Financial greed is a huge motivator for our species–ain't no new news here–so I don't wonder about the callous low-lifes who imprison bears in concrete pits and sell tickets to gawk at 'em. I DO wonder about the ones who buy the tickets, though. What motivates them? Are they callous? Are they clueless? We'll hear from them later.
You've probably read about the latest undercover sting at the Chief Saunooke Bear Park. It's a PETA investigation, so there's been plenty of press. Cherokee, NC in the sylvan Smoky Mountains is the setting for this, our latest installment of It's a Speciesist Life.
May we suggest "Eternity" by Calvin Klein? Because that's what wild zoo animals are condemned to–an eternity of crazy-making incarceration with no parole. Now imagine bears in roadside cages and pits in the South, and suddenly your garden-variety zoo looks like Club Fed compared to a North Korean slammer.
How do we reach these people? They already see some of the injustice; how do we help them see the full picture? Can we smooth the path that leads away from exploitation, helping them tip the balance of concern from their own fleeting gratification to the bears' well-being? How best to encourage their nascent awareness and compassion for another species? For all species? Can we convince them that exposing their children to injustice isn't a kindness to either child or bear and only creates another generation of bear pit enthusiasts? Is this even our responsibility? Don't we–and the animals–need them on our side? Let's not forget that many of us once belonged to their ranks.
Questions overwhelm answers–ain't no new news here. It's a sure thing, though, that dismissing these people–and they are legion–with eye-rolling contempt gains nothing and leaves them adrift in a speciesist world that offers every encouragement to stay the course.
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I am pleased and honored, to announce the upcoming program: "Sebastián Errazuriz: Monologues in the Artist's Studio, A screening and lecture/artist talk," which I will moderate on November 1st, at the New York School of Interior Design. With his own conceptual, comprehensive, and genuine body of work, Chilean-born, Brooklyn-based artist/designer Sebastian Errazuriz has come to exemplify the new designer of our age, capturing the era with provocative, daring, yet beautiful and sophisticated objects. Design and art, to him come to express the richness of his inner world, and the complexity of the world around him. Errazuriz's prominent place in the world of collectible design, soon to be exhibited by London-based David Gill Gallery, is due to the most exquisite sense of beauty and aesthetic sensibility that he possesses; under his hands, even the most difficult tough realities and political instabilities are presented in a form of sensual beauty. He crosses boundaries between art, photography, design, architecture, and fashion in the most natural, instinctive, spontaneous way, while at the same time, demonstrates a deep understanding of the sensitive dialogue between art and the marketplace. A screening of the new documentary 'Sebastián Errazuriz: Monologues in the Artist's Studio,' by Palu Abadia, recipient of the category of Best documentary on Architecture and Design Master of Art Film Festival & Award of Merit in Docs without Borders Film Festival, will be followed by a dialogue, with Sebastian. Tickets are available now.


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Bitcoin Miracle Guide Review – Bitcoin Doubling Scam!
Almost every time someone is pushing a scam, you will hear him or her say "this has nothing to do with Forex, bitcoins or other such proven and long-discredited scams." Well, the Bitcoin Miracle Guide (BitcoinMiracleGuide.com) is exactly such a scam. It's built on people's relative ignorance concerning this cryptocurrency. On one hand, it sells freely available information for money, while on the other, it may actually promote some sort of illegal and abusive ways to generate bitcoins. Then again, those who push such schemes will likely not want to share their gains with random people who buy an eBook, so that part isn't really likely.
Before we go anywhere with this review, let's set a couple of things straight. You can only get your hands on bitcoins in two proper ways, short of downright stealing them from other people. You can mine bitcoins, which is a painstaking activity that carries less and less upside for those who do it, or you can buy them at a legitimate exchange. That's it. Know that if someone promises you "methods" through which you can get bitcoins, other than the above said two, you're likely being scammed, tricked into doing something illegal, while also getting your computer infected with viruses and malware.
So what exactly do we have on our hands with Bitcoin Miracle? This is an old scam. By the looks of things, it first got off the ground in 2014 (as one can verify by checking whois.com). First of all, it obviously tries to build on Bitcoin hype. It points out how much value the virtual currency gained since its inception, as if that had anything to do with how one could actually acquire some. As a matter of fact, the rising value of Bitcoin makes it much more difficult to obtain, if anything. Then, it makes a bold promise, saying that those who pick up the advertised eBook, will be able to turn $15 into $10,000, without any work whatsoever. This is the second major red flag regarding this scam: it looks too good to be true, and indeed it is. A quick online search will reveal that there are no happy customers out there at all. Surprisingly, there are a few positive reviews regarding the "service" but at closer inspection, it becomes obvious these are all fakes, perpetrated by the same bunch of people. They're all written in poor English, with the obvious intention of polluting the search results when it comes to the "brand" they represent.
So what do we know about the Bitcoin Miracle Guide other than the fact of course that it's a scam?
The Bitcoin Miracle Guide website claims their eBook delivers all sorts of information on Bitcoin, in regards to what it is, how it works, how it's earned and what sort of terms are used with it. All that is available online for free, just about everywhere, so that represents no value at all. Other than that, the scammers guarantee to teach their readers how to purchase bitcoins through PayPal and then how to multiply them through a secret technique.
They promise to teach people how to double and triple the bitcoins they already have, which is frankly impossible to accomplish in a legitimate manner. The Blockhain is the very mechanism which prevents the double spending of bitcoins – the problem every cryptocurrency needs to overcome. If one can double or triple his/her bitcoins without any effort, that means stealing and scamming others.
Indeed, there's quite a bit of scamming going on here, but the ones who do it are not the people who purchase the eBook, but those who sell it to them.
The claim according to which people will be able to generate thousands of dollars worth of bitcoins in just one hour per day, is the way of this scam to arouse curiosity in those who stumble upon the website.
The actual eBook is about nothing more than some Bitcoin education, which is – as said above – available for free anyway.
The way the site is set up is very scammy as well. Besides the repeated and aggravating calls to action, the wild promises and the standard urgency-inducing methods, the scammers have posted a picture of Milton Friedman at the bottom of the page, to make it seem like the economist has something to do with the Bitcoin Miracle "deal." Obviously though, that is not the case.
The incessant pop-ups which pester those who try to click away from the page, promising additional discounts, are but the cherry on this scam-cake.
Needless to say, the money-back guarantee at the page's bottom, made to look like some sort of official document, is non-existent. Once you part with your money, parted you shall remain!
Did you read the Bitcoin Miracle Guide? Share your thoughts with us by leaving a comment below.


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Winnenden es una localidad alemana de 28.000 habitantes perteneciente a Baden-Wurtemberg. Situada a unos 20 kilómetros al noreste de Stuttgart. Es la quinta ciudad más grande del distrito de Rems-Murr y un subcentro del área central de Waiblingen/Fellbach. Pertenece a la región de Stuttgart y a la región metropolitana europea de Stuttgart. Está hermanada con Albertville (Francia) y Santo Domingo de la Calzada (España).

Winnenden es una gran ciudad de distrito desde el 1 de enero de 1973.

Geografía

Situación geográfica
Winnenden se encuentra a poco menos de 20 kilómetros al noreste de Stuttgart, en la región de Stuttgart, de unos 2,7 millones de habitantes, en el borde occidental del bosque de Suabia, a una altitud de entre 270 y 504 metros. El casco antiguo se encuentra en una colina entre los arroyos Buchenbach y Zipfelbach.

Municipios vecinos
Las siguientes ciudades y comunidades limitan con la ciudad de Winnenden. Se nombran en el sentido de las agujas del reloj, empezando por el norte:

Backnang, Allmersbach im Tal, Berglen, Remshalden, Korb, Schwaikheim y Leutenbach.

Estructura urbana
La zona urbana de Winnenden está formada por el núcleo urbano, el distrito residencial de Schelmenholz (no es un distrito independiente), que se creó en 1964 y tenía 4.441 habitantes en 2000, y los distritos de Baach, Birkmannsweiler, Breuningsweiler, Bürg, Hanweiler, Hertmannsweiler y Höfen, que no se incorporaron hasta la reforma municipal de los años setenta. Los distritos individuales siguen incluyendo zonas residenciales separadas con nombres especiales, como Lange Weiden, Pfeilhof en Baach, Buchenbachhof, Burkhardshof y Neumühle en Birkmannsweiler, Sonnenberg en Breuningsweiler, Schulerhof en Bürg, Degenhof en Hertmannsweiler y Ruitzenmühle en Höfen. En el núcleo de la ciudad se distinguen en parte zonas residenciales con nombres propios, cuyas denominaciones han surgido en el transcurso de la historia debido al desarrollo constructivo y que, sin embargo, no suelen poder delimitarse con precisión. Entre ellas se encuentra, por ejemplo, la zona residencial "Am Hungerberg".

Ordenación del territorio
Winnenden es un subcentro de la zona de Waiblingen/Fellbach de la región de Stuttgart, en la que la capital del estado, Stuttgart, está designada como centro principal.

Edificios

 Merece la pena visitar el centro histórico de la ciudad, con casas de entramado de madera y casas representativas de la época barroca, así como la torre de la Puerta de Schwaikheim, símbolo de la ciudad, y la torre de los Ladrones.
 La iglesia municipal de San Bernhard, actual iglesia parroquial, fue construida como capilla en estilo gótico temprano y reconstruida tras la Reforma. Cuando se reconstruyó en 1693, se dotó a la torre de una cúpula con linterna cubierta en forma de campana.
 El castillo de Winnental fue primero una encomienda de la orden Teutónica y después el castillo residencial de los señores de Württemberg-Winnental.
 La iglesia del castillo es una basílica de tres naves que se construyó como iglesia parroquial original en el siglo XIV, tras varias iglesias predecesoras en el mismo emplazamiento. Situada en las inmediaciones del castillo, también fue utilizado por la orden Teutónica. En el coro se encuentra el altar mayor jacobeo, construido en 1520, que representa la vida y obra del apóstol Santiago
 La "Neumühle" de Winnenden-Birkmannsweiler fue construida para el viudo y molinero Johann Jakob Schurr (también llamado Johann Jacob Schurrer),pero en la clave de bóveda tiene unas iniciales que se asocian con su cuñado Johann Adam Groß el Viejo. Durante y después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el complejo se amplió, se reparó y albergó una molienda en cuatro plantas. La Neumühle es un edificio protegido desde 1987.
 El Winnender Markthaus se inauguró en otoño de 2006. Además de varias tiendas, también alberga la biblioteca pública de Winnender. El Markthaus pretende hacer más atractivo el centro de la ciudad (Marktstraße).
 La zona residencial Arkadien Winnenden se construyó entre 2007 y 2012. Es un proyecto de Strenger, de Ludwigsburg, y fue galardonado internacionalmente como el proyecto de construcción más sostenible del mundo (Green Dot Award). Entre los lugareños se la conoce como "Toscana".

Hay las siguientes iglesias en los distritos:

 La iglesia parroquial protestante de Birkmannsweiler es la antigua capilla de Ulrich, reconstruida en el siglo XIX. El púlpito de madera data de 1520/30.
 La iglesia protestante de Breuningsweiler se construyó en 1922/23, y el nuevo edificio de la iglesia se consagró en 1973.
 Bürg sólo cuenta con una iglesia (Auferstehungskirche) desde 1964, pero también hay constancia de una capilla de San Vito en 1355.
 Hanweiler tiene una iglesia protestante desde 1962.
 La iglesia de Hertmannsweiler se construyó en 1733 en lugar de una iglesia anterior y se renovó en 1876.

Véase también
Masacre de Winnenden

Referencias

Localidades de Baden-Wurtemberg

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Home > GSAFE> Charlie Daniel Receives Human Rights Award
Charlie Daniel Receives Human Rights Award
Long-time GSAFE supporter Charlie Daniel received the 2013 Rev. James C. Wright Human Rights Award from the City of Madison last week.
From The Madison Times:
The Equal Opportunities Commission's Committee has selected Charlestine "Charlie" Daniel as the winner of the 2013 Reverend James C. Wright Human Rights Award. This award honors the late Rev. James C. Wright who served as executive director of the Equal Opportunities Commission from its inception in 1968 until his retirement in 1992. The award is given to an individual who best exemplifies the Rev. Wright's dedication and compassion for civil and human rights and conducts their daily life consistent with these values.
This year marks the 18th presentation of the award which will be presented by Mayor Paul Soglin at June 18 Common Council meeting.
Daniel is long-time resident of the Madison area and exemplifies her commitment to human and civil rights through her work as an educator, advocate, policy maker, and consultant. Charlie is described as a fierce advocate for justice and is a well-respected community leader. She works tirelessly to improve the quality of life for underrepresented and disenfranchised communities. She is an advocate and promoter of diversity, equity, social justice, and inclusion for women's rights, GLBTQ and for all communities of color.
As an educator she was the education director for Minority Students Participation and Displaced Homemakers at the Wisconsin Technical College System. She also has worked with women in Domestic Violence, Alcohol and other Drugs as well as Mental Health.
She has served on boards that reflect her commitment to social justice, including the African American Ethnic Academy, Community Shares, Wisconsin Women Work, Madison Metropolitan LINKS, Inc, Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, City of Madison Human Resource and Affirmative Action Committees to name a few.
Daniel has come full circle in her post retirement as she now works part-time as the Diversity Coordinator for the Alliance and Dementia Alliance of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Research Center where she educates and outreaches to the African American community in Dane and Rock Counties regarding as she states, "the silent epidemic" of Alzheimer's and dementia. She wants to bring this disease "out of closet" in the African American community.
Charlie has played a critical role in GSAFE's history, both as a former Board member and currently as a consultant to our racial justice work. GSAFE's Manager of GSA Outreach, Tim Michael, was one of the people who nominated Charlie. GSAFE would like to congratulate Charlie on her recognition – it is much deserved for her long history and continued work of justice.
"Without the knowledge, resources, and extra effort of GSAFE, I have no question that we would not have a Gay-Straight Alliance in our school." – David Witte, Middle School Principal

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For more information regarding Central School Trust School Governance please view:
http://centralschoolstrust.co.uk/governance/
As part of a multi-academy trust (MAT), Central Schools Trust, Damson Wood Nursery and Infant School has a Local Governing Body and the MAT Board.
If you would like to make contact with the local governors of this particular school, please address your correspondence for the attention of the Chair of Board of Governors, and send it to the main office of the relevant school.
Any correspondence for the chair of the Multi-Academy Trust should be marked for the attention of the MAT Chair and sent into the main office at Balsall Common Primary School.
Chair of Local Governing Body & Parent Governor - Mrs Lisa Evans
Staff Governor, Teaching Assistant - Mrs Genette White
Staff Governor, Headteacher - Mrs Emily Hume
Parent Governor - Mr Jody Dawson
Community Governor - Mrs Kate Hull
Community Governor - Mrs Dawn Woolven
Clerk to Governors - Mrs Clare Hinde
Deputy Headteacher and SENCo (Associate Governor) - Mrs Rosalind Fitter
Previous Governors from past 12 months:
Mr Tony Bal - Parent Governor
Mr Kamran Zeb - Community Governor
Community Governor - Mr Peter Holdsworth
If you are interested in becoming a member of our Local Governing Body, please contact the school on 0121 705 8652 or email our Clerk, Clare Hinde, on g2chinde@balsall-common.solihull.sch.uk for further details.
Meet our Local Governing Body
Lisa Evans - Chair of the Local Governing Body
How long have you been a governor?
This is my third year as a parent governor at Damson Wood; I have two children at the school- Ieuan in Year 2 and Eira in Reception. I became the Chair of Governors in September. Prior to that, I was a governor at a local special school.
What is your background?
I have lived in Damson Wood for ten years. In my day job, I am a primary school teacher. I also have a Masters degree in Educational Leadership and Management.
What is your favourite thing about Damson Wood?
The inclusive ethos and the wide range of experiences the children can experience.
What is your favourite thing about being a governor?
I feel privileged to be involved in the work of the school and to have seen the fantastic improvements that have been made over the last few years.
Kate Hull - Community Governor
This is my first year as a community governor at Damson Wood.
I have always been involved in finance, as I worked for numerous years in a bank and as an accountant. I started working on a Regeneration Project in North Solihull and I began to think about the impact that a great education can have.
As a volunteer at Damson Wood Infant School, I was so impressed by its lovely calm, organised and friendly atmosphere. Their visions and aims for every child to make progress and reach their potential are fulfilled through amazing opportunities and fresh ideas.
Although I am a new Governor, I am enjoying learning more about primary education and this wonderful school. It is an opportunity to keep myself up to date with legislation, learn new skills and remain engaged with education today at a challenging time.
Genette White - Staff Governor
This is my third year as a staff governor at Damson Wood. I have been a Teaching Assistant (TA) at Damson Wood for six years after working at Hatchford Brook for two years.
Previous to being a TA, I worked for a large finance company as a debt counsellor. A job that I fell into after travelling and working abroad for many years! I knew as my children became toddlers I wanted to work in education. Whilst working part-time in finance, I took on another part-time job at a pre-school in Dorridge and attended college to re-train as a Teaching Assistant. Both my children came to Damson Wood and thrived here. The year my son went on to Coppice, I was lucky enough to get a full time job here. I have undertaken lots of training here and am very proud to have had Autism Lead and Mental Health First Aid training as well as becoming a Forest School Leader, which I love doing with the children. Outside school, I love running and going on long family walks with our dog, Oscar.
I am very passionate about Damson Wood and I know what a fabulous school it is. I love living within the school community and the fact my children came here strengthens the ties and the small part I play in keeping the school great.
Peter Holdsworth - Community Governor
As a Grandfather ('Poppy' to my five Grandchildren) to Michael and Peter, who attend this fantastic school, I am very proud to be a Community Governor. I have been a governor for about a year.
My three sons attended Damson Wood and as a parent I was very much involved with the school in various ways.
I hope that my commitment to the Governing team as well as the dedicated staff will enrich and improve the well-being of the children as well as you the Mums and Dads, Grandparents and Carers. I am more than happy to have a chat about my role so please feel free to come and have a chat when I am around.
Dawn Woolven - Community Governor
Since January 2019. In addition to this, I have eight years' worth of experience of being an Associate Governor at Coppice Junior School where I was Assistant Head Teacher and SENCO.
This is my twenty-first year in teaching! I started off my career at Stanville Junior and Infant School, and then moved to Greswold Primary School before I moved to Coppice Junior School, where I worked for over sixteen years. Currently, I am an Advisory Teacher for SISS Autism Team where I travel across the whole of Solihull, advising schools on their provision for children aged from 4 to 16.
I love the fact that it is an inclusive school, where everyone is welcome; you can 'feel' the ethos as you walk around the whole building and there is such a sense of pride from staff and children. It is such a friendly and welcoming school. My own children came here and I wanted to give something back to the community that I have lived in since I was 7 years old.
It's early days yet, but I love finding out about all of the amazing things that Damson Wood has to offer all children. I also like to challenge and question to ensure that the children are at the heart of everything that Damson Wood does.
Emily Hughes - Headteacher & Staff Governor
Since 2016 when I joined Damson Wood as Headteacher. Prior to that, I was Assistant Headteacher at Balsall Common Primary School, our partner school in the Central Schools Trust. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to take this leadership role here, whilst remaining part of the CST.
I have been a teacher for almost 13 years, working in schools around Solihull and in Auckland, New Zealand.I was lucky enough to work at Coppice Junior School for 4 years so feel I know our local community very well.
Having been a pupil at Damson Wood (many years ago as you can see from the photo below!), it is a very special place to me.I love the community spirit here and the support of our parents is amazing. I appreciate the drive of our incredible team of staff who work to continuously develop the education provided by Damson Wood. Above all, I love our pupils whose kindness, curiosity and ethusiasm make our school what it is!
I have really enjoyed working with our dedicated team of voluntary governors to improve Damson Wood over the last 3 years. Their dedication and passion for our school has supported me to lead Damson Woodeffectively. I also sit on the Multi-Academy Trust Board where, alongside our LGB Chair, Lisa Evans, I am able to represent the views and needs of our school within the CST, which is vital for our success.


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Sumpäggsvamp (Bovista paludosa) är en svampart som beskrevs av Lév. 1846. Enligt Catalogue of Life ingår Sumpäggsvamp i släktet äggsvampar,  och familjen Agaricaceae, men enligt Dyntaxa är tillhörigheten istället släktet äggsvampar,  och familjen röksvampar. Arten är reproducerande i Sverige. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Farmer's Market: Edgefield Farmers Market is open on the square on Saturdays from 9 to 1. For more info call Carolyn at 803-507-00278.
Class Meeting: W.E. Parker High Class of 1966 will hold a class meeting Saturday, June 13, at Aiken Electric Cooperative Meeting Room from 9 to 11 a.m. in preparation for the 50th class reunion. All class members are welcome to attend. For more information call Sidney Gordon at 637-5266.
Story Time: The Edgefield Library Story Time will be June 13, at 11:30 a.m. Parents and grandparents bring your young ones 5th grade and younger for a grand morning of entertaining stories.
Anniversary Service: Shaws Creek Baptist Church 147th Church Anniversary Service, June 14, Sunday School at 8:45, Worship Service at 10 a.m. Guest speaker is Rev. Edward Lloyd.
Free Workshops: Edgefield/SC Works Center, 400 Church St, Rm. 306, Edgefield, Tuesday, June 16, 10:00 AM Networkers Group Session – topic – "Breaking Barriers"; 11:00 AM "Job Search Lab; 1:30 PM "Your Skills Your Future"; 3:00 PM "Job Search Marketing for 50 andAbove"; Thursday, June 18, 2:00 PM "Let WorkKeys Work for You" For further information telephone 637-4029.
Church Anniversary: Republican Grove Baptist Church (276 Gary Hill Road) will celebrate their 130th church anniversary, Sunday, June 21, at 10 a.m. Guest minister will be Rev. Sloan Gordon. Rev. Willie Patten is pastor. Everyone is welcome.
Father's Day Program: Mt. Calvary Baptist Church of Johnston is having their annual Father's Day Program, June 21, at 11 a.m. Guest speaker is Rev. Reginald Grimes of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Edgefield. The public is invited. Rev.Lewis Burt is pastor.
Vacation Bible School: Mount Canaan Baptist Church, 2451 Edgefield Rd., Trenton, will have Bible School June 22 – 26 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. On Line Registration: www.mcbesc.org. The public is invited. Call 803-275-3651.Rev. George L. Brightharp is pastor.
God's Little Angels Preschool has open registration for the 2K, 3K and 4K classes being held at Edgefield First Baptist Church for the 2015/2016 school year. Please call 637-6139 for more information.


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Technology news for Australia's largest enterprises
Human judges vital in crowdsourced campaign to track deforestation
Sara Barker
Earth Day celebrates its 50th anniversary today – and to celebrate, two technology companies are banding together to create algorithms that help people better understand the planet.
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and analytics firm SAS are creating artificial intelligence (AI) based algorithms with the help of crowdsourcing.
The two companies believe it's best to start with human intelligence, which is why they are launching an online app that asks people – citizen scientists, artists, engineers, or professional data scientists, and anyone who's game enough – to take part in the crowdsourced project.
Volunteers must review and judge images of untouched rainforests, and rainforests that may be affected by human development.
When the volunteers identify regions that have been affected by human development, they can help to make the AI algorithms learn and to become smarter.
IIASA and SAS explain that it is easy for a person to tell a river from a road, but an AI model will not know the difference until it is trained from human knowledge.
Results also ensure that the crowdsourcing app focuses the attention of human judges where their expertise is most needed.
The organisations say that the model will allow for increased efficiency of a volunteer human force that best makes use of their attention and insights for a broad array of projects aimed at monitoring and measuring important global change matters.
The IIASA is known for its systems analysis capabilities to help understand major challenges for humanity, and the organisation says it is placing a spotlight on the issue of deforestation. It wants to know how AI can explain how Earth's ecosystems interconnect.
"Today, our systems are changing rapidly, approaching levels that exceed existing human experiences, scientific understanding and traditional modelling capabilities, making it increasingly difficult for humans to intervene efficiently, effectively and in a timely manner," IIASA says in a statement.
"By combining the power of our environmental science research platforms, SAS' AI and computer vision technologies, and the sheer intellectual power of concerned citizens, we will develop AI models that will exponentially increase the value of human insights and strive to deliver near real-time assessment of global environmental change," adds IIASA CEO Albert van Jaarsveld.
The crowdsourcing partnership is fuelled by the Data for Good movement. The movement encourages the use of data meaningful ways to drive positive global change.
Head to sas.com/rainforest to categorise images that show signs of deforestation and help models learn and improve at each iteration.
AWS announces global expansion of AWS CCI Solutions
Oracle releases new version of converged database
Pega acquires speech analytics firm Qurious.io
SAS Crowdsourcing Machine learning Artificial intelligence / AI Algorithms
Country-wide phishing reports up 75% in 2020
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A press statement released on behalf of good Prof. indicated that, he has no such plans of contesting neither has he consulted anyone on such matter.
The released came as a response to recent media reportage which was published and widely circulated by an Accra based media house, multimedia Ltd affirming his intention to contest in the upcoming national delegates elections.
The longest serving finance minister in Ghana's political history (1982-1995) believes such vile propaganda and malicious orchestrations are the handy works of some faceless bunch of cowards who are struggling to usher him into the realms of not being consisted.
It will be recalled that Prof Kwasi Botchwey was the leader of the team tasked to probe into why the NDC lost power miserably to Akuffo Addo led Npp in 2016.
Many people have already rejected the import of the committee's report citing a possible case of conflict of interest on the part of Prof Botchwey who according many, harbours presidentials ambitions, so the theory of his critics are that, the whole exercise was meant to indict Mahama to pave way for a new persons to lead the Ndc ahead of 2020 elections. But according to Pro. Kwasi Botchwey, he harbours no such intentions and has indicated that in the coming days, his intentions as to which aspect or what capacity to occupy in the party will be made known to Ghanaians.
He indicated that his team would conduct a proper investigation into the matter to be able to fairly ascertain the identity of those bunch of unwavering cowards attempting to drag his integrity into the annals of political mischief and street propaganda.
The office want to put it on record that, Professor Kwesi Botchwey has not authorised any person to pick a form on his behalf, or has he ever considered contesting for the office of NDC National Chairman.
We consider this act by some faceless people as desperate, wicked, and devious with the intent of portraying him as inconsistent with his decisions, and a deliberate attempt to create confusion in the mind of his teeming supporters.
The office shall investigate and report this conduct to the National Executive Committee to bring to book the persons behind this desperate conduct to book.
In the coming days, Professor Kwesi Botchwey shall publicly declare his intention and the capacity in which he will decide to lead the party for victory 2020. We want assure our teeming supporters that Prof. Kwesi Botchey remain resolute to the agenda agreed on.


Surrounding ourselves with pleasing scents is an easy, effective way to provoke feelings of comfort and calm. Commercial air fresheners exist, but they're chock full of chemicals – some potentially carcinogenic, some certainly toxic, and many that are known allergens. Using fresh or dried herbs instead is a natural way to fill your space with the scents that you love the most. Here are : 7 simple ways to get your groovy fragrance on.


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App of the Week – ThinkUp
Ladies,
This week's App comes to us via Ashley Macey at Brit & Co. It's a simple, yet, brilliant App to re-enforce Positive Affirmations in a world of Political Chaos.
I hope you like it as much as I do…
"This Trendy App Can Help You Stay Positive This Year"
Ashley Macey of Brit & Co
"It's no secret that on New Year's Eve most of us were more interested in saying "F You 2016" than "Welcome 2017." So instead of dwelling on the negative (which would be waaay too easy), I've decided to set myself up to avoid bad attitudes and embrace positive vibes in the coming year. But before I can accomplish this hefty task, I thought it would *probably* be best to equip myself with a few useful tools to help me look on the brighter side in 2017. One of the strategies I'm investigating is positive affirmation.
Positive affirmation isn't new — in fact, the concept has been tied to the historic practice of Buddhist and Sanskrit mantras — but it is new to me. As a psychological practice, positive affirmation was first popularized by French psychologist Emile Coué in the 1920s, and it's been a hotly debated topic within the scientific community ever since. While some scientists believe positive affirmation is a proven way of creating a new habit, others believe it's just a bunch of hippie mumbo jumbo.
So, I made myself a little experiment. Using the popular app ThinkUp (free on iOS and Android), I would see how positive affirmation practice would impact my life over a week.
The first thing I had to do was dream up my own affirmations. I opted to start with three that I felt would help me stay more positive in the first week of 2017 (and, yes, I am aware that most of them are *super* cheesy). Once I chose my affirmations from ThinkUp's comprehensive list, the next step was to record myself saying them aloud. Merging my recordings with a soothing musical track, the app then created a specialized playlist just for me. The goal was to listen to the playlist three times a day and say my affirmations out loud in time with the playlist.
I won't lie: It totally felt awkward at first. Shouting my dreams into the world seemed hella crazy — especially when I mistimed my schedule and ended up having to whisper them in line at Starbucks.
But by the end of day four, I honestly did start to feel more positive. It's really important to give yourself up to the process and stop feeling like you're being a weirdo in public. Because I got to record the affirmations in my own voice, it was the perfect pep talk from myself to really kill in positivity every single day… and I loved it!
Sure, my neighbors might think I'm a little insane now (if they didn't already). But even after just a week I could feel myself remembering to let go of life's little annoyances and ground myself in my goal to stay more positive."
Download ThinkUp
How to: Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
For this week's "How to", I opted to keep things simple and Mac oriented. While working for Apple, one of the most common questions was about keyboard shortcuts. So, here I've posted Apple's most common Keyboard shortcuts for novices and experts alike.
Mac menus and keyboards often use symbols for certain keys, including the modifier keys:
• Command ⌘
• Shift ⇧
• Option ⌥
• Control ⌃
• Caps Lock ⇪
• Fn
If you're using a keyboard made for Windows PCs, use the Alt key instead of Option, and the Windows logo key instead of Command. Some Mac keyboards and shortcuts use special keys in the top row, which include icons for volume, display brightness, and other functions. Press the icon key to perform that function, or combine it with the Fn key to use it as an F1, F2, F3, or other standard function key.
To learn more shortcuts, check the menus of the app you're using. Every app can have its own shortcuts, and shortcuts that work in one app may not work in another.
Netflix Tips You Need In Your Life
In the spirit of a winter weekend with no football, I thought I'd give you a few tips to help you Netflix & Chill.
This article was originally posted on TNW by Trevor Nace
"Trends in popular software come and go, but it's pretty clear at this point which ones are sticking around for the long haul. How else do you end up with the cultural jargon "Netflix and Chill" being so widely accepted? I'm fairly certain you've never heard anybody say, "Hulu and Chill." "Youtube and Chill?" "HBO Now and…" yeah, you get the picture.
Netflix is the premium streaming service for films and television shows, and even though its primary competitors are doing just fine in their own right, there's almost no way for them to close the distance with this media behemoth.
It helps that a great majority of Netflix's original programming has been met with critical acclaim, many times over. Daredevil. Jessica Jones. Orange is the New Black. House of Cards. The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Fans of Arrested Development, Full House, and Gilmore Girls can all thank Netflix for picking up the threads of where their favorite shows left off, delivering new content available exclusively through the streaming service.
While Amazing Video and Hulu have certainly been playing the same ballgame, neither can boast the profile or namesake that Netflix now claims amongst its users. From the forecast of upcoming content that we'll soon be seeing from Netflix, that paradigm isn't likely to shift anytime soon.
Still, just because a service is popular doesn't mean that every nuance of operating it is visible, right on its service. People have criticism in abundance for Netflix, and much of it has to do with streaming, organization, geoboundaries (more on this, later) and the ways that different devices and web browsers seem to affect the playback of Netflix content.
Crafty users have found a way around most of this complaints, and below, I'll share ten of the most frequently used (but infrequently known) tricks that will help you to become truly Netflix-savvy. (I can't help with the "chill" part. That's on you, friends.)
HIDDEN SUBCATEGORIES
I'll admit, I find Netflix's content organization to be borderline atrocious.
Sure, you can find your way into genre-sorted listings of all available films and television shows, but by and large, the landing screen that always greets you upon signing in is a damned mess. Instead of a simplified, streamlined listing of content we see "Romance-fueled horror thrill-ride movies" or "Funny splatter-fests that will melt your heart."
You're not the only person that's been left scratching their head, wondering how to wade through it all.
Thankfully, there's a way to take advantage of this organization scheme for your benefit. See, those odd genre amalgamations aren't just for you, and they're not just for show. They're actually specifically compiled lists that you can drag up on demand…as long as you know how. Head over to the Netflix ID Bible and check out the immense list of subcategories that are available to view.
It works like this. Take your base URL of http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/INSERTNUMBER, and replace the obvious part of that URL with one of the subcategories that you'd like to view. For example, if you want to watch Asian Action Movies, the finished URL would be http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/77232.
Take advantage of this trick whenever you're feeling digitally peckish, but don't know what to watch.
CUSTOMIZE YOUR SUBTITLES
One of Netflix's fantastic features is the huge library of foreign-language films that it constantly offers. However, unless you're fluent in the languages that you'll be hearing, subtitles are going to become your best buddy.
Raise your hand if you've ever been irritated by the size or font style of Netflix's subtitles.
Well, my hand is up, but if you haven't been yet, there's a chance you might be in the future. It's handy to know that you can change those settings as often as you want from within your Netflix settings. Simply click into your account, then scroll to the bottom of the list of settings. Select "Subtitle Appearance" and be amazed by how much you can customize them!
Don't get stuck squinting at your screen ever again.
CUSTOMIZE YOURSTREAMING QUALITY
360p. 720p. 1080p. 4k. The list of increasing streaming resolutions is getting a bit mind-boggling, but what stands to boggle the mind even more is how these settings can affect your viewing experience.
Whether you're on a slower internet connection at home or using your mobile data to catch a quick television episode, this is one of the most important things that you can learn to customize. (Your patience and your phone bill will both thank you.)
Once again, from within your account settings, scroll down until you find the "Playback Setting" option. From within that menu, you can choose between several preset data-usage ranges, from automatic (which selects it for you, based on connection speed) and high (which enables HD and Ultra HD playback.)
Even if you have a blazing fast mobile connection, however, the GB of data used to stream HD or Ultra HD are going to chew through your data allowance uncomfortably quick. Additionally, if your home internet connection is being particularly sluggish, try reducing the playback settings to accommodate it.
GETFLIX (SKIP GEOBLOCKING)
There are a few justified reasons for geo-blocking, but they have never mattered that much to Netflix users who just want to be able to view the same content as Netflix users in other countries. US availability in particular is often desired by viewers in other countries, and through clever DNS routing, Getflix can get you past the usual IP address blockade and give you access to Netflix (and more!)
The only catch? It's going to cost you if you want to keep on using it.
Though each pricing bundle comes with a 14-day free trial, you'll need to pay a recurring monthly subscription fee to maintain the service.
In my opinion, the added entertainment value you'll get for such a small investment is totally worth it.
WATCH NETFLIX TOGETHER
Long distance relationships are difficult. Whether we're talking friendship or romance, sometimes its nice to spend a few hours watching something good with a person who means a lot to you, but buffering times and stream availability can make this difficult, resulting in out-of-sync viewing experiences and more frustration than fun.
Though a few online web portals and apps purport being able to fix this, the best of them is Rabbit. Get signed up, then start enjoying shared viewing experiences again.
It even has pretty stellar chat support, so you and your dearest can yak it up while the movie is playing.
USE MULTIPLE PROFILES
Most assume that the ability to create multiple profiles for your Netflix account is only useful when multiple members of a household are using it, but this isn't true! There's one other handy organization tip that I can give you, and it revolves completely around the way that Netflix profiles work.
Some may not realize it, but the viewing recommendations that Netflix gives you are based on what you've viewed on a particular account. This works great for separate people using separate accounts, but you can also use it to shape the recommendations that you want to see based on other circumstances.
Let's say, you want certain movies to show up as options for "date night." Make an account for it! Your viewing experience on your "date night" profile will lead to you finding more films and television shows that are applicable to that occasion.
What about those times when you want to sit down for a couple of hours and watch a documentary? Make a "Documentaries" profile, during which you only watch informative, interesting content.
Your recommendations are going to follow suit.
ONLY WATCH THE BEST
You're cuddled up on the sofa (alone or with company; it's the sofa that's important, right?), and you want to know what's new, what's good, and what's available to watch. Where do you turn? You could do a quick search for "Best Movies On Netflix" and hope you snag a new favorite movie to watch.
Netflix's "star rating" system is notoriously unreliable, and thankfully, crafty Netflixers have stepped up to provide a service that will help you out.
Though many like it are available, I find Best Movies On Netflix (What is On Netflix?) to be the best place to look.
With it, you can see what's recently been added to the streaming service, and also use common directories and other resources to determine whether or not a particular film or television show is any good, in the first place.
LISTEN TO THE CRITICS
I already mentioned how widely unreliable Netflix's rating system can be for finding the content that you want to watch, but thankfully, there's a way around that particular problem. As long as you're browsing from a web browser, you can use extensions like NEnhancer to add a great deal more information to each listing in your Netflix queue. Imagine being able to see IMDb information, trailers, Rotten Tomatoes reviews, and more without ever having to leave Netflix.
Though the Netflix algorithms are good at some things, it can be decidedly difficult to figure out what exactly you're in the mood to watch.
Take out a little bit of the guesswork, reclaim some of that lost browsing time, and give NEnhancer a try.
KEEP TRACK OF WHAT'S COMING AND WHAT'S GOING
One thing that long time Netflixers know by now is the fact that what's available is always changing. Movies and TV shows that have been around for a while hit the road, while new items are brought in.
One thing that Netflix doesn't do a particularly good job of letting you know when all of these changes are taking place, which makes it hard to know when you're running out of time to watch something. Inversely, it's nice to know when you have upcoming content to look forward to.
There are quite a few online resources that will keep track for you. Whats-On-Netflix keeps up-to-date listings of what will soon be leaving the popular streaming service as well as what's on the way.
CLEAR YOUR VIEWING HISTORY
This one might only apply to users that want a little bit more privacy than Netflix affords by default, but it's absolutely possible to wipe your viewing history from your account. Whether you want to clear it all out or just remove certain items, it's a simple process.
Pop back into your Netflix account settings, and once again, scroll down to the bottom where you can select "Viewing History." From this menu, you'll see a listing of every movie or television episode that you've recently watched on your Netflix account.
In addition to being able to report any problems you might have had while streaming, you can click the "X" off to the right to delete any entry that you'd like. Use this to keep your viewing history a little more clean, a little more concise, and a little more private.
Netflix is here to stay. We can make that claim with a fair amount of confidence, now that the service has weathered several competitors moving in on its offerings while still remaining on top.
Considering the surprising amount of hype that now surrounds and follows a majority of Netflix's original programming, it's hard to see any of this popularity taking a nosedive anytime soon.
That doesn't mean the Netflix experience can't stand to be enhanced, though. The above 10 tips are enough to get you started on the way to Netflix mastery."
Weekly Roundup – 1/27/17
These are the tech stories that intrigued me this week…
I can't wait to try the new features:
The New Google Voice via Arstechnica
I wish I could say I'm surprised…
Trump's God-Awful Phone and Twitter Security Isn't as Scary as His Cybersecurity Policies via Slate.com
Elon Musk for President!! Who's with me?
Elon Musk's Hyperloop contest is happening this weekend — here's a look at all the competing pods via Business Insider
Don't you let them push you around!
How to whip annoying Windows Updates into submission via Boy Genius Report
It seems like only yesterday…
Seven years later, we're still asking the wrong questions about the iPad via The Verge
Women in Tech Spotlight: Katharine Zaleski and Milena Berry
This week's Women in Tech spotlight will introduce you to 2 young women I find particularly remarkable. Their names are Katharine Zaleski and Milena Berry and they co-founded PowerToFly; a service that finds work-from-home jobs for female tech talent, particularly mothers who don't want to leave their children. They are 30 something working moms and real life wonder women who are trying to level the playing field for women in Tech.
Shalene Gupta from Fortune interviewed them a few weeks ago and I wasn't about to re-invent the wheel when she perfectly captured the details and the essence that makes these women special.
"Already, PowerToFly counts a few big companies like Buzzfeed and Hearst among its clients. (BuzzFeed CEO, Jonah Peretti, is one of their angel investors.) For Zaleski, former digital head of Washington Post, and Berry, the former CTO of political activist site Avaaz.org, this company is also a personal mission. Both are mothers and say they know that female tech talent is out there. They believe that remote work is the key to closing the tech gender gap.
Fortune chatted with Berry and Zaleski. [Transcript lightly edited for length and clarity.]
Let's start at the beginning. What inspired you to start PowerToFly?
Berry: I have three kids. The oldest is eight. When she was ten months old, I became the CTO of Avaaz.org. I joined 3 months in and when I left we had 33 million members. I managed a remote team of about 20 people there. I would often be nursing while managing a server crisis. I could be productive and have a great career. It was wonderful. I wanted to know if this could scale to more companies.
Zaleski: When Milena came to me, I was struggling with the idea of going back to my office for ten hours a day and leaving my baby. I'm traveling in the Dominican Republic right now. I have Internet and I can do all my work. But I don't have to sacrifice seeing my child.
What's your edge? What are you offering that employers can't do on their own?
Zaleski: We're offering a service where we present vetted female talent. There's this line that keeps repeating that women in tech don't exist and that not enough women are graduating with tech degrees . That's not the immediate problem. Women in tech do exist, but when they get to a certain age, they don't want to sit in essentially college campuses—which is what these companies have done to attract a certain type of man. Women in their thirties have experience, they want their own lives, and these are the women that companies want.
Berry: Remote work is the part we see the most resistance to. Our goal is to change the conversation around it. Knowing how to do remote takes a bit of training and then it can totally work in any organization. We're training clients on how to do remote so they can work with some of our own talent.
What's involved with your training?
Berry: We have regular newsletters for anyone who has posted a job on [our] network. We're launching a new set of webinars on how to do remote. We also issue guidelines to all talent and alert the companies in the Code of Conduct we require from both sides. Making remote work effective is all about good communication. We use daily reports: sent to your manager and the people on your team, that way you have upward and horizontal visibility.
Zaleski: For the first two weeks, we assign each woman and client a talent manager. The talent manager's goal is to help create an environment for a successful remote relationship.
How has business been going?
Zaleski: We've processed almost $1 million in payment for these women. We're proud of this. Things are starting to ramp up. I just got back from the Middle East. In Palestine over 50% of women graduate with IT degrees but only a small fraction have jobs because their families don't want them to leave home. We're also starting to work with women in Saudi Arabia and in Haiti.
One of our goals is to give [more] women paychecks so they can support other women by paying for childcare or buying more goods from friends who are producing in their villages or locally.
Berry: We have our technology and our databases, but now we have to scale. We want to grow to the millions.
Eric Schmidt (of Google) has said that water cooler talk is important and Marissa Mayer rolled back Yahoo's work-from-home policy . What would you say to them?
Zaleski: I never had a productive conversation with a water cooler. It's incredible that these CEOs are saying this. They aren't in the office that much, and they have their own ways of working remotely. We're really going down the wrong path if we've trying to spread this idea that the perfect work place is an extension of college.
There's this misnomer that mothers who work from home don't work. I've never been with a more productive group. In our case, we run 24 hours a day. Remote work eliminates needing real estate in an expensive city, which eliminates the need to pay expensive salaries for living in these cities. If you aren't doing remote as a startup, you are killing yourself.
Some fear that working remotely can put women on a mommy track and keep them from getting promoted. What are your thoughts on this?
Berry: I see a lot of high profile positions being done remotely in various industries – not just in tech. Companies need to change the way they work and the cultures they support to create more intimacy and culture online and require less of a physical presence. I was a CTO of a large nonprofit and my chances didn't get hurt by being a working from home mommy."
Visit PowerToFly Website
App of the Week: Power to Fly
This week I'm focusing on an App that also wants to empower women in the field of Tech: Power to Fly. Power to Fly is actually more of a movement but since they offer an App I wanted to shine on light on the incredible work Power to fly has done for women. According to their website:
"PowerToFly was launched by Milena Berry and Katharine Zaleski in 2014 to connect Fortune 500 companies and fast growing startups with women who are looking to work for companies that value gender diversity and inclusion. PowerToFly is building the platform to propel diversity recruiting and hiring. Our optimized search and sourcing tools, targeted job promotions, and high visibility employer branding services reduce the time to hire hard to reach talent pools of underrepresented female engineers at a centralized and lower cost. Through the platform companies gain full access to actively and passively build a pipeline of vetted women in tech and across digital.
Companies struggle to build diversity across their organizations and most particularly in technical roles. Countless studies have shown that diverse teams perform better than homogenous ones, but without focused solutions, gender parity throughout the corporate ladder won't be achieved for 100 years."
The App allows you to take advantage of their amazing website on a mobile platform. It's easy to join by signing up with your Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin accounts and then you can access all of the great content and search for a job while on the go.
So far, nearly 1,000 companies have posted job listings on Power to Fly including Hearst, Buzzfeed and the Washington Post, for positions in technology, marketing, sales and customer service. And the website is growing so quickly, Power to Fly itself, plans to hire another 60 workers over the next six months.
You go, Girls!
Download Powertofly on iOS
(Currently unavailable for Android)
How to add and switch between Instagram accounts on an iPhone
Today's How To: comes from Roger Fingas of Apple Insider. If, like me, you have multiple Instagram accounts, this will save your life. I struggled with how to do this when I started The Blonde Byte. Of course, I made it harder than it was and the solution was really easy and kinda aggravating, to be honest. While this article reflects use of Instagram on an iPhone, I feel sure it also exists within the Android version too.
Try it for yourself!
By Roger Fingas (of Apple Insider)
Facebook's Instagram is a convenient way to share photos as well as short videos, but for many reasons it can be smart to have multiple personas on the service. Here's how to add additional profiles on Apple's iPhone and switch between them.
Within the Instagram app, the first step is to tap on your profile icon, situated in the lower-right corner of the screen. What this looks like will depend on the profile picture you selected during initial setup.
Next, tap on Settings, represented by a gear icon in the upper-right. Scroll down towards the bottom of the menu and you'll discover the Add Account button.
Here you will find options to log into an existing account, either by entering your username and password manually, or logging in via Facebook. If you don't already have a second account, a sign-in link at the bottom will guide you through Instagram's normal account creation process.
Once you've logged into one or more extra accounts, the username in your profile will show an arrow next to it. Tap on this to enable a drop-down menu for quick account switching. There should even be another "Add Account" button, letting you skip the Settings menu altogether.
Remember that you can only have up to five accounts active at any given time —realistically, though, that's probably more than enough for anyone.
10 Tips Every iPhone 7 Owner Should Know
These Tips make owning an iPhone 7 easy to operate and fun! This is an article I found on CNET and wanted to share!
LOCK SCREEN LIMITS
Your iPhone can show a lot of information on the lock screen, which is convenient for quickly glancing at reminders, messages and more. Should you want to restrict what information can be accessed from your iPhone without your passcode, go to Settings > Touch ID & Passcode and disable whichever items you don't want showing up on your lock screen.
REST OR PRESS?
With Slide to Unlock a thing of the past, you now press the home button to unlock your iPhone. If you'd rather just rest your finger on the home button, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Home Button and toggle on the switch for Rest Finger to Open.
CHOOSE YOUR CLICK
If you back up a level from the previous tip, you can adjust the strength of the buzzing haptic feedback you receive when you press the home button. Go to Settings > General > Home Button and you can choose your click, from a slight (1) to heavy (3).
HIDDEN CONTROL CENTER PANEL
You know how you can swipe up from the bottom edge of your iPhone to call up the Control Center? It lets you adjust Wi-Fi and Bluetooth settings, turn on the flashlight and a bunch of other settings and features. But did you know that you can swipe to the left when viewing the Control Center? That lets you access its second panel of playback controls for music or podcasts.
SEND MESSAGES WITH EFFECT
The Messages app received a substantial overhaul with iOS 10. You can now add stickers and GIFs as well as message effects. There are four bubble effects — Slam, Loud, Gentle and Invisible Ink — and five screen effects — Balloons, Confetti, Lasers, Fireworks and Shooting Star — and they are somewhat hidden. To access them, type your message into the text field as you normally would but instead of tapping the blue up arrow button to send your message, tap-and-hold the up arrow button to send your entered text with one of the nine effects.
PRESERVE CAMERA SETTING
By default, the Camera app opens to the standard Photo mode (as opposed to Video, Square or any of the other camera modes). If you would rather it remember what mode you last used and open to that instead, you can do just that with the iOS 10.2 update. Go to Settings > Photos & Camera > Preserve Settings and toggle on Camera Mode. There are also toggles for preserving photo filters and Live Photos.
LOCK CAMERA (7 PLUS ONLY)
For iPhone 7 Plus owners, you have the luxury of shooting photos and videos with one of two rear-facing cameras. Switching between the two cameras, however, can create some flicker when recording video. To prevent such flickering, you can lock down whichever camera you want to shoot a video. Head to Settings > Photos & Camera > Record Video and toggle on Lock Camera Lens.
ON THE NIGHT SHIFT
Turn the cool, blue colors that may make it harder for you to fall asleep at night into warmer hues in the evening. Go to Settings > Display & Brightness > Night Shift and schedule this setting for a specific block of time or manually enable it until the next day.
BEDTIME ALARM
Flicking up on my iPhone, tapping the Timer button from Control Center, tapping the Alarm button and then tapping to turn on my alarm is a familiar sequence, but that's no longer the last thing I do at night before going to bed. Apple has added a new Bedtime button to the Clock app. It lets you set a time to wake up and the number of hours of sleep you'd like to get each night.
Here are the stories form the world of tech that stood out to me this week:
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Women in Tech: Safra Catz
Let's talk about Safra Catz. She is the current co CEO of Oracle Corporation which, if you aren't familiar, is a company that specializes in database softwares and other enterprise programs. Her resume is stellar and at a time when women are used more as set dressings on other tech companies' Boards of Directors, (I'm looking at you, Apple) it's a powerful message Oracle is sending to the next generation of all the would be female CEO's out there; Women can lead tech companies, too.
Here our the highlights of her career per Wikipedia and Oracle:
– Catz earned a bachelor's degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1986. She attended Harvard Law School her final year. She was a banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, joining in 1986. Catz served as a managing director from February 1997 to March 1999 and a senior vice president from January 1994 to February 1997 and previously held various investment banking positions since 1986. She has been a non-executive director of Hyperion Solutions since April 14, 2007. She has been a member of the executive council of TechNet since March 14, 2013. She served as a director of PeopleSoft Inc. since December 30, 2004 and Stellent Inc. since December 12, 2006.
– She has been an executive at Oracle Corporation since April 1999, and a board member since 2001. In April 2011 she was named co-president and chief financial officer, reporting to founder/CEO Larry Ellison. On September 18, 2014 Oracle announced that Larry Ellison will step down as CEO and that Mark Hurd and Safra Catz have been named as the new CEOs.
– In 2009 she was ranked by Fortune as the 12th most powerful woman in business.
In 2009 she was also ranked by Forbes as the 16th most powerful business-woman. In 2014, she was ranked at #24. According to an Equilar analysis published by Fortune, she was in 2011 the highest-paid woman among Fortune 1000 companies, receiving an estimated US$51,695,742 in total remuneration.
– In December 2016, it was announced that Catz would join the executive committee of the presidential transition team for Donald Trump, while continuing her position at Oracle. The move prompted the public resignation of Oracle executive George Polisner, who posted his resignation letter on LinkedIn and outlined concerns over Trump's policies.


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UPDATE II (10/15/2012, 10:46am) — Michael Levi has a new paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research in which he finds NOAA's methane leakage estimates to be "unsupportable" based on what he terms the "wrong interpretation" of the data. NOAA famously — or perhaps infamously — claimed leakage was as high as 7.7 percent, with an average of about four percent. Levi, however, finds the rate to be a fraction of that: one to two percent, which is in line with what other credible studies have found. Among NOAA's errors of analysis, according to Levi, is that "Colorado has imposed tough rules on methane emissions since the NOAA data was collected in 2008," a fact that we at EID also highlighted shortly after release of the paper in February (see below).
Chilling. Especially the part about complicated math. There's just one problem – the story about methane emissions isn't scary at all, once you hear the facts that NPR left out.
True, the EPA's current estimates say oil and gas systems are the nation's "largest human-made source of methane emissions." But even so, the estimated total is still a tiny fraction of overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions – only 3.8 percent, according to the EPA.
NPR also failed to mention that oil and gas systems only became the EPA's number-one source of methane emissions when the agency arbitrarily doubled its estimate last year. Before the EPA simply changed a few numbers in a spreadsheet, farm animals were the biggest source of methane emissions. But that kind of detail might invoke sympathy towards the oil and gas industry – or menace towards cows – so NPR decided to leave it out.
NPR also concealed from its audience that oil and gas companies are monitoring their methane emissions today, in accordance with the EPA's newly established mandatory GHG registry. The first reports will be submitted to the EPA in September, and this huge data set will provide unprecedented clarity about the real level of methane emissions. But that's less-than-scary, and the regulation that requires the monitoring has a boring name that sounds like part of the tax code – Subpart W. So NPR just left all those facts out, too.
As for NOAA's paper, NPR spends considerable time profiling the author, detailing her "painstaking, on-the-ground detective work" and finding frightening ways to describe her findings, like "very high levels of methane gas" and "chemical cocktail." EID has no quarrel with Gabrielle Pétron. In fact, we're glad Pétron went to the trouble of having her findings peer reviewed, unlike some other NOAA scientists in Colorado.
But nowhere does NPR mention any of the study's shortcomings. As EID has detailed previously (see below), the measurements in this study predate Colorado regulations that required major cuts in smog-forming emissions and methane. In effect, that means the study's findings significantly overstate the real level of methane emissions from Colorado oil and gas operations today. NPR also omitted another less-than-scary fact about the NOAA study. The "very high levels" of methane were actually lower than NOAA recorded at another observation tower in the middle of the Chequamegon National Forest in Wisconsin.
Perhaps worst of all, NPR also failed to mention that the EPA recently finalized federal regulations for oil and gas development that will lead to major reductions in methane emissions. That's right – on top of monitoring methane, the federal government is demanding oil and gas companies cut those emissions, too. While the industry still has major concerns about the workability of the new EPA rules, it's hard to imagine why a news report about methane emissions would fail to mention a new regulatory program that will cut methane emissions. Unless, of course, it makes for a scarier story if you talk about potential problems as if there are no solutions.
To hear the folks at Nature and the Denver Post tell it, a recent study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Colorado proves that producers in the Denver-Julesburg Basin of northeast Colorado are losing four percent of their total production of natural gas – frittered away, right into thin air. Some have even suggested the study validates the Howarth paper from last year, including the discredited professor himself.
Unfortunately for Prof. Howarth, the deeper you dig into the DJ Basin report, the clearer it becomes that the NOAA paper isn't at all comparable to the Howarth paper – mostly, for starters, because they study two entirely different things. What's far less clear: the extent to which NOAA's conclusions are even relevant anymore in a modern operating context, given that most of the agency's data is nearly half a decade old.
The study claims that large and small condensate tanks are "estimated to be the largest VOC fossil fuel production source category (59% and 9% respectively)" (NOAA study, p. 6-7).
The mobile lab samples analyzed for the study were taken in 2008. But in February 2009, new regulations for the state of Colorado went into effect that included requirements on condensate tanks, including the use of surveillance systems and auto-igniters to dramatically reduce emissions. (Code of Colorado Regulations, 5 CCR 1001-9, XII).
Colorado's Air Pollution Control Division: "New and existing condensate tanks emitting 20 tons per year or more of VOCs [are] required to control emissions by 95 percent." In Weld County, the area of study for the NOAA report, the APCD notes that VOCs must be controlled by 70 to 90 percent. (APCD, accessed on February 22, 2012).
U.S. EPA: Reducing VOCs will "yield a significant environmental co-benefit by reducing methane emissions" as well (EPA, July 2011 [PDF]). The EPA also assessed that its plan to reduce VOCs by 25 percent would yield a nearly equivalent (26 percent) reduction in methane. Clearly there's a strong correlation between VOC-reducing technologies and reducing methane emissions.
Plainly put, the largest source of emissions for Weld County is today, by law, much more tightly controlled, and emissions have been reduced significantly.
The study claims that pneumatic devices are responsible for roughly 13 percent of VOC emissions, the second largest single source (NOAA study, p. 7).
But again, the mobile lab data collected by NOAA is from 2008. And the state's regulations, in addition to covering condensate tanks, also required the utilization of no-bleed or low-bleed pneumatic devices as of February 1, 2009 (with retrofits for existing systems required by May 1, 2009). (Code of Colorado Regulations, 5 CCR 1001-9, XVIII).
U.S. EPA, on impacts from low-bleed pneumatic devices: "Reductions in methane emissions can range from 45 to 250 Mcf per device per year, depending on the device and the specific application" (EPA, November 2011 [PDF]). The EPA classifies high-bleed pneumatics as any device that emits more than 50 Mcf of methane per year, which means these devices reduce methane emissions by as much as (and often more than) 90 percent.
Once again, the NOAA study is relying on data from an operating environment that no longer exists.
For a basis of comparison, the study included emissions data as recorded from several NOAA observation towers throughout the country. These included two in California, two in Colorado (one of which, the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) was utilized for data collection in this particular study), and one each in Texas, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.
There could be a legitimate reason for this, but the NOAA study provides no real explanation about why a tower far removed from any industrial activity and located in a federally protected forest would record higher methane emissions.
The researchers suggest it is difficult to make conclusions about methane levels because methane is a "long-lived gas" (NOAA study, p. 17).
Because the NOAA study appeared to show high methane emissions from natural gas systems, the press immediately began linking it to the widely discredited Cornell study on shale gas emissions. Nature, for example, wrote that the study's conclusions fall "roughly in line" with the Howarth paper, and even solicited input from Howarth on the study.


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Answers are forthcoming. They draw upon the recent track record of a growing list of industry leaders, including Eutelsat and Avanti in Europe, Yahsat and Arabsat in Africa and the Middle East, IPStar in Asia, and Hughes and Viasat in the Americas. Added to their experience are the innovation and short-term plans of competitors such as Inmarsat's Global Xpress service, Intelsat's EPIC offering, O3B's mid-earth orbit solution, and more than a dozen other launches.
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Q: Error Propagation upon Summing Single-Precision (float) Values I'm learning single precision and would like to understand the error propagation. According to this nice website, addition is a dangerous operation.
So I wrote a small C program to test how quickly the errors add up. I'm not entirely sure if this is a valid way of testing. If it is, I'm unsure how to interpret the result, see below.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

#define TYPE float
#define NUM_IT 168600

void increment (TYPE base, const TYPE increment, const unsigned long num_iters) {

  TYPE err;
  unsigned long i;
  const TYPE ref = base + increment * num_iters;

  for (i=0; i < num_iters; i++ ) {
    base += increment;
  }
  err = (base - ref)/ref;
  printf("%lu\t%9f\t%9f\t%+1.9f\n", i, base, ref, err);

}

int
main()
{
  int j;
  printf("iters\tincVal\trefVal\trelErr\n");

  for (j = 1; j < 20; j++ ) {
    increment(1e-1, 1e-6, (unsigned long) (pow(2, (j-10))* NUM_IT));
  }

  return 0;
}

The result of executing
gcc -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -Werror -lm errorPropagation.c && ./a.out  | tee float.dat  | column -t

is
iters     incVal     refVal     relErr
329       0.100328   0.100329   -0.000005347
658       0.100657   0.100658   -0.000010585
1317      0.101315   0.101317   -0.000021105
2634      0.102630   0.102634   -0.000041596
5268      0.105259   0.105268   -0.000081182
10537     0.110520   0.110537   -0.000154624
21075     0.121041   0.121075   -0.000282393
42150     0.142082   0.142150   -0.000480946
84300     0.184163   0.184300   -0.000741986
168600    0.268600   0.268600   +0.000000222    <-- *
337200    0.439439   0.437200   +0.005120996
674400    0.781117   0.774400   +0.008673230
1348800   1.437150   1.448800   -0.008041115
2697600   2.723466   2.797600   -0.026499098
5395200   5.296098   5.495200   -0.036231972
10790400  10.441361  10.890400  -0.041232508
21580800  25.463778  21.680799  +0.174485177
43161600  32.000000  43.261597  -0.260313928    <-- **
86323200  32.000000  86.423195  -0.629729033

If the test is valid

*

*Why does the error change sign? If 0.1 is represented as e.g. 0.100000001, shouldn't this accumulate always to the same bias, irrespective of the number of summations?

*What's special about 168600 summations (see *)? The error becomes very small. Might be a coincidence.

*Which wall is being hit at incVal = 32.00 (see **, last two lines). I'm still well below the unsigned long limit.

Thanks in advance for your effort.

A: First, it's important to know that 0.1 can't be represented exactly, in binary it's has periodically repeating digits. The value would be 0.0001100110011.... Compare to how 1/3 and 1/7 are represented with decimal digits. It's worth repeating your test with increment 0.25, which can be represented exactly as 0.01.
I'll illustrate the errors in decimal, that's what we humans are used to. Let's work with decimal, and assume we can have 4 digits of precision. Those are the things happening here.

*

*Division: let's calculate 1/11:
1/11 equals 0.090909..., which is probably rounded to 0.09091. This is, as expected, correct to 4 significant digits (in bold).

*magnitude differences: suppose we calculate 10 + 1/11.
When adding 1/11 to 10, we have to do more rounding, since 10.09091 are 7 significant digits, and we have only four. We have to round 1/11 to two digits after the point, and the calculated sum is 10.09. That's a underestimation. Note how only one significant digit of 1/11 is retained. If you add a lot of small values together, this will limit the precision of your final result.

*Now calculate 100 + 1/11. Now we round 1/11 to 0.1 and represent the sum as 100.1. Now we have a slight overestimation instead of a slight underestimation.
My guess is the pattern of sign changes in your test are the effect of systematic slight underestimation vs. overestimation depending on the magnitude of base.

*What about 1000 + 1/11? Now we can't have any digits after the point, as we have 4 significant digits before the point already. 1/11 is now rounded to 0, and the sum is still 1000. That's the wall you're seeing.

*Another important thing you're not seeing in your test is: what happens if the two values have a different sign. Calculate 1.234 – 1.243: both numbers have 4 significant digits. The result is -0.009. Now the result has only one correct significant digit instead of four.
An answer to a similar question here: How does floating point error propagate when doing mathematical operations in C++? . It has a few links to more information.

A: To answer your questions...
1 - IEEE float rounds to even mantissas. This was done specifically in order to prevent error accumulation from always biasing in one way or the other; if it always rounded down, or rounded up, your errors would be much larger.
2 - Nothing in particular is special about 168600 in and of itself. I haven't mathed it out but it's entirely likely that it ends up making a cleaner value in binary representation (i.e. a rational/non-repeating value). Look at the values in binary, not decimal, and see if that theory holds up.
3 - The limiting factor might be due to the float mantissa being 23 bits long. Once base gets to be a certain size, increment is so small in comparison to base that computing base + increment and then rounding the mantissa back down to 23 bits completely erases the change. That is, the difference between base and base + increment is rounding error.

A: The "wall" you are hitting has nothing to do with the increment value, if it is constant through the addition and you start at zero.  It has to with the iters.  2^23 = 8 million, and you are doing 86 million additions.  So once the accumulator is 2^23 bigger than the increment, you hit the wall.
Try running the code with 86323200   iterations, but an increment of 1 or 0.0000152587890625 (or any power of 2). It should have the same relative problem as an increment of 32.

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In this lecture, we will explore PageRank, the famous algorithm that underlies how Google orders its list of search results whenever we type in a query.
Welcome to Lecture three of Networks, Friends, Money, and Bytes.
In today's lecture, we will continue to talk about Google.
ranks web pages displayed in the main panel of the Search Result page.
be viewed as the solution to a gigantic system of linear equations.
heart of all these notation, it is just solving linear equations.
1994, this vision of linking text grew to a gigantic scale.
Now, we can view these web pages, as a network.
They form a network of information represented as web pages.
So, each node is a web page. And a link is what's called a hyperlink.
this page to the other by clicking on that link.
to A so we have to provide a sense of direction to this link.
directed graph. How big is this graph?
that N, the number of webpages out there, is somewhere between 40 to 60 billion.
links compared to the number of no's out there.
sparse graph. It's a very special kind of graph.
this graph to calculate what we call the importance score of each node.
recursive definition to define, define an equilibrium.
as we will see in the rest of this lecture, alright?
a few different ways to quantify the notion of importance of nodes in a graph.
In today's lecture, we'll look at a specific one used to, by Google.
Now, there are quite a few intuitions you can think about this.
One is to say, well, you want to quantify node importance, right?
So, maybe, I'll just count how many links does this node have.
pointing into this node. So, we call this the in-degree.
this node. And the total degree of this node is four.
important scores of nodes, a recurring theme in this course.
it's a network of people, a network of webpages, a network of wireless devices.
There actually are two different elements in it.
usually represented visually by graphs and algebraically, by matrices.
of complexity, the graph that we are dealing with.
you would like to study that's running on top of this network.
viewed as a special case of navigation or search.
Later in Lecture nine, we will talk six degrees of separation.
That's also a kind of navigation and search.
In Lecture thirteen, we'll talk about routing on the internet.
search and navigation that is implicitly assumed behind Google's ranking algorithm.
useful one, when it comes to ranking web pages.
sub node index. In this case, say, node one.
So, it's got a number denoted as pi sub one.
And another node, say node two, also has a number, pi sub two, okay?
And here's another one, node three with a number pi sub three.
convention, it's a column vector and we call this vector pi, okay?
In the textbook or in written media printed media, you can't use bold face.
and pi two, okay. Simple enough.
second node, they may have many other connections coming in and going out.
realize that, hey, this professor's reference letters should be discounted.
each of those web pages that you point to should not receive all your importance.
one points to three other web pages, then O sub one = three, how degree is three.
And I should divide node was important square pi one by O one, okay?
that node receives all your important score.
combination of the important scores normalized from the incoming neighbors.
of normalized important scores from its incoming neighbors.
these pis, divided by their outgoing number of neighbors.
linear equation system. Can they actually make sense collectively?
meaningful and self-consistent way to assign importance scores.
let's look at a simple, very small example.
There are only four nodes and six directed links.
importance score vector pi, which should be a vector of length four here?
If we assume that such a pi consistent set of scores actually exist.
collectively acting like a supernode, okay?
Let's call this supernode three+4. And here's node one.
does two, and a supernode points back, okay?
here, nodes one and two should have the same importance score.
the supernode score, okay? So, intuitively that's what we should.
further and calculate in this small example very easily the result.
pi three divided by one, cause there's only one outgoing link from node three.
And plus what? There's no other terms.
There's only one link pointing inwards to node four.
So, we can just say pi four equals pi three, and pi one equals pi two.
Now, once we know that, the job is very simple now.
Let's, say, pi one equals pi two, this number is x.
Pi three equals pi four, this number is y, okay?
Now, we know that there is one link from node four pointing to node one, right?
But this node four is actually pointing outwards to three other nodes.
So, what we can write down now is that x = y / three, okay?
score need to be normalized. Let's say, normalized to one.
importance of one node relative to the other nodes.
So now, we got two equations. One says, x = y / three.
The other says, by normalization 2x + 2y should equal to, say, a constant one.
Now, we got two variables in two linear equations.
= three / eight, which satisfies our intuitive understanding in the last slide.
tied for position number, I guess three, okay?
Cuz positions one and two are pi between nodes three and four.
the Search Result page by Google. Now, is this the right answer or not?
And that's actually a tricky, almost philosophical question.
how does each user find that Google search results useful or not as useful.
actually falsify whatever we might conjecture about that.
scores are not displayed in the search result page.
All you see is the rank order. You do not see the scale behind the order.
node is three times more important than that node.
the order of presenting these results on the Search Result page.
So now, we have seen a very, very small example.
compute when the graph becomes very big?


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Facebook's app for its F8 developer conference stole some of the show's thunder by sending out, ahead of the event, a notification that revealed what products will most likely be discussed.
"F8: Just revealed: Parse of IoT, Messenger as a Platform, and the Teleportation Station," read the message, which several people posted to Twitter. The two-day conference starts Wednesday morning Pacific time.
Parse is Facebook's development platform for creating mobile apps. The message, if correct, implies that Facebook is entering the Internet of Things space, which aims to connect assorted devices to the Web.
In recent weeks media reports have speculated that Facebook will also turn Messenger into a platform and open it to developers. This would allow developers to build in functions that allow people to do more than just send messages. Rival chat apps, for example, allow users to play games without leaving the app.