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The last of three major events celebrating a trio landmark anniversaries. The Anniversary Dinner for BMF members on 29 November sees the BMF return to the award-winning Belfry Hotel in Warwickshire.
As well as the 40th anniversary of the Builders' Merchants Federation itself, the BMF is marking 110 years as a Trade Body and 5 years since it relocated from London to its current HQ in Coventry.
To celebrate these milestones in the BMF's history, the Federation has held its first Parliamentary Reception at the House of Commons, and is holding its first Young Merchants' Conference and a special Anniversary Dinner for 200 members at the Belfry.
Known for it's world-class golf courses and state of the art leisure facilities, the Belfry was named as England's Leading Resort and Conference Hotel at the World Travel Awards 2017.
This event is BY INVITATION ONLY. For more information and a booking form please contact June Upton at june.upton@bmf.org.uk.

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While I was at Rotunda, a man came in from the street to complain, heatedly, about a banner over the gallery door that read, ”A Man Was Lynched Yesterday.” The banner was a copy, by the artist Terry Adkins, of one that W. E. B. Du Bois placed outside the office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the 1930s, and it is part of a larger piece by Mr. Adkins that includes copies of government files on Du Bois, who was marked as an agitator.
As I listened to the gallery’s director, Isolde Brielmaier, negotiate a lengthy political discussion with the visitor, I realized that I hadn’t heard that kind of talk about principles in the art world since I don’t know when. And although nothing else in the show, organized by the sharp young video artist Steven Lam, is as overtly confrontational as Mr. Adkins’s piece, there’s plenty here to fuel thinking about the hard shell of illusion that surrounds official history, and about art’s attempt to crack that shell open.
A film by Jill Godmilow meditatively recreates, frame by frame, Harun Farocki’s 1969 documentary ”Inextinguishable Fire,” on the origins of napalm. Another film, ”Invisible Like Peace,” by Lana Lin and H. Lan Thao Lam, who use the moniker Lin + Lam, re-edits American-made Vietnamese propaganda films to take the pulse of a political era still obscured, for Americans, by layers of guilt and blame.
Sreshta Rit Premnath examines proposed plans to reconstitute the Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed, partly through misread history, in Afghanistan in 2001. Mary Billyou reworks early-20th-century films of a clinic for epilepsy, extracting the figures of patients to focus on the institutional setting itself. Elaine Reichek’s ”Gray Man” (1988), for which the artist created a knitted version of a figure in a 19th-century ethnological photograph, suggests that the original ”authentic” image was woven of ideology and desire.
Olen Hsu considers Western notions of what ”Asian” means in an original musical composition based on Debussy’s ”orientalist” harmonies. And in an interesting piece conceived for live performance in 1991 and recently reworked for video, Simon Leung ruminates on the myths and realities surrounding sexuality in the time of AIDS.
Conor McGrady, Walead Beshty and the team of Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani all make apt contributions, as does Mr. Adkins, whose evidential art gets the show off the ground and keeps it on track.

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Astronaut John Crichton, on an experimental space mission, is accidentally hurled across the universe into the midst of an intergalactic conflict. Trapped among alien creatures wielding deadly technology and hunted by a merciless military race, Crichton is on an epic odyssey more spectacular than anything he has ever imagined. This six-disc set includes all 22 episodes from season 1. Extras include Making Of featurette, Costume Design featurette, Character Profiles (5), Gallery: Character Profiles (5), Gallery: Art, Australian Creature Shop featurette, Screen Saver Web Links.
“Premiere”, the first episode in this box set, establishes the premise for the entire series. John Crichton, a US astronaut takes his spacecraft on a test mission into space and is sucked through a wormhole that he has unintentionally created. He finds himself in a different galaxy amidst a space battle between the run-away living ship, Moya, her crew of escaped prisoners, and the Peacekeepers. He is brought onboard Moya and eventually bands together with her fugitive crew and together they attempt to both flee their would-be captors and find the way to their various homeworlds.
This overriding story arc is the main thrust of the season. Being the first season in this remarkable series, many of episodes do suffer from the fact that neither the writers nor the actors have completely found their feet. There is initially much effort in establishing the characters without much progression of the overriding narrative of the series. Many of the episodes such as “I, E.T.” are therefore episodic (and formulaic) in nature and while potentially frustrating in hindsight for veteran Farscape viewers, they do mean that this season is perhaps the most accessible one to newbies. There is also a sense of lightheartedness in these stand alone episodes that is missing in the rest of the series. Many of the episodes, such as “Throne for a Loss” come across as funny romps through space where most of the humour is derived from the interactions between the characters and from Crichton’s attempts to make sense of the alien galaxy he has found himself in.
It is obvious though that the creators of the show were attempting to push the boundaries a little as there are shadows of the edgier quality that characterizes the rest of the series. Zhaan’s revelation of her crime of murder while sharing unity with another Delvian in “Rhapsody in Blue” highlights the thin thread of darkness that slowly weaves its way through the season. The season does begin to find its strength when the episodes start to focus more on developing the narrative arc. This begins in earnest from “Nerve” where Crichton’s nemesis Scorpius first appears and continues consistently through till the season finale, “Family Ties”. From here on in, the series takes on a darker tone characterized by Crichton’s slow evolution into a harder, gun-toting, more battle weary character than we first encountered in “Premiere”.
This box set holds a number of extras such as interviews, a short “making of” documentary, screen savers, images and weblinks. Unfortunately, most of the extras are brief and lacking in much substance. This is compounded by the fact that this box set does not have any commentaries associated with it. To say that this is disappointing is an understatement. Most people have come to expect a commentary track with their DVDs. This is one of the benefits of the DVD technology. Given that the Australian DVD Season One box set has been produced after DVDs from other regions which do have commentaries, it is a mystery as to why this box set does not have a commentary track. Many Farscape fans welcome the opportunity to learn more about how the show was put together, the motivations for certain story elements and the creative process. Not to have included this feature with the DVD is hopefully an oversight that will not be repeated in subsequent DVDs. The extra features that are present in this box set are discussed in more detail below.
The box set presents interviews with all the main cast members. Though short and all too brief, the interviews do provide a forum for the cast to discuss their characters. Each actor also discusses different aspects of their experiences in working on Farscape. Ben Browder, for instance, discusses his experiences being the lone American in a cast of mostly Australian performers. Anthony Simcoe talks about the process he undergoes in transforming himself into D’Argo. Though there is little in the interviews that most fans would not already know, it is nice to be able to watch the actors tell their stories themselves. The only real drawback is that the interviews were obviously conducted in Season One so do not reflect the later evolution of the characters and the actors interpretations of future developments.
The video profile of the Creature Shop, which makes the aliens and various prosthetic devices, is unfortunately a disappointment. Rather than a look at the processes involved in creating the puppets and prosthetics, the profile is just a short tour of the room that holds all the various pieces of equipment. Some brief descriptions are made about the making of the puppets but these comments are cursory and would not satisfy anyone remotely interested in how the “creatures” are made.
The Making of Documentary is better than the Creature Shop video profile and is a good introduction into the complicated process that is the production of Farscape. The documentary also has some informative interviews with the creators of the show. However, much like the interviews with the cast members, this documentary suffers from its brevity.
The short profile on the costumes of Farscape is also interesting and a nice behind the scenes look at another aspect of the show. Some of the footage is taken from the earlier interviews with the actors but it still stands on its own as an introduction into the thought processes behind the costumes.
There are a number of weblinks that the DVD provides. They are for the various official sites such as the Henson company site, Sci-Fi channel and the Universal site.
Screensavers are available for those who have a DVD driver on their computer.
A short Farscape quiz is also an amusing time-filler for those moments when you might be waiting for the kettle to boil.
A stills art gallery with 25 pictures is also part of the extra features. This is a really interesting extra as it shows a variety of artists’ impressions of the numerous sets and scenes of the season. In some ways this feature is slightly lost as part of a DVD package because it would be so much more informative to have some written information to describe and explain the pictures and thoughts behind them.
Some reviews of this box set have found the video quality to be problematic however, I found nothing of concern in my viewing of the discs. In fact, I found the picture quality to be sharp and impressive. The numerous CG shots in each episode were translated particularly well. It could be though that I am coming from the point of view of someone who initially saw Farscape through poor Channel 9 reception so any improvement on this is well received.
The box set comes in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital 2.0. The audio has transferred well and the sound is quite clear and particularly spectacular when listened to on a surround sound system.
The box set comprises of 6 disks, 2 discs per dual case. There are 4 episodes on each disc except the last one which has 2 episodes and also contains the extra features. The art work on the discs and covers is well done and attractive.
As a series, the episodes take a while to get to the place where Farscape becomes unique and interesting. It is a shame that the creators of the DVDs failed to include commentary tracks in the extra features because without them, the extras are not particularly special and do not really provide the seasoned fan with detailed information about the creative process. Nonetheless, the video and audio quality alone make this box set worthwhile viewing even though one might already have seen these episodes on television.
Episodes: "Premiere", "I, E.T.", "Exodus from Genesis", "Throne for a Loss", "Back and Back and Back to the Future", "Thank God It's Friday. Again.", "PK Tech Girl", "That Old Black Magic", "DNA Mad Scientist", "They've Got a Secret", "Till the Blood Runs Clear", "Rhapsody in Blue", "The Flax", "Jeremiah Crichton", "Durka Returns", "A Human Reaction", "Through the Looking Glass", "A Bug's Life", "Nerve", "The Hidden Memory", "Bone to be Wild" and "Family Ties"


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By 2022 the U.S. is projected to need 1.4 million new programmers, but at the current rate only 400,000 IT grads will emerge to fill them. How America tackles this disparity will help determine its ongoing global competitiveness and the economic success of all Americans. Codecademy has developed innovative training tools, and the White House is turning to this issue with great urgency.
Kirkpatrick: We’ve heard a lot, sort of underlying a huge number of the conversations today about the challenge of getting citizens ready to participate in this economy, and particularly understanding coding and technology and really being prepared in a thousand ways—but this idea of education, and education for the jobs that are going to exist, is really, really urgent. We also had an extraordinary session after lunch in here in expanding the diversity in technology itself and in the industry, and thinking more broadly about inclusion—and actually, a lot of that discussion applies to any industry. Brian was on that session.
And let me just introduce the two guys that are up here with me. Brian Forde is—this White House had a CTO for the first time, right? That was the first time there was ever a CTO of the United States, and now we have people in the White House who have titles like Special Advisor to the CTO for Mobile and Social Innovation, which is his title, although it doesn’t begin to describe all the things he does. But that, to me, is very promising, that we’ve gotten to that level of understanding, at least at the executive branch. And so Brian works in the White House on this tech stuff, and I’m going to ask him to describe specifically how you’re thinking about training, as soon as we get into the discussion.
Zach Sims is one of the great entrepreneurs of New York right now, a very young CEO of Codecademy, which is a company that does online tools for learning about coding and programming and technology. He dropped out of Columbia to start that company, what—about three, four years ago? Three years ago. So he’s gone a long way since then, and actually it’s a Union Square Ventures portfolio company, which is Albert Wenger’s company.
So, Brian, start out by telling me what is it that you are most concerned about when it comes to this issue of training the future citizens and workers of the country?
Forde: Sure, so one of the big issues that we’ve seen is, there’s a widely-cited statistic that says there’s 1.4 million IT opportunities or jobs that are going to be created by 2020; we’re only going to have 400,000 computer science graduates who are going to be able to fill those, so what do we do to fill the other 1 million job opportunities that are going to be created? And so, one of the exciting things that we’ve seen from Zach’s platform, Codecademy, and all of the coding boot camps that are popping up, and all of the other accelerated learning programs—not only in coding, but in network and sys admin, cyber security, and even tech support has lucrative opportunities as well—is that you can be upskilled between three months to two years, and you don’t need a STEM undergraduate degree to get a STEM-type job. And that’s a really important distinction for us, because if you look at us competitively as a country, compared to other countries, you’ve got across the world 21% of folks across Asia are graduating with engineering degrees, 12% in Europe, and only 4.5% in America.
Kirkpatrick: 21% of college graduates in Asia are coming out with engineering degrees?
Forde: Yeah, compared to 4% here.
Kirkpatrick: Oh, that is a bracing statistic.
Forde: Right. And if you look at, historically, 30 years ago, U.S., Japan, and China each had about 70,000 engineers coming out. I think most recently the U.S. was down to 60K, and China was up to 600K.
Kirkpatrick: 600,000 engineers per year being graduated in China. That’s 10X what we’re producing?
Kirkpatrick: That’s a positive way to put it. An opportunity to become competitive.
Kirkpatrick: I would say there is a risk of serious falling behind, if we’re not already behind. Luckily we have a pretty creative tech community here. But I mean, for you, when you look at it in the White House, and when the President looks at it, and Megan Smith, the new CTO, is the view that basically we are essentially training—we need to think about preparing the next generation of Americans to think differently about tech, or is it simply we need a bunch more coders?
Forde: Well, I would say what does the knowledge of coding and other skills unlock the ability to do, right? It unlocks your ability to be more creative. It unlocks your ability to jobs that allow more flexibility. You know, Megan has a line where she says, “Why don’t we call it the Department of Labor and Talent?” Right? How do we create new sets of talent, that can access all the jobs that we access, where we’re super-passionate and allow us to really apply our creativity? Because that’s what coding really allows you to do—be more creative. It doesn’t box you in to one standard solution, it allows you to invent the solution.
Kirkpatrick: Okay. A lot of things to drill down on, as we go forward.
Zach, you know, so quickly talk about what Codecademy has done so far, where you’re doing it, and where you want to take it.
Sims: So when we started Codecademy three years ago, I think we had two contrarian theses that have actually proven to be true in the three years since we’ve started the company. The first was that programming was not just for programmers, so this was before Mark Andreessen had written his essay, “Software Is Eating the World,” we theorized, you know, not just—a programming skill set wouldn’t be relevant only for programmers; it would be relevant for anyone and everyone. And I think that’s proven itself out, not just in the BLS numbers that Brian cited, but also if you look at every industry now, entry-level jobs in ad sales in some industries require a basic understanding of the programmatic ads that are being sold by those same people. Journalism is being changed by it, technology, as well. So we’re seeing every industry be changed by technology.
And the second was that, as a corollary to the first, that schools across the world would realize this change and they would change their curriculums to start teaching people 21st century skills and aptitude in computer science and programming. So we’ve seen both of those really play themselves out, and what that’s meant for Codecademy is that as we build a really easy-to-use platform that makes it easy for anyone to start learning and to learn by doing matter online, more than 25 million people around the world have taken Codecademy courses.
Sims: More than 25 million. And what that means to us is, again, this interest is far beyond what anyone would have predicted three years ago, and programming is becoming kind of fundamental literacy. It’s becoming literacy for the workers of the 21st century, but also for the students of the 21st century. So we work with governments across the world, around 25% of our learners are in school and under the age of 21, so we work with the U.K. government, for instance. Every primary and secondary school student this year will take a programming course. Every school in France will have a programming course this year. Every student in Estonia learns to program on Codecademy. We think there are a lot of other countries that are helping to prepare their students for the 21st century, and we’re looking forward to seeing the U.S. kind of take similar steps.
Kirkpatrick: Okay, I want to get to that. There’s more dichotomy there than you, sort of—I mean, you’re implying it, but you’re not hitting it too hard yet, but it goes back to that 600,000 to 60,000 point. But the thing about Codecademy is, anybody can go there and just start taking classes, and it’s sort of a help each other, kind of peer-to-peer system that you’ve built, that is very, very easy to use—I know that for a fact—but you’re also working with institutions wherever you can to sort of scale it to reach a larger number of people.
Okay. I wanted to just ask the audience, how many people in here feel, say you can code? Okay. That’s quite a few, and that’s nice to know. How many people who can’t code wish they could code. That’s an even larger number, and I’m not surprised to see that. So you know, you’ve got an opportunity that’s clearly going to be growing, and Union Square Ventures is probably going to make a lot of money.
But this thing about the U.S. being different really worries me, and I think it goes right to the heart of why we’re having Techonomy Detroit. You know, we care about Detroit, but we also always said this conference was really about American economic issues, in a time when technology is transforming everything. So what you’re saying is, the government of Estonia is working with you centrally, to make Codecademy available to every student in Estonia, and in the U.K. they have—maybe they’re not doing it in every school, but the government has mandated that every student will learn programming, and many of those schools are using Codecademy, and similarly in France, right?
Kirkpatrick: What percentage of K through 12 American students would you guess, are today being exposed to programming in some form or fashion?
Forde: I couldn’t—I don’t have that number.
Kirkpatrick: It’s got to be tiny, though, right?
Sims: I think what’s important to think about is timelines, right? And so I think we’re actually talking about two different timelines, and I think it’s important to distinguish them. So the one timeline is thinking about, this is the President’s Council of Advisors of Science and Tech, said we need 1 million additional STEM undergraduates 10 years from now, but we also need 1 million additional IT-ready workers by 2020.
Kirkpatrick: Even beyond the million programmers?
Forde: Right, and so what’s important to distinguish is, you know, what you’re describing and what other countries are doing is thinking about it from K through 12—which, we are as well, and we have separate programs for that, but what’s also important to think about is how we’re going to train the workers today for the jobs that exist today, in the next few years.
Kirkpatrick: Well I think that’s a fantastic way to think about it, but I also think it’s critical to recognize that we don’t have a national understanding of these issues—and I actually would ask you, you know, I think Obama and the administration have shown a pretty good understanding that tech is changing the world, right? Not as good as I would like, but pretty good. Congress, on the other hand, seems completely, totally clueless. I mean, the number of Congress people that could even participate in the discussions we’ve had today is probably 15% or 20% at best. I mean, would you disagree with that?
Kirkpatrick: All right, well we love that, I love that, but I just think it’s so good that Zach’s company exists and some of these tools are emerging—Amooks [PH], and a lot of other online tools, because certainly, you know, you’re not the only company or organization that’s building online education that can take people into the—bring people out of the 20th century, so to speak. But it is worrisome that—and I love what you’re doing, and there’s no question you’re doing the right stuff, but we need to be alarmed, in my opinion. Do you think we need to be alarmed?
Sims: I think the bright spot is that, from a consumer perspective—so, 70% of Codecademy’s learners are outside the U.S., but the largest country that uses Codecademy is still the United States.
Sims: So we have the largest sheer number of users that are learning to program in the world are in the U.S., and that to us is still meaningful. So I think what Brian is talking about is changing the K through 12 system is always difficult, right?
Sims: I think that’s what you’re referencing.
Sims: But what we’re seeing is consumers understand the gap between education and labor—you know, companies and employers understand the gap between education and labor, and we hope that by providing them with the resources to upskill and fill that gap, that people will vote with their feet, you know? They’ll take courses on Codecademy, they’ll find those modern jobs.
Kirkpatrick: Well, it seems like a no-brainer, if we can see these jobs coming into existence, and they’re not being filled—and I think any tech company will tell you, it’s hard to find people for a lot of the positions they have, even today, and I don’t think the average high school and college student—well, they’re starting to realize it. Some places they realize it more than others. In fact I just read, you know, Harvard, which has come up on stage today, the biggest class in the Harvard freshman year now is computer science, for the first time ever. It used to be economics and with this incoming freshman class this year, it became computer science. So that’s great, but those are the richest, smartest kids in America, so it starts somewhere; that’s got to spread more broadly.
So, you know, one of the things, Zach, that I wanted to ask you is, because you think so hard and you do so much sort of looking at how we can change this stuff at scale, right? And we’ve heard a lot today about the sharing economy and crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding and, you know, there’s a lot of things happening, the maker movement, that are really exciting new trends, that are potentially economically very important, but my observation has been that many of things require a fairly sophisticated understanding of what’s going on, even to be involved in, right? So do you think you guys could help with that too? I mean, do you think of broadening what Codecadmey does over time, so that it’s more than just coding, but also just kind of awareness over the changing nature of the economy?
Sims: Absolutely. I think we think of coding as digital literacy, but I think there are many other parts to the equation of what digital literacy means. Fundamentally, Codecademy exists to teach people the skills they need to find jobs, and one component of that are the skills to understand the world we live in, I think, you know? You don’t want to hire someone who’s just able to sit in front of a computer and write code for you but doesn’t understand the underlying logic that is powering everything. And that’s kind of the first step of what we do oftentimes, with students on Codecademy, is they’re learning these are the fundamental building blocks of programming, and this how they play a role in your everyday life. And that’s, I think, the basic fluency that we should all have—regardless of whether or not we learn how to program—to understand how our world works, and as software starts to eat the world, it becomes ever more important.
Kirkpatrick: Well, and Brian, I know one of the things you’re doing—aside from just trying to raise awareness that these jobs are there and we aren’t currently prepared to fill them—is, and you were eloquent on the inclusion session—you know, getting a wider range of young people into these jobs, because let’s face it, coding has predominately been a white guy thing—like, he was talking about brogramming is a big trend that was discussed in the inclusion session and if it’s just brogramming, it’s not going to help the country nearly as much.
So talk about some of the things that the White House has done, because I know you’ve got some very specific things that you’ve been involved in.
Forde: Yeah, so we started the White House Tech Inclusion Initiative, which, back in 2012 we hosted both the workshops and brainstormed some of the ways we can improve tech inclusion, but that was for STEM undergraduates, and so now we’re starting to think about ways that we can go beyond STEM undergraduates, and have tech inclusion happen via the coding boot camps and Codecademy, and others.
Kirkpatrick: There was not an awareness?
Forde: There was not an awareness of coding boot camps at the hiring manager level, for some companies, and recognizing how valid that is. And so there’s opportunities for improvement on one, getting information out to the right communities about the opportunities that exist in the tech industry, but also for the Mayors to know, in cities across America, that all of these job opportunities, these IT job opportunities—not only in the tech industry, but in the finance, health, and other industries—exist and are significant.
Two, what are tech companies and other companies doing to improve inclusion by making sure that they do coding boot camps, but they can do other things in lieu of a four-year degree. The other piece is financing, right? It’s really challenging to get capital for something that is unaccredited, and coding boot camps and others are unaccredited, so what can we do at the federal level to think about that, and what can the private sector do to allow for loans for folks who may not have the best credit score.
Kirkpatrick: Like a new kind of student loan for this explicitly?
Forde: A new kind of student loan—that could come from the private sector, because quite frankly, the private sector is the one who actually loses out on the most amount of money by having significant delays in getting their jobs filled, right? That’s lost cost and productivity. So there needs to be an incentive on their end, both at how they’re looking at hiring, but also opportunities for financing that education, as well.
Kirkpatrick: And you also had a White House Tech Inclusion Summit?
Forde: We did have a Tech Inclusion Summit to address some of the issues that were identified, including mentorship, which is really important. And so there’s an initiative that started called U.S. 20/20, which challenges tech companies for 20% of their staff to mentor in STEM-type programs for 20 hours a year throughout the country, which has been really amazing.
Kirkpatrick: Fantastic. I invite anybody to come to the mikes, so if you have comments or questions. I have—I want to ask you two things—make sure we get to these before we go. First of all, you guys have worked—one of the reasons we put you guys onstage together is because you’ve gotten to know each other working on projects together, so talk a little bit about what you’ve done together, and the kind of things you’d like to do together in the future.
Sims: I think the key for us at Codecademy is really enabling what Brian has talked about so far, which is scaling up the workforce in the U.S. that has the skills they need for these modern jobs. And so watching the White House get involved and try to really raise awareness of both the gap between education and labor, and also the solution that exist to fill that. We’re happy to help out however we can, and I think we will continue to train consumers and hope to work with government as well.
Forde: Yes, there’s a real opportunity for us to act as a convener. The White House is a great place to meet and so we want to open it up to all kinds of coding boot camps and training programs like Zach’s to come in—and employers as well—to educate, and make commitments, like we did with the Tech Inclusion Summit, by continuing to drive that, as a country, to make sure one, that they’re aware of the different gaps that exist in employment and where the opportunities of making commitments to change.
This is a playbook that we—as unique as the federal government can do. And also aggregate demand, right? So you can imagine a mayor identifies local problems, but when you aggregate cities across the country, then it raises the attention and you can get national commitments, which would be real opportunities.
Kirkpatrick: Well, and as you heard earlier, we want to do a Techonomy Policy event in Washington—I mean, I want to continue this discussion there. But I guess before we go to the questions—there’s at least one person, two people over there, so we’ll get to those—but I want to ask, what’s sort of like the dream scenario question, right? We’re here in Detroit, it’s a predominately black city with a lot of relatively poorly educated people because the schools here stink, right? So the dream scenario would be, how do you get some of these young people from where they are today—the ones that are here now—into the economy with these tools? What is the chance, do you think, and what are the means that we might be able to do that? I mean, either one of you—I’d just love to hear something optimistic about that, because I really think we’ve got to find a way to do that.
Sims: I mean, I think we focus on providing the resources and then hopefully enabling anyone who has access to really take action and change their lives through learning these skills. I think the challenge fundamentally of what you just mentioned is that oftentimes there are prerequisite skills, right? There are literacy issues and with a school system that’s fundamentally broken, whether Detroit’s or somewhere else, you have other things to focus on before you can get to the level of worrying about employability. So for us, we want to provide access to anyone and everyone, and we have, we will continue to, and enable anyone to learn these skills. I think it’s the role of the school systems, oftentimes, to provide the literacy prerequisites that allow people to dream at this level and access material like Codecademy.
Forde: I’m incredibly optimistic because I first came to Detroit 10 months ago, and I remember walking with Beth Niblock and four other top municipal CIOs to the Mayor’s office, when she was still the CIO of the city of Louisville. And coming out of that two-day exercise, we were trying to identify, as part of the White House revitalization effort with the city of Detroit, what a 21st century government in Detroit looks like, and we were going to prepare a plan. And you know, several months later, or 10 months later, we see Beth Niblock, who’s one of the top municipal CIOs in the country, who has the full backing of her mayor and is in full progress attacking the seven-step plan, because she has a mayor who fully supports her and wants her to succeed, because he wants the city to succeed. And so this mayor has done an incredible job of taking ideas and turning them into action, and I think you’ve seen some of the results already, with Beth.
And so you know, anything that we can put that does have an opportunity to make real change, and seeing a city that’s so resilient, and a culture that’s so supportive, and businesses and philanthropists that have really got behind this is—I actually think Detroit has a better chance than other cities, because there’s such a strong community here of support.
Kirkpatrick: Yeah, there is some momentum that’s really tangible and it’s wonderful to see. Over here, who’s first? And please, succinct, and let’s go quickly through several people.
Thomasmach: So, I’m Tim Thomasmach [PH]. I had a career in IT, and as late as, like, five years ago, I was really hearing the message, hey, don’t learn to program because we’ve got people in India to do that, we’ll get freelancers from offshore and, you know, there’s no career path. Why is it now, in America, it seems like we really have a huge demand for programmers that are American that are here in person. Is that happening, is that going to be real, or is that going to be something that’s going to continue?
Kirkpatrick: That’s a great question. I like the way you put it.
Sims: I think it will continue to be real. I think it’s hard to find a great company that has been built on outsourcing. A great technology company, you know, when the product is built outside the U.S. and the executive team is inside the U.S., for instance. I know a lot of technology investors hesitate to fund companies that can’t build a technology team. I think the quality of the product is just not as good, and that doesn’t have to do with where it’s being programmed, it just has to do with everyone being in one location, building a really cohesive team. And I don’t think that’s really changing.
Forde: No, I agree with Zach.
Kirkpatrick: Okay, good. Let’s get, does somebody else there have a question?
Audience 2: My name’s Tom, I’m from SkySpecs [PH], and first an observation, and then a question leading into it. I used to teach an Intro Programming course at the University of Michigan, while I was doing my Master’s degree, and I was always amazed at the gap between the brightest students and then those that were first being introduced to programming. And then every semester, it sequentially got worse and worse—the gap gets bigger and bigger and bigger, and it perpetuates itself because that gap being so large is intimidating for new students that come into a place like the University of Michigan and realize, wow, these guys already know five different programming languages.
So the question is, what can be done at the high school or even K through 8 level in order for us to level the playing field for all of these kids coming into college that are trying to learn how to program.
Kirkpatrick: You know what, rather than answer that, I’m going to do this trick of several questions, and we can kind of address them as you choose. Please tell us what you have on your mind.
Audience 3: My name’s Sauch [PH] and I’m coming from the healthcare side of things, so throughout this whole conference I’ve been trying to find applications or solutions for problems in healthcare, and I’m just wondering from, not only from a policy perspective but also from an entrepreneurial perspective, how is programming and solution that are programming-based being applied to healthcare problems, especially with the explosion of data that’s happening now that the Human Genome Project has been completed?
Kirkpatrick: Yeah, and some of the new Apple products could make that an even more interesting question. Behind you, you want to come up and quickly tell us what your question is?
Audience 4: Sure. My interest is in K through 12, and from your vantage point, I’m interested in how much uptake there is, either with Codecademy or with other products, in the K through 12 area, and maybe what challenges you see there, as well, trying to move that ball forward.
Kirkpatrick: So K through 12, healthcare, and the gap between the best programmers and everybody else. Any thoughts?
Forde: So with the gap, what I understand is, and we spoke about this earlier with Maria Klawe and what she’s done at Harvey Mudd. So she actually takes some of those best students and she actually puts them in different classes, or actually makes them mentors to others, so that it’s not a threatening experience, but it’s an opportunity for better engagement and collaboration, so there are some ways—and I think she’s starting to work with other universities to replicate some of her processes, which is, I think grown to 50% women in computer science, which is really impressive.
Sims: And I think it is changing the format that is the most important thing, as Brian mentioned. You know, I remember my introductory computer science class at Columbia—I took one class at—the professor stood up on the first day, there were 300 people in the room, and told us that more than 30% of people in the class would fail. We’d spend more than 30 hours a week doing the homework, and it might be rewarding, if we made it to the end. Needless to say, I was not so encouraged by that. So I think as people like Maria at Harvey Mudd try to change that, you’ll find more groups of people who are comfortable with a level playing field.
Kirkpatrick: Yeah, Harvey Mudd is notable, because now it’s over 40% of all the computer science graduates are women, so they’ve really done a great job broadening the base. And any thoughts on healthcare or K through 12? We talked a little bit about K through 12 already.
Sims: So on the K through 12 front, we work with government when we’re asked, so that’s what we do outside of the U.S., as a majority the departments for education will contact us, and say, “How do we implement programs across our country?” And really, what’s appealing to us there is scale. We’re able to work with a nation, or a state and get millions of students on the platform. Whereas in the U.S. it’s a lot harder. We have to go district by district, and the flows and timespans that we deal with in different countries really varies. So it’s not just the U.S. that has a longer timespan now. We’re seeing working with districts in other countries too, that there’s a three to five year decision cycle for how do we run a pilot as to whether or not we even teach this, then once we decide to teach it, how are we teaching it?
Kirkpatrick: Also the thing you said about it being considered science—just quickly say that.
Sims: Yeah, so actually a majority of U.S. states still, if I’m not wrong, don’t consider computer science a science, for the purpose of graduation requirements, and consider it the same as an elective, like an art or music. So I think the first step in the U.S. is changing that, and then you get to the stage where computer science is actually a required class, so there’s definitely room.
Kirkpatrick: Any closing thoughts, Brian?
Forde: I think this is going to be a community-based solution. This isn’t just the federal government, this isn’t just Codecademy, this is going to require employers and local leaders and mentors, and so what I really want to invite you guys into is to the White House process, and so if you do have any offers for support or new ideas, we’re here to take them and integrate them, and work collaboratively with you to be able to address this.
Kirkpatrick: Well, thank you both for being part of the, what is a critical discussion. Thanks so much. Thank you, Zach.
China’s clearly training a lot more engineers than the US, but I wonder if these engineers are leaving school with adequate skills to compete in global markets and produce truly original R&D. If so, then America’s competitiveness is definitely in jeopardy, but I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions until I had a look beneath the surface. Building STEM capacity is much more than a numbers game. With the right training and working environment, a small handful of visionaries can produce more innovation and value than an entire nation of tech drones. The future rests not with who has the largest tech workforce, but rather with who has the best tech workers.
You don’t want to hire someone who’s just able to sit in front of a computer and write code for you but doesn’t understand the underlying logic that is powering everything.

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an optical signal acquisition and processing method allowing extremely high-quality, micrometer-resolution, three-dimensional images from within optical scattering media (e.g., biological tissue) to be obtained. In contrast to other optical methods, OCT, an interferometric technique typically employing near-infrared light, is able to penetrate significantly deeper into the scattering medium, for example ~3× deeper than its nearest competitor, Confocal microscopy. Depending on the use of high-brightness and wide-spectrum light sources such as superluminescent diodes or ultrashort pulse lasers, OCT has achieved sub-micrometer resolution (with very wide-spectrum sources emitting over a ~100 nm wavelength range). It is one of a class of optical tomographic techniques. A relatively recent implementation of OCT, frequency-domain OCT, provides advantages in signal-to-noise ratio and therefore faster signal acquisition. OCT systems, which are commercially available, are finding diverse application in areas such as art conservation and diagnostic medicine (notably in ophthalmology where it permits remarkable noninvasive images to be obtained from within the retina).
In time domain OCT the pathlength of the reference arm is translated longitudinally in time. A property of low coherence interferometry is that interference, i.e. the series of dark and bright fringes, is only achieved when the path difference lies within the coherence length of the light source. This interference is called auto correlation in a symmetric interferometer (both arms have the same reflectivity), or cross-correlation in the common case. The envelope of this modulation changes as pathlength difference is varied, where the peak of the envelope corresponds to pathlength matching.
The axial and lateral resolutions of OCT are decoupled from one another; the former being an equivalent to the coherence length of the light source and the latter being a function of the optics.
In frequency domain OCT the broadband interference is acquired with spectrally separated detectors (either by encoding the optical frequency in time with a spectrally scanning source or with a dispersive detector, like a grating and a linear detector array). Due to the Fourier relation (Wiener-Khintchine theorem between the auto correlation and the spectral power density) the depth scan can be immediately calculated by a Fourier-transform from the acquired spectra, without movement of the reference arm. This feature improves imaging speed dramatically, while the reduced losses during a single scan improve the signal to noise proportional to the number of detection elements. The parallel detection at multiple wavelength ranges limits the scanning range, while the full spectral bandwidth sets the axial resolution.
SEFD-OCT extracts spectral information by distributing different optical frequencies onto a detector stripe (line-array CCD or CMOS) via a dispersive element . Thereby the information of the full depth scan can be acquired within a single exposure. However, the large signal to noise advantage of FD-OCT is reduced due the lower dynamic range of stripe detectors in respect to single photosensitive diodes, resulting in an SNR (signal to noise ratio) advantage of ~10 dB at much higher speeds. Since OCT at 1300 nm with a photo array, the dynamic range is not a serious problem at this wavelength range. The drawbacks of this technology are found in a strong fall-off of the SNR, which is proportional to the distance from the zero delay and a sinc-type reduction of the depth dependent sensitivity because of limited detection linewidth. (One pixel detects a quasi-rectangular portion of an optical frequency range instead of a single frequency, the Fourier-transform leads to the sinc(z) behavior). Additionally the dispersive elements in the spectroscopic detector usually do not distribute the light equally spaced in frequency on the detector, but mostly have an inverse dependence. Therefore the signal has to be resampled before processing, which can not take care of the difference in local (pixelwise) bandwidth, which results in further reduction of the signal quality.However,the fall-off is not a serious problem with the development of new generation CCD or Photo array with a larger number of pixels.
Synthetic array heterodyne detection offers another approach to this problem without the need to high dispersion.
TEFD-OCT tries to combine some of the advantages of standard TD and SEFD-OCT. Here the spectral components are not encoded by spatial separation, but they are encoded in time. The spectrum either filtered or generated in single successive frequency steps and reconstructed before Fourier-transformation. By accommodation of a frequency scanning light source (i.e. frequency scanning laser) the optical setup becomes simpler than SEFD, but the problem of scanning is essentially translated from the TD-OCT reference-arm into the TEFD-OCT light source. Here the advantage lies in the proven high SNR detection technology, while swept laser sources achieve very small instantaneous bandwidths (=linewidth) at very high frequencies (20-200 kHz). Drawbacks are the nonlinearities in the wavelength, especially at high scanning frequencies. The broadening of the linewidth at high frequencies and a high sensitivity to movements of the scanning geometry or the sample (below the range of nanometers within successive frequency steps).
Full-field OCT (also called en face OCT) is an original approach of OCT, based on white-light interference microscopy. Tomographic images are obtained by combination of interferometric images recorded in parallel by a detector array such as a CCD camera. Whereas conventional OCT produces B-mode (axially-oriented) images like ultrasound imaging, full-field OCT acquires tomographic images in the en face (transverse) orientation.
Full-field OCT is an alternative method to conventional OCT to provide ultrahigh resolution images (~ 1 µm in all 3 dimensions), using a simple halogen lamp instead of a complex laser-based source. Various studies have been carried out demonstrating the performance of this technology for three-dimensional imaging of ex vivo and in vivo specimens. Full-field OCT can be used for non-invasive histological studies without sample preparation.
Focusing the light beam to a point on the surface of the sample under test, and recombining the reflected light with the reference will yield an interferogram with sample information corresponding to a single A-scan (Z axis only). Scanning of the sample can be accomplished by either scanning the light on the sample, or by moving the sample under test. A linear scan will yield a two-dimensional data set corresponding to a cross-sectional image (X-Z axes scan), whereas an area scan achieves a three-dimensional data set corresponding to a volumetric image (X-Y-Z axes scan), also called full-field OCT.
Systems based on single point, or flying-spot time domain OCT, must scan the sample in two lateral dimensions and reconstruct a three-dimensional image using depth information obtained by coherence-gating through an axially scanning reference arm. Two-dimensional lateral scanning has been electromechanically implemented by moving the sample using a translation stage, and using a novel micro-electro-mechanical system scanner.
Parallel OCT using a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera has been used in which the sample is full-field illuminated and en face imaged with the CCD, hence eliminating the electromechanical lateral scan. By stepping the reference mirror and recording successive en face images a three-dimensional representation can be reconstructed. Three-dimensional OCT using a CCD camera was demonstrated in a phase-stepped technique, using geometric phase-shifting with a Linnik interferometer , utilising a pair of CCDs and heterodyne detection, and in a Linnik interferometer with an oscillating reference mirror and axial translation stage. Central to the CCD approach is the necessity for either very fast CCDs or carrier generation separate to the stepping reference mirror to track the high frequency OCT carrier.
A two-dimensional smart detector array, fabricated using a 2 µm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process, was used to demonstrate full-field OCT. Featuring an uncomplicated optical setup , each pixel of the 58x58 pixel smart detector array acted as an individual photodiode and included its own hardware demodulation circuitry.

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Catching and storing electricity is harder than catching fireflies, but both often involve jars! The first device invented that could acquire electric charge and store it until a scientist wanted to use it for an experiment or demonstration was a Leyden jar. Named for one of the universities (University of Leiden) at which it was first used for research, the Leyden jar was developed independently in the middle of the 18th century by E. Georg von Kleist in Germany and by Pieter van Musschenbroek in the Netherlands.
Leyden jars evolved over time into more complex, more efficient devices, but the earliest versions were very basic. These consisted of glass bell jars coated with metal foil on their inner and outer surfaces. The jars were filled with water (or sometimes beer!) and featured a stopper with a wire running through it. The free end of the wire allowed the device to be hooked up to an electrostatic generator, which served as a quick and easy source of electricity. The somewhat more advanced model shown here features an exterior metal sphere linked to the inside of the Leyden jar by a brass rod terminating in a chain rather than a simple wire lead.
At first people thought the liquid in the Leyden jar stored electricity, but through experimentation scientists discovered that water was not necessary. Later models were empty, but still worked, because the basic requirement for a functioning Leyden jar is the presence of two conductors separated by an insulator. Typically two layers of metal foil serve as the conductors in a Leyden jar and the glass is the insulator, so there was no need for water (also a conductor). When used with an electrostatic generator, charge flows from the generator to the metal sphere or other lead in a Leyden jar and builds up in the interior layer of conductive foil because it is blocked from further movement by the insulating glass. At the same time, the outer foil layer builds up an opposite charge from the ground because positively charged particles are attracted to the negative particles accumulating inside the jar. Until released in some way, the equal but opposite charges on the opposing sides of a Leyden jar remain in place.
To release the electricity in a Leyden jar, a pathway must be provided along which the stored charge can travel. A wire, rod or even the human hand can be used for this. In fact, one of Benjamin Franklin’s favorite electrical demonstrations involved many people standing in a circle holding hands. One would be asked to touch the top of a charged Leyden jar, while the person at the end of the chain was asked to touch the bottom of the same jar with his free hand. Electricity flowed through every member of the group, each feeling an accompanying shock. Such demonstrations were quite dangerous, but were nevertheless popular.
As the first capacitors, Leyden jars could also be used for more practical endeavors. Knowledge of the jars quickly spread to laboratories around the globe, facilitating more electrical research than had been possible. This research also became mobile: Thanks to “electricity in a bottle,” scientists could take their electrical experiments outside and on the road. Later capacitors served as important components in electronics, such as lights and radio.

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An apparently unhappy conversation between three friends. Susan Trexel (played by Vera Mae Loughman, standing far left) faces Charlotte Marley (played by Mary Manley) and Irene Burroughs (played by Lois Halladay, seated). From the Little Theatre of the Rockies production of Rachel Corther's "Susan and God." This is the same image as LTR_01_0212.
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Requirements-based Software Development Process Introduced In Technopark Corp.
Now the company offers the new level of services to its customers.
The final introduction of this new approach to the software development process was prefaced by three months of personnel training which included tutorials and practical seminars for project managers, system analysts, software architects, and software developers.
The decision to study and use requirements-based software development process arose from recognition of its importance. Requirements-based software development is a guarantee that the software product will meet customer's requirements when it is developed. It is based on the assumption that exact requirements for the software system are not known until the system is developed. That is why the company instituted iterative approach as grounds for requirements-based development.
With the introduction of this software development model, requirements management and becomes one of the core disciplines in company operations. Project managers, system analysts, and developers are involved in requirements management and requirements change management.
The requirements-based approach provides that all requirements must be listed in specification document and approved by the customer before the start of implementation. Then, during the whole software development process, a certain piece of workable software is released each iteration, and this source code is tied to certain requirement(s). Frequent releases and connection with certain requirements assure that the software is being developed according to the customer's vision. In addition, this approach eases and clarifies Requirements Change Management.
Now, requirements-based process is already used in TechnoPark Corp. adding value to the company's customers.


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Short hike from Heroica Mulegé sign at Town entrance to Misión de Santa Rosalía. Beautiful walk and crosses over the river via a river walkway. The trail is a little rocky as it climbs to the Misión, but not too difficult or steep. Make sure to climb the steps behind the Misìon to get amazing views of Mulegé. There is parking near the sign or you can park at the Misión and walk down.

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In the world of constant disruptive changes and rapidly amplifying market needs, innovation is the differentiator. It is the capability to do things differently, caters to ever-increasing customer expectations, and transform ideas into reality.
Which is why innovation is the ‘strategic vision du jour’ of many ambitious organizations today.
But, innovation is not just about one revolutionary idea that disrupts an industry, it is a combination of the little things infused in ways an organization works.
The norms, values, unconscious messages, the behavior of leaders in an organization – all are the invisible forces that play vital roles in breeding and fostering the culture of breakthrough innovation at the workplace. However, innovation is not an easy job! One of the major challenges faced by any organization is defining how to effectively encourage and cultivate an innovation intent across the business. How to deal with the mindsets obstructing innovation to thrive?
The most aspiring business leaders do not sit satisfied with ‘doing more of the same’. They are committed to going beyond it by adapting to the changes of disruptive technological environment. They know that the question is not just about how to improve, but how to transform a complete business model, which begins with breaking the boundaries of our mental models.
So, what are mental models?
Mental models are the frameworks that encompass our way of interpreting the world, including our assumptions from socialization, beliefs, education, and experience. These models determine how we intake information, and how we respond to it.
Traditional leaders seldom bring change!
Many leaders have an unyielding belief in their company hierarchy – the certain ways they have been doing things. These are called the status quo of an organization. An organization develops a status quo owing to many reasons, from leaders feeling pressured for time to the culture that has “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it” thought process.
The journey of challenging the status quo starts from you. Welcome new ideas, try new perspectives, constantly suggest ideas, and engage in the implementation of these ideas.
What is not working and why?
What is the idea to fix it?
How can we bring improvement to it?
Giving greater charge and responsibilities to the team members will not only improve teamwork and collaboration but also provide more opportunities for bringing innovation in the team culture.
Identifying underserved customer needs and addressing them with the right services and solutions can be an effective strategy for innovation. Companies like Airbnb and Uber are doing it successfully because they tapped customers’ uncovered needs and provided high-quality solutions to them.
The more you understand customers’ journey, the better you spot most important touch points that make them initiate and complete a buying process. So, create a customer journey map, which will help you visualize the process a customer or buyer goes through when making a purchase or availing your services. This will let you find and eliminate the pain-points of a customer by improving or bringing changes to your products.
The heap of data lying in your records can be one of the most important assets in your journey of innovation. Review old surveys, chat logs and purchase histories of your customers. This can be the easiest way to pinpoint what your customers exactly want.
Voice of the Customer surveys and programs gather data about the expectations and behavior of existing or potential customers. These surveys give real-time feedback and insights that can be used while developing a product to cater to the needs of the customers.
A question that is often asked by businesses is – As innovation carries risk, how can an organization innovate in a corporate culture that is highly risk-averse? The question is important and valid.
What needs to be understood is at the core of every innovative practice is a risk-management philosophy to lower down risks in the process of growth and implementation of those practices. Whether the practice is about minimizing waste by leveraging Lean Thinking or applying Design Led-thinking to address consumer pain points, the focus is always on lowering the risk embedded in being innovative.
To keep a steady pace of growth in an era of extreme digitization and ruthless competition, “thinking out of the box” won’t suffice the purpose. It will need more – from rethinking business objectives to finding people capable of helping you bring impactful changes, and consistently seeding breakthrough innovation in the culture of organizations.
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Stretching your paycheck is a major concern for most of us while wanting to live decently in a sophisticated metropolis. In a recent study by Glassdoor.com, they conducted a study where a person’s salary goes farthest, based on the ratio of salary and home value.
When Americans or any citizen for that matter, consider moving to another part of the country, they are forced to make a tough choice. Should they go to a city with the best job opportunities or a less economically active area that offers a better standard of living, particularly more affordable housing?
Are you one of those in a dilemma? Then you’ve come to the right place. There are still plenty of metropolitan areas in the U.S. where you can get the best of both worlds. Check out the cities on the list to help you decide on your next home. Here are the 12 U.S. Cities Where Your Paycheck Will Go The Furthest.
Opening our list is Detroit, Michigan. Detroit is the most populated city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city in the United States–Canada border.
After a publicly declared bankruptcy, Detroit has focused on restoring its downtown. Quicken Loans set up shop in the city a few years ago, and foundations, corporations and the federal government have invested billions in helping to turn the city around.
Some people opt for Detroit because of work, while for others it’s the low cost of living. If you’re a writer, the Write A House project gives houses to writers for free. How cool is that? Now, who says writers can’t live decently?
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee and is the youngest of Tennessee’s major cities. A resident of Memphis is referred to as a Memphian, and the Memphis region is known, particularly to media outlets, the Mid-South.
Memphis is known for country music, rock ‘n’ roll and the blues. It is also a modernized city with a growing reputation as a tech hub. Memphis is home, as well, to FedEx (FDX), which is the largest employer in the city.
Pittsburgh is the 63rd largest city in the U.S. and the second-largest in Pennsylvania next to Philadelphia. It is known as the “City of Steel” for its more than 300 steel-related businesses and as the “City of Bridges” for its 446 bridges.
It is also known as a tech hub with Google, Apple, Bosch, Facebook, Uber, Nokia, Autodesk, and IBM among the 1,600 technology firms creating billions in annual Pittsburgh salary. Pittsburgh is also home to research and development frontrunners Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
In 2015, Pittsburgh was listed among the “eleven most livable cities in the world” and is a Center for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, sustainable energy, and energy extraction. No wonder Millenials have been moving there.
Once painfully known as the “Mistake on the Lake,” Cleveland has spent the past few decades recovering from a drop in the steel and manufacturing industries back in the 1970s and 1980s. Investment in areas of the city such as the University Circle has renewed the city. Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The city is also attracting millennials, thanks to a reasonable cost of living and job opportunities. Downtown Cleveland is among the top 10 U.S. cities in the growth rate of college-educated millennials, according to the Cleveland Foundation. The city has many nicknames, the oldest of which in present use being “The Forest City”.


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Heartbreak, serenades and a deep look into facing addiction, it wouldn’t be Valentine’s day tomorrow without a pre-bash of mixed emotions to set the vibe for the day of ‘love’. Connect, reconnect, then do the right thing and order takeaway and binge listen everything on ‘What’s Good This Week?’.
Currently Glasgow’s finest import, with a smoky taste that hits almost instantly, Lucia comes roaring into Blueheart like one of Romana’s evil exes from Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, pissed off and ready to let you know. The melancholic reverb is dripping in pure disdain, as each guitar riff emits wave after wave of dreamy-post-punk à la shoegaze, readying Lucia to ride along before she unleashes a maelstrom of anger and pain on their biggest track yet.
Taken from their debut LP, ‘Beautiful Sadness’ (out March 22nd), the Italin born, Irish raised, Berlin resident, finally give their fans the first real serenade from the group on L’impossible. Split into English and Italian, it makes complete sense for the amorous confessions of love in the chorus to be declared in Italian, after the English verses are swamped in autotune, something completely alien to Fil Bo Riva. The Italian choruses alone are reason enough to repeatedly listen and slow dance along to this beautiful serenade.
Hailing from Toronto, Canada, this indie-pop four piece tackle issues relating to addiction and failure on ‘Through The Wall’ currently their second release to date (that we know of). Acting as a redemption piece, reminding listeners that you’re never truly alone, RVNNERS are a delightful blend of uniting high morals with emphatic pop music on Through The Wall, packing in enough passion and light hearted guitars to create a track that is delicate by nature and powerful by meaning.
A personal favourite of Velvet’s, Havvk’s narratives are always filled with personal trauma that is eerily relatable with their grunge tinged, indie rock. ‘Birds On A Wire’ focuses on Julie’s past relationships at a younger age, with twisted gritty riffs, clawing their way out of this hole of fear and self-deprecation that Julie once found herself in, now looking back with a clearer head, horrified at the thought that she was anything but herself back then. A steady pace exemplifies Julie’s harsh look back at her previous self, fully ingrained in a moment of self-reflection, all while gut busting guitars are ready to amp up for Julie’s momentous screams.
While a UK based duo, Naz & Ella tackle the issue of gun control in America on their latest track, as their folk music seeks to further discuss the notion that the second amendment needs readjusting. Never being ones to shy away from big topics, Naz & Ella’s quaint folk music has never been such a thing, as the duo consistently ignore any expectations set by the folk genre, getting straight to the point, packing fiery, detailed verses into a message that needs to be heard by everyone in America.


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UltraTech Cement, the Aditya Birla company, said production for the April to September 2011 period stood at 18.596Mt as against 18.633Mt during April to September 2010 period.
Dispatches have been sustained at 18.613Mt during April to September 2011 vis a vis 18.614Mt in the corresponding period of 2010.
Cement production for the month of September 2011 was 2.77Mt and dispatches were 2.756Mt.


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Last night I ran into an issue with TypeScript compilation. I’m working on a frontend web project that uses a library we are developing in another repository. Right now, we’re simultaneously working on both repos, so writing a feature from end to end is a bit of a pain, if one has to first commit to the dependency repository, then pull from there to get the latest version for the app itself. Fortunately, there’s a solution for that: npm link / yarn link. This feature allows you to substitute a local version for a dependency, using symbolic links (or NTFS junction points, if you’re Windows-inclined, like myself).
The problem arises when both your main app and your linked dependency have one or more same dependencies. For example, in our case, the shared dependency was react-intl. If the dependency is not linked, everything works as well as things usually work in js-land (🙄), but once the linking happens, things begin to break.
The core of the problem is that at some point, the TypeScript compiler will encounter two different, possibly identical versions of the same dependency declaration, at which point it will give up and produce a whole mess of errors.
What this means (as I understand it) is, for every non-cwd-relative module resolution the TypeScript compiler attempts, it will try the paths specified in the array. This means that when encountering the dependency in the dependent module, it will look for it in the parent module’s node_modules/@types directory, and since it finds it there, it will look no further. This coalesces the duplicate dependencies into one instance, and voila, problem solved. Path mappings can be more specific, too, if you need to target a single problematic package. In this case, I wanted this behavior for all deps, so I went with the easiest route.


text: This game was my first "game" created for the HTC Vive and it was created during the Global Game Jam 2016. You basically just throw furniture around until you're not angry anymore. It works for me!

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If there is one section in your resume that has the maximum impact on your chances of landing your dream job, it is this one – Resume Summary.
Whether you are a recent college graduate or have spent years in the workforce, it is always hard to summarize yourself and your work experience in a few lines.
Consider the resume summary as your elevator pitch. These few lines would either convince the hiring manager to look through your resume in detail, or just move on to the other one.
Do not write a vague objective statement like “To obtain a position enabling me to utilize my strong communication and leadership skills that offers growth and advancement opportunities“.
You need to hone in on the most vital information in your resume to outline why you’re the best candidate for the job and what you bring to the table for the employer.
Take a look at these following examples that would help you write a powerful resume summary, and get your resume past the screening stage.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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This Sunday, Barça will be back at the stadium where they were crowned Spanish Cup Winners in the final game of last season. Pedro (2) and Messi were the scorers as Barça swept to a 3-0 victory over Athletic Bilbao.
Barça will be back at the Vicente Calderon on Sunday – a ground that holds plenty of happy memories for the team, who were crowned Spanish Cup Winners there last season. That was the last title that Pep Guardiola won as coach with the team – the 14th out of a possible 19 in his three years at the helm. May 25th 2012 was a happy night indeed for Barça fans.
It was a happy night and one without too many worries, as the team put three goals past the Bilbao keeper within the first 24 minutes, with Pedro scoring twice and Messi adding the other to leave the Basques shell shocked and unable to ever really threaten Guardiola’s side.
The players celebrated their fourth title of the season following the two Super Cups and the FIFA Club World Cup and the end of an emotional campaign.
352 days later the players could be repeating those scenes of celebration, if they can beat Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid fail to win against Espanyol. Simeone’s side confirmed third spot with their 1-3 win against Celta on Wednesday night and they are likely to be turning their attention to the Spanish Cup Final at the Santiago Bernabeu next Friday.

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At Volvo Cars, everything we do starts with people. And if you’re just starting out, we have a whole range of opportunities, internships, and placements for you to explore.
You can join a programme designed around your potential in a global organisation. Your entrance ticket is a university degree and up to three years of relevant working experience. For 18–24 months you’ll be fast-tracked in a programme built around your talents and ambitions.
For more information about the 2015 Volvo Car Group Graduate Programme, please download this PDF. The application for the 2015 Volvo Car Group Graduate Programme is now closed.
At Volvo Cars, there are many ways to have an internship. In general, we promote engineering students in terms of thesis works, but we also offer a range of different types of internships in Sweden, Belgium, and China. Please take a look under Job Portal to see the available opportunities. In Sweden, Volvo Cars offers internship positions through Tekniksprånget, see below for more detail.
We offer a number of students the possibility to do thesis work at Volvo Car Group. This is an excellent chance for you to get an insight into the possibilities for you after graduation.
At Volvo Cars, we endeavour to support engineering students. So every year we offer a number of opportunities for students to experience the Volvo Research & Development team—with a summer job between your first and second years of Master’s studies, a mentor during the fall, and thesis work in the final semester of your studies. The recruitment process for the concept starts every February/March, and the programme starts in the summer.
Every summer we offer a number of students from various backgrounds the opportunity to work during the summer holiday. Volvo Car Group has activities in several places and we are staffing for both factory and office work. Ads will be published under Job Portal.
Do you want to work with advanced engineering and research? Then Research & Development is the place for you to prosper, and particularly in our Industrial PhD Programme. As an Industrial PhD at Volvo Cars, you will have both an academic and an industrial supervisor, be part of a PhD network, take part in a mentoring programme, and get leadership training. Positions in the Industrial PhD Programme will be posted continuously on the Job Portal.


text: Brown, Courtney A. (2018) "Accidents Happen," Comparative Woman: Vol. 1 , Article 19.

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If you missed the grand opening of the Queens International Night Market last Saturday, then get your taste buds ready for this Saturday, when the ambitious new nighttime chow fest returns to the New York Hall of Science parking lot at Corona Park (near 44th Ave and 111th St) in Queens. John Wang, who organized the event, said turnout was at least five times more than what he had expected. The market returns to the same location this Saturday, May 2nd.
Meredith can't wait to taste @karlsballs... Awesome takoyaki in a Queens parking lot! @QueensNightMarket is rocking! Congrats John Wang!
Tony Merevick is Cities News Editor at Thrillist is worried his desk mates might here his stomach growling. Send news tips to tony@thrillist.com and follow him on Twitter @tonymerevick.


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Liquid nitrogen and top-tier ingredients set this boutique ice cream maker apart.
: Smitten Ice Cream is a gourmet, liquid-nitrogen-based ice cream shop with locations around San Francisco and the Bay Area. Ice cream is made fresh --- flash frozen to order by a special machine --- and is noticeably creamy with seasonal, delectable ingredients. Founder is Stanford U. grad Robyn Sue Fisher.


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Beach lovers are going to be hit a little harder in the wallet in Rhode Island this summer.
Officials in Rhode Island have announced what they call "modest" hikes to beach and camping fees at state parks and beaches, but didn't actually reveal the amount of said hike.
I am a huge fan of hitting the beach in the summer and for the most part haven't found it to be insanely expensive to go. In state, it's just $7 to park your car. Loaded with the whole family that's a pretty inexpensive way to spend the day (and exhaust the kids!).
To me, unless they go crazy and triple the fee, I know I won't be deterred to head to the beach, but of course, the news has plenty of people upset.
I get the upset, though, since many of these fees have stayed the same for nearly two decades. But at some point you had to expect them to change it, you should probably be happy with the inexpensive run you had.
And the increase is being proposed for good reason. The additional money made will be used to add employees, help keep facilities cleaner and pavilions maintained.
The exact price hike is expected to be revealed in the coming weeks, but I imagine things will still seem reasonable when they're made.
However, those that disagree and completely hate even the thought of this price hike can vent their feelings at "listening sessions" being held by DEM at the end of this month.


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Healthy married couples almost always have a DAILY point of connection that enables them to share information, appreciations, dreams, needs and how they are feeling.
Struggling married couples almost never have such a point of connection.
So, the RINGS Chat from our RINGS Experience class for couples was designed to help ALL couples experience a DAILY point of connection that could be refreshing, non-threatening and fun. And able to be done in a compressed or expanded time frame. For us it's usually 10-15 minutes every day.
Does it prevent all conflicts and disagreements? No. We're still human and prone to selfishness. The point of the RINGS Chat is NOT to sprinkle magical fairy dust over ourselves and have a "lived happily ever after" relationship. But the RINGS Chat, over time, does build closeness and intimacy. Isn't that worth 10-15 minutes a day?
If you have been through The RINGS Experience, you already know the basic layout of the RINGS Chat; if not, then we would love to have you take a peek at it in the video demo at right. Then try it out yourselves.
For RINGS Experience alumni, we invite you to weigh in on social media about your own journey with the RINGS Chat. Let us know how it has worked for you, what adaptations you've made and any encouragement to "newbies".
Disclaimer: Not all couples will benefit from the RINGS Chat. Where the 3 A's exist (abuse, affairs, addictions), professional resources like counseling/intervention should be sought.


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MARLION Pickett's standout WAFL season for South Fremantle in the midfield was recognised with his winning of the WJ Hughes Medal for 2018 on a night when the Bulldogs farewelled three tremendous servants.
South Fremantle finished the 2018 season for the third straight year in the preliminary final and gathered to celebrate the achievements of the campaign on Friday night at the Esplanade Hotel Fremantle by Rydges.
There was a lot to celebrate on the night for the Bulldogs with the league team finishing in second position at the end of the home and away season and reaching the preliminary final, the reserves narrowly missing the finals, the colts also finishing fifth and reaching the elimination final.
The major award winners on the night saw Marlion Pickett claim the WJ Hughes Medal as the fairest and best for the league team while Trent Reed won the Roy McGuinness Medal as the fairest and best in the reserves and Enrique Aiken-Featherstone claimed the Dave Ingraham Memorial Medal and the City of Fremantle Memorial Trophy as the colts fairest and best.
The night was also a chance to celebrate the decorated WAFL careers of three former South Fremantle fairest and best winners with Ashton Hams, Ryan Cook and Shane Hockey all saying farewell to the Bulldogs on the evening.
It proved to be a night to celebrate the remarkable season of Pickett, though, who claimed his first WJ Hughes Medal on the back of three strong seasons as a regular defender for the Bulldogs after making his debut late in the 2013 season.
Pickett had cemented himself as a strong member of the Bulldogs back-line over the past three years, but the chance was there for him to see what he could do in the midfield in 2018 following the departure of last year's fairest and best runner-up Tim Kelly.
Filling the void left by Kelly as a midfielder who was equally as effective on the inside and out was no easy task, but it was something that Pickett quickly threw himself into and thrived.
With his trademark ferocious attack on the contest and the opposition, Pickett became an intimidating force in the midfield.
He became outstanding at winning the ball at stoppages and clearing the ball for the Bulldogs, but it was when he got out into space that he truly became an unstoppable weapon.
His ability to break through packs and run and carry the ball, and drive South Fremantle into attack became one of the highlights of the 2018 season.
Pickett ended up averaging 21.8 disposals a game including having three possessions of 30 or more on top of a remarkably dominant qualifying final performance against West Perth of 26 touches and four goals.
As a result of his standout season, the 26-year-old was awarded the WJ Hughes Medal and it's a season that should put him right in contention to join Kelly in the AFL system in 2019.
Pickett won the Hughes Medal ahead of last year's winner Haiden Schloithe who backed up his dominant 2017 where he was both South Fremantle fairest and best and the Sandover Medallist with another impressive 2018 season.
Splitting his time between playing at half-forward and in the midfield, Schloithe again averaged 24.9 possessions a game to be South Fremantle leading ball-winner and kicked 24 goals as the 128-game star consolidated his position among the elite players in the WAFL.
Third-place in Hughes Medal voting went to 2018 recruit Nick Suban with the former Fremantle AFL veteran of 156 games showing he has plenty left in the tank.
Starting the season playing at half-back, Suban finished the season playing in the midfield for South Fremantle and was in outstanding form as a tough, contested ball winner who could also use his experience and quality to use the ball well on the outside with his left-boot.
His leadership and poise became a key component of the South Fremantle team the longer the season went on and he will be even more valuable moving forward following the retirements of Hockey, Cook and Hams.
Another player recognised on the night for what could be the best season of his 137-game WAFL career was Shaun Bewick.
Settling into a role off half-back for much of the season, Bewick was tremendous right the way through and then stepped up even further come finals time averaging 22.7 possessions in the qualifying final win over West Perth, second semi-final loss to Subiaco and preliminary final defeat at the hands of the Falcons.
Those performances saw Bewick named Player of the Finals after a season that included him reaching 100 games with the Bulldogs.
First year vice-captain Mason Shaw claimed the John Gerovich Trophy for kicking 57 goals in 2018 in a forward-line that changed plenty for the Bulldogs with the departure of Blaine Johnson and injuries to Ben Saunders.
Following the departures coming into 2018 of Josh Pullman and Chris Luff, it was a new-look South Fremantle defence as well while the experience of Blayne Wilson was important.
Noah Strom made his league debut in Round 2 and never looked back going on to get the jobs on the opposition's best key forwards all season and doing so tremendously. That saw him named Best First Year Player.
Coming off a season where he was reserves fairest and best on return from another knee reconstruction, Jarrod Parry made it back to play three league matches in 2018 and received the Culver Family Award for Courage and Perseverance.
Adam McIntosh was named Best Club Man and after a tough season with form and injury, he made it back into the league side for the finals and displayed his best performances of the season when it mattered most.
But it was an emotional night with the departures confirmed from South Fremantle of three former Hughes Medal winners, Hams, Cook and Hockey.
Hams will go down an all-time great at South Fremantle retiring now having played 205 matches while winning the 2015 fairest and best on top of winning two Simpson Medals, playing in two premierships, playing three times for the WAFL State Team and 39 AFL games with West Coast.
Cook arrived at South Fremantle in 2011 and won the Hughes Medal that first year, was named captain in 2012 and remained skipper until the end of 2017 becoming the club's longest ever serving captain.
As a dual Hughes Medal winner and a life member having played 158 matches, Cook's legacy will live on long at the Bulldogs.
Hockey will also depart after three seasons with the Bulldogs after making the move from VFL club Frankston. The tough and tenacious on-baller won the fairest and best in that first season and went on to have a brilliant start and finish to the 2018 season.
Meanwhile, Trent Reed was named fairest and best in the reserves claiming the Roy McGuinness Medal. He won ahead of Andre Coutinho and emerging ruckman Blair Della Franca.
South Fremantle's colts did well to reach the finals in 2018 and Enrique Aiken-Featherstone was named fairest and best winner claiming both the Dave Ingraham Memorial Medal and City of Fremantle Mayoral Trophy. He won ahead of Tom Blechynden and Matthew Ward.


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BRAHMS Online allows you to search, browse, and learn more about the plants in The Morton Arboretum's living collections. BRAHMS Online (BOL) encompasses nearly 4,000 taxa and more than 20,000 inventoried plants and it serves as a persistent record of the work of Arboretum experts dating back to 1922.
Herbarium specimens can currently be searched via the vPlants website. This comprehensive site contains data for more than 120,000 plant specimens records from more than 30 institutions across the Chicago region.
This site is based on the BRAHMS integrated collections management software developed at Oxford University and customized by Oxford and Arboretum staff. It is a constantly evolving project.

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Table information can be retrieved from any host that has HTTP access to the host where the WebHCat server is running. A Web browser or an HTTP client such as curl or wget can be used to verify the functionality.
The base URL for REST access to table information is http://<SERVERHOST>:50111/templeton/v1/ddl.
The General and DDL endpoints are supported, for accessing Hive metadata. If you need submission capabilities for MapReduce, Hive, or Pig jobs, consider using Oozie, which is a more mature interface. See Installing Oozie.
General :version (GET) Return a list of supported response types.
status (GET) Return the WebHCat server status.
version (GET) Return a list of supported versions and the current version.
version/hive (GET) Return the Hive version being run.
version/hadoop (GET) Return the Hadoop version being run.
DDL ddl (POST) Perform an HCatalog DDL command.
ddl/database (GET) List HCatalog databases.
ddl/database/:db (GET) Describe an HCatalog database.
ddl/database/:db (PUT) Create an HCatalog database.
ddl/database/:db (DELETE) Delete (drop) an HCatalog database.
ddl/database/:db/table (GET) List the tables in an HCatalog database.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table (GET) Describe an HCatalog table.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table (PUT) Create a new HCatalog table.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table (POST) Rename an HCatalog table.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table (DELETE) Delete (drop) an HCatalog table.
ddl/database/:db/table/:existingtable/like/:newtable (PUT) Create a new HCatalog table like an existing one.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table/partition (GET) List all partitions in an HCatalog table.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table/partition/:partition (GET) Describe a single partition in an HCatalog table.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table/partition/:partition (PUT) Create a partition in an HCatalog table.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table/partition/:partition (DELETE) Delete (drop) a partition in an HCatalog table.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table/column (GET) List the columns in an HCatalog table.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table/column/:column (GET) Describe a single column in an HCatalog table.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table/column/:column (PUT) Create a column in an HCatalog table.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table/property (GET) List table properties.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table/property/:property (GET) Return the value of a single table property.
ddl/database/:db/table/:table/property/:property (PUT) Set a table property.


text: Tigers and humans don't mix well. We hunt them for fur, gallbladders, paws, teeth and tail. Their habitat has been under assault by development over the past few decades. All six remaining subspecies are endangered, and the IUCN puts the the overall Panthera tigris population between 2,154 and 3,159 big cats.


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The Digi Remote Manager® enables you to visually monitor and report on the performance metrics that matter most.
Digi has taken an industry-leading position around the adoption of PCI-DSS and other relevant security certifications in the cloud such as HIPAA and NIST, as evidenced by numerous security certifications and validated by an official PCI Report on Compliance (ROC). Digi Remote Manager finds and fixes inappropriate or inaccurate configurations before someone can exploit them. It lets you define a device profile, assign the profile to all devices in a group, and monitor and auto-remediate any variances. Digi Remote Manager can also restrict incoming traffic to only allow SSL connections, eliminating unencrypted TCP connections.
Many things can go wrong when you are operating a network of distributed M2M routers; Digi Remote Manager lets you diagnose and fix remote devices without sending a technician on site. That means your critical applications enjoy greater reliability and availability without expensive site visits.
By combining hardware device support for SNMP v1/v2c/v3 and sub-edition or “module” options from the Digi Remote Manager suite, you can employ a best-of-breed solution while still using your existing network management tools.
Lets you set the performance parameters for healthy devices and create reports and alarms to stay ahead of network problems.
Lets you maintain security compliance (e.g., PCI, HIPAA, NIST) by defining a gold standard configuration, and then scanning and fixing any out-of-compliance devices.
Allows you to schedule firmware updates to groups of devices en masse.