New NOAA satellite imaging allows unprecedented tracking of lightning strikes

Randall Craig
March 8, 2017

This image shows one hour of data.

The new "Geostationary Lightning Mapper" can detect both cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud lightning strikes as well as all lightning over the oceans.

Lightning is not only unsafe, all on its own, but the amount and intensity of lightning from a storm can provide an early warning that the storm will turn severe, and possibly even develop a damaging tornado. The satellite is in fixed orbit over the Western Hemisphere including the United States. In January, we saw the satellite's first high-resolution images of Earth and the weather over North America.

The mapper spots lightning flashes in the western hemisphere, letting forecasters know a storm is brewing.

Since forecasters use this lightning information to issue warnings to the public about severe, potentially risky weather, the addition of GOES-16 to the suite of tools forecasters have at their disposal will very likely end up saving lives!

The newly released GLM image shows a view from February 14, when a number of storms popped up in the west.

The instrument is "a single-channel, near-infrared optical transient detector that can detect the momentary changes in an optical scene, indicating the presence of lightning", NOAA explains. The brightest storm system is located over the Gulf Coast of Texas, the same storm system in the accompanying video. In the video, the green dotted lines designate the Texas coastline.

The GLM can also show when thunderstorms stall or when they're becoming stronger.

With this information, in combination with radar and other satellite data, researchers can predict severe weather and alert the affected areas sooner than ever.

In dry areas of the country, the data can be used to help identify areas that can be prone to wildfires sparked by lightning.

It is also hoped that humans will one day be able to harvest the energy from space lightning, where a storm was measured as equal to one trillion lightning bolts.

The mapper detects in-cloud lightning, which happens five to 10 minutes before it could strike the ground while the ABI provides data and images in real time, as frequently as every 30 seconds.

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Tag: portugal

why we travel… reason #5.

more often than not i find my eyelids settling at half-mast on monday afternoons as i’m faced with nothing more inspiring than a dry to-do list and a my finger mindlessly tapping on open tabs on my computer. it’s in these moments when i allow my mind and my heart to wander back to places that have captivated me, if not for inspiration just to salvage my own sanity. this past monday, as it often does, my heart led me back to the algarve region of portugal, one of the most beautiful and enchanting places i’ve ever visited. my eyes began to consume image after image when i finally landed on a thorough and inspiring conde nast “introduction” to the area. and as i drank down every word and explored every pixel and breathed in my own memories, again and again and again, i came across a fascinating anecdote of a historical conquest that occurred in the area, that has found itself legendized as a common term in portuguese- sebastianismo. a word that was born from a story of exploration, of desire, of hope- lost.

king sebastião embarked on a crusade to battle the moorish kingdom of morocco, hopeful, willing, and determined, and soon after embarking the entire undertaking was a disaster– outnumbered, outsmarted, and out of options, they were defeated and Sebastião himself was lost among the sandy shores; a revered and promising king met his untimely demise in the craggy, unforgiving intercontinental coastline. from that event was born the term sebastianismo, meaning a failed venture or forlorn hope. such a palpable, fragrant term, born from glory and ending in failure and

what gives us, in all it’s 6-syllable complexity, one very tangible reason why we travel. because to have hope in itself is a rare gift. to believe in yourself, to put a dream in motion, to invigorate your senses, to contain within yourself the unshakable belief in a mission, to seek the unknown, to move, to try. and then even if you fail, if you find yourself lost, if you lose that hope that blindly mobilized you to begin with- at least you had such a gift to begin with. because stagnation, and not some easily defined nemesis- stagnation is the enemy.

and that- sebastianismo– in all of its regal peril, is why we travelIMG_0654


NASA unveiled on March 8, the image of a grouping of young stars called R136, which is located in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a part of tempestuous Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). LMC is a satellite of the Milk Way galaxy and is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way.

30 Doradus Nebula, which is located 160,000 light-years away from Earth, is known as the largest and most active star-forming region with great luminosity near our Milk Way Galaxy.

The combined data from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 in ultraviolet, visible and red light shows the image, which highlights the diamond-like icy blue sparkling stars. These are gigantic and weighty stars among the known. Many of them are 100 times greater than our Sun.

These hefty stars are destined to pop off, like a string of firecrackers, as supernovas in a few million years, NASA reported.

The nebula(30 Doradus) is close enough to Earth that Hubble can resolve individual stars, giving astronomers important information about the stars' birth and evolution, the space agency said.

Blue color indicates hottest light and most enormous stars; the green shows the oxygen glowing; and the red means fluorescing hydrogen.

These observations were made during Oct. 20-27, 2009.

See the Video Clip of 30 Doradus Nebula and the image of R136 below


and improved surface quality over broad sheet.

Cylinder blown sheet glass has been manufactured in France and Germany
since the 18th Century.  It began to be manufactured in the UK in the mid
19th Century, although only one small company continues manufacturing.

Machine drawn cylinder sheet was the first mechanical method for "drawing" window glass. Cylinders of glass 40 feet (12 >m ) high are drawn verticallyfrom a circular tank. The glass is then annealed and cut into 7 to 10 foot (2 to 3 m) cylinders. These are cut lengthways, reheated, and flattened.  This process was invented in the USA in 1903. This type of glass was manufactured in the early 20th century (it was manufactured in the UK by Pilkington from 1910 to 1933).

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"What believing in God does to your brain"

"Researchers found humans suppress the analytical areas of their brain in order to believe in god"

Samuel Osborne  627 comments

The study also found those with spiritual beliefs were more empathetic than those without

"Humans suppress areas of the brain used for analytical thinking and engage the parts responsible for empathy in order to believe in god, research suggests.

"They do the opposite when thinking about the physical world, according to the study.

"'When there's a question of faith, from the analytic point of view, it may seem absurd,' said Professor Tony Jack, who led the research.

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If believing in God makes people more empathetic, then what's the harm?  The world could use a whole lot more empathy and/or God.


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We’ve been writing and thinking about digital culture for a long time.

The significance of the internet – whether it’s blurring the idea of national boundaries, encouraging startling new participative movements, or reframing the notion of identity entirely – has played a role in nearly every project carried out by Space Doctors since its inception in 2001.

However, from analysing the emergent codes of technology, to understanding the changing cultural significance of the network, some of our most recent projects have involved the analysis of digital culture almost exclusively.

At Space Doctors we understand digital culture in three main ways. First, digital culture is part of, not distinct from, material culture. It exists both on- and off-line. It’s a big, culturally situated story.

Second, from apps and platforms to social networks and the dawn of the semantic web, the components of digital culture are massively fragmented and rapidly evolving. The devil really is in the detail.

Finally, digital culture is producing a fast-moving digitally literate consumership. Digital brands need to convincingly reflect the values and expectations of this new pan-demographic generation.

All of the above underlines the need for digitally fluent brand and cultural analysts. That’s where we come in. Whether it’s understanding and explaining the big digital picture, or grasping the significance of digital culture for specific brands and categories,

our analysts are in the vanguard of this remarkable cultural turn. Space Doctors’s extensive internal learning, coupled with a growing catalogue of digital facing projects, places us in the strongest possible position to help brands establish comprehensive and compelling digital identities.

One might wonder why, at a time of massive technological development and increased virtual connectivity, a retrograde brand aesthetic and various modes of tangible, touchable material culture seems so appealing to consumers. Why the reappearance of knitting and everyday craftwork after such a long absence? Why Wall-E and the little green Android man? We’ve got some ideas about that too. If you’d like to hear them, or want to know more about our digital offer, email me.


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Any of several ribbonfishes of the genus Trachipterus, especially T. arcticus of the Atlantic Ocean, which can attain a length of 3 meters (9.8 feet).

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(Animals) any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin

a ribbonfish, esp. Trachipterus arcticus.
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September 10 2017
Visualization Images Compression JPEG STEM

How JPEG works

Reading time: about 9 minutes

In the world of technology, “forever” means about 5 years. So it’s humbling to think that the 1992 JPEG image standard is still going strong despite being more than 5 “forevers” old. Why has it been so successful? This article presents the key ideas behind JPEG in plain language. It even includes an interactive JPEG compressor right on the page so you can play along at home.

Compression techniques look for repeated patterns in the data and then replace those patterns with shorter ones. It’s like using an abbreviation or acronym to stand in for a longer word or phrase. Video, still images, and audio don’t usually compress well. The problem with images and sound is that this data is usually too noisy to find good abbreviations. For this reason, JPEG and many other media formats use something called lossy compression.

Lossy compression means that you reduce file size by throwing away some of the information. Suppose a librarian has run out of shelf space and needs room for more books. One solution is to preserve all of the infomation in less space, maybe by replacing some of the books with digital or microfiche copies. That’s standard, lossless compression. Another solution is to burn some of the books. That’s lossy compression.

— Miles Davis

The trick to good lossy compression is to throw away information that nobody will notice anyway. This is like the librarian burning just the books that no one ever reads. How do you decide what to chuck? Science. Using an understanding of human perception, you determine which qualities of an image are important to what we perceive, and which aren’t. Then you find a way to keep the important qualities and trash the rest. The lossy compression in JPEG is based on two psychovisual principles:

A leopard walks in partial camouflage near a vehicle in South Africa.
Camouflaged leopard from a photo by Lee R. Berger.
  1. Changes in brightness are more important than changes in colour: the human retina contains about 120 million brightness-sensitive rod cells, but only about 6 million colour-sensitive cone cells.
  2. Low-frequency changes are more important than high-frequency changes. The human eye is good at judging low-frequency light changes, like the edges of objects. It is less accurate at judging high-frequency light changes, like the fine detail in a busy pattern or texture. Camouflage works in part because higher-frequency patterns disrupt the lower-frequency edges of the thing camouflaged.

JPEG compression applies each of these ideas in turn. In each case, we first transform the image data in a way that gives us easy access to the kind of information needed (either brightness or frequency information). Then some of the less important information is discarded. As a final step, the information that is left is compressed with traditional lossless compression to pack the end result into the smallest space possible. In this article, we explore the process step-by-step, using real images and following them through the entire encoding (saving as JPEG) and decoding (loading from JPEG) process. You can play with the encoding settings and see how it affects the results. Let’s go!

To start we will take a standard, uncompressed image and convert it to JPEG. First we’ll need to choose the input image that we want to encode.

The input image

Pick an image:

You can change the input image by choosing from the list provided. There are several to experiment with, but I recommed that for your first time through you use the default “Tower” image. It has a good mix of low- and high-frequency segments, and I’ll refer to it sometimes in the article text.

Tip: You can also use an image of your choice by dragging and dropping an image file on this page or by selecting Choose your own image and then picking one with a file selector dialog.

Step 1: Isolate the colour information

An image is made of pixels. The colour of each pixel is the sum of amounts of red, green, and blue light.

Typical computer images are made up from a grid of tiny coloured squares called pixels. Each pixel is stored as three numbers, representing the amount of red, green, and blue light needed to reproduce that pixel’s colour. For this reason, it is called an RGB image. On the left side of the left-hand illustration, you can see the red, green, and blue parts of your selected image split out into three separate channels.

The problem, as far as JPEG is concerned, is that the image’s brightness information is spread evenly through the R, G, and B channels. Remember that brightness is more important than colour, so we’ll want to isolate brightness from the colour information so we can deal with it separately. To do this, JPEG uses some math to convert the image’s colour space from RGB to YCbCr. A YCbCr image also has three channels, but it stores all of the brightness information in one channel (Y) while splitting the colour information between the other two (Cb and Cr).

The right side of the left-hand illustration shows the same image split into Y (top), Cb (middle), and Cr (bottom) channels. Notice that the Cb and Cr channels are “muddy” because all of the definition given by the brightness information has been moved to the Y channel.

Note: To keep the size of the illustration reasonable, I have scaled down all of the channels. In reality, each one is the same size as the original image.

Step 2: Throw away some colour information

Cb / Cr

Before doing anything else, JPEG throws away some of the colour information by scaling down just the Cb and Cr (colour) channels while keeping the important Y (brightness) channel full size. Strictly speaking, this step is optional. The standard says you can keep all of the colour information, half of it, or a quarter of it. For images, most apps will keep half of the colour information; for video it is usually a quarter. For this demo I’m keeping a quarter, both to exaggerate the effect and because it makes for nice, compact illustrations. Notice that we started with 3 full channels and now we have 1 full channel and 2 × ¼ channels, for a total of 1½. We’re just getting started and we are already down to half of the information we started with!

Step 3: Convert to the frequency domain

Cb' / Cr'

To make use of the second observation about human visual perception, we start by dividing each of the Y, Cb, and Cr channels up into 8×8 blocks of pixels. We will transform each of these blocks from the spatial domain to the frequency domain. Whoa there, horsie! What? OK, let’s consider just one of these 8×8 blocks from the Y channel. The spatial domain is what we have now: the value in the upper-left corner represents the brightness (Y-value) of the pixel in the upper-left corner of that block. Likewise, the value in the lower-right corner represents the brightness of the pixel in the lower-right corner of that block. Hence the term spatial: position in the block represents position in the image. When we transform this block to the frequency domain, position in the block will instead represent a frequency band in that block of the image. The value in the upper-left corner of the block will represent the lowest-frequency information and the value in the lower-right corner of the block will represent the highest-frequency information.

This domain transformation is accomplished using a bit of mathematical legerdemain called the 2D Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). (If you have heard of Fourier transforms, the DCT is similar but it uses only real numbers, which is much more convenient for computer representation.) The essential idea is to represent the values in the 8×8 block as a sum of cosine functions, where each cosine function has a specific unique frequency.

You don’t need to understand the math to get a sense of how it works. Look at the Y frequency illustration for the Tower image. You can clearly see each 8×8 block’s upper-left corner thanks to a dark dot of low-frequency information. Now if you look at blocks from the sky parts of the image, you will see that the rest of each block is mostly empty. The sky doesn't have lots of dramatic changes from pixel to pixel: no high-frequency information. Compare that to blocks from the tower parts of the image: the busy texture of the bricks means lots of higher-frequency change, and this shows up as grey throughout the block.

Step 4: The quality slider (quantization)

The next step is to selectively throw away some of the frequency information. If you have ever saved a JPEG image and chosen a quality value, this is where that choice comes into play. It works like this: start with two 8×8 tables of whole numbers, called the quantization tables. One table is for brightness information, and one is for colour information. You will use these numbers on each of the 8×8 blocks in the image data by dividing the frequency value in the image data by the corresponding number in its quantization table. So the upper-left corner of each 8×8 block in the Y frequency channel will be divided by the number in the upper-left corner of the brightness quantization table. The result of each division is rounded to the nearest whole number and the decimal bits thrown away.

Quantized Y'

Quantized Cb' / Cr'

Low High

The effect of your choice on the final output image is shown for reference.

Luminance (brightness) table
Chrominance (colour) table

The larger a number in one of the quantization tables, the more information gets thrown away from that part of that frequency range. Since we care less about high-frequency information, the numbers in that area of the quantization tables will be larger. And since we care less about colour than about brightness, the numbers in the colour table will be larger overall than the numbers in the brightness table.

The quantization tables are saved along with the image data in the JPEG file. They’ll be needed to decode the image correctly.

Go ahead and play with the quality slider above. Notice how more and more of the frequency information disappears as you drag the quality down towards the low end.

Step 5: Lossless data compression

If you think carefully about what just happened, you will realize that even though we threw away some frequency information by tossing the decimal parts after division, we still have the same amount of data: one number for each pixel from each of the three channels. It seems like that step didn’t actually buy us anything. However, this data is now going to be compressed using traditional lossless compression. But wait, wasn’t the whole reason we used lossy compression in the first place that lossless compression doesn’t work well for images? Yes, but that quantization we just did is going to make the data more compressible by making it less noisy. To see why, compare these three number sequences:

 n/2 = 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5,  5,  6,  6,  7,  7,  8,  8, …
The JPEG zig-zag order starts in the upper-left corner and then proceeds along the diagonals, alternating between going down and left and going up and right, until it reaches the lower-right corner.
Compressing blocks in zig-zag order makes the file even smaller.

The first row represents possible values for, say, some pixel in the Y frequency channel. The second row is the same values divided by 2 and rounded; the third row is divided by 16 and rounded. You can see that the larger the divisor, the more repetition there will be in the data. And the more repetition there is in the data, the easier it is to compress, and the smaller the final image file will be.

JPEG has one last trick for making the data more compressible: it lists the values for each 8×8 block in a zig-zag pattern that puts the numbers in order from lowest frequency to highest. That means that the most heavily quantized parts (with the largest divisors) are next to each other to make nice, repetitive patterns of small numbers.

There you have it, the essential elements of writing a JPEG image: convert the image from RGB to YCbCr so we isolate the brightness, throw away some of the colour, convert to the frequency domain, throw away some of the precision of the frequency information, and compress the resulting data.

What happens when you read an image back in? Essentially you just need to reverse each step of the encoding process. Let’s step through it.

Step 6: Decompression

Quantized Y'

Quantized Cb' / Cr'

The first step is to decompress the quantized (divided and rounded) frequency data. Since this data was compressed losslessly, the result will be exactly the same as in Step 5 above.

Step 7: Reconstruction from quantized data

Cb' / Cr'

Next we need to reverse the quantization process. We use the same procedure as before, but instead of dividing by the numbers in the tables, we multiply. Since we rounded the numbers, we won’t get exactly the same numbers back. The result is an imperfect approximation of the original frequency data, limited to the precision allowed by the quantization tables. The lower the quality setting, the larger the divisiors in the quantization tables, the more precision is going to be lost from the missing decimal bits, and the less accurate our reconstruction will be now.

Step 8: Convert back to spatial domain

Cb / Cr

Now that we have reconstructed the frequency information, we need to transform it back from the frequency domain to the spatial domain. This is no problem. The transform that we used during encoding has an inverse that does the job. Now that it is in a more recognizable form, we can start to judge the how perceptible the information loss is.

Step 9: Fill in missing colour information

An small chipmunk graphic is scaled up by 400% using two different methods. One scaled image is blocky, the other blurry.
Different methods of scaling image data up.

In order to combine the channels back into a single image, we need to scale the two colour channels Cb and Cr back up to their orignal size. But the information we threw away is gone, so we will have to approximate it with interpolation. We will fill in missing pixels by taking an average of the surrounding pixels that are still there. There are different ways to do this, and none of them is perfect. The scaled up image will tend to be either blocky or blurry, depending on the method used.

Step 10: Convert back to RGB

At this point we have a complete image, but it is still in the YCbCr colour space, which a computer can’t display directly. We need to transform it back to the RGB colour space that we started with.

Note: As before, I have scaled this illustration down to a reasonable size. All six of these channels are the same size as the original image.

The output image

Finally, we can combine the separate R, G, and B channels back into a single image and display the result. For comparison, both the original input image and the decoded output image are shown at left. Below that is a “difference image” that highlights discrepencies between the two: darker pixels mean the output varies more from the input at that location.

There you have it. We have taken an input image, encoded it, decoded it, and gotten a similar image back. That’s JPEG. Now that you've seen the whole process, try going back and experimenting with some of the other images.


Finding the Flow ID

Every flow in Boomi Flow is assigned a universally unique identifier (UUID), called the Flow ID. This ID remains the same throughout the lifecycle of the flow (the Flow Version ID changes with each version of the flow).

You can find the Flow ID at the bottom of your flow:


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Managing Life’s Fluctuations

This week’s torah portion opens with Jacob’s famous vision, which he dreamt while in flight from his enraged brother Esau. On that historic evening, Jacob saw angels ascending and descending a massive ladder. At the top of the ladder was God, who promised Jacob that he would inherit the land that he was lying on, and that his seed would become very numerous.

This pledge of abundant progeny was not unique to Jacob. His grandfather Abraham was promised that his children would be multiplied “as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore.” (Ibid 22:17) This followed an earlier assurance at the Covenant Between the Parts, in which God told his loyal servant to, “look now toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them… so shall your seed be.” (Genesis 15:5) Jacob’s father Isaac was similarly promised: “And I will make your seed multiply as the stars of heaven.” (Ibid 26:4)

Why is it that God felt compelled to utilize multiple metaphors when describing the future growth of the Jewish people? Even if some sort of imagery was necessary to convey the true scope of their expansion, why was one example not sufficient? Moreover, what is the significance of comparing the Jewish nation specifically to stars, sand and dust?

Kli Yakar, in his commentary to Genesis 22:17, suggests that each example highlights a different era within the Jewish historical experience. There would be times when our nation would be “on top of the world”, like stars. During these periods, which have sadly come with great infrequency, we would enjoy peace and great success, and be the envy of the world around us.

Then there would be periods of challenge, in which the gentile nations would aim to destroy us, but would repeatedly come up short. This is comparable to sand, which endures continual pounding by the waves of the sea, but manages to survive with its shoreline intact. Finally, there are times when we are truly compared to dust, as we are being trampled by the collective feet of our oppressors.

By utilizing these various metaphors, God was promising our avos that he would not forsake their children. What is more, he assured them that their progeny would continue to grow, numerically and otherwise, despite the many challenges that they would be forced to endure.

Of course, peaks and valleys are part of our personal experiences as well. There are times when we feel that the sky’s the limit. Every day brings new opportunities and much fulfillment. At other times we experience challenges, difficulties that set us back. But the problems are manageable and we find a way to persevere. And then there are the trials that are of such magnitude that we feel as if we are being trampled upon, with no one to turn to for support and guidance.

How can we manage the ups and downs and live a balanced life? The following strategies can help us navigate through the vicissitudes of life and maintain a well-adjusted lifestyle and perspective.

When you’re up:

  1. Relish the moment – Find ways to celebrate your successes in a manner that deepens your appreciation for what you have. List some things that you can do today that would be impossible without your material or other blessing and good fortune. Then go out and cement the feeling of gratitude with some form of celebration.
  2. And extend it – Identify opportunities to give, monetarily or with your time, to others in a manner that will help your high moments live on. Recognize that our abundance is not intended to be hoarded but shared. Let your rising tide raise other ships as well.
  3. Stay balanced – Appreciate the fact that you’re never as good as your successes would lead you to believe. Success in life is the combination of many factors, such as talent and effort. But it also requires a healthy dose of good fortune and divine assistance. Keeping this in perspective will also help you recognize that you are fundamentally the same person even when circumstances change for the worse.

When life throws you a curveball:

  1. Look for the good – At times of challenge, it becomes easy to get lost in our problems. We begin to look around us and ask why others seem to have it so much easier than we do. Think about the many things that you have and acknowledge that some people lack even these.
  2. Be confident – You’ve done it before and you will do it again. Remain confident in your strengths and abilities, while seeking ways to expand your skills and capacity.
  3. And keep the faith – Recognize that every challenge represents a growth opportunity. God would not test us if we were guaranteed to fail (see Ramban to Genesis 22:1). If we are being tested, it must mean that we possess the wherewithal to pass it successfully.
  4. Get up and do – A common response to challenge is inaction and self-pity. Resist that temptation by building positive energy and momentum. Difficult times can present opportunities to recreate one self. Why not take that course and learn new skills? Perhaps it’s time to try a new career pathway or make new social connections. Maybe now is the time to redouble our efforts to learn more or spend more meaningful time with our family.
  5. Get inspired – Read success stories and inspirational quotes. Remember that some of history’s most noteworthy achievements and achievers were born out of tough times.

We are bound to experience many highs and lows in life. For some, such fluctuation will fall within a relatively tight span. For others, the range will be much wider. Maintaining a positive, balanced outlook, one that helps us to keep all of our experiences in perspective, will go a long way in providing us with the comfort, stability and true happiness that we all seek.

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Industry groups and government agencies from the US, Europe and Japan have reached a basic agreement on how to measure the energy efficiency of data centres. The agreement is seen as significant because it establishes a common metric that different types of data centres, in different parts of the world, can use to report their level of energy efficiency. That could provide a yardstick for companies to assess the efficiency of their own data centres, and also to gauge the effectiveness of energy-saving techniques employed by other facilities.

The agreement is unusual for its level of international cooperation. Orchestrated by the Green Grid, an industry consortium in the US, the agreement is backed by the US Department of Energy, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the European Union Code of Conduct and the Japan Ministry of Economy, according to a statement from the Green Grid.

The participants have agreed to adopt Power Usage Effectiveness, or PUE, as their "preferred energy efficiency metric," the statement says. PUE, which was developed by the Green Grid, divides the total energy consumed by a data centre by the amount of energy used to power the IT equipment. The result shows how much energy is being lost to mechanical and electrical systems.

The choice of PUE is no surprise. It has emerged as the most popular metric for measuring data centre efficiency, and some large companies, notably Microsoft and Google, have been publishing PUE numbers as a way to show off the efficiency of their newest facilities. But there is no standard method for calculating PUE, and the groups participating in the agreement still have some work to do, in defining how the total energy consumed by a data centre should be measured, for example. They are also expected to develop and define further efficiency metrics.

"A global task force with representatives from each of the above mentioned organisations will continue to move this initiative forward and reconvene later this year to evaluate progress," the Green Grid says in the statement.

The agreement follows several meetings of stakeholders and interested parties. In January, representatives from the EPA met with several data centre industry groups from the US, including 7x24 Exchange and ASHRAE (The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers). The EPA then took the input from those groups to a meeting of international representatives on February 2. A copy of the February 2 agreement (PDF) was quietly posted on the Green Grid Web site this week.

"These guiding principles are meant to help drive a common understanding of energy efficiency in data centres," the EPA's Energy Star for Data Centres program said in a note to its member companies. The Green Grid is understood to be in talks with representatives from China, India and other big markets to bring them on board with the initiative as well.

The agreement comes as energy use in data centres comes under increasing scrutiny. Rising energy costs and the amount of powerful IT equipment that has been added to data centres in recent years has made them a cost centre on the radar of senior executives.

Environmental pressures, including new carbon emissions rules that have been introduced in Europe and will likely come eventually to the US, are also forcing companies to be more aware of their data centre energy use. In the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission published new guidelines last month about the risks related to climate change that public companies must disclose to investors. John Stanley of the Uptime Institute wrote a blog post about it this week.

"Overall, the ruling provides businesses, including those in the IT and data centre industries, yet another reason to keep energy use and environmental performance on their radar at the highest levels of management," he wrote.

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The Human Resource Management (HRM) is an academic theory and a business practice that is connected with the theoretical and practical techniques of managing a staff . its theoretical discipline is based primarily on the assumption that employees or the satff are individuals with cahnging goals and needs, and it should not be considered as basic business resources, such as trucks and filing cabinets. The workers, takes a positive view Field thinking that all wish to contribute to the enterprise productively, and that the main obstacles to their endeavors are lack of knowledge, insufficient training, and failures of process. The Human Resource Management is considered to be the part of a business or company which recruits, develops and utilizes an organization’s personnel in the way which would benefit the firm’s aims and objectives.The Human Resource Management is considered to be the part of a business or company which recruits, develops and utilizes an organization’s personnel in the way which would benefit the firm’s aims and objectives. It creates alignment between an organization’s HRM strategy and the core objectives of a business considered as essential.

Human Resource Management (HRM) is all about managing people, human capital and culture for business success. The human resources management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations. Activities also include managing your approach to employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies.

The Human Resource Management is seen by practitioners in the field as a more innovative view of workplace management than the traditional approach. The techniques force the managers of an enterprise to express their goals with specificity so that they can understand the workforce, and to provide the resources needed for them to successfully accomplish their assignments. Thus Human Resource Mangement techniques, when properly practiced,seem to be expressive of the goals and operating practices of the enterprise overall. Nowadays, it has concerned synonyms such as personnel management are often used in a more restricted sense to describe those activities that are necessary in the recruiting of a workforce, providing its members with payroll and benefits, by which Satff is adminsitered . These activities require regulatory knowledge and effort, and enterprises can benefit from the recruitment and development of personnel with these specific skills.Academic theoryThe aims of Human Resource Management is to help an organization or Institution to meet strategic goals by attracting, and maintaining employees and also to manage them effectively. The academic theory of Human Resource Management is that humans should not be considered machines.Therefore ,we should have an interdisciplinary examination of people in the workplace. The Fields such as psychology, industrial and organizational psychology, sociology, and critical theories: postmodernism, post-structuralism play a major role. Many colleges and universities offer bachelor and master degrees in Human Resources Management.

The activities of Human resource managers are involved such as interviewing applicants, staff training, and dealing with laws and regulations within employment.The Human Resource Mangement is composed of seven interlinked activities taking place with organizations. The seven major HR management activities are given Below: (1) Strategic HR Management, (2) Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), (3) Staffing, (4) HR Development, (5) Compensation and Benefits, (6) Health, Safety, & Security, and (7) Employee & Labor Relations. Within these activities there are external forces involved such as legal, economic, technological, global, environmental, cultural/geographic, political, and social–which significantly affect HR activities and how they are designed, managed, and changed.  “Resource Manager” and that is the only change.Empowerment has been noted as an HRM practice which by critics has been noted more as a pseudo-empowerment, based on attitudinal shaping  .

Other such HRM practices have been noted as hidden within rhetoric, and many examples particularly within call centers are much more Orwellian, and hide the reality, through attitudinal shaping  . Today, unions remain a controversial topic. Under the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act, the closed-shop arrangement states employees (outside the construction industry) are not required to join a union when they are hired. Union-shop arrangements permit employers to hire non-union workers contingent upon their joining the union once they are hired. The Taft-Hartley Act gives employers the right to file unfair labor practice complaints against the union and to express their views concerning unions  .

The Human Capital : Carmeli, A and Schaubroeck, J argue that “having higher levels of humanresourcescapital was strongly associated with performance only when top managers perceived that these resourcesprovided distinctive value in terms of being highly valuable, inimitable, rare, and nonsubstitutable For this reason, motivation of employee is at the heart of how innovative and productive things get done within work organisation . Before studying the different ways to motivate, we have to give a clear definition of the word “motivation.The motivation involves a conscious decision to perform one or more activities with greater effort that one performs others activities competing for attention”.Human capital is a way of defining and categorizing the skills and abilities as used in employment and as they otherwise contribute to the economy. Many early economic theories refer to it simply as labour, one of three factors of production, and consider it to be a commodity — homogeneous and easily interchangeable. Other conceptions of labour are more sophisticatedOrigin of concept History ” The term human capital was first discussed by Arthur Cecil Pigou : “There is such a thing as investment in human capital as well as investment in material capital. So soon as this is recognised, the distinction between economy in consumption and economy in investment becomes blurred. For, up to a point, consumption is investment in personal productive capacity. This is specially important in connection with children: to reduce unduly expenditure on their consumption may greatly lower their efficiency in after-life. Even for adults, after we have descended a certain distance along the scale of wealth, so that we are beyond the region of luxuries and “unnecessary” comforts, a check to personal consumption is also a check to investment .

Global Presence of Companies The global debate is on regarding the fair distribution of human capital btween the countries . This points to the educated individuals, who typically migrate from poorer places or developing countires to richer places seeking opportunity, making ‘the rich richer and the poor poorer’. When these workers migrate, generally, their early care and education is benefited by the country where they move to work and live their lives . And, when they have health problems or retire, their care and retirement pension will typically be paid in the new country.

Hitsorical HRM from 19th to 20th Centuries : During the late 19th and early 20th centuries,The Human Capital in the United States had became considerably more valuable as the need for skilled labor came with newfound technological advancement. These New techniques and processes also required further education than the normally of primary schooling, which hence led to the creation of more formalized schooling across the nation. The early insight into the need for education allowed for provided a Shift to US productivity and economic prosperity, when compared to other world leaders at the time.The rights and freedom of individuals who travelled for the want of opportunity, despite some historical exceptions such as the Soviet bloc and its “Iron Curtain”, seem to consistently outweigh the rights of nation-states that nurture and educate themits worth mentioning that, the ability to have mobility with regards to where people want to move and work is a part of their human capital. They were able to move from one place to an other .

HRM in Several Environments Being increase in competition, locally or globally, organizations must become more adaptable, resilient, agile, and customer-focused to succeed. And within this change in environment, the HR professional has to evolve to become a strategic partner, an employee sponsor or advocate, and a change mentor within the organization. In order to succeed in this term , HR must be a business driven function with a thorough understanding of the organization’s big picture and be able to influence key decisions and policies. The focus of today’s HR Manager is on strategic personnel retention and talents development. HR professionals can be e coaches, counselors, mentors, and succession planners to help motivate organization’s members and their loyalty. The HR manager will also have to promote and fight for values, ethics, beliefs, and spirituality within their organizations, especially in the management of workplace diversity as compared to the Work Force of various states .

Many companies now have realized the advantages of a diverse workplace. As many of them are going local in their market expansions either physically or virtually (for example, E-commerce-related companies), there is a necessity to employ diverse talents to understand the various niches of the market. If want to take the example of China when it was opening up its markets and exporting their products globally in the late 1980s, the Chinese companies (such as China’s electronic giants such as Hair) were seeking the marketing expertise of Singaporeans. This was due to Singapore’s marketing talents were able to understand the local China markets relatively well (almost 75% of Singaporeans are of Chinese descent) and as well as being attuned to the markets in the West due to Singapore’s open economic policies and English language abilities.

Similarly if we take the Example of Microsoft a Global company and No1Software Company has some values to work in different environments. They are adaptable to any Culture or norms and rules of the Country because they employ the local Talent there besides their working capital already they have with. They rely on local Partners as entrepreneurs for their sales and marketing . In this Line The Google h as done remarkable by establishing sites of Various Countries ij their own languages which has really helped them to go forward and become the biggest advertising company for Web . Billion of ads shown on site as ad words . But the main thing they employ the Local talent for boosting their sales . Yahoo is also an International Company in competition with Google and Microsoft. But it shares went down due to improper Human Resource and improper understanding of the Local markets of the Various Countries .

Conclusion : Finally , If the Human Resource Management Theory assessed globally , it has really brought revolution in outsourcing and hiring of the staff . It has really opened the Vistas of talent and opened the doors of the talent to the Globe . Now opportunities are not limited to the particular Countries. They HRM has proved vital for the Biggest Companies such as Sony , Samsung , Motorola and LG also .They have the same phenomena of taking the products menus in the local languages to sell and market their Products through the Local Human Resource .

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21eme Regiment de Ligne
  A Brief History of the Regiment

A Brief History of the 21eme

The 21ème Regiment d'Infanterie is one of the oldest regiments in the World. It was raised in Lorraine in 1598 by Henri de Vaubecourt at the time when Henri of Navarre became King Henry IV of France. It continued as a regiment of the Monarchy under the name of its Colonel until it became the Regiment Guyenne in 1762.

It was not until the French Revolution that it was known as the 2leme Demi-Brigade de Ligne. The regiment served in Germany in 1793 and by the mid 1790's was in the Armme d'Italie. The 2leme was involved in action at Laona in 1796 and also Montenotee, Millesimo, Dego and the bridge at Lodi. It was at Lodi where Grenadiers of the Regiment charged over the bridge under constant fire shouting "Vive la Republique!" overthrowing the Austrian defenders and capturing their artillery.

In 1799 the regiment saw further action at Verona, Magano, Trebbia and most notably the Battle of Novi. It was here that Sergeant-Major Jean Georges Pauly, cut off by a body of Russian Cavalry was called upon to surrender. Replying Je Passe Quand Même he rallied a handful of men and forced his way back to the regiment using musket butt and bayonet killing or wounding more than 40 Russians in the process.

The regiment was designated the 2leme Regiment d' Infanterie de Ligne in 1803. In 1804 it formed part of the Armee d' Angleterre when the concept of the Grande Armee was first created by Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1805 the regiment marched under Marshal Louis Nicoholas Davout as part of the 3eme Corp d' Armee to fight the combined might of Austria and Russia at Austerlitz.

In 1806 Davout's Corps found itself facing the main Prussian army under the Duke of Brunswick at Auerstadt, whilst Napoleon was defeating what he believed to be the main army at Jena. The 2leme defended the village of Hassenhausen in the centre of the French line. Corporal Boutloup of the Voltigeur company, along with six men, took a Prussian gun and caisson and turned it on the Prussians. These men, having killed the gun crew, manned the cannon for over half an hour until ammunition was exhausted. Losses were heavy but the three divisions of the 3eme Corp became famous through the Armee as "Les Trois Immortelles".

The 2leme saw further action at Custrun, Pultusk and Eylau and later still at Eckmul and Wargram. It was at Custrin, a single company bluffed the fortress into surrendering and took 4,000 Prussian prisoners.

In 1812 the regiment was once again with Davout as part of the crack ler Corp. The 2leme now comprised 6 battalions (4 veteran battalions, the depot battalion and the new 6th battalion led by graduates from St Cyr and volunteers from the Garde.) It fought at Smolensk, Valoutina Gora and Borodino in the bitter Russian campaign. The regiment then faced the winter retreat from Moscow. From a strength of over 4200, only 92 remained in arms by the 1st of February 1813.

The 2leme was later reformed in the same year and saw action including the battle of Dresden. It was here the regiment was left behind while Napoleon moved back to Leipzig. It fought at Hellendorf where Lieutenant Doignon and the Grenadier company took some 70 Russian prisoners.

Inevitably, the 2leme passed into captivity at Dresden.

In 1814 the regiment was reformed from the depots in France and fought the British army for the very first time at Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands. It was here that the Colour of the Foot Guards was taken. (Now on display at the Invalides in Paris)

Now following the Emperor's abdication the 21e Regiment de Ligne continued as a reluctant regiment of the monarchy.

Napoleons return from exile in 1815 marked the start of a campaign that was to become known as the 100 Days. He re-instated himself as Emperor of France, banished the Bourbons and brought back the tricolour flag. As the storm clouds gathered over Europe his imperial army formed up below the eagles once again.

During this period the 2leme formed part of the 3eme Division in the 1er Corp commanded by the Compte Drouet d' Erlon. The regiment missed both actions at Ligny and Quartre Bras to the confusion of orders between Napoleon and Marshal Ney. Two days later they formed part of the French right wing on the field of Waterloo. Here the 21eme took part in the early stages of the baffle during the advance on the Allied centre. With shouts of "Vive L' Empereuer!" they descended into the valley under the fiery vault of French and English shells which arched over their heads. With drums beating the advance in massed formation up the slopes of Mont Saint Jean to meet Wellington's army. Before the crest D'Erlon's Corp were stopped by a hedge, in front of which the leading ranks were forced to deploy. Here they were surprised by the Highlanders and became involved in a fierce melee. This was only broken as the French heavy cavalry charge by Wellington's Union Brigade. The 2leme retired as best it could.

The regiment was later involved in the capture of the farmhouse of La Haye Saint but never fully recovered from this onslaught. Following the arrival of the Prussians and defeat of the Old Guard the day was lost. The remnants of the regiment regrouped at Laon but Waterloo was the last baffle in the Napoleonic Wars and spelt the end of the era in Europe.

The 21eme have continued active service over the years in Algeria, Italy, the Crimea (allied to the English!), the Franco-Prussian War, the Great War and World War II.

Today the regiment is managing military camp at Canjeurs in the South of France.

  This map will show the places important  to the Regiment taken from "Histoire du 21e Régiment d'Infanterie, by General Pierre Bertin.

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Events 2017
Events 2017
12th March: Alumwell Wargame Show, Wolverhampton.
24th-26th March: Whittington Castle, Oswestry.
8th-9th April: Ickworth House, Suffolk
26th-29th May: Hole Park, Rolvenden, Kent.
5th-6th August: Cannon Hall, near Barnsley.
12th-13th August: Spetchley Park, Worcester.
2nd-3rd September: Fishguard, south Wales.Cancelled
23rd-24th September: Stamford, Lincolnshire.
2nd December: Recon: Pudsey, Yorkshire
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Commanding Officer
Chris Perko
Algrave Hall
Hassock Lane North
Derbyshire DE75 7JB
The Adjutant
Chris Durkin
7 Lowcroft Crescent
Oldham OL9 9UU
Position of the Regiment
25th May
1790 Regiment Guyenne at Lyon
1792: Journal militaire:1st battalion arrived Besancon
1793 Landau, siege until 28th December.
1799 Magnano, towards Brescia.
1800 Pas de Suse, and town of Suse.
1804 3rd and 4th battalions to Cologne.
1806 Division Kreus Munster
1807 Division at the Hohenstein camp until 5th June.
1808 Juliers
1809 Division left Ebersdorf for Vienna
1810 Brunswick, until October.
1811 Stade
1812 Division Thorn
1814 Bergen op Zoom
1815 Lille

1815 Between Quatre-Bras and Waterloo.
Waterloo 1985
Boulogne 1991 on the Video page.


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The ability of powerful and well-funded interest groups to steer scientific research in ways that advance their goals has become a significant social concern. This steering ability is increasingly being recognized in the peer-reviewed scientific literature and in findings of deliberative scientific bodies. This paper provides a case study that illustrates some of the major strategies that can be used to structure and advance a controversial research field. It focuses on hormesis, described as a type of dose–response relationship in toxicology and biology showing low-dose stimulation but high-dose inhibition, or the reverse. Hormesis proponents tout its significance, arguing that substances toxic at high doses and beneficial at lower doses should be regulated less stringently. We identify five strategies employed by hormesis proponents to foster its acceptance: (1) creating institutions focused on supporting hormesis; (2) developing terminology, study designs, and data interpretations that cast it in a favorable light; (3) using bibliometric techniques and surveys to attract attention; (4) aggressively advocating for the phenomenon and challenging critics; and (5) working with outside interest groups to apply the hormesis phenomenon in the economic and political spheres. We also suggest a number of oversight strategies that can be implemented to help promote credible and socially responsible research in cases like this one.


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Brain training isn’t based on diagnosis and neither is it concerned with symptoms a client may be suffering. Its focus is on the degree of balance and harmony the brain experiences, plus the flexibility it demonstrates when it moves from being at rest to being activated. This is quite different from modalities that compare a person’s brain with a normative database and then try to teach the individual to bring their brain functioning up to par with the average brain.

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Playing a bit here to bring visual concepts to how our minds function.

This describes what I feel happens when you hold to negative beliefs, thoughts, emotions or feelings.

It creates a road block that stops the free flow of energy in your system.

To remove this road block and optimize your mind, you shift your negative belief to a positive one.

For instance you might go from "I can't do it"  to "I can do it".
Your thoughts design your reality.

How much energy,  joy or life force flows through your system is a direct result of what you hold in your mind.

If you identify a negative belief that no longer serves you, choose the opposite positive belief and start practicing that mind posture.

This new mind set can be in the form of a positive affirmation.

Be the conscious designer of your mind!

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Re: Hubey numbers

H. M. Hubey (
20 Oct 1995 22:39:01 -0400

David Froehlich <> writes:

>On 20 Oct 1995, H. M. Hubey wrote:
>I will play your silly game.

Great. That's what I like, the Delphi method of conflict resolution :-).

>If we are going to argue verbiage then what does affinity mean????

We can't do without words. I picked the word to avoid the already
emotionally loaded word "aquatic".

And finally, the scale (if agreed upon) will define it. That's
the trick. That's called operationalizing the idea.

>> elephants 80-90
>?Elephants live in savannahs, deserts (the Namib), forests, rain forests
>how can ypou place a single number on all of these behaviors? Elephants
>spend 80-90 % of their time in water?

WE can get back to this. See below.

How much time one spends in the air doesn't determine if one is
a bird. And how much time chimps spend in trees probably
shouldn't determine the degree of arboreality of chimps. That's
not the only way to measure things. Besides, almost everything
having to do with adaptation of transducers to physical measurements
seems to obey power laws and thus should tell us to use something
like a decibel scale (i.e. logarithmic).

Of course, the fact that elephants spend so much time in deserts,
forests etc may be due to the fact that what they eat is far away
from water sources. That must be taken into account.

>> hippos 100
>Hippos forage on land, pretty much all night. 100???

Physical adaptation to water ranks high on the scale. YOu
can argue the point but you must offer a reason.

>> lions 40-50
>> humans ???
>> gorillas 40-50
>> pigs 80-90
>> sea otters 100
>here we can agree mostly, sea otters almost never get onto land

And probably also have adaptations to being aquatic.

>> polar bears 80-90
>They spend a considerable time on land (and also they are the most
>quadrupedal of the bears interestingly enough)

They also have adaptations for water and interestingly enough
bears would rank more bipedal than cats or dogs.

>> dogs 60??
>> penguins 80-90
>> sheep 40-50
>> camels 10-20
>> X_mouse 0-5

>What about lemmings? 100???

Give us a reason for 100 and give us your rankings of the above
along with reasons for the change in rankings.

>What about other carnivores that aren't bipedal (e.g. mongeese (remember
>meerkats?), pinipeds, otters)

OK. Meerkets would probably rank more bipedal than say cats. But
I don't know anything about their water behavior. Their bipedal
behavior is probably due to stretching to see far away while
standing guard at their burrows.

And you are welcome to add more animals and rank them.

Anyone can join. Eventually we can have some scale on which
many (maybe even most) agree.

Regards, Mark