Speed and Reliability You Can Count On
Amanah has spent years building and maintaining a superior network with extensive peering relationships to ensure that traffic reaches its intended destination quickly and efficiently.
We offer a variety of bandwidth speeds and diverse billing options including flat-rate, tiered and burstable for a true on-demand service with maximum flexibility.
We continuously assess our network’s performance and implement quality upgrades to eliminate bottlenecks and ensure that there’s sufficient capacity at all times.
When you choose Amanah for your IP service needs, you benefit directly from:
- IPv4 and or IPv6 addresses
- Multiple home network / BGP sessions
- Secure VLANs
- Denial of service mitigation
- Primary / secondary DNS link aggregation
Whether you need major bandwidth to support your online business operations or want high-speed Internet at affordable prices, our data centers at 1 Yonge Street and 151 Front Street West are flexible, reliable and secure.
Just because we’re affordable, doesn’t mean we compromise on quality.
At Amanah, quality is our utmost priority. Through strategically located data centres, peering relationships and flexible service plans, we’re able to strike the perfect balance between cost competitiveness and best-in-class bandwidth and internet services.
151 Front Street West
IP Transit at Wholesale Prices with Flexible Terms
Are you colocating your equipment at 151 Front Street and in need of serious bandwidth for your setup? Amanah has a dedicated presence at the 151 Front Street Meet Me Rooms so you can cross connect to us directly without the need to go through a third party. And we don’t like to bog down our clients so there’s no pressure for long-term connectivity commitments. Instead, we stay flexible to accommodate your evolving needs. Amanah only asks for two business days to provision the service and our prices are so competitive that we’ll match or beat any other quote.
If you have presence at 151 Front Street and would like to expand your network, you benefit from our:
- Limitless bandwidth and the ability to manage and grow your network
- IP transit at wholesale prices
- Short term contracts
- 1Gbps or multiple 10GE – whatever you need
1 Yonge Street
High Speed Internet Services at Amazing Prices
Is your office looking for high speed internet to take your operations to the next level? We’re able to offer superfast internet speeds through our main network setup right at 1 Yonge Street. Because we have a strong presence in the same building, potential points of failure are greatly minimized and you always get quick and effective support – exactly when you need it.
When you’re a 1 Yonge tenant with Amanah, you benefit from:
- Lightning fast high-speed internet services (100Mbps, 1000Mbps and 10,000Mbps) at much lower prices than major providers like Bell and Rogers, thanks to our data centre presence at 1 Yonge Street and our direct connectivity to 151 Front Street
- The option to collocate your servers and equipment at our 1 Yonge secure data centre and run a point-to-point connection to your office, resulting in zero latency
- Wholesale pricing, month-to-month terms and a service that can be provisioned within two business days or less


Do you want to start investing in Bitcoin?
Bitcoin has been all over the news in the last couple of years for its explosive rises, then plunges in value. There’s certainly some danger in investing in Bitcoin, but it can be very profitable if you work with a solid Bitcoin investment strategy.
Are you an experienced investor looking to get in on the Bitcoin game?
Whether you’re a new investor or an old pro when it comes to the stock market, you can still easily make mistakes when first investing in Bitcoin. Below, we’ll cover some of the common mistakes for new Bitcoin investors.
1. Selling Too Soon
One common mistake for new Bitcoin investors is selling too soon. It is important to remember that just like any other investment, the market fluctuates, and thus so do the prices for cryptocurrencies.
As a new investor, it is easy to become anxious when prices go down or become impatient when prices go up. This often leads to buying and selling Bitcoin too soon. While it is important to capitalize on gains, it is also important to remember that gains can be lost just as quickly as they are made.
2. Insufficient Bitcoin Security
As a new investor, it’s important to take the necessary steps to protect your investment. The most secure way to store Bitcoin is in a cold storage wallet. This includes a hardware or paper wallet, which is stored offline and is not connected to the internet.
Furthermore, using a strong, unique password and two-factor authentication is essential. This will stop any unauthorized access to your account. Additionally, overseeing any third-party company specializing in cryptocurrency trading can also help reduce the possibility of theft or unauthorized access to any Bitcoin wallets.
3. Not Diversifying
New Bitcoin investors often make the mistake of not diversifying their investments. Investing in one type of asset may provide a larger potential return on investment since the investor is concentrated on the asset.
However, not diversifying also increases the risk associated with the holdings. Bitcoin is extremely volatile, and the investor runs the risk of heavy losses should the market swing in the opposite direction.
4. Falling for Scams
New Bitcoin investors need to be mindful of scam attempts that target them. Many scams involving Bitcoin impersonators, phishing attempts, and more exist on the internet.
Relying on third-party services should be avoided since it may be difficult to distinguish a legitimate service provider from a malicious one. Therefore, unless an investor has thoroughly researched a company or individual, they should think twice before using them.
5. Choosing the Wrong Bitcoin Miner Host
One of the most common mistakes made by new cryptocurrency investors is choosing the wrong Bitcoin miner host. Crypto miners, who use their computers to validate Bitcoin transactions, typically rent out server space from a host.
It’s important to research the host’s location to ensure you’re getting the best speeds and lowest latency for the price. To ensure a safe and reliable mining farm, consider Quotecolo. They are known for their highly secured Bitcoin mining facility.
Mistakes for New Bitcoin Investors You Should Avoid
It is essential for new Bitcoin investors to understand the risks and challenges associated with entering the cryptocurrency space.
Researching, understanding, and following the guidance of experienced Bitcoin investors can help you minimize your risk and maximize your reward. Start your journey today, avoid these mistakes for new Bitcoin investors, and make sure you are prepared!
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Call for Applications -- Part-time lecturer in Computer Science
NYU Paris is seeking part-time lecturers in Computer Science to teach one to two undergraduate courses as part of its regular offerings in the College of Arts & Science. Teaching commences in September 2018; courses meet for 3 hours a week for a 14.5 week term and will be offered in both the Fall and Spring semesters. The appointed person will have full responsibility for teaching and coordinating the course (see below). Students are undergraduates from the NYU campuses in New York, Shanghai, and Abu Dhabi, who come to study at NYUParis for one semester. Classes take place at our Academic Centre in Paris.
NYU Paris is seeking to offer the following courses on a regular basis. Potential candidates should indicate which of the following two courses they are prepared to teach. All courses will be taught in English.
Introduction to Machine Learning
Machine learning is an exciting and fast-moving field of computer science with many recent consumer applications (e.g., Microsoft Kinect, Google Translate, Iphone, Siri, digital camera face detection, Netflix recommendations, Google news) and applications within the sciences and medicine (e.g., predicting protein-protein interactions, species modeling, detecting tumors, personalized medicine). This course introduces undergraduate computer science students to the field of machine learning. Students learn about the theoretical foundations of machine learning and how to apply machine learning to solve new problems. Assuming no prior knowledge in machine learning, the course focuses on two major paradigms in machine learning which are supervised and unsupervised learning. In supervised learning, we learn various methods for classification and regression. Dimensionality reduction and clustering are discussed in the case of unsupervised learning. The course consists of lectures and lab sessions.
Pre-requisites: Calculus, Linear Algebra, Basic Algorithms, (highly recommended: Probability and Statistics), and Computer Systems Organization.
Introduction to Computer Security
This course covers basic principles of computer security and security engineering. It provides an introduction to fundamental cybersecurity concepts, principles, and techniques. The course focuses on security from an attacker’s’ perspective (threat modeling) and the defender’ss perspective (building and deploying secure systems). Specific topics include operating system security, network security, web security, security economics and security psychology. Course projects focus on both writing secure code and exploiting insecure code.
Pre-requisites: Computer Systems Organization and experience with computer systems level programming languages (e.g. C, and C++ programming). Recommended prerequisite courses include Operating Systems. Experience with web development is also helpful.
● Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field
● Two to three years relevant teaching experience
Eligible NYUParis faculty are encouraged to apply. If interested, please submit an updated CV to Beth Epstein, Associate Director for Academic Affairs at NYUParis at firstname.lastname@example.org Please note any relevant teaching and professional experience, and specify which of the courses listed above you are prepared to teach. Candidates must be eligible to work in France. Proposals will be accepted through March 20, 2018.


Implant3D is a software package that allows you to perform a 3D implant simulation directly on your PC.
You can simulate the implant position on 2D & 3D models, identify the mandibular canal, draw bone model panoramics and sections, show the 3D bone model and calculate the bone density.
By means of Implant3D you can plan the prothesis implant operation more safely, efficiently and quickly.
Implant3D generates the panoramic, the sections and the 3D bone model through reading the axial images.
This enables you to know both the patient anatomic model under all respects and the exact implant position as to the mandibular canal and the bone structure before the dental operation.


February 24–June 30, 2024
Guest Curator: Virginia San Fratello and Eleanor Pries
Generous support for the robotic programming at SJSU is provided by the College of Humanities & Arts Artistic Excellence Programming Grant.
Robots are our partners in the future. This exhibition showcases a collection of design activities and experiments by students at San José State University, as they test the creative possibilities of collaborating with a robot.
Innovative designers have the opportunity to advance design, craft, and customization using industrial robots. These robotic explorations are unprecedented learning opportunities that teach students about cutting-edge content creation and fabrication methods that will allow designers to transform the professions and industries to which they will bring their robotic expertise. This means opening the door to the future of craft and design to the next generation and giving them the space, skills, and imagination to explore new activities and job opportunities.
The experiments shown in the exhibition engage the robot across multiple disciplines and media: calligraphy, photography, 3D-light painting, 3D-printing, and stop-motion animation. With faculty and guest design collaborators Jonathon Anderson, Madeline Gannon, Andrew Kudless, and the Gramazio Kohler Research Group, students explored questions such as: How can we design a 3D pathway for light in space? Can light feel tangible, more like a solid material? Can we 3D-print flexible and porous “textiles”? In film production, what if a robot were the cameraman? Can a robot craft a new type of letterform?
The robot is the student’s partner and hand in design. Like any tool, a robot poses its own set of skills, rules, and even quirks to learn and leverage, but unlike many other tools, robots have muscle memory and computational memory that expand our ability to design and create as humans. We are excited to be at the forefront of a promising world where humans and robots can craft a future together. For our students, this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship and for that, thank you very much Mr. Roboto for helping us escape where we needed to.
Image: Nathan Shehadeh, Architecture of Light, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.
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Picky beaks is a target shooting game, without the targeting and shooting. A reskin of a previously produced minigame in 3C Institute's lineup, it seeks to create the same focus as a target shooting game without even implied violence. Feeding the birds their corresponding seeds increases your score, feeding them the wrong seed reduces it. We went for a score based system with no limit to mistakes to further distance the game from any sense of violence.
I designed the UI to be minimal and out of the way, so that it would not interrupt or distract from the gameplay loop.
Brick'd is a rotating tetris-like. The singular focus provided by these kinds of games was in high demand, so four versions were created to allow as many clients as possible to fit it into their programs and interventions.
The Cloud Buster game is all about choices. A question is presented to the player, and options float by in clouds. Choosing the correct answer to 'bust' increases the user's score, and wrong answers tick down the player's health. The client running the program has the ability to write their own questions and answer options, allowing it to be used for any number of programs.
This simple tactics game allows for quick replay-ability and simple turn based strategy. Four teams were placed in the corners of the board, and on your turn you could either add a unit or move your current units. Any unit next to that new or moved unit would be converted to your side. Last team standing wins.
I have highlighted in red the characters I did not create.
Some of the projects required a controllable character. Below are some of the character options running through their animation cycles. A lot of thought was put into the animations, so that we could get the maximum utility out of the minimum number of animations.
The Infinite Runner game was produced for its replay-ability and its high skill ceiling. With the exception of the tutorial level that is scrolling by below, the levels were all procedurally generated with tilesets. This also allowed for easy reskinning to allow its use by more clientele.
Some of the background foliage was the work of other employees, that I adapted for this purpose.
This minigames project is an ongoing effort at 3C Institute. I provided art, animation, and game design for these games in tandem with the games programming team, research team, and content team.


The forms available in the service are grouped in the menu. All forms are in PDF format and open by clicking on the Download button.
In some cases, the matter can be handled as a web service. Separate instructions are then provided in the form description field.
Forms in Finnish and Swedish are available from the Finnish and Swedish pages, respectively. Forms in English are available from the English page. If forms are offered also in other languages, they will be accessible from the English page.
Forms may be ordered in paper format from the address email@example.com. On your order, please enter the form's identifying marker or name, the number of copies you want as well as your name and delivery address.
How to use the forms
The forms in our service are in PDF format. In order to use them you will need a separate programme. The Adobe Reader programme is available free of charge from the Adobe web site. We recommend using the latest version.
There are two kinds of forms: some can be filled out on the computer and then printed, some can only be viewed on screen and need to be printed before they can be filled out.
PDF forms filled out on-screen contain instructions that show up as yellow post-it notes. You open the instruction by double-clicking on the note, and close it by clicking on the upper right corner of the in-struction box.
How to open and print
The PDF form opens by clicking on the Download button.
Please use the print button for Adobe Reader to print the form.
How to save the form.
If you wish, you can save the empty form using the 'Save' button in Adobe Reader. In order to save a filled-out form, you will need e.g. FoxitReader (free of charge) or Adobe Reader (subject to a charge).
Errors when opening the form
If loading the form fails due to a connection problem, an error message will appear on the screen. Reload-ing may cause the same error message to reappear from the cache memory, even if the connection prob-lem has been solved. Empty the cache of your computer to make sure.
Errors may also appear due to the version of Adobe Reader being old or faulty. In this case the pro-gramme must be reinstalled.


Technology - Student Laptops, Digital Tools, Citizenship, and Tech Support
Island Creek offers 1:1 computing as part of the FCPSOn Initiative, meaning every student has a school laptop provided for instruction. Information and guidelines are provided at the beginning of each school year, including Home Use Agreement and the option to Opt Out of taking a laptop home.
A list of FCPS approved digital tools used at Island Creek is provided on the Island Creek Website along with a Parental Consent Form.
Teachers and parents partner to teach and support Digital Citizenship with the FCPS Shared Responsibility Program.
Technology Support for Families provides access to videos and resources to help your student in the virtual environment.


PointClickCare CNA FAQs: Are you considering becoming a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) but need clarification on what PointClickCare is? PointClickCare is an electronic health record system that helps healthcare providers manage patient data and care plans more effectively. This blog post will answer some of the most frequently asked questions about PointClickCare CNA training and certification. Read on to learn more!
What is PointClickCare used for?
PointClickCare is an industry-leading cloud-based software solution used by healthcare providers and organizations of all sizes. It provides a full suite of integrated applications to assist with care management, clinical documentation, electronic health records, billing, and more. PointClickCare helps care providers increase efficiency and accuracy in their workflow, improve the quality of patient care, and reduce costs.
How do I get started with PointClickCare?
- Visit the PointClickCare website and create an account.
- After creating an account, you can access the PointClickCare dashboard.
- Once your profile is set up, you can start exploring the features of PointClickCare.
- PointClickCare also offers training resources, such as videos and tutorials, to help you better understand how to use the system.
- To take full advantage of PointClickCare, you can sign up for a subscription.
- After subscribing, you’ll be ready to start using PointClickCare!
What are the benefits of using PointClickCare?
- Streamlined Documentation
- Reduced Costs
- Increased Mobility
- Improved Quality of Care
- Improved Collaboration
How does PointClickCare help me with my job?
PointClickCare helps Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) manage the day-to-day demands of their job by providing an easy-to-use platform for storing and sharing patient information. It allows CNAs to quickly and accurately record patient data, creating a more efficient workflow.
What else can I do with PointClickCare?
PointClickCare provides a comprehensive suite of solutions for the long-term care market. The platform allows caregivers to manage and share information quickly, generate reports, access patient data, set up billing, and provide superior customer service. With its built-in reporting capabilities, users can easily track and monitor patient progress, outcomes, and staff performance.
What is PointClickCare CNA customer service?
PointClickCare CNA customer service is a dedicated support team of Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) that provide guidance, advice, and technical assistance to users of PointClickCare’s clinical and administrative software. The team is available 24/7 to answer questions and help users get the most out of their PointClickCare experience.
How do I sign up for PointClickCare on a mobile device?
Signing up for PointClickCare on a mobile device is easy! Just download the PointClickCare app from the App Store or Google Play Store and create an account. You can then login and begin using the platform.


When we take on a design project, we do our best to incorporate your existing branding into your digital branding. Our websites are responsive, working on phones, tablets and PCs, as well as having clear, clean modern designs.
We pride ourselves on our great customer service. Our design process puts the customer at the forefront. We attempt to create designs that meet the design brief, but also are functional for users and look great.
We also offer web development services for more complex website projects, or solutions that may be required. Using a range of tools and software, we can create content management systems, database systems, E-Commerce website, blogs and many other services. Whether you need a WordPress blog creating, a full online shop or even a large database system, get in touch to see how we can help.
To make life easier for our customers, we also offer website hosting to our own customers. This includes a reliable server, regular backups, and security updates. Additionally, we also provide analytics tracking and other useful tools to monitor the health and effectivity of your website. To find out about the services we can offer you, get in touch.Contact Now
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We provide free ongoing support, advice and assistance to our customers long after we start their project.


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iView Media is essential software for anyone who needs to manage and have fast access to their growing inventory of digital media, including photos, music and videos. Create small portable catalogs to share with others or to index your media across different volumes, platforms or the internet. This is the first cross-platform, entry-level version of the award winning software now available on both Windows and Mac. iView Media opens up the way to discover, manage and annotate media files in your disks, CDs & DVDs, photo collections, servers and the World Wide Web. These catalogs contain thumbnails and annotations that can be viewed even when the original files are no longer on a mounted drive. With iView Media, you can view your images, play back your movies and sounds, print reports, publish web galleries, run slide show presentations, and much more.


Dark mode is more energy efficient.
To help companies measure their greenhouse gas emissions in an intelligent and organized way, Carbon+Alt+Delete has created a carbon calculator tool to keep track of everything. Why would you need an online carbon calculator to measure you in-house effort?
1. Reduce time spent to calculate and update the carbon footprint.
2. Ensure compliancy of carbon accounting processes (compliancy-as-a-service).
3. Standardize carbon accounting processes within your firm.
4. Ensure auditability of carbon accounting process by a 3rd party (assurance).
5. Provide actionable insights to develop a coherent climate strategy.
6. Enable junior resources to manage the carbon accounting process and free up senior expert time.
- Carbon accounting engine
Calculate the full organizational carbon footprint (scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions) according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
- Audit trail
Maintain an overview of all data sources, a logbook of all data edits and all supporting documents such as invoices.
Customize the look and feel of Carbon+Alt+Delete with your logo, company colors and a dedicated URL.
- Data requests
Send data requests directly to data owners and manage the status of the data collection process.
- Data imports
Upload large datasets of activity data or set up automated integration with data platforms.
- Dashboard & exports
Present results in a customizable and interactive dashboard and export data in PDF-format or Excel-format.


In the past few weeks I have been receiving excessive amounts of messages asking: “Gosia, how on earth do you edit your photos?!?!” – whilst my editing style changes from time to time, I’d love to share some of my favourite apps that give you the perfected insta-image on a budget. So rest assured, this is a total Photoshop and Lightroom free blog post.
- Facetune – an app that allows you to enhance your facial features; you can easily overdo a selfie on here so please go lightly on the editing! I use it to remove any pimples that are extremely visible in selfies as well as improve the texture of my skin. (Facetune is currently £3.99 on the App store.)
- Snapseed – a Google developed professional photo editor for your Phone. I mostly use the brush exposure tool in this app to brighten any background which may look a bit too dark without over-exposing or brightening the subject of the photo. I also use the brush saturation tool to go over any unwanted yellow shades in my photos to give a more ‘whitened’ and brighter effect – I just think photos looks better like that on my Instagram! The app has a lot of other amazing features (28 to be exact) that may help you achieve the photo look you’re going for, so it’s really worth exploring. (Snapseed is currently Free on the App store.)
- VSCO – Everyone’s beloved filter app. I started using this app when I first started getting into ‘actually-editing’ my photos for Instagram back in 2013(?) This app turns your phone-taken photos into works of art. The basic filters are handy but you can also purchase packs of them for the amount you’d spend on a cup of coffee. My ultimate favourites are: A4, A5, A6, A9, C6 and C8. I edit my exposure, contrast, sharpness and tint on this app and it couldn’t be easier to use. (VSCO is currently Free on the App store – offers in-app purchases.)
- Afterlight – I feel like this is the app that everyone is after in this post. I started using this back in 2013 too. It allows me to put dusty and light-leaked effects on all of my Instagram photos. It’s a super easy to use app, I mainly use it for the textures and light leaks but you can also use it for filters and frames if you’re into that. I also use it to edit clarity! (Afterlight is currently Free on the App store – offers in-app purchases.)
- A Color Story – This app is really good if you like interpreting a pop of colour into your photos, however I only use it for one thing. This app has the best sunlight flare overlay that it’s just absolutely perfect if you’re going on holiday. If you’re into the whole “I’m-on-holiday-and-I’m-trying-to-make-everyone-jealous” photo style then definitely download this app before your next vacation. (A Color Story is currently Free on the App store.)
- kirakira+ – Are you tired of watching everyone’s sparkly Instagram stories without knowing HOW ON EARTH they’re making everything sparkle around them? Look no further. Kirakira makes you feel like a princess even when your life’s a mess. Note: this app works best with videos. (kirakira+ is currently £0.99 on the App store.)
- Glitché – “it is the ultimate tool for creating cutting-edge photo and video artistry”. Recently I posted a video with a VHS effect on it and many of you liked it, you can put all sorts of cyber effects on your pictures (and save them as GIFs) or videos. However, in my opinion, this app isn’t worth your money as it doesn’t like to load your videos from iCloud even after you’ve paid, maybe they will fix this issue soon. (Glitché is currently £0.49 on the App store – video filters, hi-res export and camera filters all cost £2.99 each in-app.)
- HUJI – I saved the best until last. Most of my story photos are taken with this app and ever since I’ve started using it my direct messages have been filled with questions in regards to this. I have been looking for an app like this my whole life, it is essentially a disposable/analog camera installed on your phone. I’ve been using this app as a visual diary and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! (HUJI is currently Free on the App store.)
If you decide to use any of these make sure to hashtag #lookgosia so I can see your creativity!
Thank you for reading.
Gosia Joanna x
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Elevated Tea Media is about elevating your brand with creative concepts that drive traffic and organically grow your business.
Web Designer and Content Creator, Jessica Rosado developed Elevated Tea Media after successfully helping local businesses and e-commerce platforms, improve their digital footprint.
In the digital age, high quality social media content, engaging website design, and eye-grabbing logo design, matters to the growth of your business.
At Elevated Tea Media, we ensure professional and insightful services that leave you with brand concepts you're proud of.
Our goal is to equip you with the digital tools you need to continue growing your business, even after our work is complete.
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Accounting records, business contacts, marketing material… can you imagine losing this data and having to rebuild your database – the core of your business- from scratch?
Data loss is a serious threat to businesses. According to the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more as a result of some sort of disaster ended up filing for bankruptcy within one year. And 50% of those companies actually filed for bankruptcy immediately.
How long could your business continue without its data?
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We’ll help you determine the best data protection solution for your organization. Your backup should be protected from hardware failure, common user errors, potential disaster and malicious attacks. While backup should be considered a critical but routine part of your business function, just how you backup is worth taking the extra time to consider. Some basic questions to ask include:
- How many servers do you need to backup?
- Do you need remote management?
- What are your daily backup needs, i.e. what files are critical to your organization? If you lost a day’s data, how would it affect your business? An hour’s worth?
A LAN-based backup solution might give you the best overall performance by segregating user traffic and backup traffic on to two separate paths, maximizing performance for both users and backup. Higher capacity and/or faster backups might be achieved with a tape library with multiple drives, or a backup server with multiple D2D systems attached.
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Software like HP’s Backup and Recovery Manager streamlines the recovery process even more. You can recover individual files and folders, restore a factory image to the default settings (which destroys all personal data) or restore a backed up system image (which maintains the data captured in that image). You can restore a factory or user-defined system image by running PC Recovery from the recovery disc set or by selecting the appropriate option within the HP Backup and Recovery Manager.
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As a self-employed web developer, I have a lot of empathy for independent professionals and their unique needs.
With my deep understanding of WordPress development and the Gutenberg block editor, I specialize in creating high quality websites that not only look great, but also provide a robust and intuitive publishing experience, giving you a high degree of control over the content of your site. Unlike generic website builders such as Squarespace or Wix, I will work directly with you, leveraging my industry knowledge and careful attention to detail to build an end product that truly reflects your business and cultivates meaningful interactions with your audience.
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Fullwood has launched a new pedometer-based fertility monitoring system which offers extremely accurate heat detection as well as enabling herd managers to easily recognise underlying conditions such as cystic ovaries, embryonic losses and non-cycling cows.
The new VITALITY system, which has been designed and developed by Fullwood’s in-house engineers and software technicians, offers two levels of animal observation and identification: the Vitality NOW system is a standalone activity monitoring and heat detection system, while the dual purpose Vitality PLUS system also enables electronic identification of individual cows for milking or out-of-parlour feeding purposes.
Both versions of the new Vitality system link to Fullwood’s Crystal herd management software and use a 3D accelerometer housed within a robust, sealed-for-life ‘tag’. Each tag has up to 400-metre line-of-sight wireless range which enables activity data to be remotely captured from any in-range animal.
This long-range capability makes the new pedometers ideally suited to indoor herds where lactating cows spend 100% of their time within the capture radius of the hub. The new pedometers are also equally suited to grazing herds thanks to each tag’s ability to store data for up to 48 hours. The pedometers are also ideal for indoor heifer rearing systems.
The new tags attach to the cow’s leg via a specially designed, easy to use strap, which locks securely into place. The sealed units have a battery life of up to eight years and automatically download data to Fullwood’s Crystal herd management software to provide herd managers with real-time updates.
Data collected by the pedometers includes overall activity based on the number of steps taken, number of ‘at rest’ periods and total ‘at rest’ time.
“Fullwood has been synonymous with leg mounted activity measuring systems for over 30 years,” explains John Baines, Technical Director for Fullwood. “Our research over those three decades has shown that pedometers are still the most accurate method for oestrus detection, so it is with delight that we are now able to offer our own in-house system.”
The new pedometers have undergone vigorous on-farm testing for more than 12 months, and have delivered excellent results from conventional parlours and robotic systems, both in terms of the reliability of data capture and the quality and interpretability of the information collected.
“The Vitality system has proven to be extremely accurate, not only in terms of predicting oestrus, but also in terms of enabling herd managers to remotely recognise underlying conditions such as cystic ovaries, embryonic losses and non-cycling cows,” Mr Baines continues. “And with a download range of up to 400m, the new systems offer an effective solution for even the most extensive dairying set-ups.”
Unlike other systems, which might only capture activity data twice or three times a day, (for example when the cow enters the milking parlour) Vitality provides updates throughout the day and night, giving herdsmen and herd managers an even more accurate picture of each cow’s current fertility status. “By raising the bar in this way, we have delivered a system which gives farmers every possible chance of improving the fertility status of their herd by ensuring cows are served at precisely the correct time,” Mr Baines adds.
“As the need for dairy farming systems to become more efficient grows ever stronger, so too does the need for professional farmers to have access to precise and up-to-date information regarding the health and fertility status of their herds. This new system takes activity monitoring and heat detection to the next level and will enable dairy farmers to make better informed, more accurate management decisions which will save their businesses time and money.”
Vitality NOW and Vitality PLUS pedometers are sold in kits which include 10 tags, 10 straps, 12 strap locking mechanisms and a strap cutting tool. A wireless hub, which can communicate with up to 250 pedometers, is also supplied: for more than 250 cows, the system is easily scalable by adding additional hubs. For grazing based systems, or for farmyards where cows are housed out of range of the base hub, additional antennae can be added to ensure data is regularly captured around the clock.


WebGL 1.0 is supported in the stable releases of most major browsers on both desktop and mobile platforms. Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari are all known to have good WebGL support on both desktop and mobile browsers. See http://caniuse.com/#feat=webgl for availability details.
Technical issues such as known hardware problems or lack of required GPU features may prevent WebGL from running in some cases.
The WebGL 2.0 specification has recently been released, and implementations of the new API are becoming available.
WebGL 2.0 requires hardware with OpenGL ES 3.0 support or comparable desktop OpenGL feature support. Not all systems capable of running WebGL 1.0 will be able to run WebGL 2.0. See http://caniuse.com/#feat=webgl2 for availability details.
WebGL 2.0 is first supported in Firefox 51. Please file bugs for any issues you discover with Firefox’s WebGL 2.0 implementation at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/.
WebGL 2.0 is first supported on desktop platforms in Chrome 56. As of this writing, it may be enabled on Android by navigating to
about:flags, finding the entry for "WebGL 2.0", and changing the setting from "Default" to "Enabled".
Please file bugs for any issues you discover with Chrome's WebGL 2.0 implementation at https://crbug.com. In addition to describing the problem, please navigate to
about:gpu and attach the contents of that page to your report, which will help the developers identify the problem in the case that the issue is GPU or OS specific.
Here are a few links to demos using WebGL 2.0 with which you can verify that your browser has it properly enabled.


To further our commitment to building an industry standard around mobile deep linking, we’re excited to announce updates and improvements to the App Links community. Since we launched App Links at f8 in April 2014, we’ve seen over 3 billion unique App Links created across hundreds of apps including Spotify, Mailbox, Hulu, Vimeo, and Airbnb.
Thanks to all the feedback we’ve received from the developer community, we are excited to announce the following updates: analytics for App Links, improved support for Windows developers, and refreshed content on Applinks.org.
Analytics for App Links
Starting today, the Bolts SDK will support sending events so that developers can measure the traffic associated with their app’s App Links integration. This will help developers understand how traffic is flowing to and from any App Links integrated mobile app. Check out our docs page for more information about how to implement the following 3 new events:
‘al_nav_out’ — this event is raised in the referring app when it sends out an App Links URL.
‘al_nav_in’ — this event is raised in the receiving app when it opens an incoming App Links url or intent.
‘al_ref_back_out’ [iOS only] — this event is raised in the receiving app when someone navigates back from the receiving app to the referring app by tapping on the navigate-back bar.
We’ve partnered with Mixpanel, Parse, and Facebook to provide an easy way for developers to measure their App Links traffic. Take a look at the links below for more information about how you can track your App Links events using the integrations built by our partners.
Improved Windows Phone support:
We announced at f8 that Windows Phone was one of the platforms we supported, but today we’re announcing a series of enhancements that will make it much easier for App Links to work with Windows. As of today, we will now support Windows 8 apps as well as universal Windows apps:
<meta property=”al:windows:url” content=”applinks://docs” />
<meta property=”al:windows:app_id” content=”a14e93aa-27c7-df11-a844-00237de2db9f” />
<meta property=”al:windows:app_name” content=”App Links” />
<meta property=”al:windows_universal:url” content=”applinks://docs” />
<meta property=”al:windows_universal:app_id” content=”a14e93aa-27c7-df11-a844-00237de2db9f” />
<meta property=”al:windows_universal:app_name” content=”App Links” />
For more information on how to get started with App Links for your Windows and universal Windows apps, take a look at our documentation.
Referer_app_link support on Android:
The referer_app_link is an important property for analytics as it helps you better understand the source of your traffic. We’ve now enabled support for this on Android as an optional property in the al_applink_data field. Here’s what it would look like for Android:
“app_name”: “Example App”,
App Links refresh
Today we’re launching a blog (you’re reading it now!) on our App Links website, where we’ll share product updates, case studies, new partnerships, and interesting articles for people in our App Links community. If you’d like to keep up with us, please subscribe to our RSS feed, Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.
We’ve also added a few new areas to the App Links website. Curious about which other apps are using App Links? Take a look here for more insight into our partners like Quip, Vimeo, and Live Nation. We have also added a help section where you can get in contact with us about partnership opportunities or engage with our community on Stack Overflow with technical questions.
Welcome to our first post on the all-new App Links Blog. We hope you enjoy our new website and product updates!


CloudBD disks are thinly provisioned. A newly created disk is initially 100% thin and only allocates a 1kB disk descriptor regardless of the disk size. Operations that write data over thin sections of the disk, such as formatting a new disk with a filesystem, will create blocks only as needed.
CloudBD disks support trim operations. Data deleted from your disks can be deleted from object storage and keep your storage costs proportional to your disk's data usage. To enable this feature, simply mount your filesystem with the discard option and/or periodically run fstrim.
The cost of object storage is typically half the cost of a cloud provider’s persistent disks. The combination of lower cost storage, as-needed data allocations, and enabling trim provides you with a disk that scales its costs with its usage. You wont need to pay for provisioned and unused disk storage anymore. Converting 128TiB of AWS EBS Throughput Optimized HDDs (st1) to CloudBD disks can save over $5,900 per month in total costs.
Costs of CloudBD disks are from CloudBD + AWS S3 (stacked bars)
Costs of AWS EBS st1 disks are with a single backup snapshot needed for durability (black line)
Our disks are highly durable because 100% of the data is stored in your cloud provider's object storage system. Object storage systems like S3 and GCS guarantee 11 nines (99.999999999%) annual durability for each object. CloudBD disks use multiple objects to store the data in block sized chunks. For a 1TiB CloudBD disk, combining the durability of all blocks results in a disk with 5 nines (99.9995%) annual durability. This level of durability matches the traditional gold standard of backup to magnetic tape. However, CloudBD disks do not degrade over time, have random access capability, and are highly available.
CloudBD’s disk driver is optimized for high throughput and low overhead. The disks are network devices and their throughput will depend on the network bandwidth and the latency to your object storage. On 25 gigabit AWS EC2 instances a CloudBD disk can achieve over 2 GiB/s read and write throughput. Each disk is tunable for resource control of its memory and CPU usage. It is built on an asynchronous IO framework that allows for 100s of object storage operations in parallel efficiently.
CloudBD disks are fully compatible with existing linux disk tools to create an enhanced virtual disk stack. Linux provides built in tools to add encryption, logical volume management, RAID, or any combination of those features to disks using the device-mapper system.
Encrypting the data on your disk before it ever is stored in your cloud provider is supported using dm-crypt. Dm-crypt is a block level encryption tool that uses the kernel crypto routines to securely encrypt blocks before they are sent to the underlying disk.
LVM provides high level support for snapshots and logical volume management. CloudBD disks can be added as a physical volume to LVM and used just the same as any attached physical hard disk. Instant point-in-time snapshots can be created through LVM without first requiring a full copy of the disk’s data. These snapshots are much faster and less expensive than AWS disk snapshots.
Many object storage systems, including AWS S3 and Openstack Swift, have an eventually consistent data model. After updating an object this data model allows the object storage systems to respond to reads with either the new or the old data for a period of time. The lack of strong data consistency makes object storage typically incompatible for disk storage. CloudBD has developed a patented algorithm to guarantee strong data consistency when storing and accessing data in an eventually consistent system. Using this algorithm we are able to provide a strongly consistent disk interface for eventually consistent object storage systems.
CloudBD disks are fully flush and sync compliant. This allows posix filesystems such as ext4 to work directly on our disks. When a flush or sync operation returns success to Linux, your data is safely persisted in the object storage system and all reads will always return the last written data.


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Using brainaid's NMEA tool, and a program called NavMonPC to read the NMEA data and forward it on a com port (virtual), and loading the kml file from here, it is possible to setup so that google earth reads that GPS data and overlay your position and track (and waypoints) with the real fleet in the race...
Instructions for those unfamiliar with this type of thing:
1) Download and install NavMonPC from here
2) Login to brainaid's site and open (or download and run) the NMEA proxy - login using that applet and click 'Start'.
3) Note the IP address and port that brainaid's tool indicates, you need to enter this in NavMonPC. (discard whatever is before the /)
4) Start NavMonPC and go to File->Connections->TCP/IP Client menu item, and enter the same IP address and port (you must enter both) as specified by brainaid's NMEA proxy and click 'Connect'. - You should see characters scrolling in the little text box below, and your SOL boat's data shown on the dials. Click 'Done' just above where you enter the IP address and you should also see your exact location coordinates, COG, SOG etc...
5) Now go to File->Connections->Virtual Ports menu item and select a COM port from the drop down list (doesn't matter which one) and click 'Connect'. Also checking the auto start will do this for you every timeyou start NavMonPC. You can also specify 2 more COM ports for other programs to use, like a router etc.
6) Open Google Earth and load the kml file from above, you will see the real Sydney to Hobart fleet, updated approx every 10 minutes by default (you can change by right clicking the main (top/root level) race and selecting Properties->Refresh tab.
7) On the tools menu in Google Earth select 'GPS'. On the options window that is displayed select 'Magellan' and 'Serial' on the 'Import' tab, and NMEA on the 'Realtime' tab then click 'Start'. Google Earth auto scans your com ports and should display 'Reading COM#' (where # is the number you setup in NavMon) when it finds your GPS data, on the Realtime tab on the GPS dialog. You should see a entries in the 'Places' section of google earth under 'Realtime GPS', including your position and path, which (on my pc) is displayed as a red line.
Note: for some reason, the number of duplicate wqaypoints seems to build up in the list each update...
*** The latest release of Google Earth may be needed (from some chat in the race)
*** The default GPS polling time is 4, you may want to increase this? maybe to 60 seconds
PS: As per my previous post, the AIS feature in NavMonPC can be useful for close racing in any SOL race also.
AIS = Advanced Identification System = other boat's COG/SOG etc
(although brainaid's site does advise that SOG can be up to 10% out)
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Hi Aaron - thank you very much for this! I had a blast yesterday getting this set up on my wee computer and the end result, seeing 'Chaser in amongst the boats of the IRL Sydney-Hobart race was (and is) fun!!!
WOW, very brilliant tool to find out who is doing what/where/when
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Out of the 7 billion people in the world, around 1.4 billion use smartphones while approximately 2 billion use personal computers. Although the world’s digital population doesn’t necessarily represent the planet’s majority, here on RJ Designz we can tell you that it represents a significant part of the global market. In fact, our increasing reliance on advanced technologies is one of the major reasons why product delivery or e-commerce – along with the industries related to it – can expect some very drastic improvements soon. Many of these could happen this year.
For instance, there is the inevitable coming of 5G and how it promises speeds that are at least 40 times faster than current mobile Internet standards. 5G is also expected to provide four times the coverage, and is slated to be eventually 100 times faster than 4G. As retail companies around the world are quickly recognising the value of developing mobile platforms to reach out to even bigger target markets, faster and more widespread Internet access is sure to contribute to the global growth of e-commerce. Alongside this is the development of other web-related technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices, machine learning-enabled artificial intelligence, chatbots, automation, varied payment options, and more. Combined, these technologies will be at the forefront of streamlining delivery processes around the world.
A study from DHL and Euromonitor International cites four main trends or factors in the ongoing efforts to streamline global logistics. First is localised delivery, in which regional – and not just country-wide – fulfilment hubs will integrate with major urban centres. They will also establish locations closer to the last mile, and ultimately help decongest bottlenecked supply lines. Second, this in turn enables flexi-delivery options for customers who prefer to receive packages at certain times and in specific ways, powered by service pick-up points, bicycle delivery, parcel lockers, and even electric vehicle drop-offs. Third, companies will also be looking to develop seasonal logistics. This is the ability to customise delivery processes in order to cater for popular holidays like Chinese New Year and Diwali, which have joined Christmas and Easter as crucial global holidays that regularly impact the supply chain.
Finally, there are the specific evolving technologies involved in making all this possible, underscoring the role of data connectivity in improving the global supply chain.
In Australia, Verizon Connect explains how new delivery software improves customer service by allowing the purchaser to accurately track their package and ask questions in real time. The company explains how the software also offers customers choices in terms of time windows, vehicle type & capacity, frequency, and security clearance. This provides a service that helps with customer retention. In relation to this, Alibaba’s Cainiao is streamlined with automated order fulfilment avenues designed specifically for Singles’ Day-related delivery spikes in China. Meanwhile, similar technologies are allowing brands like Eat24, along with other local grocers, to make door-to-door food delivery less of a hassle for both brands and customers.
While customers tend to think of advanced logistics in terms of improvements like aerial drone delivery or driverless delivery vehicles, such options might be further down the line. Although these advances could definitely help streamline logistics, for now, the most crucial improvements come through core technologies such as AI, cloud computing, IoT connectivity, and even blockchain technology. All of this points to massive growth in e-commerce retail sales, which Supply Chain 24/7 reports could amount to trillions of dollars by the time 2020 rolls around.
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Even though televisions and projectors can both create high quality images with low latency, larger and brighter screens can also be very expensive. Because Chris Parker wanted an inexpensive large-format display, decided to go the open source route and build his own from a large number of RGB LEDs that could be easily controlled with software. His goals in constructing such a massive LED matrix involved playing background videos, adding extra color to a room, and visualizing music in a novel way. Cob Led Strip
The most important part of this project, the LEDs themselves, are simply 16 5-meter WS2812B RGB LED strips with a density of 30 pixels per meter to ensure adequate coverage over such a large area, for a total of 2,400 LEDs. Pushing color data to each pixel are four separate ESP8266 microcontrollers that are responsible for their own section of the matrix. One additional ESP8226 takes the outgoing data from the host PC and sends it via a websocket to the four receiving ESP8266s. Finally, a set of four 5V 60A provide sufficient current to each section's 576 LEDs that can draw up to 35A when set to white at full brightness.
Rather than laying out each LED by itself and wiring them together, Parker glued a series of 16 LED strips to a rigid board, with each of these columns housing 36 LEDs, totaling to 576 LEDs per section. This process was repeated for every one of the four sections while taking great care to ensure each pixel lined up with the ones above and below itself. The final step involved soldering three wires between each strip to pass data and power in the correct zig-zag pattern.
LEDs tend to bleed light into each other when in close proximity and can lead to a smeared image when viewed from a long distance away. To help solve this problem, Parker designed a set of four different grid tiles that break up the strip into discrete cells for the individual pixels, therefore reducing lightbleed. Once the tiles had been glued into place, a large sheet of light box cloth was tightly attached over the top to act as a diffuser.
The first part of displaying videos and graphics on the large LED matrix was to actually get the image data from a source. In this case, Parker opted to use TylerTimoJ's LED Matrix Control Software HD (LMCSHD) program which lets users capture their screen in real-time, import media files, or analyze audio before sending all of the resulting downsampled pixel data over serial to an awaiting receiver for display. In essence, the .NET 4.7-based application takes a frame, scales it to the matrix's dimensions, and streams the raw pixel data as an array of bytes to be read by the peripheral microcontroller. One of the five ESP8266 boards fulfills this role by storing the received data in a buffer and then sending it to each awaiting ESP8266-driven section.
Because this system needed to be lightweight and wireless, the ESP8266 acting as the server carries out two primary roles. First, it presents a webpage so that users can see which of the sections have successfully connected, and second, it pushes new pixel data to the correct section with WebSockets. By using a WebSocket instead of the traditional HTTP server, data can be consumed immediately by the client, resulting in lower latency and more frames per second.
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|«3.2 Word Frequencies||3.4 Results»|
A concordance is another method of electronic text analysis. Concordances serve the purpose of bringing together, or concording, passages of text that help to show how a word is used in context (Howard-Hill 4). Concordance outputs are not limited to whole words, they can also be tailored to show lists of letters, phrases, suffixes, and parts of speech (nouns, verbs, etc.) (Adolphs 5; McEnery and Hardie 35).
- The Hansard Concordances
- Alphabetical Sorting
- Key Observation
The most common format for a concordance is known as a Key Word in Context, or KWIC, and it is arranged so that all instances of a search item are in the middle of the page (Adolphs 52; Baker 71; Tognini-Bonelli 13). This search item is often referred to as a ‘node’, and all of the words on the left and right of the node are called the ‘span’. Descriptions of concordance data label the node as N, and the items on the sides as N-1, N-2, N+1, N+2, etc. (Adolphs 52), depending on their distance and position in relation to the node. Figure 3-4 is an example of a KWIC generated from the Hansard corpus where N = privacy.
Figure 3-4: Selection of 25 random concordance lines
Just above the KWIC is a line stating that this particular list contains 25 instances out of a total of 918 matches. This means that the concordance program found a word frequency count for ‘privacy’ totaling 918 occurrences in this search. The node word, privacy, is found in the centre of the page and the total sentence span is equal to 79 characters (including letters, punctuation and spaces).
It is immediately apparent the potential that concordance outputs have for the generation of hypotheses about corpora (Adolphs 51). The nature of the concordance format provides a convenient layout for examining word or phrase use in context, along with the identification of trends or patterns in language use (Stubbs, Text and Corpus Analysis xviii). The example in Figure 3-4 shows 16 occurrences of the word ‘privacy’ in relation to the word ‘Commissioner’, one instance of the phrase ‘Privacy Act’, and one instance of the phrase ‘Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Chair’. Of the remaining seven instances, when the words to the right of the node are examined, four include the phrase ‘privacy of Canadians’, two include the lemma ‘protect’, and the remaining instance contains the word ‘concern’. A lemma is a base-word from which other words can be constructed, even though they may differ in form or spelling (Baker, Hardie and McEnery 104; Sinclair, Corpus, Concordance, Collocation 41). ‘Protection’, and ‘protected’ are both variations on the lemma ‘protect’.
Figure 3-5: Selection of 25 concordance lines sorted alphabetically at N+1
While concordances can be investigated manually in this manner, they can also be rearranged alphabetically on either side of the node. Figure 3-5 shows a sample of right node alphabetization. The concordance can be further sorted based on a selective number of objective criteria (Tognini-Bonelli 13). Using Figure 3-4 as an example, all of the lines containing the phrase ‘Privacy Commissioner’ have been filtered out as they were deemed unnecessary to this particular analysis. Alternatively, adding a second word to the concordance search (within a span of one or two words) can help identify particular themes of usage (Adolphs 55).
While computers make the production of concordances much easier, their history pre-dates the electronic age. Early concordance work was produced with the intention of studying quotations, allusions and figures of speech in literature, not everyday language (Sinclair, Corpus, Concordance, Collocation 42). What is considered to be the first concordance was hand-compiled for the Latin Vulgate Bible by Hugh of St Cher with the assistance of over five hundred monks in 1230 (McEnery and Hardie 37). Father Roberta Busa compiled the first automated concordance, a project which began in 1951 (Hockey; McEnery and Hardie 37), and by the 1960’s scholars were beginning to see the value of concordances for the purpose of textual and literary analysis. The first generation of concordancers were held on large mainframe computers and used at a single site (McEnery and Hardie 37). They were generally only able to process non-accented characters from the Roman alphabet; accented characters would be replaced by a pre-determined sequence of characters, although these were not standardized and differed from site to site (Hockey; McEnery and Hardie 38). Early concordancers also had difficulty locating the exact location of the citations in the text, as the raw textual information was stored on punch cards or tape. Variant spellings of words and the production of lemmatized lists were also problematic (Hockey).
The nature of the programming involved to create concordance outputs at this time required the assistance of a computer programmer or engineer, something that was not accessible to all scholars (McEnery and Hardie 38). The second-generation of concordancers solved this issue, as they were available as software packages on IBM-compatible PCs (McEnery and Hardie 39). While these concordance programs suffered from many of the same limitations as earlier concordancers, they made electronic text analysis more accessible (McEnery and Hardie 39). Since the inception of automated concordancing in the 60s, the methods, accessibility and scope has drastically improved. Currently, concordance programs exist as downloadable software, web-based applications, and packages of pre-made code for those interested in computer programming.
While the production of concordance outputs is essentially another method in the practice of electronic text analysis, this does not mean the technique is one of complete objectivity. Corpus data is not an ontological reality; it is constructed and delimited by the researcher in an attempt to gather meanings about the discourse under study (Teubert 4). In other words, although the corpus exists and is tangible in many ways, it is not a stand-in for the reality of the Parliament. It is a representation of reality that takes its own form and becomes an object in and of itself. Concordances provide the opportunity to examine language in context, and the structured nature of the output helps to ensure that analysts do more than pick examples that meet their preconceptions of the data (Stubbs, Text and Corpus Analysis 154). Yet the theoretical intention of the researcher is still present at every stage, from search choice to interpretation (Stubbs, Text and Corpus Analysis 154). What concordance outputs provide is the ability to present quantitative evidence of electronic text analysis that can be examined by all readers (Stubbs, Text and Corpus Analysis 154).
Concordances are what Stubbs refers to as “second-order data” (Words and Phrases 66). First-order data is the corpus, or what can be called the ‘raw data’; this data is too large for accurate observation and analysis, leading to the creation of second-order data, which is comprised of the word frequencies and concordance output (Stubbs, Words and Phrases 66). A large corpus generates a large amount of concordance lines, and although these can be managed through sampling, further statistical processing can be done to create what Stubbs calls third-order data, which are known as collocates (Stubbs, Words and Phrases 67).
Words in the English language have a tendency to appear with other words (Stubbs, Words and Phrases 17), giving phrases or groups of words a meaning that transcends the value of each individual word if considered separately (Sinclair, Corpus, Concordance, Collocation 104).Collocates are words that co-occur with other words, and lists of these words can be generated algorithmically, accompanied by statistics that determine their significance (Stubbs, Words and Phrases 29).
In terms of this research, collocational statistics were generated but not used, simply because they did not provide any compelling or new evidence to support what had already been discovered through the frequency and concordance analysis. Notably, both Danielsson (112) and Wermter and Hahn (791) have come to the same conclusion regarding the usefulness of collocational data, arguing that frequency statistics alone provide strong enough evidence to support claims about language use.
The Hansard Concordances
A corpus as large as Hansard does not allow for the inspection of every concordance line, and there are many instances that are not worthy of inspection, such as the multiple instances of “Privacy Commissioner” in Figure 3-4. Sampling and alphabetical sorting make the manual inspection of concordance outputs easier and more efficient. That being said, Sinclair makes a valid point in saying that regardless of the thoroughness of the study, there will always be data left over to perform an even more comprehensive study (Corpus, Concordance, Collocation 65). Concordance analysis, much like word frequency calculation, has the purpose of identifying patterns of interest in the corpus that can be highlighted for further study.
A preliminary method of reviewing concordance output consists of simply scanning down the list and noting any observable patterns. The concordances are produced in order, which in a sense, becomes a timeline of the node word as it has been used in the corpus from the beginning to the end of the measurement period.
When faced with a large corpus such as Hansard, Sinclair suggests a methodical sampling method to make the analysis more manageable. This involves dividing the number of instances of the word by the number of concordance lines desired, using 25 concordance lines as a general standard (Sinclair, Reading Concordances xviii). For example, if there are 5000 instances of a word and 25 concordance are lines required, then 5000 is divided by 25 for a total of 200. This total is the gap between selections, meaning that 25 lines from every 200 lines should be sampled. Starting at concordance line no. 1, the first 25 concordance lines are selected, then lines 201 through 225, then 401 through 425 and so on until the last instance, in this example, no. 4801 (Sinclair, Reading Concordances xviii). The Hansard corpus was sorted in this manner, both by year and by Session of Parliament. This resulted in groups of seven to 18 concordance samples for each year, and 14 to 21 samples for each Parliament (depending, of course, on the frequency of ‘privacy’ for each section). Each concordance sample contained 25 lines.
Once the samples were generated, the resulting concordance lines were sorted alphabetically. The lines were sorted on the right node at position N+1, the first word to the right of ‘privacy’, see Figure 3-5 for an example of this type of sorting. This position yielded the highest amount of duplicate lines for omission, those lines being: Privacy Act; Privacy Commissioner; and Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. The concordance lines containing those phrases were omitted because they did not accurately represent the pattern of the use of the word ‘privacy’ as a means of determining its meaning. Each sample was then examined to determine any thematic patterns of word use.
Figure 3-6: Selection of concordance lines with a ‘personal’ context
Figure 3-7: Selection of concordance lines about ‘privacy and people’
Figure 3-8: Selection of concordance lines about ‘privacy and rights’
Figure 3-9: Selection of concordance lines with a ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ context
Answering the research question asked of this section, the concordance output from the Hansard corpus identified the following patterns regarding the use of the word ‘privacy’: privacy is something personal and can imply ownership, information, or space (Figure 3-6); privacy affects certain groups of people, including Canadians, veterans, taxpayers, children, travelers, women, hunters, and law-abiding citizens (Figure 3-7); and privacy has something to do with rights, in the context of human rights, civil rights, constitutional rights, the Charter, and freedom of speech (Figure 3-8).
Grammatically, privacy is something that can be referenced in a negative or a positive light, and these phrases consist most commonly of verbs like breach and violate, or protect and strengthen (Figure 3-9); and privacy is often used as the first word in a phrase with nouns, such as ‘privacy interests’ or privacy obligations’ (Figure 3-10).
Figure 3-10: Selection of concordance lines with ‘privacy’ as a phrase
While there were certainly outliers in the samples collected, including phrases like “privacy on the other hand” or “privacy screen”, the overwhelming majority of examples fell into one or more of the previous categories.
In terms of the specific phrases identified in the previous section on frequency calculations, a closer look at the phrase ‘privacy rights’ shows that it is often used in conjunction with the phrase ‘Canadians’, or more interestingly, ‘law-abiding Canadians’ (shown in Figure 3-11). As it was discussed in Chapter 2, ‘privacy rights’ is not necessarily an accurate term, as there is no specific right to privacy in Canada. The connection between ‘privacy rights’ and ‘law-abiding Canadians’ is especially interesting, given that the judgment in R. v. Spencer ruled that privacy protections apply to all Canadians, even when they’ve clearly broken the law.
Figure 3-11: Selection of concordance lines with the phrase ‘law-abiding Canadians’
Again, while it is hard to speculate on specific reasons for these trends without investigating the corpus more thoroughly, the concordance data provides yet another layer upon which to focus the investigation in the next chapter.
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Send a message or….?
If you think sending messages is the only way you can communicate with your friends on WeChat, I’m afraid you’re wrong. Sending messages is now considered to be one of the most basic functions for most communication apps, which means in addition to sending text messages, you can also voice or video call your friends on WeChat without being charged a single penny.
In China, it’s a tradition to give out “红包 (hóng bāo) = red packet” on special occasions such as weddings or birthdays, and it can be easily done on WeChat if your bank account is linked to your WeChat. All you need to do is to click on “+” at the bottom, and then choose “Red Packet”. After that, you will be asked to enter the amount of money that you would like to send and a few words of good wishes. Finally, click on “Prepare Red Packet”, and your money will be received by the other party after he or she agrees to accept it.
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Author: This blog is provided by Ivan Suchkov, an English and Russian-speaking language specialist at
That’s Mandarin Chinese Language School. Ivan grew up in China and has a profound understanding of Chinese and Russian cultures.