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Since I moved to Berlin almost two years ago, this gritty, sprawling metropolis, once slated to be the capital of a thousand-year Reich, has seldom disappointed me. As a professional photographer, there is always something for me to explore. Reminders of Berlin's turbulent twentieth century—some memorialized, some "forgotten," others in everyday use—are scattered across the city. For Berlin, the past is a complex issue.
Like many Berliners, I pedal around on my bicycle, seldom using public transport. Bike lanes and courteous traffic in this almost dead-flat city make cycling a healthy pleasure. Most days, loaded up with my bulky camera and hefty tripod, I set out somewhere.
My camera is one of those large, old-fashioned wooden affairs that takes four-by-five-inch plates; one of my lenses was made by the Goerz firm in Berlin before the war. As I struggle to focus the image on my camera's ground-glass viewing screen, I'm often approached by normally reticent Germans, curious about my antics. Usually, they tell me an interesting anecdote. "Did you know that the French tried to blow this up three times and failed?" My German slowly improves.
After twelve years of Nazi rule much of central Berlin was reduced to rubble. Following sixty thousand tons of Allied bombs, the Red Army unleashed a furious artillery barrage during its final assault on the city. Soviet colonel-general Nikolai Berzarin claimed, "We fired forty thousand tons of shells in two weeks!"
But most Nazi buildings in central Berlin, because of their modern construction, survived. Now squeezed between swaths of gleaming contemporary architecture, their austere façades, redolent with power, are easily recognizable. Many, like Hermann Göring's Wilhelmstrasse aviation ministry and the Reichsbank, which sprawls along the Spree canal, are immaculately restored (though stripped of Nazi motifs) and used by contemporary German ministries.
There are also vacant lots. I often cycle along Voss Strasse, where Hitler's chancellery and bunker once stood, to look at what is perhaps Berlin's most unsettled Nazi site. Below an overgrown car park is the section of the bunker used by Hitler's SS guard. For decades it lay, almost forgot ten, below the wide expanse of the Berlin Wall Death Strip—the no man's land that lay between East Berliners and escape over the wall. Rediscovered after reunification, it was again buried and ignored, lest it become a neo-Nazi shrine. Lately, I found what seemed to be a makeshift hutch with rabbits burrowing into the ground.
One of my favorite bike rides is up the gentle slope of Prenzlauer Allee leading from Alexanderplatz to Prenzlauer Berg. A former working-class neighborhood, tree-lined Prenzlauer Berg is now gentrified with boutiques and cafés. But it is also the site of one of Germany's first concentration camps: within weeks of the Nazis taking power in 1933, Berlin's prisons overflowed and a system of ad hoc "wild" camps was established around the city to incarcerate opponents. One was set up in Prenzlauer Berg's beautiful and disused nineteenth-century water tower—now a converted apartment building.
The camp system grew quickly. The nearest camp to Berlin is Sachsenhausen, established in Oranienburg in 1936. Just north of Berlin and accessible today by S-Bahn, Oranienburg was the administrative headquarters for an eventual system of ten thousand SS camps that spread across Nazi Europe. Sachsenhausen was the training center. Passing the cruelly sardonic epigraph Arbeit Macht Frei—"Work Brings Freedom"—wrought into the camp's main iron gate, the visitor is con fronted by a huge concrete roller that prisoners would haul across the parade ground while being whipped, often to death, by SS guards.
The brutality of the Nazi party was not reserved solely for its opponents. To consolidate his power, Hitler turned against the SA, the Nazis' private army of enforcers and a would-be rival of the Wehrmacht. On June 30, 1934, the Night of the Long Knives, SA leader Ernst Röhm and his entourage were arrested outside Munich. Röhm was shot a few days later. The bloodletting swept across Germany.
Outside Berlin, in the leafy yard of Lichterfelde Barracks—headquarters of the Leibstandarte SS, Hitler's bodyguard regiment—dozens of SA men were rounded up and shot on Göring's orders. I got lost trying to find this grimly famous spot and was at one point barked away by a gruff guard when I mistakenly approached the building next door. I finally found the right place; the old red brick barracks building now holds Germany's vast Nazi archives.
Hitler, the frustrated artist, had since the 1920s made sketches of his vision for Germania, the capital of the thousand year Reich that would replace Berlin. Some years before, Hitler had befriended architect Albert Speer. Speer became Hitler's architectural avatar and a powerful member of his inner circle. Together they worked assiduously on the plans for Germania. From near Tempelhof Airport, a skyscraper-lined avenue would pass under a 381-foot-high arch and then lead to a 951-foot-high hall where Hitler could address 150,000 people. It was sheer mega lomaniacal folly that stripped resources from the war effort and was abandoned in 1942. Not far from Tempelhof, barely visible behind a high fence and dense thicket, is all that remains of Germania: the Heavy Load-Bearing Body, a 12,650- ton cylinder of concrete used to test the arch foundations.
But there are small and eerie remnants of unconcealed Nazi triumphalism that one stumbles across here and there. Outside of Tempelhof today stands a massive bronze Nazi eagle which towered above the departures hall when the airport was completed in 1940. Taken to West Point in 1960, the eagle was quietly returned in 1985 and placed in its current location. (Tempelhof, now little used, is threatened with closure. On a recent visit I suspected there were more tourists outside the vast building than passengers in the terminal.)
Another such reminder of Berlin's Nazi past is the 1936 Olympic Stadium, site of Hitler's greatest propaganda coup and still in use today—sixty-nine thousand soccer fans watched the World Cup final there in 2006. The stadium, with its granite colonnades, is still flanked by massive statues of Aryan athletes by favored Nazi party sculptors Arno Breker (especially admired by Hitler) and Josef Thorak.
Not far from the Olympic Stadium is Devil's Mountain in Grunewald Forest; it is Berlin's highest point, with clear views across the city from west to east. The debris from an estimated four hundred thousand buildings was dumped here after the war. Many smaller hills around Berlin are also composed of wartime rubble. On a recent visit to the ruined flak tower in Humboldthain Park, I watched rock climbers practice scaling up one of its remaining concrete walls. A hill around it was built from debris leftover from a less than-successful attempt by the Allied occupiers to blow up the massively rein forced building after the war.
Along with much of Berlin's past, its Nazi legacy still lies buried just beneath the surface.
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Sony declined to comment about the new document cache, first revealed via Twitter on Thursday.
The new documents include travel calendars, contact lists, and event planning and expense reports. WikiLeaks made no public statement, but later asserted on Twitter that the docs contain information about an alleged bribery investigation.
In April, WikiLeaks disclosed 30,287 documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment as well as 173,132 emails, with messages sent between more than 2,200 SPE email addresses.
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange said in an April 16 statement that if information was newsworthy, "It belongs in the public domain. WikiLeaks will ensure it stays there."
The hack was reportedly initiated by North Korea in response to the studio's decision to release the comedy "The Interview," centering on an assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. As a result, embarrassing correspondence between top executives and producers became public, leading to the ousting of studio chief Amy Pascal. She was later replaced by TriStar chief Tom Rothman.
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The Washington, DC, Board of Elections and Ethics seemingly made an ethical boo boo this morning by tweeting out a negative article about Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown. The Board deleted it quickly, but lucky for us, the Internet is forever.
The Board followed up with a claim that the tweet "did not originate with the Board", but that of course raises a question:
According to the Board, it was either a hack or some sort of accident.
"Somebody must have hacked into our account and posted that," Raper added. "Anybody who had worked here previously who had access to the Twitter account could have posted it or either someone posted it by accident."
So, the District of Columbia's highest election authority gets hacked, and no charges? No investigation? Maybe it was innocent, but even then, you're going to have to forgive the Twitterverse for finding this whole thing a bit Weiner-esque. Ace of Spades pointed out the potential implications of such an egregious hack in an epic Twitter rant.
While it's worth reading just for entertainment value, Ace has a valid line of logic here. If this was a "hack" by a malicious ex-employee, why not call the cops? After all, if someone is attacking your Twitter account, who knows what else they're after? The lack of anything resembling concern is itself reason to think that the tweet probably originated internally. Either it could have come from an employee tweeting intentionally, or from an employee who thought he was tweeting to his personal account. It's not exactly a private surprise from a congressman, but it's a problem.
Still, the citizens of DC can probably be sure that their electoral rights are in good hands. After all, it's not like the city has had any recent problems with massive electoral corruption. Oh, wait…
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"What is seen in the world today is that powers and governments which claim to [advocate] fairness and justice do not observe any fairness and justice except within the bounds of their narrow, limited and cruel policies," Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with representatives of religious minorities in Iran's Parliament (Majlis).
The Leader pointed to the propaganda campaign against Muslims in Europe and the US and said, "What is at issue is not why the Muslims do not have the necessary freedom in most of these countries, but why the Muslims do not have any [sense of] physical safety."
Ayatollah Khamenei cited the Hollywood film, American Sniper, as an example and said it encourages Christian or non-Muslim youngsters to harass the Muslims as much as possible.
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Legal News & Analysis – Asia Pacific – Singapore – Dispute Resolution
An anti-suit injunction is a useful tool through which a party to an arbitration agreement may restrain the pursuit of foreign court proceedings brought in breach of the arbitration agreement. An interesting issue that arose in a recent UK Supreme Court ("UKSC") decision was whether an anti-suit injunction may be issued where the party seeking to uphold the arbitration agreement has not commenced arbitration and has no intention of doing so.
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The UKSC answered in the affirmative, holding that it had the power to declare that a claim could only be brought in arbitration and injunct the continuation or commencement of foreign court proceedings even where the applicant had not commenced arbitration and had no intention of doing so (see Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC v AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP [2013] UKSC 35).
In this case, the appellant sued the respondent in the Kazakhstan courts for breaching a concession agreement which had a London arbitration clause. The respondent's attempt to obtain a stay of proceedings in the Kazakhstan courts failed. The respondent then brought an action in the English courts for a declaration that the arbitration clause was valid and enforceable and for an anti-suit injunction to restrain the appellant from continuing the Kazakhstan Court proceedings. The English Commercial Court granted the declaration and the anti-suit injunction. The English Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal from this decision. The appellant then mounted a further appeal to the UKSC. One of the arguments that the appellant made on appeal was that an anti-suit injunction could not be issued if there were no current or intended arbitration proceedings.
The UKSC unanimously rejected this argument and affirmed the orders made below in a judgment delivered by Lord Mance. The UKSC first dealt with the position independently of the UK Arbitration Act 1996. The UKSC reasoned that the negative aspect of an arbitration clause (ie the agreement not to commence proceedings other than in arbitration) is as fundamental as the positive (ie the agreement to only bring proceedings in arbitration).
The UKSC also observed that the statements of principle in cases involving anti-suit injunctions where there were existing arbitration proceedings do not suggest that the UKSC's power was restricted to pending or intended arbitration proceedings. Further, a stay of court proceedings brought in breach of an arbitration agreement is not conditional on the existence of arbitration proceedings. In a similar vein, the existence of arbitration proceedings ought not to be a condition to an anti-suit injunction.
The UKSC then considered the position under the UK Arbitration Act 1996 ("Act") and held that the Act did not change the UKSC's view that an anti-suit injunction could be issued in this case. The UKSC considered various provisions of the UK Arbitration Act 1996 and held that none of them precluded the UKSC from exercising its general power to issue injunctions. For example, under section 44(2)(e) of the UK Arbitration Act 1996, the UKSC had the power to grant an interim injunction "for the purposes of and in relation to arbitral proceedings", which suggested that the UKSC did not have the power under that provision to issue an injunction where there was no pending arbitral proceedings. The UKSC concluded that provisions such as section 44(2)(e) of the UK Arbitration Act 1996 did not exclude the UKSC's general power under section 37 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 to issue injunctions.
This decision is significant for the UKSC's recognition that the negative aspect of an arbitration clause is as worthy of protection as its positive aspect. It remains to be seen if the Singapore courts will take the same view as the UKSC. The Singapore courts have issued anti-suit injunctions to restrain foreign court proceedings where arbitration proceedings were pending. For example, in WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka [2002] 1 SLR(R) 1088, the High Court granted an anti-suit injunction to restrain a party from proceeding with court proceedings in Colombo in breach of a Singapore arbitration clause where arbitration in Singapore was pending.
However, like the UK Arbitration Act 1996, the provision in the International Arbitration Act (Cap 143A, 2002 Rev Ed) on court-ordered interim measures appears to be restricted to measures "for the purpose of and in relation to an arbitration" (see section 12A(2)). As such, a person seeking an anti-suit injunction in the absence of pending or contemplated arbitration proceedings may have to find some other basis for the court to order an anti-suit injunction. One possible avenue is an application under section 4(10) of the Civil Law Act (Cap 43, 1999 Rev Ed). There would, however, be a need to carefully consider the scope and history of section 4(10) of the Civil Law Act (in this regard, reference should be made to the comments of the Court of Appeal in Swift-Fortune Ltd v Magnifica Marine SA [2007] 1 SLR(R) 629 on section 4(10) of the Civil Law Act in a different context).
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Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, July 13 2018
A man suspected of attacking his wife with a chain saw in Whittier had been deported 11 times since 2005, immigration officials said.
Alejandro Alvarez Villegas attacked his wife in their home Wednesday, with their three children inside, according to Whittier police. The 32-year-old then fled the scene in a stolen car.
The woman was transported to a local trauma center where she underwent surgery, Officer John Scoggins said.
"She's currently recovering and expected to survive," Scoggins said.
Immigration officers have lodged a detainer against Alvarez, requesting that local authorities notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement before his release to allow them to take the man into custody, ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley said.
"Department of Homeland Security databases indicate Mr. Alvarez-Villegas is a serial immigration violator who has been removed from the United States 11 times since 2005," Haley said in a statement.
ICE did not provide his criminal history, but a search of court records showed that Alvarez pleaded no contest in 2013 to one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and one count of using or being under the influence of a controlled substance. Later that year, he pleaded no contest to driving with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08% or higher.
Scoggins said that Alvarez had a few arrests for misdemeanors but that none of them were violent.


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The following new tours were announced. Check the Tour Dates category every day for more.
After three years of their annual Cal Jam festival, Foo Fighters are bringing the festivities to Washington D.C., in honor of the band's 25th anniversary. The band's inaugural D.C. JAM festival goes down at Landover, MD's FedEx Field on July 4, and in addition to the Foos, will feature Chris Stapleton, Pharrell, The Go-Go's, Band of Horses, Durand Jones & The Indications, The Regrettes, Beach Bunny, and Radkey. Aside from live music, there'll also be a BBQ competition, games, rides, and other fun activities. Tickets go on sale Friday (3/6) at 10 AM EST, with some presales happening now. You can check here for more info.
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Austin riff rockers The Sword are on tour with Primus and Wolfmother later this year, and following the 6/17 NYC date of that tour, they'll headline their own Brooklyn show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on June 18 with King Buffalo. Head here for all The Sword's dates.
UK band Madness will be on their first North American tour in ages this spring surrounding their appearance at Las Vegas' Punk Rock Bowling. They've added a L.A. show to the tour, playing The Greek Theatre on May 24. That's in addition to shows in Boston, NYC (Hammerstein Ballroom on 5/22), Oakland and Queretaro, Mexico. all dates are here.
Montreal's Corridor released their great Sub Pop debut Junior last year, and they're touring around SXSW this month with Chicago post-punks Deeper (a very well-matched double bill), which kicks off at NYC's Rough Trade on Wednesday (3/4). To celebrate the start of the tour, Corridor just released a video for "Grand cheval," which features animation from fellow Canadian musician Chad VanGaalen, who had this to say about the video: "I sewed a jacket, pants, and hat to rotoscope myself as this alien gatherer. Everything was drawn onto a malfunctioning 15-year old Cintiq. You can buy them for $20 on eBay, although I wouldn't recommend it. The music made the snow fall up and not down. No matter what I did on Final Cut, it would always fall up. I filled my body and mind with many ingredients in order to go from monocular to trinocular, now my vision is blurry but my tailored clothing feels amazing. I can't believe it is finished." Watch the video below, and head here for all Corridor tour dates.
Metal-friendly Nordic dark folk band Heilung were on tour in North America in January and they'll be back for what looks to be a one-off show at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre on October 6. "Can't wait to sing, howl and dance with you again," say the group. Tickets for that go on sale Friday, March 6 at 10 AM local, with presales starting Wednesday (3/4) at 10 AM local.
Real Estate have added more dates to their end of their summer tour, including stops in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Lancaster, Asbury Park (Asbury Lanes on 7/31) and Wappingers Falls, NY's Hangout on the Hudson (with Death Cab for Cutie and more TBA). The Asbury show is right after the SummerStage "Central Park Garden State Party" in NYC on 7/29. Updated dates are here.
UK tabloid The Sun is reporting that the more pop-oriented, hitmaking era lineup of Genesis without Peter Gabriel -- we're talking Phil Collins, Tony Banks, and Mike Rutherford -- will be reuniting for a UK tour this November and December. This will be Genesis' first tour in 13 years.
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The Other Music documentary, about the much-loved NYC independent record store that closed in 2016, has been acquired by distributor FACTORY 25 who will release the film theatrically at theaters around the U.S. this spring around Record Store Day (April 18) weekend.
The Lemon Twigs will release new album Songs For The General Public in May, and they've announced a North American tour behind the album.
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The great Belgian post-hardcore trio Brutus will return to the US for a spring tour.
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What a great idea this is Melissa!! I'm excited to see everyone's home and all the wonderful things they have to share. I strongly believe that our homes are a place to serve and create environments of welcoming and love for all who enter. My home is far from perfect, not only in decorating but also in the people who reside in it's walls. We are all learning and trying our best. The important thing is to just keep trying, be forgiving of others and self, and to be teachable.
When it comes to the home, I believe it is mainly the woman's domain (there are exceptions of course) and you will often hear me refer to it as "My Desk". Being a stay-at-home mom, this is where I do all my work and so I believe that it needs to be what I want and need it to be so that I can do the best job I can. It truly saddens me to see women who are scared to do things or try things because they're afraid to get it wrong, afraid to waste money, or afraid of what their husband, mother, MIL, or friends will say. A woman should be able to walk into her home and love what she sees.
I do have my own blog and am currently documenting a new house we bought that has needed a lot of TLC. I'd love for you to come check it out, and I will certainly be giving updates here as well. You can find it at {the8cowhouse.blogspot.com}.
I'm glad we can be neighbors and I look forward to getting to know many of you.
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Top 4 Conspiracy Theories
October 11, 2018
Conspiracy theories are always fun to examine, if not for their absurdity alone. From secret celebrity reptiles to the Illuminati taking over the world, conspiracy theories have become an important part of pop culture. Whether you think they're pointless or whether you're a firm believer, people are always wondering if things are the way we think they are. Here are some of the more popular ones:
4. Shakespeare was not who we think he was
There is very little known about William Shakespeare. There is a lack of evidence that this man was actually a poet. It would have been very difficult – nearly impossible – for him to gain the wealth of knowledge he apparently had. The knowledge showcased in his plays would have only been acquired by royalty, and Shakespeare was merely the son of a glove-maker. He did not go to university and he could barely write.
There are no scriptures that are written in his handwriting except for signatures, and every signature he ever wrote were all written differently. There are theories that his plays were written by various authors or written by other playwrights such as Edward De Vere, Christopher Marlowe or Sir Francis Bacon. These men were more knowledgeable and it would have been very possible that one of them used Shakespeare as a way to hide their true identity.
3. MK Ultra
"MK Ultra" is the code name for a mind control experiment that went on from the 1950's to the 60's. During the Cold War, the US government feared that Chinese, Soviet and North Korean agents were using mind control to brainwash American prisoners of war in North Korea.
So, as the theory goes, the US government used more than 150 American citizens as test subjects. They used psychedelic drugs, paralytics and electroshock therapy to attempt to brainwash them. Some test subjects knew that they were participating in an experiment while some did not.
2. Secret celebrity reptiles
The theory goes like this: Everyone in our society that is famous and/or holds some kind of power like the royal family, the government and celebrities like Beyoncé and Justin Bieber are actually shape-shifting, mind-controlling reptiles. Sounds ludicrous, right?
Well, a 2013 survey showed that 12 million Americans support this theory. So, what is it about this far-fetched theory that Americans find so compelling? Maybe it's the fact that video footage has been released with celebrities mysteriously changing their eye color into reptilian-like eyes and transforming into a trance-like state during the middle of an interview. Maybe it's the magic of a stellar video editor, or maybe Beyoncé is secretly an alien in her spare time.
1. The moon landing was fake
In 1969, the United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the moon. There are many, many people who believe this was a televised stunt (people still think Earth is flat); with many Americans tuning in to see the first humans to ever step foot on the moon. Conspiracy theorists believe that NASA could have played this all out because back in 1969, the US was very desperate to reach the moon before Russia.
These theories are based on photographs showing camera crosshairs behind rocks, suspicious wire lines appearing in the moon landing footage, shadows appearing in all different directions, the American flag swiftly moving as if there's an AC vent nearby, no stars being present during the time of filming, NASA tampering with evidence and more.
Of course, no one knows what's true and what's conspiracy, but it sure is fun to wonder!


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Crunchfish demonstrate product versatility with full body tracking
Crunchfish is happy to announce a new powerful gesture Skeleton network that enables full body tracking using a standard camera sensor. The solution shows the versatility of the XR Skeleton platform where detection and tracking of new objects can be added in a short time frame by training of algorithms using new image data.
Crunchfish XR Skeleton was launched late last year and is a software technology for gesture control that enables hand detection and tracking of 21 points on the hand. The software is primarily designed to be used on AR/VR devices and mobile phones, but the versatility opens for a lot of other use cases.
Since the launch of XR Skeleton in Q4 last year, Crunchfish can with the same base of neural networks and its unique development process, already demonstrate 3 new solution areas for interaction using a skeleton model.
- – Hand interaction in cars, trucks, and airplane entertainment systems
- – TV interaction with hands and body as a replacement of the remote control
- – Full body interaction with large digital signage screens
The latest contribution to the skeleton model is full body tracking with Crunchfish FB Skeleton solution where a person's body is tracked in 3 dimensions using a standard RGB camera. By feeding the neural networks with a combination of synthetic data and annotated images of human bodies, a solution that enables full body tracking has been created in only a few months. FB Skeleton will be available as a commercial solution later this year.
"The speed of development creating a wide variety of new solution areas demonstrates technical prowess and the versatility of our Skeleton gesture control system", says Daniel Milesson, Director of R&D at Crunchfish Gesture Interaction AB.
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About Crunchfish – crunchfish.com/gestures
Crunchfish is a technical pioneer within digital payments with its ground-breaking Digital Cash Wallet using a two-step payment process, first clearing offline followed by online settlement, which makes digital payments robust and independent from the net. Crunchfish Digital Cash Wallet is extremely flexible and may be used with all types of payment services. It is interoperable cross-service/schemes and cross-borders/currencies. It truly delivers the properties of cash, such as instant clearing, offline payments and preserving the payer's integrity, without requiring any changes to the central or commercial banking infrastructure. This enables CBDC to be rolled out fast in any country.
We have also developed Blippit, an app terminal that connects to cash register systems for both online and offline payments and have a patent-pending solution to reduce food waste. Crunchfish also develops gesture control of smart AR glasses for the consumer market.
Crunchfish is listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and with representation in India.


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Learn what an organic compound is and how their functional groups affect them. Identify the different types of functional groups including alcohols, alkyl halides, ketones, aldehydes, ethers, carboxylic acids and esters.
Functional Groups in Organic Compounds
Functional groups are important in chemistry because they are the portion of a molecule that is capable of characteristic reactions. They, therefore, determine the properties and chemistry of many organic compounds. An organic compound is any compound that contains carbon and another element.
A functional group is an atom or group of atoms that is responsible for a particular chemical property of an organic compound. Organic compounds can be classified according to their functional groups.A functional group gives an organic compound a property that is different than it would otherwise have. For instance, take a look at the following four-carbon compounds.
They all have four carbons, but they are all different because of the functional groups they have.
|Melting point
|Boiling point
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|Butanoic acid
So, when you look at these compounds, you can see that just by adding an -OH group to butane, you greatly increase its boiling point. Adding a COOH group to form butanoic acid raises it even more.There are seven functional groups for organic molecules that we are going to talk about. They are alcohols, alkyl halides, ketones, aldehydes, ethers, carboxylic acids and esters. When scientists talk about functional groups, they use a short hand way of writing them called 'the general formula.
' They write an R, which stands for the rest of the compound, and then a dash and the functional group. So, it looks like this: R-OH or R-O-R.
An alcohol is an organic compound that contains one or more hydroxyl groups. A hydroxyl group is composed of -OH, so one oxygen and one hydrogen. Alcohols have higher boiling points and tend to be flammable. Alcohols are used all the time. Glycerol is an alcohol and is used in lipstick, body lotion and other cosmetics that need to be moist.
Ethanol is an alcohol that is used for fuel in some cars. This isn't precisely the alcohol that you drink in an alcoholic beverage. An alcohol group is just the -OH. What you drink is usually ethyl alcohol, CH3 CH2 OH.
It does have the -OH group, but is a bit more complicated.
Alkyl Halides
A hydrocarbon is a compound made up of only carbon and hydrogen. An alkyl halide is an organic compound where a halogen atom – F, Cl, Br or I (fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine) – takes the place of one or more hydrogens in a hydrocarbon. Since scientists often use the letter -X to represent a halogen, a general formula for alkyl halide is R-X. A very common group of alkyl halides are chlorofluorocarbons.
You may know them as CFCs. CFCs were commonly used in air conditioners, refrigerators and aerosol cans, for example, but they have been found to harm the ozone layer of the earth's atmosphere, so they are now regulated and rarely used.
Ketones and Aldehydes
A ketone is a compound in which the carbon of a carbonyl group shares bonds with two other carbons. A carbonyl group is an oxygen double-bonded to a carbon (O=C). The general formula is RCOR.An aldehyde is a compound in which the carbon of the carbonyl group shares a bond with at least one hydrogen.
The general formula is RCHO.Due to their carbonyl groups, both aldehydes and ketones share similar properties. They are both soluble in nonpolar solvents and have variable solubility in water depending on their size.
Many have very penetrating odors. Formaldehyde is an example. Also, the flavor of almonds is caused by an aldehyde known as benzaldehyde, and cinnamaldehyde gives cinnamon its distinctive odor.
An ether is an organic compound where oxygen is bonded to two carbon atoms.
The general formula is R-O-R. Ethers usually have lower boiling points than similarly sized alcohols. They are fairly soluble in water.
Diethyl ether, commonly referred to as 'ether,' was frequently used as an anesthetic, but it is highly flammable and tends to cause nausea, so it has been replaced by other pharmaceuticals.
Carboxylic Acids
A carboxylic acid is a compound with a carboxyl group. A carboxyl group is -COOH, arranged like this:
The general formula for a carboxylic acid is RCOOH.
Carboxylic acids have higher boiling and melting points than other compounds of similar size. They have strong odors and are polar. Their solubility in water depends on their length, with shorter ones being more soluble than longer ones. Carboxylic acids are found everywhere in nature, and the one you are probably most familiar with is acetic acid, or more commonly, vinegar.
Esters are derivatives of carboxylic acids. The -OH of the carboxyl group gets replaced by an -OR from an ether. Esters contain a carbonyl group and an ether link to the carbonyl carbon. Their general formula is RCOOR, and they look like this:
|Functional Group
|General Formula
|Alkyl halides
|Carboxylic acids
Learning Outcomes
After watching this video, you'll be able to:
- Define organic compounds
- List seven types of functional groups
- Explain the formulas and characteristics of each of the seven functional groups


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Sex-trafficking cases hard to crack in Wisconsin
On an October day in 2010, a 22-year-old woman strolled along National Avenue in Milwaukee, headed to a friend's home to spend the night.
An SUV pulled up alongside her. The door opened, and a stocky, bearded man jumped from the driver's seat, grabbed her by the jacket and threw her into the back of the vehicle. Frantic, she tried to call her friend for help, but the call never went through.
"I've been looking for you," the man said as he grabbed her phone away.
What followed — authorities said — were nine days of forced sexual encounters with multiple men and other assaults that ended in Wausau. The incidents eventually led to Wisconsin's first successful prosecution of sex trafficking, in which people are forced or coerced into sexual slavery.
The case illustrates both the depravity of trafficking and the challenge of bringing the perpetrators to justice. Prosecutors have won only three human trafficking convictions in Wisconsin, despite widespread reports that the crime takes place in nearly every corner of the state.
In the Fox Cities, a growing awareness of the problem among police departments has drawn more attention to the subject over the past year.
In November, Post-Crescent Media found that while 40 percent of women arrested for sex work faced criminal charges, 99 percent of men arrested for patronizing prostitutes were released unscathed.
In line with the report, Appleton and Grand Chute police and county prosecutors said they were adjusting policies to take a harder stance on johns, while offering more options for women potentially trapped in the world of sex trafficking.
The Appleton Police Department works with 5-Stones, a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating sex trafficking from the Fox Valley. Advocates such as 5-Stones leader Connie Campbell are speaking publicly about the issue to spread awareness about the dangers of sex trafficking.
Last month, Campbell was part of a panel discussion sponsored by the Mid-Day Women's Alliance, where she and Nicole Tynan, an anti-trafficking advocate with Reach Counseling Services, explained the complex relationships between victims and those who force them to work in the sex trade.
"Trafficking looks different ways — some girls are groomed for this since birth," Tynan said. "I see just (as) many black women from Milwaukee as Asians from here and underage girls. It's everywhere."
The Oshkosh Police Department enlisted Tynan to assist with potential sex trafficking victims who are arrested for various offenses. It gives her a chance to speak with them about options for "getting out of the life," she said.
The partnership is just one example of how law enforcement officials have spent the past year strengthening prevention efforts for trafficking in the Fox Valley, Tynan said.
"The year 2013 came and it was like a bomb went off," Tynan said of the increase in law enforcement efforts and public awareness.
In August, the Oshkosh Convention Center offered a conference dedicated to serving victims of crime, which featured workshops about international sex trafficking. A few months earlier, the subject received attention when a 23-year-old Milwaukee man was accused of hiring a 16-year-old Appleton girl as a prostitute.
In July, a jury found Devin J. Warfield guilty of soliciting a child for prostitution, child enticement and being party to prostitution in July. He was sentenced to eight years in prison and six years of parole.
A successful prosecution
According to police reports and a transcript of court testimony in the Wausau case:
The victim recognized her attacker as a man who had assaulted her at a Milwaukee casino months earlier. In that encounter, she escaped and ran to her mother's house but never called police.
The man, later identified as 40-year-old Derrick Thornton, drove to a nearby hotel and dragged the woman to a room, tore her book bag from her arms and stripped off her clothes. Then, the reports say, Thornton raped her. And that was just the beginning.
Thornton took photos of the woman and gave her a new name: Minnie. The photos were posted as part of an advertisement for adult escort services on an Internet classified site called Backpage.com. Soon, the calls started rolling in.
For nine straight days, "Minnie" was sold for sex, passed off to dozens of nameless, faceless men. Thornton didn't sit still. He moved her from hotel to hotel, from city to city. The two spent a few days in Green Bay, then moved to Eau Claire before heading to Wausau.
Another woman, who later told police Thornton was her "mentor," willingly joined in for a few days. The women were kept in a hotel room, their clothing and shoes stashed outside in a locked vehicle. Sometimes, both women were hired by the same man, usually for $200 an hour, according to court testimony.
Thornton pocketed every cent.
Then, according to police reports, there was the abuse. Thornton beat Minnie with a belt and he urinated on her naked, battered body. Periodically, the victim testified, Thornton allowed the women to walk to a nearby fast food restaurant for a hamburger. When they came back without a receipt, Thornton beat Minnie again.
Minnie told police she thought of running away, but was terrified her tormentor would find her and the abuse would worsen.
And besides, Minnie testified, she really had nowhere else to go.
Hours after arriving at the Days Inn in Wausau on Oct. 23, 2010, Minnie made her escape. According to the police report, she ran to the hotel's front desk and begged for help. The desk clerk locked Minnie in a conference room until police arrived. Investigators documented Minnie's story, took photos of the welts and bruises on her body and arrested Thornton a short time later — putting an end to the nightmare that Minnie endured for more than a week.
Prosecutors, upon hearing Minnie's story, charged Thornton with human trafficking. Thornton's March 2012 conviction marked the first successful prosecution of a human trafficking case in Wisconsin.
Thornton, who is serving a 17-year prison sentence, appealed his conviction in February, claiming his lawyer was ineffective. Thornton now represents himself.
Hundreds of victims; billions in revenue
Sex trafficking is a lucrative business. While a gram of heroin can be sold just once, a man, woman or child can be sold repeatedly. Worldwide, human trafficking generates $32 billion a year, according to the International Labor Organization, a United Nations agency.
The state Office of Justice Assistance reports that trafficking has been documented in more than half of all Wisconsin counties, in both rural and urban areas.To date, more than 200 victims have been identified. Since 2000, about one in six victims reported in Wisconsin was a minor.
"I don't know if we're seeing more reports of trafficking because it's happening more or just that we're more aware of it," said Marathon County Deputy District Attorney Theresa Wetzsteon, who prosecutes the bulk of sex crimes in the county. "I just know it's happening more than we can even handle."
Prosecuting Thornton was no easy task. Like most human trafficking stories, other factors come into play. The victim freely admitted she was engaged in prostitution before she was kidnapped, but insisted she worked for herself at the time she was abducted, according to police reports.
The case was further complicated by Jacqueline Blake-Weston, the woman who Minnie said joined her and Thornton and participated in the sex. Blake-Weston never testified at trial but denied the victim's allegations of abuse and described Minnie as a "touched person" who was "very disrespectful," according to court records.
The fine line between willing prostitute and trafficking victim can be difficult to define. Popular images of human trafficking include people held under lock and key. More commonly, Wetzsteon said, traffickers use more subtle means to control their victims, such as psychological coercion and threats of violence.
Often, sex-traffickers target vulnerable people with histories of abuse. They use violence, threats, false promises and other forms of control to keep victims firmly entrenched in the sex industry. Children are frequent targets.
Still, few suspects in Marathon County accused in prostitution-related crimes have been charged with felony trafficking — in part because alternate charges are easier to prosecute, Wetzsteon said. Proving trafficking is difficult because state law puts the burden on victims, who have to prove the trafficking was done without their consent.
That makes coming forward even more difficult for victims, who often fear they might be prosecuted.
In Thornton's case, Wetzsteon said, prosecutors were able to prove that Minnie was not a willing participant.
"Derrick Thornton used the threat of physical violence to force the victim into prostitution," Wetzsteon said. "That's what made this case cross the threshold from pimping into trafficking."
Determining jurisdiction also can be complicated in human trafficking cases since victims frequently are moved across state lines. But the penalties are steep. A human trafficking conviction carries a maximum prison term of 25 years. The penalty shoots up to 40 years when a child is involved.
The child sex trade
Only two other suspects, Jermaine Rogers, 39, of Milwaukee and Paul Ketring, 43, of Verona, have been convicted on trafficking charges, according to court records.
Other cases are making their way through the court system, including a case filed Jan. 23 in Sheboygan County Circuit Court against two men accused of forcing a 16-year-old girl to have sex with men for money. Prosecutors say other possible cases are under investigation.
Human trafficking victims come from a variety of backgrounds, including middle- and upper-class families. Poverty is one of many factors that make people vulnerable to exploitation.
Nationally, the average age of a new child prostitute is 13, according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
DOJ spokeswoman Dana Brueck said child sex trafficking typically involves the Internet, "either for traffickers to advertise, to communicate with possible victims and offenders, or to distribute sexually explicit images of child victims."
Nationwide, at least 100,000 children are being exploited through pornography or prostitution every year, according to Shared Hope, an agency that works with the victims of the child sex trade.
"There is one key difference in child trafficking cases," Wetzsteon said. "When an adult is involved, we have to prove they were coerced or forced into the act. When children are involved, that's not even a question."
— Shereen Siewert writes for Daily Herald Media, Wausau. Post-Crescent Media staff writer Ariel Cheung contributed to this report.
Signs of human trafficking
Common living and working conditions for victims:
• Not free to leave or come and go at will.
• Is under 18 and providing commercial sex acts.
• Has a pimp or a "manager."
• Is unpaid, paid very little or paid only through tips.
• Has high security measures at work or living locations, such as opaque or boarded-up windows, bars on windows, security cameras and barbed wire.
Poor mental health, or abnormal behavior:
• Appears fearful, anxious, depressed, submissive, overly nervous or paranoid, especially when law enforcement is mentioned.
• Avoids eye contact.
Poor physical health:
• Lacks health care.
• Appears malnourished.
• Shows signs of physical or sexual abuse, physical restraint, confinement or torture.
Lack of control:
• Has few or no personal possessions.
• Is not in control of finances; has no financial records or bank account.
• Does not have access to identification documents.
• Is not allowed or able to speak for themselves and requires a third party to be present or translate.
Other key indicators:
• Claims to be just visiting and is unable to provide an address.
• Lack of knowledge of whereabouts.
• Numerous inconsistencies in his or her story.
Source: www.polarisproject.org


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Virtue Ethics: A Misleading Category?
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Journal of Ethics
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Martha Nussbaum, "Virtue Ethics: A Misleading Category?," 3 Journal of Ethics 163 (1999).
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Caring for Patients Before, During and After ECT: Episode 142
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be a highly effective treatment for depression and bipolar disorder, though it is shrouded in suspicion as one of the most stigmatized therapies currently in use. In this podcast episode we'll talk about ECT, why and how it is used and nursing interventions for patients undergoing this therapy.
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Revered Satirist and Actor, Kwaku Sintim Misa popularly known as KSM is questioning why some Ghanaians are vociferous against 'discrimination" meted out to African Americans and yet find it acceptable that Ghanaians of Fulani extraction are treated the same way.
The Fulani are regularly 'victims' of ethnically-based stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination within the Ghanaian society. They are treated as 'non-citizens', 'aliens' and 'foreigners'. There have been state policies of Fulani expulsion from Ghana termed 'Operation Cow Leg' which has been carried out several times. Besides, local community policies of Fulani evictions, their limited access to land leases and their conflicts with local farmers have prompted community evictions and attacks as well as state/government interventions.
The leader of the community in Ghana, Sheikh Osman Barry, has on several occasions bemoaned as unacceptable these practices against them but most of these complaints have fallen on deaf ears.
In a tweet to question this practice KSM stated "we voice our anger at the U.S for discriminating against African Americans, but it is okay and "acceptable" for us to discriminate against Fulanis with Gh Citizenship."
His comment comes on the heels of a similar concern raised by Musician Becca which described as "Damn hypocrisy" the conduct of Africans demanding Justice for slain African American George Floyd and yet do not approve of Africans marrying outside their ethnicity or religious group.


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Independents charge that manufacturers' market share rebate programs are yielding only chump change
Jerry Feitelberg is no happier with drug manufacturers now than he was in 1993. That's when he sued the largest drugmakers in the country, claiming they illegally charge higher drug prices to independent pharmacies than to hospitals, health maintenance organizations, and other customers.
Feitelberg's suit helped spark a discriminatory-pricing class action by pharmacists nationwide that was settled in the late 1990s. Manufacturers agreed to give independents and small chains the same kinds of rebates and discounts granted large customers if small retailers could move market share.
The financial impact of the suit? Pin money, according to Feitelberg, longtime owner of Alameda Pharmacy, near San Francisco. "It's business as usual," he said. "The manufacturers came out with complex rebate schedules that no one can understand. They're laughing all the way to the bank."
How much can independent pharmacies and small chains earn from rebates and discounts? Drugmakers aren't talking about how the discriminatory-pricing suits might have changed their pricing practices.
Pharmacy First, a 2,300-store network that processes Rx data and rebate for independents, said pharmacists can expect to see rebates between 0.2% and 0.8% of their total cost of Rx purchases. Executive director Steven Friedman said the average member earns $300 to $400 per quarter in rebates. The top performer earned $5,800 for the first quarter of 2000, according to the most recent figures released by the network.
"Rebates can mean a substantial number of dollars added to the bottom line," Friedman said. "It's pure profit."
Fred Mayer, president of Pharmacists Planning Service Inc., parent of the Pharmacy Defense Fund, one of the prime movers behind the discriminatory-pricing suit, isn't impressed. He said rebates top out at around 5% of product cost, but only on specific items manufacturers want to promote. "I haven't seen much overall price movement by the drugmakers," he said.
No surprise there, said companies that administer rebate programs for independents. The settlement doesn't require manufacturers to charge one price to all buyers. Drugmakers agreed only to offer independents and small chains the same market-share-based rebates and discounts offered other drug purchasers.
"The lawsuit opened doors for independents that had previously been closed," said Jeff Lurey, director of the Patient Care Information Center & Data Collection for the Academy of Independent Pharmacy. AIP is an arm of the Georgia Pharmacy Association. The company was one of the first to help independents track prescriptions at the store level, advise pharmacists when to switch products to meet rebate requirements, and report the results to manufacturers. The group has formed an alliance with Pharmacy First to give independents more clout.
"We've been able to prove that independents can move market share," Lurey said. "Once you understand market share, the independent can be very successful."
There are four steps to earning market-share money, said Greg Ehrhardt, v.p. of Freedom Drug Stores in Fort Worth. The pharmacist-owned network has about 1,300 member stores.
The first step is to identify baseline performancehow many scripts for specific products and formulations are dispensed. Next is identifying which products are eligible for rebates (or discounts on future purchases) based on market-share shifts.
The big step is shifting dispensing to those rebatable products. Some stores concentrate on switching prescriptions to high-rebate products in the same therapeutic category; other pharmacists concentrate on refill reminders to boost sales (and compliance) of rebatable products.
Friedman said the most successful independents work both ends, contacting physicians for product switches, then focusing on the patient to boost refill rates. Either way, the net effect is to move market share by selling more rebatable product and less competing product.
The last step is sending market-share data to manufacturers. Checks arrive about 45 days after the end of each quarter. Think it sounds simple? Think again, Ehrhardt said. In many categories, competing products carry rebates. Should the store push Proventil (albuterol, Schering) or Ventolin (albuterol, GlaxoSmithKline)? The choice depends on a variable mix of factors: existing dispensing levels of each product, the number of switches or new refills needed to reach the next rebate threshold, local prescriber preferences, product cost, rebate amount, and more. It's a data-intensive process, Ehrhardt said. That's where Freedom Drug Stores and competitors like AIP-Pharmacy First come in.
"You know the chain down the street is being compensated for its market-share data," said Dave Wendland, v.p. of sales for Nonstop Solutions, which crunches independent and small chain Rx data for AIP and Pharmacy First. "We give smaller operators access to the same tools their large competitors are using."
The process is straightforward. The pharmacy signs on with a service company, which handles the paperwork required to join the rebate/discount programs offered by more than a dozen manufacturers. Once the paperwork is complete, every eligible pharmacy sale is forwarded to the service. Medicaid claims are generally not eligible for rebate programs.
Claims can be sent by tape or disk for batch processing, or they can be handled on-line. Transaction costs hover around two cents per prescription.
Rx data are extracted using standard encoding specifications that are already part of every electronic claim. Freedom and Nonstop both say that no patient-specific data or identifiers are pulled from the claims they process.
Ehrhardt said routing third-party claims through Freedom does not noticeably slow on-line adjudication by pharmacy benefit managers.
Feitelberg remains unimpressed with market-share programs. "Rebates and discounts aren't a very good business model to stake your future on," he said. "Even the chains can't survive on volume alone. There has to be some genuine profit in order to survive. Market share isn't the Holy Grail that's going to save your business."
Fred Gebhart. Are market-share programs panning out for small retailers?.
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Walkie talkie headsets provide you some benefits for any reason. They allow you to communicate easily while doing your other activities including working, camping, hiking, or biking. The microphone which is attached to this headset provides you another convenience.
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This type of walkie talkie headsets is manufactured by Learning Curve. This walkie talkie headset is supplied with microphone with a range of 80 feet. It is enabled with dual channel so that it is possible for the users to talk and listen at the same time. It needs 2 x 9 volt batteries.
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This type of walkie talkie headsets is compatible to Motorola 2-way radios which are equipped with capability of VOX hands-free. This Motorola earpiece comes with an input from a single pin. Since the manufacturer does not accept any return, you have to carefully check the compatibility with your device before buying.
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"Application-Specific Topology Design Customization for STNoC", DSD07, in proceedings of 10th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD 07), Lübeck, Germany, August 29-31, 2007.
"A Data protection Unit for NoC-based Architecture", CODES+ISSS 2007, in proceedings of the Fifth IEEE/ACM/FIP International Conference of Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS 2007), Salzburg, Austria, September 30, 2007.
"Mapping and Topology Customization Approaches for Application-Specific STNoC Designs", IEEE Proceedings of ASAP'07 - 18th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July, 2007.
"A Topology Design Customization Approach for (STNoC)", Nano-Nets 07, in proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Nano-Networks (Nano-Nets 2007)., Catania, Italy, September 24-26, 2007.
"An Efficient Design Space Exploration Methodology for Multi-Cluster VLIW Architectures based on Artificial Neural Networks", Proc. IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration VLSI - SoC 2008, Rhodes Island, Greece, October 13-15, 2008.
"Implementation of a Reconfigurable Data Protection Module for NoC-based MPSoCs", Proceedings of the 21st IPDPS 2007 Reconfigurable Architecture Workshop (RAW), 21th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Miami, USA/FL, April, 2008.
"Secure Memory Accesses on Networks-on-Chip", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 1216-1229, September, 2008.
"A Security Monitoring Service for NoCs", Sixth IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS'08), Atlanta, Georgia, USA., 10/2008.
"A Design Space Exploration Methodology Supporting Run-Time Resource Management for Multi-Processors System on-Chip", Proceedings IEEE SASP'09 - Symposium on Application Specific Processors, San Francisco, CA, USA, July, 2009.
"Meta-model Assisted Optimization for Design Space Exploration of Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip", Euromicro Proceedings of DSD'09 - Conference on Digital System Design, Patras, Greece, August, 2009.
"MPSoCs Run-Time Monitoring through Networks-on-Chip", The 2009 Conference on Design, Automation and Test In Europe (DATE'09), Nice, France, April/2009.
"Multicube Explorer - A Design Space Exploration Framework for Embedded Systems-on-Chip", Proceedings of the DATE'09 workshop on Designing for Embedded Parallel Computing Platforms: Architectures, Design Tools, and Applications, Nice, France, April, 2009.
"MULTICUBE: Multi-Objective Design Space Exploration of Multiprocessor Architectures for Embedded Multimedia Applications", Proceedings of the DATE'09 workshop on Designing for Embedded Parallel Computing Platforms: Architectures, Design Tools, and Applications, Nice, France, April, 2009.
"Multiprocessor System-on-Chip Design Space Exploration based on Multi-level Modeling Techniques", Proceedings of IEEE IC-SAMOS'09 - International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation, Samos, Greece, July, 2009.
Programmable data protection device, secure programming manager system and process for controlling access to an interconnect network for an integrated circuit, , no. EP 20070301411, 04/2009.
"Security in NoC", Networks-on-Chips: Theory and Practice: Taylor and Francis Group, LLC - CRC Press, pp. 157-194, 2009.
"Yield Enhancement by Robust Application-specific Mapping on Network-on-Chips", NoCArc'09: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Network on-Chip Architectures, New York City, USA, pp. 37–42, December, 2009.
"A Correlation-based Design Space Exploration Methodology for Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip", Proceedings of DAC 2010: Design Automation Conference, Anheim, CA, USA, pp. 120–125, June, 2010.
"An industrial design space exploration framework for supporting run-time resource management on multi-core systems", Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Dresden, Germany, March, 2010.
"Linking run-time management with design space exploration at multiple abstraction levels", Proceedings of the DATE'10 workshop on Designing for Embedded Parallel Computing Platforms: Architectures, Design Tools, and Applications, Dresden, Germany, March, 2010.


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There have been a number of questions about the accuracy of water meters in Round Rock as customers received their utility bills for July/August water use.
The City takes these concerns seriously. We have taken a number of steps to investigate the issue, including testing meters for accuracy, auditing resident irrigation system settings, and verifying the volume of water we produced equaled the volume of water that we billed after taking into account distribution system water loss.
Meters are tested prior to leaving the factory and are calibrated to meet American Water Works Association (AWWA) standards. In addition, the Utilities and Environmental Services Department has testing equipment so the City can verify whether the calibration is accurate. All meters the City has double-checked do meet AWWA standards.
Utilities personnel have visited some of the homes whose owners expressed concern about their bills. While on site, we checked irrigation controller settings, as well as reviewed water use data for each home. The results indicate the meters are reading correctly and the properties are using a significant amount of water for irrigation. We have witnessed properties using between 3,200 and 10,000 gallons each time their irrigation system runs. Over the course of a month that equates to a significant amount of usage – enough to push customers into our highest tier of summer water rates.
Round Rock received a significant amount of rainfall through June this year. Because of all that rain, water usage was lower than past years for those months. From June 30 to mid-September, though, Round Rock did not receive any significant rainfall and experienced triple-digit temperatures, causing water usage to rise dramatically. We have observed many homeowners irrigating at high levels to keep their yards green.
As a whole, the City used nearly twice as much water in August as was used in June (see chart below).
If you would like to have your irrigation system checked for efficiency, contact Jessica Woods, water conservation coordinator, via email.


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