar.
You'll need an in-house installation of frevvo. If you prefer to use a Cloud account, you'll need to contact frevvo. After you have completed the in-house installation, you'll need to create a tenant. For this tutorial, we'll use the the Delegating Security Manager. This security manager is explicitly designed for external applications that want to embed frevvo. Users and roles are defined outside frevvo (in your application) and your application is responsible for authentication and for passing credentials to frevvo.
Login to Live Forms as user admin@d, password "admin".
Click the "Manage Tenants" link on the page that displays.
There is a single tenant named d. This is the default tenant.
Click the icon to create a tenant and fill in the form. In the Security Manager Class pick list, choose Delegating Security Manager. Your new tenant will be created.
For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll assume you've created a tenant called dsm with Delegating Security Manager set, the admin user id is "admin" with password "admin". Of course, you should pick a more secure password.
The integration described here looks like the image below.
Tenants have users: designers and non-designers.
Designers can create and edit forms and flows. Non-designers can use/administer them, view submissions etc. but cannot create or edit them.
A designer user organizes forms and flows in Applications. You can have any number of Applications in a user. The Application is the basic downloadable unit in frevvo. While you can download individual forms and flows, we recommend sticking to Applications since they are self-contained.
Each Application can hold an arbitrary number of schemas (XSDs), forms and flows. In frevvo, the form and flow designs are referred to as FormType and FlowType respectively. Individual instances are referred to as Form and Flow respectively. You'll notice that methods in the API use these terms e.g. FormTypeEntry refers to the FormType and FormEntry refers to an individual Form (an instance of the FormType).
A FormType or FlowType can refer to multiple DocumentTypes. Note: if you aren't planning to use XML Schemas, you can ignore this part. As you might expect, an individual Form (an instance of the FormType) will have one or more Documents (instances of the corresponding DocumentTypes). You can read more in this article.
A form that's designed top-down – starting with a blank form and dragging and dropping controls into the canvas – will have a single DocumentType in it (sometimes referred to as the from-scratch DocumentType).
A form that's designed bottom-up – from one or more XML Schemas (XSD) – will have multiple DocumentTypes. There will always be the from-scratch DocumentType since you can always drag/drop controls. In addition, there will be a DocumentType per XSD root element that you add to the form.
For OEM integrations, we strongly recommend that you have a 1-1 relationship between an Application and a form or flow (technically a FormType or FlowType). Specifically, you should always create a new Application and in that Application have a single form or flow. You can then download and manage the frevvo Application easily in the context of your own system.
In order to automatically integrate with Live Forms, your web application will first need to establish a session using the Live Forms API. This is done by using the com.frevvo.forms.client.FormsService class and by providing proper credentials to authenticate.
In most cases, you will want to use the loginAs() method available in V4.1.1 and higher. loginAs() allows you to login to frevvo as any tenant user provided you pass in the tenant admin's user and password credentials. This is convenient when you want login to frevvo using the same user that is logged into your application without having to know their password.
The following snippet shows how to login as a designer user in the tenant with user id "designer".
// If you want to login as a designer user (who can create forms), pass in this role. Otherwise, pass in null.
userId is the id of the user you wish to login as.
virtual: if set to true, does not actually create the user. For now, leave it set to false so the user is actually created.
roles: You can provide a list of roles. For now, set the role frevvo.Designer. This creates the user and sets permissions so he/she can design forms. Of course, you can pass a list with as many roles as you want. You can also pass in null if you do not want to specify any roles.
customParams: For now, set the autoLogin parameter with value true.
Since we chose the Delegating Security Manager, the user will be automatically created if the specified userId does not exist. Now, you are logged in from your application to frevvo as user designer.
Now that we're logged in as a designer user, let's create a new form and display the frevvo designer. Our goal is to render the frevvo designer embedded inside your web application in the browser. The end user accesses your application page (e.g. http://localhost/oem/newform). The resulting page has your outer page content + the embedded frevvo form designer.
The following snippet shows how.
Lastly, render the form designer embedded in your application's web page using an iframe.
This will render your web page with the internal iframe coming from the frevvo server. The internal iframe will display the frevvo form designer embedded in your page.
It's also a very common requirement to hide the frevvo designer toolbar buttons and replace them with buttons or menu items consistent with your existing web page design to Save, Finish, and Cancel the form. Let's take a look at these – they are all very similar. First, add the buttons to your web page. Clicking each button simply links to a URL in your application.
Assume that clicking this button links to an endpoint in your web application e.g. http://localhost/oem/saveform.
Re-render your web page as described above with the embedded iframe. Unfortunately, you will have to refresh the page – under the covers, frevvo has saved and committed the editing form, cleaned up, created a brand new instance with a different ID and URL. The old instance is no longer valid so we have to refresh the page using the URL for the newly created instance.
Assume that clicking this button links to an endpoint in your web application e.g. http://localhost/oem/finishform.
It's identical to the Save button except you don't create and re-render a new instance. The browser will now display a page rendered by your web application.
Assume that clicking this button links to an endpoint in your web application e.g. http://localhost/oem/cancelform.
It's identical to the Finish button except for the false instead of true parameter on the last line.
Step 4: Test the form you just designed.
Now, assume you just clicked the Finish button and you've returned a web page with a Test button.
Clicking it will take you to an endpoint in your web application e.g. http://localhost/oem/testform.
// Get the FormTypeEntry so you can create an instance of it. Earlier, we used the entry stashed away in a holder.
// Here's another way to construct a FormTypeEntry for an existing form (the one we just created above).
// Find the application we created by name (you can also find it by ID). Find the form we just created in this application.
// There will be just one form.
// Get the formType entry.
// Params (optional). There are many parameters - let's set a few.
// If set, any form action will be ignored and the document set (including attachments) will be returned when the form is submitted.
// Otherwise, normal form action processing is performed (default). We set it so we can retrieve the data later (see below).
// FormTypeEntry.VALUE_RESIZE_TRUE to turn auto-resizing on.
// FormTypeEntry.VALUE_RESIZE_HORIZONTAL to turn auto-resizing on horizontally only.
// FormTypeEntry.VALUE_RESIZE_VERTICAL to turn auto-resizing on vertically only.
// Set the initial width (defaults to the width set in the form or 600px otherwise) for the iframe.
// to "auto" (default) if you want to automatically show scrollbars if required.
// to "no" if you don't want scrollbars.
// to "yes" if you always want scrollbars.
// Create a new instance of the form, construct its entry and stash it away.
// Stash it away. In this example, we'll stick it in the HTTP session.
// Display your page with embedded form. You have to pass the instanceHolder saved above to the JSP. For example, above we saved it in the HTTP session.
We find the formType, retrieve its FormTypeEntry, create a new instance of the form, retrieve its FormEntry and save it. Lastly, display the form embedded in your application's web page using an iframe. Let's look at an example using JSP.
Retrieve the holder from the session, extract the FormEntry and get the embed link for using the form. Use it in a <script> tag as shown above. That's it. frevvo does the rest – the form instance will appear embedded in the browser.
Now, click the Submit button. It goes to an endpoint in your web application e.g. http://localhost/oem/submitform. You can programmatically submit the form from your web application and retrieve the data and documents that were sent if you set the FormTypeEntry.FORMTYPE_FORMACTIONDOCS_PARAMETER to a non-null value as shown in the sample code above. This is the recommended approach.
In most cases, OEM partners who embed frevvo's software prefer to save the form definitions (metadata) in their own systems. That enables them to fully control storage, access, permissions etc. frevvo's downloadable unit is the Application. If you remember, before we created a form for editing we first created an Application and added it to the designer user and then placed the form in this Application. You can download the Application and save it yourself.
// Process the bytes and save the application zip file.
Finally, you can delete the application from frevvo so that it is only saved in your own system. Of course, once deleted you cannot instantiate forms from this application. Many OEM partners will use one physical instance of the frevvo server for design and a separate physical instance for filling forms. If so, you can design forms, test them, download and delete from your design-time system and deploy them to your run-time system using your own deployment rules.
assert (true); // Exception is expected.
This is identical to Scenario I above.
Now that we're logged in as a designer user, let's create a new form and display the frevvo designer. This time, we have an XML schema that we want to use as the metadata for the form's controls. As before, our goal is to render the frevvo designer embedded inside your web application in the browser. The end user accesses your application page (e.g. http://localhost/oem/newformschema). The resulting page has your outer page content + the embedded frevvo form designer.
InputStream is = ... // Input stream for XML Schema (must be a zip file).
The code is similar to the previous example with the difference being the green snippet above where we first add the XSD to the application and then add the root elements from the XSD to the document types of the form. The XSD must be provided as a zip file even if it is entirely contained in a single file. However, the system supports zips with multiple XSD files that import each other.
The parameters are the InputStream, the content type (always application/zip), the name of the root XSD in the zip file (if there's a single file, simply provide the name of that file) and finally the name you want to assign to this XSD (can be anything).
This will render your web page with the internal iframe coming from the frevvo server. The internal iframe will display the frevvo form designer embedded. The Data Sources panel of the form designer will display the available document types. The designer can expand and add the desired segment(s) from the XSD.
Steps 3–7: Save/Finish, Test, Submit the form. Download and Delete the Application.
These steps are identical to to Scenario I above.
You can browse this ApplicationEntry to find your specific form(s) as required.
Step 4: Use a form and retrieve submission data.
This is already described in Steps 4 and 5 in Scenario I.
Step 5: Use a form and initialize it with data before rendering it.
You can create a form and initialize it with an XML document. The code is already described in Step 4 from Scenario I. The only difference is in the createInstance() method of the FormTypeEntry.
// Get the FormTypeEntry as described earlier.
// Set params as described earlier.
// Get the init document.
InputStream fis = ...; // The XML document.
// You can add as many initial documents as you want to the ArrayList.
// Create a new instance of the form, construct its entry and stash it away. The only difference is that we pass in the init document(s).
// Process and render as described earlier.
Step 6: Use a form without logging in.
Sometimes, you don't want to render the form embedded in a browser window. For example, perhaps you want to obtain a URL to the formType and email it so it can be used – potentially by a different person – in a different browser. It's still not a public form and cannot be instantiated by anyone.
// This URL can be opened in a different browser.
However, note that this URL is only valid and will only work as long as the original FormsService object is valid i.e. as long as the login session established by the FormsService has not been destroyed. You can also programmatically create the form instance as described above, get the URL to the instance and open it in a different browser. This is useful if you want to, for example, initialize the instance with data.
If you want to allow completely anonymous access, you must set the visibility of the FormType to PUBLIC. Public forms can be instantiated by everyone without authentication e.g. a Contact form.
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Wondering what sub-ohm vaping is? Puzzled over the difference between an eGo and a vaporizer? Check out this Glossary. The Language of Vaping is constantly evolving as innovative new e-cigarette products emerge. Acronyms abound; new ecig abbreviations appear daily and the most popular Vaping Terms and Definitions move from vaper-speak to the vernacular.
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306 – This is a style of atomizer used for dripping e-liquids. It is available in all levels of resistance and is 510 threaded. You can use a 306 atomizer with any e-cigarette that supports L88B or 510 atomizers.
m401, m402, and m403 – These numbers refer to e-cigarette battery lengths measured in millimeters. The m401 model is the longest length and has the longest battery life. The m403 is the shortest in length and has the shortest battery life.
510 – This number refers to the threads on an e-cigarette battery, atomizer, cartomizer or Clearomizer. Also known as a male thread, the 510 is by far the most popular style of e-cigarette threading because it is compatible with most electronic cigarettes available.
KR808 or 808 – Another style of e-cigarette threading. This type is used in the Halo Cigs Triton Tank, Halo Clear Tank, Mini Tank as well as Halo G6 cartridges. (read more).
L88B – An early design of atomizer for smaller e-cigarettes, used before cartomizers became popular.
901– A style of e-cigarette with a female thread. It has since been surpassed in popularity by the 510 threaded e-cigarette, however there are some vaporizers designed to accept pre-filled mini-tanks that use a 901 tank.
Adapter – This is a small, Dual Threaded device used to create a sleek profile to an e-cigarette or vaporizer. It cosmetically bridges the gap between cartomizer, cartridge or Clearomizer when one is used on a different style battery.
Advanced Personal Vaporizer (APV) – An APV is larger than a traditional Cigalike and has a bigger, more powerful battery. APV's usually feature variable voltage, variable wattage or both. APV can also be called a Mod or a modified e-cigarette.
AIO – "All-in-One" – usually referring to Pod Vape e-cig that comes complete with a battery, charger and an e-liquid pod. The SMOK Nord is an example.
Airflow Control – Some intermediate style vaporizers and vape pens offer an airflow dial where you can adjust the amount of air you inhale along with your vapor. The more air you inhale, the cooler your vape. The dial is usually found just beneath the tank.
Aldehydes –Oxidation products of alcohols that when heated to high temperatures and ingested can be dangerous to your health. Studies have shown that vape mods cranked up to excessive levels (those that produce the unpleasant burnt taste of dry puff conditions) can form aldehydes. Aldehydes are also found in some oils, such as sunflower oil, when heated at a suitable temperature for frying.
All Day Vape – The e-liquid that a vaper personally enjoys over any other; one that can vaped for long periods of time without getting tired of the flavor or experiencing vaper's tongue.
AVA – American Vaping Association. This non-profit organization advocates for small and medium-sized businesses in the vaping and electronic cigarette industry.
Amperage (amps) – Amperage is the flow of energy along an electrical circuit. Some Advanced Personal Vaporizers allow the user to set the Amperage. Lower amps mean you must avoid using high voltages particularly when using low resistance atomizers.
Analog – A term used by the vaping community describing "traditional" tobacco cigarettes.
Atomizer (aka Atty) – The atomizer is the component in an electronic cigarette or vaporizer that is responsible for heating the e-liquid to the point of vaporization. The atomizer contains the heating coil, wick and mesh bridge. It is most often contained within the metal, glass or plastic housing called a cartomizer, tank or Clearomizer which is screwed into the battery; Some Atomizers stand alone, are cylindrical, and are used as Dripping Atomizers that require a Drip Tip.
Automatic – A style of electronic cigarette/ vaporizer battery that does not have a button to activate the heating element.
Battery – The part of an electronic cigarette that powers the heating element which turns the e-liquid into vapor. E-cigarette batteries come in many shapes and sizes. "Cigalike" batteries may be automatic or they may have a manual switch. Most have an LED light at the end that illuminates when activated. APV batteries almost always have a manual switch. Some models have added features like battery level LED lights or a puff counter.
BCC – This acronym stands for bottom coil Clearomizer. The atomizer coil sits at the bottom of the Clearomizer tank.
Blanks – Cartridges or cartomizers that are not pre-filled with e-liquid. They are designed to be filled with the vaper's e-liquid of choice. (read more).
Box Mod – A box mod is any PV or APV that comes in a box shape. Some of the most popular Box Mods are made by Vaporfi.
Breathing ELiquids – The process of letting a bottle of e-liquid gain optimum flavor by opening the cap and letting it sit for a period of time.
Closed Pod Vape Device – A vaping device that uses a pre-filled, disposable cartridges. You cannot add your e-liquid. The BO ONE is this type of vape pen.
Carbonyls – are aldehydes (eg. formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, benzaldehyde, acrolein) and ketones (eg. acetone, diacetyl, acetylpropionyl). Carbonyls are found everywhere; in the human body and even in such healthy products like apples, pears, potatoes, and spinach. Carbonyls can be dangerous in ecigarettes when the coil is overheated and creates Dry Burn.
Cartridge – Also know as a cart or filter, this is a plastic or metal covered mouthpiece that serves as the housing for the e-cigarette liquid, absorbent filler material and atomizer in a cigalike, first generation e-cigarette.
Cartomizer – A cartomizer (also called a carto or carto tank) contains the e-cigarette's heating element (an atomizer with a coil) and a center tube for airflow. The cartomizer tank is designed to hold the e-liquid. The e-liquid is absorbed into a polyfil or gauze material that surrounds the coil. Cartomizers can be made of plastic, metal or a combination of both.
Cartomizer – Single Coil – A standard cartomizer that uses only 1 coil.
Cartomizer – Dual Coil – A dual coil cartomizer uses 2 coils. The dual coil design is meant to produce twice as much vapor as a single coil cartomizer.
CASAA – Consumer Advocacy for Smoke-Free Alternatives Association. This non profit organization campaigns for vaper rights, fair e-cigarette regulations and tobacco harm reduction.
Cigalike or Cig-alike – Any e-cigarette that has the similar appearance of a traditional tobacco cigarette.
Charger – A battery charger used to recharge an e-cig battery.
Clearomizer – A Clearomizer is a transparent type of a cartomizer which is the housing unit for the e-cigarette atomizer and e-liquid. Clearomizers can be made of glass, pyrex or polyethyene plastic. Clearomizers come in several sizes from the petite 0.9ml mini tank like those from Halo to ungainly 5ml hypertank sizes.
Clouds – Another name for e-cigarette vapor which, because of the dense water content, creates a white water vapor resembling a cloud.
Cloudchaser – The name given to vapers who seek to create great clouds of vapor by modifying e-cigarette components.
Coil- The wire used to vaporize the e-liquid by creating an electrical circuit. The coil is usually made of Nichrome or Kanthal wire.
Cone – A small metal device used to create a streamlined look on an eGo ecig that is used with a cartridge rather than a cartomizer.
Custom Mod – Any PV or APV that was handmade from parts not designed for vaping.
Cut-Off – A safety feature that automatically cuts off the vapor if you take a drag for too long (usually over ten seconds). This prevents the atomizer from overheating. A flashing LED light usually accompanies this feature.
Dabbing – The process of vaping concentrates from a "dab straw". This is done by pressing a dabber against a heated dab rigs nail and inhaling the vape extracted from the wax or oil concentrate.
Duel Threaded – Having threads on both ends of the device. Usually used when referring to the threads on an e-cigarette adapter.
Dual Coil Cartomizer – (DCC) – This tank has an atomizer with a dual coil that sits at the bottom of the tank.
Disposable E-Cigs – Electronic cigarettes that are designed to be used and then thrown away. Learn where to buy the best disposables.
DIY – Do-it-Yourself. Many DIY vapers like to rebuild and maintain e-cigarette parts from the raw materials. They also like to make their own e-liquids.
Drip – The term used for adding drops of e-liquid into a cartridge, tank or Clearomizer.
Drip Tip – An ecig vaporizer mouthpiece or device made of plastic, metal or ceramic. Typically used for dripping e-liquid directly into an atomizer.
Dripping Atomizers – These are atomizers that stand alone without a cartomizer or Clearomizer. They are used for dripping small amounts of e-liquid into the atomizer as a way to test out new flavors without filling a fresh cartomizer. They simply attach to a battery. The user drips a few drops of liquid into the center of the atomizer and uses a drip tip to inhale the vapor.
eGo/eGo Style– A second generation style of electronic cigarette that uses a larger, longer lasting battery than a cigalike, first generation e-cigarette. The eGe Style does not have a glowing LED tip. Most eGo Style e-cigarettes are compatible with 510 threaded cartridges, cartomizers and Clearomizers.
Electronic Cigar – A cigar style of electronic cigarette which uses the same components of an e-cigarette, but is shaped to resemble a traditional tobacco cigar.
Electronic Cigarette (e-cigarette or e-cig) – An alternative to traditional cigarettes that allows users to enjoy smoking without many of the harmful side effects. It contains e-liquid that is vaporized upon inhalation and usually consists of flavorings, purified water and nicotine.
Electronic Cigarette Starter Kit – An ecig kit usually composed of 2 batteries, 1 or 2 cartomizers or Clearomizers, a mouth piece, a USB charger and a Wall Charger.
E-Rig Attachment – This is basically an electronic bong, powered by the vaporizer's battery.
E-juice – Another name for e-liquid.
E-Liquid – The solution that is vaporized within the e-cigarette cartridge, cartomizer or Clearomizer. It is comprised of Vegetable Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Nicotine and Flavoring. Also referred to as E-Juice, Juice, or Smoke Juice.
E-NIC – (Electronic Nicotine Inhaler) – Another name for an electronic cigarette.
E-Smoke – Another name for e-liquid or an electronic cigarette.
e-Vapor – Another name for an e-cigarette. Some Ecig companies prefer the name as it disassociates the product from cigarettes.
First Generation E-Cigarette – The name given to an electronic cigarette that has a cartridge style filter and a slim battery. First gen e-cigs are designed to look like a traditional tobacco cigarette. They are also called cigalikes or stick-style e-cigarettes.
Flavor Cartridge – Another name for a pre-filled cartridge containing nicotine and flavors.
Flavor Ghosting – It's what happens when you add a different flavored e-liquid to a tank or e-liquid pod that has previously been filled with a different flavor.
Flooding – An event that occurs when too much e-liquid is put into the cartomizer, Clearomizer or atomizer. Upon inhalation, the vaper may hear a gurgling sound or get e-juice in his or her mouth. The performance of the atomizer is sometimes negatively affected.
Free-Base Nicotine – Nicotine occurs naturally in tobacco plants as either an acid or a base. The acidic form is more stable, and therefore more concentrated. The basic form, known as "free-base" nicotine, is volatile, especially when smoked because it is absorbed very quickly into the lungs when a person smokes. Some tobacco companies use ammonia to "freebase" the nicotine in smoke.
Fuse – A specially designed fuse for use in mechanical mods to prevent battery failure.
GRAS – (Generally Recognized As Safe) – This acronym was created by the Food & Drug Association (FDA) to ensure the public that a product is considered safe.
HV Atty – An atomizer designed for higher voltage vaping, not for use with standard batteries that have low power.
Juice – Another name for e-liquid.
Kanthal Coil – Every ecig atomizer contains a wire coil which heats the eliquid. Kanthal wire is a ferritic iron, chromium-aluminium alloy and is used to build Rebuildable Atomizers (RBA's) and Rebuildable Dripping Atomizers (RDA's) for Mechanical Mods (Mech Mods).
Knuckle Head– A vaporizer mouthpiece or drip tip that can be adjusted to any angle.
LED – Light Emitting Diode – In ecig terms it refers to the light at the end of most electronic cigarettes. In first generation ecigs, the LED mimics the lit end of a cigarette. In more advanced ecigs it alerts the user when the battery needs recharging.
Liquid – Also referred to as e-liquid, e-juice, smoke juice, or simply, juice. This is the liquid that is vaporized when using an electronic cigarette.
Li-Ion – Lithium Ion Batteries – Considered the strongest and most powerful batteries in the electronic cigarette market, Li-Ion's come in many different sizes and shapes. They now have added safety features.
Li-Po – The Lithium Polymer batteries are made of different material than the Li-Ion batteries and are considered less likely to experience thermal runaway.
Low Resistance (LR)– An atomizer or cartomizer with a lower Ohm rating than the standard equipment. This generally causes the heating element to get hotter faster, producing greater vapor and a stronger throat hit.
Magnetic Connection – Some vaporizers offer chargers and cartridges that connect magnetically to your ecig's battery.
mAh – Milliampere-hour – Describes the capacity or energy charge that a battery will hold before it needs to be recharged.
Manual – An e-cigarette battery style that has a button to activate the heating element.
Manual Shut-off – A feature found on most manual ecigs that allows the user to shut off the battery with 5 clicks of the button in rapid succession.
Mechanical Mod (Mech Mod, Mech PV, Mech) – An advanced electronic cigarette part that does not have any electronics or wiring. It is most often a metal tube that holds a battery and has a mechanical switch and a connector at the top to accommodate a tank or atomizer.
mg strength -(Milligram strength per millilitre (ml) -This relates to the percentage of nicotine contained within the e-liquid. For example, 12mg is 12mg of nicotine per ml and equals 1.2% nicotine within the e-liquid.
Milligrams (mg) – Used as the unit of measure for how much nicotine is in a cartridge.Typical levels include 0mg, 6mg, 8mg, 12mg, 16mg, 18mg, 24mg, 30mg, 36mg and 48mg.
Milliliters (mL)- The amount of liquid in a given container.
Mod or MOD – Short for modification. Once referred to a modified flashlight battery or tube to be used as a vaporizer, it is now a common ecig term used to describe any vaping device that is not a cigalike.
Mouthpiece – The end of the e-cigarette the user puffs on. Cartridge mouthpieces look like a cigarette filter. PV mouthpieces come in various shapes and sizes and may be plastic, metal, glass or ceramic.
Mouth-to-Lung Hit: A mouth-to-lung hit is one whereby the vapor is first drawn and gathered in the mouth, then inhaled into the lungs. This is similar to the way in which smokers inhale cigarette smoke.
MV (Multi-Voltage)- A rare type of PV that offers several different voltage settings predetermined by the manufacturer.
HNB Devices – Heat-Not-Burn non-combustable vaporizers and similar products.
Nic Juice – E-Liquid containing nicotine, the addictive substance in tobacco.
Nicotine (Nic)– An alkaloid found in tobacco and other plants and vegetables within the nightshade family. Nicotine is found within all traditional tobacco cigarettes and is usually an ingredient in electronic cigarettes. Nicotine can be an addictive substance, but it is not carcinogenic. It is known to create a pleasant sensation and to either stimulate or suppress excitability. Nicotine is available in e-liquids in various strengths, but it is also optional in most brands of e-liquid.
Nicotine Salts – A nicotine formula first patented by PAX Labs. Unlike "freebase" nicotine formulas used by tobacco companies and in most e-liquids, the Nicotine Salts formula uses the same type of nicotine found in tobacco leaves, but it has a different formula. You get a "cigarette-like nicotine delivery" that is less harsh when used with high nicotine concentrate.
Noob or Noobie – Someone very new to vaping. Most new vapers are considered noobs until they learn how to use an e-cigarette.
Passthrough – A device that plugs directly into the USB port of a computer, charger or high end box vaporizer that allows the user to vape without having to worry about battery life.
PCC – Personal (or portable) Charging Case. This allows an electronic cigarette battery to be charged from the PCC battery and away from other power sources. The case may also be used for ecig storage.
PEG (Polyethylene Glycol) – Once used in e-liquids, PEG was all-but-abandoned in favor of PG and VG when it was learned that PEG was used to lower the freezing point in anti-freeze. PEG is still the main ingredient in the over-the-counter drug, MiraLAX.
Pen Style – A style of electronic cigarette that looks like a long ball point pen. It lost much of its popularity in 2010.
Personal Charging Case (PCC) – A portable charger shaped liked a cigarette box or compact case. It's designed to hold and charge e-cigarettes and batteries.
Personal Vaporizer (PV) – Another name for an electronic cigarette, usually in reference to second generation style e-cigs.
Pod – A small e-liquid cartridge used in lightweight vape pens.
Pod Vape – An ultra-portable vape pen that has a slim battery and a small pod-style cartridge that is either refillable, or comes pre-filled with e-liquid. The JUUL has been accredited to be the first pod vape system.
Propylene Glycol (PG)– One of two main FDA approved ingredients used in the making of e-cigarette liquids. It is flavorless and thinner in consistency than VG. Some vapers have sensitivities to this ingredient.
PVS – Personal Vaping Systems.
Resistance Wire – Used in building coils for atomizers. The wire heats up when an electrical current is applied. It is typically made from Nichrome or Kanthal.
Rebuildable Atomizer (RBA) – This stands for ReBuildable Atomizers. Advanced atomizers including RTAs and RDAs, are types of RBA's. They vary in design since they are "rebuilt" by vapers from raw parts. Typically the atomizer has a rebuildable base. Some have fabric wicks, others have mesh or kanthal. Rebuildable atomizers are meant to save on cost. Parts are becoming more readily available from e-cigarette companies such as Mt. Baker Vapor and discount vape company DirectVapor.
Rebuildable Dripping Atomizer (RDA) – The RDA lets you add drops of e-liquid directly onto your atomizer as you vape. This is called "dripping". The downside is that vapers have to carry a bottle of e-liquid around with them and dripping can get messy. Using a squonk box MOD solves this problem.
Rebuildable Dripping Tank Atomizer (RDTA) – Combine the features of an RBA and an RDA and you'll get this advanced vaporizer.
Salt E Liquids – Salt based nicotine e-liquid is becoming more popular with the growth of pod-style vape pens. Salt based nicotine is not derived from tobacco leaves but carries a cleaner taste and a higher dosage of nicotine. Salt E Liquids should never be used in sub-ohm tanks or any dripper styled vape system.
Second Generation E-Cigarette – Any Personal Vaporizer, APV that is not a cigalike.
SFATA – Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association. SFATA is the largest trade association in the e-cigarette/vaping industry providing support to manufacturers, online retailers, vape stores, distributors, importers and wholesalers.
Smoke Juice – Another name for e-iquid, liquid, juice, or e-juice. This is the liquid that is vaporized when using an electronic cigarette.
Smokeless Cigarette – The term used to refer to an electronic cigarette because it does not produce smoke as does a regular cigarette.
Squonk MOD – A squonk mod is bottom feeder MOD vaporizer that carries your e-liquid supply within the MOD. Pressing on the e-liquid bottle sends the liquid through a tube into a hollow 510 center pin straight up into your RDA. This is called "squonking.
Stacked Battery MOD – These advanced e-cigarettes are often shaped like tubes and use two 3-volt batteries stacked in series to achieve a 6-volt operation. They cost less than variable-voltage e-cigarettes, but they are less flexible and have been known to have safety issues.
Standard Resistance (SR) – Standard resistance atomizers have an ohm rating of between 2.2 and 4.2 ohms. A standard resistance cartomizer is typically 3.0ohm. They are used by most of the more popular brands of e-cigarettes on the market as they have a good life-cycle and deliver excellent vapor.
Starter Kit – A kit that typically includes everything needed to begin vaping. Depending on the style of e-cigarette you buy, your starter kit will come with 1 or more fillable cartomizers, 4 or 5 pre-filled cartridges, 1 or more batteries and a battery charger.
Steeping – Allowing your e-liquid to sit either open to the air, (also called "breathing") or in a sealed container so the flavor reaches a more desirable intensity.
Stick Style– Any electronic cigarette that resembles the style of a traditional cigarette.
Straight-to-Lung Hit: Straight-to-lung hit is one where the vapor is directly channeled through the throat and to the lungs, bypassing the mouth. This is similar to the way in which you breath air directly into your lungs.
Sub-Ohming – A method used by advanced vapers to create greater vapor production. Using the principles of Ohms Law, battery amp capacity is increased while the ohms of the coils have a resistance of less than one ohm.
Tank – Another name for a refillable cartomizer or Clearomizer that holds e-liquid.
Temperature Control – Also known as TC, this advanced technology controls the true temperature produced by a coil. TC was first introduced by Evolv in its temperature sensing DNA40 board.
Thermal Runaway – A very rare but serious occurrence where a chain reaction results in the fire and bursting of any rechargeable lithium based battery including computer batteries. Thermal runaway can be caused by using incompatible chargers with your product, overcharging, short circuiting, stacking batteries, a physically damaged battery and other malfunctions.
THR – (Tobacco Harm Reduction) – THR is an important public health strategy used to encourage tobacco smokers to switch to low-risk alternatives. These alternatives include, nicotine patches, nicotine gum, smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes. (read more).
Thirdhand Vapor – A controversial concept that substances (nicotine in particular) remain on the surfaces in areas where people have vaped contributing to thirdhand exposure.
Throat Hit – The sensation experienced by one who uses an e-cigarette when the vapor hits the back of the throat. Former smokers who smoked high nicotine cigarettes or unfiltered cigarettes often desire a stronger throat hit which may be obtained by ordering e-liquids with higher nicotine content, by using atomizers with lower ohm resistance levels, or by using batteries with a higher input voltage.
Tobacco-Free Nicotine (TFN) – A type of nicotine formulated without any tobacco. An example of a vaporizer that uses Tobacco-Free Nicotine is the Riptide Ripstick.
Triple-Coil Cartomizer – An advance type of cartomizer that employs three coils providing about 1.6ohms of resistance. They are meant to deliver a stronger throat hit and greater clouds of vapor. These cartomizers require a battery that delivers at least 5 volts of power.
Tube Mod – Any PV or APV that comes in a tube shape. Most sizes are about 6-8 inches, but they can be longer.
Unprotected Battery: Any lithium based battery that has no protection for the overcharging or other situations that can cause thermal runaway.
USB Charger– An e-cigarette battery charger that lets you charge by connecting the battery to a computer's USB port.
Vape – The name given to the act of smoking an electronic cigarette or vaporizer. It is also The Oxford Dictionaries' "Word of the Year" 2014.
Vaper -The name given to the user of an electronic cigarette or vaporizer.
Vaper's Cough – This is when a vaper has trouble adjusting to the inhalation of vapor and he or she experiences coughing. This can be remedied several ways. (read more).
Vaper's Tongue – The term given to e-liquid flavor burnout when a vaper experiences the unusual sensation of not being able to taste the flavor of his or her vape. (read more).
The Vaping Militia – An organization committed to protecting the rights and health of vapors by advocating for safe public use of personal vaporizers. You can visit their website here.
Vapor – Referred to in conjunction with an electronic cigarette, vapor is the water vapor or steam cloud formed from heating the e-liquid. When produced, the vapor is inhaled and exhaled by the user of the ecigarette. The vapor is not created by flame or combustion as is tobacco smoke and is known to be a safer alternative to smoking.
Vaporizer – A vaporizer turns a liquid into a gas or vapor. This is also another term used for an electronic cigarette, ecig, eGo or PV.
Vapor Production – Typically associated with vaping e-liquids, it indicates the amount of vapor produced using an average inhale of an e-cigarette.
Vaping – Smoking an electronic cigarette. Vaping is different than smoking tobacco cigarettes as the user inhales a vapor produced by heating an e-liquid rather than tobacco leaves that are burned to produce smoke.
Vent Holes – Typically used to refer to special holes made in the casing of Personal Vaporizers or MODS to vent battery gases away from the face and to prevent battery explosion.
VG (Vegetable Glycerine) – A common base ingredient found in e-liquid. VG is usually combined with Propylene Glycol (PG), water, nicotine and flavorings to form the e-liquid. Some e-liquids may be ordered with mostly or 100% VG where thicker liquid or vapor is desired, or when the vaper is sensitive to PG. (read more).
Voltage – The fixed amount of energy that travels through a circuit; in this case an e-cigarette battery. Most devices use 3.7 volt batteries.
Voltage Drop – The amount of voltage lost when the electricity travels from your battery through your device and to your coils.
VV (Variable Voltage) – A Personal Vaporizer or Advanced Personal Vaporizer may have a VV battery that allows the user control over the voltage output of their device.
VV Mod – A variable voltage PV or MOD. The user can change the battery voltage to create the perfect throat hit in balance with the ohms rating of the atomizer.
VW (Variable Wattage) – Any PV, APV, or Mod that allows the user control over the wattage output of their device across the atomizer coil. In most PVs, the wattage is automatically adjusted to be compatible with the voltage.
Watt (Wattage) – The unit of electrical energy or power. One watt is the product of one ampere of electrical current and one volt of energy. In other words, it is the amount of raw heat that the atomizer coil uses to vaporize your e-liquid.
Wicks – Used to deliver e-liquid to the coil in electronic cigarettes. Atomizers use wicks made from silica cord, fiberglass, cotton, steel mesh, or, (less often) ceramic materials.
Wicking – A capillary action where more concentrated fluid moves along a wick to an area of lesser concentration.
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How An Unethical Optimisation Principle Can Help Businesses Prevent AI Biases
by Sejuti Das
Sejuti Das
Sejuti currently works as Senior Technology Journalist at Analytics India…
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With its immense potential in the pre-and post-COVID world, artificial intelligence has now been deployed in almost all industries across the globe. However, the technology always has been scrutinised for its unethical usage. In fact, the recent case of wrongly used AI for arresting a US citizen has forced many tech giants like IBM, Microsoft, Amazon as well as Google to suspend their facial recognition technology for police authorities. Such growing concerns with AI can have a significant impact on the economy with unethical and damaging commercial choices.
One such example has been showcased in the authored paper where the technology is deployed in order to set rates for selling insurance products to customers. In this case, insurance companies tend to set different rates of insurance premiums for different customers using AI. However, certain wrong decisions by the technology can have damaging impacts on the business, such as incorrect fines, discriminatory decisions or misusing customer information. These wrong decisions can put bank and insurance companies under heavy penalties for their misconduct.
In fact, according to a report, US financial regulators have issued penalties coming to the sum of $2.29 billion, with India's value of penalties reached up to $455,000. Therefore, in such environments where the technology takes the full control of the decision without any manual intervention, it becomes critical for businesses to know on what basis the technology tends to opt for unethical strategies.
In view of this, researchers, from the University of Warwick, Imperial College London, EPFL – Lausanne, Sciteb, have formulated a mathematical principle that would provide a simple formula for businesses to identify the unethical strategies of AI and understand the impact of its decisions. Considering wrong strategies cannot usually be defined in advance, it is only reliable to estimate the proportions of these questionable strategies and distribution of the profitable ones.
Authored by Nicholas Beale of Sciteb, Heather Battey of the department of mathematics at Imperial College London, Anthony C. Davison of the Institute of Mathematics at EPFL, and Professor Robert MacKay of the Mathematics Institute of the University of Warwick, the paper — "An unethical optimisation principle" was published in Royal Society Open Science showcasing how businesses need to rethink the way artificial intelligence operates, as it picks unethical strategies, and how the unethical optimisation principle can help.
According to professor Robert MacKay from the University of Warwick, the suggested principle of unethical optimisation can help businesses to identify the strategy that is creating problems and is usually in an "infinite strategy space." "Optimisation can be expected to choose disproportionately many unethical strategies, an inspection of which should show where problems are likely to arise, and thus suggest how the AI search algorithm should be modified to avoid them in future," said MacKay.
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Unethical Optimisation Principle
The paper stated — "If an AI aims to maximise risk-adjusted return, then under some conditions it is, to a major extent, likely to pick an unethical strategy unless the objective function allows sufficiently for this risk."
Explaining further, the paper stated that AI is going to search for strategies (s) that will have the maximum returns functions A(s) for the companies. However, in some cases, the technology picks unethical strategies from its strategy space (S) that aren't acceptable to the stakeholders and may cause penalties like "fines, reparations, compensation and boycotts."
According to the paper, if the risk-adjusted is greater than zero [C(s) > 0], then the strategies would be called unethical or termed as Red, on the other hand, if the risk-adjusted is equal to zero [C(s) = 0] then the strategies would be termed as ethical or Green.
Hence, the true risk-adjusted return [T(s)] concerning the strategy that has been adopted by artificial intelligence, may be expressed as:
T(s) = A(s)−C(s)+Q(s)
The paper further took an example of a case where top insurance companies have been scrutinised to provide lower premium quotes for individuals with traditional English names like "John." Here, the AI worked on the data fed into it, however, the true returns of the company depended on various factors like "the behaviour of those drivers who ask for quotes." In this case, the researchers highlighted how there is an increase in odds of choosing an unethical strategy by using AI as compared to choosing strategies randomly.
Even though the proportion of questionable strategies is less, the probability of picking the wrong strategy is always high. Therefore, unless returns are fat-tailed, business owners and regulators should be extremely careful in using AI systems to have unsupervised decision making. "If the returns are high, then only it is justified to have the risk of using an unethical strategy."
Dependence of the asymptotic unethical odds ratio (𝛶∗) on tail index (ν) and additional volatility (γ).
This figure shows how the tail index influences in the heavy-tailed cases. Here, due to the imperfections in the AI algorithms to make predictions accurately, the errors account for other differences between risk-adjusted return and apparent risk-adjusted return function, even when the positive risk-adjusted cost is equal to zero.
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The paper defines an unethical odds ratio that helped in calculating the probability from the proportion of unethical strategies.
In fact, Heather Battey, co-author of the paper from Imperial College stated that the principle would showcase how advanced AI machines can have more chances to choose unethical strategies as compared to a less sophisticated system "that would pick a strategy arbitrarily."
The paper with its complex mathematics lays out the idea that if there is an advantage of picking up unethical strategies (Red), then it is quite likely that the artificial intelligence is going to opt for the same. "Any advantage for unethical leads to it beating ethical ones with probability one, in the limit, because unethical returns have a higher upper limit than ethical ones," stated in the paper.
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Thus, if an AI is being optimised to its maximum potential, it has more chances to treat its customer unfairly and can even be discriminating against specific communities. Alongside the principle also suggests that businesses must rethink how their AI operates large strategy spaces so that the unethical approaches are eliminated during the optimisation process.
The paper provides a more detailed exploration of the code. You can read it here.
To summarise, it can be said that as artificial intelligence is advancing to take full control of decisions without manual intervention, it is critical for regulators and businesses to create a framework for ethical usage. Thus logic, coupled with this mathematical formula can help businesses identify the proportion of unethical strategies and its impact on the business and use it to eliminate business risks.
Sejuti currently works as Senior Technology Journalist at Analytics India Magazine (AIM). Reach out at sejuti.das@analyticsindiamag.com
Sejuti Das 07/07/2020
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