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The way businesses work is changing, and WeWork is helping steer the shift.
Take a moment to imagine what a normal day of work looks like. You can’t anymore, can you?
Over the past decade, the way that people work have begun to change. When companies used to work in silos, obsessively guarding their secrets from everyone, now there is an openness to collaborate. When employees only used to interact with their colleagues (save for a few external facing ones), now people are beginning to work with others outside of the companies they are in.
Better technology have made a myriad of things borderless and, yes, that includes work processes. What the world is experiencing now is a shift in the way businesses work, brought about by technology, innovation, and the continuously changing workforce.
And it is this shift that WeWork has had a hand in.
A platform for creators of all sizes

It sounds pretty simple and straightforward but digging deeper into it would illuminate how WeWork has steadily innovated alongside the changing workforce. According to Turochas “T” Fuad, WeWork’s Managing Director for Southeast Asia, “WeWork is platform for creators. We give them space, community, and services. Not only just a physical space but also virtual services. Our technology allows them to collaborate and find one another through our platform.”
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With over 248,000 members worldwide, being a part of WeWork’s community means having access to that massive global network through their online platform that allows each member to find and collaborate with each other.
As an illustration, this means that a small company who needs assistance from a digital marketing expert could simply post the need on the platform and people from all WeWork locations can answer it.
“It will address all those needs that our members do have. So it’s not just someone sitting two feet across from you but someone potentially sitting miles and miles away from you,” Fuad said.
A necessity to shift
This concept of collaborative workspaces, while largely stemming from freelancers and startup communities, has bled into traditional businesses and enterprises. Largely out of necessity, if you look at where the workforce is heading.
Millennials, who in the next few years will be making up over 50 per cent of the workforce, is leading this shift; they are not just looking for a job. They are looking for friends, for excitement, for variety, and for something that creates an impact. If enterprises want to attract, hire, and retain them, they would have to adopt some of the practices that young companies have now.
According to Fuad, enterprises need “to be a lot more collaborative and to really have a sense of community that directly links to greater innovation in terms of what they do today.”
Which is why WeWork is now starting to look into enterprises. They offer enterprises the basic services of space, customisation of said space, longer term leases, and the flexibility to grow or shrink in size as they need to.
They have also started to offer a new product to enterprises that allows them to have the WeWork experience in their own office, as some companies do own their space and just cannot move out.
“We bring WeWork to them,” Fuad said. “We would go to the real estate or space that is owned by the enterprise, we design, we build, we operate, and programme the particular location for them.”
With hundreds of in-house employees dedicated to architecture, structure, and design, WeWork has built a scalable process and model that allows them to build much faster at least cost, but without sacrificing the quality that they care about.
Of course, this includes giving employees of these enterprises access to WeWork’s global community, once again stressing the importance of collaborating with different people no matter what size company you are.
“It is important. It is the way of the future. It is moving from a “me” sort of lifestyle to more of a “be”, having multiple  and different stages in life in terms of career coming together to really just build a bigger platform.”
This expansion to serving large enterprises is a natural progression from the WeWork’s beginnings. When the company started in New York in 2010, they initially served a group of freelancer who don’t have a workspace.
“Usually you find them at Starbucks or at their homes – working in silos, not really collaborating or meeting people of the same mindset or vision. We provide them with space for the very basic things. All the amenities for all these people to collaborate and really just sit together in same location,” Fuad said.
From there, WeWork has expanded to include companies of different sizes – the same kind of companies that freelancers support – to give their members more opportunities to mingle, find work opportunities, and tap skills and projects that they need.
Connecting the dots, Fuad called it. But at the same time, by allowing these different people to collaborate, a macro shift in the way they work is happening. The young ones are introducing new technology to the large enterprises, while the enterprises bring with them the experience and credibility that time and success has given them.
“It’s a good blend,” Fuad said. “ It allows large companies to be nimble and to be inspired by how small companies work. It allows the freelancers and small companies to really be motivated to one day be as big as these enterprises.”
Localities and locations
Though one may think that all WeWork locations are of the same mold, but they are not. WeWork locations, while designed to have the same look and feel, are built to blend to the local feel. They take into account the colours and the look of the neighborhood and they replicate it to have continuity from the neighborhood to their space. No two WeWork locations look alike, yet all have that distinct flavour and feel of a WeWork community.
And location is important to WeWork. “We do believe that in the future of work, life is important -where you eat, where you hangout, where you sort of have drinks after work, where you go to the gym, how you get from one place to another – those are very important elements to what we chose as location,” Fuad said.
Looking at WeWork locations, they are all mostly in key areas of the city where members have access to food, convenient transportation, as well as easily meet potential partners and clients.
Also read: WeWork to enter Indonesia with two co-working spaces by Q3 2018
For example, in Singapore, their location in 71 Robinson Road is set to officially open. This is to be followed by 22 Cross Street and 60 Anson Road, which are all core locations in the central part of Singapore.
Currently, WeWork has over 253 locations ins 74 cities across 22 countries and those numbers are growing.
“A lot of companies are definitely seeing that the collaborative and innovative space is really helping them improve the morale of their workforce, allowing their employees to work with and be inspired by different companies,” Fuad said.
At the core of it, WeWork is more than just a physical space. While that is important, in the end it is really the global community that they have created that companies should note.
“We found out that 70 per cent of our members collaborate with each other across these international locations, which is a very high number, Fuad said. “It shows us that these people really collaborate with one another and not just enjoying the spaces that we provide and not just innovating new things but really coming together and forming communities.”
The days of working in silos are being replaced with a new a normal, and it looks a lot like WeWork’s community.
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Già nel 1950, in collaborazione con Raul Usandivaras e Juan Morgan, inizia la prima esperienza terapeutica in gruppo istituzionale di pazienti psicotici cronici. Resnik vive le vicissitudini della cultura della Buenos Aires dell'epoca. Legato allo scrittore Jorge Luis Borges e ad Aldo Pellegrini (critico d'arte), medico anch'egli e noto critico d'arte moderna, vive il milieu che lo stimola a interessarsi alle scienze umane, all'arte e alla letteratura.
Dal 1957 vive in Europa, prima a Parigi per un anno, dove studia con Roger Bastide, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Maurice Merleau-Ponty e Georges Gurvitch. Continua le sue ricerche sulla schizofrenia nell'Ospedale Saint-Anne e nel servizio di ammissione di Georges Daumezon. Nel 1958 prende contatto con François Tosquelles, Jean Oury e Roger Gentis, promotori della psicoterapia istituzionale che giocherà un ruolo importante nello sviluppo dell'applicazione della psicoanalisi al sociale. Alla fine del 1958 realizza il suo sogno di trasferirsi a Londra e assiste ai seminari della Klein, di Wilfred Bion e altri.
Si fa analizzare da Herbert Rosenfeld per oltre dieci anni. Con l'appoggio di Morris Carstairs (che esercita a Londra e a Edimburgo) e di Donald Winnicott, lavora nel "Netherne Hospital", ospedale psichiatrico nel Surrey con l'incarico di occuparsi di una comunità terapeutica di giovani psicotici. Nel 1959 collabora con il "Cassel Hospital" a Richmond con Thomas Forrest Main, creatore del termine "Comunità terapeutica". Collabora anche con Maxwell Jones all'"Henderson Hospital" di Belmont e con Siegfried Heinrich Foulkes a Londra. Lavora in una "Child Guidance Clinique" a Guildford e approfondisce i suoi studi sugli stati precoci della vita del bambino con Melanie Klein ed Esther Bick.
Nel campo psichiatrico-psicoanalitico collabora alla formazione di psicoterapeuti per bambini e per adulti presso un'associazione fondata a Venezia, ilonalità (CISPP diretto da Enrico Levis). Ai corsi partecipano filosofi ed esponenti della cultura come Aldo Gargani, Renzo Mulato, Alberto Panza, Edmundo Gomez Mango, Pietro Bria, Giuseppe Maffei, Simona Nissim, Isabella Schiappadori, Maria Pagliarani, Luigi Boccanegra. Resnik contribuisce anche alla fondazione dell'ASVEGRA, Associazione Veneta per la Ricerca e la Formazione in Psicoterapia di Gruppo e Analisi istituzionale..
Contribuisce inoltre, con Gaetano Benedetti e Giorgio Ferlini alla nascita della scuola di specializzazione in psicoterapia Fenomenologica-Psicoanalitica "ARETUSA" di Padova.
Molti sono stati i riconoscimenti per i suoi studi e le sue ricerche, tra i più graditi, per lui che veneziano si è sempre sentito, è stata la cittadinanza onoraria conferitagli dal sindaco di Venezia al compimento degli ottanta anni, poi la laurea honoris causa in "scienze filosofiche" conferitagli dall'Università degli studi della Calabria il 19 ottobre 2012 e il premio alla cultura della città di Cosenza "Telesio d'argento" per l'anno 2012.
Fino alla sua morte, avvenuta il 16 febbraio 2017, è vissuto e ha lavorato a Parigi, e mensilmente ha tenuto regolarmente seminari e gruppi a Venezia e continuando a occuparsi di formazione presso il CISPP. Recentemente ha collaborato alla formazione di colleghi in Ucraina, promuovendo lo scambio culturale tra psichiatri e psicoanalisti locali e italiani.
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… It has been a year since Leo and I shared our birth experience with you. I remember spending last thanksgiving with you in preparation of Elliot's birth. Our birth experience couldn't have been more spiritual or natural without the love and support of you. Leo and I will always be thankful of your love, support and kindness. So this year when we siwill say a special thank you that Leo and I were blessed in meeting you and sharing the birth of our son with you.
Much love and joy to you and your family this Thanksgiving.


Hughes is born
James Mercer Langston Hughes is born in Joplin, Missouri, on February 1 ts.
Langston is elected eighth-grade "class poet" in Lincoln, Illinois.
Hughes's mother remarries, and the family moves to Cleveland, Ohio. By the time he is 14, Hughes has lived in nine cities.
High school graduation/Mexico
Hughes testifies
Hughes testifies before s.
Hughes dies on May 22, 1967, in New York City.
Poetry prize
magazine poetry prize.
First published poem
The Brownies' Book,
Hughes's breakthrough poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," is published in
Hughes meets Vachel Lindsay
Hughes publishes the essay that will become the manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," in
Hughes's second volume of poetry,
Hughes's first novel,
is published. His only other novel,
Popo and Fifina
Hughes co-authors the children's novel
with Arna Bontemps.
Scottsboro Limited,
The Ways of White Folks,
in 1952 and
will later be included in his collection
released in 1960.
Hughes completes
The Sweet and Sour Animal Book.
Hughes serves as a newspaper correspondent in the Spanish Civil War.
The Big Sea,
I Wonder As I Wander,
will follow in 1956.
Hughes becomes a regular columnist for the
Shakespeare in Harlem,
Fields of Wonder
Fields of Wonder,
a poetry collection, is published.
a volume of poetry, is published. Hughes's poetry of the late '40s was less well received than his earlier works.
Simple Speaks His Mind,
a collection which includes stories, plays, poems, songs, articles, speeches and more, is published.
a collection of poems hand-picked by Hughes from his earlier volumes, is published. The volume also contains some new, previously unpublished poems.
Hughes publishes the book-length poem
Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz.
Although it is an ambitious piece, it receives a cool reception from black critics. Hughes's work of the '60s was largely dismissed for not keeping up with the Black Power movement of the period.
Good Morning Revolution,
is released. The book contains Hughes's previously uncollected social protest writing.
1905:
Labor leader William "Big Bill" Haywood founds ). The IWW organized workers in mines, lumberyards, farms, and factories, particularly in the West.
NAACP founded in the United States
W.E.B. Du Bois and a group of multiracial activistse National Negro Committee.
Britain establishes the Union of South Africa after winning the South African War (Boer War, 1899-1902). South Africa gains independence from Britain in 1931 and reinstates suppression of non-whites, which culminates in the policy of apartheid.
Harriet Tubman dies at 93 on March 10. An escaped slave herself, in the years leading up to the Civil War, Harriet Tubman had helped some 300Race riots erupt in Chicago during a summer plagued by racial violence, first in the Midwest and then across the country. Hundreds of blacks and white are injured or killed, and by the end of the summer, 76 blacks have been lynched.
Roosevelt elected
War in Europe ends
In August, with the war still raging in the Pacific,.
Jackie Robinson signs with the Dodgers
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregation by color Lunch counter sit-ins
From March 25 to 27, seven U.S. and foreign cities host the International Days of Protest against U.S. policies-elected twenty-year military involvement in Vietnam.
The Ayatollah Khomeini takes over the rule of the Islamic fundamentalist government.
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Zymere’s tiny body, dressed in a white suit and bow tie, lay in an open white satin-lined ivory casket with a white veil over the open top half.
A white teddy bear, holding a red cushion heart, was propped by the boy’s head and three massive floral arrangements surrounded the altar below the casket.
His mother, Geraldine Perkins, 26, asserted her innocence in a jailhouse interview on Rikers Island, where she’s being held for endangering the welfare of a child.
Mourners attend a funeral service for Zymere Perkins in Brooklyn.
She wasn’t missed by the more than 200 mourners who packed into the pews at the Church of the Open Door in Fort Greene.
A family friend exploded with emotion at the sight of the child.
The little boy died Sept. 26 after his mother rushed him to a hospital — but not soon enough to save Zymere, who was allegedly beaten with a wooden broomstick by Geraldine Perkins’ boyfriend.
The musclebound Rysheim Smith, 42, remains jailed at the Manhattan Detention Center for the fatal beating.
Perkins has already blamed Smith for the boy’s death, admitting that she watched the vicious attack without intervening to protect her son.
More than $9,000 was raised by cops, the victims compensation board and the nonprofit Safe Horizons to help pay for the funeral.
Mourners leave a funeral service for Zymere Perkins at the Church of the Open Door on Gold Street in Brooklyn on Friday, October 7, 2016.
The Rev. Mark Taylor, who gave the eulogy, said the family had once brought the boy to the church and asked him to pray for Zymere.
“I put my hands on him and he squirmed. I didn’t know anything was wrong. I wonder if I could have done more,” Rev. Taylor said.
“Where was the city of New York?” he added sorrowfully.


Macmillan Charity Raceday at York has raised over £8 million
18/06/2018 News, YorkGoRacingYorkshire
Despite a showery afternoon, over 21,000 racegoers enjoyed an action packed afternoon which saw the £100,000 Pavers Foundation Catherine Memorial Sprint go to Encrypted, carrying the famous Juddmonte silks, as Hugo Palmer and Josephine Gordon combined to give Prince Khalid Abdullah. Another big race winner. The total raised on Saturday currently stands at over £470,000 with final fundraising and donations still to be received.
This meant that two riders, Sarah Fanning and Chris Brownless, were both winners of the race. Perhaps, more importantly, the group of 11 riders and their supporters raised £110,000 for the charity.
Chris Brownless, the oldest competitor, aged 64, from Wooler, Northumberland said
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Arn Hotels, the long term sponsor of the race said: “This is the sporting event of the summer, forget the World Cup! Eleven charity, and Best Western is proud to be supporting Macmillan and the riders for the third year running in the incredible Ride of their Lives.”
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One of the main principles of the law regarding finances following a relationship breakdown is that any ongoing financial ties between the parties should be severed. This allows both people to move on with their lives and start afresh. Often, it will be difficult to achieve, for example if one parentcannot work full time, or where an immediate distribution of the money available will simply not lead to a fair result.
However, the Supreme Court in Birch v Birch recently had to grapple with the problem where a final decision had been reached to end those ties and one person later sought to change this. The wife had given an undertaking, which is a solemn promise to the court, to release the husband from his obligations under the joint mortgage and, more importantly, to sell the house if she had not managed to do so by a particular date. Exactly the same effect could have been achieved by an order of the court rather than a promise by the wife. As the date approached, the wife applied for permission to delay the sale by another seven years.
Deferred orders or agreements regarding the sale of property are common. This is particularly so when children are very settled in the family home or are perhaps reaching important milestones at school and need to remain in the local area. Often there will not be enough money to buy two new houses, at least in the short term. It may also not be possible to release a party, who may be renting another place to live, from the joint mortgage on a family home. The Supreme Court decision in Birch v Birch may therefore cause some concern for those considering such an agreement since the date envisaged for a sale may later be postponed further. The case also refers to the practical consequences of remaining on a mortgage whilst living elsewhere – not only does non-payment impact credit ratings, but an existing mortgage will generally mean a lower borrowing capacity to fund the purchase of a new home.
In Birch v Birch the lower courts dismissed the wife’s application, holding that the court had no power to vary an undertaking for the sale of property. The Supreme Court stated that, although an undertaking cannot be varied as such, the court can release the person from his or her promise and would perhaps only do so by accepting an alternative promise in its place. Where the undertaking could easily have been substituted by an order of the court for a sale of the house, the principles applicable to any changes to the final decision ought be the same. It was decided that the court does have the power to vary an order for sale and the wife argue her case.
However, the Supreme Court emphasised the important difference between the court considering an application and deciding that the variation of an order for sale is appropriate.


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A car struck the window of a pizzeria, intentionally. One girl was killed and several victims were seriously injured. The driver was arrested.


Manatees and Funky Buddha Premium Hard Seltzer both rely on the same thing — clean, fresh, and delicious water. But right now, some of Florida's waters are so polluted that it's killing a record number of manatees already this year.
So on June 8th at 6 PM EST, in honor of World Oceans Day, we're hosting the first annual Manatee Derby. With celebrity guests (maybe), the sport's brightest stars, all the manatee racing traditions you love, and most importantly, a $30,000 donation to Save The Manatee Club for research and rescue. We're even matching viewers' donations up to $20,000*.
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Help save Florida's funkiest marine mammals.
2021 has been one of Florida's manatees' deadliest years on record, caused much in part by polluted water that's killing the seagrasses they eat to survive. So we're raising funds to help clean up critical waterways where manatees live and provide safe areas for them to feed.
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Never before, in the storied history of competitive manatee racing has this much talent assembled in on place. Crafty veterans. Brash young upstarts. All come to compete on the biggest stage and raise money in manatee kind's greatest hour of need.
The sport's newest star has been busy off the track, dropping his debut album and opening a chain of organic juice bars
One of the sport’s true innovators, Carlos is widely credited with introducing the “Fake That You're Sleeping But Then Actually Fall Asleep And Miss The Race” technique that has since been adopted by most racers
He’s built like a chorizo and he thinks like a champion. Is he loco? Oh, yes. So, so much yes
Astronaut. DJ. Philanthropist. Champion. These are just some of the many, many words Lunchbox’s agent demanded we use to describe him
A six-time Manatee Racer of the Year, still hungry for victory. Or seagrass. Most likely seagrass. Victory too, just not as much as the seagrass
A perennial contender, still looking for his first title. Do we know his first name? No. But we can all agree he looks like a Steven
You can’t talk about competitive manatee racing without talking about Pancakes. No seriously, you can’t. She won’t allow it
She’s got more championship rings than she’s got fingers, which is very misleading, seeing how manatees don’t have fingers
No relation to Puddles. And in fact, they’re bitter rivals. No one knows how exactly the rivalry started, but we can only assume that stealing a rival’s name had something to do with it
A ferocious competitor who has repeatedly assured us that he will accept the outcome of the race and definitely not try to bite the winner’s tail
A racer who’s famous for starting out fast, going slow, falling asleep, eating, swimming in circles, falling asleep again, doing nothing, and then finishing fast
Welcome To The Exciting World of Manatee Racing
Go deep inside this funky sporting tradition with famed manatee racing jockey Jellyfish Diaz.
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Behavior-finding problems are a new class of problems that search for solutions whose behavior (as the result from the interaction of its form with an environment) veriﬁes a set of restrictions. Consequently, the ﬁtness of a solution is evaluated as how it behaves in a concrete environment, in contrast with the traditional form-finding problems, where solutions are evaluated according directly to their shape.
We have proposed and tested evolutionary developmental models, inspired in natural evolution and the developmental process and regulation of organisms, to solve behavior-finding problems. The results demonstrate the benefits of the models compared to traditional direct encoding approaches, such as high diversity, regularity, organicity, generalization, and modularity; properties that are highly valuable in an engineering context.
In the following sections, we present two evolutionary developmental models that have been tested in finding structures that can land properly or that can follow a predetermined path.
Landing of tensegrity structures
We describe in this section the first evolutionary developmental model proposed, which has been tested to solve the problem as to how a vehicle, conﬁgured as a mass-spring network, might land properly when falling from a given height.
The evolutionary model is based in an indirect developmental encoding with a grammatical nature. An individual represent a structure encoded as a graph and it develops according to the information contained in its genome, by regulated rewriting of an initial graph under the control of a regulated graph grammar. The following diagrams show the rules implemented in the model and an example of the development of an individual.
Production system of the regulated graph grammar. Every rule represent a developmental action that cells can perform during development (left) and how the rest of their expression domain is distributed among the new cells (right).
Derivation steps of the development of an example organism. Edges express the first gene in their expression domain (blue), applying the corresponding grammar rule and distributing the rest of the domain among their new edges.
In this way, every edge of the graph represents a cell of the individual and includes the genetic and physical cellular information. Accordingly, the nodes of the graph constitute the adhesion points of neighboring cells. The following diagram represents a developing individual and the information stored in every cell.
Diagram of a developing multicellular individual, representing the genetic and physical cellular information.
Edges have been modeled as damped springs, while nodes are free movable joints. In this way, a physical simulator has been implemented (freely downloadable here) to test the behavior of the evolved spring networks during the landing test. Hence, the fitness of an individual in the evolutionary algorithm represents how well it managed landing, by minimizing the distance traveled during the landing and impact force (jerk).
Additionally, the proposed model has been compared with a traditional direct encoding scheme. The following figure compares the performance of both encodings, showing the average fitness curves over 50 runs. In both cases, it is observed a quick fitness improvement in the first 100 generations, followed by a gradual refinement as the evolution progresses.
Average best, mean, and worst fitness for each generation of 50 evolutionary runs using direct encoding (left) and indirect encoding (right). Both encoding strategies can find good solutions to the landing problem.
The best tensegrity structures evolved in six different evolutionary runs with the direct encoding method are represented below. The edges of the structures are colored according to its internal tensile state, being red edges compressed and blue edges stretched. They are characterized by its irregular shapeless organization and lack of modularity.
Best tensegrity structures evolved in six different evolutionary runs using direct encoding. They are characterized by its irregular shapeless organization and lack of modularity.
In clear contrast, the proposed method based on graph grammars generates structures that follow patterns and regularities due to their rewriting nature. Diverse examples are presented in the following figure, which shows the phylogeny of evolved tensegrity structures using indirect encoding. Each row represents a selection of evolutionary steps of the best evolved tensegrity structures in five different evolutionary runs, ordered from the first generation (left) to the last generation (right).
Phylogeny of evolved tensegrity structures in five different runs using the proposed indirect encoding. Each row shows a selection of representative milestones in the evolution of the structure. Regularly and symmetry can be already found in some early structures, and evolution proceeds by modifying, adding, or substituting modules.
The ontogeny of the best tensegrity structures found is shown in the following figure. A zygote is made of a single edge of one unit length. Here, the complexity of the structures increases monotonically through development, as it generally does along natural evolution.
Ontogeny of evolved tensegrity structures using the proposed indirect encoding. Each row corresponds to a representative selection of snapshots during the developmental process of the structure. Triangular and square pyramids, bipyramids, and bilateral and rotational symmetries are formed during the developmental process.
In the previous two figures, it can be observed the formation of triangular and square pyramids, bipyramids, and bilateral and rotational symmetries. Additionally, grammar productions are regulated by a string that is copied and transmitted during the edge duplication rules, analogously to the mechanisms of copy and transmission of the genome during the division of biological cells. This process causes the reuse of genetic information (during both, evolution and development), what allows the repetition of modules in the structures.
The landing test performance of the best structures evolved with both encodings is drawn in the following diagrams, including their initial position after development and final position after landing. It can be observed that the structure obtained with direct encoding (left) adopts the form of an irregular tensegrity, which helps in the impact absorption (see movie below). Similarly, the structure evolved with indirect encoding (right) develops tensegrities with some diﬀerences, since they show a regular geometry, are organized modularly, and are strategically distributed in the organism.
Direct encoding Indirect encoding
Best evolved tensegrity structures during the landing test using the direct encoding (left) and indirect encoding (right). The distance traveled is represented with a grey line. The trajectory of the center of mass is also included, along with the jerk values (colored circles).
The following movies show the landing test performed by a random structure and the best tensegrity structures evolved with the direct and indirect encodings.
Landing test performed by a random structure. It can be observed how a random design cannot absorb the impact, resulting in a behavior characterized by several bounces and a long displacement distance.
Landing test performed by the best tensegrity structure with direct ecoding.
Landing test performed by the best tensegrity structure with indirect ecoding.
The presented results demonstrate that both encoding strategies can ﬁnd good solutions to the form-ﬁnding problem. The diﬀerence is more on their particular way to prospect candidate forms, mainly derived from the search-space that each type of encoding deﬁnes. As a result, we have shown that the use of an indirect encoding facilitates the emergence of qualitative biological properties in the solutions, including regularity, organicity, generalization capacity, modularity, and manufacturability.
In conclusion, we have presented an eﬀective and novel method for the general indirect encoding of structures, particularly the tensegrity structures, which have demonstrated their usefulness in evolutionary design towards a desired behavior. The results obtained qualitatively diﬀer from those generated under a direct encoding scheme. These diﬀerences resemble properties found in biological organisms and emerge as a result of the developmental mechanism introduced in the evolution of the structures. The results demonstrate that these biological properties, especially those regarding modularity, symmetry, and manufacturability, are particularly valuable in engineering in the new class of behavior-ﬁnding problems, such as the design of tensegrity vehicles and robots that behave well in a defined problem.
The second evolutionary developmental model proposed is described in this section. It has been tested in the behavior-finding problem of path-following. The evolutionary developmental simulator written for this project can be freely downloaded from here .The developmental model proposed to encode the path-following organisms is divided in three levels. First, an Artificial Genome, made up of a sequence of digits (bases), encodes a regulatory network. The function of this regulatory network is equivalent to a Boolean network. Hence, an organism in the model is represented by a geometrical graph, which grows during the organism development according to a graph grammar regulated by the Boolean network encoded in the organism's genome. The following diagram represents the proposed morphogenetic model.
Morphogenetic model consisting on a derivation of a graph grammar regulated by a Boolean network encoded in a sequential genome.
In this way, a derivation in the grammar represents the morphogenesis of an organism, as shown in the following figure.
Example of morphogenesis of an organism regulated by the genome presented in the previous figure. The first graph to the left is the zygote. Each edge has been labeled with its expression state.
After development has completed, an organism is physically simulated in a flat world where they have to follow a path and go as far as possible in a constant time. The path difficulty (the sharpness of the bends) has been parameterized, resulting in a set of possible paths according to its difficulty, as shown below.
Difficulty of the path as given by the value of a parameter.
Similarly to the previous model, edges have been modeled as damped springs and nodes are free movable joints. Yet, in addition to normal edges, organism cells can differentiate into motor cells, which push forward in a continuous way, and sensor cells, which transduce the physical world information to the organism by increasing their size according to the amount of edge falling outside the path. In the following diagrams, motor edges are represented in red, cyan edges are sensors (with white bands to better compare relative lengths), and structural edges (regular springs) are the green ones.
In spite of the simple building blocks available for the organisms, 4 clearly different steering behaviors have evolved. Next, we present a representative organism for each resulting behavior, including their epigenetic and ontogenetic history, and their characteristic behavior.
Behavior A: emergence of bilateral sensors
The simplest path-follower we can think of would include sensors in both sides to correct the direction and a motor in between. The following figure shows the evolution, trajectory, lineage and development of an organism that shows this behavior. Note that, in order to avoid overspecialization of the organisms, a path is tested twice, such that in the second simulation it is flipped along the horizontal axis.
Evolved behavior A: bilateral sensors. (a) Best and mean ﬁtness of the population in each generation during the evolution. (b) Paths and trajectories described by the best evolved organism. (c) Lineage of the best evolved organism. (d) Morphogenesis of the best evolved organism.
The following animation shows the steering behavior of the organism. When the organism is on the path (in gray), the forces of its two motor edges are compensated, resulting in a straight movement. When one of the sides exits the path, the sensor becomes longer, transmitting a positional change to the motor edges. This corrects the direction of movement, pointing now to the interior of the path.
Steering behavior of the organism with bilateral sensors. The path is the area in gray. It can be seen how the elongation of the sensor that exits the path steers the pair of motor edges towards the path, correcting the direction and bringing the organism back to the path.
Behavior B: emergence of turning by friction
This is an interesting behavior that exploits a completely different aspect of the physics. The morphology of the organism integrates a more sophisticated sensory system: 8 sensor edges and a single central motor edge. This configuration exploits the friction forces that the nodes bear, allowing a smooth steering over the edges of the path. The following figure shows an evolved organism with this behavior.
Evolved behavior B: turn by friction.
The animation below shows the behavior of this organism. It moves straightforward while inside the path; but, when the organism starts exiting the path, the external skeleton of structural edges forces the sensors to reconfigure internally and the symmetry breaks down due to the elongation of some sensors. In the asymmetrical configuration, more nodes concentrates in the side opposite to the exiting border, producing a higher overall friction on that side that generates a bent movement towards the path.
Steering behavior of the organism that turns by friction. As some sensors exit the path, their change in length pushes some nodes towards the path. This shifts the forces of friction in a way that corrects the direction of the organism, recovering its original configuration when it travels again over the path.
Behavior C: emergent spinning
Contrary to what could be expected, the second behavior preferred by evolution had to do with spinning organisms. A combination of sensor and motor edges arranged in a sort of quadrilateral pattern favors a rotational movement. Additionally, when a path border is transgressed, the organism adopts a slightly different dynamical configuration; the sensors elongate cyclically during the rotation, which causes the organism to follow the edge of the path, keeping its centroid inside most of the time. The following diagrams show an organism that has implemented this behavior.
Evolved behavior C: emergent spinning.
The following movie presents the behavior of this organism. In this case, the organism spins counterclockwise, but clockwise spinning is also common in other experiments. The slight asymmetry of the organism causes the initial displacement towards the path border. Then, the rotation over the border makes the motor edges to change cyclically their angles due to the repetitive elongations of the sensor edges, allowing the organism to steer following the path border.
Steering behavior of the organism that spins. Differently from other strategies, this one attaches the organism to one border of the path, changing the angles of the external motor edges with respect to the central motor edge. This provides the organism with a net movement that tracks the border of the path.
Behavior D: emergent rectification
Finally, some organisms revealed a much more elaborate behavior. Remarkably, this behavior emerged with the simplest possible sensory system: one sensor edge. An organism with such a behavior is showed in the following diagrams. Notice that the evolution stopped after reaching the maximum number of generations (a); at that point, the best evolved organism had a fitness of 0.5. Though, given enough simulation time, the organism managed to complete the path (b).
Evolved behavior D: rectification.
The following animation shows in detail the rectification behavior. While the organism is inside of the path, and as a result of balanced motor actions, all the edges get arranged in a single line, and the organism follows a straightforward movement. When the sensor exits the path, its elongation breaks the previous configuration, initiating a long sequence of actions (the rectification) which force the organism to go backwards, return to the path, and start another trajectory, shifted some degrees with respect to the original one.
Steering behavior of the organism that rectifies its trajectory. The organism moves straightforward while inside the path; but, when it exits the path, the sensor elongates and provokes an unstable equilibrium, since a pair of motors moves forward. This equilibrium breaks at some point and forces the organism to return, since the pair of motors now points backwards. Back in the path, the initial configuration is restored, keeping the organism trailing the path again.
Behaviors described above were obtained under particular settings. Additionally, in order to test the robustness of their behaviors, they have been simulated for a range of path difficulties and friction parameters. The following figures represent the results of this study. The results reveal that the more complex behavior is also the most robust to changes in the curvature of the path: behavior D performs well in any path. In the case of different friction constant, the performance degrades in all cases as it gets more slippery.
Generalization of the evolved behaviors in different environments. The path difficulty (left) and friction of the medium (right) are varied separately to test the robustness of each organism to changes in the environment where it has evolved. This study reveals that the more complex behavior (D) is also the most robust to changes in the curvature of the path. However, the performance degrades in all cases as it gets more slippery, since motor edges propel the organism too fast.
The following animation shows how behavior D deals successfully with the path of maximum difficulty, demonstrating the generalization capacity of its evolved behavior.
Steering behavior of the organism that rectifies the trajectory (behavior D) in the case of maximum difficulty of the path.
Additionally, some behaviors have the capacity of reentering the path, as it is illustrated in the following diagram. The snapshots illustrates how the organism with behavior B follows a straight trajectory when outside the path, with the sensory system arranged in a star-like configuration; as some sensors enter the path, their change in length pushes some nodes towards the path, changing friction forces and correcting the direction of the organism.
Capacity of behavior B to reenter the path after quitting it. The organism changes from a straight trajectory to a curve towards the path as some sensors reenter the path.
We have defined and studied a model that integrates a considerable amount of biological features: (1) an encoding method based on sequence genotypes; (2) gene regulation by Boolean networks; (3) multicellular development through a fixed set of simple structural genes; (4) cell differentiation; and (5) evolution of morphologies and locomotive behaviors in a particular environment. Despite the simple and fixed set of structural genes implemented, a rich variety of body plans have evolved, providing the organisms with appropriate steering strategies. Furthermore, the evolved organisms presented a rich variety of behaviors, concluding that the developmental model presented in this work has been shown to be adequate for the class of behavior-finding problems.Finally, a remarkable result is how such a biological model obtains very simple structures that show a very complex behavior. This quite striking diversity of forms and behavioral strategies is connected to the diversity of forms and features found on earth, suggesting that such morphological richness should not be considered a surprising fact, but rather an inevitable consequence of the variability of gene regulation.


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I'd order every likely to fail spare part you can find for that engine and keep it in the garage. The last thing you want to do is take it somewhere and find out you have to wait weeks to get a lift-pump or whatever. And I'd really consider finding some stock or different wheels. Thanks VinceAtReal...
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Nature Photonics volume 7, page 267 (2013)Cite this article
Scientists based in Europe have succeeded in converting a commercialnalystre resolution (Lab Chip, doi:10.1039/C3LC41360H; 2013). Harisha Ramachandraiah and thecompanies, Plarion in the UK and Lingvitae in Norway, say that their 'lab-on-a-DVD' system offers affordable and convenient cellular diagnostic testing for diseases such as HIV.
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The approach makes two important modifications to the DVD drive and standard DVD media. First, an extra photodiode is added to the drive to detect transmitted and forward-scattered light through the disk. Second, the DVD media is replaced with a disposable, multilayer, semi-transparent polymer disk that contains fluidic microchannels in addition to the usual 0.74-μm-wide spiral track.
Before performing experiments, the inner surfaces of the fluidic channels are functionalized to allow surface attachment of the desired cells or particles. Samples of blood or another liquid of interest are then pumped into the channels and the DVD drive is switched on. The added photodiode records the amount of light from the drive's 658-nm semiconductor laser that is transmitted through the disk as it spins. The result is a two-dimensional image, which is saved to a computer hard drive for analysis. Cells or particles that have been successfully bound to the treated channels show up in the resulting images. To date, the team has tested their system by using it to image polymer beads of various sizes (1, 2.8 and 5 μm) suspended in a solution as well as CD4+ cells in blood, which are an important marker for the HIV virus.
-csed in a fully integrated approach that automates the tasks of channel surface modification, washing and sample preparation.
Graydon, O. Lab on a DVD. Nature Photon 7, 267 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.64
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.64


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The problem of the political class is easy to exaggerate, but difficult to define
David Cameron is often described as a career politician (Credit: Thierry Ehrmann, CC BY 2.0)
ss’. A wide selection of broadcast, print and social media commentators argue that elected politicians in the UK are not representative of their constituents. Instead, they are part of a self-referential ‘political class’ which is increasingly distant from the real world and mistrusted by the public.Examples include:
Andrew Neil’s 2011 documentary ‘n’ and assertion (in BBC2’s Daily Politics 19.6.14 from 39 minutes) that ‘all MPs will end up looking and sounding the same’ if ‘hand picked by the party high command’. (For more information see Stephen Crone’s piece for the LSE Politics and Policy blog.)
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Nigel Farage, UKIP leader, 2nd May 2014: We’ve just about had enough of a career class of politician … Look at the three so-called ‘big parties’ and look at their front benches. They are made up of people who go to the same handful of schools, they all go to Oxford, they all get a degree in PPE … then they all get a job as a researcher in a political office, they become Members of Parliament at 27 or 28, Cabinet ministers in their early 40s, and I put it to you that this country is nowproper day’s work in their lives.
The problem with trying to find some general conclusion, from these assertions, is that they could be conflating four different problems about MPs:
It is difficult to reconcile these four arguments to produce one strategy for political reform. Indeed, they can produce debates on important trade-offs, such as when all women short lists coordinated by a national party are criticised or rejected by local constituency offices and candidates. Instead, a legislature might produce plans to address corruption and MP behaviour (see Judge, 2013), leaving most issues regarding local and social background to political parties. Further, political parties differ markedly in their attitude, with Labour the most likely to seek ways to improve its representation of women, and the Conservatives more focused on avoiding ‘professional politicians’ and finding candidates who have ‘proved themselves’ outside politics (perhaps at the expense of local candidates.)
With Michael Keating and Alex Wilson, I am writing a paper that compares their experiences in different arenas – – and in relation to three main indicators of representation (sex, occupation, education). Yet, this focus seems limited because it tends to consider each category separately. In this post, I briefly explore two examples of issues that could be addressed if we cross-reference these categories – bearing in mind that quantitative analysis is limited by the small numbers involved and the lack of detailed or comparable data in many cases (in fact, I am hoping that this sort of discussion piques enough colleague interest to prompt us, as a group, to get better data).
The popular media argument, summed up in Nigel Farage’s speech, is that a political class contains a cadre of people with a set of characteristics: they attend private school, Oxbridge and their formative career is in an ‘instrumental’ occupation (defined below).
A second argument is that an attempt to redress the balance in one indicator of social background has unintended consequences on another. For example, Labour’s use of AWS has become connected to arguments about national control of local selection, with the potential to undermine the selection of local candidates, or to select party worthies, in instrumental occupations, at the expense of working class candidates or, at least, people with non-instrumental formative occupations. From the limited information we have, there appears to be little evidence to support concerns about localism. Labour’s MPs consistently have more ‘direct local constituency connections’ than the Westminster average – and far more than the Conservatives – and its record has improved since AWS. For example, in 1997, the beginning of the Blair era, Labour’s 57% marked a rise from 1945 (30.7%) and compared to 45% in Westminster and 9% of the Conservatives.
If we look at social background measures, for Labour’s new entrants in 2010, education suggests that women are less representative – private school 12.1%/ 2.9%; Oxbridge 24.2%/ 11.8%; any University 96.9%/ 76.5% – but instrumental occupation does not – 45.5%/ 61.8%. Within occupations, the proportion of women in the ‘political worker’ category is higher (27.3%/ 17.6%), but the absolute numbers are in single figures (note that I include all Labour 32 women MPs because 28 were selected using AWS and the remainder do not have markedly different backgrounds).
This compares with the Conservatives, in which women are far less likely than men to have attended private school (25.0%/ 47.8%), more likely to have attended Oxbridge (30.6%/ 25.7%) and more likely to have an instrumental occupation (27.8%/ 21.2%). In Westminster overall, 6 women MPs (4.2%) and 23 men (4.5%) achieve the political class trifecta. Overall, there is no clear picture, and minimal evidence to suggest that the representation of women comes at the expense of other measures of social representativeness, even when AWS is used.
The ‘take home message’the political class: as a problem, it is easy to exaggerate but difficult to define; there are many solutions, each party has its own solutions and priorities; and, many solutions have the potential to undermine another. My impression is that parties are mostly worried, perhaps needlessly, about the effects of AWS on other kinds of background. Yet, Conservative recruitment, which favours business success, seems to come at the expense of local candidates and women, while UKIP’s recent success in the European Parliament (combined with the Conservative showing) scuppered the otherwise remarkable progress towards a 50/50 women/ men split among UK MEPs. The ‘political class’ problem is not a general problem; it is an opportunity to pursue specific priorities.
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Analogy and allegory are two types of figures of speech that are often confusedFigures of speech are rhetorical constructions in English grammar that are to be taken figuratively or non-literally. These literary devices areAnalogy and allegory are often used in poetry, poetic rhetoric, and other narrative writings to illustrate abstract ideas and abstract concepts to make them more comprehensible. We will examine the meanings of the words analogy and allego Phillips has given Diane Abbott the perfect analogy on why Labour needs to stop talking about a general election and instead show “courage and leadership” on Brexit. (The Huffington Post)(The Epoch Times)
Martin refuted that claim in 2013, saying that if he intended to write a climate -change allegory, he would have. (Vanity Fair Magazine)
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January 16, 2020 January 20, 2020 - by Mel Reeves
Artists with courage and integrity help realize the Dream
The King holiday that we now take for granted came about with an enormous boost from an artist who could not see but had the vision to recognize the importance of such an observance, especially to the Black people for whom MLK sacrificed so much, even his life.
Wonder had joined with MLK widow Coretta Scott King and others in the effort to have the human rights leader’s birthday made into a national holiday. In 1968, not longMI) introduced the first bill attempting to bring nationwide recognition to MLK’s birthday.
“Stevie didn’t send a check. Stevie came. He would come to the marches, he would come to the rallies,” explained Reverend Al Sharpton. “Stevie was an activist in his own right.”
As a result, the first official federal holiday was observed in January of 1986. However, 23 states initially refused to recognize the holiday; today all 50 states observe the day. South Carolina was the last holdout, finally officially acknowledging the MLK holiday in 2000.
Contrast the vision of Wonder and artists of yesteryear who contributed to and sacrificed for the movement for freedom and justice with today’s Yeezy’s and HOV’s, who consider themselves “gods” unto themselves. They have made themselves too big to make such sacrifices. Their personal agendas are prioritized over the people who birthed them, who 400 years later are still fighting, still scuffling, still struggling for just a little more breathing space.
Had some of the opportunistic, self-obsessed and entrepreneurial-minded artists of today been left with the task of advancing the fight, they likely would have asked how much or would have left the task undone. Or, they may have given it verbal assent on social media without any effort to make it real. Worse yet, they would have sat down when asked to take a stand.
When it comes to sitting down, Colin Kaepernick, in the spirit of Stevie Wonder, did what he could to advance the cause of fighting against police violence: He took a knee. Jay-Z, rather than advance the modern-day struggle against police violence and honor the sacrifice of Kaepernick, declared that it was time to move on, saying, “I think everyone knows what the issue is—we’re done with that.”
Worse yet, in the year of the 400th anniversary of our struggle, West posited the idea that Black people preferred slavery to freedom. “W 2018 interview with TMZ. He added, “It’s like we’re mentally imprisoned.”
So, on this observance of MLK’s birthday, let’s join hands and remind ourselves that we are not alone in this seemingly infernal and eternal struggle without end. The ancestors still stand watch over us, and they maintain the flame even as we sometimes grow weary. And as Stevie added in his lyrics to his now-famous song: “We’ll make the dream become a reality; I know we will, because our hearts tell us so.”
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Today Hope turned eight. Yes, eight. Wow…
I have to admit that it wasn't until I had Hope that I felt so differently about birthdays. As an adult I can't say they've ever been nearly as exciting as I remembered as a child, and now as a parent I sit and spend quite a bit of time reflecting and celebrating the amazing life I helped bring into this world. Birthdays aren't about presents, parties, or cake & ice cream. Since having my children it's always been about the two miracles I now have. And after all I've learned this past month or so I must admit I find myself even more blessed. So today, I was reminded of the day my baby girl was born…
I have to admit I have so much respect for elementary school teachers. They have to keep nearly 20 young children under control as the students go from their class, to lunch, to recess, and other areas in the school on a daily basis. That's a tough challenge with just one or two kids, let alone nearly 20!
She even picked out her bear's heart. She had to warm it up first, because bear's aren't allowed to have cold hearts!
After her bear was dressed she filled out her bear's birth certificate, yes using computers & keyboards that are reminiscent of a "cold war era nuclear power plant". (thanks for the reference Eddie!
Of course now that I have two kids, it's always hard to do something for one without doing something for the other – even on their birthday. Seeing this photo made me feel so bad for my baby boy. However, he wasn't pouting because he didnt' get to make a bear – he was pouting because we made him get off the computer so we could go pay for Hope's bear. He looked so small here…seeing this after the fact makes me feel as though he felt so left out…
Though he was sure to let us know he really wanted to play on the computer at Build-A-Bear. So much so that he had a melt down. He threw himself onto the floor and just cried. Don't you wish we could all do that when things didn't go our way?
Instead of picking him up and giving him the attention he was expecting (which would in turn only make him do this more often) I stood there and told him to get up…and yes, I had my Nikon d700 out and took more pictures. Yes, I'm sure there were a few people in the store that had to have thought I was crazy. Though we weren't going to make Jaylen a build-a-bear I did plan on letting him get a smaller one – it turns out a little puppy dog made him much happier. Yes, he quickly forgot about those cold war era computers!