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It was nearly 3 a.m. and I couldn't sleep. I'd toss and turn and remanence. Unwillingly. I had gotten pretty good at this whole insomniac thing. For once though, I didn't want to be good. But I was trying. I was trying a lot of things. I was trying to forget, trying to forgive, and trying my best to move on. It's just, sometimes, your best isn't enough. I know I shouldn't be so hard on myself. But like I said, I was trying. So yeah. I wish I could tell you after I escaped things went back to normal. I wish I could tell you I woke up every morning with a new found motivation to get things right. And I wish I could say that I wasn't still reeling the loss of everything in between. Because that would be a lie. I mean, I was free. That was true. I was living with my dad and his roommate's family in Naples, Florida. I was safe. I was sober. But it was far from over. This is how it goes.
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Diabetic Confessions: Here's How Stress Affects My Blood Sugar Levels & What To Do If It Happens To You
I remember being on vacation and not needing my standard amount of insulin. I didn't understand why my blood sugars were so stable and almost normal until I understood how stress effects just about everything. Many anxious moments occur spontaneously. However, some can be predicted. And if you can predict it, you can prevent it. Here's what you need to know about stress and blood sugar levels.
Let's Talk Coping Mechanisms & Substance Abuse: How Yoga Helps Me Overcome the Darkest of Days
I think you have to want it bad enough to overcome addiction. I couldn't let these pills go, even after I hit rock bottom. And then I found yoga. That's when everything changed. I get it though —the process of recovery is stressful on its own, and without your usual means of coping, it's really easy to become overwhelmed. So, here are three ways yoga helps me stay grounded.
When We Have Our Health, We Have Everything: How CBD Helps Me Every Day
There are some days when I can't muscle enough energy to leave the house. There are weeks when it hurts to simply get out of bed. As the months go by, I don't understand why my insides hate me. Then I found CBD oil. That's when everything changed. I say this because lately, I have more energy. I'm worrying less and socializing more. My illnesses no longer define me —despite the obstacles staring at me in the face. When it's all said and done, CBD helps me every day. Here are nine ways CBD can help you too.
As Katy Perry Once Said, I Don't Negotiate with Insecurities: So Let's Battle for Some Sanity
College graduation is upon me along with my sensible attempts to get the good girl back. Except this chick was severely addicted to opioids. I was literally doing about 31 pills a day. But I thought if I could simply leave, then I could get better. I was living my life through the saying, out of sight, out of mind. So I pack my bags, give my apartment key back to my landlord, and try to start over, again. Destination —sunny Florida. Things started off great but I was about to learn; wherever you go, there you are. And eventually, I find myself addicted all over again. So I'll ask you one more time, who's ready to battle for some sanity? I hope you say yes.
Chronic Pain & Depression 101: When Others Can't See Your Invisible Illness But You Feel It Everywhere
Just about everyone gets hurt from time to time. When you cut your finger or pull a muscle, pain is your body's way of telling you something is wrong. Once the injury heals, you stop hurting. Sounds simple enough, right? Yes. Except chronic pain is different. Whereas acute pain is a normal sensation that alerts us to possible trauma, chronic pain persists —for months or even longer. If you have chronic pain and depression, well —that burden may grow even heavier. The good news is, these disorders are not inseparable. Here's what you need to know.
Find Out Why Doctors Finally Say, "No. Opioids Are Not The Go-To Treatment For Pain Relief."
Truth, most Americans these days are either trying to get pills, helping someone else get them, in recovery from using too many or worse, dead from overdosing. Don't you think it's about time for a different approach? Why are some doctors so quick to write a refill for oxy while others are too afraid to even take their prescription pad out? Well today, I have some good news. With the rise of opioid-related deaths, new regulations finally say that opiate medication should only be looked at as a last resort when treating non-cancer chronic pain —a loss for "Big Pharma" but a win for pain patients everywhere. Here's what you need to know.
Heal & Live: Recovering from an Eating Disorder
Sometimes, an eating disorder isn't so far away. It's the skinny girl you hear at sixth period throwing up in the bathroom because she swears she's fat. It's 30 million people worldwide. And more times than not, it's the one you thought had it all together.
The Little Black Book of Poems: Want and Need Are Two Different Things
You have to kill it before it kills you. Your worst enemy. Your best friend. You hate it. You love it. You can't live with it. You can't live without it. You want to be happy. You should be happy, but you can't take your finger off the trigger. Why? Because want and need are two different things.
The Little Black Book of Poems: Bang
It's over. It's been over for a while now. It took a lot to delete your number; even longer to block you on Facebook. I was still holding, afraid to let go. They say it gets easier each day. I know I wake up further from what I used to be. But some days are easier than others. If I were to say I didn't miss you —that would be a lie.
The Little Black Book of Poems: Trap Queen
She sits there quietly, laying still; but her head is spinning. Her legs are crossed; pretending— that her life isn't ending, one li(n)e at a time. High off pills and potions; Oxy has this white girl lacking emotions. Externally, she's calm and serene. Reality —she's anything but clean; when playing her favorite role as trap queen.
The Little Black Book of Poems: Blade
Sadness sweeps through your buzzing brain, as you count what pills are left in your stash. 19. You'd have enough for today and tomorrow, but in all reality, you needed more. Tonight though, you had other plans.


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There is a lot to do at the NEMO Science Centre. Young and old can experience the fabulous world of science. Because in NEMO "touch is allowed", you want to be active! And to end the day, you can relax on the roof terrace and have a picnic.
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Immerse yourself in the world of physics, chemistry, biology and technology at the NEMO Science Centre. Take a journey of discovery into the human brain on four levels, see cosmic rays, prove your technical skills or build a mini-skyscraper. The museum welcomes young and old, simply bringing curiosity to everyone and learning about the senses of how the world works.
The history of the NEMO
The NEMO Science Centre made its roots in 1923 when the artist Herman Heijenbrock decided to open the Labour Museum. The reason wasn't only to have space for his extensive works of art, he also wanted to share his fascination and enthusiasm with young visitors. After World War II, it was renamed to NINT Dutch Institute for Industry and Technology. Until the late 1960s, it served mainly to convince children and adolescents of a career in science and engineering. From the 1970s, it was decided to take a neutral position, which provided the museum with an important educational offer for schools and colleges. Since 1997, the museum has been housed in the fascinating building, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, which resembles a ship. Initially it bore the name "New Metropolis", which was converted in 2000 into the abbreviation NEMO.
About NEMO
NEMO is built on the entrance to the IJ Tunnel, the eye-catching green building, which resembles a ship in the harbor of Amsterdam. On four levels it have space for exploration and discovery. Exhibitions, films, demonstrations and workshops are an integral part, but also for other events you will find enough space. Several times a day, science shows are held. Those who have the opportunity should definitely enjoy the beautiful panoramic view on the roof terrace. In fair weather, it is also a great place for a picnic.

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Where our Federal and Provincial aids hold gaps, we must persist. Where our local government needs time to change, we must loudly be patient. Loudly, so they feel our support for change. Loudly so they may know our desires and evolve towards them.
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
PHENOMENALITY: *marvelous*
MYTHICITY: *poor*
FRYEAN MYTHOS: *drama*
CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTIONS: *psychological*
Despite the presence of horror-icon Michael Gough, SATAN'S SLAVE is just an average 1970s "Satanic exploitation" flick, competently directed by Norman J. (INSEMINOID) Warren and written by David (HOUSE OF WHIPCORD) McGillivray. There's no specific Satanic mythology or philosophy expoused here. Satanism is merely the core around which the filmmakers build a "family romance" which involves transmigration of souls from the older to the younger-- a theme pulled off better a few years later in the Aussie horror-film ALISON'S BIRTHDAY.
The main story is frequently interrupted by non-diegetic scenes of bloody violence against women, usually though not always by men. Presumably these scenes-- including the one that opens the film-- were included just to "goose" the rather slow progression of the main plot, even though when that plot does get going, it has its own bloody moments. I've seen more than my fair share of gore scenes, and have become innured to 90% of what appears in modern films, but I will say that a couple of bloodlettings in SLAVE impressed me.
Following a couple of the aforementioned gratuitous gore-scenes, the real action gets going as young Catherine rides with her mother and father to visit the country-house of her uncle Alexander (Gough), who lives with his only son Stephen and a secretary, Frances. Just as they're nearing the house, the father accidentally drives the car into a tree. Catherine is thrown clear but it seems both father and mother are trapped in the car as it goes up in a blaze of fire.
Shortly later, she's recovering in a room of the country-house, where she meets all the residents. Catherine expresses doubt that a car should have caught fire from such a crash, but Alexander fobs her off with some excuse and she begins settling in at the house in order to recuperate. She seems to accept her parents' deaths rather easily given that she never sees any bodies, attends an inquest or speaks to a coroner.
Soon she's recovered enough that she's responding favorably to romantic attentions from her first cousin Stephen, as he complains about how his father "always wanted a girl." Given the soul-transference theme this might have proved more fertile ground that the actual storyline: where might the story have gone had it involved Alexander using magic to "make" a daughter by transferring Stephen's soul into Catherine's body? However, as noted above Alexander's real plan is more along the lines of the 1932 MUMMY: he lost his wife in an earlier ceremony (the purpose of which is not stated) and wants to reincarnate her in the body of his niece. In other words, the slogan here is "double your incest."
Toward the end Catherine gets shocked out of her passivity. Frances, who's had been having casual sex with Stephen up until Catherine's arrival, resents being tossed aside. She tells Catherine the whole Satanic scheme, which action results in Frances' death and Catherine's flight. The Satanists catch her, but she escapes after stabbing Stephen in the eye (the film's best scene). Running into a nearby forest, she seems to have escaped, only to run into-- her father, hale and hearty and not dead from a car-accident. He soothes her and takes her back to the country-house, telling her that she's just had a bad dream...
...and if you believe for a minute that the film's going to end on a positive note, you've never seen a 1970s horror-film.
The myth-function here is psychological, but Warren and McGillivray don't do anything very interesting with the implied incest-motifs.
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How to: Azure Kubernetes Service + Custom VNET with Kubenet19 Sep 2018 in Kubernetes | Microsoft Azure
05/21/2019 UPDATE: the route table and NSG assignation are now directly managed by the Azure Kubernetes Service provider, you don't need to run extra script anymore! This blog post has been updated according to this and this kind of deployment is now documented on Microsoft Azure docs, on this page.
You probably already know that it is possible to deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster into an existing virtual network (VNET) to be able to control the network CIDR and consume other services on your private networks, like on-premises services through an Express Route for example.
If you read the network documentation of AKS you will see that there are two networking modes: Basic networking that controls the virtual network and uses Kubenet as network plugin or Advanced networking that lets you control the virtual network and uses Azure CNI network plugin.
In this post, I will explain how to use Advanced networking, to keep control on the virtual network, but continue to use Kubenet as a network plugin.
Thank you very much to my colleague Stéphane Erbrech who has helped a lot to get this scenario working and review this post before publication
A lot of the customers I am working with need to control the virtual network in which the Azure Kubernetes Service cluster should be deployed, most of the time for being able to peer this virtual network with their existing infrastructure and enable on premise communications. Azure CNI makes sure that all your pods running in the Kubernetes cluster get an IP address on the subnet, which is great because you can benefit from all the VNET/Subnet features and security rules using NSGs. But sometime it can be complicated to have one IP address per pod, for example when you have to deal with very small IP addresses range on the subnet where AKS will land. In this case, it is really interesting to keep Kubenet (that comes with a private network inside the cluster).
This scenario is not supported using Azure CLI or Azure Portal but we have published all the scripts to get ready on this GitHub repository. Let's have a look at how this sample works!
Environment variables
After cloning the repository, you need to update the
scripts/env.sh file. It contains all the environment variables that will be used by the deployment scripts.
First, fill your Azure subscription id and service principal information and uncomment the exports.
export AKS_LOCATION=eastus
# If you don't have a SPN, uncomment the line that creates it in the setup-aks-vnet.sh script
# export SPN_PW=<YOUR_SPN_PW> # a service principal Service Principal
# export SPN_CLIENT_ID=<YOUR_SPN_CLIENT_ID>
# export AKS_SUB=<YOUR_AZURE_SUB_ID>
Azure Kubernetes proposes native integration with OMS Container Monitoring Solution. You need to fill the name, id and location of the OMS workspace you want to use in the
OMS_WORKSPACE_ID and
OMS_LOCATION variables.
# export OMS_WORKSPACE_NAME=<WORKSPACE_NAME>
# export OMS_WORKSPACE_ID=<WORKSPACE_ID> # /subscriptions/<subId>/resourcegroups/<om_srg>/providers/Microsoft.OperationalInsights/workspaces/<OMS_WORKSPACE_NAME>
# export OMS_LOCATION=${AKS_LOCATION}
Note: The
AKS_DATEvariable is a generated suffix for the resources names. If you don't need that, just remove it or fix it to what you want.
export AKS_DATE=$(date +%Y%m%d)f
export AKS_RG=aks-${AKS_DATE}
export AKS_NAME=aks-${AKS_DATE}
If the virtual network and the subnet where AKS has to be deployed already exist, you need to set the
AKS_VNET_LOCATION and
AKS_VNET_NAME environment variables values to the name of the resource group that contains the virtual network, the location of the virtual network and the name of the virtual network, respectively. You also need to update the
AKS_SUBNET2_NAME and
AKS_SUBNET2_RANGE with the range of the virtual network, the range of the subnet and the subnet name.
export AKS_VNET_RG=aks-shared-${AKS_DATE}
export AKS_VNET_LOCATION=${AKS_LOCATION}
export AKS_VNET_NAME=aks-vnet-${AKS_VNET_LOCATION}
export AKS_VNET_RANGE=10.201.0.0/16
export AKS_SUBNET1_NAME=VNET-Local
export AKS_SUBNET1_RANGE=10.201.0.0/22
export AKS_SUBNET2_NAME=AKS-Nodes
export AKS_SUBNET2_RANGE=10.201.4.0/22
If the virtual network already exists, you probably won't need the
AKS_SUBNET1_*, just remove them.
AKS cluster will be deployed inside the subnet referenced by the
AKS_SUBNET variable. We also let you the option to choose the Docker bridge address, the Kubernetes DNS service IP address and the Kubernetes service address range, as documented here. But, most of the time, you don't need to update this configuration.
#### NOTE : changing the CIDR or the DNS IP will make your unable to scale your cluster if you cli is not up to date.
#### make sure your Azure CLI is at least in version 2.0.37
export AKS_SUBNET=/subscriptions/${AKS_SUB}/resourceGroups/${AKS_VNET_RG}/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/${AKS_VNET_NAME}/subnets/${AKS_SUBNET2_NAME}
# export AKS_BRIDGE_IP=10.201.0.1/24
export AKS_DNS_IP=10.0.0.10 # Must be within SVC_CIDR
export AKS_SVC_CIDR=10.0.0.0/16 # Must not overlap with AKS_VNET_RANGE
Deployment script
Now that your environment variables are configured, you can jump to the
scripts/deploy-aks-custom-vnet.sh script that is responsible for deploying the AKS cluster.
If you did not provide Service Principal credentials in the
env.sh script, uncomment the two lines that are creating a new one and retrieving its information for you:
create a SP and sets the env variable accordingly
eval $(az ad sp create-for-rbac --skip-assignment | jq -r '"export SPN_PW=\(.password) && export SPN_CLIENT_ID=\(.appId)"')
If you are deploying in an existing virtual network you can remove the first line, that creates the resource group for the VNET:
az group create -n ${AKS_VNET_RG} -l ${AKS_VNET_LOCATION}
You can also remove the second command
az network vnet create:
az network vnet create \
--location ${AKS_VNET_LOCATION} \
-g ${AKS_VNET_RG} \
--name ${AKS_VNET_NAME} \
--address-prefixes ${AKS_VNET_RANGE} \
--subnet-name ${AKS_SUBNET1_NAME} \
--subnet-prefix ${AKS_SUBNET1_RANGE}
If the subnet where you want to deploy AKS already exists, remove the third command in the scripts:
az network vnet subnet create:
az network vnet subnet create \
-g ${AKS_VNET_RG} \
--name ${AKS_SUBNET2_NAME} \
--address-prefix ${AKS_SUBNET2_RANGE} \
--vnet-name ${AKS_VNET_NAME}
Then we make sure that the Service Principal has
Contributor role on the resource group that contains the virtual network:
az role assignment create \
--role=Contributor \
--scope=/subscriptions/${AKS_SUB}/resourceGroups/${AKS_VNET_RG} \
--assignee ${SPN_CLIENT_ID}
Note: if you want more control, you can set the scope to the subnet resource id and not the whole resource group, it will also work. This role assignment is required as Kubernetes will use the service principal to create external/internal load balancers for your published services
The next step create the deployment using the
aks-vnet-all.json ARM template, after overriding some parameters:
# Create a deployment from a local template, using a parameter file and selectively overriding key/value pairs.
az group deployment create -g ${AKS_RG} \
--template-file aks-vnet-all.json \
--parameters @aks-vnet-all-parameters.json \
--parameters \
resourceName=${AKS_NAME} \
location=${AKS_VNET_LOCATION} \
networkPlugin=kubenet \
vnetSubnetID="/subscriptions/${AKS_SUB}/resourceGroups/${AKS_VNET_RG}/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/${AKS_VNET_NAME}/subnets/${AKS_SUBNET2_NAME}" \
servicePrincipalClientId=${SPN_CLIENT_ID} \
servicePrincipalClientSecret=${SPN_PW} \
workspaceRegion=${OMS_LOCATION} \
workspaceName=${OMS_WORKSPACE_NAME} \
omsWorkspaceId=${OMS_WORKSPACE_ID} \
serviceCidr=${AKS_SVC_CIDR} \
dnsServiceIP=${AKS_DNS_IP} \
You may also want to override some default values in the
aks-vnet-all-parameters.json parameters file. For example if you want to enable http application routing, disable RBAC or OMS integration, change Kubernetes version… Like with the CLI or the Azure portal, you can also update the number of nodes that you want in the cluster, the size of the virtual machines etc…
Once you have updated the script following your needs, you are ready to deploy:
Wait for the deployment to be completed.
Network fix
There is currently an issue while deploying AKS with Advanced Networking and Kubenet plugin: the route table and NSG created in the
MC_* resource group are not associated to the subnet where the cluster is deployed. To make sure the network will work while the cluster is deployed, the script will do this association for you, right after the deployment:
# We need to update the VNET with the Route Table and NSG from AKS
# First, find the resources we need : AKS RG, Route table, NSG and subnet id.
AKS_MC_RG=$(az group list --query "[?starts_with(name, 'MC_${AKS_RG}')].name | [0]" --output tsv)
ROUTE_TABLE=$(az network route-table list -g ${AKS_MC_RG} --query "[].id | [0]" -o tsv)
AKS_NODE_SUBNET_ID=$(az network vnet subnet show -g ${AKS_VNET_RG} --name ${AKS_SUBNET2_NAME} --vnet-name ${AKS_VNET_NAME} --query id -o tsv)
AKS_NODE_NSG=$(az network nsg list -g ${AKS_MC_RG} --query "[].id | [0]" -o tsv)
# Update the Subnet
az network vnet subnet update \
-g $AKS_VNET_RG \
--route-table $ROUTE_TABLE \
--network-security-group $AKS_NODE_NSG \
--ids $AKS_NODE_SUBNET_ID
If you want remove the cluster, you need to manually remove the NSG and route table associations first.
Once the deployment is completed you'll get a Kubernetes cluster in a custom vnet, but using the Kubenet plugin. Then you can use this cluster as any AKS cluster.
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October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM)
No, it's not just another made-up holiday but an effort that began in 2003 by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in an effort to help protect every individual online.
As part of our community outreach during these challenging times, we've assembled a set of fun western-themed posters that can be posted at and shared with your staff. Covid-19 has unfortunately magnified cyber threats over 60 fold since it began so building awareness is more critical now than ever.


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One of the enduring images of the U.S. space program is seeing the Earth from space. Now NASA has improved upon that with Blue Marble Next Generation.
It's hard not to see an image of the Earth from above and not be moved. All the differences between people and nations down here seem so petty and trivial once you see all our borders disappear. You can understand why Stewart Brand lobbied for NASA to release the original image of the Earth back in the '60s and put on the cover of his Whole Earth Catalog, which was Pinterest for hippies.
NASA's new project allows anybody to see the Earth with the clarity only astronauts have seen so far. Actually, you probably have a better view of our planet than most astronauts.
The space agency has released the high-resolution photos in celebration of their new Earth Observation System. (Well, maybe not exactly new, but 2005-ish vintage. But space is pretty awesome no matter what year it is.) It comprises 18 satellites snapping detailed pictures and beaming them back down to scientists.
They have images over all 12 months of the year 2004. Although you've probably seen many images of the Earth whether in books are documentaries, but it's pretty cool to watch what the vegetation does as the seasons change in the temperate zones, going from dead to green.
Advances in computer technology allowed NASA's Earth Observatory to make composites of all the images shot over the month, which helped alleviate some of the noise that show up when taking these pictures. And they aren't just Photoshopping these images. That would take too long even for the most advanced photo-editing junkie. The agency put its considerable computing resources that Uncle Sam gave them to process them automatically.
They also have more recent images available. Here's a brutal winter that went through the Pacific Northwest, not far from where I live:
Most of the images are weather-related. Here's one of Baja California in Mexico, with some dust storms visible.
And of course, the obligatory hurricane shot. Actually, it's Tropical Cyclone Funso.
There's greater detail in area like glaciers, deserts, and areas with snow cover, things that haven't always shown up well on satellite pictures. The images are much sharper overall than anything that even the best cameras could capture back in the '60s and '70s. The astronauts took Hasselblads to the moon, so NASA knows good cameras when they see them. Sure, we have Google Maps on our phones, but even they don't have the kind of detail that's available. Things like salt flats look even better and more like actually looking down from the International Space Station.
NASA does admit to some drawbacks. You might see some noise in open water areas. Tropical regions have cloud cover that make getting the composite imagery exactly right in those areas difficult. Satellite imagery is by no means perfect, as awesome as it looks here. You can get images in all kinds of resolutions here. You can even download them via Bittorrent.
You might also be interested in NASA's GENIE suborbital rocket system. As mentioned previously, astronauts used Hasselblad camera on the Moon. Here's a pinhole version.


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Earlier this week, Dave Apte presented a webinar on AI Accelerator Design with Stratus High-Level Synthesis. It was timed for the East Coast and for Europe, so I had to get up at 6:00am to attend, but since I'm still somewhat jet-lagged from getting back from Israel at the weekend, I was awake by 4:30am so I didn't even need my alarm to wake me.
The example design that Dave presented recognizes hand-written digits. It is trained on a standard MNIST data set which provides 60,000 28x28 pixel images, and a further 10,000 images for testing. A neural network is constructed and trained using TensorFlow, and then the trained model metadata is extracted (the weights). The network has six computational layers, two 2-D multi-channel convolution layers, two pooling layers, and two dense layers (see the diagram).
The TensorFlow operations in the network consist of 2-D convolution (applied to 3x3 pixel subsets of the image), max pooling which selects maximum value from 2x2 working sets to reduce the size of the image by a factor of 2, and then matrix multiple for the final two layers.
At a conceptual level, the TensorFlow operations are analogies of SystemC hardware modules. Graph connections in the network are analogs of SystemC I/O interfaces. And a whole TensorFlow session is like a SystemC simulation. That's the basic way that the network is made synthesizable: Each TensorFlow function has a corresponding SystemC module, which defines the I/O interface and threads, along with the algorithm. The modules are C++ templates for easy configuration.
The conversion is not completely automatic. You, as the hardware design, have to figure out the correct dataflow architecture that meets your goals, such as whether to use a streaming interface, a memory interface, or a bus interface. TensorFlow works with entire tensors but in hardware, the data has to be handled in smaller chunks.
For the example network, the network dataflow is implemented by streaming and line buffer interfaces. Each module receives and produces data one pixel at a time in raster scanning order. Some modules require specialized buffering to process the data correctly (e.g., the 3x3 convolution).
The project ends up with six SystemC modules to be synthesized to RTL, one for each layer of the TensorFlow network. Multiple configurations of each module can be created for design space exploration, meaning multiple RTL implementations from the same SystemC code. It also contains a SystemC testbench to feed the weights, biases, and test data to the network, and compare the results to golden results from TensorFlow to measure accuracy. TensorFlow runs with full floating-point accuracy, but our implementation is in fixed point.
The first step is algorithmic verification, to examine the performance (percentage accuracy) of the model with the bit widths chosen. You can see from the table that the accuracy drops from 97.1% with TensorFlow (floating-point) to 96.68% with 16-bit fixed-point hardware. That doesn't change much down to 13-bit fixed-point hardware, and the drops dramatically at 12-bit hardware. Note that it is up to you as the designer to decide what accuracy level is acceptable. The higher the accuracy, the greater the area and the greater the power consumption.
Next, Stratus HLS synthesizes each module to RTL. At this point, you need to decide what technology and library is being used, and what clock period you want. Unlike with traditional RTL, where you can only afford to build a single RTL implementation, you can create several alternative RTL targeting different PPA. Without changing any code, you can vary the bitwidths, and you can vary the synthesis configurations for each module, trading off latency against hardware area, or slow and small versus large and fast. For example, in the table you can see that we have found a solution that is 19% smaller and 14% less power for only a 0.64% reduction in accuracy. In the table, fast is the fastest possible hardware, slow is the smallest possible hardware, and medium is a compromise. You can make more radical changes, too, such as synthesizing to a different library, or with a different system clock frequency.
Once RTL is produced by Stratus HLS, the RTL needs to be verified for performance testing (latency, throughput) and PPA assessment. There is also connectivity and interoperability with the rest of the chip to be verified. Note that the same SystemC testbench is used to both verify that the algorithm is correct and sufficiently accurate, and then verify that the RTL is correct and meets the desired PPA.
In summary, the process is:
If you have access to Cadence support, there is a Rapid Adoption Kit that holds all the files associated with this demo neural network. You can also visit the Stratus HLS learning center.
There is a Stratus product page (accessible to anyone).
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Q. How long is it advisable to go without sex? – Abhiram Tandon, New Delhi
A. There's no proper answer to that question. Your body has its own way of dealing with semen production. If there's too much in storage, you'll have a dream of Margot Robbie, your high-school crush or Rakhi Sawant in a leotard (whatever turns you on) and BOOM your sheets need to be changed before anyone else in the house wakes up.
That's the automatic physical release mechanism to not ejaculating. No one escapes from this evolutionary valve. When it comes to sex with your partner, the amount of time between sex depends entirely on the two of you. The only advice that can be given, in this regard, is that when either of you notice your partner wanting it, try to be understanding to their needs and help them out.
Some people can go their entire lives without sex – Buddhist monks, Catholic priests, nuns, the Pope. They manage to survive just fine… their bollocks don't explode, their schlongs don't drop off due to non-usage and they don't (usually) go about randomly raping people. But since normal people don't live celibate lives, regular sex is something that is preferred, depending entirely on your ability to get it and your personal appetite for it.
So rest assured, nothing's gonna happen if you ain't got some in a long time. Maybe your self-esteem might get a little bruised, but apart from that nothing major. Confucius once said, "Give a man a high-speed internet connection and enough Kleenex, and he won't need any sex till the day he dies." (I made that quote up, Sorry!)
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After all, true happiness only exists when we are true to ourselves.
By Barbara Becker Holstein — Written on Feb 16, 2015
Ever since we were kids, we've been told that there is no one that we should value more than ourselves (and that this is the ONLY way that we can be truly happy). There's something that is so inherently beautiful about this message. After all, if you can't be proud of who you are as a person, how can you ever expect to find someone who will? This message also touches on your personal and work life. We spend so much time in the pursuit of happiness that we don't often question just what it is that we're doing to get there. Because knowing how to be happy—and then executing it—is sometimes easier said than done.
Newsflash: You owe it to yourself to be the best version of you that you can possibly be.
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein couldn't have said it any better than when she stressed this spot-on point: "True happiness only exists when we are true to ourselves." No matter how tough your situation may seem today, it doesn't mean that you'll be stuck in that rut forever. That's what makes it super important that you focus on your own life instead of comparing yourself to your friends or strangers.
What are you actively doing to put yourself (and your goals) first?
While constantly being told that we should always be ourselves is good and all, it doesn't really address what we need to do in order to get to the core of who we really are. One of the reasons that we love Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein's advice is because of how raw and true it is. We definitely agree that it's never too late to be who you want to be; it's all about being motivated enough to work on being the best you that you can be. And THAT really is the biggest step that you can take. After watching this video, if you're still not sure how to put your best foot forward, reading Holstein's book The Enchanted Self will point you in the right direction.
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Google Allo is out and rolling to the public on both Android and iOS devices. As usual, the app is not available in all parts of the world, but it will be in no time.
In case you didn't know, Google Allo is a free messaging app that was launched back in May. It comes in to add to the likes of WhatsApp, iMessage, Facebook Messenger and Viber, among dozens of others, but it boasts one feature that none of the current players has to offer. The Google Assistant, which was also launched in May, is buried deep in the app and as you know, this digital assistant is now smarter than ever. But there is more to Google Allo than you probably know. Here's a look at the 4 best features of the app.
Google Assistant
One way you can interact with Google Allo is through the Assistant. This is a virtual assistant that is capable of pulling any sought of information from the web as well as bring out embedded videos from within a chat as long as you want it. You will be promised of up-to-date information from this assistant and you can even go as far as asking personal questions and you won't be disappointed.
When within messages, it is possible to summon the digital assistant for any help, be it locating the best restaurant that you and your friends can dine or even playing a favorite video for your chat mates to listen and watch. To make it get better, Google built its own machine learning into the assistant, meaning that the more you use it, the more it gets better at serving you.
To call upon the assistant from within Google Allo, simply enter the phrase "@google" before the commands.
Smart replies
Google Allo has a smart replies' feature that is helped by the presence of artificial intelligence. The app has the ability to suggest the best possible answers you can give to a friend when not in the mood to think of something better. It can be a handy feature when on the move and the fact that it learns from your everyday phrases and way of communication with different people makes it even cooler.
According to Google, this Smart Reply feature will improve with time as you use it as well as adjust better to your way of communication.
Image recognition
Google Allo also comes with support for image recognition technology. This means that the chat app can spot the difference between a cat and a dog. In fact, the Smart Reply feature above also works hand-in-hand with this image recognition software so as to give out the best suggestions when called upon.
Enhanced messaging
Messaging apps are more of the same, especially when it comes to features. You will get the likes of emojis, stickers, and others on many chat apps, but Google Allo adds things like the ability to send smaller and larger versions of text messages, scribble on images as well as share customized stickers.
There is also the option to go into incognito messaging where end-to-end encryption is enabled by default and the messages are disappearing.


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The canteen is located in Nylåna and is the natural meeting place at the university. Here you can eat lunch, have a coffee with a friend or do some group work.
Remember to show student ID
The canteen is open to students, staff and visitors. Remember that you get a student prize by showing a valid student ID.
Download the app "Studentbevis" (student ID) from iTunes or Google Play
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If you have allergies or other needs, we will try to prepare an alternative offer for you. Just stop by the cafeteria and tell us what you would like and we will do our best to help!
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By Matthew Norman
A REGIME obsessed with national security will remove every last freedom of its citizens to achieve it. Eritrea, a small nation in the Horn of Africa, is dominated by such a regime.
Due to a long history of war with neighbouring Ethiopia, the dictator of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, is set on ensuring his citizens are always ready for conflict. The biggest recruitment channel for soldiers in Eritrea, one of the most militarised countries in the world, is the education system.
This military-educational complex sees 11th graders forced from their homes every August and taken to Sawa Military Camp, a facility that sits in the Gash-Barka region on the border with Sudan, to complete their final year of study.
Joe, a former student at Sawa who was able to flee Eritrea, was taken to the camp in 2011 when he was only sixteen years old. Itself a violation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, to which Eritrea was a signatory.
Joe told us: "There is never adequate time to study in Sawa […] as students, we were made to collect stones from the mountains far away from our dorm. We used to collect stones of 1m in height, 5m in length and 10m wide, shaped like a cuboid, that were for truck collection someday. No wheels can get into those places and there were collections from several years back."
Sam, another former student who agreed to be interviewed, when asked if he felt he had adequate time to study whilst at Sawa, said: "No, mostly you're called for attendance, running, etc, so they blow a whistle in the middle of your studies, there is not adequate time".
This kind of arbitrary task is part of a common collection of orders given by the military commanders who run the camp. The whole system seems designed to disrupt students from studying.
Joe says that tasks could be "wood fetching – for fire and fence, rock collecting, harvesting, seeding, cultivating, watering and weeding farms, moving anything from place to place, cleaning far and irrelevant places, guarding brigades and hangar, washing hangar top and many more".
Sam adds "Cleaning the yard at midday, cleaning the leaders' bathrooms and bedrooms."
To add to the militaristic milieu, students at the school are underfed and undernourished. "Breakfast is a fist sized bread and a cup of tea. Lunch is a very watery lentil soup and two breads, and dinner is the same as lunch."
There are also reports that the food can have insects in it, and that the dormitory beds are not clean, with lots of students suffering bites from parasites. Fainting and sickness are everyday occurrences. The diet is not enough to sustain the energy levels required to undergo daily runs and other exercise drills, let alone to focus on studying for the matriculation exam.
Healthcare is another concern in Sawa, Sam said "There's a hospital but there was no doctor, there was one nurse who showed up twice a week, and most importantly there was no medication, just oral rehydration salts for diarrhoea and small red pills for anaemia."
He recalls his worst memory: "I almost died because of anaemia, I didn't think I was going to survive, I came back from death." He went on to tell us "I was just lucky I got an infusion when I fainted after three days without food, everything I tried to eat was vomited back up. I was begging the nurse to do something for me because I couldn't move from the bed".
Moreover, students are punished for minor discrepancies, usually something like marching slightly wrong, or not holding formation to the precise standard.
Joe said that "Every punishment is elongated to the worst possible length of time, so even sitting in a chair is a harsh punishment when it is for 48 hours." He also said that him and other students were frequently beaten with sticks, and on occasions he endured overnight cuffing with rope.
"They tell you to come the next day to repeat the same punishment after you're done for the day", so "Then starts 24 hours of stress and anxiety." Joe went on to say that "One cannot normally study, when they don't even know if they will die tomorrow".
The grade of their matriculation exam is the determining factor in whether a student gets sent to college, after which they will be conscripted into national service anyway, sometimes as a teacher at Sawa Military Camp, or whether they will be conscripted straight into the military or other labour.
Joe shared a fact initially uttered by the dictator: "85% of Sawa students fail to make the necessary grade for college", and thus are kept on in the military indefinitely.
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It is often said that it is a remaster that improves the resolution and texture of the original, and adds some convenience to the latest platform. One more here. In recent games, some games have a change in the middle of the remake and remastered. In June, 'Last of Earth Part 1', which announced the news of Rebuild through the summer game fast, is representative.
About a month later, the change and features of 'Last of Earth Part 1', which are different from the original, and the video play, were released today (22nd), the PlayStation blog. 'Last of Earth Part 1' is a new game that made the original last of Earth for PS5 and PC. It is characterized by improved graphics, character modeling, animation and cinematic, and it is newly torn down based on the successor 'Last of Earth Part 2', not just a little trimming modeling. Prior to the full-fledged explanation, the co-chairman of Neu Titi's Neil Drugman said, It is a game that was originally closer to its original vision.
The introduction of the game's change, features, and systems was introduced by Shaun Escayg creative director and Matthew Gallant game director.
Last of Earth Part 1 operates in native 4K 30 frames and dynamic 4K 60 frames. If you are a gamer who is sensitive to graphic and resolution, you can play the game with Native 4K, and if you want to play the game with a soft frame.
I didn't miss the combination of Dual Sense, which is indispensable at PS5. The adaptive trigger not only generates different tensions depending on the weapons and situations, but also gives a different vibration that the existing controller has never felt in the existing controller. In addition, it offers a variety of features that can only be experienced in PS5, including 3D audio with new audio technology.
From the art direction, from character modeling to background. Thanks to the latest consoles and PC performance improvement, it is not just improving it, but it has been renovated. Not only did modeling and animation become more sophisticated, but also added more advanced light sources and various vegetation, maximizing the reality of the game.
In addition to modeling, the biggest change is the object destruction. The original Last of Earth was a game from the PS3 twilight, and it used to show graphics and directing that would not be awkward now, but the limits of the platform were clear. However, Last of Earth Part 1 broke through these limitations thanks to the powerful hardware performance of the PS5. High-quality physics is implemented, showing excellent visual effects, such as destroying covered cover during battle.
The advanced motion matching technology is also worth noting. The character animation of Last of Earth Part 1 has changed more intuitively and realistic, and in addition to improving AI, the transition of gameplay and cinematic is also more naturally improved, providing more than the original.
There is also a system of Last of Earth Part 1, which was not in the original. The first thing to introduce is the 'eternal death' mode. It is a mode focused on speed runs. In addition, there are a lot of new costumes that can be unlocked by improving the costume elements that were somewhat lacking in the original.
Finally, the accessibility options, which were introduced in Last of Earth Part 2, will be added to Last of Earth Part 1. More than 60 thousands of them can make the game more easily played by gamers with disabilities.
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In preparation for the likely signing of either Alex Tanney or Joe Webb (potentially both), the New York Giants terminated the practice squad contract of rookie defensive back Chris Williamson on Thursday.
The Giants selected Williamson in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL Draft out of Minnesota and intended on using him as somewhat of a Swiss Army Knife defender. However, he never made it off the practice squad despite the team's early issues in the secondary.
"This is a guy who's going to have some combination corner to safety. We call it the star position, that nickel position as well. He'll bring some position flexibility in the defensive backfield. He's got a good size and speed combination. We look for him to compete at multiple positions this year," head coach Joe Judge said in April.
Given how much roster shuffling has gone on this season, do not be surprised if Williamson eventually signed back with the Giants. In the mean time, keep an eye out for the addition of Tanney and/or Webb.


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Week 5 looks to be another wild week in the NFL with another Monday Night Football doubleheader due to rescheduling. To make your viewing experience even more enjoyable for Week 5, consider making a parlay bet. Parlay bets combine the outcome of multiple events to increase the potential payout to bettors.
Below, we will be creating a 5-bet NFL parlay for Week 5. This bet includes a few favorites and a few underdogs to increase the odds. Let's take a look at our top Week 5 parlay.
Leg 1: Miami Dolphins (+330) at San Francisco 49ers
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Any good parlay starts off with a surprising long-shot pick. This week, I like the Dolphins to upset the 49ers. Miami has one of the most improved defenses in the NFL and is extremely well-coached. With the Dolphins getting CB Byron Jones back into the lineup, they match up well with the 49ers' young receivers.
Look for QB Ryan Fitzpatrick to make enough plays to keep them in this game and pull off a massive upset Sunday afternoon.
Leg 2: Indianapolis Colts at Cleveland Browns (-106)
Arguably the most interesting game of the week features two unlikely 3-1 teams in the Indianapolis Colts and Cleveland Browns. With Cleveland being at home and Indianapolis suffering a few injuries to its linebacker corps, don't be surprised if the Browns have a ton of success on the ground once again.
This looks like a game in which the Browns will need QB Baker Mayfield to create a few plays down the field, and he certainly has the weapons to do so. Look for this to be a back-and-forth contest with Cleveland ultimately covering the 1-point spread and winning outright at home.
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While Falcons WR Julio Jones' status is up in the air, take the Falcons with confidence despite their 0-4 record. They are just a bad matchup for the young Panthers in Week 5.
Leg 4: Philadelphia Eagles (+270) at Pittsburgh Steelers
To increase the odds of this parlay some more, we need to pick another underdog. That's why I am suggesting you consider betting on the Eagles to upset the Steelers in Pittsburgh.
The Steelers are coming off an unplanned bye week and it wouldn't be a shock if they came out a bit rusty in this contest. The Eagles have historically played well against the Steelers, winning 12 of their last 17 meetings. If they can protect QB Carson Wentz, don't be surprised if he carves up this secondary. Expect this to be a close contest throughout as it will likely come down to the final possession.
Leg 5: Los Angeles Chargers at New Orleans Saints -8 (-110)
If this parlay makes it to Monday Night Football, it wouldn't be the worst idea to consider hedging considering the potential payout, but for the final leg of our parlay, we'll be taking the Saints with the points against the Chargers.
The Saints have been incredible against AFC opponents, losing just once in their last 12 games. With this game scheduled to be played in New Orleans on primetime, expect both sides of the ball to show up for the Saints. It could prove to be too big of a stage for rookie QB Justin Herbert and that's why it wouldn't be a surprise if the Saints won this game by double digits.
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Lesbian Syrian Bloggers & (Incorrect) Assumptions of Truth
Earlier this evening I read an article in which Libya's comical Ali-esque spokesperson refuted the claims that Gaddafi had given the order to use rape as a weapon of war and instead claimed that the rebels, as he refers to them, had even engaged in cannibalism.
Immediately I assumed that, as you can clearly see, the official spokesperson was lying about the rebels engaging in cannibalism. While I certainly have some skepticism about the notion of Gaddafi ordering some kind of systematic policy of rape to be used, it wouldn't surprise me in the least. And, from what little news I've seen about it and with their snippets of 'proof' (i.e. boxes of viagra apparently strewn around areas recently deserted by pro-Gaddafi forces) I would suppose that this story is mostly true.
Though, as I note, I have, essentially, bugger all proof of this. Essentially, I believe that Gaddafi (probably) used rape as a weapon of war even though it is based on no reasonable evidence. Why is this? Is it because I manifestly dislike Gaddafi and think that he's either crazy or evil enough to concieve such a plan or because I read about it in a trusted news source? A bit of both I'd suppose.
Yet this thought perturbed me, somewhat, as I thought about it earlier. Particuarly in the light of the saga of the abduction of the 'Gay Girl in Damascus'. As you've probably read, a 'prominent' blogger – the eponymous gay girl – posted (or had someone post for her) that she had been abducted by Syrian security forces. Only later, a few days after the story broke and she became something of a cause celebre against the awful Assad regime, it transpires that it's all something of a hoax. She was never abducted and it is not wholly clear if she is real, gay, a girl, a blogger, in Damascus, or what.
(It turns out "she" was neither female, nor Syrian – "he" was an American, living in Edinburgh.)
Here again, I suppose, I automatically assumed that this story was (probably) true, or at least a good representation of the facts. After all, it sounded just like what Assad's security services would do, didn't it? And this fundamental assumption was expertly played on by the author of the 'gay girl' saga.
So too to I think that the notion of Gaddafi promoting the use of rape as a weapon of war fits really rather perfectly into my characature of 'exactly something' that that evil despot would do. Too perfectly, perhaps? Certainly the reply of Gaddafi's spokesperson went the only way it could: it ramped up the act to cannibalism, perhaps one of the few taboos worse (though I really don't want to start that argument) than rape. Presumebly the logical conclusion to this game of one-upmanship's is for Gaddafi to accuse the rebels of engaging in nechrophilia.
But this un-subtle, rather stupid response from Gaddafi's people doesn't concern me; it's blatant and obvious.
To take another example: the Iranian elections of 2009. They were, I believe, stolen by Ahmadinejad with an absurd amount of votes in certain districts mysteriously not counting for who they were expected to. I have alluded to this opinion as 'fact' in a number of things that I have written recently. Yet I have also been reading various quotes, comments and articles from people that I trust plainly declaring that there is no hard evidence of the election being stolen. Were someone to ask me to provide my evidence then I'd root around google news, find a NYT article or two and provide that. However, I suspect that were I to delve deeper into their sources, I imagine that there would (perhaps) not be all that much solid, bonafide 'proof' that the election were stolen. Such proof is, I'd have thought, near impossible to obtain. Yet I still believe that the election was stolen. So am I right to say so?
I suppose the 'opposite' example is currently underway, so to speak, on the other side of the Gulf where it is an assumption that has become hardened fact for many (and I'd be tempted to say most) Arabs that Iran is significantly at fault for, for example, the recent troubles in Bahrain. There is – to my knowledge; and I do live and breath this topic – no evidence of significant Iranian involvement, so I dismiss it, just as an Iranian may be tempted to dismiss my assumptions about their 2009 election.
How much ought one rely on one's assumptions and on previous analysis in lieu of evidence for understanding a given event?
The notion that one must 'always' have absolute proof before one makes up one's mind is absurd: I've no evidence whatsoever that the moon landings took place (on the moon…) but believe that they did. Clearly we need to rely on other people's trusted judgments a lot of the time.
I've got no conclusion to this wavy and meandering stream of consciousness. All I would say is that this rant makes me believe that while blogging is good and all, it doen't come remotely close to the rigour of a good newspaper (this blog being the grand exception, of course). While you may think that that is something of an obvious statement, I'm not so sure it is.
The hype that the ##sigh## Twitter revolutions have garnered, the 'cool' twenty-first centuryness of the blog and the commensurate if not necessarily wholly correlated demise of the profitability of newspapers suggest to me that the worth of newspapers is, for any or none of the afore mentioned reasons, going down.
So…I dunno…go buy a newspaper or something, I guess.
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- The Dramatic 'Volte-Face' of Syria's Bloggers NEWS FROM SYRIA: The former Chairman of the Syria Computer Society, a certain Bashar Assad, had a lot of support from the blogosphere in his first decade. Not any more. ...
- Lebanese bloggers: pioneers in the Arab world A recent survey of readers of the more than 400 blogs in Lebanon shows that their numbers are close to the online readership of Lebanese newspapers, but do their readership rates mean that blogs can...
- Middle East Turmoil – Questioning Assumptions STEVE ROYSTON: Amid the frenzy in the Middle East and beyond about the future of Egypt, many people seem to be working on a set of assumptions that are worth questioning....
- Omani Bloggers: More Questions than Answers DHOFARI GUCCI: I'm not interested in being plucked out of my home in the middle of the night for a post I wrote two years ago. Must I go through every single blog post and...
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David B Roberts is a Phd student at Durham University, UK focusing on Persian Gulf international relations, with a particular interest in Qatar's foreign policy. He has lived throughout the Middle East, speaks Arabic with varying degrees of success and is the creator of www.thegulfblog.com
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I have to remember to search the news for the other term used for adenoid cystic carcinoma: adenocystic carcinoma. Using the alternative term, I found the following items about Milton McPike, of Madison, Wisconsin:
Cancer forces McPike to resign from UW Board of Regents: http://www.madisoneast1984.com/blog/2008/03/cancer-forces-mcpike-to-resign-from-uw.html
Mr. McPike passed away the last weekend in March. Here is a tribute to him by Heather in Wisconsin: Thursday Thirteen #53: Milton McPike http://wordtrix.blogspot.com/2008/04/thursday-thirteen-53-milton-mcpike.html
A very great man.
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Hits: Every independent filmmaker knows how hard it is to get a movie the exposure it may deserve even in the best of circumstances. That's why David Cross — the standup and actor best known for his work on Arrested Development and Mr. Show — has joined forces with BitTorrent for an unusual release strategy for Hits, a satirical dramedy that marks Cross' directorial debut. The controversial torrent service's Bundle program allows fans to pay what they want for the movie in the hopes, of course, that they won't just download it free. (It's also purchasable in a variety of other digital formats.)
Since the big-screen experience remains the ideal (especially for movies that benefit from rooms full of laughter), Hits has also been playing one-night engagements in theatres across the U.S. and Canada since the film's premiere at Sundance in January. The Royal plays host for Hits' Toronto debut on March 13.
Devotees of Cross' acerbic take on American culture will find much to relish about this cautionary tale about a series of small-town folks whose lives are upended by their brushes with viral-video fame. Matt Walsh of Veep is especially fun as a dim-witted crank who's understandably bewildered when he becomes the star of a social-media campaign engineered by an insufferable Brooklyn hipster played by Comedy Bang Bang regular James Adomian. The movie's deep roster of highly skilled players also includes Amy Sedaris, Wyatt Cenac, David Koechner and the director's Arrested Development castmate Michael Cera.
Hits plays the Royal on March 13 at 9:25 p.m.
Walt Disney Classics at Lightbox: Along with its slate of camps for March Break, TIFF Bell Lightbox does a solid to families by presenting a bounty of Disney favourites all week long. Launching March 14 at 1 p.m. with The Little Mermaid, the series includes matinee screenings for Dumbo, The Aristocats and more. The rare showings of Tron (March 17 at 4 p.m.), The Black Hole (March 18 at 4 p.m.) and Flight of the Navigator (March 19 at 4 p.m.) will also be dearly appreciated by nerds young and old.
Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show: Just as the cachet for American television has risen precipitously since The Sopranos ushered in the new golden age, so too has the prestige enjoyed by these shows' masterminds. Like Brett Martin's book Difficult Men, Des Doyle's film Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show promises an insider's view of the writing and making of many of TV's most illustrious and successful series, including Sons of Anarchy, The Good Wife and Boardwalk Empire. Small-screen auteurs such as J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon and Damon Lindelof all offer their wisdom in Doyle's doc, which plays the Bloor on March 13 at 8:45 p.m. and March 14 at 3:30 p.m. with Skype Q&As with the director at both screenings.
Stop the Pounding Heart: A spare, neo-realist drama by Italian director Roberto Minervini that earned considerable acclaim at Cannes, TIFF and several other festivals in 2013, Stop the Pounding Heart opens for a run at the Carlton and the Kingsway on March 13. The third in a trilogy of films shot by Minervini in rural Texas, it tells the story of a 14-year-old girl who comes to question the values instilled in her by her strictly religious family. Minervini picked up prizes at fests in Milan and Torino for his film, which is also released on VOD this week.
Champs: A new doc whose subjects (and co-producers) include Mike Tyson, Champs examines the history of boxing as both a sport and a cultural phenomenon. Tyson and his fellow former champs Evander Holyfield and Bernard Hopkins get special scrutiny by director Bert Marcus. Spike Lee, Mary J. Blige and Ron Howard also make on-camera appearances despite the fact that none of them would've lasted more than eight seconds in a professional bout (well, maybe Blige). Champs opens at the Carlton on March 13.
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There was an article in May of this year on MyCustomer.com that talked about the single view of the customer and how it is 20-year old idea but one that had still not really arrived yet.
The article went on to quote some data from Experian , a UK data company, who had found that whilst 72% of businesses they had spoken to understood the importance and advantages of a single view of the customer, only 16% of businesses said that they had one in place. They also found that the main barrier to achieving a single view of the customer was "a lack of resource to implement a solution".
But, is it just that? Is it just about a lack of resources? For 20 years?
Customer experience strategist, Donna Peeples, in an interview on Business 2 Community offers an alternative view and believes that one of the issues stopping many firms and executives from achieving a single view of the customer is that "There is nothing sexy about these administrative systems".
But there is more, Econsultancy in their own research finds others obstacles to achieving a single customer view that include:
However, the challenges don't stop there. In an interview that I had with James McGourlay of OpenText, he added the following challenges into the mix:
What a complicated picture and what a big problem. No wonder not many forms have solved this in the last 20 years.
James, however, goes on to suggest that there is a danger that the current situation may persist as some firms are now getting distracted by the possibilities of big data. The problem with that thinking is that it ignores or underplays the fundamental benefits of having a single view of the customer and how it can enhance a firm's ability to deliver better customer service.
This view is supported by Econsultancy's research which also found that firms that had achieved their own single view said that the top three benefits they had achieved were:
But, despite these benefits still only a small number of firms seem to have achieved the single view.
Given that this idea has been around for 20 years now, does there not have to be a better, or different, way of achieving a single view of the customer?
If we review some of the challenges again what jumps out is that none of them are external barriers and none of them come from the customer. Most of them, if not all of them, are all internally focused.
Is that the problem? Perhaps.
Some companies are taking a different path and James told me a story of one such firm that has turned the traditional approach (i.e. overcome the internal challenges) on it's head . That firm is DNB Bank group in Norway and, in particular, their car financing arm who have 300,000 vehicles that they are financing on the road at any one time.
What happened was that they were interested in helping their customers better manage their vehicle fleets and the associated costs that go with them as a way of enhancing their customer experience. As a result, they developed a system to do exactly that. In doing so they ended up achieving their own single view of the customer.
What's great about DNB Bank's approach is that they have missed out all of the internal challenges completely and turned their focus onto their customer and onto delivering value and better service to them. In doing so, a single view of the customer has been delivered by focusing on their customer and designing and delivering a customer value and service initiative.
This post was originally published on my Forbes.com column.
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I agree… it's not sexy, and it's a huge effort to put the infrastructure into place, to get all the data centralized. Especially with companies filled with multiple disparate systems due to acquisitions, etc., it's a challenge.
That doesn't mean companies ought to give up, though. They need to figure it out. It's an important next step in the customer experience evolution.
Annette 🙂
Hi Annette,
It can hard to get a business case agreed especially for something that is seen by many as an internal IT project. Therefore, aligning this type of project to growth, customers and competitiveness should mean that this type of initiative gets more attention and we see more successes along the way. Here's hoping as, as you rightly point out, it's an important element in delivery of a competitive customer experience.
I saw a great tweet the other day Adrian, here is the link:
I think it sums up single view of the customer beautifully
Segmenting customers may sound like hard work but it can pay off in the long run. After all, no one wants to talk with someone who doesn't understand them. So you have to learn to segment them so that you can market to them more effectively.
The thing is that anything that takes too much time and is harder to implement gets ignored. That's the reality in this fast paced business world.
Does it have to be this way?
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That I may never pass this way again and see things as I saw them then…
There has been a lot written, tweeted, and talked about the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting of late. And if you, like me, find yourself on hold for unacceptable lengths of time when service in "the before times" used to be "quick" and exemplary, or waiting to be helped or served anywhere from the grocery store to the local diner, and even the doctor's office if you can get in – then you may be more than ready to grumpily jump on the frustration band-wagon. "Where have all the workers gone? " We shout along with the headlines. Even politicians are using the phenomenon to bolster their economic positions – on both sides of the debate.
While labor productivity has declined since the pandemic surge – the reason is not a sudden outbreak of generational laziness. It is that record-high rates of job switching have created an inexperience bubble in the service sector and many new workers aren't fully trained. I've experienced this myself dealing with the service end of an institutional financial brokerage house.
Furthermore- the phenomenon seems to me to be more hype than reality reveals. Most people have not suddenly quit working – as unbelievable as that may seem from trending stories and our own experiences. According to Gallup (who also used their numbers to make headlines) the decline in worker engagement is only 2% in a year but it has grown 6% since 2000. See the graph below:
I'll stop there with the economic data and my amateur analysis of our workforce. There are plenty of highly professional financial analysts out there who will gladly discuss those details with you!
But I do want to delve further into this quiet or great quitting phenomenon. It is something that seems anathema to me as one who entered the workforce when jobs were scarce and you were grateful for any offer that slightly resembled a job in your field of study. The idea of doing anything but over-impressing and gladly working overtime wasn't even a consideration.
That is not the case in this post-pandemic time. As Derek Thompson explains in his "Progress" column for the Atlantic: "A lot of workers are seeking an efficient way to describe the colliding pressures of wanting to be financially secure, but not wanting to let work take over their life, but also having major status anxiety, but also experiencing guilt about that status anxiety, and sometimes feeling like gunning for that promotion, and sometimes feeling like quitting, and sometimes feeling like crawling into a sensory deprivation tank to make all those other anxieties shut up for a moment."
A lot of words to describe the very real emotions and psyche exercises experienced by individuals wading through the complexities of the economy of life.
What is going on in our hearts and minds right now? What do we do with that status anxiety, guilt, pressure to achieve, pressure to attain, and the desire to flee and give it all away that comes with work?
I think most of us struggle to make sense of our economic lives. We struggle to find that perfect balance between not enough and too much work, not enough and too much money. Wait – can anyone have too much money??? We all think so except for ourselves!
Continuing on… We all struggle at times with not enough and too much time and we struggle to make good decisions and strive to make good use of our resources of all types. That's the key to flourishing – but there is only so much of each of us and external factors limit what we can control – the last 14 years have certainly proven that.
During the final crisis of 2008 and the roller coaster highs and lows since, people's lives were taken for a ride right along with their bank and retirement accounts. During the pandemic many people saw the frenetic pace of their lives shut-down and, as life gets back to normal, we are reassessing what is important to us.
Whether those same people know it or not – they are carrying out the teachings of Jesus. Could quiet quitting and the Great Resignation actually be biblical?
Our relationship to wealth and the acquisition and management of it is complex. And, while the bible is full of guidelines for living well and proper stewardship of our resources – it won't offer you a quick sound bite-worthy financial maxim. However, I'll lift up a few of Jesus' words on the economy of life.
- "Where your heart is there your treasure will be also." (Matthew 6:21, Luke 12:34,).
- "The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are shrewder in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light. I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. (Luke 16: 8-9)
- "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." (Luke 16:13)
From this – we can glean a few key concepts:
- Wealth is both a blessing and a responsibility.
- Wealth – along with status, power, and privilege – is fleeting.
- We are placed on this earth to love and care for each other, not to separate ourselves from each other with wealth, status, or privilege.
We all like to think we have mastered the first – we are blessed to be a blessing to others – and many even consult financial advisors in order to be responsible stewards. However, we have also learned the hard way that wealth is often, if not repeatedly fleeting, and we haven't done a very good job of not separating ourselves. The pandemic along with the politics it bred have magnified this glaring truth.
The truth is, we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected — and profoundly compromised. Even the tiniest financial decisions we make — where to shop, how to invest our money, what to eat or wear have far-reaching consequences. Again and again, Jesus reminds us to hold this complicated reality close to our hearts and our consciences all the time. The great thinker St. Augustine asserted that God gave us people to love and things to use, but we all too often have a penchant to confuse those two, loving things and using people. That is a costly way of living in more ways than just monetarily.
We've been told – even by some in the church – that we can have it all – both God and money – relationships and money – love and money. The thing is – money and its acquisition can be as much of a drug as alcohol. Both must be managed responsibly or they can ruin an otherwise very fortunate life. We do need money; we do need to participate in the economy of life – we just can't let ourselves fall prey to it.
And so, perhaps we are finally awakening to the Gospel truth – that there is more to life than our status, our careers, our wealth. The fact that this awakening is causing such system wide disruption speaks to the pervasive presence money and its acquisition have on all of our lives. I can't think of a better disrupter than the calling to live as children of light in a world that sorely needs grace, forgiveness, and freedom – spiritually, socially, and economically. May we enter that calling with our whole hearts and minds with creativity, urgency, shrewdness and compassion.
Thank you, Lord, for the challenges of life and for the changes that make one appreciate all that was, all they have, and give hope for what yet will be.
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(CNS): A wanted man was apprehended in George Town on Saturday 4 October and is now in custody after a short police pursuit which ended in North Church Street where the man was arrested for a number of offences. During the pursuit armed police officers reportedly fired their weapons and an investigation into the shooting is now underway.
According to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) no one was injured but a number of shots were discharged by the police as officers as they pursued the 32-year-old man who was wanted in connection with a number of serious offences including making threats to kill with the use of a firearm.
The incident started when officers on patrol attempted to stop the man, who was driving in Boddens Road, at approximately 10:15am. The man refused to comply with police instructions which is when the pursuit began.
Police said the discharge of weapons by RCIPS officers is an unusual and rare occurrence for the Cayman Islands. In line with RCIPS policy, a full investigation into the incident has begun by officers' independent from those involved, who are trained to investigate incidents which involve the discharge of police firearms. This investigation is being overseen by Superintendent Mike Needham and the Professional Standards Unit. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been notified and upon completion of the investigation, the FCO will facilitate a review by a team from another jurisdiction.
The officer in charge of the initial investigation is keen to hear from anyone who witnessed the incident. Anyone who was in the area should, in the first instance, contact Detective Inspector Kim Evans on 526-0628.
Anyone with information about crime taking place in the Cayman Islands should contact their local police station or Crime Stoppers on 800-8477 (TIPS). All persons calling crime stoppers remain anonymous, and are eligible for a reward of up to $1000, should their information lead to an arrest or recovery of property/drugs.