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As more people are trying to quit smoking, a lot of them have taken up vaping. While the safety of electronic cigarettes has long been debated, health experts still say they are 95 percent less harmful than tobacco cigarettes.
This is why the National Health Service (NHS) might soon start prescribing the e-cigarette to people who want to quit smoking.
Even if a recent study aimed to prove that vaping might lead to smoking tobacco, especially among teenagers, experts say there is no evidence to support this theory yet, so it is safe to say that the e-cigarette might be your passport into a healthier lifestyle.
Some authorities, including the Welsh government, are even planning to start allowing the use of e-cigarettes in public spaces. In spite of all this enthusiasm, the British Medical Association said that it is important to be cautious regarding the excessive use of these devices.
According to various authorities, even if electronic cigarettes are much safer than tobacco, they are not 100 percent risk-free.
It was estimated that about 2.6 million people in Great Britain are now vapers. This is good news because it means a lot of people are either trying to quit smoking or they have already done it.
"At the moment, 80,000 people [in England] die every year as a result of cigarette smoking. If everybody who was smoking switched to e-cigarettes that would reduce to about 4,000 deaths a year. That's the best estimate at the moment. It may well be much, much lower than that.," said co-author of the report, Professor Ann McNeil, with King's College in London, who believes the use of e-cigarettes might prove to be a "game changer" regarding public health.
At the moment it is not yet possible to prescribe e-cigarettes to smokers because they do not have a license for medical purposes. This is why people are still being encouraged to seek help from local services to get more information and the right tools to aid them in their struggle with the addiction.
Health professional are encouraged to discuss the possibility of using e-cigarettes especially with the patients who are heavy smokers.
"If I was running a stop-smoking service, I would encourage people who are interested in trying e-cigarettes to have a go. I would also be recommending all the other evidence-based medications that people can use," said McNeill.
It is also important to help these people realize that their fears regarding the safety of these devices are largely unfounded because normal cigarettes expose them to a much higher risk of getting ill. Thus, even if e-cigarettes are not totally harmless, they are a much healthier option.
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For bibliophiles, having a home library is a necessity. Being able to curl up with a mug of tea and a good book, or lay back and relax while listening to an audiobook, is the perfect way to relax. If you love books, here are several design suggestions to consider to create your ultimate home library.
Will the library be strictly for reading, or will you also be listening to the occasional audiobook? If you will be listening to audio books, will you hear them on your smartphone, tablet, or laptop? Are you going to be sharing the space with someone else who may be doing other hobbies such as knitting or putting models together?
Answering these questions will allow you to figure out how to fully optimize the space. You will know whether you will have designated areas for sitting and reading or doing other crafts. You'll also be able to figure out how to furnish the space correctly so all your books and other possessions fit nicely without making the room feel cluttered.
Books come in all shapes, sizes, and types. From paperback and hardcover to graphic novels and e-readers, you'll need to figure out how to stack and sort your items. Decide on whether you want built-in bookshelves or cabinets. Cabinets are perfect for storing additional media units like speakers and small electronics.
Another thing to consider is shelf space. Adjustable shelves may be more desirable than fixed shelving as they can change with your collection. You also want to make sure that the shelves are strong enough to resist sagging or warping from the combined weight of the books.
In addition, decide on how tall you want your bookshelves to be. Do you want them all accessible within reach, or will you need a small footstool or even a ladder to reach books on higher shelves? You can also decide whether you will utilize open shelving or cabinet doors. Glass and wood doors will help to minimize dust. A custom home furnishing manufacturer such as Closet & Storage Concepts can help you design the space so you have enough shelves and storage spaces for all of your books.
Chairs, sofas, benches and even wall beds can turn a library into the most comfortable room in the house. You can build storage benches by windows to take advantage of natural light. Individual chairs can sit near floor lamps and small tables so you can enjoy a warm beverage or snack while reading.
Don't forget larger furniture pieces. A nice sofa can allow you to cuddle up with the kids while you read bedtime stories together. Wall beds are perfect for you and guests alike. A headboard makes it easy to lay back, put on some headphones, and listen to an audiobook late into the night.
With a spare room and some imagination, you can create the ultimate library room. So grab a book and relax in this functional and relaxing space. Get started by contacting your local designer. Our team will help you maximize your space whether you're looking for a wall bed, custom wall units, or other home storage furnishings.
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Angolan billionaire Isabel Dos Santos resigned from Unitel Telecom
Published: August 14, 2020 by Ranine Awwad
On August 11, 2020, Angolan Billionaire Isabel dos Santos decided to leave her position on the board of the country's leading telecommunications operator- Unitel Telecom. This decision came out amid ongoing tensions between Unitel board members.
In her resignation statement, dos Santos who holds a 25% stake in the company, said, "After 20 years dedicated to the creation, development, and success of Unitel, I chose to leave the position of member of the company's board of directors", according to Reuters. In 1999, Isabel's father, long time president, awarded the company a lucrative operating license, according to AlAfrica.
Dos Santos avowed that she was stepping down, as it was "counterproductive and irresponsible to allow a climate of permanent conflict and systematic politicization of the administrators", states Agence France-Press.
Dos Santos has significant investments in the Angolan banking and telecommunications sector. Back to 2019, dos Santo's assets including stakes she held in Angolan firms including Unitel, BFA, and ZAP MIDIA were frozen by Angolan investigators as part of a corruption crackdown.
At the end of the civil war in 2002, the Angolan Telecom sector has shown recovery and political stability attracted foreign investments.
Angola's mobile phone market has almost 14 million users and is currently dominated by two private companies – Movicel and Unitel. Angola Telecom, the third telecom operator offers fixed internet access and not mobile services. On May 19, 2020, a fourth license was awarded to Lebanese group Africell, according to The Economic Times.
Angola's government has plans to increase affordable mobile and internet access to Angolan people because fast internet connectivity is crucial for Angola's economy and digital transformation. The deployment of the 5G network would fuel entrepreneurship as well as help to secure jobs "There needs to be infrastructure, markets and financial services that support the digital development" said Isabel Santos at AfricaCom, one of Africa's biggest largest technology events.
Dos Santos has already called for increasing investments in the energy sector so that her company could install more fiber optic cables. In fact, Unitel has invested $2.2 billion in 14000 kilometers of fiber optic cables, states Business Matters Magazine.
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First edition, published by Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1954.
La Guerre et la Paix is a scarce and desirable Picasso monograph. This first edition has text in French by Claude Roy, and many black and white reproductions of Picasso's drawings. In addition to this, there are six beautiful color lithographs printed by Mourlot.
Condition: Canvas covered boards and original paper title wrapper are in fine condition. The original acetate covering is in near fine condition, with a chip in the spine area, and on the back. All the inner pages are in fine condition, with the original protection. This book is very rarely found in this condition, with the original red paper sleeve and acetate covering.


The period from conception to birth. After the egg is fertilized by a sperm and then implanted in the lining of the uterus, it develops into the placenta and embryo, and later into a fetus. Pregnancy usually lasts 40 weeks, beginning from the first day of the woman's last menstrual period, and is divided into three trimesters, each lasting three months.
Junk food consumed late in pregnancy has the potential to be more harmful to the child – "Too much junk food consumed late in pregnancy for humans has the potential to be more harmful to the child than excess junk food early in the pregnancy," says Dr Jessica Gugusheff, post-doctoral researcher in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine at University of Adelaide.
Low birth weight linked to higher incidence of type 2 diabetes in African American women – African American women born at a low or very low birth weight may be at a higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
How does pregnancy reduce breast cancer risk? – Being pregnant while young is known to protect a women against breast cancer. But why? Research in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research finds that Wnt/Notch signalling ratio is decreased in the breast tissue of mice which have given birth, compared to virgin mice of the same age.
Stressful life events may increase stillbirth risk, NIH network study finds – Pregnant women who experienced financial, emotional, or other personal stress in the year before their delivery had an increased chance of having a stillbirth, say researchers. Stillbirth is the death of a fetus at 20 or more weeks of pregnancy. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, in 2006, there was one stillbirth for every 167 births External Web Site Policy.
Coffee and tea during pregnancy affect fetal growth – Drinking just two cups of coffee a day is associated with the risk of low birth weight. Researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have conducted a study on 59,000 women in collaboration with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
Maternal obesity increases the risk of frequent wheezing in offspring — Tobacco and excess weight: 2 factors linked to asthma in babies – The fact that excess weight during pregnancy has negative consequences is not new information. A new study now concludes that the children of mothers obese before falling pregnant are four times more likely to have frequent wheezing, which is one of the symptoms of asthma, compared to the children of mothers weighing a normal weight.
U of M researchers find wide variation in cesarean delivery rates among US hospitals – Cesarean delivery is the most common surgery in the United States, performed on 1.67 million American women annually. The latest study, appearing in Health Affairs, shows that cesarean delivery rates varied tenfold across U.S. hospitals, from 7.1 percent to 69.9 percent.
Preterm birth can be prevented with a few proven treatments, Lancet article say – Lowering preterm birth rates by an average of 5 percent across 39 high-resource countries, including the United States, by 2015 would prevent prematurity for 58,000 babies a year. In the Lancet, the expert group says prevention of preterm birth could save billions in economic costs.


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important male writers Sept. 19, 2012
Female Writers Absent From Vogue's Edith Wharton Spread
By Kat Stoeffel
Real people are allowed to be in Vogue once in a while, but it helps to be real male. The September issue featured a spread set at the Mount, the estate of Edith Wharton (who turns 150 this year), and "All the Single Ladies" writer Kate Bolick reports that it was the talk of the Berkshire WordFest this year. Not in a good way.
Casting actors, models, and writers as Wharton and her cohort, Vogue failed to include any female writers. I wouldn't blame a writer for turning down the opportunity to be dressed up as (and inevitably compared to) Wharton — besides, Vogue regular Natalia Vodianova won the leading role — but the magazine didn't hesitate to include the popular men of contemporary fiction. Bolick writes:
There is Jeffrey Eugenides in a bowler hat doing his best Henry James. There is a bow-tied Junot Diaz as Wharton's (unrequited) love interest, diplomat Walter Berry. There is Jonathan Safran Foer, hair severely parted down the middle, posing as Wharton's collaborator, the architect Ogden Codman, Jr.
The popular opinion is that Jennifer Egan, she of the Pulitzer Prize and the high cheekbones, was a criminal omission.
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Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance Video – Surprise Cameo at TGS
Posted by Doug Dobbins at 3:13 pm on September 15, 2011
The Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance demo at Tokyo Game Show this year had a surprise for attendees. This comes in the form of a character that is not from a Final Fantasy game, a Disney title, or an original conception, but instead is the lead in another game conceptualized by Tetsuya Nomura: Neku Sakuraba from DS game The World Ends With You.
The TGS demo has two parts and during Sora's episode, he calls out for Riku. Instead of a reply, he finds Neku hanging from a roof. The boy jumps down and tells Sora that he needs a partner to play the Reaper's Game, showing him the timer on his hand. Whether there will be more The World Ends With You characters or references in the game remains to be seen.
The gmae will be out in Japan in the spring of 2012. Release dates for the rest of the world are not yet known.
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance will be the first entry in the series for the Nintendo 3DS. It will reportedly provide a glimpse of Kingdom Hearts III, which has yet to begin development.


The lodge is situated in an alpine area. The majority of new members and some existing members do not have alpine experience and do not appreciate that in this environment when things go wrong they do not "turn to custard", they very easily turn to catastrophe.
Explain the safety card to all occupants (copies are in the trip leaders drawer). Make sure they are read and understood by everyone in the lodge and that they have acted on them e.g. clear internal and external exit ways.
As building warden you have statutory duties under the Fire Service Act. Details are in the trip leaders drawer, in particular you must be able to account for all lodge occupants by name and should the need arise ensure their safe evacuation. You should have a printed email/fax listing all occupants first and last names.
The DoC Emergency Plan deals with the shelter and safe evacuation of everyone on the mountain in the case of storms or volcanic activity. You must be able to account for everyone in the lodge whether they are staying there or sheltering there. Note that the alpine hospice principle applies at these times and food and shelter are freely given. The subsequent evacuation must be strictly controlled – do not let people go, however anxious they are, until told of your time slot and evacuation route.Do not allow computer users to monopolise the phone line, you could miss emergency instructions from DoC.
Meet and Greet. Make sure that occupants who are new to the lodge are introduced, shown around the lodge and have the lodge routines explained to them.
Bunk allocation. Self allocation is OK if there is no pressure on space, otherwise allocate bunks to ensure families are together and then fill in with pairs and singles.
Lodge duties. Ensure that all duties have been allocated and are performed properly and on time.
Water is a finite resource that must be managed. In winter we use more water than we collect. Always check the amount on hand and remember that it has to last for the whole season. If necessary implement rationing e.g. no weekend showers, limited week showers, limit toilet flushing etc.In the event of any volcanic activity ensure that the down pipes are disconnected.The gutter heating should be left on whenever there is snow on the roof. This is on the 24/7 circuit and by design will remain on when the lodge is shutdown.
Allocate food on a daily basis and in particular ensure that the end of week cooks have sufficient variety and quantities left to work with. Ensure food deliveries are uplifted from RAL Distribution in Iwikau Shelter. At the end of the week/weekend complete the food stock take sheet and fax it to the Administration Officer before you leave.
Any running repairs carried out. We need to know of items that may need permanent repairs or replacement.
Water drained and power off. Do not leave these on unless the next occupants are actually in the lodge, they may be delayed or have cancelled.


Joe Fay at The Register has an interesting piece about a tour of the UK National Archive.
It uses a crawler to trawl the UK government's web estate, aiming to hit sites every six months. With the government looking to shutter many obscure or unloved sites, the pressure is on. The web archive currently stands at around 80TB, with the crawler pulling in 1.6TB a month. At time of writing, there are 3 billion urls in the archive, with 1 billion captured last year alone.But does anyone really care? Seems like they do. Espley said the archive gets around 15 to 20 million page views a month. This often maps to current events - the assumption being that visitors are often cross checking current government positions/statements against previous positions.
Peter van Buren understands the 1984 analogy that drove us to assume a very powerful adversary when we designed the LOCKSS system a decade and a half ago.
Jeff Rothenberg's ground-breaking 1995 article Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents described and compared two techniques to combat format obsolescence; format migration and emulation, concluding that emulation was the preferred approach. As time went by and successive digital preservation systems went into production it became clear that almost all of them rejected Jeff's conclusion, planning to use format migration as their preferred response to format obsolescence. Follow me below the fold for a discussion on why this happened and whether it still makes sense.
This session will explore how well current preservation models keep our evolving scholarly communication products accessible for the short and long term. Library and publisher practices are changing in response to scholars' needs and market constraints. Where are the holes in our current approaches, and how can they be filled? Or are completely new models required?
I gave a brief introductory talk; an edited text with links to the sources is below the fold.
The attack involves a conspiracy in which the members strategically switch between good and bad behavior. The defense involves randomizing the behavior of the peers. The general lesson is that predictable behavior by honest peers is often easy to exploit.
The attack involves deploying an army of Sybil peers that appear legitimate but are actually under the control of the conspiracy. The defense involves making peer operations expensive using a proof-of-work technique. The general lesson is that peer reputations cheaply acquired are worth what they cost.
Follow me below the fold for the details.
A side building at the Internet Archive used for book-scanning was consumed by fire last night. The people, the data and the library are safe but the Internet Archive is asking for donations to help them rebuild. If you can afford to, please help; I just did.
Update: they need to replace an estimated $600K in scanning equipment, plus rebuild the building.
Just because you are paying companies like Google, Apple or Microsoft you might feel they are, some how, beholden to you. The companies are actually beholden only to their stockholders whose interests may or may not be aligned with your own, so will change services accordingly.
If you aren't hosting your data, it's not your data.
Along with security, one of the most difficult issues with cloud platforms is the risk of vendor lock-in. By assigning business processes and data to cloud service providers, it may get really messy and expensive to attempt to dislodge from the arrangement if it's time to make a change.
The guide, compiled by a team led by Kapil Bakshi and Mark Skilton, provides key pointers for enterprises seeking to develop independently functioning clouds, as well as recommendations to the industry on standards that need to be adopted or extended.
It is mainly about avoiding getting locked-in to a vendor of cloud computing services rather than cloud storage services, so its focus is on open, standard interfaces to such services. But the main message of both pieces is that any time you are using cloud services, you need an up-to-date, fully costed exit strategy. Trying to come up with an exit strategy when you're given 13 days notice that you need one is guaranteed to be an expensive disaster.
A week ago Seagate made an extraordinarily interesting announcement for long-term storage, their Kinetic Open Storage Platform, including disk drives with Ethernet connectivity. Below the fold, the details.
Ten years ago our paper Preserving Peer Replicas by Rate-Limited Sampled Voting was awarded "Best Paper" at the 2003 ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles. It was later expanded into a paper in ACM Transactions on Computing Systems, The LOCKSS peer-to-peer digital preservation system. According to Google Scholar, the twin papers have accumulated over 300 citations. Below the fold I discuss the ideas about trust we put forward in these papers that have turned out to have lasting significance, and are particularly important today.
Tania Rabesandratana's profile of Vitek Tracz, highlighting his roles in open access publishing via BioMed Central and Faculty of 1000, and now in post-publication peer review via F1000 Research. Kudos to Science for this article on a competitor!
Diane Harley's corrective to the Web 2.0 hype, stressing that change will come only as institutions change their tenure and promotion practices to reduce their emphasis on flawed measures such as impact factor.
Annalee Newitz at io9.com reviews an essay by Heather Phillips entitled "The Great Library at Alexandria?". She makes two points about an institution often cited in discussions of digital preservation that have particular resonance at a time when the US government is mostly shut down, and may be forced into default.
Though it seems fitting that the destruction of so mythic an institution as the Great Library of Alexandria must have required some cataclysmic event . . . in reality, the fortunes of the Great Library waxed and waned with those of Alexandria itself. Much of its downfall was gradual, often bureaucratic, and by comparison to our cultural imaginings, somewhat petty.
As I've frequently said, the biggest threat to the long-term survival of digital materials is economic. This isn't something new.
What made the Museum and its daughter branch great were its scholars. And when the Emperor abolished their stipends, and forbade foreign scholars from coming to the library, he effectively shut down operations. Those scrolls and books were nothing without people to care for them, study them, and share what they learned far and wide.
What matters isn't the perfection of a collection, but the usefulness of a collection. Digital preservation purists may scorn the Internet Archive, but as I write this post Alexa ranks archive.org the 167th most used site on the Internet. For comparison, the Library of Congress is currently the 4,212st ranked site (and is up despite the shutdown), the Bibliothèque Nationale de France is ranked 16,274 and the British Library is ranked 29.498. Little-used collections, such as dark archives, post-cancellation only archives, and access-restricted copyright deposit collections are all at much greater economic risk in the long term than widely used sites such as the Internet Archive.
Even this account of the burning has to be taken with a grain of salt. The first stories of it appear hundreds of years after the events that took place, and historians aren't sure whether it's accurate. Canfora also notes that by the time this alleged destruction took place, the men who cared for the library were aware that many of its important works were in circulation elsewhere in the world. Major centers of learning had been established in India and Central Asia, along the great Silk Road, where nomadic scholars wandered between temples that were stocked with books.
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You can't ask better than that. The name for the project came later, on a rather muddy hike to Berry Creek Falls in Big Basin Redwoods State Park.
Customers had to get all their data out by the end of September or, in effect, face losing it.
They had 13 days to do it. Below the fold I ask what would happen if Amazon made a similar announcement about S3 - not because I think that is possible but to show how impossible it is.
Henry Newman and I ran a panel at the Library of Congress' Storage Architectures meeting entitled Cloud Challenges. Below the fold is the text of my brief presentation, entitled Cloud Services: Caveat Emptor, with links to the sources.
I'm really interested in the work the Force11 group and many others are doing to apply the techniques of software engineering and digital preservation to making science more reproducible and re-usable. Unfortunately, work for our recent Mellon Foundation grant and for the TRAC audit of the CLOCKSS Archive has meant I've been too busy to contribute or even pay much attention. But a discussion that broke out on the Force11 mailing list sparked by Paul Groth pointing to a post on his blog called Becoming a better scientist (reproducibility edition) really grabbed my attention. Follow me below the fold for the details.
The group planning a session on "RDF Vocabulary Preservation" at iPRES2013 asked me to give a brief presentation on the principles behind the LOCKSS technology. Below the fold is an edited text with links to the sources.
a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to be a primary storage resource capable of storing data on the scale of yottabytes.
Below the fold, lets look at this seemingly innocuous claim.
Caroline O'Donovan at the Nieman Journalism Lab has an interesting article entitled Exegesis: How early adapters, innovative publishers, legacy media companies and more are pushing toward the annotated web. She discusses the way media sites including The New York Times, The Financial Times, Quartz and SoundCloud and platforms such as Medium are trying to evolve from comments to annotations as a way to improve engagement with their readers. She also describes the work hypothes.is is doing to build annotations into the Web infrastructure. There is also an interesting post on the hypothes.is blog from Peter Brantley on a workshop with journalists. Below the fold, some thoughts on the implications for preserving the Web.
Three years ago I wrote a post on the importance of a tamper-resistant system for government documents, and another a year ago. Governments cannot resist the temptation to re-write history to their advantage, and every so often they get caught, which is an excuse for me to repeat the message. Below the fold, this year's version of the message.
Under the auspices of the Digital Preservation Coalition, Maureen Pennock has written a very comprehensive overview of Web Archiving. It is an excellent introduction to the field, and has a lot of useful references.
the best DNA storage can do with those dimensions [a gram of dry DNA] is 5.6*1015 bits.
A Bekenstein-bound storage device with those dimensions would store about 1.6*1038 bits.
So, there is about a factor of 3*1022 in bits/gram beyond DNA. He also compares the Bekenstein limit with Stanford's electronic quantum holography, which stored 35 bits per electron. A Bekenstein-limit device the size of an electron would store 6.6*107 bits, so there's plenty of headroom there too. How reliable storage media this dense, and what their I/O bandwidth would be are open questions, especially since the limit describes the information density of a black hole.
Here is Paul Krugman pointing out how much better econoblogs are doing at connecting economics and policy than traditional publishing. He brings out several of the points I've been making since the start of this blog six years ago.
The overall effect is that we're having a conversation in which issues get hashed over with a cycle time of months or even weeks, not the years characteristic of conventional academic discourse.
In reality, while many referees do their best, many others have pet peeves and ideological biases that at best greatly delay the publication of important work and at worst make it almost impossible to publish in a refereed journal. ... anything bearing on the business cycle that has even a vaguely Keynesian feel can be counted on to encounter a very hostile reception; this creates some big problems of relevance for proper journal publication under current circumstances.
Look at one important recent case ... Alesina/Ardagna on expansionary austerity. Now, as it happens the original A/A paper was circulated through relatively "proper" channels: released as an NBER working paper, then published in a conference volume, which means that it was at least lightly refereed. ... And how did we find out that it was all wrong? First through critiques posted at the Roosevelt Institute, then through detailed analysis of cases by the IMF. The wonkosphere was a much better, much more reliable source of knowledge than the proper academic literature.
We believe the [Elsevier] adds relatively little value to the publishing process. We are not attempting to dismiss what 7,000 people at [Elsevier] do for a living. We are simply observing that if the process really were as complex, costly and value-added as the publishers protest that it is, 40% margins wouldn't be available.
The world's research and education budgets pay [Elsevier, Springer & Wiley] about $3.2B/yr for management, editorial and distribution services. Over and above that, the worlds research and education budgets pay the shareholders of these three companies almost $1.5B for the privilege of reading the results of research (and writing and reviewing) that these budgets already paid for.
What this $4.7B/yr pays for is a system which encourages, and is riddled with, error and malfeasance. If these value-subtracted aspects were taken into account, it would be obvious that the self-interested claims of the publishers as to the value that they add were spurious.
Whatever the wisdom of collecting everything, I'm a bit skeptical about the practicality of storing it. Follow me below the fold for a look at the numbers.
the article treats this as a he-said, she-said controversy. It fails to point to any of the massive accumulation of peer-reviewed research that answers this key question by showing that only the most selective journals add positive (if barely detectable) value. If the greater levels of misrepresentation and fraud in these journals are accounted for, their value-add is most likely negative.
Publishers, particularly for-profit publishers, are unable to acknowledge that their vaunted and expensive processes are not adding value, and are thus not worth paying for. This is demonstrated by the fact that Nature finds itself unable to cite the literature answering the question that it raises. Isn't part of Nature's value-add supposed to be making sure that relevant literature is cited?
I've just started using the first product from the latest company of someone for whom I have great respect, serial entrepreneur Geoff Barrall. His previous company was Data Robotics, now Drobo after their product. I made a small investment in the company and have been using Drobos ever since the initial beta program. Geoff's team managed the all-too-rare feat in the industry of packaging up complex technology, in this case RAID, in a form that is both highly effective and very easy to use. Drobos are a wonderful way of protecting your data against disk failures - over the years the three original 4-slot Drobos in my home rack have handled disks filling up and failing with complete composure. They are now max-ed out with 2TB drives for a total of nearly 18TB of usable space; when this fills up I'll finally have to buy more units. Follow me below the fold for details on Geoff's new product.
One of the most valuable aspects of the Library of Congress' National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) is that it provides a forum for sharing expertise and experience among institutions trying to preserve the nation's digital heritage. The latest example is the Report on Digital Preservation and Cloud Services (PDF) written by Instrumental for, and published by, the Minnesota Historical Society. This is an excellent overview of the strategic and technical issues surrounding the potential use of a wide range of cloud services for preservation. I strongly recommend reading it.
Also, Rebecca Pool has a short piece on the same topic here, based in part on an interview she did with me some months ago.
Via Yves Smith and mathbabe I found Deep Impact: Unintended consequences of journal rank by Björn Brembs and Marcus Munaf, which is a detailed analysis of the arguments I put forward at the Dagstuhl workshop on the Future of Research Communication and elsewhere.
Even if you disagree with their conclusions, their extensive bibliography is a valuable resource. Below the fold I discuss selected quotes from the paper.
A bit more than two years ago in my second post about Memento I described some issues with its concept of Aggregators. These are the search-engine like services that guide browsers to preserved content. As part of the work we are doing to enhance the LOCKSS daemon software under a grant from the Mellon Foundation we have implemented the basic Memento mechanisms, so I'm now having to face some of these issues.
I have come to believe that the problems with the Aggregator concept are more fundamental than I originally described, and require a significant re-think. Below the fold I set out my view of the problems, and an outline of my proposed solution.
Facebook will move older pictures and back-up photos to new-more energy efficient-data centers, called "cold storage" centers. ... the new "cold storage" centers-which are still in construction-will be five times more energy efficient and will allow users to access old images anytime without noticing any difference.
Facebook's problem is that they are ingesting 315M photos/day, or 7PB/month. Reducing the energy consumed by the backup copies and the older, less frequently accessed pictures is important. Although this is a work-in-progress and Facebook isn't talking about some details, it appears that among the techniques they are using are erasure coding, to operate with a lower replication factor, aggressively spinning down disks, using flash to hold indexes, and perhaps new, low-power drives such as these from Seagate, which claim 27% less power draw. They are working in the context of the Open Vault project, so this technology should eventually be available to others.
Kai Li's keynote at the FAST 2013 conference was entitled Disruptive Innovation: Data Domain Experience. Data Domain was the pioneer of deduplication for backups. I was one of the people Sutter Hill asked to look at Data Domain when they were considering a B-round investment in 2003. I was very impressed, not just with their technology, but more with the way it was packaged as an appliance so that it was very easy to sell. The elevator pitch was "It is a box. You plug it into your network. Backups work better."
I loved Kai's talk. Not just because I had a small investment in the B round, so he made me money, but more because just about everything he said matched experiences I had at Sun or nVIDIA. Below the fold I discuss some of the details.
I attended Usenix's 2013 FAST conference. I was so interested in Kai Li's keynote entitled Disruptive Innovation: Data Domain Experience that I'll devote a separate post to it. Below the fold are some other things that caught my attention. Thanks to Usenix's open access policy, you can follow the links and read the papers if I've piqued your interest.
I've been blogging a lot about the economics of cloud storage, and always using Amazon as the comparison. I've been stressing that the margins on their cloud storage business are extortionate. But Amazon is famous for running on very low margins. Below the fold I look at this conundrum.
I blogged three weeks ago about the Library of Congress ingesting the Twitter feed, noting that the tweets were ending up on tape. It is over 130TB and growing 190GB/day. The Library is still trying to work out how to provide access to this collection; for example they cannot afford the infrastructure that would allow readers to perform keyword searches. This leaves the 400-odd researchers who have already expressed a need for access to the collection stymied. The British Library is also running into problems providing access to large collections, although not as large as Twitter. They are reduced to delivering 30TB NAS boxes to researchers, the same approach as Amazon and other services have taken to moving large amounts of data.
I mentioned this problem in passing in my earlier post, but I have come to understand that this observation has major implications for the future of digital preservation. Follow me below the fold as I discuss them.
At IDCC2013 in Amsterdam I presented the paper Distributed Digital Preservation in the Cloud in which Daniel Vargas and I described an experiment in which we ran a LOCKSS box in Amazon's cloud. Or rather, I gave a talk that briefly motivated and summarized the paper and then focused on subsequent developments in cloud storage services, such as Glacier. Below the fold is an edited text of the talk with links to the resources. I believe that video of the talk (and, I hope, the interesting question-and-answer session that followed) will be made available eventually.
Following on from my talk at the 2012 Fall CNI meeting on 11th December Gerry Bayne interviewed me about the economics of using cloud services for preservation. The edited 12-minute MP3 has been posted on the Educause website. I think I did a pretty good job of explaining the fundamental business reasons why institutions are going to continue waste large amounts of money buying over-priced storage from the commercial cloud providers.
At the suggestion of my long-time friend Frankie, I've been reading Trillions, a book by Peter Lucas, Joe Ballay and Mickey McManus. They are principals of MAYA Design, a design firm that emerged from the Design and CS schools at Carnegie-Mellon in 1989. Among its founders was Jim Morris, who ran the Andrew Project at C-MU on which I worked from 1983-85. The ideas in the book draw not just from the Andrew Project's vision of a networked campus with a single, uniform file name-space, as partially implemented in the Andrew File System, but also from Mark Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing at Xerox PARC. Mark's 1991 Scientific American article "The Computer of the 21st Century" introduced the concept to the general public, and although the authors cite it, they seem strangely unaware of work going on at PARC and elsewhere for at least the last 6 years to implement the infrastructure that would make their ideas achievable. Follow me below the fold for the details.
MIT's Technology Review has a nice article about Scott Ainsworth et al's important paper How Much Of The Web Is Archived? (readable summary here). The paper reports an important initial step in measuring the effectiveness of Web archiving, and Scott and his co-authors deserve much credit for it. Below the fold I summarize the paper and raise some caveats as to the interpretation of the results. Tip of the hat to the authors for comments on a draft of this post.
and having an automated process in place capable of ingesting the current tweets in near-real-time.
On February 28, 2012, the Library received the 2006-2010 archive through Gnip in three compressed files totaling 2.3 terabytes. When uncompressed the files total 20 terabytes. The files contained approximately 21 billion tweets, each with more than 50 accompanying metadata fields, such as place and description.
As of December 1, 2012, the Library has received more than 150 billion additional tweets and corresponding metadata, for a total including the 2006-2010 archive of approximately 170 billion tweets totaling 133.2 terabytes for two compressed copies.
Tape archives are the Library's standard for preservation and long-term storage. Files are copied to two tape archives in geographically different locations as a preservation and security measure.
The Library has assessed existing software and hardware solutions that divide and simultaneously search large data sets to reduce search time, so-called "distributed and parallel computing". To achieve a significant reduction of search time, however, would require an extensive infrastructure of hundreds if not thousands of servers. This is cost-prohibitive and impractical for a public institution.
This is a huge and important effort. Best wishes to the Library as they struggle with providing access and keeping up with the flow of tweets.


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On-line sentence comprehension of ambiguous verbs in Mandarin
Kathleen Virginia Ahrens
The current work explores the issue of category in lexical ambiguity resolution. The central question is whether the preceding sentential context can influence access of lexical meaning in on-going sentence comprehension. Previous studies have concentrated on lexical ambiguity resolution of nouns. These studies, on the whole, have demonstrated that the lexical access system operates independently of previous sentential context. However, previous psycholinguistic work on semantic change suggests that verbs are more susceptible to coercive change than nouns. I explore the possibility that this susceptibility of verbs to semantic change will allow sentential context to influence their lexical access. I find, instead, that the lexical access system still operates independently of preceding sentential context. The implications of this finding are presented in terms of two different views of cognitive processing - the modular and the interactionist view.
Journal of East Asian Linguistics
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Ahrens, Kathleen Virginia. / On-line sentence comprehension of ambiguous verbs in Mandarin. In: Journal of East Asian Linguistics. 2001 ; Vol. 10, No. 4. pp. 337-358.
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…a committed and convincing portrait by Maritaud.
Julian Wood
Rating: 15+
Director: Christophe Charrier
Felix Maritaud, Nicolas Bauwens, Aure Atika, Tommy Lee Baik, Ilian Bergala
Mardi Gras Film Festival
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A made for TV drama about gay life in contemporary France directed by Christophe Charrier. The first part of the film concerns the youth and awakening of the hero Jonas (Felix Maritaud recently seen in BPM). His mum is the more involved of the two parents. His dad is slightly coarse and macho and, we presume, not impressed by the idea of having a gay son.
When Jonas – already a bit of a loner – goes to his new high school he is ready to just survive by resisting the homophobic bullies and keeping his head down. Into his world walks the larger-than-life Nathan (Tommy Lee Baik), whose flamboyance and devil may care attitude captures Jonas' heart. The boys pair up and all seems fine for a while. Then one day, they try to get into the eponymous gay night club Boys and are turned away for being underage.
Unwisely they accept a lift from an older man who is hanging around outside the club. That ride turns sour and although Jonas escapes, Nathan is abducted. This catastrophic event traumatises Jonas who ends up as an adult on the bottle and eking out an existence as a hospital porter.
The film is told with two different actors playing the adolescent and adult Jonas in two different time periods. The action constantly cuts between the two.
The broken Jonas is not an easy character to like and his self-loathing is in danger of alienating us as much as it does the characters he interacts with. That said, it is a committed and convincing portrait by Maritaud. Lee Baik is also a breath of fresh air, but he doesn't have long to shine. One of the best performances in the film is that of Nathan's mother (Aure Atika) and she also has one of the best scenes in the film when she confronts the adult Jonas with his choices.
Beyond showing the shy romance of the teens, the film does not dare to explore the physical side of their love which again is a reasonable choice for the approach, but makes the film a bit bloodless and evasive.
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with flowers is back in vogue once again.
the Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Indian cultures.
their entrees with flower blossoms for a touch of elegance.
not every flower is edible.
In fact, sampling some flowers can make you very, very sick.
on any part of any plant that produces blossoms you plan to eat.
edible parts of those flowers.
in cooking is not new.
After falling out of favor for many years, cooking and garnishing with flowers is back in vogue once again. Flower cookery has been traced back to Roman times, and to the Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Indian cultures. Edible flowers were especially popularin the Victorian era during Queen Victoria's reign.
Calendula (Calendula officinalis) – Also called Marigolds. A wonderful edible flower. Flavors range from spicy to bitter, tangy to peppery. Their sharp taste resembles saffron (also known as Poor Man's Saffron). Has pretty petals in golden-orange hues. Sprinkle them on soups, pasta or rice dishes, herb butters, and salads. Petals add a yellow tint to soups, spreads, and scrambled eggs. Only the pedals are edible.
rice. White and red clover blossoms were used in folk medicine against gout, rheumatism, and leucorrhea. It was also believed that the texture of fingernails and toenails would improve after drinking clover blossom tea. Native Americans used whole clover plants in salads, and made a white clover leaf tea for coughs and colds. Avoid bitter flowers that are turning brown, and choose those with the brightest color, which are tastiest. Raw flower heads can be difficult to digest.
Cornflower (Centaurea cynaus) – Also called Bachelor's button. They have a slightly sweet to spicy, clove-like flavor. Bloom is a natural food dye. More commonly used as garnish.
Most fruit trees are usually sprayed just before and during the bloom. If you are using you own flowers that have not sprayed, use only the pedals, not the pistils or stamen.
Banana Blossoms (Musa paradisiaca) – Also know as Banana Hearts. The flowers are a purple-maroon torpedo shaped growth appears out of the top of usually the largest of the trunks. Banana blossoms are used in Southeast Asian cuisines. The blossoms can be cooked or eaten raw. The tough covering is usually removed until you get to the almost white tender parts of the blossom. It should be sliced and let it sit in water until most of the sap are gone. If you eat it raw, make sure the blossom comes from a variety that isn't bitter. Most of the Southeast Asian varieties aren't bitter.
Alliums (leeks, chives, garlic, garlic chives) – Known as the "Flowering Onions." There are approximately four hundred species that includes the familiar onion, garlic, chives, ramps, and shallots. All members of this genus are edible. Their flavors range from mild onions and leeks right through to strong onion and garlic. All parts of theplants are edible. The flowers tend to have a stronger flavor than the leaves and the young developing seed-heads are even stronger. We eat the leaves and flowers mainly insalads. The leaves can also be cooked as a flavoring with other vegetables in soups, etc.
Garlic Blossoms (Allium sativum) – The flowers can be white or pink, and the stems are flat instead of round. The flavor has a garlicky zing that brings out the flavor of your favorite food. Milder than the garlic bulb. Wonderful in salads.Angelica (Angelica archangelica) – Depending on the variety, flower range from pale lavender-blue to deep rose. It has a flavor similar to licorice. Angelica is valued culinary from the seeds and stems, which are candied and used in liqueurs, to the young leaves and shoots, which can be added to a green salad. Because of its celery-like flavor, Angelica has a natural affinity with fish. The leaves have a stronger, clean taste and make a interesting addition to salads. In its native northern Europe, even the mature leaves are used, particularly by the Laplanders, as a natural fish preservative. Many people in the cold Northern regions such as Greenland, Siberia, and Finland consider Angelica a vegetable, and eat the stems raw, sometimes spread with butter. Young leaves can be made into a tea.
Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) – Both flowers and leaves have a delicate anise or licorice flavor. Some people say the flavor reminds them of root beer. The blossoms make attractive plate garnishes and are often used in Chinese-style dishes. Excellent in salads.
Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium) – Chervil flowers are delicate white flowers with an anise flavor. Chervil's flavor is lost very easily, either by drying the herb, or too much heat. That is why it should be added at the end of cooking or sprinkled on in its fresh, raw state in salads.
Chicory (Cichorium intybus) – Earthy flavor, eat either the petals or the buds. Chicory has a pleasant, mild-bitter taste that has been compared to endive. The buds can be pickled.
Jasmine (jasmine officinale) – The flowers are intensely fragrant and are traditionally used for scenting tea. True Jasmine has oval, shiny leaves and tubular, waxy-white flowers. NOTE: The false Jasmine is in a completely different genus, "Gelsemium", and family, "Loganiaceae", is considered too poisonous for human consumption. This flower has a number of common names including yellow jessamine or jasmine, Carolina jasmine or jessamine, evening trumpetflower, gelsemium, and woodbine.
Nasturtiums Tropaeolum majus) – Comes in varieties ranging from trailing to upright and in brilliant sunset colors with peppery flavors. Nasturtiums rank among most common edible flowers. Blossoms have a sweet,spicy flavor similar to watercress. Stuff whole flowers with savory mousse. Leaves add peppery tang to salads. Pickled seed pods are less expensive substitute for capers. Useentire flowers to garnish platters, salads, cheese tortas, open-faced sandwiches, and savory appetizers.
Radish Flowers (Raphanus sativus) – Depending on the variety, flowers may be pink, white or yellow, and will have a distinctive, spicy bite (has a radish flavor). Best used in salads. The Radish shoots with their bright red or white tender stalks are very tasty and are great sautéed or in salads.
Scarlet Runner Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) – Have brilliant red blooms that are very tasty and can be served as a garnish for soups, in salads. Bean pods toughen as they age, so makeuse of young pods as well as flowers.
Violets (Viola species) – Sweet, perfumed flavor. Related flowers, Johnny jump-ups or violas, and pansies now come in colorful purples and yellows to apricot and pastel hues. I like to eat the tender leaves and flowers in salads. I also use the flowers to beautifully embellish desserts and iced drinks. Freeze them in punches to delight children and adults alike. All of these flowersmake pretty adornments for frosted cakes, sorbets, or any other desserts, and they may be crystallized as well. heart-shaped leaves are edible, and tasty when cooked like spinach.


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Deditor is a tool that brings python and a text-editor together in multiple ways.
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Deditor is a light-weight python-specific text-editor. It is written in python using the wxpython toolkit. Everything is structured in one easy to use window without too many popups that could distract you.
Although deditor supports syntax-highlighting for multiple languages (78) it is developed especially for python-developers. There is a python shell (which you can disable if you don't need it), and there is a code analyzing, code inspecting, code-completion and also the whole Plugin System is python-written which makes it easy for python developers to add their own plugin to ease their lives.


Today youth joined with artists, performers and community members to celebrate the completion of a new public mural on 148th St. and Brook Ave in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. The mural is the result of a summer-long collaboration between youth from CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities, Justice Committee and Streetwise And Safe, working with artist Raúl Ayala.
Through the mural, as well as today's performances, the groups say they are seeking to share information about New Yorkers rights when dealing with the police in a manner that is creative and memorable. They also say they hope the mural will serve as an example of what can be accomplished when people come together.
With the recent rash of police killings – Eric Garner in Staten Island Michael Brown in Ferguson, among others – and still no accountability for the officers involved in the 2012 killing of Bronx youth Ramarley Graham, it's easy to see how police violence is at the forefront of young peoples' minds. The murals creators say they believe community members must have tools to protect their rights and should take care of one another. They also say it's important to celebrate community in the face of violence and brutality.
"In recent months, low-income communities of color across the city have felt the harm done by the NYPD's extreme Broken Windows policing," said Ruben An, the Coordinator of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities' youth program. "When officers can arrest and brutalize New Yorkers for acts as ordinary as standing on the street or sleeping on a train, the message to communities is that we are not allowed to exist or enjoy being in public without fear of abuse. Our mural is about celebrating our neighborhoods as belonging to all of us, not just the NYPD and the privileged."
According the Ayala, the mural addresses both the problem of police violence, but also illustrates hope for the future – to live in safe and empowered communities.


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Q: how to validate the data of ckeditor in CI I need to validate the data of ckeditor. Is there any way to validate it in CodeIgniter? I have tried like this.
In View:

        <textarea class="ckeditor" name="desc" id="editor" required><?php echo set_value('desc', ''); ?></textarea>
        <?php echo form_error('desc'); ?>

In controller:
$this->form_validation->set_rules('desc', 'Desc', 'required');
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    $this->add_Coachs();
} else {

    $rs = $this->functional->insertBlog();

    if ($rs == true) {
        $this->session->set_flashdata('blog', 'Your Blog Submitted Successfully.Thank You!');
        redirect('Wall');
    } else {
        $this->session->set_flashdata('blog', 'Blog Not Submitted');
        redirect('Wall');
    }
}

But here it executes the false condition. Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong? Is there any way to resolve this problem?
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In model :
public function insertBlog() {

    $full_name = $this->session->userdata('first_name') . " " . $this->session->userdata('last_name');
    $email = $this->session->userdata('email');
    $data = array(
        'user_id' => $this->input->post('user_id'),
        'full_name' => $full_name,
        'email' => $email,
        'desc' => $this->input->post('desc'),
        'create_date' => date('Y-m-d h:i:s', now()),
        'modify_date' => date('Y:m:d h:i:s'),
        'start_date' => date('Y:m:d h:i:s'),
        'end_date' => date('Y:m:d h:i:s'),
        'status' => "Deactive",
        'userby' => $this->input->post('user_id')
    );
    $rs = $this->db->insert('ult_latest_blog', $data);
    return $rs;
}

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The hours are 37.5 per week. It will be necessary for the person appointed to work flexibly, including evenings and occasional weekends. The posts will be based at Edward King House, Lincoln.
The Diocese of Lincoln is renewing its vision for Mission and Ministry, as it is embracing its identity as a Learning Diocese. Within the Ministry and Mission teams a number of new posts have been identified, of which this is one. It is a development of a previous post, developing it into two posts, each with a specific focus and working closely together to support, deepen and develop Christian discipleship within our congregations.
We aim to provide our church members with professional support, training and development to work effectively with the many and diverse communities within the historic county of Lincolnshire, which now includes the Unitary Authorities of North Lincolnshire and North-East Lincolnshire.
Our ethos is that we not only support the ministry of others but are active church members ourselves.
A commitment to their own professional development.
A capacity and commitment to work as a full member of the Mission Team and to contribute to its work across the diocese.
The ability to organise their own work effectively with minimal close supervision.
The Diocese of Lincoln is the Church of England in Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.
The diocese covers 2,673 square miles and has a population of 943,000. There are around 31,000 people on the Church Electoral Rolls and around 16,000 Usual Sunday Attendance. There are more than 220 clergy and lay workers serving 240 benefices with 514 parishes and 630 church buildings.
The diocesan offices of Edward King House are situated by the medieval Bishop's Palace in the historic Cathedral Quarter of Lincoln. The offices are overlooked by the magnificent Lincoln Cathedral and they are close to Lincoln Castle, home of the 1215 Magna Carta and the 1217 Charter of the Forest, plus many shops, eateries and further places of local history and interest. Edward King House was formerly the home of Bishop Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln between 1885 and 1910. A beautiful Grade II-listed building, a feature of Edward King House is St Hugh's Chapel, which provides the setting for regular services.


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Romy Hausmann
Digital Audiobook (10/18/2021)
Dark secrets past and present collide in Sleepless, a haunting novel of guilt and retribution from Romy Hausmann, the international bestselling author of Dear Child.
It's been years since Nadja Kulka was convicted of a cruel crime. After being released from prison, she's wanted nothing more than to live a normal life: nice flat, steady job, even a few friends. But when one of those friends, Laura von Hoven--free-spirited beauty and wife of Nadja's boss--kills her lover and begs Nadja for her help, Nadja can't seem to refuse.
The two women make for a remote house in the woods, the perfect place to bury a body. But their plan quickly falls apart and Nadja finds herself outplayed, a pawn in a bizarre game in which she is both the perfect victim and the perfect murderer...
Praise For Sleepless: A Novel…
"Hausmann's novel has the feel of a nightmare, unfolding at breakneck speed and exposing the terrifying vulnerability of a woman who wants nothing more than to be loved."
"Fine story crafting and impressive character depth combine to produce chilling, realistic complexity."
But Hausmann's dark new psychological thriller surpasses the earlier one in keeping the reader guessing…Hausmann manages to seamlessly tie all these threads and timelines together for a story that will keep the reader on the edge of their seat…By the end it will all make sense and you'll be stunned. It's seldom I recommend a book filled with mostly unlikeable characters, but if you like intelligently told, twisty tales, this one is for you."
—Deadly Pleasures
"In present-day Germany, a woman burdened with the darkest of secrets from her brutal childhood becomes an unwitting participant in a fatal game of murder and deceit…Feverish, relentlessly tense…"
Flatiron Books, 9781250824790, 336pp.
Publication Date: October 19, 2021
Romy Hausmann lives with her family at a remote house in the woods in Stuttgart, Germany. Dear Child is her English-language debut.


Decorating Ideas: Immediately after coating cookie balls with melted chocolate, decorate them with colored sugars, pastel sprinkles and/or small candies instead of drizzling them with the tinted chocolate.
How to Easily Dip Cookie Balls: Keep the cookie balls refrigerated until ready to dip in the melted chocolate. Then, dip in small batches for best results.
Substitute 16 oz. vanilla candy wafers or confectionary coating for the white baking chocolate.


Charlize Theron was out in Beverly Hills honoring her friend Matt Damon for both his movie career and his philanthropic efforts. Charlize Theron's 2010 projects include "Fury Road" and "The Social Network." Most recently her love has been for the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project. Charlize was born and raised in South Africa.


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4 EU Nations to Take in 64 Migrants Rescued at Sea Near Malta
World » EU | April 13, 2019, Saturday // 14:36
Malta announced today that it has been agreed that 64 migrants rescued in Libyan waters 10 days ago to be allocated to four EU countries, according to the BTA.
Malta has specified that migrants will be allocated to Germany, France, Portugal and Luxembourg.
The migrants will be transferred to Maltese ships from the ship of a non-governmental organization that saved them and will ship them to the port.
Malta and Libya have refused the rescue ship to enter their ports, arguing that its actions in the Libyan waters encourage traffickers.
The German humanitarian organization "Sea-Eye", which monitors the Libyan coast, would be alarmed by the worsening conditions for 64 migrants.
Two of them were evacuated days ago because of health problems
Tags: fire, Malta, migrants, EU, rescue, illegal, health problems
» Day 332 of the Invasion of Ukraine: After Ramstein the West is United in Aiding Kyiv, but No German Leopards for now
» Migrants along Bulgaria's Border with Turkey - 5 Times More than in 2021
» Mayor of New York: The is No More Room for Migrants


The DreamRobot Connector for Prestashop is used to connect your Shop to your online order processing client DreamRobot.
Your orders will be automatically forwarded to DreamRobot. This will allow you to process all of your orders with DreamRobot as you're already accustomed to with other Portals.
In addition you can update and add product details as well as stock and prices.
Standard installation is performed via the Module Manager area of the shop back end.
After successful installation you can save your DreamRobot Portal Account access data in the corresponding fields and set any additional options.


It's January 6th, epiphany. This is the day the three kings apparently saw baby Jesus for the first time. Epiphany comes from the Greek word epiphaneia, "appearance" or "manifestation." The Greeks were referring to things like the appearance of the sun on the horizon at dawn, an enemy, or a god.
That an epiphany can be both the physical manifestation of something or someone as well as a purely cerebral manifestation of insight – a light bulb going off in your head – is an oddly apt illustration for our times, in which the boundaries between the virtual and the physical worlds seem to be increasingly hard to pin down.
Oh, I see. What an epiphany.
One current buzz phrase is "augmented reality" – if you're interested, my friend the Spime Wrangler writes about the topic beautifully on her blog. It means that we infuse extra layers of meaning onto objects in the physical world. But what, really, is reality? We already experience the physical world through the filter of our oh-so-fallible senses. Add some Bailey's, and my reality is definitely augmented, and in a good way. Come to think of it, does it make any sense at all to even talk about "reality" as such?
He gazed with utter puzzlement at the objects in front of him. His brain didn't know what to make of the barrage of inputs. He wasn't experiencing his sons' faces; he was experiencing only un-interpretable sensations of edges and colors and lights. Although his eyes were functioning, he didn't have vision. […] The strange electrical storms inside the pitch-black skull get turned into conscious summaries after a long haul of figuring out how objects in the world match up across the senses. Consider the experience of walking down a hallway. Mike knew from a lifetime of moving down corridors that walls remain parallel, at arm's length, the whole way down. So when his vision was restored, the concept of converging perspective lines was beyond his capacity to understand. It made no sense to his brain.
Talk about feeling sea-sick! The amazing thing about this is that it took Mike's brain only a few weeks to adapt. Now he sees just like you and I do.
Eagleman uses another example, this time a blind rock climber named Eric Weihenmayer, who in 2001 became the first blind person to climb Mount Everest. He "sees" using a grid of electrodes in his mouth, a device called a BrainPort.
Although the tongue is normally a taste organ, its moisture and chemical environment make it an excellent brain-machine interface when a tingling electrode grid is laid on its surface. The grid translates a video input into patters of electrical pulses, allowing the tongue to discern qualities usually ascribed to vision, such as distance, shape, direction of movement and size. The apparatus reminds us that we see not with our eyes but rather with our brains.
In the future we may be able to plug new sorts of data streams directly into the brain, such as infrared or ultraviolet vision, or even weather data or stock market data. The brain will struggle to absorb the data at first, but eventually it will learn to speak the language. We'll be able to add new functionality and roll out Brain 2.0. […] this is not a theoretical notion; it already exists in various guises.
Now why anyone would want stock market data plugged directly into their brains is beyond me, but I know Marc would love a direct feed from ESPN.
That's probably enough to chew on for one day. This wide, wonderful world is already amazing, even with the limited sensory apparatus we're born with. Just thinking about what more might be out there – the rich smell and sound experience of the dog, the razor-sharp vision of the eagle, the reverberating echoes of the bat – well, it's tempting, isn't it? But remember that just because a data stream can be piped in, that doesn't mean our brains will know what to do with it. That five-pound lump between our shoulders is notoriously fallible when it comes to decision-making and rationalizing.
So here's the epiphany of the day: Be like the Greeks. Watch a sunset. Watch your enemy approach over a far-off hill. See the face of the gods in the clouds outside an airplane window. And when the light bulb of ephiphany goes off in your brain, remember that your brain is a fallible organ, eager to create meaning from nothingness, and bask in the wonder of it all.


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Ken Kihm
Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, UTK
Dr. Kihm received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1987, successively after receiving his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea in 1979 and 1981, respectively. He then worked as Research Associate at the Laser Diagnostics Laboratory at Carnegie-Mellon University for two years. For the next 16 years, he worked as Assistant (1989), Associate (1994), and Full Professor (2001) at Texas A&M University. Since 2004 he has been working as Magnavox Chair Professor at the University of Tennessee. His research interests include, (1) 2-D material characterization and applications for energy storage and conversion devices, and (2) neutron radiographic analysis of liquid metal phase transition for high temperature cooling. Dr. Kihm has published more than 130 refereed journal articles, approximately 110 conference proceeding articles, two book chapters, and a monograph "Near-Field Characterization of Micro/Nano-Scale Fluid Flows" in 2011 by Springer. He is a Fellow of ASME, and is currently serving as Associate Editor for Experiments in Fluids and as Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing. He also has served as Technical Associate Editor for Journal of Heat Transfer (2002-2005), Chair of K-22 Heat Transfer Visualization Committee (2001 - 2013), and as the Guest Editor for annual Photogallery special publications in Journal of Heat Transfer for the past 12 years.
I. T. Kim and K. D. Kihm, "Nano Sensing and Energy Conversion Using Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)," Materials 8, pp. 4332-4343; doi: 10.3390/ma8074332, July 2015.
C. Zheng, A. Hu, K. D. Kihm, Q. Ma, R. Li, T. Chen and W.W. Duley, "Femtosecond Laser Fabrication of Cavity Microball Lens (CMBL) inside a PMMA Substrate for Super-Wide Angle Imaging," Small, doi: 10.1002/smll.201403419, March 2015.
S. Cheon, K. D. Kihm, H. Kim, G. Lim, J. S. Park and J. S. Lee, "How to Reliably Determine the Complex Refractive Index (RI) of Graphene Layers Using Two Measurement Constraints," Nature Scientific Reports 6364, doi:10.1038/srep06364, September 2014.
H. J. Yi, J. Tipton, K. D. Kihm, D. M. Pratt, A. D. Swanson and S. Rawal, "Effect of Disjoining Pressure (Π) on Multi-Scale Modeling for Evaporative Liquid Metal (Na) Capillary" Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 78, pp. 137-149, November 2014.
K. Yoon, G. Hwang, J. Chung, H. Kim, O. Kwon, K. D. Kihm, and J. S. Lee, "Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of Residue-Free Suspended graphene Bridge Using Null Point Scanning Thermal Microscopy," Carbon, Vol. 76, pp. 77-83, September 2014.
J. S. Park, K. D. Kihm, H. Kim, G. Lim, S. Cheon and J. S. Lee, "Wetting and Evaporative Crystallization of Nanofluids on CVD-Synthesized Hydrophobic Graphene Surfaces," Langmuir, Vol. 30, issue 28, pp. 8268-8275, July 2014.
K. Kihm, E. Kirchoff, M. Golden, J. Rosenfeld, S. Rawal, D. Pratt, A. Swanson, H. Bilheux, L. Walker, S. Voisin, D. S. Hussey, and D. L. Jacobson, "Neutron Imaging of Alkali Metal Heat Pipes," Physics Procedia, Vol. 43, pp. 323-330, March 2013.
Y. S. Na, K. D. Kihm and J. S. Lee, "Opposite ReD-Dependence of Nanofluids (Al2O3) Thermal Conductivities between Heating and Cooling Modes," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 101, 083111, August 2012.
S. Cheon, K. D. Kihm, J. S. Park, J. S. Lee, B. J. Lee, H. Kim and B. H. Hong, "How to Optically Count Graphene Layers," Optics Letters, Vol. 37 (18), pp. 3765-3767, September 2012.
Y. S. Na, J. S. Lee, and K. D. Kihm, "Comparison of Dynamic and Static Thermal Conductivities of Nanofluids Under Fully Developed Laminar Flow Conditions," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 55, pp. 7933-7940, October 2012.
I. T. Kim and K. D. Kihm, "Hidden Cavity Formations by Nanocrystalline Self-Assembly on Various Substrates with Different Hydrophobicities," Langmuir 28 (25), pp. 9195-9200, DOI 10.1021/la301526f, June 2012.
K. D. Kihm, S. Cheon, J. S. Park, H. J. Kim, J. S. Lee, I. T. Kim, and H. J. Yi, "Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Reflectance Imaging: Far-field Recognition of Near-Field Phenomena," Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 64-73, January 2012.
K. D. Kihm, C. H. Chon, J. S. Lee and S. U. S. Choi, "A New Heat Propagation Velocity Prevails over Brownian Particle Velocities in Determining the Thermal Conductivities of Nanofluids," Nanoscale Research Letters, Vol 6, No. 361, April 2011.
S. Y. Yoon, K. D. Kihm, and K. C. Kim, "Correlation of Fluid Refractive Index (RI) with Calibration Coefficient for Micro-Defocusing Digital particle Image Velocimetry (μ-DDPIV)," Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 22, 037001, January 2011.
J. S. Park, K. D. Kihm, and J. S. Lee, "Nonintrusive Measurements of Mixture Concentration Fields by Analyzing Diffraction Image Patterns (Point Spread Function) of Nanoparticles," Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 183-191, July 2010.
S. Kim, T. G. Thundat, and K. D. Kihm, "Fluidic Applications of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and Its Microcantilever Sensors," Experiments in Fluid, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 721-736, May 2010.
I. T. Kim and K. D. Kihm, "Measuring Near-Field Nanoparticle Concentration Profiles by Correlating Surface Plasmon Resonance Reflectance with Effective Refractive Index of Nanofluids," Optics Letters, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 393-395, February 2010.
K. D. Kihm, "Near-Field Fluidic Characterization Using a Label-Free Imaging Technique Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Reflectance," Experiments in Fluids Vol. 48, No. 4, pp.547-564, April 2010.
E-mail: kkihm@utk.edu


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@Lurick Linus mentioned in a previous video that the second 45drives server was powered of for a while to save on power on hours on the drives themselves but has since turned both servers on as is visible is his 10gig internet video.
@Salv8 (sam) that would be a nice change for the recent stuff. Lol. Cant wait.
So recently linus posted on the ltt account that there was only 21tb of space left in petabyte project. What do u reckon will happen? Another Petabyte? He sure has the space for it in his rack. Will @LinusTech reveal his new secrets to us?
@faziten are you sure that it will work as i have found no mention of compatibility on the msi website? just want to make sure before i buy.
s-video by the looks of it whats the other side of the cable connected to?
@Jurrunio i know the this cpu is locked but wanted to upgrade to the i7 4790k in the future @ELSknutson so the gigabyte would be more reliable?
@ELSknutson @Jurrunio asus actually enabled OC in a recent bios update. Dont know about the gigabyte board tho. Also what do you mean "not that great"?
@LienusLateTips both xeons do not have graphics so i was planning on using a gtx750/1030 and a 10gbe fiber card. I have not been able to find a x58 mobo with pcie x16 for gpu and at least an x4 for 10gbe.
@LienusLateTips would the x5650 be better in real world than the e3 1220 v1? Also just looking at ebay Uk both build would be a similar price. An intel dq67ow mobo with a e3 1220v1 with ram would work out to about £90. A x5650 with ram and mobo would work out to £150 . also what psu 450w+ would you recommend?
Is now a good time to upgrade my laptop?


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Principal Policy Manager Part Time
Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince's responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates.
We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.
We are looking for an outstanding person to recruit for the position of Principal Policy Manager in the Consumer and Public Services team. The team tackles people's practical problems by influencing policy change. In recent years, we've done this by:
Helping reduce the bills paid by loyal and vulnerable customers in essential markets by £1bn
Persuade regulators to introduce a cap on certain high cost credit products which have reduced bills by £60m
Lobbied for the introduction of a ban on letting fees, which has saved renters £13m a month
Our team is now at the forefront of the organisation's advocacy response to the coronavirus pandemic. You'll work on the big issues facing people across England and Wales today, joining a team with a track record of achieving change.
Please note, in the event of a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the application early.
The National Citizens Advice Operates from offices in England and Wales, with 5 regional offices based in Cardiff, London, Birmingham, Leeds, and Liverpool, therefore all successful applicants must be based within England or Wales.
Job Title: Principal Policy Manager


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Origin: Native to the warm, 400 to 800 meter high situated river valleys of Peru. The plant is threatened with extinction in its natural habitat.
Propagation: Seeds can be started indoors at any time throughout the year. Mix fine ground cultivation soil with about 25 % of fine sand (silica sand works best). In order to guarantee that the seeds will not fall through the soil, the soil mixture should not be too coarse. All cacti are light germinators, therefore the seeds should be left uncovered. Sufficient warmth (16 to 25°C) and high humidity are crucial now. Every seed tray should be covered with foil or a glass plate and should be aired for about 2 hours every 2–3 days.
Place / Light: Sunny and bright window sills are ideal. Temperatures can vary, should however not fall below 12°C.
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