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Emmy Award-winning and GRAMMY®-nominated composer ADAM SCHOENBERG has twice been named among the Top 10 most-performed living composers by orchestras in the United States. With more than 200 orchestral performances worldwide, his works have been performed by such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic at venues including The Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, and Hollywood Bowl among others. His numerous achievements include the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship and Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, ASCAP Morton Gould Award, and two MacDowell Fellowships.
Recent commissions include his percussion concerto Losing Earth for Jacob Nissly and the San Francisco Symphony; violin concerto Orchard in Fog for Anne Akiko Meyers and the San Diego Symphony; cello concerto Automation for Yves Dhar and the Louisville Orchestra; a companion piece to Copland’s Appalachian Spring for a consortium of ensembles; a concerto for orchestra to be premiered by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; and a commission from Carnegie Hall.
Schoenberg’s orchestral debut album “Adam Schoenberg: American Symphony, Finding Rothko & Picture Studies” with Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony was nominated for three GRAMMYs, including Picture Studies for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Schoenberg enjoys a vast discography, and the year 2022 brought two new releases: “The Blakemore Trio Plays Music of Adam Schoenberg” under the Blue Griffin label, and “Migration”, featuring his Symphony No. 2, under the Reference Recordings label.
For film and TV, Schoenberg has composed soundtracks for several productions, including Graceland, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival; PBS’s That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles, which received two Emmy Awards; and ABC’s Nightline theme package. Schoenberg routinely writes music for museums such as Dubai’s Museum of the Future and works on curated sound installations.
Schoenberg received his Doctor of Musical Arts from The Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano, Academy Award-winning composer for The Red Violin. He is a tenured professor at Occidental College where he teaches composition and film scoring. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, playwright and TV-writer Janine Salinas Schoenberg, and their two sons, Luca and Leo.


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With such a difficult year, your Christmas celebration in 2021 deserves to be extra special. That’s why, for the first time ever, we’ve created a beautiful collection of hand printed Australian Christmas homewares, just for you. Featuring some of your favourite Australian natives, our Christmas table runners, tea towels and aprons bring that extra festive touch to your decor, to wow your guests year after year. Made from our amazing quality organic cotton/hemp fabric, we’ve paid attention to every little detail in these designs to bring you the true feeling of a magical, Aussie bush Christmas.
This table runner is hand printed with Bandicute’s latest design by Ellen and Jess in their studio in Gunning NSW. A generous size of approximately 47cm x 140cm this table runner will cover most coffee tables or be an attractive centre piece on your dining table.
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Outputs several delay sounds with different delay times for the left and right channels.
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PC PC (32bit)
Outputs increasingly attenuated delay sounds several times according to the beat button’s fraction. The delay sounds are faded out to the track’s tempo even after stopping the track
A classic sample rate and bit downsampler, to crush sound into pieces!
Pioneer Delay : adds delay sound to the original sound.
A time-shifted sound is applied to the original, thus producing the effect of a jet airplane (ascending or descending) according to slider changes
Play part of each beat several times according to the beat button’s fraction, like a multitap delay.
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
I know that this is pretty much impossible, but, hey, A GUY CAN DREAM, right?! Speaking of quarters / coins / etc, I've noticed that they've been issuing new pennies. Also, I've seen new nickles and new silver dollars. I don't get what's up with this nearly perpetual reissuing of our different units of currency. It makes me wonder how coin doors even work. Is it based on the size and weight of the coin inserted? It seems like American and Canadian quarters must weigh the same but somehow the coin door knows that they're not legit. It's crazy...
Also, I'm probably not revealing hot, breaking news with this one, but THIS is super-duper cool!
This is the Visible Pinball machine that Micheal Schiess built. It seems like it would be super-duper distracting to play, because I'd be looking underneath the playfield and back box too much! I heard it was at PPE4 this year! Just another reason I have to get out to the west coast to play!

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About Line Made Out of Dots
I get a lot of pleasure from hearing performers interpret my music in different ways. Usually players bring things to the table that I hadn’t imagined. As such, I sometimes choose to leave elements of pieces completely open, because I’d be happy with many potential interpretations and enjoy hearing all of the possibilities.
Line Made Out of Dots, from my series of eighty-eight note pieces, Tessellations, specifies only an order of pitches and a basic playing technique. Phrase lengths and the choice of which notes to sustain are totally up to the performing musician. Thus far, I’ve never heard it the same way twice.
Line Made Out of Dots also functions as the opening of Mix Bar 70.
Perfomances of Line Made Out of Dots
- 02/12/2015 Mark Robson Chapman University Orange, CAMore Info
- 09/28/2014 Mark Robson Private home Los Angeles, CA
- 09/12/2014 Mark Robson Occidental College, Bird Studio Los Angeles, CA


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In an all too typical Friday late afternoon news dump, Illinois Governor extended his COVID related executive orders and the state's eviction moratorium until March 6th.
These endless extensions are irresponsible toward both tenants and housing providers. Maintenance and repairs still need to be made. Mortgages and taxes still need to be paid. It appears that decision makers in government are choosing to ignore these considerations.
The eviction moratoriums do not suspend rent. One recent study (December 2020) found that the average renter who is behind on payments owes about $5,600, approximately four months’ worth. Nor do theses moratoriums provide any real help for tenants or housing providers. As a result, when the moratoriums are eventually lifted we can expect to see the dreaded mass evictions and foreclosures as both residents landlords collapse under the financial strain of these past due amounts.


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Last week, Hal Niedzviecki resigned as editor of The Writers’ Union of Canada’s Write magazine after his article, Winning the Appropriation Prize, was published in an issue highlighting Indigenous writers. Niedzviecki’s article sparked outrage on social media from Native communities. In opposition to the outrage, some high-profile Canadian journalists and editors answered Niedzviecki’s article by offering hundreds of dollars to fund an “Appropriation Prize.”
In his article Hal Niedzviecki wrote in defense of allowing non-Native writers to “write what you don’t know.”
The controversy was first brought to light on Twitter by Write contributor Alicia Elliott (Tuscarora), who wrote an article titled, “On Seeing and Being Seen: Writing with Empathy,” which appeared in the same issue.
In a post on his Facebook page, Hal Niedzviecki responded that support for such a prize is unhelpful.
“Calls for an actual ‘appropriation prize’ are extremely unhelpful. They do not represent me in anyway. In the short article I wrote, the satiric notion of the prize was brought up in jest — ie. how can we encourage writers of all backgrounds to explore points of view other than their own? That’s all I meant. I agree that the timing of the article was poor, and I feel terribly that writers whose beautiful and important words were featured in that issue were hurt. As I wrote in the piece, ‘Indigenous writing is the most vital and compelling force in writing and publishing in Canada today.”
“I invoked cultural appropriation, again, in the context of literature and writing only, because I wanted to touch on that very heated subject. And I was aware of the debates around that and I wanted to push back a little bit on the idea that we should be very, very wary and very hesitant to invoke other cultures and perspectives in our writing,” said Niedzviecki.
“You can't go back in time, but definitely if I had known that it would be taken out of the context of the Writers Union of Canada magazine, I would have clarified that a lot more, and that I meant writing and works of the imagination in print by literary authors,” he said.
During that conversation, the subject of prominent Canadian editors and journalists, including former Rogers executive Ken Whyte, National Post editor in chief Anne Marie Owens and CBC managing editor Steven Ladurantaye among others, began offering up money to fund an appropriation prize.
Tanya Tagaq responded on Twitter, “It doesn't get more Hollywood bad guy than dominant oppressors raising money to fight for their rights against minorities.” She also tweeted a list of editors and journalists who supported the notion of an appropriation prize along with a message, "If you are in this list and support the #appropriationprize never EVER dare contact me for an interview."
Ladurantaye and Owens later responded with apologies to the appropriation prize reference. “Let me be clear—I'm sorry for suggesting I'd give $100 last night. Was stupid, idea is stupid, and I'm sorry,” tweeted Ladurantaye.
“I[t]'s been 8hrs since I first apologized but to be clear, I'm sorry. I participated in a joke that was not at all funny,” tweeted Owens.
ICMN Correspondent Lisa J. Ellwood contributed to the research of this article. Follow her on Twitter at @IconicImagery.Follow Vincent Schilling (Akwesasne Mohawk) - ICMN’s Arts and Entertainment, Pow Wows and Sports Editor - Follow @VinceSchilling

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Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) is a set of international open standards for digital television. DVB standards are maintained by the DVB Project, an international industry consortium, and are published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) and European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
DVB systems distribute data using a variety of approaches, including:
These standards define the physical layer and data link layer of the distribution system. Devices interact with the physical layer via a synchronous parallel interface (SPI), synchronous serial interface (SSI) or asynchronous serial interface (ASI). All data is transmitted in MPEG transport streams with some additional constraints (DVB-MPEG). A standard for temporally-compressed distribution to mobile devices (DVB-H) was published in November 2004.
These distribution systems differ mainly in the modulation schemes used and error correcting codes used, due to the different technical constraints. DVB-S (SHF) uses QPSK, 8-PSK or 16-QAM. DVB-S2 uses QPSK, 8-PSK, 16-APSK or 32-APSK, at the broadcasters decision. QPSK and 8-PSK are the only versions regularly used. DVB-C (VHF/UHF) uses QAM: 16-QAM, 32-QAM, 64-QAM, 128-QAM or 256-QAM. Lastly, DVB-T (VHF/UHF) uses 16-QAM or 64-QAM (or QPSK) in combination with (C)OFDM and can support hierarchical modulation.
The DVB-T2 specification was approved by the DVB Steering Board in June 2008 and sent to ETSI for adoption as a formal standard. ETSI adopted the standard on 9 September 2009. The DVB-T2 standard gives more robust TV reception and increases the possible bit rate by over 30% for single transmitters (as in the UK) and will increase the maximum bit rate by over 50% in large single-frequency networks (as in Germany and Sweden).
DVB has established a 3D TV group (CM-3DTV) to identify "what kind of 3D-TV solution does the market want and need, and how can DVB play an active part in the creation of that solution?" The CM-3DTV group held a DVB 3D-TV Kick-off Workshop in Geneva on 25 January 2010, followed by the first CM-3DTV meeting the next day. DVB now defines a new standard for 3D video broadcast: DVB 3D-TV.
Modes and features of latest DVB-x2 system standards in comparison:
|Input interface||Multiple transport stream and generic stream encapsulation (GSE)||Multiple transport stream and generic stream encapsulation (GSE)||Multiple transport stream and generic stream encapsulation (GSE)|
|Modes||Variable coding & modulation and adaptive coding & modulation||Variable coding & modulation||Variable coding & modulation and adaptive coding & modulation|
|FEC||LDPC + BCH 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 8/9, 9/10||LDPC + BCH 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6||LDPC + BCH 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 8/9, 9/10|
|Modulation||Single carrier QPSK with multiple streams||OFDM||absolute OFDM|
|Modulation schemes||QPSK, 8-PSK, 16-APSK, 32-APSK||QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM||16- to 4096-QAM|
|Guard interval||Not applicable||1/4, 19/256, 1/8, 19/128, 1/16, 1/32, 1/128||1/64 or 1/128|
|Fourier transform size||Not applicable||1k, 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k DFT||4k Inverse FFT|
|Interleaving||Bit-Interleaving||Bit- time- and frequency-interleaving||Bit- time- and frequency-interleaving|
|Pilots||Pilot symbols||Scattered and continual pilots||Scattered and continual pilots|
Besides digital audio and digital video transmission, DVB also defines data connections (DVB-DATA - EN 301 192) with return channels (DVB-RC) for several media (DECT, GSM, PSTN/ISDN, satellite etc.) and protocols (DVB-IPTV: Internet Protocol; DVB-NPI: network protocol independent).
Older technologies such as teletext (DVB-TXT) and vertical blanking interval data (DVB-VBI) are also supported by the standards to ease conversion. However, for many applications more advanced alternatives like DVB-SUB for subtitling are available.
The conditional access system (DVB-CA) defines a Common Scrambling Algorithm (DVB-CSA) and a physical Common Interface (DVB-CI) for accessing scrambled content. DVB-CA providers develop their wholly proprietary conditional access systems with reference to these specifications. Multiple simultaneous CA systems can be assigned to a scrambled DVB program stream providing operational and commercial flexibility for the service provider.
DVB is also developing a Content Protection and Copy Management system for protecting content after it has been received (DVB-CPCM), which is intended to allow flexible use of recorded content on a home network or beyond, while preventing unconstrained sharing on the Internet. DVB-CPCM has been the source of much controversy in the popular press and it is said that CPCM is the DVB's answer to the failed American Broadcast Flag.
DVB transports include metadata called Service Information (DVB-SI, ETSI EN 300 468, ETSI TR 101 211) that links the various elementary streams into coherent programs and provides human-readable descriptions for electronic program guides as well as for automatic searching and filtering. The dating system used with this metadata suffers from a year 2038 problem in which due to the limited 16 bits and modified Julian day offset used will cause an overflow issue similar to the year 2000 problem. By comparison, the rival DigiCipher 2 based ATSC system will not have this issue until 2048 due in part to 32 bits being used.
Recently, DVB has adopted a profile of the metadata defined by the TV-Anytime Forum (DVB-TVA, ETSI TS 102323). This is an XML Schema based technology and the DVB profile is tailored for enhanced Personal Digital Recorders. DVB lately also started an activity to develop a service for IPTV (DVB-IPI, ETSI TR 102033, ETSI TS 102034, ETSI TS 102814) which also includes metadata definitions for a broadband content guide (DVB-BCG, ETSI TS 102 539).
The DVB Multimedia Home Platform (DVB-MHP) defines a Java-based platform for the development of consumer video system applications. In addition to providing abstractions for many DVB and MPEG-2 concepts, it provides interfaces for other features like network card control, application download, and layered graphics.
DVB has standardised a number of return channels that work together with DVB(-S/T/C) to create bi-directional communication. RCS is short for Return Channel Satellite, and specifies return channels in C, Ku and Ka frequency bands with return bandwidth of up to 2 Mbit/s. DVB-RCT is short for Return Channel Terrestrial, specified by ETSI EN 301958.
DVB-S and DVB-C were ratified in 1994. DVB-T was ratified in early 1997. The first commercial DVB-T broadcasts were performed by the United Kingdom's Digital TV Group in late 1998. In 2003 Berlin, Germany was the first area to completely stop broadcasting analog TV signals. Most European countries are fully covered by digital television and many have switched off PAL/SECAM services.
In Europe, as well as in Australia, South Africa and India, DVB is used throughout. This also holds true for cable and satellite in most Asian, African and many South American countries. Many of these have not yet selected a format for digital terrestrial broadcasts (DTTV) and a few (Canada, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, South Korea and the United States) have chosen ATSC instead of DVB-T.
DVB-T broadcasts were launched by the President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki on 9 December 2009. Broadcasts are using H.264, with the University of Nairobi supplying the decoders. Kenya has also been broadcasting DVB-H since July 2009, available on selected Nokia and ZTE handsets on the Safaricom and other GSM networks.
In Asia several Standards are under implementation
In Hong Kong, several cable TV operators such as TVB Pay Vision and Cable TV have already started using DVB-S or DVB-C. The government however has adopted the DMB-T/H standard, developed in mainland China, for its digital terrestrial broadcasting services which has started since 31 December 2007.
DVB-T broadcasts using H.264 commenced in Israel on 1 June 2009 with the broadcast trial and the full broadcast began on 2 August 2009. Analog broadcasts were originally planned to end in 18 months after the launch, but analog broadcasts were switched off on 31 March 2011 instead.
During 2010, DVB-T broadcasts have become widely available in most of Israel and an EPG was added to the broadcasts.
With the exception of SKY PerfecTV!, Japan uses different formats in all areas (ISDB), which are however quite similar to their DVB counterparts. SkyPerfect is a satellite provider using DVB on its 124 and 128 degrees east satellites. Its satellite at 110 degrees east does not use DVB, however.
In Malaysia, a new pay television station MiTV began service in September 2005 using DVB-IPTV technology while lone satellite programming provider ASTRO has been transmitting in DVB-S since its inception in 1996. Free-to-air DVB-T trials began in late 2006 with a simulcast of both TV1 and TV2 plus a new channel called RTM3/RTMi. In April 2007, RTM announced that the outcome of the test was favourable and that it expected DVB-T to go public by the end of 2007. However, the system did not go public as planned. As of 2008, the trial digital line-up has expanded to include a music television channel called Muzik Aktif, and a sports channel called Arena, with a news channel called Berita Aktif planned for inclusion in the extended trials soon. Also, high definition trials were performed during the Beijing Olympics and the outcome was also favourable. It was announced that the system would go public in 2009.
In 2009, MiTV closed down, changed its name to U-Television and announced that it was changing to scrambled DVB-T upon relaunch instead of the DVB-IPTV system used prior to shutting down. However, RTM's digital network again did not go public, although around this time TVs that are first-generation DVB-T capable went on sale. The government has since announced that they will be deploying DVB-T2 instead in stages starting in mid-2015 and analog shutoff has been delayed to April 2019.
In the Philippines, DVB-S and DVB-S2 are the two broadcast standards currently used by satellite companies, while DVB-C is also used by some cable companies. The government adopted DVB-T in November 2006 for digital terrestrial broadcasting but a year later, it considered other standards to replace DVB-T. The country has chosen the ISDB-T system instead of DVB-T.
In Taiwan, some digital cable television systems use DVB-C, though most customers still use analog NTSC cable television. The government planned adopting ATSC or the Japanese ISDB-T standard as NTSC's replacement. However, the country has chosen the European DVB-T system instead. Public Television Service (PTS) and Formosan TV now provided high definition television. The former has a channel called HiHD; the latter uses its HD channel for broadcasting MLB baseball.
In Denmark, DVB-T replaced the analog transmission system for TV on 1 November 2009. Danish national digital TV transmission has been outsourced to the company Boxer TV A/S, acting as gatekeeper organization for terrestrial TV transmission in Denmark. However, there are still several free channels from DR.
DVB-T transmissions were launched on 21 August 2001. The analogue networks continued alongside the digital ones until 1 September 2007, when they were shut down nationwide. Before the analogue switchoff, the terrestrial network had three multiplexes: MUX A, MUX B and MUX C. MUX A contained the channels of the public broadcaster Yleisradio and MUX B was shared between the two commercial broadcasters: MTV3 and Nelonen. MUX C contained channels of various other broadcasters. After the analogue closedown, a fourth multiplex named MUX E was launched. All of the Yleisradio (YLE) channels are broadcast free-to-air, likewise a handful of commercial ones including MTV3, Nelonen, Subtv, Jim, Nelonen Sport, Liv, FOX, TV5 Finland, AVA and Kutonen. There are also several pay channels sold by PlusTV.
The switch-off from analogue terrestrial network to DVB-T started on 15 October 2008. Analogue broadcast was ended on 4 July 2012 after nearly four years of transition in phases.
In the Netherlands, DVB-S broadcasting started on 1 July 1996, satellite provider MultiChoice (now CanalDigitaal) switched off the analogue service shortly after on 18 August 1996. DVB-T broadcasting started April 2003, and terrestrial analog broadcasting was switched off December 2006. It was initially marketed by Digitenne but later by KPN. Multiplex 1 contains the NPO 1, NPO 2 and NPO 3 national TV channels, and a regional channel. Multiplexes 2~5 have the other encrypted commercial and international channels. Multiplex 1 also broadcasts the radio channels Radio 1, Radio 2, 3 FM, Radio 4, Radio 5, Radio 6, Concertzender, FunX and also a regional channel. As of June 2011, the Dutch DVB-T service had 29 TV channels and 20 radio channels (including free to air channels). DVB-T2 will be introduced during 2019/2020.
In Norway, DVB-T broadcasting is marketed under RiksTV (encrypted pay channels) and NRK (unencrypted public channels). DVB-T broadcasting via the terrestrial network began in November 2007, and has subsequently been rolled out one part of the country at a time. The Norwegian implementation of DVB-T is different from most others, as it uses H.264 with HE-AAC audio encoding, while most other countries have adapted the less recent MPEG-2 standard. Notably most DVB software for PC has problems with this, though in late 2007 compatible software was released, like DVBViewer using the libfaad2 library. Sony has released several HDTVs (Bravia W3000, X3000, X3500, E4000, V4500, W4000, W4500, X4500) that support Norway's DVB-T implementation without use of a separate set-top box, and Sagem ITD91 HD, Grundig DTR 8720 STBs are others.
Portugal follows the DVB-T implementation, using H.264 with AAC audio encoding. It has been live since 29 April 2009 and the switch-off date for all analog signals was on 26 April 2012.
Romania started digital terrestrial broadcasting in 2005 but it was virtually unknown by many people in Romania due to the lack of content, cable TV and satellite TV being far more popular, however it was the first platform to deliver HD content. Today, Romania is using DVB-T2 as terrestrial standard, but also DVB-S/S2, and DVB-C which is extremely popular. The only analogue broadcast remains on cable. Romania adopted the DVB-T2 standard in 2016 after a series of tests with mpeg2, mpeg4 on DVB-T, and has today fully implemented DVB-T2. DVB-C, which was introduced in late 2005, still remains with mpeg2 on SD content and mpeg4 on HD content. DVB-S (introduced in 2004 focus sat being the first such platform) is used in basic packages with standard definition content, while DVB-S2 set top boxes are provided for both SD and HD content.
Currently, Russia uses the DVB-T standard with MPEG-4 encoding for the limited experimental broadcasting and cable networks, majority of TV broadcasting still being done in the old analogue SECAM standard. The Ministry of Communication, however, pledged to switch to the DVB-T2 as the transmitting centers are gradually upgraded, and plans to abandon analogue broadcast by 2018. Several pilot broadcasting centers in some regions are already online and simulcasting in DVB-T2 SD and SECAM signal since February 2010, with more to go. Only one channel pack with eight to ten main national radio and TV channels (Channel One, Rossiya 1/2/K/24, NTV, Radio Mayak, Radio Rossii etc.) are available today, with more planned to be added as the digital TV network is expanded.
In the UK DVB-T has been adopted for broadcast of standard definition terrestrial programming, as well as a single DVB-T2 multiplex for high-definition programming. The UK terminated all analogue terrestrial broadcasts by the end of 2012. The vast majority of channels are available free-to-air through the Freeview service. DVB-T was also used for the now-defunct ONDigital/ITV Digital and Top Up TV service.
All satellite programming (some of which is available free-to-air via Freesat or free-to-view via Freesat from Sky; the remainder requires a subscription to Sky), is broadcast using either DVB-S or DVB-S2.
Subscription-based cable television from Virgin Media uses DVB-C, alongside a limited selection of analogue channels.
In North America, DVB-S is often used in encoding and video compression of digital satellite communications alongside Hughes DSS. Unlike Motorola's DigiCipher 2 standard, DVB has a wider adoption in terms of the number of manufacturers of receivers. Terrestrial digital television broadcasts in Canada, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, and the United States use ATSC encoding with 8VSB modulation instead of DVB-T with COFDM. Television newsgathering links from mobile vans to central receive points (often on mountaintops or tall buildings) use DVB-T with COFDM in the 2 GHz frequency band.
In Australia, DVB broadcasting is marketed under the Freeview brand name, and more recently 'Freeview Plus', denoting the integration of online HbbTV and EPG in certain DVB devices. Regular broadcasts began in January 2001 using MPEG 2 video and MPEG 1 audio in SD and HD.
Changes to broadcasting rules have enabled broadcasters to offer multi-channeling, prompting broadcasters to use H.264 video with MPEG 1 or AAC audio encoding for some secondary channels.
Specifications for HD channels now differ depending on the broadcaster. ABC, Nine and Ten use 1920x1080i MPEG 4 video with Dolby Digital audio. Seven and SBS use 1440x1080i MPEG 2 video with Dolby Digital and MPEG 1 audio respectively.
In New Zealand, DVB broadcasting is marketed under the Freeview brand name. SD MPEG-2 DVB-S broadcasts via satellite began on 2 May 2007 and DVB-T (terrestrial) broadcasts began April 2008 broadcasting in HD H.264 video with HE-AAC audio.
Since 2008, Colombia has adopted as a public policy the decision to migrate from the analog television implemented in 1954 to Digital Terrestrial Television (DVB-T2). This measure allows the viewers access to the open television (OTA) of public and private channels, with video quality in HD. As planned, analogue television broadcasts will end on December 31, 2019.
Companies that manufacture a product which is compliant to one or more DVB standards have the option of registering a declaration of conformity for that product. Wherever the DVB trademark is used in relation to a product – be it a broadcast, a service, an application or equipment – the product must be registered with the DVB project office.
DVB-C stands for "Digital Video Broadcasting - Cable" and it is the DVB European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital television over cable. This system transmits an MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 family digital audio/digital video stream, using a QAM modulation with channel coding. The standard was first published by the ETSI in 1994, and subsequently became the most widely used transmission system for digital cable television in Europe, Asia and South America. It is deployed worldwide in systems ranging from the larger cable television networks (CATV) down to smaller satellite master antenna TV (SMATV) systems.DVB-CPCM
DVB Content Protection & Copy Management often abbreviated to DVB-CPCM or CPCM is a digital rights management standard being developed by the DVB Project. Its main application is interoperable rights management of European digital television, though other countries may also adopt the standard.DVB-H
DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld) is one of three prevalent mobile TV formats. It is a technical specification for bringing broadcast services to mobile handsets. DVB-H was formally adopted as ETSI standard EN 302 304 in November 2004. The DVB-H specification (EN 302 304) can be downloaded from the official DVB-H website. From March 2008, DVB-H is officially endorsed by the European Union as the "preferred technology for terrestrial mobile broadcasting". The major competitors of this technology are Qualcomm's MediaFLO system, the 3G cellular system based MBMS mobile-TV standard, and the ATSC-M/H format in the U.S. DVB-SH (Satellite to Handhelds) now and DVB-NGH (Next Generation Handheld) in the future are possible enhancements to DVB-H, providing improved spectral efficiency and better modulation flexibility. DVB-H has been a commercial failure, and the service is no longer on-air. Finland was the last country to switch-off its signals in March 2012.DVB-RCS
DVB-RCS is an acronym for Digital Video Broadcasting - Return Channel via Satellite or (Return channel over system). It is a specification for an interactive on-demand multimedia satellite communication system formulated in 1999 by the DVB consortium.DVB-S
Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite (DVB-S) is the original DVB standard for Satellite Television and dates from 1995, in its first release, while development lasted from 1993 to 1997. The first commercial application was by Galaxy in Australia, enabling digitally broadcast, satellite-delivered Television to the public.
It is used via satellites serving every continent of the world. DVB-S is used in both Multiple Channel Per Carrier (MCPC) and Single channel per carrier modes for Broadcast Network feeds as well as for direct-broadcast satellite services like Sky (UK & Ireland) via Astra in Europe, Dish Network and Globecast in the U.S. and Bell TV in Canada.
While the actual DVB-S standard only specifies physical link characteristics and framing, the overlaid transport stream delivered by DVB-S is mandated as MPEG-2, known as MPEG transport stream (MPEG-TS).
Some amateur television repeaters also use this mode in the 1.2 GHz amateur band.DVB-S2
Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite - Second Generation (DVB-S2) is a digital television broadcast standard that has been designed as a successor for the popular DVB-S system. It was developed in 2003 by the DVB Project, an international industry consortium, and ratified by ETSI (EN 302307) in March 2005. The standard is based on, and improves upon DVB-S and the electronic news-gathering (or Digital Satellite News Gathering) system, used by mobile units for sending sounds and images from remote locations worldwide back to their home television stations.
DVB-S2 is envisaged (contemplate) for broadcast services including standard and HDTV, interactive services including Internet access, and (professional) data content distribution. The development of DVB-S2 coincided with the introduction of HDTV and H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) video codecs.
Two new key features that were added compared to the DVB-S standard are:
A powerful coding scheme based on a modern LDPC code. For low encoding complexity, the LDPC codes chosen have a special structure, also known as Irregular Repeat-Accumulate codes.
VCM (Variable Coding and Modulation) and ACM (Adaptive Coding and Modulation) modes, which allow optimizing bandwidth utilization by dynamically changing transmission parameters.Other features include enhanced modulation schemes up to 32APSK, additional code rates, and the introduction of a generic transport mechanism for IP packet data including MPEG-4 audio–video streams, while supporting backward compatibility with existing MPEG-2 TS based transmission.
DVB-S2 achieves significantly better performance than its predecessors – mainly allowing for an increase of available bitrate over the same satellite transponder bandwidth. The measured DVB-S2 performance gain over DVB-S is around 30% at the same satellite transponder bandwidth and emitted signal power. When the contribution of improvements in video compression is added, an (MPEG-4 AVC) HDTV service can now be delivered in the same bandwidth that supported an early DVB-S based MPEG-2 SDTV service only a decade before.
In March 2014, DVB-S2X specification has been published by DVB Project as an optional extension adding further improvements.DVB-SH
DVB-SH ("Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite services to Handhelds") is a physical layer standard for delivering IP based media content and data to handheld terminals such as mobile phones or PDAs, based on a hybrid satellite/terrestrial downlink and for example a GPRS uplink. The DVB Project published the DVB-SH standard in February 2007.The DVB-SH system was designed for frequencies below 3 GHz, supporting UHF band, L Band or S-band. It complements and improves the existing DVB-H physical layer standard. Like its sister specification (DVB-H), it is based on DVB IP Datacast (IPDC) delivery, electronic service guides and service purchase and protection standards.
DVB-SH specifies two operational modes:
SH-A: specifies the use of COFDM modulation on both satellite and terrestrial links with the possibility of running both links in SFN mode.
SH-B: uses Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) on the satellite link and COFDM on the terrestrial link.DVB-T
DVB-T is an abbreviation for "Digital Video Broadcasting — Terrestrial"; it is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in the UK in 1998. This system transmits compressed digital audio, digital video and other data in an MPEG transport stream, using coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (COFDM or OFDM) modulation. It is also the format widely used worldwide (including North America) for Electronic News Gathering for transmission of video and audio from a mobile newsgathering vehicle to a central receive point.DVB Dream
DVB Dream is a proprietary software for watching & recording of digital TV & radio with help of a digital TV tuner card (Internal PCI / PCI-Express cards or external USB devices). It supports the standards DVB-S (satellite), DVB-C (cable), DVB-T (terrestrial), ISDB-T, ISDB-S and ATSC.
It has STB-like features including PIP (Picture-in-picture), record, Timeshift, EPG, Scheduler, Unicable support, Positioner support(including GotoX.X / USALS), UHD(4K)/HD/HEVC/H264 support, child lock, remote control support.
There are also features that cannot be seen on STBs but provided with help of flexible Windows GUI environment. These are: Multi PIP(watching more than 1 channel at the same time)), Multi record (recording more than 1 channel at the same time), LAN Streaming, VLC or MPC Integration, Auto-zap, Unique channel list system by grouping/ordering/filtering by several flexible options, Render-less mode, Multi monitor support, Command line support, Plugins support.
Being a Windows application, user interface can be customized with help of themes and foldable GUI elements. It can be localized in most of the languages (29 languages are supported, as in 2015).IP over DVB
IP over DVB or IP over MPEG implies that Internet Protocol datagrams are transferred over the MPEG transport stream, and are distributed using some digital television system, for example DVB-H, DVB-T, DVB-S or DVB-C.Multimedia Home Platform
Multimedia Home Platform (DVB-MHP) is an open middleware system standard designed by the DVB project for interactive digital television. The MHP enables the reception and execution of interactive, Java-based applications on a TV-set. Interactive TV applications can be delivered over the broadcast channel, together with audio and video streams. These applications can be for example information services, games, interactive voting, e-mail, SMS or shopping. MHP applications can use an additional return channel that has to support IP.


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What you can learn from CME Group’s modern data and analytics practice
Rachel has worked in the financial services industry for the last 15 years and has been specifically focused on data for the past decade. Her passion has helped CME group carve out a dynamic global insights team, which she heads up from her office (currently the back room at the top of the stairs!) in Belfast.
Currently undertaking a PhD in Big Data Analysis, in the span of her career she has helped various financial companies, including CME and Bank of Ireland, to navigate the world of marketing and customer data to create actionable insights that directly affect the bottom line.
Rachel is a chartered marketer and looks at data from the perspective of how to better serve the customer, and therefore has a keen focus on the 360 view customer journey.
While her data analysis skill set has been honed by work and study, her organizational skills have been honed by her 5 year old, 3 year old twins and English Bulldog.
Nagendra has over 26 years of consultative, client-focused experience focusing on the advisory & delivery of holistic solutions for data & analytics modernization, transformation strategies, business & technology alignment. Over the years, he’s worked in various industry verticals such as Retail, Supply Chain, Oil & Gas, but his true passion lies in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI), which is where he’s spent majority of his career as an implementation partner & trusted advisor. Nagendra has worked with numerous multinational banks and specializes in data quality & governance, analytics, risk, and regulatory compliance.

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Theory of a Deadman played the 2012 Sounds of Freedom concert, alongside Hinder, at the Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, CA on September 29 of this year. This is a concert for Marines and members of their families living on the base. Members of both bands are interviewed in the video above, which also includes photos from the show. They also did a meet-and-greet and took pictures with fans.
Theory are on tour in the US and Canada through the end of November - find a show near you!

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I am seriously on a roll using up scraps lately and it really makes me happy :-) Maybe 2014 will be the year of de-stashing and using up for me. Wishful thinking probably but I can always dream right?
I have been making great progress with my Scrappy Trips quilt blocks and it has made a serious impact on my 2.5" strip bin. I am pretty happy with the way that it has been turning out.
What do you think? I think it will make a great bed quilt that can get used and washed a million times.
I also plan on doing the Planet Patchwork New Years Day Mystery Quilt. I did this a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. If you haven't heard of it before the clues are released every couple of hours and you sew along with them and by the end of New Years Day you have a quilt top! This year the pattern is scrappy so I jumped at doing this one as well. Here is the link if you're interested in sewing along with me :-D
The pattern is written for rotary cutting but I converted it to die-cutting. The top required just 3 dies: the 2.5" square die, the 2" finished HST die and the 6" finished HST die if you're interested in die cutting the mystery quilt too. I was absolutely thrilled that I was able to use even more of the strips in my 2.5" strip bin and some random large pieces of fabric for the larger HST.
Everything is sorted and ready to go for New Years Day!!
I also made another purchase for my quilting frame. I have tried to do pantographs; but, frankly, they aren't very fun and every little slip means frog-stitching - yuck! i really wanted to be able to do some patterns like Baptist Fans without marking (because I don't like marking). So, I did some research and found the Circle Lord grooved board templates. They were an affordable way to do all-over designs without splurging for robotics.
They sit on the back of the machine, on the pantograph shelf, and a stylus drops down into the groove. I played with it yesterday and I really liked the way that it made these patterns easy and without marking. Since I am making so many scrap quilts lately I wanted to be able to quilt them in an overall design that would enhance the quilt without making it too busy. I also wanted the ability to quilt these utility quilts quickly and easily without spending a million hours custom quilting them. I chose 2 boards the Fan Clam (in the picture) since it has two different designs on one board and Swirls since it is so functional. Now I can get quilting a couple of my scrap quilt tops that are sitting in my quilting closet. I plan on using the Baptist Fans on my fall log cabin and maybe Swirls on my leaders and enders project. So, what do you think?
Are you making any scrap projects this year?


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Due: December 5, 2012
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It is known that screws produced by a certain company will be defective with probability 0.01 independently of each other. The company sells screws in packages of 10 and offers a money-back guarantee that at most 1 of the 10 screws is defective. What proportion of package sold must the company replace?
A local bank reviewed its credit card policy with the intention of recalling some of its credit cards. In the past approximately 5% of cardholders defaulted, leaving the bank unable to collect the outstanding balance. Hence, management established a prior probability of 0.05 that any particular cardholder will default. The bank also found that the probability of missing a monthly payment is 0.2 for customers who do not default. Of course, the probability of missing a monthly payment for those who default is 1.
Fifty percent of Americans believed the country was in a recession, even though technically the economy had not shown two straight quarters of negative growth. For a sample of 20 Americans, make the following calculations.
Given that a customer missed one of more monthly payments, compute the posterior probability that the customer will default.
The bank would like to recall its card if the probability that a customer will default is greater than 0.2. Should the bank recall its card if the customer misses a monthly payment? Why or why not?
Compute the probability that exactly 12 people believed the country was in a recession. Compute the probability that no more than three people believed the country was in a recession.
How many people would you expect to say the country was in a recession? Compute the variance and standard deviation of the number of people who believed the country was in a recession.
A small plane has gone down, and the search is organized into three regions. likeliest, they are:
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This is a very common issue that we face nowadays in big cities. Most of us have a small supermarket near our houses and we do not have access to a multitude of fruit and veg. Rather, as soon as we get into the supermarket, we are bombarded with shiny packs and cartons of types of food that are not really good for us. So what kind of food is healthy but, at the same time, can be found in a small supermarket?
- Eggs: eggs are a great source of protein and have exclusive antioxidants. Furthermore, they are very low in fat, contain vitamin A, B12, B2 and B5 and plenty of amino acids. Finally, they also contain a substance called choline, which affects, in turn, the production of acetylcholine. The latter has been associated with mediating intelligence, mood and memory.
- Canned Tuna: this is great for light lunches or snacks. It contains mercury, so it shouldn’t be eaten every day. You can think of having it once a week. It benefits your diet because it contains Omega 3, iron, potassium and Vitamin B12. Also, you can easily vary and eat it with vegetables, low-fat mayonnaise, potatoes or salad.
- Plain yogurt: this is great as a dessert, snack or for breakfast. It is a great source of calcium and it helps your gastric system to function correctly.
- Tomatoes: high in vitamin A, C, calcium and potassium, tomatoes are great for your eyes, and are also anticarcinogenics.
- Spinach: Popeye was right. Spinach is a great source of iron, magnesium, many antioxidants and is also a very easy-to-cook vegetable. It is also a source of folic acid, and it is better to steam it than boil it.
- Beans: a cup of beans is a great source of fibers. Their consumption is also thought to reduce the risk of heart disease, type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure. You should regularly mix and match and use them in salads or in soups.
- Broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage: these are vegetables that make you feel full fast and are great to fight cancer, heart disease and other life-threatening illnesses. Again, steaming them is the best way to cook them.
So next time you get to the supermarket, remember this list of helpful foods you could get more of instead of the usual crisps!
Remember: variation is very important. It is key not only because if you vary, you don’t get bored of what you are eating but also because your body needs several different nutrients and you need to keep the balance right. Obviously, if you have been diagnosed with diabetes or a weight-related condition then you must first of all stick to your doctor’s or nutritionist’s advice.
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The first half of season three aired on AMC from October through December of last year; the second half of season three premieres on February 10th
Warning: major spoilers ahead if you haven't seen up through the eighth episode of season three
Record ratings for a basic cable show, along with critical and viewer raves be damned - I think The Walking Dead is one of, if not the most aggravating TV programs I've ever spent time with. I've tried to write a review of the show a couple of different times over the past year or so, but found myself repeatedly hitting a creative roadblock, as will happen occasionally when I'm trying to formulate my thoughts into words on a particular subject. So I've just been stockpiling plenty of observations and opinions over the course of watching all 27 episodes of the AMC drama during its two and a half seasons on the air. Because I have so much to say, I'll break up my review into two parts (as I've said on here before, most people look at a bulky 2000+ word review - which is what this full one would clock in at - and aren't exactly willing to dive right into it). Part one looks at the show's biggest weakness: a crippling lack of likable and sympathetic characters.
In my 42 year lifetime of being an avid TV consumer, I'm hard-pressed to come up with another show I've watched with a large ensemble cast that has so few agreeable characters and as many thoroughly unlikable ones as this one (The Newsroom would be a not-too-distant second). There's exactly two characters since the show began that I enjoy, who either haven't annoyed the hell out of me or made me shrug with indifference: Steven Yeun's Glenn and Lauren Cohan's Maggie (Norman Reedus' Daryl might qualify as half a likable character). Everyone else on The Walking Dead I've felt absolutely no attachment to and completely failed to be intrigued by, which is a huge problem as a viewer watching a program built upon the concept of rooting for the survival of the main group. Here's a rundown of the show's main characters and my many issues with them:
- Rick (played by Andrew Lincoln)...the show's protagonist has admittedly exerted more sensible authority in the first half of season three than he did during his bumbling time as de facto group leader in the first two seasons. Rick's stupid choices and numerous moments of indecision earlier on were obviously meant to complicate the character and convey the difficulties of navigating the changed world which the group inhabits - his actions just had me slapping my forehead repeatedly, though. This and Lincoln's tendency to overact has always kept me at arm's length from warming up to the character.
- Lori (played by Sarah Wayne Callies)...Lori was a huge nag who repeatedly proved incapable of keeping an eye on her adolescent son Carl (played by Chandler Riggs), despite the fact that danger lurks around every corner since, you know, there's a zombie apocalypse going on and all. Plus she hooked up with Shane, Rick's best friend, a little too quickly when they thought Rick was dead after the world went down the crapper following the virus outbreak. It seems I wasn't alone in disliking the character, judging from the overwhelmingly negative reactions online from viewers.
- Shane (played by Jon Bernthal)...the season one and two character, who was incredibly stubborn and irritatingly cocky, had "weaselly prick" written all over him almost immediately (see the Lori hookup, among many other examples).
- Carl (played by Chandler Riggs)...I cannot remember the last time an actor annoyed me like the precocious Riggs has over the past two seasons. I know ripping a kid for being a crappy actor is mean, but screw it - he simply is. Like Keanu Reeves, you can practically see the acting mechanisms whirring in his head. Riggs didn't have much to do until about halfway through season two, at which point Carl started being worked more into the important storylines, usually as a result of his bratty behaviour (like wandering off again and taunting a walker stuck in the mud, an action that would come back to have major implications). Season three has unfortunately seen the show's writers establish Carl as much more grown up and able to take on bigger responsibilities, all while wearing his dad's sheriff's hat (subtle symbolism there, writers). That bloody hat has been glued to Carl's head for every scene Riggs has appeared in during season three's first half, which has somehow made the character even more intensely annoying to me. I doubt we'll see it, but I'm desperately hoping Carl meets a very grisly ending.
- Dale (played by Jeffrey DeMunn)...while on the topic of grisly endings, such an occurrence thankfully befell this character in season two. When the sanctimonious Dale became zombie chow, I literally bounced off my couch, pumped my fist, and exclaimed "Yes!" with delight. I will give this to The Walking Dead - it definitely provokes some emotional reactions, even if they're not the ones the show's brain trust are necessarily looking for (the show also elicits plenty of unintentional laughter from me).
- T-Dog (played by IronE Singleton)...the combination of a character with a lame nickname who was usually given less to do than the background scenery, played by an actor with an even stupider first name adds up to one more member of the group whose fate I simply had no investment in. I also always felt an uncomfortable "token black character" vibe with T-Dog, like the producers felt obligated to at least have some black representation on a show that looks awfully white for a story that takes place in Georgia, where one third of the population is black (in Atlanta, where the show started out, the black population is over 50%). And yes, I get that this is a show about zombies and one obviously needs to suspend disbelief about a lot of things - it's just an observation. Granted, the black Michonne character, a major one, was added in season three, but the "token" thing stood out to me even more after one of the secondary black prisoner characters was briefly given a more prominent role right when T-Dog was mercifully put out of his misery near the end of the mid-season finale from the most recent run of episodes. And as soon as that prisoner went down for the count, another black male character named Tyreese was almost immediately then introduced. It's interesting (and rather amusing) is all I'm saying.
- Michonne (played by Danai Gurira)...I'm just not caring whatsoever about this one-note character, boringly played by Gurira with a perpetual scowl.
- Andrea (played by Laurie Holden)...Andrea feels like the female version of Shane - arrogant and unlikable from episode one of the series. It seemed fitting that the two got together for a brief fling, one that had all the sparks of a soggy Roman Candle.
- Carol (played by Melissa McBride)...one of the many examples of very poorly written female characters on The Walking Dead, Carol never really has much to do, all while doing it with quite possibly the worst hairdo in TV history. She's such an admired part of the group that they hardly bothered to look for her after she went missing during the zombie attack on the prison in episode four from this season.
- Merle (played by Michael Rooker)...I had hopes for Merle, whose return to the series after being abandoned early in season one was entirely predictable. Since reappearing this season, he's been an uneven mixture of at times being his old, nasty redneck self and other times being a man seemingly neutered by his current overlord, The Governor.
- The Governor (played by David Morrissey)...the writers can try to inject all the dark and complex duality into this character that they want - he's still forgettably dull.
- Hershel (played by Scott Wilson)...not quite Carl or Dale-level irritating, but Hershel's propensity for dispensing his folksy wisdom had me hoping that the zombie bite he took on his lower leg earlier this season would mark the departure of yet another hard-to-take character. No such luck. Hershel's addition of a priceless ponytail this season provided some good laughs, while having the same grating effect as Carl's ever-present chapeau.
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Medical experts believe that following a basic hygiene practice is the only way to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Initiated from Wuhan, China this virus has spread to dozens of countries infecting more than 1,000,00 people and 3400 deaths. CDC has shared the guidelines to control the spread of coronavirus that include washing hands properly, covering mouth and nose while sneezing and coughing, avoiding public interaction and contact with an infected patient or surface. However, these guidelines need a little more specification.
It is necessary to know that coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads through droplets that travel in the air. The droplets from an infected person’s cough or sneeze can travel to a maximum of six feet on the nearest surface and may live up to many days. The World Health Organization shares that it is possible to get coronavirus infection even by touching these infected surfaces where these respiratory droplets settle.
Paul Biddinger is the director of the Emergency Preparedness Research, Evaluation, and Practice Program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He says that;
He further adds that; “Good handwashing really matters. If people cough or sneeze into their elbow, that limits the spread of respiratory secretions. What all of us can do together is to follow basic hygiene measures that will actually slow the spread of disease in communities.”
Although the basic hygiene practices seem easy and obvious it is necessary to know that they are effective and important. Washing hands with any germicidal soap with at least 20 seconds reduces the chances of catching any virus from surfaces. Biddinger states that “most people don’t wash their hands very well.” He explains it as;
“As silly as it sounds to go watch a YouTube video on handwashing, people should do it to learn how to do it properly. Washing hands has been clearly proved to decrease disease transmission and lower your chance of getting infected.”
The hand sanitizers are only helpful if they contain 60% or more content of alcohol, confirms the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Also, note that hand sanitizer doesn’t work if a person’s hands are dirty and he needs to wash them anyway.
The importance of washing hands for preventing a disease’s spread is proven by research, for example, a study from 2006 reveals a 16% decrease in respiratory illness by frequently washing hands. Another study from 2008 showed that it contributes to a 21% reduced risk of disease.
The guideline also includes, not to touch face, eyes, and nose after touching any surface or after contact with a person. It is necessary to know that avoiding the face touching helps in controlling the spread as a respiratory virus is much likely to spread through eyes, nose, and mouth maybe. Biddinger says; “We all reflexively touch our face, but trying to be more mindful of touching our face decreases our chance of infection.”
Marc Lipsitch teaches epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School and he is also the director at the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. He reinforces the importance of following basic hygiene for controlling the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) saying;
“Slowing the epidemic is what we have to do if we can’t stop it. All those measures, small as some of them may be, help to slow the epidemic. There is a real coalescence between individually self-protective measures and measures that will benefit the community. Basic hygiene and self-protection measures are in fact socially beneficial.”

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Security Will Be Instrumental for the Success of GitOps – InApps is an article under the topic Devops Many of you are most interested in today !! Today, let’s InApps.net learn Security Will Be Instrumental for the Success of GitOps – InApps in today’s post !
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As the idea of using GitOps to speed deployments grows more intriguing to more organizations, questions around the security practices of this emerging practice are being raised.
This was the theme of this latest podcast from InApps, hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of InApps. This podcast features Om Moolchandani, co-founder and chief information security and chief technology officer for security provider Accurics; Cindy Blake, senior security evangelist for GitLab, Frank Kim, fellow at the SANS Institute; Sanjeev Sharma, head of platform engineering, Truist Financial; and Katie Gamanji, ecosystem advocate for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
“People are concerned because there hasn’t been a history of traditional tools to draw on” for GitOps, Blake said. “We’ve solved it first for embedding the scanning within your DevOps lifecycle. It may not sound like GitOps, but that’s what I would consider an essential foundation piece that you need to have for a secure software base to start with,” said Blake.
To this end, Accurics has done some work with GitLab to integrate their capability and bring those results into the developers’ pipeline.
GitOps could be not just about how to deploy software faster, but could also serve as a foundation for remediating vulnerabilities throughout the development and deployment process. “From a security perspective, we got the mean time to remediate which, people say, that’s anywhere from two to three months on average, in terms of fixing your serious security vulnerabilities,” said Kim. “And this is really what GitOps and these modern practices and tools allow us to do: to shrink that window of exposure, so we can better protect our organizations. I think that’s where we all want to want to get to.”
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Moolchandani defined GitOps as a process “that specifically relies upon Git, and uses infrastructures as code (IaC), as well as DevOps methods to deliver high-velocity CI/CD.” It is especially useful for deploying applications in Kubernetes environments but it can also be “applied elsewhere,” Moolchandani explained.
There has also been much discussion and adoption of GitOps in the community, which “is always a good sign, especially from the end-user community,” said Gamanji. CNCF projects Argo CD, a declarative GitOps CD, and Flux, used “to automatically ensure that the state of a cluster matches the config in Git” (according to FLux’s documentation), were early projects, and have seen adoption “within the end-user community, which is always a good plus,” said Gamanji. “So, I definitely think this is something that will be more present within the infrastructure nowadays. So it’s always good to explore it from different angles, especially with security.”
Gamanji’s mention of Flux prompted Kim to describe just how much GitOps, as well as continuous delivery, has evolved. He recalled how, when he first started working in the software field 20 years ago, applications were deployed in production every 18 months — a length in this day and age is practically unheard of. “It was ridiculous, and we didn’t have any of those tools or processes or methodologies that you guys were just describing…We didn’t even have Git, of course, back then,” said Kim. “And this is why I’m so excited about a tool like Flux, for example, ensuring the state of your Kubernetes clusters, matching your configuration.”
It is also “very encouraging” to see “large software vendors now talking about GitOps and including it in their commercially supported tools,” Sharma said. “That’s what will drive large-scale enterprise-grade adoption,” he said.
Let’s create the next big thing together!
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NOTE: This is a short story written in August 2015. It was first published on the Taboo Magazine website before it was shut down. While this is not the first time this story has been published, it remains my original and one of my favourite pieces.
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a lioness trapped in the body of a human? It's like having a burning ferocity, an untamable beast lurking under your skin, seeping into your inner most core. Your instincts heighten to a peak that overtakes your human mind. Some things just don't make sense. One of them is love.
The Lioness in her was something she never saw, like a cancerous mole on her back, it was to her detriment and plain for all others to see. That was, until he pointed out.
They'd met for the first time in a bussling city. She, a small town country girl and he a preppy boy born with a silver spoon in his mouth. They'd know each other for some time online but their first physical encounter changed everything they thought they knew about each other.
He was more than she'd imagined. His hair swept to the side, his olived skin reflected in the halogen lights, emphasizing his muscular physique and broad shoulders. His face was flawless, his smile almost sinister in its flirtatiousness. He was an enigma. He gave nothing away, yet she felt she had unraveled a part of him that belonged only to him. The attraction was overwhelming. His mind, oh his mind, she'd swoon. His sophistication, it was something unlike anything she'd seen in her small hometown. His philosophical inspirations inspired her bright mind to challenge all she knew about who she was and where she fit in the world.
It seemed odd, to say the least. They were from two different worlds. Although it was a tale as old as time, this wasn't a Disney movie and great love was destined to align with great pain.
They'd spent years tormenting each other with a tragic romance. The longing reverberated in her heartbeat, intensifying with each solid knock on her ribcage. They relished in the safety of a geographical distance. If not states, seas separated them. It protected them. It protected him from her and her persistence.
He loathed himself and she reminded him that he was loved, just by existing. Just by being so predictably easy to fall back on for an esteem pick-me-up. He had grown a dependence on her love to feed his self-worth. She relied on her love for her to remind her that tragedy exists. She used it to punish herself.
When the geographical distance fell apart, they were left to confront where they even stood in each other's lives. She burned with desire for him. She lusted for the commitment she had always sought. It seemed more realistic now. It was more viable. He, on the other hand, found every excuse not to give in. It was almost as if he simply wanted to defy every instinct, every passion that drove him to her arms in the first place.
For the first time in 5 years, they sat across from each other at a busy cafe. As if the public setting would protect them from themselves. She was stunned, to be in his presence again. To be near him, it was surreal. How their love had swayed over the years, yet here they were once again. She noted that his once chartreuse eyes had faded to an icy-blue. She wasn't sure why, but it made her unsettled. It almost felt like he was fading with his eyes.
In a predictably surprising move, he addressed the tension in the air without context.
"I will lead you into chaos," he said, intensifying his already solid eye contact. He desperately tried to have a constant handle of his emotions, but it always lead to them boiling over in outbursts of visible self-destruction. He was an utter masochist.
"I am chaos," she replied desperately.
"No," he cried out angrily, flicking his hand out of her grip and taking a step back, "you are perfection... And I keep poisoning that."
"How?" She replied, unable to contain the hint of viciousness in her voice.
"See? Do you see that? That passion, that persistence. That perfectly self-assured sense of... I don't even know. You have a fire in you. It's intense, almost intimidating. You are so sure of what you want that you never let it go. It's been comforting for all these years, but now... Now, it's just starting to burn me."
"How am I the one hurting you?" She screeched, anger resonating in the atmosphere around her. "You're the one telling me you want nothing to do with me. All I ever wanted was you."
"We should sell our story to Hollywood," he chuckled.
"Not the right time to make a joke," she said with a roll of her eyes.
They let a silence fill the place where their emotions should be. She sat, unable to look him the eye, her arms crossed as she exhaled in anger. She began to feel herself coming up with ways to hate him. It has worked before. She wondered what she was even doing here. Why did she feel this desperate, unforgettable attraction? Her need to hate him ricocheted off the walls of her mind. The hatred turning on herself. She began to cry.
"Why don't you want me? You've had every opportunity to have me. In any way you wanted. I always told you that. You lay down the rules and I'll play along, I don't care as long as I have you."
"It's not that simple, little Lioness and you know it." She felt her stomach churn with rage as he used his pet name for her at such a time.
"How DARE you," she cried out, "I know exactly what you're doing, here. I do." He sat calmly, reverting back to his sense of control. "This is all a game to you. And you've played it with me for long now that I can see every move you make before you make it. You want to reel me in and spit me back out but keep the hook intact just in case you get hungry for more later. To that, I say screw you! Honestly, screw you! You want to play a game? Let's play."
He still sat silently, not a hint of emotion to display. He had won this round. He had set a trap and she'd fallen straight into it. She gave herself a moment to collect her thoughts before continuing. If it was back to a calculated game, she figured she may as well play.
"If you ever loved me," she said sternly, ensuring her voice displayed logic rather than emotion, "then you wouldn't see my brain as a conquest. You wouldn't see my mind as a sick experiment. I am beginning to doubt you are even capable of human emotion."
He tried to remain motionless, but a flicker of pain ran across his face. It wasn't much and it lasted less than a second, but it was enough for her to know she'd won. He sat across from her as she analysed every moment he made. She noticed the almost unnoticeable twitch in his movements that prepared for her the outburst she knew he was about to have.
He errupted suddenly, flailing his arms in the air. "I love you too much, that's the bloody problem! I swear to myself time and time again that I'm done with you. I hate this feeling. I lose control when I'm around you, yet I have to be near you. I convince myself that I hate you - and I do! But yet I'm still here... Because you asked me to be. I'm your fucking lap dog. I control my own destiny, my own emotions, my own reactions. Then you come along and fuck it all up for me. I can't offer you what I know you deserve. A happy home, a loving partner for your children, stability, financial support, commitment. I don't know how to do any of that. Don't you think it kills me to see you with other men? To wish you happiness, knowing that I can't give that to you? Don't you think it drives me insane knowing that after all these years, we're still here doing the same damn thing?"
"You're right. It's been many years, don't you think that has to account for something?" She replied, taking her turn in the emotionless aspect of the game.
"Of course it fucking does. I just haven't figured out what or why. I can't figure it out. I want you, with every fibre of my being, with every sense of the word, I fucking want you. But I can't have you."
"Maybe we both had a part to play in this. Maybe I should have let you walk away. Maybe I should have left you alone. I don't know why I couldn't resist. Maybe I was just a dog chasing a car..."
“I guess intensity is just another word for insanity...” her words trailed off as she looked distracted. He squinted as he scanned her face for any traces of where her mind may have wandered off to. She gazed up into nothingness as her mind exploded in epiphany. Her body betrayed her by jumping up suddenly, her fingers trembling as they instinctively pointed at him.
“You... You lied about all of this,” she stuttered. His only response was to frown, tipping his head slightly to the left.
“Lied about what, exactly?”
“Oh, fuck off!” she scoffed. “Don't play dumb, it patronises both of us.”
“I have no idea what you're talking about.” His face struggled to stay straight. A dry grin snuck its way into a corner of his mouth.
“You're revelling in this, aren't you?” she shrieked. Her pain burning into that hatred she'd been longing for. “You wanted this all along. Why? What was I to you?”
“Either you’re strong and I want to destroy you or you’re submissive and I want to dominate you or you’re beautiful and I want to possess you.”
“None of those work, John. I'm too easy for you to destroy. But I destroy you in return. I'm only submissive to my emotions; I'm persistent to a fault... And if you want to possess me, why don't you have me? You could have had me...”
“You're a character in a story,” he said, wearing a wide smile. She sat back down, stunned. He had figured it out. He played the final blow.
“Check mate.” she muttered as she faded into a mist to join the other figments of his imagination.


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With dynamic narration and exquisite emotional resonance, Acevedo’s poetic performance celebrates the multidimensional subject of Black hair in the context of the author’s Dominican identity.
The readalong is taken to new heights as James "D-Train" Williams and Vaneese Thomas perform the work of Walter Dean Myers. Original music accompanies each poem's performance, resulting in a rhythmic representation of mood and tone. Separate tracks for the selections and lively inclusion of a glossary and timeline create a dynamic audiobook; part poetry, part nonfiction, and wholly authentic.
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- Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production 2008 (Medal Winner)
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Elizabeth Acevedo performs her original slam poetry novel with expert pacing, nuanced emotion, and a natural blend of English and Spanish to share Xiomara's struggle to discover her place in the world.

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“What do you do when the one true thing in your life turns out to be a lie?”
Lee Cuddy is used to being invisible. She isn’t seen by her father, who leaves without a goodbye or even a forwarding address. She isn’t seen by her mother, who quickly succumbs to her new boyfriends whims and wishes. She isn’t even really seen by her peers, until she becomes useful to them.
“It wasn’t that they teased her or ostracized her or thought her weird, but none of them seemed to see her, either.”
All of this invisibility makes stealing easy and she quickly graduates to shoplifting. This readymade ability quickly gives her a reputation and she finds a place in popularity as Edie takes her under her wing.
But, easy come, easy go, and betrayal follows when Edie finds her the easiest way out of her own troubles.
Lee quickly sees that it isn’t just Edie that is quick to dispose of her. Her own mother, guided by Steve, allows her to take the fall, refusing to even give her the money she stashed for her defense. Life in the Juvenile Detention Center is worse than anything thrown at her so far, and a nervous breakdown lands her in the psych ward. But lower security also provides the opportunity for a quiet and invisible girl to find a way out.
The Readymade Thief is a novel that is both fast paced and maddeningly slow. This combination doesn’t seem possible, and yet it is. Every page is written so that you know something is happening, but you aren’t quite sure what. The result is you feel as on edge and unsure as Lee.
Once Lee escapes from JDC we are introduced to even more subterfuge and intrigue. We are thrown into the world of secret societies and underground movements. The S.A. parties continue to pop up, inviting her to join their world, except her gut instinct screams to stay away. Fear for her friend Edie, even after her betrayal, compels her to go searching and almost leads to disaster.
Tomi, a mysterious young man, saves her and takes her in. He introduces her to life underground, the world of abandoned building hunts and secrets of the Subnet. She wants to trust him but every turn in her life has led to betrayal and lies. Still, it’s easy to fall into his earnestness, especially given her connection to him.
Lee discovers that S.A., a secret society devoted to uncovering the hidden puzzles and meanings behind the artwork of Marcel Duchamp. She unwillingly and unknowingly finds herself at the heart of their obsession. Somehow they think she is a key to their mystery, even though she has no idea how. No matter where she turns, or what she does, she finds herself a pawn in their games, time and time again. They are always one step ahead, always surrounding her, always controlling the circumstances of her life.
This secret society is obsessed with more than just art. They are also responsible for a chilling new drug that leaves its users docile and empty. Creatures willing to do anything suggested with little or no reaction. Unable to take care of themselves, many of them end up in JDC or worse; the Crystal Castle.
This book has a lot of layers going on in it. It is easy to get overwhelmed, or lost in the information. You want to keep pushing ahead to find out what is happening, but I found myself going back to reread portions at a slower pace to really understand what was being said. This is a book that needs more than one read through to really appreciate all the detail and nuance written into the plot.
One of the examples of the level of detail and intricacy is the title. Duchamp created artworks that he called ‘readymades’. Essentially, he viewed art of the time as ‘retinal art’. Easy to look at and pleasing to the eye, but there wasn’t anything more in depth than that. His response was to take everyday items and make minor changes to them, thus instantly turning them into art. Readymade art. The title, Readymade Thief, refers to Lee, already a shoplifter and petty thief, who has been repurposed for the societies use.
Usually, reading the line of phrase that uses the title of a book is a quick AHA moment. One that makes sense in terms of a character or event. In this case, the moment isn’t written out or explained by the author so much as hinted at. You are led to it, able to uncover it’s meaning as you read. I think it’s very clever.
There is a lot of art history, specifically to the work of Duchamp. I have no idea how much is based in truth and how much created for fiction. Some parts of this history lesson got very confusing for me. It was a lot of information given. Again, I think this is an example of why the book needs more than one reading. There is just so much to dissect at once.
Rose manages to pull off quite an elaborate story. There are clues placed at the very beginning that aren’t noticed until they are pointed out later. Things suddenly make sense, and the level of betrayal in Lee’s life is astounding. Everything in this novel is connected somehow, even if you can’t see how or why, you will in the end. The pure genius is that the end answers questions you didn’t even know you had.
This book will be enjoyable for anyone who loves mysteries and suspense novels. The art history is impressive and I can’t imagine the amount of research that went into composing this plot. It’s astounding! Weaving the art into a secret society will delight any conspiracy theory lover.
Thank you First to Read, Penguin Random House and Viking books for giving me an early copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.


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Well, it’s summer now, and so I thought it would be interesting to look at how summer is different between L.A. and Portland. While there may be the fewer differences between summer in L.A. and in Portland than in other seasons in each city, there still are differences.
For those of you who live outside the West Coast, there is a general dry season on the West Coast during summer and residents can count on less rain at this time than in other seasons, but the similarity ends there. The main differences is in the duration and amount of rain in each given month of the dry season and it’s effects.
In L.A., the rain generally shuts off for June through mid October, and sometimes shuts off as early as March and sometimes doesn’t start again till late December! In those rare instances when rain falls here in July, August, or September, it is usually from a straying of part of a monsoonal system coming from further east or a broken up hurricane from Mexico.
Also, the grass can turn golden brown as early as late March and last through the start of November, hence the term, “The Golden State”.
In Portland, the rain doesn’t really shut off but does lessen significantly from mid June through mid September, and you can see a decent rainstorm even in July, the driest month. And the grass usually doesn’t start turning gold until July, and, if it’s a rainy summer or one where the lesser amount of rain is fairly evenly distributed, the grass won’t turn as brown or gold. However, if there’s what would be considered a drought for the area, the grass will turn gold for the summer, though it still won’t be as prominent as in California due to the extensive tree cover, which keeps the area looking far more green than L.A., even in drier years.
But, in exposed areas, the golden grass will show if you look for it. This was the case in the summer of 2015.
In terms of temperature, L.A. is definitely warmer than Portland, and, the topography can mean large differences in temperature between locations just a few miles apart. West Hollywood and Encino, in the San Fernando Valley, are just separated by about 4 or 5 miles. Yet, in the summer, it can be 80 degrees in West Hollywood and 95 degrees in Encino on the same day! And Santa Monica on the ocean about 8 miles away, may be at 70 degrees at the same time! Then, there are the area’s infamous Santa Ana winds, which can come at almost any time of year, but when they come in September, they often bring the area’s hottest temperatures, well over 100 degrees, and can last over a week!
In Portland, temperatures tend to be cooler overall and, while one can see triple digit temps here, there are fewer instances and heat waves are of shorter duration than those in L.A. Oftentimes, the major heat waves in the Portland area are caused by the area’s East Wind, which can also occur at any time of year, but only in summer does it act like a Santa Ana and bring excessive heat.
Also, there is less difference in temperatures around the Portland area and it’s suburbs. Hillsboro, in the western part of the Portland area, tends to be the warmest, but it is not much hotter in summer than the downtown area or the other suburbs and it is usually rare for a difference or more than 8 degrees.
Finally, there’s the length of daylight, especially in June. There’s not a real large difference in the time of sunrise, but, in the evening, there’s a large difference in the time of sunset. In L.A., it gets dark by about 8:30pm, while in Portland, there’s still plenty of light at 9:30pm and you can still see a little light in the sky at 10pm!
So, here you have summer in L.A. and Portland. Wherever you are, in Portland, L.A., or anywhere else, do enjoy your summer!
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‘RHONY’ alum Jill Zarin is wasting no time ripping up her new $3.5 million home … a lot of money for a fixer-upper, because she’s spending millions renovating it.
She scooped up the Boca Raton mansion in July after selling the home she lived in just a few miles away. Jill’s new 6,000 square foot home has 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms and 26-foot ceilings throughout — 26-foot ceilings … insane!
Jill’s had a crew of construction workers changing the home from its original Mediterranean look to something more transitional.
She gutted the house and is adding a new chef’s kitchen … with a 5-foot galley workstation. There’s a brand new annex bar, marble Napoleon fireplace and even custom tennis-themed bathrooms with racquet-patterned wallpaper.
Jill’s also ripping out all the marble floors and installing new windows, among many other things. She’s doing an exterior makeover as well, including landscaping which will include the now-obligatory pickleball court.
As for the backyard, it’ll get an outdoor kitchen and a new, massive pool.
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Preschool Storytime returns for Fridays at 10:00 AM ! (for toddlers — age 5)
Preschool age children and their grownups are invited to come hear two or three stories read by everyone’s favorite —
Daycare groups are also welcome to attend.
Saturday, September 17 10:00 AM — Noon (for kids ages 3+)
Drop in anytime between 10 AM and Noon to build something awesome with the library’s GIANT collection of Legos. Your creation will be displayed at the library all month for everyone to admire! We’ll also post photos on Facebook.
Monday, September 26 7:00 PM (for adults) AT DR. UGS
Join the Virginia Community Book Club at Dr. Ugs for a discussion of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.
Multiple copies of the book will be available in various formats for check out from the library.