Android based POS (point-of-sale) enrouting system that connects safely 3rd party peripherals with a payment application.
Heylo® is a new clinically proven innovation from Coloplast – a digital leakage notification system. This is a brand new solution for leakage, that makes checking for leakage easier and faster so you can feel confident and take control and stop a leakage before an incident occurs.
Digital health coach designed to support patients to maximize treatment outcomes and manage their weight more effectively through offering comprehensive lifestyle, emotional, and behavioural change support.
 The app uses augmented reality to help you track your child’s growth regularly.
The Pathfinder8 app is developed for people and parents to children with Haemophilia A treated with N8-GP. The aim of the app is to assist people with haemophilia to self manage their condition and stay on top of their treatment by delivering a variety of features.
Diabetes Journey is a simple decision support service that delivers transparency and advice to HCPs treating patients with Type 2 diabetes. The app uses guidelines and clinical evidence to objectively recommend the best medications for the HCP to consider, leading to the ideal personalized treatment options for their patients.
The HaemMemo app is designed to accompany you in your daily hemophilia treatment. This free app offers you help so you don't forget to use your medication and reminds you when to request medication again so you don't run out of it. You can store your personal prophylaxis schedule in a few steps. HaemMemo is intended for people who are treated for hemophilia A with an extended half-life Novo Nordisk factor product.
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Digital companion for Cortrium C3 ECG.
Appnaerobic allows you to perform the Conconi test. With this effort test, you will get your anaerobic threshold, which is the limit between the aerobic and anaerobic zone.


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- saveButton() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.EditContactInfoTest
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Tests for save functionality when the corresponding button is pressed
Also ensures all correct information is displayed
- saveContactInfo(View) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.EditContactInfoActivity
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Button functionality for save button.
- scaleToFitHeight(Bitmap, int) - Static method in class com.example.bookworm.util.Util
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Resizes a bitmap to a set height, keeping the aspect ratio
- scaleToFitWidth(Bitmap, int) - Static method in class com.example.bookworm.util.Util
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Resizes a bitmap to a set width, keeping the aspect ratio
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23005948/convert-string-to-bitmap
Accessed October 31st, 2020
- ScanBarcodeActivity - Class in com.example.bookworm
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Handles the barcode scanning for owners and borrowers that want to handover/retrieve books.
- ScanBarcodeActivity() - Constructor for class com.example.bookworm.ScanBarcodeActivity
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- ScanBarcodeActivityTest - Class in com.example.bookworm
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- ScanBarcodeActivityTest() - Constructor for class com.example.bookworm.ScanBarcodeActivityTest
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- searchBooks(String) - Static method in class com.example.bookworm.Database
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Returns all books that contain the searchTerm as their exact title.
- SearchResultsActivity - Class in com.example.bookworm
-
Shows the results of a search, whether it was by title or keyword
- SearchResultsActivity() - Constructor for class com.example.bookworm.SearchResultsActivity
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- SearchResultsActivityTest - Class in com.example.bookworm
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- SearchResultsActivityTest() - Constructor for class com.example.bookworm.SearchResultsActivityTest
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- SearchResultsAdapter - Class in com.example.bookworm
-
Adapter for the recycler view found on SearchResultsActivity
- SearchResultsAdapter(Context, ArrayList<Book>, SearchResultsAdapter.OnBookListener) - Constructor for class com.example.bookworm.SearchResultsAdapter
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- SearchResultsAdapter.OnBookListener - Interface in com.example.bookworm
-
- SearchResultsAdapter.SRViewHolder - Class in com.example.bookworm
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- selectLocation(View) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.AcceptDeclineRequestActivity
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Redirects to OwnerMapActivity in order to select a location
- setAuthor(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Book
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Sets the author of the book
- setBook(Book) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Request
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- setBooks(ArrayList<Book>) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Library
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- setBorrower(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Book
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Sets a new borrower of the book.
- setBorrowerId(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Book
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sets the current borrower's user ID on the book
- setCreator(User) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Request
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- setDescription(ArrayList<String>) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Book
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Sets the description of the book
- setEmail(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.User
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- setIsbn(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Book
-
Sets the ISBN of the book
- setLat(double) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Request
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- setLng(double) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Request
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- setLocation(LatLng) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Book
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- setOwner(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Book
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Sets the owner for the book
- setOwnerId(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Book
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Sets the ownerId for the book
- setPassword(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.User
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- setPhone(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.User
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- setPhotograph(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Book
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Sets the photograph
- setRequests(ArrayList<Request>) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Library
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- setStatus(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Book
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Sets the status of the book (borrowed, available, etc.)
- setStatus(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Request
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- setTimestamp(Date) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Request
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- setTitle(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Book
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Sets the title of the book
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.AcceptDeclineRequestTest
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Runs before all tests and creates solo instance,
Signs out of firebase and goes to the SignUp activity
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.BookListFilterTest
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Runs before all tests and creates solo instance,
Signs out of firebase and goes to the SignUp activity
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.BookTest
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Create an an empty book object before each test
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.BorrowerMainActivityTest
-
Runs before all tests and creates solo instance,
Signs out of firebase and goes to the SignUp activity
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.DataBaseTest
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Runs before all tests and creates solo instance
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.EditContactInfoTest
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Setup for all tests
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.LoginActivityTest
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Runs before all tests and creates solo instance
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.OwnerBookListTest
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Add a book to the list before running testEditBookNoPhoto
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.OwnerMapTest
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Runs before all tests and creates solo instance.
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.ScanBarcodeActivityTest
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Setup for all tests
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.SearchResultsActivityTest
-
Runs before all tests and creates solo instance,
Signs out of firebase and goes to the SignUp activity
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.SignUpActivityTest
-
Runs before all tests and creates solo instance,
Signs out of firebase and goes to the SignUp activity
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.ViewBookActivityTest
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Runs before all tests and creates solo instance,
Signs out of firebase and goes to the SignUp activity
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.ViewContactInfoTest
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Setup for all tests
- setUp() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.ViewRequestsTest
-
Runs before all tests and creates solo instance,
Signs out of firebase and goes to the SignUp activity
- setUpAcceptedRequest() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.BorrowerMapTest
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Set up a mock accepted request on the database.
- setUsername(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.User
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- setUsers(ArrayList<User>) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.Library
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- SignUpActivity - Class in com.example.bookworm
-
Handles all actions relating to registering an account, including validating the form.
- SignUpActivity() - Constructor for class com.example.bookworm.SignUpActivity
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- SignUpActivityTest - Class in com.example.bookworm
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Test class for MainActivity.
- SignUpActivityTest() - Constructor for class com.example.bookworm.SignUpActivityTest
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- signupRedirectLogin(View) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.SignUpActivity
-
Redirects the user to the login screen
- SRViewHolder(View, SearchResultsAdapter.OnBookListener) - Constructor for class com.example.bookworm.SearchResultsAdapter.SRViewHolder
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- start() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.EditContactInfoTest
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Gets the activity
- start() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.LoginActivityTest
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Gets the activity
- start() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.ScanBarcodeActivityTest
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Gets the activity
- start() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.SearchResultsActivityTest
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Gets the activity
- start() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.SignUpActivityTest
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Gets the activity
- start() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.ViewBookActivityTest
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Gets the activity
- start() - Method in class com.example.bookworm.ViewContactInfoTest
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Gets the activity
- status - Variable in class com.example.bookworm.BooklistAdapter.MyViewHolder
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- StringToBitMap(String) - Method in class com.example.bookworm.BooklistAdapter
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- stringToBitMap(String) - Static method in class com.example.bookworm.util.Util
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Used to convert a string into a bitmap


MICHAEL HOWARD
2300 Jackson St ⚬
Gary, IN 46303 ⚬
(800) 588-2300
Audio Recording Engineer
Engineer well versed in live studio recording, mixing, and mastering music compositions of various genres.
- Setup and calibration of equipment
- Expertise in creating rough mixes and masters
Core Competences
- Proficent in Pro Tools
- Knowledgeable in audio plugins by multiple vendors
- Hardware and equipment trobleshooting
- Acoustics calibration
CERTIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
Certifications:
Platforms:
Tools:
Master Audio Engineer I and II, Pro Tools Certified Engineer, Advanced Audio Technician III
Mac OS, Windows
Pro Tools, Logic, Nuendo Live
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Top Sound Studios -- Chicago, IL
2017 -- Present
Top Sound Studios provides multimedia recording, mixing and mastering for various musical genres.
Assistant Audio Engineer
- Setup and maintenance of audio equipment
- Scheduling of studio time with clients
- Secondary recording functions during sessions
- Mixing and mastering assistance


I have 4 years of work experience as a Data Scientist. My area of expertise include using machine learning algorithms to design marketing strategies; ensuring e-commerce business conversion improvement in A/B tests, and customer behavior analysis for business strategies. I was quickly promoted to become a Scrum Master of 15-member team. However, it's the excitement of digging deeper into the numbers to find a pattern, which keeps me motivated. To fuel my passion I am currently pursuing masters in Business Analytics with machine learning major at University of Texas, Austin.
When I am not playing with data, I love to travel, and learn about new culture by meeting new people. Also, I am an avid non-fiction books reader and enjoy occasional cartoon doodling.
Enhancing market differentiating capability to increase the market share by employing machine learning algorithms. This algorithm will identify high value providers as well as those providers that are most likely to accept/register with Zelis for one of its electronic payment services.
Ensured 10+ e-commerce businesses improve their conversion using Unbxd machine learning algorithms. Worked with data science team to improve recommendation and search algorithms for product discovery on sites. Helped sales and marketing team take data-driven decisions Conducted training sessions for the team on statistics and data visualization. Helped in the recruitment processes by conducting data science interviews.
Helped the marketing team of one of the biggest retailer design multiple campaigns, and measured their successes. Analyzed customer behavior to recommend marketing and supply chain strategies using machine learning. I was awarded for my curiosity, quickly learning new technology, and thought leadership.
With fast promotion to a Scrum Master, I managed the crucial client communications of a 15-member team. I also initiated sprint ceremonies for smooth functioning of the team, and educated the team with LeanKit (agile tool). Apart from the work, I trained a SQL team of 35 new joiners and mentored a business case study for 5 new joiners.
Coursework Includes: Marketing analytics, Supply chain analytics, Pricing and Revenue management, Financial management, Database management, Decision analysis, Advanced predictive modelling (using scikit & Tensorflow)
First Class with Distinction | Dept Rank:7th
Collaborated with 10+ e-commerce clients (fashion, automobile, pharma, home & living etc. verticals) to ensure conversion improvement in A/B tests using statistical analysis. Acquired $100k monthly recurring revenue and the framework was adopted at the enterprise level.
Improved conversion of a market place e-commerce site by 11% using driver analysis. Also, educated the client with their analytics platform, and this helped the company build strong relationship with the client. Additionally, this analysis became a mandatory step in customer on-boarding process.
Analytics Tools: Random Forest, R, SQL (BigQuery)
Acquired 45% of the targeted customers (in 2 weeks) by identifying potential grocery service adopters for personalized marketing campaign.
Analytics Tools: Logistic Regression, R, SQL (Hive)
Defined a customer focus group, worth $40B, based on their time and money constraints using the data. As this was the most important customer group for the year, we built dashboards using tableau and D3 (JavaScript) to track their changing behavior. I was honoured with Star Performer Award (quarterly to top 3% achievers ) for perspicacity, and thought leadership.
Working on this challenging open ended problem, I designed a fractional factorial design of experiment using transactional and demographic data of the stores. I clustered the stores to have replication and blocking of the experiment. The client highly appreciated the roadmap in the business review.
Analytics Tools: Regression driver analysis, K-mediodes clustering, fractional factorial design of experiment tool
Forecasted server traffic for holiday to prevent downtime, which has costed $80K in the previous year. The forecast was with 4% offset from the actual traffic, which ensured 99% SLA as promised to the customers.
Automated the manual reports which took ~120 person-hours a year. Created a dashboard with real-time data. Additionally, I set up alerts for alarming peaks or drops to the engineering team to debug for any potential platform failure. Executives loved this dashboard and decided to host it on the office LCD 24x7 for a sanity check. The dashboard also became a part of sales pitch to the new customers.
Analytics Tools: Google App Script, SQL(Big Query), Data Studio, Unbxd API
With recent the Amazon rainforest fire and Australia bushfire, there is a serious need to understand the severity of deforestation problem. In this project, I identified the reasons for deforestation of the Amazon forest using multi-label classification image classification of it's satellite images. Additionally, I solved the problem of class-imbalance using unconventional ensemble learning to increase the recall.
Analytics Tools: Convolutional Neural Networks (10-layer CNN, VGG-16, ResNet, MobileNet), XGBoost, Python, Google Cloud Platform
"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half." - John Wanamaker E. Jerome. To understand which half of ad spend is working, I analyzed 4 Ps (Product, Promotion, Price, and Place) marketing mix for automobile industry. Furthermore, I used Dorfman-Steiner rule to understand if different product types have the optimal mix of price and ad spend.
Analytics Tools: Linear Regression (OLS, Log-log), Python
With increasing marketing strategies on social media platforms, we have witnessed how Elon Musk's tweet about Tesla going private impacted the stock market. Do the CEO tweets have influence on the stock market? Using the machine learning, I found out the answer to be 'Yes'. So, what attributes make the tweet influential? Can a CEO be more influential by including/avoiding some factors in her tweets? In this project, I found out the marketing strategies for CEOs to increase their influence on how they could attempt to influence the stock markets.
Analytics Tools: Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modeling (LDA), Python
Growing up we all remember watching the engaging National Geography programs. With growing competition, National Geography wants to understand customer preference using their posts on Instagram. In this project, I analyzed influencing posts and what are some common topics people are interested about.
Analytics Tools: Logistic Regression, Topic Modeling (LDA), Python, Google Image Extraction API
Brand perception is very important in the automobile industry. In this project, I analyzed an automobile discussion forum to understand what attributes top brands are associated with and which other brands they are compared to. Additionally, I suggested some business strategies for brand and marketing managers to improve their brand perception for their target customer groups.
Analytics Tools: Association Analysis using lifts and MDS plots, Python, Google Image Extraction API
Customer churn is a major problem for any organization. It becomes important to identify these customers for business strategies with limited budget. In this project, I experimented with multiple algorithms to obtain the maximum accuracy for prediction of churned customers.
Analytics Tools: Logistic Regression, KNN, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Python
Ever wondered about how much your favorite NBA player's worth the next season? Experimenting with different machine learning algorithms, here is our attempt to accurately predict NBA player's salaries. We also diagnosed the limitation of these algorithms.
Machine Learning Algorithms: Linear Regression (Ridge, Lasso), Random Forest, Bagging, Boosting, and Neural Network, R


HTC One
GENERAL
| 2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
| 3G Network | HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 |
| 4G Network | LTE |
| SIM | Micro-sim |
| Announced | 2013,February |
| Status | Available. Released 2013, March |
BODY |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 137.4 x 68.2 x 9.3 mm (5.41 x 2.69 x 0.37 in) |
| Weight | 143 g (5.04 oz) |
DISPLAY |
| Type | Super LCD3 capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
| Size | 1080 x 1920 pixels, 4.7 inches (~469 ppi pixel density) |
| Multitouch | Yes |
| Protection | Corning Gorilla Glass 2 |
SOUND |
| Alert Types | Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones |
| Loudspeaker | Yes, with stereo speakers, built-in amplifiers |
| 3.5mm Jack | Yes - Beats Audio sound enhancement |
MEMORY |
| Card slot | No |
| Internal | 32/64 GB, 2 GB RAM |
FEATURES |
| OS | Android OS, v4.1.2 (Jelly Bean), upgradable to v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) |
| Chipset | Qualcomm APQ8064T Snapdragon 600 |
| CPU | Quad-core 1.7 GHz Krait 300 |
| GPU | Adreno 320 |
| Sensors | Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass |
| Messaging | SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email |
| Browser | HTML5 |
| Radio | Stereo FM radio with RDS |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS |
| JAVA | Yes, via Java MIDP emulator |
| Colors | Black, Silver, Red |


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18
dec
2013
Introduction
Properly groomed set of soft skills leads an individual towards success. This event focuses on integrating this set of soft skills to our undergraduates which will be essential for them in their career path. The session comprises of an interactive workshop which will expose the audience to a practical experience of an interview conducted by an experienced personnel in the corporate sector. The undergraduates will be inspired to explore and develop the skills that they possess and should possess, and at the same time, to comprehend the values and traits that are sought after by the employers globally. Furthermore the audience will be addressed on proper workplace ethics and correct attitudes in corporate environment.
Contents
- • Demonstrations of interviews, addressing common weaknesses displayed by undergraduates.
- • How to successfully face the challenges of the corporate sector.
- • How to develop the required attitudes in corporate environment through abiding to proper workplace ethics
Date
18th of December 2013Time
8:45 PMPlace
Civil AuditoriumSpeakers
- Civil Auditorium


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Every few days I like to sit down like an old academic professor and just read and ponder what’s going on in the computer hardware and software industries. As of late it’s been interesting to dive into whatever Elon Musk is working on also; electric cars, solar energy, rockets, or even boring machines. Another thing I’ve had a curiosity in and continue to find interesting is machine learning, or as some call it in the mainstream movie media artificial intelligence.
I’ll tackle some of these technologies real quick so we all have a current situational report. Each of these topics seems to be a area of work that could use some extensive clarification. I’ll provide some of my own thoughts along with a few links of reference to dig in deeper, so that one doesn’t fall into the trap of uniformed oblivious media consumer.
Rockets (i.e. Space)
My History: I haven’t always paid attention to this space because I never had intention of working in the area, however who isn’t interested in rockets in some way. Well, considering my desire for other work, I was extremely fortunate where I grew up to be involved in rocketry. I grew up in Picayune, Mississippi which is a mere ~15-20 miles away from John C. Stennis Space Center.
I had the joy of experiencing rocket tests at John C. Stennis and seeing research into rockets as a child, and on some of my first paid computer related gigs. As one might suspect, they use computers to do rocket research and help with launches. Shocker right!
My Thoughts: The space we’re in right now is impressive. The market is actually getting involved in launching it’s own rockets, which means we’re likely only years or maybe a decade or two of having an economically sustainable rocket program. Hopefully NASA can work on more focused deep space missions now while Musk’s Space-X and others refine and perfect orbital rockets for satellites and all that mess.
SITREP:
- India is currently pushing the envelope with 104 satellites with a rocket, which is fueling even more of a space race today. The previous record was held by Russia with 37 satellites in 2014.
- Keep track of launches with the launch schedule.
- Nasa Space Flight is also a great source.
- Related Nasa links; Nasa Blog, Nasa Social Media, Nasa Youtube. Also check out the forums here per Peter Stephens @peterastephens.
- For Space-X check out; Space-X News, and the @SpaceX Account for quick tweets.
Machine Learning
My History: I’ve toyed with machine learning on and off again, working on pathing algorithms for objects to decide travel patterns to supervised learning algorithms. In the end I’ve generally ended up working on other things in my day to day work but I know this will be changing in the near future (next year or three). It’s an extremely interesting space of work and research.
My Thoughts: First, getting AI & ML (That’s artificial integlligence and machine learning) conflated, especially in the media, is starting to reflect the popularity of said space in the software industry. However, for the most part these two things are effectively the same thing. It’s just different words describing the industry space where we’re trying to make machines make decisions we deem intelligent based on available data.
That actually leads to many other discussions. What do we as humans deem intelligent and what happens when available data isn’t enough? But more words on that for another day. I know the questions are burning in the mind of every chief executive of something that wants this mythical AI they keep hearing about and paying voluminous amounts of money to their big data bad ass data science ninja architects to implement but rarely have answers for all of it.

- Here is a post that has some material on machine learning titled “Master the Basics of Machine Learning With These 6 Resources“ by Matt Fogel @mattfogel, it’s a good list to get started with.
Overall there’s a ton of material ending up on the web related to AI/ML, and my top suggestion is to start googling so you can pick and choose which aspects you want to read about in this space. One could dive in via the super technical aspect of how systems work that are being used for processing, how the algorithms work, or even working with data to model good decision results from data sets (i.e. diving into training). But it’s really a space that is awash in resources. Dive in!
End Words
That’s it for my industry instrospections for now. If you’re interested in reading about this, programming material, and related topics of this nature follow @PelotonTechio as I’ll be taking the site & blog at Peloton live in the coming days!


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We love the thrill of the big city life. We bet you do too! That is why we are here: help you enjoy that thrill. We are not a cult, we are not a movement. We are just a group of people that want to let you discover the urban culture and everything it has to offer. So come and find your way. Meet new persons like you: young, uninhibited and eager to discover the beauty of the big city. Find peers that share your pasion for new experiences. Grab the vibe of the urban style and let it energize you. Embrace its captivating nature by inventing and reinventing yourself. Embrace the Urban Mist.
People and places, art and artists, the city has anything for anybody. Let your spirit run free and you'll be amazed by what you can find. All you have to do is to leave your comfort zone. It is the only way you can grow. And not only you'll grow, but you'll discover things about you that you didn't even know you're capable of. Say what you have to say, do what you have to do. And don't let anybody beg you the differ! Unleash your inner self. Surprise yourself every day and live your life as an adventure. Live the Urban Mist!
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Dear
Lynda,
I received your message about the web design/graphic design position currently
open with your company, and I am very interested in applying. I first
learned of you through your first book, Designing Web Graphics, which
inspired me to take your web design seminar at Art Center a couple of
years ago. Then I was pleased to run into you again at the Thunder Lizard
Productions' web design 97 conference in Seattle where I was once more
impressed by your creativity, straightforward presentation, and down-to-earth
style.
I have been working in design for the past eight years and learning all
I can about the latest software and design techniques. As my resume shows,
I am well versed in Photoshop, Illustrator, and QuarkXPress. I believe
my web skills, my project management experience, and my design sense as
it applies to typography, photography, and creative imagery will be a
valuable asset to your group.
As the designer and webmaster for the Division of
Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology,
I collaborated extensively with staff and faculty in creating and developing
promotional material, both online and in print. I served as designer and
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Colin Weir close to Partick Thistle takeover as lottery winner prepares to buy the Jags
The 71-year-old is said to be on the verge of becoming the majority shareholder.
by Gabriel McKayColin Weir is reported to be on the verge of completing a takeover for Partick Thistle , having previously withdrawn his funding of the club.
The 71-year-old won £161million on the EuroMillions in 2011, and has been an investor in the Jags ever since.
However, he withdrew his support for the club after a boardroom shake-up which saw close ally Jacqui Low ousted.
Now Weir is close to sealing a deal to become the majority shareholder.
While he had previously lent his support to fan group Thistle For Ever, it's now believed that he will buy directly from outgoing shareholders including chairman David Beattie.
As part of the deal Weir will also buy land at Firhill.
The lottery winner has previously been involved in funding Partick Thistle's youth academy and helping the Jags to wipe out their debt.
He had also committed to funding the Championship club's new training ground, but withdrew his support in August when Low was removed from the board.
It remains to be seen if that plan will go ahead if and when Weir completes his takeover, and whether manager Ian McCall will be given funds to push for promotion to the Premiership .


NORTH A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1994 James Berardinelli
Rating (0 to 10): 5.1
Date Released: 7/22/94 Running Length: 1:29 Rated: PG (Language)
Starring: Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jon Lovitz, Mathew McCurley, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus Director: Rob Reiner Producers: Rob Reiner and Alan Zweibel Screenplay: Alan Zweibel and Andrew Scheinman based on the novel by Alan Zweibel Cinematography: Adam Greenberg Music: Marc Shaiman Released by Columbia Pictures
Rob Reiner has had an amazing string of hits. His resume dotted with such critical and popular successes as THIS IS SPINAL TAP, THE SURE THING, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, MISERY, and A FEW GOOD MEN, Reiner has transformed his Meathead image into that of a "can't miss" director. Unfortunately, this time he has missed--and by quite a bit. The premise of NORTH sounds flat, the previews look insipid, and, while the movie doesn't turn out nearly as bad as either would lead you to believe, NORTH is still a lackluster production.
This is a modern fable, complete with a moral (something about the value of parents and families), that tries to be witty and offbeat, but more often is merely overlong. Reiner did a wonderful job in the realm of the fantastic and absurd with THE PRINCESS BRIDE, but here his approach comes closer to that of Barry Levinson's disastrous TOYS.
The story opens with North (Elijah Wood) being ignored by his self-absorbed parents (Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus). The unstable domestic situation begins to prey on North's mind, affecting all aspects of his life, including his ability to play baseball and his unimpeachable academic record. He is in a quandary about what to do until he encounters a department store Easter bunny (Bruce Willis in a fuzzy pink suit) who gives him an idea: become a free-agent, and let parents everywhere make bids for his "services." And so begins the quest for the ultimate mother and father.
North's adventures are designed mostly as satire and, as such, painted with the broadest strokes. Sometimes, when the movie strikes the right chord, it is refreshingly funny, but on most occasions, it doesn't know when to move on. During the course of his search, North visits a number of prospective families: the wealthy Ma and Pa Tex (played by Dan Aykroyd and Reba McEntire), the governor of Hawaii and his wife, two Alaskans living in an igloo village (Graham Greene and Kathy Bates), a Parisian pair laughing at Jerry Lewis, an Amish couple (Kelly McGillis and Alexander Godunov from WITNESS), an African duo, and a Cleaver-Nelson version of the "ideal" mom and dad (John Ritter and Faith Ford).
In one way or another, each of these distorted snapshots into family life is intended to parody some facet of modern culture. When the sequences are kept short, they work. However, three of these (the Texans, the Hawaiians, and the Alaskans) take up too much screen time. Once we see Ma and Pa Tex in a 100-foot long stretch limo, is there a need to spend additional minutes hammering home the point?
Another problem is the inclusion of a subplot featuring Jon Lovitz as an ambulance-chasing lawyer (whose entrance is wonderfully-staged, by the way) and Mathew McCurley as Winchell, a kid with ideas of world dominance. Not only do these scenes not work, but they interrupt the already-unstable flow of NORTH. The need to have villains seems to be a mistake.
In NORTH, we are given an opportunity to view both ends of the child acting spectrum. On one hand, there's Elijah Wood, who is convincing as a boy wanting nothing more than to be loved and recognized by his parents.  Whoever cast this kid, a TV commercial veteran, made a blunder.
Despite all the flaws, however, this is still Rob Reiner's product and, as such, is not entirely devoid of worthwhile moments. These are sprinkled throughout--the only difficulty is getting through the padding in between. Aside from McCurley's nearly-unbearable job, the deficiencies seem more related to the script than the direction. Nevertheless, for a movie being touted as a sophisticated farce suitable for family viewing, NORTH turns out to be surprisingly immature.
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Your command just unclear in what it ought to do and why for it designed. So...
Do you know why having public branches set is useful in general?
bzr: ERROR: There is no public branch set for "bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~qbzr-dev/qbzr/trunk/".
Your neat trick is a bit useless without public branch. Why I should have public branch for lp:qbzr branch anyway?
At the moment works based on the public location, which is different from the push location. I guess the push location could be used as a fallback.
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GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 02:45 AM
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> !pools
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> !mining
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> Man. Easy coin is gone
GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 05:34 AM
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> !mining
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> !pools
GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 06:03 AM
[dscrd-hush] <Rub My Purple Monkey Balls> Good night everyone
GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 09:06 AM
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> hey guys, what wallet is recommended for macOS
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> tried several times to start, not happening
GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 12:44 PM
[dscrd-hush] <denio> Sure agama should be another Option
[dscrd-hush] <ComputerGenie - MineHush.com> poking yourself in the eye with a hot poker is an option too, but I wouldn't suggest that either :troll:(edited)
GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 01:05 PM
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> is Agama an option today?
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> verus agama
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> @ComputerGenie - MineHush.com u dont agama?
[dscrd-hush] <ComputerGenie - MineHush.com> nope
[dscrd-hush] <ComputerGenie - MineHush.com>
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> cant say im a huge fan either. but at least it works (until its hacked ofc) lol
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> bon appetit
[dscrd-hush] <ComputerGenie - MineHush.com> I like spaghetti on my plate, not powering my GUI
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> classic
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> ah i found Hush in agama
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> nice
[dscrd-hush] <ComputerGenie - MineHush.com> The only reason I use js for pools is because I'm too lazy to learn real code; aside from that, I use as few js products as I can
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> agama is js huh?
[dscrd-hush] <ComputerGenie - MineHush.com> 200+ imported code-bases from who knows who...... I'll pass
[dscrd-hush] <ComputerGenie - MineHush.com> yes, agama is basically js web pages wrapped in a chrome browser fork
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> i think most ARRR people use it still tho
GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 02:11 PM
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> i use verus agama and silent draogn
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> i think there was a mandatory version sent out last night
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> i stake my verus
[dscrd-hush] <ComputerGenie - MineHush.com> everything in the KMD ecosystem is manditory update by tomorrow
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> With HUSH about to start using (or already using) dPOW, does that mean HUSH messages/contacts will be backed up on Bitcoin?
[dscrd-hush] <heguli97> Hush does indeed use dPoW already it has for months now
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> great, so r messages/contacts backed up on BTC?
GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 05:34 PM
[dscrd-hush] <heguli97> I don't think it quite works that way, iirc every block is notarized with a transaction to the kmd chain and those are then notarized from kmd to btc(edited)
[dscrd-hush] <heguli97> There's loads documentation online on how it works.
[dscrd-hush] <heguli97> DPoW
GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 06:01 PM
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> @gigamesh are you involved outside of communities other than pirate?
GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 07:32 PM
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> @AkiraX i usually get involved in the communities as i write about them. sometimes i stick around after, often if i end up grabbing a bag. im prob mostly involved in NKN atm. actually this writing gig started with NKN
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> Im writing a review of HUSH at the moment, getting all the pieces together. funnily enough i had no idea Mercer had been involved in HUSH (i recently published a short interview with her)
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> you are a fan of radix?
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> ofc
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> genuine cypherpunk on the original mailing lists back when it all began
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> she explained her reason for leaving hush. That she and duke still talk is great news
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> i really like this project, love how under the radar it is (not for long), love the concept, love the name, love the price. reading the wp is fun too
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> oh and btw Jane had nice things to say about duke too, so its all good vibes
HushList Protocol: Censorship Resistant Metadata-Minimizing Multi-Blockchain Communication - leto/hushlist
[dscrd-hush] <heguli97> but it has some old info
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> @gigamesh is your site widely followed?
GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 08:42 PM
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> @gigamesh not quite "backed up on BTC". The proof that they happened is backed up onto BTC. DPoW essentially tells BTC about transactions on another chain, to protect against 51% attacks.
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> Proof something happened is not the same as a backup of the actual data. Bitcoin is very strict about the data you put it, you can only put in a few bytes. So you put in proofs that things happened, not the actual things
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> "Proofs" are usually related to hash functions of things, because knowing the SHA256() of something is basically exactly the same as proving you knew the original thing. You will see security people sometimes publish a sha hash on Twitter, which is the hash of a statement. They are proving they said something publicly, at a certain time. People will be able to do something exactly like that with SilentDragon soon enough. And with Hush, you can put small amounts of data, or links to external sources for large datasets (bittorrent already exists, don't re-invent that wheel)
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> and to explain, later on, the security people will show the plaintext statement of the hash they published in tweet. Sometimes related to embargoed CVEs and other fun stuff
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> i wonder if you could use the same type of math to prove God exists.
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> @gigamesh to explain about the WP, it's written in LaTeX, as Knuth intended, so it has a build system
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> @gigamesh Hush was the first Zcash protocol coin to enable DPoW, it was a while ago, maybe over a year. We use that on top of the standard Equihash (200,9) (same as ZEC/ZEN/KMD), so we support all the same ASIC hw as those coins as well
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> I wrote the code for Hush+dpow over a year ago, I think it went into production many months later, so it depends how you measure
GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 09:06 PM
[dscrd-hush] <siaynoq> So the shielded memo will eventually be 4mb? Also, can HUSH also have the ability for whistleblowers to post a file anonymously yet have to file contents public? So only shield the parties, and not the file data?
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[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> ty! @AkiraX
GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 10:39 PM
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> @siaynoq memos will always be 512 bytes in zcash protocol, and transactions can be up to 200KB in size, which means if we want to store a 4MB file, we use multiple transactions (and pay multiple transaction fees)
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> All komodo asset chains currently enforce a limit of 200KB for max xtn size and 4MB for max block size, Hush could decide to change that in the future, if we want, but those numbers are chosen very carefully
GatewayBOT14-Jul-19 11:01 PM
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> what kind of dapps do people imagine being built on Hush?
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> "If they had smart contracts on Hush, you can use zksnarks and smart contracts to create really interesting applications for the healthcare space. If this is made accessible to corporate developers, I would personally use this in my own line of work (and BTCH would be incredibly valuable)." -JiveBuddha
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> a year ago
[dscrd-hush] <AkiraX> and now they do
GatewayBOT15-Jul-19 12:58 AM
[dscrd-hush] <gigamesh> and what happened to BTCH (ahh...logo)
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[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> BTCH is on coinexchange.io but I don't think it's getting the data or something. We don't control the quality of data on 3rd party sites, but we try


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There has never been a better time to be a teacher, and to challenge the current orthodoxies within British schools.
It is a privilege to be attending an event attended by over 700 teachers, all spending their first weekend of a new term educating themselves about classroom research, to be participants in a conference of teachers with so much potential to transform this country’s educational landscape.
In 1999 Douglas Carnine, a Professor of Education at the University of Oregon, wrote a short but pungent paper entitled ‘ Why Education Experts Resist Effective Practices ’. Carnine was, and still is, a strong advocate of Direct Instruction . He was frustrated at the education profession’s unwillingness to acknowledge the empirical evidence in favour of a teacher-led classroom. Carnine wrote that a defining feature of a ‘mature profession’ - for example medicine or the law - was a willingness to engage with research findings.
Since I became Shadow Minister for Schools in 2005, I have seen the teaching profession make strides towards Carnine’s ideal of a ‘mature profession’. No event indicates this better than ResearchED . Now in its third year, and crossing 3 continents, ResearchED is a remarkable example of a grassroots movement, driven not by worthies on high, but by teachers on the ground, united by a desire to know how they can improve outcomes for their pupils.
Tom Bennett created ResearchED, but central government can make some small claim for having provided the spark. In 2013, the government invited Ben Goldacre to write a report explaining how the education sector could make better use of evidence. We were shocked by Goldacre’s exposure of un-evidenced practices in his 2009 book ‘Bad Science’, exemplified by now legendary pseudo-science of Brain Gym. I hope we have all been rubbing our ‘brain buttons’ in anticipation of today’s event…
The Goldacre Report was published by the Department for Education in March, 2013. It promoted much discussion, and following a Twitter conversation involving Ben Goldacre, the gauntlet was thrown down in the direction of Tom Bennett: ‘can you organise a grassroots movement amongst teachers campaigning for better use of educational research?’ Tom was asked. 3 years later, the answer appears to be ‘yes’.
Like all great institutions, ResearchED formalises a wider movement, or culture-change, that has been taking place within education. Some classroom practice, which until 5 years ago was endemic in the profession, has been held up to scrutiny and found wanting. I have already mentioned Brain Gym, but alongside it we can place learning styles, multiple intelligences, discovery learning, and the 21st-century skills movement as hollow shells of their former selves.
This is not to say that such ideas are no longer at large within schools - far from it - but the intellectual underpinnings of such methods have been challenged: a vital first step in reversing the damage they have done.
What is so noticeable about this movement is that it has not emerged from our universities. Many university academics, it appeared, were too much invested in the status quo to provide any challenge. Rather, the challenge came from classroom teachers, burning the midnight oil as they tweeted, blogged and shared ideas about how to improve their profession. According to the veteran teacher blogger Old Andrew, there are 1,237 active education blogs in the UK and many of them, I can testify, have directly influenced government policy. Education provides a case-study in the democratising power of new media, providing an entry point for new voices to challenge old orthodoxies.
And publishers have taken note. The bookshelves of any enquiring teacher have expanded significantly over the last few years. The titles of such books indicate the scale of the challenge to the prevailing education orthodoxies that is taking place:
Each book listed has been written by a classroom teacher, sending - in the words of 1 review - a heat seeking missile to the heart of the education establishment.
This wellspring of free thinking teachers convinces me that there has never been a better time to become a teacher than now. The statistics are encouraging: in 2010, 61% of trainee teachers had an undergraduate degree at level 2:1 or above. This year, that figure is 73%. Crucially, in 2012 the proportion of trainee teachers with a 2:1 or above surpassed the national average of that year’s graduating cohort for the first time, and the annual initial teacher training census shows us that the proportion of new teachers holding a first class degree is at an all-time high. The best graduates are going into teaching. Year on year, the prestige of the profession is growing.
I recognise that it is challenging to recruit new teachers in the context of a recovering economy and strengthening graduate labour market. However, the challenges we see in certain priority subjects, such as physics, maths and modern foreign languages, are not a new phenomenon.
This year we have already exceeded our target for primary school teachers and we are making sustained progress in the secondary sector - including key subjects such as English, maths, physics and chemistry, where we are ahead of last year’s performance. Contrary to the widely made claim that only 50% of teachers are teaching 5 years after qualifying, that figure is in fact 72% - a respectable figure for any profession.
Our policy to make the EBacc compulsory from 2020 onwards has significant staffing implications for schools, and that is why we are developing significant measures to meet them. At the end of last year, we pledged £67 million towards a scheme to recruit more maths and physics teachers for English schools.
I hope that today’s trainee teachers are increasingly aware of evidence-based practice. But, it remains important to ask why so many poor ideas were sustained for so long within schools. To answer such a question, we must not forget the role played by central government. To give just one example, in 2006 the Department for Children, Schools and Families formed the ‘Teaching and Learning in 2020 Review Group’. Their subsequent report, entitled ‘ 2020 Vision ’, threw its weight behind ‘personalised learning’, explained as:
‘Learners are active and curious: they create their own hypotheses, ask their own questions, coach one another, set goals for themselves, monitor their progress and experiment with ideas for taking risks…’
2020 vision suggested that the school of 2020 should pursue: ‘learning how to learn’; ‘themed project work’; and ‘using ICT to enhance collaboration and creative learning’. Lots of talk about learners learning, but almost nothing about teachers teaching.
In the same year that she wrote ‘2020 Vision’, the chair of the 2020 Review Group became Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools. The inspectorate became geared towards imposing its preferred teaching style upon the profession. Research undertaken by the think tank Civitas last year revealed that as late as 2013, over half of Ofsted’s secondary school inspection reports still showed a preference for pupils learning ‘independent’ of teacher instruction, and nearly 1 in 5 criticised lessons where teachers talked too much.
This ‘Ofsted teaching style’ directly contradicted the common sense of thousands of teachers, not to mention much empirical evidence about effective teaching. Recently, I was reminded of Ofsted’s reign of error by David Didau’s new book. Buried in a footnote, Didau provides a remarkable anecdote about this period. He writes:
‘Once in an exam analysis meeting, a school leader who taught in a particular department said that the reasons the exam results of that department were so poor was because of their outstanding teaching. They concentrated on independent learning and refused to ‘spoon feed’. This obviously meant kids did less well in the test.’
You do not have to be George Orwell to recognise the double-think contained in that story, or the assault on the very meaning of the word ‘outstanding’ that Ofsted created. For so many schools, the means of pupils working independently became more important than the ends of pupils actually learning.
We have worked with Ofsted to ensure that inspectors no longer penalise teachers who teach from the front, and Ofsted is continuing to reduce the burden that inspections place on schools. Ofsted guidance was reduced last year from 411 to 136 pages, and this year guidance has been further reduced despite the increased reach of the common inspection framework. From this month, there will be shorter inspections every 3 years for schools already rated as ‘good’. Through their ‘mythbusting’ document published last October, Ofsted are combatting some of the myths surrounding inspection that still circulate the profession, such as the need to provide a written plan for every lesson. Ofsted have also sent a clear message that schools do not need to prepare for inspection, and need only focus on helping pupils reach their full potential - this is a message we fully support.
2020 Vision was just one example of the hundreds of reports churned out by a bloated panoply of quangos and ancillary bodies prior to 2010: Becta; the GTC ; the NCSL ; the SSAT ; the QCDA - a whole industry of unfounded advice, leading teachers up the garden path and towards the false dawn of informal teaching methods.
Common amongst each of those bodies is that they all, since 2010, have either been disbanded, merged or had their government funding curtailed. This is because we believe that teachers teach best when government steps back.
Here’s one example. In 2005, the National Audit Office reported that the government had, from 1997, spent £885 million on measures to reduce truancy, during which period cases of unauthorised absence remained stable. The measures in question were classic cases of Whitehall knows best: attendance advisor support, national truancy sweeps, reward schemes and alternative curricula adjusted to be more ‘relevant’ to the interests of pupils.
This government has not pursued such measures. Instead, the government made schools and parents more accountable for the attendance of their children, but left it up to them to solve the problem. As a result, the number of persistent absentees has almost halved from 433,130 in 2010, to 233,815 in 2014.
This belief in autonomy explains why we have made academies and free schools a central component of our reform agenda. This government does not believe that all academies and free schools are necessarily better than maintained schools.
But, through granting unprecedented freedom to individual schools, we are creating an educational eco-system in which new ideas can flourish. Be it the emphasis on Russell Group universities pioneered by the London Academy of Excellence; or the remarkable teaching at King Solomon Academy - which as a school with over 60% of pupils on free school meals has just achieved 93% A* to C for the second year running, with an astonishing 75% of pupils achieving the EBacc - school autonomy allows excellence to emerge. Such schools have startled the profession, setting new, higher expectations about what can be achieved within the state sector.
School autonomy was not a government invention. In Lord Adonis’ book ‘Education, Education, Education’, he recalls how encounters with ambitious and successful heads, who wanted to replicate the success of their schools more widely, convinced him to pursue the academies programme. Adonis mentions meeting heads such Kevin Satchwell at Thomas Telford Academy; and Sir Daniel Moynihan at Harris CTC, who 15 years later is in charge of a federation of 36 academies. They were, and still are, inspiring leaders who knew if given the opportunity they could transform our education system.
The great Victorian constitutionalist Walter Bagehot wrote that ‘policies must ‘grow’; they cannot be suddenly made’. This is true in the case of education, where our best policies have always grown out of the profession. Our emphasis on phonics, for example, would not have been possible without the work of individuals such as Ruth Miskin, and teacher organisations such as the Reading Reform Foundation .
I look upon the next 5 years with great excitement, anticipating the new practices that will emerge due to greater school autonomy, which will in turn influence government policy, leading to a virtuous circle of innovation and improvement.
The work of teachers has allowed the Education Endowment Foundation to make great strides since we founded the organisation in 2011. To date, it has awarded £57 million to 100 projects working with over 620,000 pupils in over 4,900 schools throughout England. It has published 45 individual project evaluation reports - all available to teachers for free online. The thirst for quality education research, which is so evident at this conference today, has begun to change how decisions are made within schools. According to a poll commissioned by the Sutton Trust earlier this year, 48% of secondary school leaders and a third of primary school leaders now use the EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit when making decisions about classroom teaching.
But, there is still a long way to go. We created the EEF due to a belief that high-quality, robust research could empower classroom teachers, and I firmly believe it can. But, such teachers need to strive to make their voices heard.
If anyone here still has to include learning styles in their lesson plans, please direct your senior leaders to Harold Pashler’s comprehensive literature review which lays bare the want of evidence to support learning styles. If you are criticised by colleagues for implementing frequent factual recall tests - so often characterised as ‘mere regurgitation’ - please direct your colleagues towards the work of Robert Bjork, which shows that frequent testing strengthens long-term memory. If your performance management is still based on termly do-or-die lesson observations, direct your senior leaders towards the work of Rob Coe which shows such observations are not just stressful, but provenly imprecise. And if your school still practises Brain Gym, then God help you.
Improving the quality of research is an easy first step: converting such research into practice is a far greater challenge.
But, we should never see research as a panacea for all of education’s ills. At an event such as this, it is worth surveying the parameters of what research can actually achieve. The analogy between the teaching and medical professions, which both Douglas Carnine and Ben Goldacre employ, should not be stretched too far.
Research can inform us about effective ‘means’, but it can never decide for us what our ‘ends’ should be. Within the medical profession, it is normally clear what the ‘ends’ are: keep the patient healthy, and where possible, alive. But, in education, there is not and nor should there be a settled consensus on the purpose of school. This is a passionate and sometimes fierce debate, which research may inform, but will never answer.
For this reason, I am mistrustful of those who disdain lively debate, and defer all opinion making faculties to that omniscient being ‘the evidence’. ‘The evidence’ provided by the EEF suggests that school uniform has no impact on pupils’ performance. Should we abandon school uniform? I would argue no, because pupil performance is not the sole aim of a school. Fostering a collegiate ethos, preparing pupils for the world or work, and ensuring no pupils need feel inadequate through their clothing, are all important ends in their own right.
Through the reformed national curriculum and English literature GCSE , we have stipulated that every pupil should study at least 3 Shakespeare plays during their secondary school education. But what ‘research’ attests to the benefits of studying Shakespeare? What ‘research’, for that matter, proves that pupils should know about diverse ecosystems, computer coding, or the Industrial Revolution? Such questions cut to the core of what it means to be an educated person: a question no number of effect sizes, meta-studies or randomised controlled trials can answer.
Many who disagree with our vision of an educated person have taken issue with this government’s emphasis on the EBacc , which will be compulsory for all pupils entering secondary school this month. We believe all children are entitled to learn a language and 3 sciences; that all children require a basic level of mathematics and English to thrive; and that all children should be initiated into the world through a study of either its history or its geography. Some in education do not share this belief.
I was reminded of such fundamental differences whilst watching the BBC documentary ‘Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School’ . In this documentary, 5 teachers from China taught 50 teenagers from an English school for 4 weeks. This was no disadvantaged school in a deprived area of the country: it was an Ofsted ‘outstanding’ school in the well-heeled rural town of Liphook, Hampshire.
The Chinese teachers were nevertheless shocked by the behaviour and attitude of English children. More worrying still, in my view, was the reaction of the school senior leadership to Chinese teaching methods. The evidence which shows the effectiveness of Chinese teaching methods is unequivocal: according to the PISA tests, 15-year-old pupils in Shanghai are 3 years ahead of their English counterparts in mathematics. Whilst our pupils are in their first year of GCSE , Chinese pupils are doing A level work. In mathematics, the children of the poorest 30% of Shanghai’s population are outstripping the children of our wealthiest 10% in England.
One would think this would incline a headteacher to learn from Chinese methods. Quite the opposite. The headteacher stated in the first episode: ‘No educational approach or policy is going to turn back the British cultural clock to the 1950s. Nor should it seek to.’ By the second episode, the headteacher criticised Chinese teaching as ‘tedious’ and hoped the Chinese teachers in his school would ‘fail, and fail by a margin’, as to him they represented the ‘dark ages’ of teaching.
By the end of the third episode, a whole year examination had shown the pupils taught by Chinese teachers outperform the control group in all 4 of the subjects studied - yet the headteacher was still reluctant to acknowledge the advantages of Chinese teaching methods.
Amongst some in the profession, a romantic aversion to formal teaching will forever trump the evidence which shows its effectiveness. For them, it will always be more important to have engaged pupils who are not learning, than seemingly ‘passive’ pupils who are. Like the 2 women Samuel Johnson famously witnessed screaming at each from their windows across an alleyway, I fear they will never agree, as we are arguing from different premises.
One’s most fundamental beliefs in education will ultimately always be informed by values. So let me tell you what this government’s values are.
That is the vision that I, and this government, are dedicated to achieving. Research will guide us in the means by which these ends can be achieved, but ultimately it is teachers - and teachers alone - who will realise it.
Published: 5 September 2015


The two brothers that choose to take the risk | short-stories
In 2000, two young brothers named Danilova and Joseph moved from Ibadan to Lagos in search of the Nigeria’s dream. they had just gotten out of high school and they saw few opportunities back home. So they headed straight for Nollywood where they eventually found jobs on a movies studio set.
After a while, their entrepreneurial spirit and interest in the entertainment industry prompted them to open a theatre in Iyana-apaja, a town about five miles northeast of mainland Lagos. But despite all their effort, the brothers just couldn’t make the business profitable. In four years ran the theater, they weren’t able to consistently generate enough money to pay the one hundred naira rent their landlord required.
A NEW OPPORTUNITY
The brothers desire for success was strong, so they kept looking for better business opportunities. In 1937, they finally struck on something that worked. They opened a small drive-in restaurant in ikeja, People southern Lagos had become very dependent on their cars, and the culture was changing to accommodate that, including its businesses.
The drive-in restaurant was a phenomenon that sprang up in the early thirties and it was becoming popular. Rather than being invited into a dining room to eat, customers would drive into a parking lot around a small restaurant, place their orders with carhops and receive their food on trays right in their cars. The food was served on china plates complete with glassware and metal utensils.
It was a timely idea in a society that was becoming faster paced and increasingly mobile. Dick and Maurice’s tiny restaurant was a great success and in 2000, they decided to move the operation to banana island, a working class boomtown fifty miles east of Lagos mainland.
They built a larger facility and expanded their menu from suya, Jollof rice and shakes to include barbecued beef and pork sandwiches, hamburger and other items. Their business exploded. Annual sales 200,000NGN in profits every year and the brothers found themselves splitting 50,000NGN in profits every year a sum that put them in the town’s financial elite.


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new StorageCollection()
Class that holds the StorageCollection resource.
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Members
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description :String
The description of the StorageCollection.
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The description of the StorageCollection.
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id :String
The ID of the StorageCollection.
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The ID of the StorageCollection.
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contains(id, successCallback, errorCallback)
Checks the service if a StorageObject with the given ID exists in the collection.
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Checks the service if a StorageObject with the given ID exists in the collection.
Parameters:
Name Type Description id
String The ID of the StorageObject to check. successCallback
StorageCollection~storageCollectionSuccessCallback Callback invoked on success. errorCallback
StorageCollection~errorCallback Callback invoked on error. - Source:
Example
id: "00e394532-9652-458b-9a82-d1a47cf1a0c7"
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deleteObject(id, successCallback, errorCallback)
Deletes a StorageObject from a collection.
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Deletes a StorageObject from a collection.
Parameters:
Name Type Description id
String The ID of the StorageObject to delete. successCallback
StorageCollection~storageCollectionSuccessCallback Callback invoked on success. errorCallback
StorageCollection~errorCallback Callback invoked on error. - Source:
Example
id: "00e394532-9652-458b-9a82-d1a47cf1a0c7"
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getObject(id, successCallback, errorCallback, objectType)
Returns a StorageObject given its ID.
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Returns a StorageObject given its ID. The contents of the object will be downloaded lazily.
Parameters:
Name Type Description id
String The ID of the Storage Object to return. successCallback
StorageCollection~storageObjectSuccessCallback Callback invoked on success. errorCallback
StorageCollection~errorCallback Callback invoked on error. objectType
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mcs.MobileBackend.Storage.StorageCollection.getObject(id,successCallback,errorCallback,objectType);
id: "00e39862-9652-458b-9a82-d1a66cf1a0c7"
<caption>Example usage of mcs.MobileBackend.Storage.StorageCollection.getObject("00e39862-9652-458b-9a82-d1a66cf1a0c7",successCallback,errorCallback,"blob")</caption>
mcs.MobileBackend.Storage.StorageCollection.getObject("00e39862-9652-458b-9a82-d1a66cf1a0c7",successCallback,errorCallback,"blob"); mcs.MobileBackend.Storage.StorageCollection.getObject("00e39862-9652-458b-9a82-d1a66cf1a0c7", function(statusCode, data){ }, function(statusCode, data){ }, 'blob' ); // returns object as a blob on successCallback function from the data parameter.
mcs.MobileBackend.Storage.StorageCollection.getObject("00e39862-9652-458b-9a82-d1a66cf1a0c7",successCallback,errorCallback,"arraybuffer"); mcs.MobileBackend.Storage.StorageCollection.getObject("00e39862-9652-458b-9a82-d1a66cf1a0c7", function(statusCode, data){ }, function(statusCode, data){ }, 'arraybuffer' ); // returns object as a arraybuffer on successCallback function from the data parameter.
mcs.MobileBackend.Storage.StorageCollection.getObject("00e39862-9652-458b-9a82-d1a66cf1a0c7",successCallback,errorCallback,"document"); mcs.MobileBackend.Storage.StorageCollection.getObject("00e39862-9652-458b-9a82-d1a66cf1a0c7", function(statusCode, data){ }, function(statusCode, data){ }, 'document' ); // returns object as a document on successCallback function from the data parameter.
mcs.MobileBackend.Storage.StorageCollection.getObject("00e39862-9652-458b-9a82-d1a66cf1a0c7",successCallback,errorCallback,"text"); mcs.MobileBackend.Storage.StorageCollection.getObject("00e39862-9652-458b-9a82-d1a66cf1a0c7", function(statusCode, data){ }, function(statusCode, data){ }, 'text' ); // returns object as text on successCallback function from the data parameter.
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getObjects(offset, limit, successCallback, errorCallback)
Returns a list of Storage Objects from the collection starting from the offset and up to the limit.
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Returns a list of Storage Objects from the collection starting from the offset and up to the limit. The service may return fewer objects.
Parameters:
Name Type Description offset
Number The offset at which to start. Must be greater than 0. limit
Number The max number of Storage Objects to return. Must be non-negative. successCallback
StorageCollection~getObjectsSuccessCallback Callback invoked on success. errorCallback
StorageCollection~errorCallback Callback invoked on error. - Source:
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offset: "3"
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postObject(storageObject, successCallback, errorCallback)
Creates a new StorageObject in the collection.
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Creates a new StorageObject in the collection.
Parameters:
Name Type Description storageObject
StorageObject The StorageObject to create. successCallback
StorageCollection~storageObjectSuccessCallback Callback invoked on success. errorCallback
StorageCollection~errorCallback Callback invoked on error. - Source:
Example
storageObject: { "id": " 213ddbac-ccb2-4a53-ad48-b4588244tc4c", // A service generated ID for the StorageObject. The ID is unique in the StorageCollection. "name" : "JSText.txt", // A user provided name for the StorageObject. A StorageCollection may have multiple StorageObjects with the same name. "contentLength": 798", // The length of data content in bytes stored in the StorageObject. "contentType" : "text/plain ", // The media-type associated with the StorageObject. "createdBy" : "DwainDRob", // The name of the user who created the StorageObject "createdOn": "Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:33:12", // Server generated timestamp when the StorageObject was created. "modifiedBy": "DwainDRob", // The name of the user who last updated the StorageObject. "modifiedOn": "Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:33:12" // Server generated timestamp when the StorageObject was last updated. }
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putObject(storageObject, successCallback, errorCallback)
Updates an existing StorageObject in the collection.
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Updates an existing StorageObject in the collection.
Parameters:
Name Type Description storageObject
StorageObject The StorageObject to update. successCallback
StorageCollection~storageObjectSuccessCallback Callback invoked on success. errorCallback
StorageCollection~errorCallback Callback invoked on error. - Source:
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errorCallback(statusCode, message)
Callback invoked on error.
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Callback invoked on error.
Parameters:
Name Type Description statusCode
Number Any HTTP status code returned from the server, if available. message
String The HTTP payload from the server, if available, or an error message. - Source:
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getObjectsSuccessCallback(objects)
Callback invoked after successfully fetching a StorageCollection.
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Callback invoked after successfully fetching a StorageCollection.
Parameters:
Name Type Description objects
Array An array of StorageObjects downloaded from the service. - Source:
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storageCollectionSuccessCallback()
Callback invoked after a successful operation.
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Callback invoked after a successful operation.
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storageObjectSuccessCallback(object)
Callback invoked after successfully fetching a StorageObject.
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Callback invoked after successfully fetching a StorageObject.
Parameters:
Name Type Description object
StorageObject The StorageObject downloaded from the service. - Source:


This little widget can help you find an IP address be location a valid IP Range.
Instructions:
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The attribute conversion facility allows the developer to specify methods to convert between the entity
attribute representation and the database representation for attributes of basic types. Converters can be
used to convert basic attributes defined by entity classes, mapped superclasses, or embeddable classes.
Converter annotation is not applicable on Id attributes, version attributes,
relationship attributes and attributes annotated as Temporal or Enumerated.
Implement Converter :
A Converter must implement the javax.persistence.AttributeConverter<X,Y> interface,
where X is the class of the entity representation and Y the class of the database representation of the attribute.
A converter implementation class must be annotated with the javax.persistence.Converter annotation.
Converter Scope :
If the value of the autoApply element of the Converter annotation is true,
the converter will be applied to all target attributes of the given type.
If the value of the autoApply element of the Converter annotation is false,
you need to add the javax.persistence.Convert annotation to all attributes that shall be converted and specify the Converter class.
Apply Converter :
The following screen cast shows an example for this approach:


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Coast to Coast champs hungry to defend titles
The men’s and women’s Kathmandu Coast to Coast champions will return to defend their titles in the 38th edition of the 243km adventure race.
Dougal Allan will wear the No 1 bib for the first time, while Simone Maier will go from being the chaser to the chased after heading off four-time champion Elina Ussher to win her maiden title in 12hr 56min 36sec this year.
They will race from the West Coast of the South Island to the east on February 7-8. 2020.
"I knew I was coming back again even before I stood on the start line in 2019," said Allan.
The 34-year-old says defending his title is the goal.
"I hadn’t raced the Coast to Coast for six years and I did wonder, what might happen if I go back and say come second, what would happen if I executed the race to the best of my ability and still don’t win it?
"But when my feet hit the sand on New Brighton beach I kind of came out of this zone, where I realised what I was about to achieve, it was a crazy feeling.
"So it definitely feels a little different this time around."
Maier, who will be the elite women’s top seed, will be extremely tough to beat. After standing on top of the podium for the first time this year, the Kiwi-German also went on to create history by winning the GodZone Adventure Race as part of the first ever gender-balanced team in April.
"I had a pretty amazing year. It’s taken a while, but it has been so good to get some reward for all that hard work I’ve put in over the years."
The 39-year-old has been racing in China with Allan, two-time men’s champion Sam Clarke, and last year’s second place finisher Sam Manson.
"That was so epic. I learnt a lot from them all, even little things like around the transitions and I think that will be good for me in the future."
Maier believes she can go even faster next year.
"It’ll depend on the conditions, like the flow in the river, but I have started working a lot more on my paddling and I hope to have a significant improvement in my paddle, and if that happens it could be amazing. But if I keep getting better with my paddling the result will show."
Staying upright on her bike is a key goal from Maier after she came off between the mountain run and kayak leg this year, which cost her a couple of minutes.
"I just need to concentrate a little more and there are a few minutes I could improve right there," she said.


Simple angular version of JQuery Typing allows to bind callbacks for started and stopped typing events.


Netduino.Foundation is a platform for quickly and easily building connected things using the .NET MicroFramework on Netduino. Created by Wilderness Labs, it's completely open source and maintained by the Netduino community.
Create a new Netduino project, add Netduino.Foundation via Nuget, plug an LED as shown in the circuit, and add the following code:
Netduino.Foundation has built in support for most common sensors, motors, and other peripherals available on the market.
Peripheral drivers simplify common tasks with built in functionality, exposed by a clean, modern API.
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Independent Egyptian media outlet says editor arrested
Plain-clothed police arrest Mada Masr editor Shady Zalat from his Cairo home in the early hours of Saturday.
A prominent investigative media outlet in Egypt says security forces have arrested one of its editors, the latest arrest amid a wider crackdown on dissent in the country.
Mada Masr, one of the few independent news websites in Egypt as their number shrinks, said Shady Zalat, 37, was arrested from his home in Cairo early on Saturday. Police raided his apartment without showing an arrest warrant, the outlet added.
In a statement, Mada Masr said plain-clothed police told Zalat's wife that he was being taken to the Giza police headquarters.
More:
- Egypt under fire over 'shrinking' freedoms at UN rights review
- UN rights office urges Egypt to free blogger, lawyer, journalist
- 'Biggest crackdown' under Sisi condemned after thousands arrested
But the outlet said it has been unable to confirm where Zalat is being held, and demanded his release.
"Shady has been working at Mada Masr as an editor since 2014," the outlet's statement said. "He has done nothing more than use words to report the news."
"We hold Egyptian authorities responsible for his safety and well being and call for his immediate and unconditional release," the statement added.
There was no immediate comment from the authorities.
Zalat's arrest came after Mada Masr published an article last week alleging that President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's son Mahmoud had been transferred to Moscow on a diplomatic posting.
His reassignment from a senior intelligence post came after he had been criticised internally within the security apparatus, Mada Masr reported.
The article, which cited unnamed Emirati and Egyptian officials, gave details about the country's security agencies at a time when press freedoms in Egypt are shrinking.
Egypt has arrested at least 4,000 people since September amid a sweeping crackdown following rare anti-government protests.
Mada Masr is one of the hundreds of websites blocked by the Egyptian government in recent years.
Egypt jails more journalists than any other country after China and Turkey, according to the New York-based watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists.


Equilibrium
It’s 1997 and I’ve just researched and configured the best PC I can imagine for what was then a reasonable price. The beast, an ominous black tower in a world of boring beige, has a CPU ten times faster than the Packard Bell it’s replacing. It runs a new technology called AGP, which the sales person assures me is not only as good as the popular PCI solution but better.
 The lie plagued my perception of that PC from the very start and fueled an imbalance that may only now be coming to rest.
You see, from that point forward there was always something incredible right around the corner. At first, it was a new PC that would be powerful enough to run the games I wanted to play at the time (AGP wasn’t upgradable, and the built-in card was starved for video memory, a critically important spec back then).
Then it was a laptop that felt like a real computer and not a hamstrung hack attempting the future before its time. I used some laptops (IBM, Compaq, HP) but didn’t pursue buying. I found that dream laptop (excuse me, notebook) in a Titanium PowerBook G4, ever after referred to affectionately as the TiBook. It had a trackpad that worked as advertised, a widescreen display, an operating system that looked modern, even futuristic without looking like a neon sign in Vegas, and that beautifully designed case.
Battery life was good for the time, but not great in practical use. It was powerful, but buying or building a desktop with visibly more power was still easy and relatively cheap. And so the balance favored the future again, and I waited.
The answer to my notebook-that-feels-like-a-desktop came with a Penryn Macbook Pro. It even played PC games of the time at respectable frame rates using Boot Camp. That machine, to this day is probably my favorite computer. I wrote my first novel on it, played countless hours of World of Warcraft, edited the first videos of my daughter.
But the imbalance came again. Despite its power, mobility grew more important. Lighter, thinner, better battery life, the list that lay just around the corner. A Macbook Air came next, and now a Macbook, tiny and light, powerful enough to do all that I want these days on my work computer, and the most beautifully designed notebook I’ve ever seen (good luck topping this one, Jony).
But I’d traded performance for portability, so I built a gaming PC between the time of the stalwart Macbook Pro and the Macbook Air: my for-fun computer. It is fast and powerful, even today, and with a reasonable upgrade to the GPU, runs current games at another of those ever-retreating corners I’ve been waiting so long to turn, 1080p 60fps. Consoles haven’t truly done it yet, and look to be making the jump to 4k before they get the chance. As for me, I look at the 4k televisions in stores and see very little real world difference between them and my 1080p plasma, unlike with Retina where the difference achieved another past-fantasy tech milestone.
And that gets us to my point. I’ve reached a point of equilibrium in tech. Light, powerful, beautiful notebook, check (then do the same for TV display, set-top box, sound system, gaming PC, tablet, phone, even a smartwatch). With all of this amazing hardware, and the always evolving (usually improving) software, there are so few real world corners left to turn.
There’s always a new iPhone on the horizon, of course, a new everything. For the first time, however, none of it feels particularly pressing. Nothing feels like “Oh, if I only had a machine that would…” at this point. The last two items on my list were 1080p 60fps and an instantly responding Apple Watch (which, though I don’t have it yet, seems to be the real deal with WatchOS 3). It’s a somewhat peaceful and somewhat empty feeling, as if a part of me dissolved without my permission.
Out there, some will shout “VR!” and “Self-driving cars!” and whatever else. I’ve tried VR, and it’s an interesting curiosity. I’m intrigued by a self-driving car, but the corner to turn for that one seems years away, maybe a decade, and that’s not considering the fact that a teacher’s salary is extremely unlikely to pay for one in the first — or second — phase (even the 30k Tesla Model 3 is priced beyond that, and that’s with virtually no autonomous features, or at least not the impressive, world changing ones).
So for now, and possibly the first time since I was 13 or 14, the world of technology seems good enough. Can it get better? Always, and I fully expect it to. Will I want some new shiny thing come September, probably, but if Apple released nothing, just went totally dark, I’d be fine, and not in the sense that I’d survive, but in the sense that I wouldn’t feel compelled to ask for anything more. This 6S performs brilliantly in every measure I can think of. Ditto for all my other current devices.
I suppose the most difficult part of balance is maintaining it. Perhaps that’s the new question. Is that next reveal enough to tip the scales? Is there something out there that’s coming up next that completes an imagined technological picture you have for yourself?
For me, for now — for once — the answer is “No.”


Updating Alfred
Once you've installed Alfred, he'll periodically check for updates automatically and notify you with a little tab at the bottom of the Alfred window.
In Alfred's preferences, under the Update tab, you can see a change log of what's new and set your update preferences.
You can check for two types of updates:
- Updates: This is the default option. You'll be notified when a general release of Alfred has been fully tested and is available for everyone to use.
- Pre-releases: If you enjoy using early releases, and understand that this beta version is usually stable and safe, but may not be complete. If you choose this option, you will receive more frequent update notifications so only select it if you're keen to help us test the next upcoming general release :)
At any time, you can choose to stop Alfred from checking for updates by unchecking the "Automatically check for updates" box at the bottom of the Update preferences.
I'm having issues update Alfred
When you launch Alfred's Update tab, if you see the "Unable to find zip" message, it's possible that access to our content delivery network CacheFly is blocked on the internet connection are using. This can be the case on corporate networks or in cafes and libraries.
If you encounter this message, simply go to alfredapp.com and download the latest version of Alfred directly from our website. You'll be able to install this new version, which won't overwrite your existing preferences.