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1776: the year of American independence

In 1776, America voted to sever their political ties to Great Britain. The American Declaration of Independence was adopted on 4 July, a date that is now celebrated as 'Independence Day' or the 'Fourth of July'. Here, Jeremy Black looks at the year of the declaration, in which the rejection of British authority by American settlers led to a war that not only threatened the whole British Empire but would also, in the long term, lead to changes in its political traditions

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The American Declaration of Independence, adopted on 4 July 1776, was a key moment in the history not only of North America but also of Britain and the English-speaking world.

Until that moment, it has been possible that the fighting that had started outside Boston the previous year would end in a compromise, with George III backing down, the solution indeed sought by most of the American Patriots. However, the failure to reach compromise took the Patriots to revolution. What had seemed possibly a short-term conflict, ending when the British withdrew from Boston in March 1776, became instead a major civil war as the British Empire struck back with a concerted effort at regaining the lost colonies by force and as the Patriots opted for independence. In March 1776, Congress was still unwilling to accept a motion by George Wythe and Richard Henry Lee that King George III, not the ministry, nor Parliament, be seen as “the author of our miseries”.

This became possible only because George III in effect disowned the Americans as rebels and treated them accordingly. British policies, including the ban on trade with the rebellious colonies, were designed to hurt, while the government’s attempt to recruit subsidy forces (called foreign mercenaries in the Declaration of Independence) was associated directly with George, not least because these troops were Germans.

The rejection of British authority was symbolic as well as constitutional. On 9 July 1776, after the colonial assembly of New York gave its assent to the Declaration of Independence, the inhabitants of New York City pulled down a gilded equestrian statue of the king erected on Bowling Green in 1770 (its metal was to be used for cartridges), while, more generally, the royal arms were taken down, and usually treated with contempt. The king’s name was removed from governmental and legal documents, royal portraits were reversed or destroyed, and there were mock trials, executions and funerals of the king, each a potent rejection of his authority.

America rejects the mother country: a 19th-century engraving depicts the moment the Declaration of Independence was read out at Philadelphia in 1776. (Photo by Art Archive)
America rejects the mother country: a 19th-century engraving depicts the moment the Declaration of Independence was read out at Philadelphia in 1776. (Photo by Art Archive)

The tottering state

In the short term, the impact of the Patriots’ struggle for independence was serious in the extreme. It launched Britain into a war that it did not win, and that became strategically threatening when France (in 1778), Spain (in 1779), and the Dutch (in 1780) joined in as allies of the Americans. As a result, Britain, the great maritime power, was outnumbered at sea for the first time that century. The entire empire was under threat. The British lost positions in the West Indies, West Africa and the Mediterranean. Gibraltar faced a long siege. Britain’s enemies also sought to strike at the heart of empire, with the French and Spaniards trying, unsuccessfully, to invade England in 1779. There was also the danger that resistance elsewhere to Britain, especially in India, would be encouraged by Britain’s enemies. Indeed, the Americans struck at Canada in 1775, and the French at India in 1780.

Foreign challenge contributed directly to domestic crisis in Britain. A sense of state and society as tottering were captured by the Gordon Riots in 1780, which brought violent crowds to the centre of London, and by the collapse of the long-serving ministry of Lord North in 1782. This collapse led George III to threaten to abdicate and to go to Hanover, a threat that captured a sense of political and personal breakdown.

The long-term, however, is the crucial perspective for 1776. American independence permanently transformed the nature of the British Empire. Prior to then, the bulk of the subjects of the British Crown were of British, or at least European, descent, spoke English, were Christian, and were governed, albeit not to the satisfaction of many in North America, through local legislatures. American independence, however, revealed important deficiencies in the incorporating character of British Empire, deficiencies that shattered this empire and that were to be tested thereafter in relations with Ireland.

The loss of America was followed, as a result of repeated British successes in war between 1790 and 1815, particularly in India and at the expense of France and its allies, by the creation of a very different British Empire. In this, the bulk of the subjects were not of European descent, did not speak English, were not Christian, and were not governed through local legislatures. This very different imperialism had a major impact, not only on conquered areas, but also in Britain itself.

Furthermore, the American Declaration of Independence led to an important division in the British political tradition, one of great importance at the global level. The Declaration asserted a set of principles that suggested a radically different political system, one in which inherited privilege and power were replaced by a fairer society that was open to talent. In time, these values were to influence Britain powerfully, in part as a result of the American success. The example of liberty and freedom in North America was a potent one elsewhere, and not only for radicals like Tom Paine.

The Declaration of Independence. (Photo © Eileen Tweedy/Art Archive)
The Declaration of Independence. (Photo © Eileen Tweedy/Art Archive)

A beneficial world order

Moreover, the creation of an independent state in North America was to ensure the combination of dynamic expansion on the most promising open frontier of the western world with a political society that owed much to the 18th-century British Whig tradition. Whig freedoms, not least of self-government and self-expression, and a limitation on the power of the Church, were enshrined in the American constitution and, thereafter, remained key to American exceptionalism. Many people of course were excluded from the initial span of American liberty, most prominently slaves and Native Americans, but the prospectus of freedom proved one that was extendable to embrace the immigrant groups that entered North America in large numbers, many from the British Isles.

The hold of Whig freedoms on the American psyche has proved long-lived, so the events of 1776 helped ensure that British political culture remained crucial at the world scale in the late 20th century, even after Britain had been subsumed into an inflexible European super-state with individual freedoms shadowed by collectivist solutions.

Moreover, many of the liberal ideas that played a central role in British assumptions in the 19th century were taken up by American writers and policymakers from the 1940s, in part, initially, in criticism of the protectionism then shown by the British Empire. Drawing on Adam Smith and others, there was a focus on free trade, and the unfettered movement of money, as political and economic goods, and thus as central goals for government. There was also the notion of a benign and mutually beneficial world order, a goal that proved very difficult in practice, as is very much shown today in the Middle East, but that was an alternative to an empire simply of control, constraint and coercion.

The year 1776 also saw the publication of two very significant books. Adam Smith, a Glasgow professor, published The Wealth of Nations which provided the basis for modern economic theory (an achievement marked by his appearance on the £20 note in 2007). Smith argued the case for the free trade that was to become the ideology of the 19th-century British state and economy. This was the cause of much prosperity, in Britain and around the world, as well as of some hardship on the part of those who suffered from the greater international trade and economic specialisation that resulted.

Also published were the first volumes of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, an enlightened MP. In place of a cyclical theory of history, Gibbon’s work suggested that progress was possible, and claimed that it was not inevitable that a fresh wave of barbarians would destroy Britain as it had done Rome. He also argued that even if new barbarians brought down European civilisation, it had already been reborn on the other side of the Atlantic.

1776 in context

The year’s drama was played out against a backdrop of great industrial and agricultural development – with concomitant social unrest

A year earlier, Thomas Farnolls Pritchard had designed the iron bridge that was to be erected at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire in 1777–9. Spanning more than 100 feet, the bridge carried the road on arched ribs springing from the bases of two vertical iron uprights. It showed progress in action, and was a powerful testimony both to the capability stemming from the working of iron, and to the possibility of economic change that was strongly grasped in this period.

Economic historians have produced wonderful work refining our understanding of the material realities of the Industrial Revolution, but the most important dimension was psychological, a belief in the prospect and attraction of change. From 1759, for example, there was a marked increase in the number of patents. This belief in change ensured that it became less pertinent to consider the future in terms of a revival of the past or a continuation of the present.

Alongside coal and canals, steam engines and turnpikes, there was of course much continuity. In 1800, more of the labour force was still employed in agriculture than in industry and more lived in the countryside than in towns. This was true of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Nevertheless, the trend toward new methods in transport, production and organisation were clear.

At the same time, economic development produced stresses. The environmental damage was little recognised, but it was considerable. More generally, working and living conditions could be very grim. Concern about the effects of new machinery on traditional working practices helped lead to violent action. In 1779, Richard Arkwright’s new factory at Birkacre near Chorley, with its machine-spinning of cotton yarn, was burnt down by 3,000-4,000 rioters angered by the offer of work at lower rates.

There was also discontent and direct action in rural areas. The enclosure of common land in order to increase agricultural productivity could lead to an angry, indeed violent, response, as with the riots of 1777–80 that accompanied the enclosure of the former Malvern Chase. More generally throughout the British Isles, poaching was a form of resistance that was crucial to the livelihood of many. The Game Laws were widely seen as unfair, while the gentry viewed challenges to them as theft and as threats to the preservation of the social order. Indeed, in the late 1770s, game preserves were first protected by spring guns and mantraps.

At the same time, industrial and rural discontent did not prevent an essential political stability. By modern standards, Britain was lightly policed and government relied on a widely-diffused cooperation. This was put under a severe test in Ireland during the 1790s, leading to the unsuccessful rising of 1798, but, elsewhere, the system held, and discord did not prevent an inherent stability.

Jeremy Black is professor of history at the University of Exeter. His books include A History of the British Isles (2nd edn, 2003), The British Seaborne Empire (2004) George III (2006), and A Short History of Britain (2007: reviewed in this issue’s book section)

Further reading: Eighteenth-Century Britain by Jeremy Black (Palgrave, 2001);
A Polite and Commercial People: England, 1727–1783 by Paul Langford (Oxford University Press, 1989); Albion Ascendant. English History
1660–1815 by Wilfred Prest (Oxford University Press, 1998)

This article was first published in the July 2007 issue of BBC History Magazine


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Editorial Brief Thoughts On The A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk

Editorial Brief Thoughts On The A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk

Why this should be the die-hard collector's "second" Lange.

This isn't A Week On The Wrist; this isn't an official, detailed look at anything. This is simply a quick recap of my thoughts on a cool watch after wearing it for a few weeks. The watch I am going to discuss here is the Zeitwerk from A. Lange & Söhne. The Zeitwerk is a watch that isn't like anything from anybody else, and that's exactly why I asked to borrow it this past fall. You see, I consider it the ultimate "second Lange," as in the watch you buy from Lange after God has smiled upon you sufficiently enough to provide you a life where you can afford not one, but two timepieces from the house of Lange. I realize it doesn't happen to many of us, but it does happen. So why the second Lange and not the first?

Well there are two lines of watches from Lange that people tend to fall in love with. There are the Lange 1s, arguably the most important and most representative of this German manufacture, and then there are the chronographs. Not everyone can get into the über-German, Teutonic feel of the Lange 1, but EVERYONE can get into a Lange chronograph. Like, everyone. And I think if you're interested in chronographs at all, and have the means to make it possible, a modern Lange chronograph – whether it be the Datograph Up/Down or the dressier, slimmer 1815 chronograph – is really as good as it gets. And, if it were me, that's the road I'd take into Lange ownership first. So, before you buy your Zeitwerk, pick out your Lange 1 or chronograph, then read the rest of this article.

Ok now that you've got your Lange 1 or your Datograph in the safe, let's have a look at the Zeitwerk. This thing is really, really cool. The Zeitwerk is Lange's first watch with a digital display, and it provides this in a very slick way. Inside the caliber is a patented jumping hour mechanism that, unlike previous iterations of a mechanical digital watch, does not rely on a creeping minutes display, that would often show the hours and minutes with tiny numerals at an angle at all times except on the hour precisely. Nay, this is A. Lange & Söhne, and corners they do not cut!

In the Zeitwerk, you have three discs – one of the hours, two for the minutes – and instead of displaying the time vertically like you find in most historical digital displays, the time is read from left to right like you would on an actual digital clock.

With the Zeitwerk, the minute displays jump instantly, and while that sounds easy enough, consider the amount of power required to move these discs around. All this is made possible by a special escapement integrated between the barrel wheel and the balance. A rementoir gains, holds, and releases the energy required to move each disc every 60 seconds in a small burst of power, and then over the remaining minute rebuilds. This continues in a cycle.

Funnily enough, in a rare dose of technical inexactness for Lange, they call this mechanism a constant force escapement. By a strict definition, it is not, especially when compared to something like the 2013 Grand Prix winning Constant Escapement LM from Girard-Perregaux. What it is, is a rementoir, providing an escapement with a MORE constant force than what you'll traditionally see.

You have a 36 hour power reserve in this caliber L043.1, with 416 individual, beautifully finished components. The rear of this watch is just totally foreign to even seasoned lovers of mechanical watches.

But what makes this watch so cool to me, is while all the incredible technical awesomeness you can see in this picture above is damned impressive, this watch is casual. Like, really casual. In fact, I wore this watch a few times with a jacket and tie, and it just didn't sit right for me. But, when I wore it with jeans and a sweater, it really began to feel right.

The stark black dial offset with the so called "time bridge" which frames all time indications gives the watch a really architectural feel. The power reserve at 12 mirrors the running seconds at 6, while the crown at 2 o'clock protrudes from the case in a really unobtrusive way.

The 41.9mm case is not demure by any means, which is part of the reason why I think of this watch as a very casual watch. It is 12.6mm in height, and like all Langes, you feel absolutely every millimeter of it.

The white discs with black numerals play against the dial and white gold case beautifully, making the Zeitwerk the most legible mechanical watch I can think of. There is absolutely no doubt about what time it is on this one.

I really enjoyed my time with the Zeitwerk. It's a big, bulking watch at 41.9mm in solid white gold, but as I mentioned, it can be a very casual timepiece if you forget its price. ($77,400 as of April 1). It does so much so well, and I really do believe this watch is highly representative of Lange's exacting but casual nature as a company in general. Would I buy this watch? Absolutely, if I felt a watch made of white gold, at this price, were reasonable for me to wear on the weekends. Or, if I were a silicon valley entrepreneur who wore jeans to work every day. That's who I see wearing a Zeitwerk. It's not your typical Lange, or maybe it's actually just that, the very embodiment of Lange. I'm not quite sure. Either way, it's a totally different type of luxury watch, and one I absolutely love. You can read more about the A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk right here.

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“Broadway for Orlando”

On the morning of June 12, while most of Broadway was getting ready to celebrate the 2016 Tony Awards, word came through that a mass shooting had taken place at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. It would be the worst mass shooting in U.S. history—one that occurred at a gay bar.

The Tony Awards immediately sprung into action dedicating that evening’s ceremony to the victims, their families and the entire Orlando community. Several of the evening’s winners mentioned the event during their acceptance speeches.

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The cable group boss, who merged his company with Scripps Networks Interactive, made $42.2 million in 2017.

Discovery Inc. president and CEO David Zaslav's 2018 pay package jumped 207 percent to $129.4 million, compared with $42.2 million in 2017.

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Simplest Piezo Driver Circuit Explained

In the previous post we discussed a piezo transducer element and learned how to use it with electronic circuits. In this article we will see how a piezo tranducer can be driven or operated using a simple circuit.

As discussed earlier a piezo transducer basically requires a frequency to vibrate and reproduce the required sound.

This property makes these devices typically suitable for buzzer related applications and in warning alarm devices.

So does this mean that if we apply a frequency across the terminals of a piezo transducer, it will start generating the intended sound outputs?

Partially this may be correct but might not be as easy as that.

How to Operate a Piezo with Maximum Sound

The applied frequency will be required to be amplified very sharply or strongly before it can actually produce the intended effects in the piezo.

However the amplification procedure is not by using conventional amplifying circuits as used in systems incorporating speakers, but rather it is simply implemented through an inexpensive inductor.

The low power frequency which may be available from a relevant circuit or an IC is first amplified using a transistor, and further more the transistor output is pumped up using an inductor. The use of a inductor becomes the most crucial stage for driving a piezo electric transducer.

The used inductor might not be critical with its value, but the value should as high as possible, the higher the sharper the reproduction from the piezo.

A simple piezo transducer driver circuit or a simple piezo alarm circuit is shown in the following circuit using a NAND gate.

Please note: The junction of the 0.01uF capacitor and the 33 K resistor needs to be connected to ground, which is mistakenly not indicated in the diagram. So please make sure to do this otherwise the circuit will not work.

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I am an electronic engineer (dipIETE ), hobbyist, inventor, schematic/PCB designer, manufacturer. I am also the founder of the website: https://www.homemade-circuits.com/, where I love sharing my innovative circuit ideas and tutorials. If you have any circuit related query, you may interact through comments, I'll be most happy to help!

11 thoughts on “Simplest Piezo Driver Circuit Explained”

  1. Very nice post, would you kindly explain how one can use a piezo transducer to measure liquid level from the bottom of container like how ultrasonic fuel level sensors work?

    • Thanks, Glad you liked it. for ultrasonic application, one piezo can be used for transmitting high frequency towards the target (liquid level), another piezo adjacent could be used for capturing the reflected vibrations, and then processing the distance.

  2. Hi Swagatam,
    I am looking to build a simple circuit which can light up a 12v LED strip using piezo. Basically trying to use a piezo attached to a drum and light up the LED attached to it. Please help me out.

    • Hi Rajtilak, It can be difficult to light up a 12V LED strip, since a typical piezo (27 mm) will not generate more than 3V at its optimal capacity.

      even a boost charger circuit will not be able to help since the current involved with a piezo output could be relatively low

    • Hi,
      I am not looking to power up the strip with the current generated from the piezo sorry if i had confused you. All i need is using this piezo as a trigger source and get supply from a 12V source. Im still not clear about what i am trying to tell you. I will have a separate 12V DC source, all i need is, when i hit this trigger(piezo) i want the signal to make this strip power up from that 12V source. Please help.

  3. Hello,
    I need a circuit to produce ultrasonic vibrations. The vibrating element (piezo) has to attach the wall of a let's say glass and the vibrations should detach the bubbles attached to the glass wall at a frequency of about 80 kHz. Do you think this configuration will be helpful?

    • Hello, yes the last design can be used for the purpose but the piezo will need to be attached correctly so that the vibration do not get dampened

    • you will have to determine the frequency by trial and error method by varying the 33K resistor or the capacitor values and confirming the results with a freq meter

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New research from global property services firm Cushman & Wakefield has revealed that as result of three large deals in the final quarter of 2017, the total hotel investment turnover for Ireland last year amounted to almost €260 million.

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That, say experts, is expected to continue through 2013, with no sign of a slowdown in sight.

Boise was recently named one of the top five cities leading the national recovery, as well as one of the top five cities with the highest home price appreciation. “In fact,” writes Boise Realtor Paula K. Stern, in a February, 2013 Realty Times article, “our home prices have risen a whopping 34 percent since January, 2012, with the median price increasing from $138,000 to $185,000 in one year.”

Naturally, such robust buying activity equates to a low inventory for homes priced below $400,000, noted Stern. “It is becoming the norm to have multiple offers on listings under $200,000,” she continued. “This, in turn, has helped boost new home construction, with new homes sustaining a 17 percent increase over January of 2012.”

Statewide, Idaho’s real estate market is also showing marked signs of improvement. The online publication 24/7 Wall St. recently listed the state among the 10 states with the strongest housing markets. Using the Corelogic Home Price Index for the 2011-2012 fiscal year, which ended in July, foreclosure data from RealtyTrac, home price forecasts for the near-term, and unemployment statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 24/7 Wall St. listed the following states, in order, as those with the strongest housing markets: Arizona, Idaho, Utah, South Dakota, Colorado, North Dakota, Florida, South Carolina, Hawaii, and Montana.

Interestingly, at $85,000, Idaho is one of only seven states with a median home price below $100,000. According to 24/7 Wall St., “at 7.5 percent, the jobless rate is not terribly better than the national average. This may have contributed to the drop in Idaho home prices, which fell 29.6 percent from the first quarter of 2007 to the first quarter of this year. The home price recovery is expected to be stronger than almost any other state, a continuation of the 10 percent improvement over the past year. For the period from the first quarter 2013 to the first quarter 2014, home prices are expected to rise 8.8 percent — the highest in the nation.”

This mirrors what is projected to occur nationally through 2013. A January 2013 article published in USA Today (Forecast: Home prices will rise 6% in 2013”), indicates that nationally home prices rose 7.5 percent in 2012, which was the largest increase in six years. It also reports that increased demand, fewer foreclosures, and stronger job growth will likely further spur home price increases across the nation.

Idaho, Boise in particular, has seen real estate grow steadily for about two years. According to Build Idaho, a self-described comprehensive Idaho real estate resource, new construction is beginning to increase there as well. “2012 marked the first ‘normal year’ for both new construction and real estate in Boise, Idaho,” said Build Idaho founder Trey Langford. “For the last 6 years, builders have struggled to sell new homes and find profit but demand is recovering quickly.”

In Coeur d’Alene, Idaho’s second-largest city, the real estate market is also recovering nicely. Located in northern Idaho, Coeur d’Alene is a lakefront community and, with its access to hiking trails and natural preserves, an outdoors lover’s paradise.

“Our year-to-date figures are nothing short of astounding and a reflection that recovery is continuing,” said Kim Cooper, a Coeur d’Alene real estate broker and spokesman for the Coeur d’Alene Association of Realtors. “Our stastical geographic area shows a remarkable 17 percent increase in the number of sales, (while) our overall price performance last year was 11 percent stronger than in 2011.”

Cooper noted that the number of Coeur d’Alene  residential sales are up 10.7 percent with volume increases of 15.7 percent year over year.  “The average price of what has sold has gone up 4.5 percent  and inventories or the number of homes for sale has gone down 12.1 percent. The waterfront sector posted strong year over-year-sales with an increase of 42 percent.  Also we have noticed homes in the higher prices ranges have finally started to move. Last year there were 119 homes that sold during the first 11 months for over $500,000, compared to 160 homes that sold so far this year, an increase of nearly 35 percent.”.

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Those who have chosen to migrate to Idaho in recent years have brought their careers and/or businesses with them, which has only greased the state’s economic wheels, continued Turner. “Boise’s popularity, affordability, and family- and business-friendly environment compared to other regional cities has been a key component in helping the local real estate market bounce back faster than other markets. … With all the positive trends Boise is experiencing right now, it will likely continue to remain on the nation’s most improved housing markets for years to come.”

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This week, we’re bringing putting a seasonal spin on a classic Panzanella Salad.

Also known as panmolle, panzanella is a Tuscan bread salad in which chunks of stale bread are brought to life by a soak in water and a toss in vinaigrette alongside with onions, tomatoes, and herbs.

Dating back centuries, the dish was likely invented as a way to use old bread, as Italians believed in wasting nothing. Though tomatoes have taken on a starring role today, onions and cucumbers were more likely to be incorporated in its original iteration, as described in a poem by 16th century artist Bronzino.

Other additions can include mixed greens, basil, peppers, mozzarella, capers, tuna, olives boiled eggs, and garlic, to name a few.

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Ingredients serves 6
1 small French bread or boule, torn into 1-inch pieces (6 cups)
Olive oil
Kosher salt
1 pint cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
1/2 red onion, thinly sliced
1 apple, chopped
1/2 cup walnuts, lightly toasted
3 cups baby arugula, kale or spinach leaves
1/2 cup dried cranberries
4 oz sharp cheddar or cheddar curds, cubed (optional)

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2 tbsp fresh squeezed orange juice
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/2 cup olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste

Heat a skillet to medium-high heat and coat lightly with olive oil. Add chopped or torn bread to pan. Season with salt and pepper to taste and cook, tossing, until golden brown and crisp on all sides. Alternatively, you can dress cubes and bake in a single layer at 400 degrees until crisp, about 12-15 minutes.

In a large bowl, whisk together honey, orange juice, and balsamic vinegar. Slowly whisk in olive oil to form an emulsion. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Add in croutons and remaining salad ingredients and toss to combine. Allow to rest so the croutons soften from the dressing before serving.

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A team of Howard Kennedy's first year trainees were announced as winners of the Legal Talent Competition at the First Hundred Years Inspirational Women in Law Awards on Thursday 29 November as part of the LegalWeek Connect Conference 2018.

Following an application process, the Howard Kennedy team was shortlisted to present their idea at the LegalWeek Connect Conference in County Hall, alongside fellow finalists of associates from Quinn Emmanuel and Milbank. The event was very well attended with a gathering of in-house counsel, law firm partners, legal professionals and more to discuss the hot topics of 2018: collaboration, diversity and inclusion, and talent.

In the form of a "Dragon's Den" style pitch, the team presented their idea, an app called ASPIRE LEGAL, and navigated through a round of testing questioning from the four judge panel, comprised of Jeremy Barton (GC at KPMG UK), Andrew Garard (Group Legal Director and Company Secretary at ITV), Siobhan Moriarty (GC and Company Secretary at Diageo) and John Malpas (Publishing Director at LegalWeek).

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[Gc] GC 6.4 simplified leak detection breaks on SuSE Linux9.3i386(glibc 2.3.4)

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Tue May 17 02:18:08 PDT 2005

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Hans Boehm wrote:

> It looks like the GC initialization routine is being called recursively,
> because the initialization routine forces a GC (around line 782, misc.c)
> just before setting the GC_is_initialized flag.  That unfortunately
> again generates a backtrace, which allocates, which invokes the GC,
> which restarts the initialization.
> Can you try commenting out the three calls to GC_save_callers in
> alloc.c?  They're really only needed for GC debugging, I believe.
> If that solves the problem, we can conditionally take them out.
> (I'm pretty sure this will help.  I'm less sure this is the last
> such problem.)

Now we're getting somewhere :-)

My simple test program (attached) worked with gc6.4 with

#1 the patch you posted earlier,
#2 the return inserted into the if (GC_in_save_callers) {} block
#3 the three GC_save_callers in alloc.c masked by #if 0

and produced this:

got 0x805af88
got 0x805af18
Leaked composite object at 0x805af88 (unknown:0, sz=42, NORMAL)
        Call chain at allocation:
                /tmp/gc6.4/.libs/libgc.so(GC_debug_malloc+0xac) [0xb7fc8aeb]
                /tmp/gc6.4/.libs/libgc.so(malloc+0x27) [0xb7fcc6b3]
                main:../../../src/tests/leakmem.c:17 [0x8048440]

which is the expected output.

There still seems to be something problematic going on though, but it
may be an unsupported configuration since it affects a program that
might be using Berkeley DB 4.3, and this might in turn pull in
libpthread for futex support, and AFAICS this "simplified leak
detection" isn't even supposed to work with threads.

I don't have time to debug this now or provide detailed info, more later
if I can reproduce the problem.

Thanks so far.

Matthias Andree
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 * \file leakmem.c
 * deliberately leaks memory, to test memory checkers.
 * \author Matthias Andree
 * \date 2005
 * GNU General Public License v2

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    char *x;

    x = malloc(42);
    printf("got %p\n", x);
    /* deliberately leak memory here */
    x = malloc(42);
    printf("got %p\n", x);
    return 0;

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Keyword(s): Cloud Data Provenance; Cloud Security; Data Accountability

Abstract: Data leakages out of cloud computing environments are fundamental cloud security concerns for both the end- users and the cloud service providers. A literature survey of the existing technologies revealed the inadequacies of current technologies and the need for a new methodology. This position paper discusses the requirements and proposes a novel auditing methodology that enables tracking of data transferred out of Clouds. Initial results from our prototypes are reported. This research is aligned to our vision that by providing transparency, accountability and audit trails for all data events within and out of the Cloud, trust and confidence can be instilled into the industry as users will get to know what exactly is going on with their data in and out of the Cloud.

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Purpose of Lab

In the past decades computer and console games have become increasingly important receiving an enormous amount of media exposure. In the meantime there is a huge variety of games on offer.

The Games Lab at the Faculty of Digital Media provides the facilities necessary to develop computer and console games. In the games lab all aspects of games development from the first idea to the realization can be experimented with and applied at the theoretical and applied level. These include game design, hardware development, graphic design and story development. The games lab offers excellent facilities for project work, research projects and thesis work in the area of computer and console games.

Lab Equipment

  • Whiteboards and metaplan walls
  • Many items for tinkering
  • Passive stereo projector
  • 5.1 surround sound system
  • Gaming PC
  • Wii U
  • 2 * Xbox + Kinect
  • Kinect for Windows
  • Playstation + Move
  • Ouya
  • 2 * Oculust Rift
  • Touch table
  • Emotiv Brain2Computer interface
  • Standard data projectors
  • Various tablets
  • Leap Motion sensor
  • Various games for different platforms
  • X6 single player simulator
  • 2 gaming laptops
  • Macbook Pro
  • Nintendo Switch

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Why the Death of Kenneth Wiggins Is a Huge Loss to Black Creatives

The creative community lost an up and coming contributor to the future of its space this past week. Kenneth Wiggins passed away, leaving friends and those in the creative industry stunned. Why was his role so important? During the past few years Blacks in Tech has become a buzzword, with the industry finally realizing that there are few people of color taking advantage of the surge in capital investments. Kenneth was on his way to not only take on the industry, but be a leader of how people of color are viewed online.

During his early days, he began working at BET where his designs and contributions could be seen by viewers every day during the late 2000s, then he moved on working as a designer for various firms, including Discovery Communications and creating web campaigns for ClearChannel.

From there, he created a company called GeniusMode Inc. It was based on how people of color work and approach design. This effort included web design, strategy and Wordpress themes for small businesses. It later included the start up BlackStock Photos.

While working in television, editing what's called the "cold open" for a network morning show, (it's the video you see when many morning shows begin with a montage of photos and video that describe what to expect in the episode), I could never find authentic looking photos of people of color. There was no option to search black man beard natural hair or black woman at graduation with family. Kenneth was a part of a very small group of content creators that began to fulfill this need. Members of the community poured out their condolences in response to his untimely death:

Startup Noire mourns the loss of Kenneth, @g.nius. The #blkcreatives community was touched by his support, mission, and vision. His earthly journey may have ended here, but his spirit will live on in the heart and art of others. Thank you for being you - @startupnoire

Rest in Peace to our friend Kenneth (@g_niusmode). We lost a brilliant light, not only in design, but personally. - @w7th

Kenneth Wiggins @g.nius embodied everything that #blkcreatives stood for - he was immensely talented, a hard, compassionate worker who was selfless with his knowledge, committed to the journey and always striving to live out his passions. Hate we didn't get to DC in time enough to see you. We're sad to see your journey come to end friend but we know you're in a better place, rooting for all of us to keep fighting for what we love. We'll keep fighting in your honor. Rest in power Kenneth. You will be missed. - @blkcreatives

His efforts were not just self-serving, but included an entrepreneurial component. Photographers that wanted to be a part of the network would be paid on an ongoing basis for their photos, becoming an affiliate.

BlackStock Photos proudly dons the moniker,Reinventing the Black Medium. His platform relied upon simple, yet smart designs that he wanted to use to tell our stories online better. In an interview with New Republic, Kenneth firmly states, "I just want to use the brand to instill a sense of community and better narratives." He was also set to launch a creative group focused on strategy and design, Acad*my and Culture Crook, an online apparel site that focuses black thought this year.

Aside from the digital design, we met years ago as part of the early black Youtuber community. People that were heavy Youtube vlog viewers during the mid to late 2000s may remember him from the Five Black Guys series as DaSillyOne. During our final conversation about digital design, we discussed how many people in corporate leadership don't understand what it means to fulfill the needs of our community online and how he was about to take on the profession of digital media with the idea of smart design.

I can't fail to mention that design wasn't his only passion, he was also a proud DC native that gave back to the community and volunteered his time to teach youth how to code and design. His spirit of pride in the midst of looming gentrification and social frustration was refreshing and encouraging. We remember the work, but also the spirit of this crater that's been left in the black creative space.

We speak and will always remember your name as a visionary for this generation's black creatives, Kenneth Wiggins.


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John Boehner Says GOP Will Move Forward With Plan That Could Risk DHS Shutdown

WASHINGTON -- After gunmen attacked a satirical French newspaper on Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Republicans won't back away from a fight over immigration that risks halting funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

"I believe that the president's executive actions with regard to immigration are outside of the Constitution and outside of his powers, and I believe that we can deal with that issue in the Department of Homeland Security bill without jeopardizing the security of our country," he told reporters when asked whether the Paris attacks would change the GOP's strategy on funding DHS.

The department is set to run out of funding at the end of February, after a deal cut last month excluded it from longer-term appropriations made for the rest of the government. Now, Republicans are working on a plan to fund DHS that includes measures to block President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration, which would give work authorization to up to 5 million people.

If those measures led to a DHS shutdown -- and there's a very real chance they could, given Obama's opposition to efforts to kill his programs -- both parties would likely blame each other. But Republicans will have to determine how to fight Obama on immigration while funding DHS, even if they think the ultimate blame for a shutdown should be placed on the president.

While Boehner said a DHS funding fight over immigration wouldn't harm national security, other GOP members questioned the strategy. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who chairs the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, said Wednesday on Fox News that he hopes the attack in Paris will be "a wake-up call in Congress" that members need to fund DHS.

"Whatever we do on that, as far as immigration, cannot in any way be allowed to interfere with our counterterrorism methods," he said. "The juxtaposition would be terrible -- a terrorist slaughter in Paris and U.S. cuts back on Homeland Security funding. We have to be sure whatever we do, if it's going to involve immigration, we cannot in any way allow the funding or the programs that stop terrorism in this country to be impeded whatsoever."

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told CNN later Wednesday morning that he hopes Republicans are rethinking their plans to use the DHS funding to retaliate against executive action on immigration. He said it would "make sense" to block funding that could be used to implement executive action, but not to allow DHS to go unfunded.

"I hope we can challenge the executive action of the president in a mature fashion," he said. "I've never been for shutting down Homeland Security."

DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said during a congressional hearing last month that the agency needs longer-term funding to carry out plans such as expanding immigrant detention center capacity and hiring new Secret Service officers.

Still, it's not clear how big an effect a DHS shutdown would have in the short term. Even during a shutdown, employees who are deemed necessary to protect life and property continue to work, and much of DHS fits in that category. The Congressional Research Service reported after the October 2013 government shutdown that more than 85 percent of DHS employees kept working despite the funding lapse.

UPDATE: 2:56 p.m. -- Asked later Wednesday whether he thinks the funding bill is the right place to have a fight over immigration, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Republicans had yet to determine an exact plan but Congress would fund DHS.

"It's an important piece of legislation and we'll decide in February how to handle it, but at the end of the day we're going to fund the department, obviously," he told reporters.

Michael McAuliff contributed reporting.

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On September 1, Human Element launched a brand new Magento Commerce website for our long-standing client, EOTECH.

This successful Michigan-based optics manufacturing leader, now in its 22nd year of sales, ran their previous web store on a hosted platform. They made the decision to replatform to Magento Commerce (Formerly known as Magento 2 Enterprise) with the long-term goal of providing an enhanced user experience and creating a solid foundation for future growth.

The new EOTECH Gear Store features some cool new elements to make purchasing more user-friendly while enhancing workflows to decrease order processing time. For example, in addition to the standard credit card payment option, users can now use Apple Pay to finalize their purchase, making checkout much more efficient for mobile users. Customers may also browse the company’s branded photos from Instagram on the EOTECH homepage, bringing modern social engagement right to the customer. In addition, full SSL support ensures transactions are secure and adhere to PCI compliant standards.

“Human Element’s unique team atmosphere, flexibility and technical expertise helped EOTECH streamline and fast-track the development of this project resulting in a successful launch of the new Gear Store,” said Jacob Fambrough, Marketing Manager and project lead for EOTECH.

In addition to the frontend features, Human Element implemented both ShipStation, one of Human Element’s preferred shipping partners, and email marketing automation tool MailChimp, to provide a better user experience to the customer and help streamline work for EOTECH staff. Lastly, user group and shipping restrictions for customers ensure EOTECH abides by their legal guidelines without overly complicating manual interaction on orders. These changes have led to a significant reduction in order processing times and improved order accuracy.

Fambrough now operates and manages the EOTECH Magento 2 store, including making product and content updates, and deploying marketing initiatives to help grow their business even further with the ongoing assistance of the Human Element team.

“Upgrading to Magento is like going from iron sights to a HWS,” said Fambrough. “The platform offers an incredible amount of scalability which I am confident will pave the way to helping us achieve our digital marketing goals and service our customers more efficiently.”

Since the launch of the site, order volume has increased by approximately 2000 percent. With this drastic growth in order volume, EOTECH looks forward to putting this new platform to the test while enhancing internal processes and backend Magento functionally. This will require continuous improvement in order to support sales and service their current and future customers.

Providing process and development support to EOTECH is Human Element’s new priority. Human Element looks forward to assisting with further website optimization and new custom features.


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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(HKUST) has made a mark for itself when it comes to the employability of graduates.

The Global Employability University Survey ranked HKUST as the second most employable school in Asia – right after University of Tokyo.

Globally, University of Tokyo came in at 12th place, while HKUST came in at 14th, followed by Peking University (16th) and National University of Singapore NUS (17th).

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and University of Hong Kong (HKU) were ranked 60 and 83 respectively.
The ranking was created from the combined votes of 2,200 recruiters and 2,400 managing directors of international companies or subsidiaries across 20 countries.

World famous institutes like Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford continued to top the ranking, taking the top, second and third spot respectively.

ALSO READ: Peking University bumps HKU out of Asia’s top three universities

NUS was the highest-ranked Asian institution, at 13th place, while HKUST came in at three places behind (16th).

Overall, Asia has shown progress in engineering and technology subjects, claiming 26 spots among the world top 100, up from 19 last year in the Times Higher Education ranking for engineering and technology subjects.

Yu Tong Xi, HKUST’s acting dean of engineering, cited Hong Kong’s switch in 2012 to four-year undergraduate degrees has helped the university to climb up in the ranking.

“The four- year curriculum allowed the creation of a curriculum that is student-centric, broad-based, interdisciplinary and holistic in nature,” he stated.

NUS was also Asia’s top university for the ranking for social sciences subjects while sitting on the 28th spot globally.
Local universities, however, saw a significant downfall when it came to social science subjects.

HKU, which was the top in Asia last year, dropped 10 places to 39th place globally, while HKUST fell from 35th to 72nd.
CUHK, which came in at 66th place last year was left off the top 100 list.

Professor Ng Shun Wing head of department of education policy and leadership at the Hong Kong Institute of Education pointed out that research funding had been allocated to medical engineering and business researches which led to decline in social science subjects.

“The research fund for social science accounts for only 0.8% of the GDP, way lower than the 2% in Singapore and the 3% in Taiwan, researchers need more support,” he told Oriental Daily.

ALSO READ: HKUST beats HKU to become Hong Kong’s top university

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Retrenchment benefits in Singapore

Why Singapore is not in favour of mandatory retrenchment benefits

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In the past year, Singapore has seen a number of significant retrenchment announcements – Resorts World Sentosa let go of 400 employees, including croupiers and pit managers; Keppel reduced its workforce by about 8,000 in first three quarters of 2016; and most recently, Surbana Jurong was reported to terminate about 50 staff.

These developments weigh heavy on the job market, and in a recent parliamentary session, MP K Thanaletchimi asked how many companies, and in which industries have included retrenchment benefit clauses in their employment contracts. She also asked if the Ministry is rendering assistance to those retrenched without benefits, and if it will consider imposing some baseline retrenchment benefits to help workers tide over the period.

Lim Swee Say, Minister for Manpower, responded, saying that the tripartite partners have deliberated extensively on whether to make retrenchment benefits mandatory, and to specify the minimum quantum in the Employment Act.

He explained the rationale for opting out of such a policy: “We have concluded that it may not necessarily be beneficial for both workers and businesses. A mandated level of minimum retrenchment benefit will likely become the norm, and would not benefit the workers in cases where the employers are able to pay higher amounts.”

In this line, he noted if a minimum quantum is set too high, companies may not be able to afford it, especially when they are downsizing under difficult conditions. He added that overburdening companies will also have a negative impact on the remaining workers, as they strive to restructure and turn around the business.

“Instead, the tripartite partners issue guidelines which stipulate the prevailing norms for retrenchment benefits quantum. These norms can be updated from time to time,” he cited as a solution.

Existing rules on retrenchment benefits

Currently, for workers who have served more than two years, payment of retrenchment benefits is mandatory if it is specified in their individual employment contracts or the collective agreements negotiated by their unions.

According to Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM) survey on retrenchment benefits in 2015, in 2015, nine in 10 organisations (91%) paid retrenchment benefits to eligible employees, down slightly from 94% in 2012. Among these, large establishments with at least 200 employees (97%) and unionised establishments (100%) were more likely to pay retrenchment benefits.

Minister Lim noted the survey showed “it was not a widespread practice for employers to specify the quantum of retrenchment benefits in their employment contracts, except for the unionised sector where a majority of the collective agreements specify the quantum of retrenchment benefits.”

He added that since 1 January 2017, it has become mandatory for employers to notify MOM of retrenchments.

Status on employee count in Singapore’s establishments

While on the topic of headcount, MP Sun Xueling asked Minister Lim the number of companies in Singapore who hire more than 100 employees from 1965-2015, and the the total number of employees hired by these companies. She asked the same question regarding hiring of more than 1,000 employees as well.

In response, he provided the following statistics:

Hiring data among Singapore's employers

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