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Our test with Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 is performed with a raw two hour AVI file. It is then compressed into DivX format using the latest version codec. We measure the time it takes to encode.
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Sometimes things just come together to create that extra special photograph.
That is certainly what happened with this stunning image sent in to us by Carl Hardy.
It was taken while Carl and his dog were out and about near Tetford, with the Wolds landscape providing the perfect backdrop.
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SARKES-TARSIAN Triple A WTTS/INDIANAPOLIS is again teaming up with FOUNTAIN SQUARE MUSIC FESTIVAL. The two-day music festival takes place OCTOBER 6th & 7th in downtown INDIANAPOLIS’s historic FOUNTAIN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD.
The FOUNTAIN SQUARE MUSIC FESTIVAL is an initiative of SOUTHEAST NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT, a non-profit organization. A portion of the proceeds will go back to benefiting neighborhood organizations.
For more information, visit www.fountainsquaremusicfest.org.
Future Tense Newsletter: Read a new short story from sci-ri writer Madeline Ashby.
This week we’re excited to share our latest installment of Future Tense Fiction, “Domestic Violence,” a story by futurist and science-fiction writer Madeline Ashby. The story raises questions about the relationship between abuse and technology, something that you can learn more about in a response to the story by the National Network to End Domestic Violence’s Ian Harris.
The ways our technology use can be weaponized against our best interests continued to dominate the news this week. April Glaser explains what might come of the new Federal Trade Commission investigation into Facebook’s privacy practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica debacle. She also breaks down Mark Zuckerberg’s statement that he’d be open to some form of government regulation of Facebook, and what kinds of policies lawmakers should consider enacting to provide consumers more robust protections. Meanwhile, Slate’s Will Oremus covered the news that Zuckerberg is in talks to testify before Congress about the recent scandal. As he explains, there are many, many ways his trip to Capitol Hill could go wrong.
We’re also finding out more about last week’s news that one of Uber’s autonomous vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. But what we can learn from the accident is still up for debate. Jesse Kirkpatrick and Ryan Jenkins argue that the accident probably won’t settle many of the burning ethical issues around the technology, including the central question: Should a driverless vehicle bare more blame in an accident than one caused by a human driver? It’s a question that has perplexed lawyers for over a decade, explains Ryan Calo, who argues that just because driverless car crashes could be litigated in courts doesn’t mean that our laws are ready to handle them yet. Already, it seems Arizona may be pressed to rethink its lax “Wild West approach” to regulating self-driving vehicles. One potential answer, argues Zac Townsend: robot testers and robot regulators, which, he explains, can better generate scenarios, tests, and definitions for safety. “It will take intelligent technology to regulate intelligent technology,” he writes.
Election upgrades: The new federal budget includes funds to update the nation’s dangerously decrepit voting technology infrastructure. But Lawrence Norden and Wilfred Codrington III explain that simply updating the machines won’t be enough.
Out of order: An Apple iOS bug has intermittently been displaying some iMessage threads out of order, ruining group chats around the world. Heather Schwedel explains the new unchronological hell.
Mechanical love: A robot designed to assist children with autism shows that the future of social artificial intelligence probably won’t be as dystopian as some imagine, write Luisa Damiano and Paul Dumouchel.
Bye-pad?: As iPhones get bigger and Macs get more portable, will there be a use for the iPad? Christina Bonnington explains Apple’s new marketing strategy, which could save or tank the product.
Opting out: One solution to Facebook’s woes might be letting users pay to opt-out of data collection. Will Oremus explains why the idea isn’t as shocking as it sounds.
… Or not: Polls show Americans are losing trust in Facebook. So why are so many still using the site?
Join us on Wednesday, April 3, in Washington, D.C., for “The Future of Experience? A Virtual Reality Pop-Up from Future Tense.” You’ll hear from leading VR researchers, journalists, artists, and entrepreneurs who are using the platform to transform their fields and have the chance to try out some of the VR experiences for yourself. RSVP to attend here.
At a time when traditional IT services companies are finding it challenging to keep pace with rapid digital transformation, new-age companies seem to be gearing up. To further its capabilities in new technologies, Bay area-based IT services company Incedo on Tuesday announced the launch of IoT NXT, a portfolio of services that help clients derive value through their Internet of Things (IoT) implementations.
Incedo, which specialises in data management, product engineering, and emerging technologies, derives more than 80 per cent of their revenues from “transformational projects,” Tejinderpal Singh Miglani, CEO, Incedo told BW Businessworld.
“IoT NXT enables enterprises to leverage the best-in-class IoT solutions, to facilitate the building of new service and revenue streams. Backed by strong experience and expertise in smart and connected product domains, Incedo provides a comprehensive set of IoT offerings. Our focus is to help OEM’s, system integrators and operators to unlock business value across the user, asset and partner value chain,” Incedo said in a statement.
IoT NXT is focused on developing solutions across four key industries – industrial, transportation, automotive, and oil & gas. Incedo’s newly-launched IoT NXT lab in its Bengaluru office will work with clients to research, co-innovate and collaborate on solution ideas. The lab provides a simulated environment for creating end-to-end IoT solutions that capture real-time data from interconnected sensor/devices and provide actionable insights utilising cognitive platforms and predictive analytics.
As part of the launch, Incedo has partnered with IBM which gives them access to the cognitive capabilities of IBM Watson IoT platform and its industry solutions. “The Watson IoT platform and IBM’s industry offerings around connected products, automotive, manufacturing and insurance will feature in Incedo’s solution proposals to their prospective customers. Through IoT NXT, Incedo has explored opportunities in fleet management, smart energy management, smart food and grain management based on IBM Watson IoT platform and we will look at other areas moving forward,” said Sandip Datta, Sr. Business Manager, IBM Watson IoT.
In addition to IBM, Incedo has also partnered with ConnectM Technology Solutions to leverage the latter’s sensor-based development and data management platform coupled with real-time analytics to offer a time-to-market advantage in delivering solutions for global customers.
The Army has awarded DRS Technologies a $19 million order to provide rugged Appliqué Computer Systems and peripheral equipment to the Army’s Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below (FBCB2) program.
FBCB2 is a digital battle command information system that gives commanders, leaders and soldiers improved information and enhanced situational awareness on the battlefield.
DRS’ Appliqué Computer Systems support the Army’s Blue Force Tracking requirements. They are installed on more than 40 Army and Marine Corps vehicle types, including wheeled and tracked vehicles, in Tactical Operations Centers and other command posts.
DRS said it received the order from the Army’s Communication-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command in Fort Monmouth, N.J.
DRS’ Tactical Systems unit in Melbourne, Fla., will provide more than 1,700 systems and more than 4,500 hard disk drives.
The Army has successfully equipped more than 25,000 DRS-built Appliqué Computer Systems under the FBCB2 program, said Steven Schorer, president of DRS’ Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence Group.
OSLO (Reuters) - Nordea NDA.ST and DNB (DNB.OL) have agreed to sell a 60 percent stake in Baltic bank Luminor to a Blackstone (BX.N) private equity consortium for 1 billion euros ($1.16 billion) in cash, the two Nordic banks said on Thursday.
Luminor, the third-biggest bank in the Baltic region with assets of 15 billion euros, was formed by the 2016 decision to merge Nordea’s and DNB’s operations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
“The transaction represents the largest majority stake acquisition of a universal bank by private equity in the last decade globally, and one of the largest M&A transactions in Baltic history,” Blackstone said in a statement.
In the long term, the plan is to seek a stock market listing for Luminor, it added.
While DNB plans to retain a stake of 20 percent in the venture, Nordea has entered into a forward sale agreement with Blackstone for its remaining 20 percent stake over the near to medium term.
“The decision for Nordea to sell the shares in Luminor is pursuant to Nordea’s overall ambition to simplify and focus operations to the Nordic core markets and become an even better bank for its customers,” the bank said.
“This is a good deal for both Luminor and the current owners,” DNB Chief Financial Officer Kjerstin Braathen said.
The transaction would not have any significant impact on its finances, DNB said, while adding that Blackstone would be a solid majority shareholder.
Subject to regulatory approvals the deal is expected to close during the first half of 2019.
ASHEVILLE - Sitting squarely in the Venn diagram of science and craft beer is White Labs, the San Diego-based yeast-production company that will open its Asheville outpost and start producing yeast for alcohol makers Jan. 16.
But White Labs, the largest source of brewers yeast for an ever-growing supply of craft breweries, isn't alone. Yeast has long been a darling of the scientific community. It shares basic biological properties with our cells, which is why NASA blasted a mini yeast lab into space in 2009.
Although it's fun to imagine astronauts brewing space beer, NASA just wanted to see how the single-cell organisms responded to drugs in zero gravity. But that experiment no doubt influenced a few beer geeks, and the Eugene, Oregon-based Ninkasi Brewing Company just a few years later launched a beer made with some other space yeast.
White Labs president and CEO Chris White is a scientist in his own right. He has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, where he wrote his thesis on yeast biochemistry. He thinks yeast is pretty amazing stuff. But he especially appreciates its effect on the flavor of beer during fermentation.
"In beer in particular, the flavors are pretty low," he said. "Malts and barley are not super flavorful, and hops are not very fruity, but yeast has more than 500 aroma and flavor compounds that contribute to beer's profile."
The co-author of "Yeast: The Practical Guide To Beer Fermentation," White founded White Labs in 1995 to manufacture yeast cultures and provide fermentation services to the brewing, wine and distilling industries. That was a time when most brewers protectively guarded their own yeasts as proprietary ingredients, he said. "When White Labs came along, it was unusual to have someone else make yeast for you."
But as the craft beer industry has changed, breweries like Asheville's Hi-Wire Brewing have neither the time nor equipment to nurture their own yeast strains.
"Keeping a starter alive is a lot more work than meets the eye, especially when you're taking about hundreds of pounds of yeast and making a precise product that has predictable flavors every time," said Hi-Wire co-owner Adam Charnack.
White Labs is nothing if not predictable, and one of the market leaders in high-quality yeast, Charnack said. And Charnack is nothing if not practically minded.
With a smorgasbord of locally produced, yet exotically flavored, yeasts about to hit the local market, the brewery owner was most enthusiastic about saving thousands of dollars in shipping costs.
"Let's call a spade a spade," he said. "When we ship yeast across the country, it's priority next-day delivery, freeze-dried in a temperature-controlled shipping container. It's very expensive."
Shipping costs are likely to drop for plenty of other breweries, too. White Labs has three other United States locations, a facility in Hong Kong and another in Copenhagen. But this will be its first location on the East Coast.
Though Ashevillle's White Labs will have a small on-premises brewery, laboratory yeast production remains the facility's primary focus, with the majority of workers there wearing lab coats and holding scientific degrees.
"That's why the city described us as 'biotech,' even though our company inside doesn't talk about that much," said White. "It's biotech within the food and beverage sector."
It's that tech angle that had Buncombe County officials offer White Labs $40,000 to base its operations here, and city representatives drove home that scientific emphasis when the yeast facility officially announced its Asheville outpost in early 2015.
"This is yet another exciting new business choosing to locate in Asheville, and it is an important biotechnology project for the state," Mayor Esther Manheimer said in January. "White Labs not only grows the supply chain in fermentation sciences, but also contributes technical jobs to the active re-energizing of downtown."
White Labs promises to invest more than $8 million in its facility in the coming years, hiring at least 65 employees. But White suggested the focus is less on being an independent economic engine and more on linking into the local beer culture in a meaningful way.
By summer, White Labs will open a small onsite building with a brewery and a 50-seat restaurant. The search for the brewery team is ongoing, but the restaurant's menu will be developed by self-taught chef Sean Z. Paxton, who's been featured in Food & Wine magazine, Esquire and other publications. Paxton is also a judge for the Master Cicerone exam and teaches "cooking with beer" classes at the Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Portland, Oregon.
A classroom in that same building will help impart knowledge for restaurant and bar professionals, aspiring brewers and professional distillers and brewers. "We say we work with smallest producers, the home-brewers, to the largest wineries and breweries," White said. "We have something that they need, whether it's the yeast or our analytical testing services or nutrients."
Even the public stands to learn something. To communicate its mission, White Labs makes wort, or the malt-hops solution that becomes beer when fermented, and splits it up in several different fermenters, a different yeast in each.
"You might taste a Belgian or IPA made with four different yeasts," White explained. Each beer tastes so distinctly different that almost anyone can quickly discern what yeast strains they most prefer, an extra level of beer geekery not often found in the average beer tasting. "And in just a few minutes, all the things we're talking about become very clear."
And even if it seems city officials want to tout investments in science over yet another beer business, White Lab's impact on local brewing shouldn't be underestimated. White could not say precisely how many United States breweries use White Labs's yeast, "but there's over 4,000 breweries in the United States, and 60-70 percent of them buy something from us — so a lot."
And of the quality? "About 60 percent of gold medal winners of last year's Great American Beer Festival used White Labs yeast last year, and that's been pretty consistent," he said.
Even North Carolina's growing wine industry stands to benefit. "That would mirror what we're doing in California," White said, noting much of the wine yeast White Labs produces in San Diego goes to Napa and Sonoma counties.
But yeast is less of a dominant flavor factor in wine than it is in beer, and much of what White Labs can do for the industry happens in the analytical lab. "So not only do we have yeast people can use to make a better wine, we have the lab where, during harvest and production of wine, wineries can send samples for analysis," White said.
White Labs is also of the few larger producers of Kombucha SCOBY, a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast used for fermenting sweet tea into kombucha without much of a measurable alcohol output.
White thinks local yeast should also be a draw for kombucha makers in Asheville, where "local" is a way of life and "carbon footprint" regularly enters the lexicon. "It matters to people," he said.
Local matters to other growing industries, too, including distilleries. In the coming year, for example, work should begin on a new Coxe Avenue gin distillery with a goal of using as many local ingredients as possible.
White Labs' yeast has already reached at least one local cider producer. Noble Cider has used it in various cider trials, which show up as small-batch ciders in the Leicester cider-maker's tasting room. "We did some small batches using English cider yeast and beer yeast, just to see what would happen," co-owner Trevor Baker said. "It was all to good effect."
Baker hopes a local yeast source might help circulate lesser-known strains, leading to greater innovation in a number of local brewing businesses. "The more strange yeast they can package up and put out there, the more experiments you'll see," he said.
Experimentation is one of the most exciting parts of brewing for Baker. In the Noble "lab," there are 10 cider trials in the works with various apple strains, four different types of French yeast, Spanish yeast, ale yeast and a white wine yeast. "It's like a science project," he said. "It's fun. Basically, we're all just kids playing with adult toys."
White Labs' presence is more than just a science project — it says something big about the region's brewing industry in general, Baker said. "It gives more credence to the idea that this is an industry for the area and not just a flash in the pan."
And now there are 31. The U.S. Department of Education just approved seven additional renewals of state flexibility from the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act. The states are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Mississippi, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin.
Mississippi's approval comes fresh off the state's decision to select a vendor--Pearson--to design the state's common core-linked assessment, after the Magnolia state ditched the Patnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. Wisconsin, meanwhile, is still searching for a test after getting rid of the Smarter Balanced Assessment, or SBAC.
Arizona, Arkansas, and New Hampshire each got one-year waivers. Arizona's one-year waiver stems in part from recent civil rights concerns with English Language Learners.
And New Hampshire's renewal period is shortened because the state must provide evidence, by October 2015, that its high school assessment is of high quality. The Granite State had proposed switching from SBAC to the College Board's SAT, in part to cut down on the number of tests high school juniors must take. New Hampshire also has some work to do on teacher and principal evaluations.
Arkansas, which recently dumped PARCC and is moving towards offering the ACT, another college entrance exam, must also show that its test meets quality benchmarks. And the state needs to show how it plans to include student growth in teacher evaluation system.
Connecticut essentially got the same deal as Florida when it comes to assessing English-language learners. Under the Nutmeg State's renewed waiver, schools won't have to count the achievement of students who have been in the country for less than two years for accountability purposes. (The NCLB law says achievement of ELLs has to count after a kid has attended U.S. schools for one year.) Crucially, however, Connecticut will still need to incorporate the growth, or progress, of ELLs into school ratings during their second year of education in this country. Other states have askedthe department for other kinds of flexibility on ELLs and been denied, or told to pursue their requests separately. But importantly, those states weren't planning to include growth in the second year. This is a really big deal, because when and how to incorporate ELLs for accountability purposes is a sleeper issue in the debate over NCLB reauthorization.
Petoskey's hopes of staying in the Big North Conference baseball race took a serious hit from Traverse City Central here Thursday.
In both games, it was senior Jason Cairns who did major damage.
In game one, Cairns threw a four-hitter and struck out 12; and in the nightcap, he hit two home runs, the second the 14th of his career, breaking Central's school record.
The losses dropped Petoskey to 8-10 overall and 4-4 in conference; while Central improved to 12-9, 5-5.
In game one, the Northmen fell behind 4-0, but then made it interesting by scoring three times in the fifth. The 4-3 margin stood until Central's Kevin Tarras hit a three-run homer in the top of the seventh. Steffen Howard opened the game with a leadoff homer.
"We had a chance to win game one," said Petoskey coach Mike Loper. "In game two, we never had an opportunity. We were flat and didn't have the competitive drive. Hopefully, we can learn from this."
Paul Schafer led Petoskey with a double that accounted for two runs, plus a single; and Brad Demeuse and Conner Dennis also singled.
Mike Royalty went the distance on the mound for the Northmen, giving up eight hits, striking out seven and walking one.
In game two, Central led 5-1 before scoring five times in the fourth and winning on Cairn's game-ending two-run home run in the bottom of the fifth, his third hit of the game.
Petoskey's only run came on a solo homer by John Cowan in the fourth. The only other Northmen hit was a single by Andy Mayer in the fifth. Kory Ciesielski was the starting pitcher with Kevin Phelan coming on in the fourth. Central finished with 12 hits.
The Northmen are back in action Saturday, May 12, when they host the Petoskey Invitational at Turcott Field, opening at 9 a.m. against Greenville.
Milos Raonic returns a shot from Thiemo De Bakker of the Netherlands, in Davis Cup tennis action in Toronto, Sept. 14, 2018.
Milos Raonic hadn’t played in the Davis Cup since 2015, and it had not been easy to say no to Team Canada all those times. But it felt sweet to be back playing in Canadian colours on Friday night in Toronto, launching his team’s efforts against the Netherlands with a straight-sets win.
Raonic fired 23 aces and beat world No. 236 Thiemo de Bakker 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 as Canada opened its tie with the Dutch in a unique indoor setting in downtown Toronto.
Yet 19-year-old Torontonian Denis Shapovalov had the far tougher opponent on Friday night, and provided the late-evening fireworks. Team Canada’s World No.34 roared back after losing the first two sets and pulled off an incredible win over the Dutch team’s top singles player, World No. 43 Robin Haase 3-6, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4. As his team whooped and celebrated, they pulled ahead in the tie 2-0 going into Saturday’s doubles matches.
The event took place inside newly named Coca-Cola Coliseum at Exhibition Place, formerly Ricoh Coliseum, the home of the AHL’s Toronto Marlies. Quite a contrast to the outdoor York University setting of the Rogers Cup.
Growing up, Raonic used to go to downtown Toronto from his home in the northern suburbs to watch many pro events. So the 27-year-old world No. 20 – Canada’s top-ranked singles player of the moment – was savouring the rare opportunity to play tennis in the heart of his city.
Raonic’s last time in a Davis Cup tie had been in Vancouver in 2015, when Canada beat Japan. Team Canada had won 10 of the 11 ties in which he had played going into this weekend. Injuries to his 6-foot-5 frame have sometimes caused him to decline invitations or travel requirements were too challenging for his schedule. Sometimes the spontaneous change of surface for the tie would disrupt his training, or he simply needed a much-needed training block or recovery period.
As at any Canadian Davis Cup tie, there were banging drums on Friday against a backdrop of red wigs, T-shirts, hockey sweaters and Canadian flags draped over shoulders. There were small pocket of fans in orange suits and hats too, waving Dutch flags.
There were lots of seats curtained off inside the venue that holds 6,500 for tennis, with the court shifted to one end of where the ice surface would usually be.