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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but with no name, maybe not

The famous quotation from Shakespeare is that "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet". But what if the rose had no name. What if every time you talked about it, you had to come up with a description, you know that thing with the pretty pink petals, except sometimes they are red, and sometimes white, but it smells really nice, except some don't really smell and others do. You know the thing with multiple layers of petals except for the wild ones that only have one layer of petals.

Maybe not so sweet.

What about the other way round? You build a really cool system that works effectively and then it turns out that someone has named it? Now that is nice, and yes, your thing suddenly smells sweeter.

I've had this happen a lot. When we first started WSO2 we applied a lot of cool approaches that we learnt from Apache. But they weren't about Open Source, they were about Open Source Development. And when they got names it became easier to explain. One aspect of that is Agile. We all know what Agile means and why its good. Another aspect is Meritocracy. So now I talk about a meritocratic, agile development team and people get me. It helps them to understand why WSO2 is a good thing.

When Sanjiva and I started WSO2 we wanted to get rid of EJBs: we wanted to remove the onion-layers of technology that had built up in middleware and create a simpler, smaller, more effective stack. It turns out we created lean software, and that is what we call it today. We also create orthogonal (or maybe even orthonormal) software. That term isn't so well understood, but if you are a mathematician you will get what we mean.

Why am I suddenly talking about this? Because today, Srinath posted a note letting me know that something else we have been doing for a while has a nice name.

It turns out that the architecture we promote for Big Data analysis, you know, the one where we pipe the data through an event bus, into both real-time complex event processing and also into Cassandra where we apply Hive running on Hadoop to crunch it up and batch analyse it, and then store it either in a traditional SQL database for reports to be generated, or occasionally in different Cassandra NoSQL tables, you know that architecture?

Aha! Its the Lambda Architecture. And yes, its so much easier to explain now its got a nice name. Read more here: http://srinathsview.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/implementing-bigdata-lambda.html




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Maya Bank issues 50,000 credit cards in 3 months

Digital lender Maya Bank, in partnership with Landers Superstore, has issued over 50,000 credit cards in just three months, making it one of the fastest growing credit cards in the country.




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Your Phone May Have Emergency Satellite Connectivity Built In and It Could Be a Lifesaver During Major Storms

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Voice-O-Matic soon for Maya and XSI




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Immediate Availability of Voice-O-Matic (Maya Edition)




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Immediate Availlability of Voice-O-Matic v2 (Maya Edition)




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No candidate running for mayor election in Canada's town

A representational image of a voter casting their ballot voter on June 30, 2024. — Reuters

A town in Saskatchewan, Canada is facing a issue in the run-up to its November mayor election and that is no one is running for the position.

Mayor of Kyle, George Williams is...




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Comb jellyfish that reverses ageing may hold key to timeless quest for immortality

A representational image shows a bioluminescent comb jellyfish. — X/@maximaxoo

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway have identified the comb jellyfish , a ctenophore species, as a potential candidate for biological...




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Pakistan sees Rs47.54 per litre drop in fuel prices since May, reports petroleum minister

Musadik Masood Malik says rate of petroleum levy to also decrease with increase in tax-to-GDP ratio




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BMX Event: Street BMX Mayhem 2k19 - Voru (Estonia)



On the 11th of May 2019 will be a BMX Street Jam at the Skatepark of Voru (Estonia) organised by local BMX riders. The BMX jam will starts officially at 12 o'clock. You'll find more infos about this BMX Event at the Facebook event page!

More information about the BMX event:
Facebook Page - Street BMX Mayhem 2k19 - Voru (Estonia)

What: Street BMX Mayhem 2k19 - Voru (Estonia)

BMX disciplines: BMX Street

When: 11th of May 2019

Where:Skatepark of Voru (Estonia)

All the best,
your kunstform BMX Shop Team!

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U.S. identifies Beijing's mayor and current, past politburo members in Xi Jinping's inner circle

Chinese President Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and chairman of its Central Military Commission, has emerged in the past two years as the country's most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong.




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Mayor downplays election unrest worries, but D.C. businesses, federal properties amp up security

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said there are "no credible threats" to the District ahead of Tuesday's presidential election, despite several downtown businesses boarding up their buildings and the White House and other federal properties erecting climb-proof fencing along their perimeters.




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Charleston,WV, West Side, part 2: We May See a Harvest

Our audio tour through Charleston’s West Side continues with a community gardener, an antique collector, a symphony clarinetist, a deli owner, and a retired pro basketball player. Plus, a visit to a local auto shop, a barbershop, a Girl Scout meeting, and Mary C Snow West Side Elementary.

Special thanks this episode to West Virginia State Folklorist Emily Hilliard, The West Virginia Folklife Program at the West Virginia Humanities Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.




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WHO says mpox cases in Congo's epicenter where the new variant was detected may be 'plateauing'

The World Health Organization said mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be "plateauing," even as the virus continues to increase in other regions of the country, as well as in Burundi and Uganda.




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Symposium (22-23 May): Remote Sensing for Conservation, London, UK

On 22nd and 23rd of May a symposium entitled "Remote sensing for conservation: uses, perspectives and challenges" took place at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). The organisers successfully aimed at linking specialists from the two fields, remote sensing and conservation, more tightly. The two days provided a great overview of current activities of joint approaches and glimpses of what might be possible in the near future. In the following, a short subjective overview of the highlights is given with relevance to EU BON.
 
The first day started with the welcoming notes by the ZSL and the news that a new journal, which is especially created for the interplay between remote sensing and conservation, will be published soon. Woody Turner (NASA) gave a fabulous keynote with examples of current state of the art studies, such as using drones and off the shelf cameras to get cheap custom designed aerial images, the impressive combination of radar data with hyperspectral bands which lead to a 3D image of forest biodiversity and the emerging use of bioacoustics to monitor biodiversity. Nathalie Pettorelli (ZSL) gave an introduction into NDVI (Normalized Differenced Vegetation Index) and an overview of its usefulness for conservation. Martin Wegmann (University of Würzburg, DLR) showed the usefulness of a variety of fragmentation indices. Thomas Esch (DLR) showed the current status of the upcoming global urban footprint. Diane Davies (NASA) listed and compared a number of sources which monitored fires on a regional and global scale. Frank Muller-Karger (University of South Florida) elaborated on his enormous efforts to create global "seascapes" comparable to landscapes or ecoregions and his ultimate goal, a global marine biodiversity observation network (mbon). Temilola Fatoyinbo (NASA) explained the efforts towards a comprehensive global assessment of mangroves. Peter Reinartz (DLR) tested whether space born animal tracking is possible, and it will be.
 
On the second day Thomas Nauss (University of Marburg) started by delving into LiDAR (light detection and ranging; meaning the use of an active sensor measuring the reflectance of short laser pulses), derived not only from aerial flights but also from on-ground measurements. Kamran Safi (MPI Radolfzell) presented the awesome analysis of movement ecology and the incorporation in conservation. Graeme Buchanan (RSPB) presented nice examples of successful predictive ENMs (environmental niche models). Carlo Rondinini (University of Rome) tested the role of protected areas for large mammals in Africa. Andrew Skidmore (University of Twente) called for a need for more fine grained data and the inclusion of a more agricultural centred perspective because of a large percentage of the land surface is under agricultural use. Edward Mitchard (University of Edinburgh) showed exemplarily a study of REDD+ (revised programme of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Indonesia. Gregoire Dubois (EC-JRC) presented the current state and future steps of DOPA (Digital Observatory for Protected Areas). Robert Rose (WCS) gave an insight into the joint platform for remote sensing and conservationists (CRSNet) and the top 10 conservation questions derived from a joint project. Finally Mike Gill (Environment Canada) illuminated the GEO BON mission and Christina Secades (WCMC) gave some details of her report on the usefulness of remote sensing for the Aichi targets.
Posters were exhibited as well. EU BON presented its remote sensing approaches and Palma Blonda (CNR-ISSIA) the BIO_SOS project. Two poster highlights were the announcement of a "temporal human impact index" by Jonas Geldmann (University of Copenhagen) and the "Biodiversity Indicators Dashboard", a facilitated interpretation of biodiversity indicators using the Tropical Andes, the African Great Lakes, and the Mekong Basin as examples (http://www.natureserve.org/conservation-tools/projects/biodiversity-indicators-dashboard).
 
Please lind attached below the a list of the projects and articles (with links) which were mentioned during the talks and which I found interesting (in no particular order or relevance!)

 





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Climate Change & Biodiversity: What may happen to bony fishes in the North Sea?

Sustainable governance of our biological resources demands reliable scientific knowledge to be accessible and applicable to the needs of society. To achieve this, the EU BON project aims to develop a European Biodiversity Observation Network that facilitates open access to biodiversity data of relevance to environmental policy, and to develop innovative platforms for sharing and conveying this information through visually effective and policy-relevant media.

As part of this endeavour, EU BON partners FishBase Information and Research Group (FIN), the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), and the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre collaborated to produce an infographic titled ‘Climate Change & Biodiversity: What may happen to bony fishes in the North Sea?’. This infographic explains the economic and ecological importance of bony fishes in the context of the North Sea. It also visualises potential changes to species diversity and composition over time, using habitat suitability and climate change predictions. These changes have been projected to 2100 based on modelled environmental conditions under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s A2 emissions scenarios. The projections have direct policy relevance to Aichi Biodiversity Target 10 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which seeks to understand trends in climatic impacts on community composition in ecosystems, and to thereby minimize these impacts.

The infographic was published on the 1st June 2015 on page 26 of The Parliament Magazine’s ‘Green Week’ edition (Issue 413), which is distributed to all members of European Parliament, the European Commission, Presidency Office, Party political groups, and various other EU institutions, with over 50,000 readers worldwide. 





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iMarine Invitation-only Workshop - 14th & 15th May 2013

iMarine e-Infrastructure for data driven decision making and research
iMarine  is organising an invitation-only workshop to discuss data driven decision making and research on 14th & 15th May 2013 at DG Connect, Avenue de Beaulieu 33 (BU33), Room 0/54, Brussels, Belgium.
The goal of iMarine is to facilitate policy makers in addressing the global challenges impacting on the marine ecosystem, the fisheries sector, local economies and communities and to demonstrate that science based policy making can benefit from a large and distributed e-Infrastructure for cross-disciplinary data collection, harmonization and analysis necessary for the management and conservation of marine living resources.






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Optimising long-term monitoring projects for species distribution modelling: how atlas data may help








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‘This is who we are’: Patriots’ Jerod Mayo used his Monday press conference to ‘talk to the players’

"As I always say, I use this as a microphone not only to give you guys information, but also to talk to the players. So, players, this is how we need to play going forward."

The post ‘This is who we are’: Patriots’ Jerod Mayo used his Monday press conference to ‘talk to the players’ appeared first on Boston.com.








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Melatonin gummies may have a higher dose than what’s on the label, Sedentary time may significantly enlarge adolescents’ heart, Mushroom Scampi

This week Zorba and Karl discuss how melatonin gummies may have a higher dose than what’s on the label, and they examine new research showing sedentary time may significantly enlarge […]




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Kids benefit more when parents step back, Laughter may be as effective as drops for dry eyes, Roasted Zucchini and Squash

This week Zorba and Karl look at a study about how kids benefit more when parents step back and let them take the lead, and they talk discuss how laughter […]




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Alarming rise in cancer rates among people under 50, Turmeric may be as good for treating indigestion as drug to curb excess stomach acid, Potato Pizza

This week Zorba and Karl discuss a new study that shows an alarming rise in cancer rates among people under 50, and they examine new research showing turmeric may be […]




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WorldWatch: May 21, 2010

WorldWatch: May 21, 2010




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The 700 Club - May 21, 2024

Kent and Jessica were married for six months when Jessica's newfound faith altered their course and changed everything, especially their finances. Then Kent's divine awakening transformed their lives, bringing great abundance and joy.




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The 700 Club - May 22, 2024

Despite setbacks like job loss, divorce, and financial struggles, Esteban not only overcame adversity and $25,000 of debt, but he also experienced miraculous blessings and financial freedom. He found the secret to favor and joy-you can find it too.




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The 700 Club - May 23, 2024

Stacie decided to take God's challenge found in Malachi 3. She saw her humble hobby of crafting candles turn into a flourishing holiday gift market enterprise, spreading across Texas. Miracles do happen when you trust and obey.




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CBN NewsWatch AM: Hamas May Have Murdered Israeli Hostages - August 23, 2024

As Israel buries the bodies of hostages recovered this week, the battles continue on the ground and in the international arena. In the biggest speech of her life, Vice President Kamala Harris laid out her story and vision Thursday hoping voters ...




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NFPA, ESFI Underscore Electric Vehicle Safety During May’s National Electrical Safety Month

Electric vehicles and motorized micro-mobility devices (e-bikes and e-scooters) are more popular than ever, but the potential for fire-related hazards associated with the lithium-ion batteries that power these forms of transport is real and often underestimated.




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May 2024 Product Buzz Guide

The Buzz Guide features products from a variety of brands in the construction industry.




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Toolbox May 2015

May's Toolbox offers some great solutions.




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May 2019 Toolbox

The May 2019 Toolbox features a selection of tools for walls and ceilings contractors from manufacturers like Johns Manville, Sto Corp., and more.




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OSHA advisory committee to meet in May

Washington — OSHA’s National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health has scheduled a virtual meeting for May 7.




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SCOTUS decision may have ramifications for OSHA and MSHA

Washington — A recent Supreme Court decision could affect how legal disputes with OSHA or the Mine Safety and Health Administration are settled.




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Targeted interventions may help workers after knee replacement: study

Newcastle upon Tyne, England – Increased awareness and targeted interventions may help improve return-to-work outcomes for workers who undergo total knee replacement procedures, according to a recent study from Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University in England.




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When grieving workers return to work: Study shows employer support may be lacking

Canterbury, England — Many people returning to work after the death of a loved one don’t receive adequate support from their employer, according to a study from Canterbury Christ Church University.




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Reflective vehicle markings plus high-intensity lights may make first responders harder for drivers to see

Harrisburg, PA — The combination of high-intensity lights and high-visibility markings on emergency vehicles may make first responders working nighttime roadway scenes difficult for approaching motorists to see – even when the responders are wearing hi-vis vests, the “surprising” results of a recent study show.




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AI tool may help prevent sudden cardiac arrest among firefighters

Gaithersburg, MD — Recently developed artificial intelligence software can determine whether firefighters may be about to experience a potentially fatal cardiac event, researchers say.




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National EMS advisory council to meet in May

Washington — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s National Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council has scheduled a public meeting for May 1-2.




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On-the-job exposure to solvents may raise blood pressure risk

Chicago — People exposed to organic solvents on the job may have a greater risk of developing high blood pressure, according to a recent study of Latino workers.




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NACOSH temporary-worker workgroup set to meet May 9

Washington – The safety of temporary workers will be the topic of discussion during a meeting, scheduled for May 9, of a National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health workgroup.




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Early physical therapy may lead to better outcomes for workers with low back injuries: study

Cambridge, MA — Beginning physical therapy days, rather than weeks, after suffering a low back injury is associated with better outcomes, according to the results of a recent study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute.