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Terrace Energy Corp. has reached an agreement to earn a significant block of additional acreage in McMullen County, Texas which is on trend with its highly successful STS Olmos Project. The Company has entered into a contract to acquire 33.34% working interest, 24% net revenue interest in 3,616 net mineral acres. Upon satisfaction of the earning provisions of this agreement, this acquisition will bring the Company's net mineral acreage position from 5,105 net acres to 6,310 net acres.
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The three officers -- Charles Schwarz, Thomas Wiese and Thomas Bruder -- are accused of conspiring to obstruct justice by lying to ''Federal and local law enforcement authorities'' in an effort to keep the authorities from concluding that Mr. Schwarz had been involved in torturing Mr. Louima. The alleged lies were told between August 1997, when Mr. Louima was brutalized in the bathroom of a Brooklyn station house, and December 1997.
Mr. Schwarz was convicted in the first trial of having taken part in the torture of Mr. Louima by holding him down while another officer, Justin A. Volpe, jammed a stick into his rectum. Mr. Volpe pleaded guilty in mid-trial. Officers Wiese and Bruder, who were not charged with participating in the torture, were acquitted in the first trial of beating Mr. Louima in a police car before he got to the station house.
In asking Judge Eugene H. Nickerson of Federal District Court in Brooklyn to dismiss the charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice, lawyers for the three officers argued that the charge is defective because it does not allege that they conspired to ''obstruct a Federal judicial proceeding.''
The lawyers are contending in a brief that under Federal law an essential element of conspiring to obstruct justice ''is that the defendants intended to affect a judicial proceeding'' such as a grand jury proceeding, and ''not merely to make false statements to law enforcement officials.'' The motion, written by Officer Wiese's lawyers and joined by the lawyers for the other officers, says that ''the indictment does not even allege the existence of a judicial proceeding during the period of the alleged conspiracy.''Continue reading the main story
Joseph Tacopina, a lawyer for Officer Wiese, said in an interview yesterday that even if the defendants had lied to prosecutors, police investigators and an F.B.I. agent, ''It doesn't make up the obstruction crime.'' The men's lawyers also say -- as they will to the jury if the trial goes forward -- that they did not conspire to mislead the prosecutors and investigators.
A prosecutor in the case, Alan Vinegrad, chief assistant United States Attorney in Brooklyn, declined yesterday to comment on the defense motion. Mr. Vinegrad is expected to dispute the defense arguments in a reply to the defendants' brief, which is due by Aug. 23.
Lawyers familiar with criminal procedure said that even if the judge agreed that the charge was defective, he could permit the prosecution to seek a new charge that would remedy the problem.
Mr. Wiese's lawyers also asked that, if a second trial is held, it take place outside the New York City area. Given Mr. Volpe's guilty plea and Mr. Schwarz's conviction in the first trial, the lawyers contend that ''no juror from this venue will be able to deliberate without the initial verdict on his mind.''
Mr. Volpe and Mr. Schwarz, who were dismissed from the Police Department after the first trial, face sentences of up to life in prison for the crime of violating Mr. Louima's civil rights through a sexual assault.Continue reading the main story


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Are you tired of being a football widow? When the announcers call attention to the tight end, do you search the screen for a man with a nice read end?
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Prevalence and risk factors of depression in childhood and adolescence as seen in 4 districts of north-eastern Uganda
Health and human rights of marginalized populations
Millions of African children are having to grow up under harsh and adverse psychosocial conditions but it's not fully understood how this negative psychosocial environment is affecting their mental health. This paper examines the prevalence and risk factors of depression in childhood and adolescence as seen in a community sample derived from four disadvantaged districts in north-eastern Uganda.
1587 children were assessed using a structured instrument administered by trained psychiatric nurses to collect data on psychiatric disorders (DSM IV criteria), adverse psychosocial factors and socio-demographic factors.
The point prevalence of depressive disorder syndromes (DDS) in this study was 8.6% (95% CI 7.2%–10.1%) with a point prevalence for major depressive episode of 7.6% (95% CI 6.3%–9.0%) and dysthymia of 2.1% (95% CI 1.5%–3.0%). At multiple logistic regression, the factors that were independently significantly associated with DDS were: district (representing ecological factors), nature of living arrangements, domestic violence and psychiatric co-morbidities/psychiatric problems of emotional distress (assessed by the SDQ), suicidality and marginally, anxiety disorder syndromes, eating disorder syndromes, motor disorder syndromes and behavioral and developmental disorder syndromes (the later being protective against depression).
Disadvantaged north-eastern Uganda had a high prevalence of childhood depressive disorders. Ecological factors, markers of the quality of the child-principal caregiver relationship (nature of living arrangements and domestic violence) and the presence of psychiatric co-morbidities/psychiatric problems were the important independent determinants of childhood depression in this study.
Millions of African children are having to grow up under harsh and adverse psychosocial conditions characterized by chronic war trauma, chronic poverty, HIV infection, orphan hood, child abuse and neglect, food insecurity and famine
Apart from two community surveys undertaken in Ethiopia which reported prevalence for childhood depression of about 1%
With depression projected to become the second most common cause of disability by 2020, there is need for a better understanding of its antecedents across the life span including in childhood and adolescence in different cultural settings including in sub-Saharan Africa.
This paper examines the prevalence and risk factors of depression in childhood and adolescence as seen in a community sample derived from four disadvantaged districts in north-eastern Uganda. It considers many of the identified negative psychosocial risk factors for depression simultaneously in one study exploring their relative effect on childhood and adolescent depression. It is part of a bigger project that investigated a wide range of psychiatric disorders and psychosocial problems in children and adolescents from the four districts mentioned above. A paper that investigated adolescent suicidality in this population has already been published from this work
Study site
This study was conducted in the four districts of Lira, Tororo, Kaberamaido and Gulu in poor rural north-eastern Uganda. The study districts were selected from a list of eight districts where UNICEF was carrying out child directed medical and psychosocial interventions. In order to draw the sample of four study districts, the eight districts where UNICEF was undertaking child directed activities were subdivided into two categories of whether they were experiencing war conflict or not at the time of the study. Two study districts were then randomly selected from each of these two categories. In the category of war affected districts Gulu and Lira were selected while in the category of non-war affected districts Tororo and Kaberamaido were selected.
Sampling procedure
Using Kish's (1965)
At the next stage, all the parishes in the selected sub-counties were listed and a parish randomly selected. All households in the selected parish were then listed and households with children aged 3–19 years consecutively enrolled into the study until the sample of 210 households per sub-county was attained. If the sample size of 210 household with children aged 3–19 years could not all be obtained from a single parish, a second parish would then be randomly selected from the list of parishes in that study sub-county and households could then be recruited from there until the required sample for that sub-county was obtained. Where a selected household had more than one child who was less than 19 years of age, only one study respondent was selected by simple random sampling.
A generic survey instrument was compiled together and translated into the main dialects spoken in the selected sub-counties. To ensure accurate conveyance from English to the local dialects of the underlying psychological concepts in the items of the two main psychological assessment tools, the Strengths and Difficulties questionnaire (SDQ)
The translated survey instrument were then administered by trained psychiatric nurses for each selected child aged 10–19 years or their mothers or caregiver (for those aged less than 10 years or not capable of responding verbally).
The survey instrument contained the following sections:
Emotional and behavioral problems
The Strengths and Difficulties questionnaire (SDQ)
DSM IV psychiatric disorder
The MINI International Neuropsychiatric Interview for children and adolescents (M.I.N.I.-KID)
Socio-demographic variables
A socio-demographic questionnaire was also administered. Variables recorded include age, gender, tribe, resident district, highest level of education attained, previous history of mental illness (psychosis), attendance at a mental health facility, current living arrangement (living with both parents, mother alone, father alone, friends, adopted parents, grandparents and other relatives), orphan hood status, number of siblings, parent's/guardian's employment status, family's total income per month (in Uganda shillings), parent's highest educational attainment, nature of housing (permanent house, semi-permanent house, hut and others) and family history of mental illness (psychosis). Additional variables considered in this study included assessment for domestic violence (by asking the question: 'in your home have you witnessed acts of domestic violence [such as threatening behaviour, violence, situations of severe beating, use of demeaning words by any of the family members?]), and for exposure to war trauma (by asking the question: 'have you (has the child) been involved in a situation of war trauma [lived in an IDP, witnessed the torture/killing of someone, suffered physical or sexual violence as a results of war, been abducted or threatened with violence as a result of war?]).
Ethical approval
The study obtained ethical clearance from the Ministry of Health and the Uganda National Council of Science and Technology. Respondents 18 years and above were required to provide informed consent while for children below the age of 18 years, a parents/guardian was required to consent on their behalf. Children found to have significant psychological problems were referred to the nearest government run mental health facility.
Statistical analysis
In this study the dependent variable was the point prevalence (current disorder) of 'depressive disorder syndromes' (DSS) defined as having either major depressive episode or dysthymia as defined in the DSM IV derived categories in the MINI International Neuropsychiatric Interview for children and adolescents
The prevalence of depressive disorder syndromes (DDS), as well as of the specific depressive disorders (major depressive episode and dysthymia), were estimated together with exact 95% binomial confidence limits, by gender and overall. A conceptual framework (Figure
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Conceptual framework based on the stress-diathesis model for depression (Monroe & Simon, 1991)
Conceptual framework based on the stress-diathesis model for depression (Monroe & Simon, 1991)
Firstly the association of socio-demographic factors was investigated through the use of a backward elimination regression model, choosing the candidate variables based on prior knowledge and plausibility, and using a liberal p-value (15%) for removal in order to ensure that all variables that could have a possible confounding effect on the ultimate risk factors were included, as recommended by Royston, Ambler and Sauerbrei (1999)
Out of the 1680 selected respondents, the response rate for depressive disorders and other psychiatric co-morbidities was 1587 (94.5%). The main reason for non-response was repeatedly not being at home.
The point prevalence (current disorder) of depressive disorder syndromes (DDS) in this study was 8.6% (95% CI 7.2%–10.1%) and was slightly higher in females (8.8%, 95% CI 7.1%–10.9%) than in males (8.3% 95% CI 6.4%–10.5%). The prevalence of DDS and that of the specific psychiatric disorders of major depressive episode and dysthymia are given in Table
Ecological and socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents
The prevalence of DDS is summarized by socio-demographic factors in Table
Psychosocial and psychiatric characteristics of the respondents
Multivariable associations of childhood depression
The results of fitting multiple logistic regression models including the socio-demographic factors identified as being important is given in Table
Discussion and conclusion
This is one of a few African studies in the published literature that has examined the prevalence and risk factors of childhood depressive disorders in a community sample. The principal finding of this study is that north-eastern Uganda had a high point prevalence of childhood depressive disorders. Secondly, that the ecological factors (represented by district in this study), markers of the quality of the child-principal caregiver relationship (nature of living arrangements and domestic violence) and the presence of psychiatric co-morbidities were the important independent determinants of childhood depression in this study.
This study was carried out in four disadvantaged districts of north-eastern Uganda two of which were suffering war conflict at the time of the study. Most of respondents were children of poor peasant farmers with little formal education and largely operating at subsistence level outside the formal cash economy. These study communities had a heavy burden of adverse psychosocial factors, domestic violence was reported by a fifth of the respondents, war trauma was reported by a third of the respondents, orphan hood was reported by a third of the children and only half of the children stayed with both parents.
The point prevalence of childhood depressive disorder syndromes (DDS) of 8.6% in this study is much higher than the rate of about 1% that has been reported in both rural and urban Ethiopia
Ecological, socio-demographic, adverse psychosocial and psychiatric factors were each independently significantly associated with childhood depression in this study. District in this study representing ecological factors was independently significantly associated with depression with the non-war affected districts of Kaberamaido (3.5%) and Tororo (3.9%) reporting lower rates of depression than the war affected districts of Gulu (5.0%) and Lira (23.1%). However the marked difference between the prevalence of depression in Gulu and Lira which were both war exposed suggests that there were additional area level factors at play influencing the district prevalence for depression. In this study it was not possible to investigate further the factors underlying these area level differences in the rates of depression. Among adults, Vinck and colleagues (2007)
In this study, the socio-demographic factor, 'nature of living arrangement' was independently significantly associated with depression. Children not living with both parents had an increased risk of developing depression which was higher in those staying with a single parent (either mother or father) and highest in those staying with neither parent (staying with grandparents or with non-relatives). The fact that in this study domestic violence was also independently significantly associated with childhood depression but not orphan hood seems to suggest that the important underlying construct was the quality of the 'child-principal caregiver relationship' but not just the absence of a biological parent(s). Indeed emotional unavailability of both mothers and fathers has consistently been reported to be a risk factor of childhood depression
In this study, co-morbidity with the psychiatric disorders/problems of emotional distress (assessed by the SDQ scale), suicidality, eating disorders and marginally anxiety disorder syndromes were independently significantly associated with childhood depression. Co-morbidity between depression and behavioral and developmental disorder syndromes was significantly protective against depression in this study. Pataki (2000)
In this study we found no significant independent effect for measures of socio-economic deprivation (nature of housing, family income, highest educational attainment of parent/guardian) and some of the adverse psychological factors (experience of war trauma and orphan hood). It is possible that these could be risk factors for childhood depression, acting indirectly through affecting the quality of the child-principal care-giver relationship or leading to psychiatric comorbidities.
In conclusion, there is a high prevalence of childhood major depressive disorders in disadvantaged north-eastern Uganda. Ecological factors, quality of the child-principal care-giver relationship and the presence of psychiatric co-morbidities were the important independent determinants of childhood depression in this study. We found that socio-economic deprivation, experience of war trauma and orphan hood were not significantly associated with depression, but it is possible that these factors had an indirect effect on depression through affecting either the child-principal care-giver relationship or leading to associated psychiatric co-morbidities.
On limitations, firstly, given that this study was cross-sectional in nature the causal direction between the dependent and the independent factors could not be ascertained, hence there is need for longitudinal studies to disentangle the casual directions between these factors. Secondly, the psychological assessment tools used in this study have never been formally validated in the Ugandan culture settings, however the SDQ has previously been validated in Congo-DRC (a socio-cultural setting similar to Uganda) with good results
As recommendations, addressing childhood depressive disorder in this community requires both social interventions to improve the quality of the child-principal caregiver relationship (through interventions such as training in parenting skills and domestic violence counseling) and the development of comprehensive child and adolescent mental health services (to address the entire spectrum of childhood psychopathology due to a tendency for co-morbidity). There is a need for the formal validation of the SDQ and M.I.N.I.-KID in the African socio-cultural setting of Uganda.
EK: Eugene Kinyanda; RK: Ruth Kizza; CA: Catherine Abbo; SN: Sheila Ndyanabangi; JL: Jonathan Levin.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
Concept: RK, CA, SN, EK; Data collection: RK, CA, SN, EK; Data analysis: EK, JL; First draft: EK, RK, CA, SN, JL; Final revision: EK, RK, CA, SN, JL. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Depression and exposure to violence among Venda and Northern Sotho adolescents in South Africa
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Good Monday morning to you all. The latest on the New York Giants' search for a new offensive coordinator is that they still haven't interviewed Packers quarterbacks coach Ben McAdoo for the job. He was supposed to interview Saturday, but due to weather issues that affected his travel plans, the interview is now scheduled for today. He'll be the fourth candidate to interview for the job, joining Mike Sullivan, Dowell Loggains and Karl Dorrell. There might be more candidates to come, and there might not. Heck, they could have someone in place by tonight.
That's what I know, and I promise I'm not hiding any information from you. I understand the interest, especially in the absence of any other news around the team. But you'll have to forgive me if I'm not breathlessly awaiting a conclusion to this particular drama. I'm a bit unmoved by the whole thing, to be honest. It's not as though this hire is going to usher in some new era of Giants offensive football. It's possible that, if they hire someone like McAdoo, it'll be because they want to incorporate some new ideas into their existing offensive scheme. But I highly doubt they're going to tear up their playbook and start from scratch. Just doesn't seem like their way.
But the real reason this story isn't a huge deal is that the choice of a new offensive coordinator isn't one of the five most important things the Giants have to do this offseason. Honestly. In fact, here are seven more important issues for them to address, in reverse order of importance, just right off the top of my head:
7. Find a running back. David Wilson is having surgery this week on his neck, which could mean he's back and ready for the start of the season or could mean he'll never play again or could mean something in between. The priority is the young man's health, as it should be, and neck surgery is scary business. But from an on-field standpoint, the health concern means they can't count on Wilson. And let's be honest, even if he's full healthy, Wilson's obviously no sure thing. With Andre Brown eligible for free agency, the Giants need someone reliable at this position. They don't need to spend big money or a high pick on it, but they need to shore it up.
6. Find a tight end. And maybe someone who can hold the job for more than a year this time.
5. Extend Eli Manning's contract. Grumble all you want, but I don't see how else they make their 2014 budget with a representative roster. You liked the way the defense looked with Antrel Rolle, Jon Beason and Terrell Thomas as its leaders? Gonna need cap room to keep those guys.
4. Make a plan for the defensive line. Is Justin Tuck back? Is Linval Joseph back? Has Jason Pierre-Paul become a long-range injury question mark? Can Damontre Moore be ready for a larger workload in 2014? Can Johnathan Hankins? The line is the bread and butter of the Giants' defense, and while the questions here may not be as scary or difficult as they are elsewhere on the roster, they still need answering.
3. Make a plan at wide receiver. Hakeem Nicks' free agency will be the big story here, and if he leaves they'll need a new No. 1 type. But regardless, they need depth here, and probably a little size, or else whoever the new coordinator is will have a real tough time finding enough O's to go with the X's. Or vice versa, whichever offense is in the whole X-and-O thing.
2. Fix the offensive line. Enough said.
1. Have a good draft. There's nothing more vital to this offseason than this. Too many of the Giants' recent drafts have turned out thin, with too many misses in the middle rounds. They need to hit it big at No. 12, no question, but they also need to stock the pipeline with talent in a way that their last few drafts haven't.
So we'll keep track of all of that, and we'll let you know on offensive coordinator whenever it gets decided. I promise.


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Destined to die in a stabbing, teenager Paul Varderman (McMullen) looks back at the events that lead up to the fatal incident.
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We are looking for the best story told through an image. There is a timeless saying 'A picture paints a thousand words.' We don't just want a thousand words, we want a short story captured in a single image.
This contest is made possible by Enrico Casarosa from Pixar, who donated his time and talents to inspire DeviantArt's members!
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I really enjoy this picture.It expresses how childhood is so dear and close to one another.It gets me a little emotional seeing how my childhood was and how it is going by.Enjoying the freedom and laughter being young and free,soaring beneath the stars not having to worry about anything.Living your live.Theres nothing I'd really change,its beautiful,just maybe the hill a little.Overall,theres barely a negative in this drawing,more of a positive came out of this picture.Its almost perfect in my point of view(Im still stuck on the emotion out of this picture).Keep drawing more of these pictures!Excellent job!
Lots of love!
Lots of love!
The Artist thought this was FAIR
3 out of 3 deviants thought this was fair.
This looks alot like my dreams hehe^^
OMG! This is so BEAUTIFUL!!!!! i swear I had a dream just like this. no lie. except it didn't turn out too great cuz one uv the gears fell over and formed a black hole and I got sucked in and had to live in a prison made of keys for 100 years. wen I woke up I felt all soul search. so in other words, my dream wuznt like the picture at all
awesomeness!!! I really like this pic. have you ever thought about illustrating story books?
Awesome that sounds great . Could contact local publishers to see if they need any illustrators, could be great .
Oh wow that sounds great. Let me know how it all goes ok. Children's book illustration is something I would love to get into as you can write and illustrate at the same time.
No worries dude go for it .
No worries dude go for it .
Lovely ^-^
I love the colors I wish I could see this in a bigger view.


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12 Thoughts on the Eclipse IoT Developer Survey
The Eclipse IoT foundation published results of IoT developer survey – this is the third annual installment. Eclipse IoT, under its umbrella, has several significant open-source IoT projects. And if you have not looked at it – it is definitely worth checking out and to be considered for your IoT development strategy.
I would strongly recommending reviewing the survey and also signing up for a virtual meetup that they are hosting to discuss these results. It has very good insights into the state of IoT from a developer perspective. I must admit that I kept intending to fill in the survey myself but despite several reminders ultimately never filled it!.
I would certainly be leveraging the trends in this survey in formulating my strategy with the following thoughts/observations:
- Distributed Software: IoT applications are distributed across Sensor (Device / Thing etc.), Gateway (Edge/Fog/Hub) and Cloud. This year's survey has the feedback split across the above three. And that's the right way to look at it because each aspect requires different approach, perspective and strategy.
- Stats 101: Note that the percentages do NOT add up to 100, keep that in mind as you look at the look at them. This is, probably, because it reflects reality – there is no single correct answer. This also, probably, points to a trend that there are multiple projects going on or multiple products being worked on by the same set of developers.
- Javascript is #1 in Cloud: I came to a different conclusion than the survey. Javascript, NOT Java is the #1 language used for IoT for the Cloud. I expect that trend only to accelerate. The reason I claim that is that the survey results are split in Javascript AND Node.js. Node.js is a framework (for a lack of better word in the context of this article) – Javascript is the language. The only discrepancy I can think of is that Javascript may refer to pure User Interface or Web Interface development? The numbers on Gateway are also split into JS and Node.js – and when you put them together – it is higher than C/Python/C++. And by that token – Javascript is #2 as a choice of programming language on IoT Gateways.
- Linux dominates: Raspbian and Ubuntu are winners. Canonical would be very happy or probably already knows this since they are ditching the smartphone/tablet focus and switching over to IoT. I am pleasantly surprised that it dominates constrained devices as well. Reading between the lines – the popularity of Raspberry Pi as a prototyping devices drives Raspbian?
- IoT HW Architecture: The percentages do not represent device or gateway volumes. This is important to bear in mind especially when you look at the results for IoT Hardware architectures. For example 32.9% of developers use Intel x86_64 for Gateways – to state the obvious – these are not 32.9% of gateways but the number of developers.
- Cloud Programming: Ruby On Rails is missing? No mention of RoR in the IoT Cloud. (May be the option did not exist in the survey).
- Machine Learning (Slide #32): Interesting to note that 29.5% of developers claim that they are building machine learning.
- Cloud Services for IoT: No IoT platform other than GE Predix made this – e.g. no PTC. (this is a blog post in itself given the huge number of IoT platforms out there).
- Connectivity Protocols: This actually mixes both – transport or medium of connectivity and also the 'data' protocol. To give an example – Cellular, from a developer perspective, is IP (Internet Protocol). Same with Wifi & Ethernet yet TCP/IP is broken out separately. Zigbee & Thread are mapped to IEEE 802.15.4. This is important to keep in mind because you can't easily split IoT into black and white categories. There is shades of grey all around.
- Messaging Protocols – yet another sign – there is absolutely no point in trying to get to one standard – the use case should drive if you want to use HTTP, MQTT, XMPP, CoAP etc.
- Industrial Protocols – this is a great slide. It would be interesting to dig into what "None" really implies – does it imply that it is proprietary?
- Leading Indicators – these results are leading indicators – of things that are to come. The survey is what the developers are working on (presently or in recent past). And that makes them more interesting because they are indicators of where IoT is heading.
IoT drives strategic diversification, growth & differentiation
The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to be a game changer for companies to transform their businesses. Here are two great examples:
A 150-year old provider of speciality insurance company – Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB) has acquired Meshify last year. HSB is owned by the reinsurance company – Munich Re – which was ranked as the #1 reinsurer in 2015. HSB Ventures is an active investor in the IoT space with investments in Augury, Slice, Helium, Waygum etc.
CEO Greg Barats of HSB has said(just a month before the Meshify acquisition) that "insurers must be ready to embrace the disruption through IoT – or risk being made obsolete by hungrier technology companies".
Meshify was founded in 2012, and had raised seed money, followed by debt financing (Crunchbase info). It is an interesting strategy. HSB has chosen to acquire and own an IoT platform that aids in critical issues of remote diagnostics, predictive maintenance and equipment monitoring. Meshify is part of HSB's IoT business – yes an insurance company HSB has an IoT business.
Smart Water
Xylem is a water technology company, spun off originally from ITT in 2011. Their current CEO Patrick Decker (3rd since the spinoff) has been growing Xylem through a series of strategic acquisitions. Last year Xylem acquired Sensus and set the stage for an IoT-driven diversification and growth.
This is a bold move for a company that is not a software or a digital company. It proves the point that IoT can be a strategic differentiator for companies dealing with the 'physical' world.
Sensus brings a wide spectrum of "smart" solutions to the Xylem brands (Sensus sales are dominated today by Smart Metering for Electric, Gas & Water utilities). The Sensus division will now be the home for all things 'analytics' for all Xylem brands (see link to investor deck). Xylem has a bold vision on how to transform the company with IoT.Xylem also has acquired Visenti (a Smart Water analytics company based out of Singapore) following the Sensus acquisition in November 2016. Sensus in 2015 had acquired a Smart Grid analytics company called Verdeeco.
Bottom line IoT is going to disrupt industries, and visionary companies are getting ahead of the curve by making IoT a key part of their future strategy.
Further Reading
HSB/MunichRe/Meshify & Insurance:
6 Charts Breaking Down How Insurers Are Investing in Tech Startups
HSB Internet of Things (IoT) Vision
Why Hartford Steam Boiler is investing in IoT start-ups
The Startup & Accelerator Moves Of Reinsurance Giants Munich Re & Swiss Re
Xylem/Sensus & Smart Water Resources:
Xylem Transports Patrick Decker From Harsco To Be New President And CEO
Connectivity and Protocols in IoT: Thoughts on picking the right one
There's lots of ways to move from Point A to Point B: trains, ships, and planes. We instinctively assess the logistics of travel by basing our decisions on factors like distance, cost, and urgency.
If we have to ship goods, similar logic comes into play. It is cheaper to plan in advance if you are importing goods from China to the US. If the delivery of a good is important enough, you would have your product air-shipped.
Barring specific nuances, the same approach needs to be taken for picking up IoT protocols and connectivity options.
- Range between the communicating nodes – for example between the sensor and the gateway.
- Reliability of signal between the communicating nodes – range alone is not enough.
- Latency (time it takes from one to another)
- Throughput/Bandwidth – how much usable information (not the raw rate) can you send through at a time
- Power Source: is it battery powered or not?
- Security: while security is extremely critical – it needs to work at a system level based on the rest of the parameters
- Ease of use, installation and maintenance: these translate to cost, and impact profitability
Note – 'Node' above implies all types of physical entities involved in interacting and communicating with each other – devices, sensors, gateways, cloud etc.
Things to keep in mind:
Don't be myopic when making decisions! For example when addressing the cost of the solution – evaluate more than the COGS (cost of goods). Address, for example, costs associated with installation, provisioning and subscription for data network. To quote a British saying – "don't be penny wise, pound foolish".
Do make your decision with eyes wide open – tactical business pressures may prevent you from making a strategic decision – do make a note of the reasons and document them. For example if you are reducing requirements to meet a deadline – make a note of it. Be clear on the reasons you are making so as to adapt the architectural evolution of your IoT application.
Don't get stuck in an analysis / paralysis. This is a counter-point to the first one. Don't be stuck in an endless cycle of analysis. Take a decision. Ensure that your system design and development approach is in sync with decision. Make sure trials are rapid, especially in real world environments.
6 Resources to get started with Web Mapping
Smartphones and all kinds of GPS-enabled devices are enabling highly accurate location for everything. As consumers with Smartphones, we leverage Web-based Mapping frequently especially for navigation with apps such as Google Maps or Apple Maps.
Location is becoming a critical context to both consumer (e.g. geo-tagged photos) and enterprise applications (e.g. tracking your fleet & assets). Visualizing this information on a map is necessary, and by token understanding Web Mapping is critical.
I have been involved in building a asset tracking solution and personally wanted to delve deeper into the technology behind Web Mapping over the last 4 weeks or so.
Here are the resources I discovered and learnt:
- Programming Technology: This is more of a pre-requisite. Javascript is virtually a necessity to get into Web Mapping. You could potentially avoid Javascript by sticking to using SDKs on Smartphones but you are better off with Javascript (and also HTML/CSS as well).
- Primer: Study through this excellent set of slides hosted by Maptime.IO. This is the best place to get started. Don't worry if you have a hard time understanding the first time. Come back to it after sometime if the first going is rough.
- The gold standard for web mapping, by far, is Google Maps. Google provides both free and paid developer API services. Google provides APIs for calculating distances, getting directions, and the tiles they have are tremendous source of information. Here is a link to get started with Web Mapping & Google Maps APIs.
- Open Source & Crowdsourcing has been at work in the world of Web Mapping as well. Open Street Maps (OSM) is a crowd-funded movement to map the world. The primary challenge for using OSM is that there are places for which the data is still lacking so when you attempt to zoom-in – the information coming is going to lack details. However it is open source, and free. And digging deeper by using OSM will make you an expert at Web Mapping.
- The primer would have mentioned about Google Maps and OSM, also something known as Leaflet. I think right after you have gone over the Primer material listed in #2 above, and if you know HTML/CSS/JS – you want to hop over to the Leaflet Tutorial site and start building maps. Leaflet was created by Vladimir Agafonkin – he works at Mapbox.
- Mapbox defines itself as – an open source mapping platform for custom designed maps. Check out their site, and I would recommend start with the Mapbox JS Library.
I have built, as a tutorial and learning experience, a web map that leverages Leaflet and OSM to show an interactive map of the US. You can select different overlays on the map for US Population Density, State-by-State Renewable Energy goals and Earthquake data from USGS. You can check it out by clicking the image below or going to https://ashujoshi.github.io/leaflet-maps
Verizon is on a roll…
Verizon is getting aggressive in growing its IoT business. Verizon's first foray in IoT was in Smart Home when they launched a service around the solution from 4Home (acquired by Motorola, my guess is that the acquisition was influenced by Verizon?). It was a DIY service unlike its peers who had launched managed services (Comcast, AT&T, Cox, ADT), and IMO it was dead on arrival. It limped along for 4 years and finally shut down.
Verizon's strategy also seemed uncertain when they acquired Hughes Telematics back in June of 2012. Hughes Telematics is based in Atlanta – and I have only heard of anecdotes and rumors of that division constantly losing people or being laid off since 2012. It felt that their Connected Car strategy was falling apart.
However recent events point to a different story – they are getting serious about this space. They have announced two back to back acquisitions. First with Telogis in June of this year and it was followed by Fleetmatics in August. Verizon certainly has heft between the three acquisitions in the Connected Car & Telematics space.
And to keep the momentum rolling – Verizon announced that it is acquiring Sensity Systems, a Smart City startup last week.
The question though is does it have the internal organizational strength and discipline to make the most of all of these acquisitions. Remember that they have also announced that they are acquiring Yahoo!
List of all the VZ Acquisitions as compiled by Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/verizon/acquisitions
Here is list of analysis on the acquisitions worth reading:
CRN on the the reaction of VZ Partners
CRN on the Sensity acquisition
TechRepublic on the Sensity acquisition
4 ingredients needed to get started with LoRaWAN
LoRaWAN™ defines the communication protocol and system architecture for the network while the LoRa® physical layer enables the long-range communication link. The protocol and network architecture have the most influence in determining the battery lifetime of a node, the network capacity, the quality of service, the security, and the variety of applications served by the network.
Note that LoRa is a proprietary protocol – and the rights of the IP belong to Semtech (they acquired Cycleo – the company that invented LoRa).
You can read up here (PDF) on the distinction between LoRa and LoRaWAN, and more about the technology in general at the LoRA Alliance website.
This post will give a quick overview of the ingredients into building a complete LoRaWAN-enabled application. The software development or rather the details of it on each ingredient are topics for another day.
4 Primary Ingredients
To get started on building solutions using LoRa/LoRaWAN this is what you going to need:
- Thing: A LoRa radio module that you can hook up with a sensor… the challenge, especially in the US, it's not easy to get something like that. The easiest, I think, is to get a dev kit such as the one from Multi-tech (combine the mDot with the UDK). It has a Arduino shield socket making it easy to plug in sensors and play around. Of course if are serious about using LoRa to enable your IoT applications you will end up making sophisticated devices such as the ones from Decent Lab.
- Gateway or Concentrator: You will need a Gateway or a Concentrator that speaks LoRa to the sensors & devices, and IP Connectivity to the Cloud – that can be for example Wi-Fi, Ethernet or 3G. LoRa Alliance is making a concerted effort to get everybody to adopt LoRaWAN as the protocol. I say that because if you wanted to you could build your own like Link Labs has decided to. My primary point is that while one side of the LoRa Gateway speaks "LoRa" – the other side will connect to the Internet (over TCP/IP or UDP/IP). The piece of software that interfaces with the backend is typically referred to as the Packet Forwarder – and has been open sourced by Semtech. Once again the choices are limited but while I used the Multi-tech Gateway – you could also get the gateway from Link Labs.
- LoRaWAN Network Server or Backend: This is the entity that speaks LoRaWAN to the Gateway and gets you the data to your application. Semtech the company behind LoRa hosts a backend that you could leverage. Multi-tech runs a "network server" on the Gateway itself. Or you could connect to the The Things Network (TTN for short, open-source, crowd-funded backend). On that note TTN is also going to be delivering cheap gateways. I first used the Network Server running on the Gateway, then made changes to make use of the TTN Backend. And finally I hacked using a combination of several open source backends – and ran it with my application backend.
- Application or Application Backend: The actual IoT application – that does something useful with the Thing – is most likely running on a private or public cloud would interface with the LoRaWAN network server and do the application-specific processing. The interface between the LoRaWAN backend and the Application Server is driven by the LoRaWAN backend provider – that is not a standard. TTN uses MQTT to do that, so does Multi-tech. This one is the easy part because you could use your own PC or Mac to run it or use any of public clouds for it. (Or may be a Smartphone App).
Note that if you (for the prototype or production) end up using a Network Service Provider such as Senet then you could skip on the Gateway. This is because companies like Senet want to offer LoRa as a Network Service, akin to how AT&T or Verizon provide cellular (both voice and data) service, and they set up "gateways" to cover a certain area with the LoRaWAN network. You could use TTN – but either you will have to be within the coverage of a community-hosted TTN Gateway or buy your own and hook it up to the TTN backend.
Getting all the 4 ingredients in place will enable you to truly understand the details of LoRaWAN and guide you on how to build solutions that address use cases well-matched with the attributes of LoRaWAN.
This is how the device kit looks like – it has a BME280 (Pressure, Temperature, Humidity), Light Level and GPS sensor attached to it. Also attached an NFC tag reader that I use for provisioning.
50B Devices by 2020: The Math Behind The Number
Internet of Things or IoT has been a megatrend worldwide for the last decade or so. I have seen a frequently quoted number from Cisco that indicates the number of connected devices will be 50B by 2020. But what is the math behind the number? How did Cisco arrive at that number? How many analysts, companies, presentations, and blogs have used that number?
I read through, again, the Cisco IBSG report which was published in 2011, and here is how the number was computed:
- Cisco started with a report from Forrester (actually in the Cisco IBSG PDF Report – the reference is to a number quoted by George Colony of Forrester Research in a post published by InfoWorld – March 2003) that states there are 500m Connected Devices
- Next take the number of connected devices in 2003, and get the number of devices per person – 500 Million divided by 6.3 Billion – resulting in 0.079 Devices per person.
- Using data from US Census Bureau and their internal IBSG data for 2010 – the next step was to state the number of Connected Devices was 12.5 Billion, and dividing that by the world population (6.8 Billion) results in 1.84 devices per person. Please note that per Cisco the 12.5 Billion number includes Smartphones and Tablet PCs.
- Cisco then used the work done by a team of researchers in China that showed the size of the Internet doubles every 5.32 years. The reference in the report is to the following: Internet Growth Follows Moore's Law Too
- Next step was very easy – multiply the number from 2010 every 5 years – you don't even need a calculator now – you get 25 Billion for 2015 (double from 12.5 in 2010, and that leads to 50B in 2020.
The 50B number does not get into a bread down by categories on the devices. We cannot make out from this number the percentage of sophisticated devices such as Smartphones or the percentage or low-power, low-cost number.
This number probably (and anecdotally) is one of the most cited number to show the growth of IoT. The math behind it looks simple and abstract but it helped propel the market forward!


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