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How Your Story of Sorrow Fits into the Gospel Story
Everyone has a story. Your story is shaped by the culture you live in. In my city, we’ve absorbed the story of success, which whispers that we’re only as valuable as our last achievement or our most recent promotion. We also buy into the story of optimization, where we think if we just have the right supplements, peptides, and diets, we can finally feel secure.
4 headings = a minimal strategy for solving tasks
There are countless tasks to be solved both in your personal life and at work. Smaller tasks, which typically only take a few minutes, are best completed right away. This gives you the pleasant feeling of making progress. Then there are the larger tasks. These require significantly more time. Sometimes you don't even have the time you need all at once, but have to divide it into several appointments. Furthermore, completing larger tasks requires a minimum level of structured approach.
Conservative principles prove Noem unprincipled
Since the onset of the pandemic, Gov. Noem has praised South Dakotans for responding responsibly, even when many, whose risky behavior is daily on display, have not. She has declared that her administration has relied upon the facts regarding the spread of the virus though she has repeatedly claimed, contrary to fact, that there is no scientific consensus regarding the efficacy of masks. She refuses to wear one in public herself.
Introducing Aufbau
Features: An Electron desktop app for newsroom web apps As a multimedia team within editorial, our main job is reporting and building stories. Like other teams, though, we’re always looking for ways to turn what we do into tools that the wider newsroom can use. This has been both very small scale such as producing Document Cloud embeds that play nicer with our CMS to SoundCite components for audio stories or custom Tarbell templates for features.
Colon cancer increasing among young adults
By Michael A. Keller, For the Express-News Published 12:00 am CDT, Sunday, April 7, 2019 Colorectal cancer, a malignancy that occurs in the colon or rectum, is a leading cause of cancer deaths. Colorectal cancer, a malignancy that occurs in the colon or rectum, is a leading cause of cancer deaths. Photo: Handout /TNS Photo: Handout /TNS Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Colorectal cancer, a malignancy that occurs in the colon or rectum, is a leading cause of cancer deaths.
Colon cancer increasing among young adults
By Michael A. Keller, For the Express-News Published 12:00 am CDT, Sunday, April 7, 2019 Colorectal cancer, a malignancy that occurs in the colon or rectum, is a leading cause of cancer deaths. Colorectal cancer, a malignancy that occurs in the colon or rectum, is a leading cause of cancer deaths. Photo: Handout /TNS Photo: Handout /TNS Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Colorectal cancer, a malignancy that occurs in the colon or rectum, is a leading cause of cancer deaths.
Power Grab: Orlando’s Clout Grows As Clean Energy Innovation Hub
By Michael Keller As college students, Nicole Hall-Elser and Kinsley Gerks realized the world had a big waste problem: When the electronics at the heart of our modern society reach the end of their useful lives, they get thrown out like so much other garbage. The Orlando Utilities Commission is testing floating solar panels at an area lake to see how well they can generate power.
How Orlando’s Work With Digital Twins May Change How We Engineer Everything
By Michael Keller Just 30 minutes south of downtown Orlando, among farms, housing developments and parks, sits a portal into a mirror world of ones and zeros — a virtual reality that peers into the future and helps engineers perfect products before they’re made. To design advanced microelectronics, BRIDG is among the first in the semiconductor industry to rely on complete digital replicas of both chip components and the manufacturing process used to make them.
Data That Heals: Orlando’s Innovators Push Into Healthcare’s Frontiers With High-Tech Advances
By Michael Keller When Dr. Vanaja Ragavan began building a mobile device to quickly diagnose infectious diseases and other acute illnesses using sound waves, she didn’t expect to move to a different city.
Orlando Poised To Become Capital Of Autonomous Vehicle Research
By Michael Keller Autonomous vehicles represent the future of transportation. When they replace human drivers, the world will see far fewer accidents, less traffic congestion, lower emissions and other huge benefits. Luminar Technologies employs 250 people at its design and manufacturing headquarters in Orlando, where its innovative work on lidar took place. Luminar Technologies But to achieve the revolution they promise, they’ll have to prove they are less dangerous than people behind the wheel.
Serious About Play, Orlando Becomes Leader In Multibillion-Dollar Video Game Industry
By Michael Keller When Mike Taramykin moved to Florida to work at video game maker Electronic Arts, the New York City native told his wife they wouldn’t stay longer than three years. Taramykin, an executive, couldn’t imagine permanently leaving the frenetic energy and professional opportunities that exist in his hometown. That was more than 13 years ago. Gaming teams compete at the Call of Duty World League Championship at the Amway Center in 2017.
A social bacterium with versatile habits
Home Biology Cell & Microbiology / Molecular & Computational Biology March 22, 2019 March 22, 2019 by Michael Keller, ETH Zurich When food is scarce, individuals of the social soil bacterium M. xanthus cooperate to form yellow fruiting bodies. Credit: ETH Zurich/Gregory J. Velicer Related individuals of a soil bacterial species live in cooperative groups and exhibit astonishing genetic and behavioural diversity. ETH researchers recently published these findings in Science .
selection criteria as a class
Dear community, in the openSAP course “Writing Testable Code for ABAP” was unit 1 of week 6 about working with legacy code. It was shown how to transform a procedural report into an object-oriented design with a class. The selection criteria, consisting of PARAMETERS and SELECT-OPTIONS, are transferred to the constructor. Since there can sometimes be many selection criteria, I have thought about a dynamic solution.
simulation based on cellular automaton
Dear community, I had a look at my archive of unpublished developments. Here is one, hope you like it 𙂠The story: Back in 2015, I’ve read the book “Pixelspiele” (it’s written in German). The title could be translated with “Pixel Games”. The book deals with cellular automata. There are interesting examples about the simulation of traffic jam or how a forest fire evolves. Up to summer 2017, I had no clue what to do with the new knowledge gained from the book.
Tracking Amtrak 188
Al Jazeera America published an analysis of data related to the crash of Amtrak 188 this week, using historical data that was technically publicly available. There’s nothing super surprising about that—we are a news operation after all—except that we published the speed the train was traveling (now widely known to be twice the speed limit) at roughly the same time as the major news outlets who first broke the story.
Building the Code for Diversity
By Michael Keller Saeed Jabbar knows what it feels like to be excluded. Born in the tiny South American country of Guyana, he moved to New York City with his family when he was 10. But some kids in his new neighborhood in Queens, didn’t take too kindly to the newcomer. “It was a tough neighborhood, man,” recalled Jabbar, now 26. “I got picked on and bullied a lot.
Christmas tree | SAP Blogs
Dear community, some time ago I saw a competition on StackExchange. It was about developing a scalable Christmas tree. Everyone was allowed to use the programming language he wanted. The competition is already 5 years old, but I like the results and the basic idea. So here’s a Christmas tree in ABAP (source code on GitHub via abapGit). Hope you like plain ASCII art 𙂠By the way if there is some time left during christmas time, here are a few suggestions. Visit TechnologyRadar from ThoughtWorks.
Tracked: 8 Places Smartphones Revealed People’s Movements
Tracked: 8 Places Smartphones Revealed People’s Movements A New York Times investigation showed that data from over a million devices in the New York area exposed people’s daily habits. The business of location data has grown dramatically in recent years, a New York Times investigation found. Apps on smartphones send precise location data sometimes thousands of times a day. Companies prize the information, which can help advertisers target consumers and investments funds understand trends.
Las aplicaciones de tu teléfono saben dónde estuviste anoche, y no guardan el secreto
La cantidad de datos registrados por los teléfonos móviles permiten que las compañías de marketing e investigación de mercado puedan elaborar campañas publicitarias geolocalizadas y a medida de una audiencia específica Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Natasha Singer Michael H. Keller 13 de diciembre de 2018 • 00:28 Los millones de puntos en el mapa delinean autopistas, calles laterales y también sendas para bicicletas; cada uno sigue el trayecto de un usuario de celular anónimo.
Las aplicaciones de tu teléfono saben dónde estuviste anoche, y no guardan el secreto
La cantidad de datos registrados por los teléfonos móviles permiten que las compañías de marketing e investigación de mercado puedan elaborar campañas publicitarias geolocalizadas y a medida de una audiencia específica Los millones de puntos en el mapa delinean autopistas, calles laterales y también sendas para bicicletas; cada uno sigue el trayecto de un usuario de celular anónimo.
Your smartphone apps are tracking your every move, and they’re not keeping it secret
At least 75 companies receive anonymous, precise location data from apps whose users enable location services to get local news and weather or other information, The New York Times found. (Image Source: The New York Times) By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Natasha Singer, Michael H. Keller and Aaron Krolik The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails — each one following the path of an anonymous cellphone user.
Your apps know where you were last night, and they’re not keeping it secret
One path tracks someone from a home outside Newark, New Jersey, to a nearby Planned Parenthood. Another represents a person who travels with New York’s mayor during the day and returns to Long Island at night. Yet another leaves a house in upstate New York at 7am and travels to a middle school 14 miles away, staying until late afternoon each school day. Only one person makes that trip: Lisa Magrin, 46, a math teacher. Her smartphone goes with her.
Your apps know where you were last night, and they're not keeping it secret
Editor's note: This story is available as a result of a content partnership with The New York Times. Subscribers will see stories like this every day on our website (and in our daily emails) as an added value to your subscription. The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails - each one following the path of an anonymous cellphone user. One path tracks someone from a home outside Newark, New Jersey, to a nearby Planned Parenthood.
Your apps know where you were last night, and they’re not keeping it secret
At least 75 companies receive anonymous, precise location data from apps whose users enable location services to get local news and weather or other information, The New York Times found. (Image Source: The New York Times) By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Natasha Singer, Michael H. Keller and Aaron Krolik The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails — each one following the path of an anonymous cellphone user.
Your apps know where you were last night, and they're not keeping it secret
The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails — each one following the path of an anonymous cellphone user. One path tracks someone from a home outside Newark, New Jersey, to a nearby Planned Parenthood. Another represents a person who travels with New York’s mayor during the day and returns to Long Island at night. Yet another leaves a house in upstate New York at 7 a.m. and travels to a middle school 14 miles away, staying until late afternoon each school day.
Your apps know where you were last night, and they're not keeping it secret
The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails — each one following the path of an anonymous cellphone user. One path tracks someone from a home outside Newark, New Jersey, to a nearby Planned Parenthood. Another represents a person who travels with New York’s mayor during the day and returns to Long Island at night. Yet another leaves a house in upstate New York at 7 a.m. and travels to a middle school 14 miles away, staying until late afternoon each school day.
Your apps know where you were last night, and they're not keeping it secret
The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails — each one following the path of an anonymous cellphone user. One path tracks someone from a home outside Newark, New Jersey, to a nearby Planned Parenthood. Another represents a person who travels with New York’s mayor during the day and returns to Long Island at night. Yet another leaves a house in upstate New York at 7 a.m. and travels to a middle school 14 miles away, staying until late afternoon each school day.
Museum Director Hits Art World Stratosphere With A Subtropical Twist
Changemakers is a content series produced by Cole Haan and Forbes. It provides a platform for industry leaders who are disrupting business and society by combining their professions with their passions. For more information, visit ColeHaan.com and follow @ColeHaan. By Michael Keller For many of the art world’s most ardent climbers and strivers, arriving at the top is making it into the New York City scene.
Drone Maker Sees Business Opportunity In Keeping Workers And Warfighters Safe
By Michael Keller For intrepid wildlife biologists stomping around in the bush, it’s not an animal mauling or an attacking microbe that most often spells doom. Altavian drone operators hand-launch one of their Nova unmanned aerial vehicles for a data-collecting mission. Courtesy Altavian Statistically speaking, it’s the aircraft they use to enter remote areas that does them in.
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Doping plastic with graphene may be one solution to a major problem confronting 3-D printing technology. Putting just a bit of the one-atom thick sheets of linked carbon atoms into standard plastics used in 3-D printing appears to increase the strength of the final product while lowering the amount of plastic needed by half. Graphene also imparts its electric and thermal conductivity to the plastic, which normally is poor conductor of heat and electricity.
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Engineers report they have made ultralight, ultrastiff materials using a light-based 3-D printing method. With a technique called projection microstereolithography, MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers shine a pattern of light onto a pool of liquid resin to form precise lattice structures. This light hardens the liquid where it touches, building layer after layer until the object is completed.
How game apps that captivate kids have been collecting their data
Before Kim Slingerland downloaded the Fun Kid Racing app for her then-5-year-old son, Shane, she checked to make sure it was in the family section of the Google Play store and rated as age-appropriate. The game, which lets children race cartoon cars with animal drivers, has been downloaded millions of times. Until last month, the app also shared users' data, sometimes including the precise location of devices, with more than a half-dozen advertising and online tracking companies.
Standing Up: Comedian Joel Kim Booster's Boldest Gamble? Trusting Himself
By Michael Keller For some people, boldness bubbles up in the heat of the moment. An important decision when the pressure’s on. A singular act of courage and decisiveness when the world demands it. For Joel Kim Booster, being bold is a way of life.
developer characters
Recently on Golem was an article about characterizing a developer (it’s written in german). In the article the author Maja Hoock talked about the problem that very opposite characters can influence the software development process negative – from my own experience, that’s true and sometimes it’s not true. In conclusion, it is important to know what developer characters work in a team.
Sites ganham dinheiro vendendo visualizações para vídeos no YouTube
Carlton Bynum II tem um site, GetLikes.click, que vende visualizações no YouTube, além de seguidores no Instagram e no Twitter, curtidas no Facebook e “plays” no SoundCloud. Martin Vassilev ganha um bom dinheiro com visualizações falsas de vídeos do YouTube. Trabalhando de casa em Ottawa, Ontário, já vendeu cerca de 15 milhões de views neste ano, o que provavelmente vai lhe render US$ 200 mil. Ele dono de apenas um dos sites que oferecem views no YouTube, curtidas no Facebook e assim por diante.
From pine cones to an adaptive shading system
It gets hot in the city in summer, and buildings in direct sunlight get particularly warm. At night, it can then be difficult to get rid of that accumulated heat. These days, many people dream of efficient air conditioning. Chiara Vailati had a different dream: after completing her studies in Italy, the civil engineer pursued the idea of creating an adjustable and autonomous sunshade for houses, to reduce the amount of heat that enters a building and therefore the need for cooling.
The Flourishing Business of Pumping Up YouTube Views
The Flourishing Business of Pumping Up YouTube ViewsPlays can be bought for pennies and delivered in bulk, inflating videos’ popularity and making the social media giant vulnerable to manipulationBy Michael H. KellerMartin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from…
‘They can’t stop it’: Inside the thriving business of selling fake YouTube video views
Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from home in Ottawa, Ontario, he has sold about 15 million views so far this year, putting him on track to bring in more than $200,000, records show. Vassilev, 32, does not provide the views himself. His website, 500Views.com, connects customers with services that offer views, likes and dislikes generated by computers, not humans.
The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views
Plays can be bought for pennies and delivered in bulk, inflating videos’ popularity and making the social media giant vulnerable to manipulation. Interactive illustration by Adam Ferriss for The New York Times. Video footage by Scott Dalton, William Widmer, Joshua Lott and Martin Vassilev. Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos.
Global warming increases risk of frost damage to trees
During the hot summer months, humans and animals alike enjoy the shade offered by the leafy canopy of trees and shrubs. In order for deciduous woods to make maximum use of the growing season, when growth and reproduction are possible, they must bud early in the springtime. Climate change favours this: with rising temperatures, the growing season in Switzerland has generally shifted forward.
‘They can’t stop it’: Inside the thriving business of selling fake YouTube video views
Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from home in Ottawa, Ontario, he has sold about 15 million views so far this year, putting him on track to bring in more than $200,000, records show. Vassilev, 32, does not provide the views himself. His website, 500Views.com, connects customers with services that offer views, likes and dislikes generated by computers, not humans.
The business of pumping up YouTube views
Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from home in Ottawa, Ontario, he has sold about 15 million views so far this year, putting him on track to bring in more than $200,000, records show.Vassilev, 32, does not provide the views himself. His website, 500Views.com, connects customers with services that offer views, likes and dislikes generated by computers, not humans.
O negócio das vendas de visualização no YouTube
Martin Vassilev, 32, ganha a vida vendendo visualizações falsas em vídeos no YouTube. Trabalhando em casa em Ottawa, Ontário, ele já vendeu até agora cerca de 15 milhões de visualizações neste ano, colocando-o no caminho certo para arrecadar mais de US$ 200 mil (R$ 772 mil), mostram os registros. Depois do Google, o YouTube é o site onde as pessoas mais pesquisam.
The Business of Pumping Up YouTube Views
When a supplier cannot fulfill an order, Vassilev — like a modern switchboard operator — quickly connects with another. “I can deliver an unlimited amount of views to a video,” Vassilev said. “They’ve tried to stop it for so many years, but they can’t stop it. There’s always a way around.” After Google, more people search on YouTube than on any other site.
The Business of Pumping Up YouTube Views
When a supplier cannot fulfill an order, Vassilev — like a modern switchboard operator — quickly connects with another. “I can deliver an unlimited amount of views to a video,” Vassilev said. “They’ve tried to stop it for so many years, but they can’t stop it. There’s always a way around.” After Google, more people search on YouTube than on any other site.
The Business of Pumping Up YouTube Views
When a supplier cannot fulfill an order, Vassilev — like a modern switchboard operator — quickly connects with another. “I can deliver an unlimited amount of views to a video,” Vassilev said. “They’ve tried to stop it for so many years, but they can’t stop it. There’s always a way around.” After Google, more people search on YouTube than on any other site.
The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views
Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from home in Ottawa, he has sold about 15 million views so far this year, putting him on track to bring in more than $200,000, records show. Mr. Vassilev, 32, does not provide the views himself. His website, 500Views.com, connects customers with services that offer views, likes and dislikes generated by computers, not humans.
Global warming increases risk of frost damage to trees
During the hot summer months, humans and animals alike enjoy the shade offered by the leafy canopy of trees and shrubs. In order for deciduous woods to make maximum use of the growing season, when growth and reproduction are possible, they must bud early in the springtime. Climate change favours this: with rising temperatures, the growing season in Switzerland has generally shifted forward.
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