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Seit dem Beginn seiner Regionaloffensive begibt sich der Bayerische Rundfunk verstärkt in Gebiete, die sonst nur von lokalen, privaten Medien, wie dem Verlag Nürnberger Presse bespielt werden. Anja Miller, Leiterin des BR-Studios Franken, ist dafür in der Region mitverantwortlich. In der 31. Folge von "Bratwurst mit Chili" erklärt sie NN-Chefredakteur Michael Husarek und Podcast-Redakteur Lukas G. Schlapp die aktuelle Strategie des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks genauer. Besonders Michael Husarek brennt die ein oder andere Frage unter den Nägeln: Warum gräbt der BR mit seinen neuen Regionalstudios den lokalen Medien vor Ort das Wasser ab? Ist die Medienpluralität dadurch gefährdet und leidet am Ende die Qualität der Berichterstattung? Weitere Themen sind die bevorstehende Bundestagswahl. Zudem erzählt Anja Miller von ihrer Zeit als Korrespondentin in Rom, verrät und warum der BR noch immer auf "X" aktiv ist.

This week's agenda is Presidential Politics in Michigan: New polling shows Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in a statistical tie. We'll be joined in a moment by EPIC-MRA's Bernie Porn. The candidates are focusing on Michigan. Trump makes two visits, saying we're on the verge of World War III. Kamala Harris will revive a longstanding tradition of a Democratic candidate Metro Detroit rally on Labor Day. Michigan Republicans continue to embarrass themselves, this time with a convention that features the forced ejection of their former chair. Bobby Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein will all be on Michigan's presidential ballot even though RFK Jr. wants out More than 200 former Trump staffers and leaders of the presidential campaigns of John McCain and MItt Romney are endorsing Kamala Harris - an unprecedented political repudiation by the people who know Trump the best We have two guests on this week's podcast: Pollster Bernie Porn leads us through the numbers in his company's latest polling in Michigan. It's generally good-but-not-great news for Democrats in a campaign that's very, very tight. And one of the founders of Michigan's first citizen-run redistricting process reflects on the apparent end of the first redistricting cycle, seven-and-a-half years after Voters Not Politicians kicked off its historic campaign to amend Michigan's constitution is now complete. We talk with the leader of the grassroots group, Jamie Lyons-Eddy. Joining that chat is our producer, Walt Sorg, another of the founders of VNP and co-author of the constitutional amendment.   =========================== This episode is sponsored in part by EPIC ▪ MRA, a full service survey research firm with expertise in • Public Opinion Surveys • Market Research Studies • Live Telephone Surveys • On-Line and Automated Surveys • Focus Group Research • Bond Proposals - Millage Campaigns • Political Campaigns & Consulting • Ballot Proposals - Issue Advocacy Research • Community - Media Relations • Issue - Image Management • Database Development & List Management ===========================

Still no big-name Republicans in the Senate race, but a deep pockets candidate may parachute in. On the Democratic side, a potential deep pockets challenger to Elissa Slotkin drops a hint that he's running — a hint dropped on national TV. Led by Florida and Texas, red states have launched a book banning binge unlike anything we've seen since the days of McCarthyism in the early 1950s. It's probably the most attention most people have paid to librarians since the 1962 movie The Music Man (centered around the romance between Professor Harold Hill and "Marian, Madam Librarian”). The Michigan Library Association asked our friends at EPIC/MRA to survey the attitudes in Michigan towards libraries and book bans.We talk with the MLA's executive director, Debbie Mikula, about the poll. Also: the corrosive impact of money on politics and governance. Money is at the heart of a lot of political scandals. Michigan has some of the loosest campaign finance regulations in the nation and that's led way too many scandals and mini-scandals. One of the groups working to reign in the abuses is Voters Not Politicians, the grassroots organization best known for leading the successful drive to end gerrymandering in Michigan's congressional and legislative races. Joining us on the podcast is the Executive Director of VNP, Nancy Wang. VNP is in the vanguard of grassroots groups working to bring some reforms to Michigan's campaign finance regulation, as well as several other much-needed good government reforms. =========================== This week's podcast is underwritten in part by EPIC-MRAEPIC ▪ MRA is a full service survey research firm with expertise in: • Public Opinion Surveys • Market Research Studies • Live Telephone Surveys • On-Line and Automated Surveys • Focus Group Research • Bond Proposals - Millage Campaigns • Political Campaigns & Consulting • Ballot Proposals - Issue Advocacy Research • Community - Media Relations • Issue - Image Management • Database Development & List Management =========================== Stories We're Following This Week Michigan Politics and Policy CROWN Act (SB 90) Whitmer announces $400 million clean hydrogen plant for Michigan - Detroit Free Press Michigan poised to ban employers from firing workers for having abortions - Bridge Michigan Michigan House OKs ban on holding phones; violators face fines of $100 and up | Bridge Michigan Michigan's US Senate race: Where is big Republican candidate? - Lansing State Journal New York Stock Exchange exec mulling Michigan Senate bid - POLITICO Republicans propose 'constitutional carry' bills after MSU shooting - Detroit News Better IRS service is forcing an earlier debt deadline - POLITICO UAW demands Biden support 'top wages' for EV workers before endorsing Biden rejects GOP spending cuts, warns of catastrophic government default - The Washington Post Problem Solvers Caucus Debt Ceiling Outline Corruption 2023 VNP Ethics Reform Policy Summary Clarence Thomas Raised Him. Harlan Crow Paid His Tuition. — ProPublica Emails Reveal ‘Jaw-Dropping' Herschel Walker Money Scandal - Daily Beast ‘Red flags' surround $25M health campus pushed by ex-Michigan House speaker Jason Wentworth | Bridge Michigan Insider: Ex-House Dem leader says money's influence in politics is 'eroding trust' - Detroit News GOP War on Freedom Michigan Library Association Poll on Book Banning Florida lawmakers restrict pronouns and tackle book objections in sweeping education bill - POLITICO Florida legislature passes anti-trans bathroom bill - The Washington Post North Carolina Republicans unveil 12-week abortion ban - The Washington Post Zooey Zephyr row spotlights rise of GOP far-right caucuses - AP News Opinion | Republicans Are Running Wild in My State - Frank Bruni in The New York Times Adams Township Clerk, Supervisor lose recall election - WILX TV

Die Strukturen, in denen Amazon schaltet und waltet, sind über Jahre gewachsen. Doch wer trägt dafür die Verantwortung? Die Bundespolitik? Amazon selbst? Kundinnen und Kunden? Oder alle ein bisschen? In der letzten Episode von “Klick Klick Boom – Die Maschine Amazon” erfahrt ihr, was Politikerinnen und Politiker zu den Arbeitsbedingungen bei Amazon und deren Subunternehmen sagen und was wir – die Kundinnen und Kunden – selbst tun können. “Klick Klick Boom – Die Maschine Amazon” ist ein Podcast der Nürnberger Nachrichten in Kooperation mit CORRECTIV. In insgesamt fünf Episoden haben wir hinter die Kulissen des weltweit größten Online-Händlers geblickt.

Deutschland ist mittlerweile gleich nach den USA der zweitgrößte Markt für Amazon. Um die Masse an Bestellungen zu bewegen, braucht es viele Menschen. Vor allem Fahrerinnen und Fahrer. Diese kommen oft aus Mittel- und Osteuropa nach Deutschland, um zu arbeiten. Nicht selten werden sie direkt in ihren Heimatländern angeworben. Doch ihre Hoffnungen auf ein besseres Leben und faire Arbeitsbedingungen werden von den Subunternehmen meist nicht erfüllt. Wie läuft die Anwerbung ab? Wie sehen die Arbeitsverträge aus? Und wie viel Einfluss hat Amazon selbst auf die Subunternehmen und damit die Arbeitsbedingungen? Das erfahrt ihr in der vierten Folge von “Klick Klick Boom – Die Maschine Amazon”, dem Podcast der Nürnberger Nachrichten in Kooperation mit CORRECTIV.

Ein Mann stirbt in einem Amazon-Logistikzentrum in Leipzig und der laufende Betrieb wird nicht eingestellt. Die Maschine läuft weiter – nichts hält sie auf. Auch nicht der Tod. Das spüren auch die Fahrerinnen und Fahrer, die die Pakete bis zu uns vor die Haustür bringen. Ständiger Druck, Stress und Überwachung soll für Mitarbeitende zum Alltag gehören – und macht manche von ihnen sogar krank. So krank, dass sie nicht mehr weitermachen können. “Klick Klick Boom – Die Maschine Amazon” ist ein Podcast der Nürnberger Nachrichten in Kooperation mit CORRECTIV. Wir blicken in dieser Podcast-Serie hinter die Kulissen des weltweit größten Online-Händlers.

Von der Gründung in einer Garage zu einem der größten Konzerne der Welt – Amazon in den letzten 30 Jahren ist eine einzigartige Erfolgsgeschichte. Wie konnte es dazu kommen? Wir werfen einen Blick zurück: Zurück zur ersten Bestellung in den USA und zu den Anfängen Amazons in Deutschland. Und natürlich zu Jeffrey Bezos. Wir sprechen dafür mit jemandem, der ihn gut kennt: Der frühere Amazon-Deutschland-Chef Ralf Kleber. Klingt alles wunderbar, doch es ist nicht alles, wie es scheint. “Klick Klick Boom – Die Maschine Amazon” ist ein Podcast der Nürnberger Nachrichten in Kooperation mit CORRECTIV und erzählt, wie Amazon so groß werden konnte.

Ein Klick, der eine gigantische Maschinerie in Bewegung setzt. Wie kann Amazon Millionen von Paketen so schnell liefern? Meistens sogar innerhalb von 24 Stunden? Und was bedeutet das für die Mitarbeitenden? Warum die Kritik an Amazon in den vergangenen Jahren immer lauter geworden ist und wie die Maschine Amazon funktioniert, erfährst Du in dieser ersten Folge der fünfteiligen Serie „Klick Klick Boom – Die Maschine Amazon“. Dieser Podcast ist eine Produktion der Nürnberger Nachrichten in Kooperation mit CORRECTIV.

Die fünfteilige Podcast-Serie “Klick Klick Boom - Die Maschine Amazon” erzählt von einem der mächtigsten Konzerne der Welt: Amazon. Von Jeff Bezos' Vision und wie der Logistikriese so groß werden konnte. Wir gucken rein in die Maschine und uns die Arbeitsbedingungen der Lkw- und Kurier-Fahrer und -Fahrerinnen hier in Deutschland an, einen Todesfall im Leipziger Verteilzentrum und enden bei uns, den Kundinnen und Kunden und den psychologischen Effekten beim Online-Shopping. Und wir erläutern, warum wir alle Teil der Maschine sind – ob wir es wollen oder nicht.

Hosts: Sue, Yosh, & Von On this week's episode of The Vary Necessary Podcast, you might see the ladies of the VNP on an episode of Live PD on Patrol. Tune in to find it why! Yosh with the Most is mad that Sue is Team Yoshi Man!? Is it okay to have friends separate from your spouse? Should you only have friends in the same friend group that are married or in a committed relationship? What happens when your spouse and another spouse in the friend group don't get along? What happens when you divorce and you want to bring a new partner into the group? Please don't be the single friend hanging with the married friend... The ladies have a deep discussion about all these questions and more. GET YOUR VARY NECESSARY PODCAST T-SHIRT; CLICK THIS LINK: Vary Necessary T-Shirt To support the show Subscribe, Share, Like, & ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Star cash app: $TheVNPodcast Instagram: The Vary Necessary Podcast Facebook: Unapologetic Talk with Vary Necessary

Hosts: Sue, Yosh, & Von On this week's episode of The Vary Necessary Podcast, the ladies of the VNP jump straight into the topic of being socially aware of your surroundings and knowing who is around and in your space!Alert, Alert!! An Oh So Vary Necessary shout-out letter! The ladies express their love and gratitude for their loyal listeners.Gather round women of the world, gather round! What is going on with the choices we are making? Traveling to a city without emergency funding? Your body is your temple, treat it as such! Don't allow any and everyone to treat it and you as the owner in any type of way. By all means learn how to properly care for your body cause the menfolk are talking. We want to know your thoughts! GET YOUR VARY NECESSARY PODCAST T-SHIRT, CLICK THIS LINK: Vary Necessary T-Shirt To support the show Subscribe, Share, Like, & ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Star cash app: $TheVNPodcast Instagram: The Vary Necessary Podcast Facebook: Unapologetic Talk with Vary Necessary

Hosts: Sue, Yosh, & Von On this week's episode of The Vary Necessary Podcast, the ladies of the VNP needed Benson and Stabler from SVU! Your favorite podcast trio traveled up to the Queen City to support local talent at a comedy show. Von was VIOLATED! Tune in as the ladies give their point of view on what occurred! At the end of the day Respect People's Boundaries! One time for the mighty men of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated! The ladies showed their support to the Omegas during their 83rd Grand Conclave! The ladies had a time that night!! Glodine reunited with Gerald What are some things that make you say you've gone too far! The ladies continue the discussion on television, radio, and other things they feel that has taken it too far. Send the ladies your thoughts. GET YOUR VARY NECESSARY PODCAST T-SHIRT, CLICK THIS LINK: Vary Necessary T-Shirt To support the show Subscribe, Share, Like, & ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Star cash app: $TheVNPodcast Instagram: The Vary Necessary Podcast Facebook: Unapologetic Talk with Vary Necessary

Hosts: Sue, Yosh, & Von On this week's episode of The Vary Necessary Podcast, the ladies of the VNP tackle conditional versus unconditional love. Society shows more unconditional regard towards women, children, and dogs according to comedian Chris Rock! What about men? Are they only loved with conditions? Are men allowed to be themselves without being judged and called weak individuals? The ladies give various responses on how the state of men is treated. Our super producer/DJ/engineer/ Yusuf of Crux Media Group shares his thoughts on the topic. What about women? Has Society started viewing women as too whiny and weak and should "man" up?Everyone has a story. Grant grace to those who have one and know that healing and growth do not have an expiration date. To all of our male listeners please know the ladies of the VNP care. If you ever need a listening ear and/or resources we are here for you. GET YOUR VARY NECESSARY PODCAST T-SHIRT, CLICK THIS LINK: Vary Necessary T-Shirt To support the show Subscribe, Share, Like, & ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Star cash app: $TheVNPodcast Instagram: The Vary Necessary Podcast Facebook: Unapologetic Talk with Vary Necessary

Veterans Non Profit (VNP) founded by Steven Mills in El Paso, Texas in 2015. Board Member Aldina Hajder gives updated news. Donations and volunteers needed to continue Steve's legacy. Veterans Non Profit's Mission The mission of the Veterans Non Profit is to provide services to low-income veterans in the El Paso area with the level of compassion and dignity that all beings are entitled to. *** Listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts , Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio, Blu Brry, Pod Addict, Tune In UPDATE: Veterans Non Profit   Three ways you can DONATE Today! VNP Donation Page GoFundMe Facebook Aldina Hajder's Statements Steve's passing struck the El Paso veteran community. I came back on as a Board of Director again this year (2022). Change of command changes take a toll on organizations. We are looking for an experienced executive director. We are in dire need of people who can do bookkeeping, accounting, marketing, fund raising. We have two paid employees. Discounted utilities for non profits - That would be a good legislation to pass. We are running short on hygiene kits. We don't want his legacy to go. His dream was to take VNP nationwide. We started feeding 30 veterans we are now over 400 veterans. This podcast would last 22 hours to talk about his accomplishments. We want to thank all of our partners. Steven Mills will be truly missed. Steve Mills' Obituary Steven D. Mills, Founder of Veteran Non Profit 05/05/1959 - 05/26/2022 Funeral Home San Jose Funeral Home (Central) Stephen D. Mills born on May 5, 1959, entered into rest on May 26, 2022, at the age of 63. He is survived by his wife, Julia G. Mills; sons, Sebastian Perez and Ernesto Perez; daughter, Sheila Mills-Scherder; son-in-law, Jay Scherder; grandsons, Jacob Gorman and Trevor Gorman. He will be dearly missed by all those who knew and loved him. Visitation will be held on Thursday, June 16, 2022, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with Memorial Service from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at San Jose Funeral Home, 601 S. Virginia St., El Paso, TX 79901. For more questions, please call 915-***-****. Connect with Veterans Non Profit 4317 Dyer Street El Paso, TX, 79930 Phone: (915) 261-7599 Facebook | Linked In Connect with Aldina Hajder Email:  areptxvetco@gmail.com Phone: (915) 280-7512 Connect with SWS The Scott Whittle Show Podcast Page - The complete list of the Scott Whittle Show podcast. The Scott Whittle Show Podcast Facebook Page - The official Facebook page for the Scott Whittle Show. Other Resources Veterans Non Profit (VNP) - The official website of the Veterans Non Profit Veterans Non Profit Volunteer Application - Online volunteer form VNP Board of Directors Job Announcement - Job Announcement on Linked In.

Hosts: Sue, Yosh, & Von On this week's episode of The Vary Necessary Podcast, the ladies of the VNP get into it!!! When it comes to being a woman there are a lot of factors that come into play. Biological sex, gender identity, unique experience of the evolution of a little girl blossoming into a woman.... so when did gay men deem it appropriate? What gives gay men the right to withhold their natural-born sexual identity from their intimate partner? Never get into your relationship and not know the surface of who you are with. What defines opened minded verses transphobic? You shouldn't have to use your big energy as a transwoman to validate your identity.I guarantee you do not want to miss this one!!! GET YOUR VARY NECESSARY PODCAST T-SHIRT, CLICK THIS LINK: Vary Necessary T-Shirt To support the show Subscribe, Share, Like, & ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Star cash app: $TheVNPodcast Instagram: The Vary Necessary Podcast Facebook: Unapologetic Talk with Vary Necessary

Hosts: Sue, Yosh, & Von On this week's episode of The Vary Necessary Podcast, the ladies of the VNP are celebrating another birthday! Big Sue talks about her birthday experience and being in a good space in life. Millennials, Gen Zers, and Baby Boomers OH MY! Listen in as the ladies discuss how the generations are getting along. Summer is here! The madness has already started. The ladies tackle Roe vs Wade decision, BET Awards, COVID's return, Summer traveling, and Yoshie for President!!!?Tune in! GET YOUR VARY NECESSARY PODCAST T-SHIRT, CLICK THIS LINK: Vary Necessary T-Shirt To support the show Subscribe, Share, Like, & ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Star cash app: $TheVNPodcast Instagram: The Vary Necessary Podcast Facebook: Unapologetic Talk with Vary Necessary

Hosts: Sue, Yosh, & Von On this week's episode of The Vary Necessary Podcast, the ladies of the VNP talk about their latest spa tour at King's Spa in Chantilly Virginia! It's never a dull moment when these ladies hang out.Thursday, June 23rd is recognized as National Widow's Day. One of the VNP's Friends with Benefits Latonya Jackson, joined the discussion to share her experience as a widow. Tonya's journey began a little over 14 months ago after losing her husband Coach Damien Jackson due to complications of COVID-19. Her resilience through this journey shouldn't go unrecognized. Tune in to learn more about how she is turning the pain into purpose. Yoshie shares her experience as a widower over five years and gives Tonya great advice as she moves forward in life.Latonya Jackson's IG: https://instagram.com/widowunderforty?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=https://linktr.ee/latonyajacksonauthor GET YOUR VARY NECESSARY PODCAST T-SHIRT, CLICK THIS LINK: Vary Necessary T-Shirt To support the show Subscribe, Share, Like, & ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Star cash app: $TheVNPodcast Instagram: The Vary Necessary Podcast Facebook: Unapologetic Talk with Vary Necessary

Episode 012 | May 30, 2022Neeraj Kayal: It's just a matter of time before we figure out how computers can themselves learn like humans do. Just human babies, they have an amazing ability to learn by observing things around them. And currently, despite all the progress, computers don't have that much ability. But I just think it's a matter of time before we figure that out, some sort of general artificial intelligence.Sridhar Vedantham: Welcome to the MSR India podcast. In this podcast, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, a researcher at the MSR India lab, speaks to Neeraj Kayal. Neeraj is also a researcher at MSR India and works on problems related to or at the intersection of Computational Complexity and Algebra, Number Theory and Geometry. He has received multiple recognitions through his career, including the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Kanpur, the Gödel prize and the Fulkerson Prize. Neeraj received the Young Scientist Award from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2012 and the Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences in 2021. Ravi talks to Neeraj about how he became interested in this area of computer science and his journey till now.For more information about the Microsoft Research India click here.RelatedMicrosoft Research India Podcast: More podcasts from MSR IndiaiTunes: Subscribe and listen to new podcasts on iTunesAndroidRSS FeedSpotifyGoogle PodcastsEmailTranscriptRavi Krishnaswamy: Hi Neeraj, how are you doing? It's great to see you after two years of working from home.Neeraj Kayal: Hi Ravi, yeah thank you.Thank you for having me here and it's great to be back with all the colleagues in office.Ravi Krishnaswamy: First of all, congratulations on the Infosys prize and it's an amazing achievement.And it's a great privilege for all of us to have you as a colleague here.So, congratulations on that.Neeraj Kayal: Thank you.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Yeah, so maybe we can get started on the podcast. So, you work in complexity theory, which is I guess one extreme of, I mean, it's very theoretical end of the spectrum in computer science almost bordering mathematics. So hopefully by the end of this podcast we can, uh, I mean, convince the audience that there's more to it than intellectual curiosity. Before that right, let me ask you about how you got into theoretical computer science and the kind of problems that you work on. So, could you maybe tell us a bit about your background and how you got interested into this subject?Neeraj Kayal: Yeah, so in high school I was doing well in maths in general and I also wrote some computer programs to play some board games, like a generalized version of Tic Tac Toe where you have a bigger board, say 20 by 20, and you try to place five things in the row, column, or diagonal continuously and then I started thinking about how could a computer learn to play or improve itself in such a game? So, I tried some things and didn't get very far with that, but at that time I was pretty convinced that one day computers will be able to really learn like humans do. I didn't see how that will happen, but I was sure of it and I just wanted to be in computer science to eventually work on such things. But in college in the second year of my undergrad, I enrolled for a course in cryptography taught by Manindra Agrawal at IIT Kanpur and then the course started off with some initial things which are like fairly predictable that something called symmetric key cryptosystems where, essentially it says that let's say we two want to have a private conversation, but anyone else can listen to us. So how do we have a private conversation? Well, if we knew a language, a secret language which no one else did, then we could easily just converse in that language, and no one will understand this. And so, this is made a little more formal in this symmetric key cryptosystem. And then, one day, Manindra ended one of the lectures with the following problem: but now suppose we did not know a secret language. Then we just know English, and everyone knows English and then how do we talk privately when everyone can hear us? I thought about it for a few days. It seemed completely impossible. And then Manindra told us about these wonderful cryptosystems, called the Diffie Hellman cryptosystem and the RSA cryptosystem where they achieved this and it was very surprising. And the key thing that these cryptosystems use is something that lies at the heart of computer science, a big mystery still even to this day at the heart of computer science. There are these problems which we believe are hard for computers to solve in the following sense, that even if a computer takes a very long amount of time, if we give it a fairly long amount of time, a reasonable amount of time it cannot solve it. But if we give it time like till the end of the universe, it can in principle solve such problems. So that got me interested into which problems are hard and can we prove they are actually hard or not? And to this day, we don't know that.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, I'm guessing that you're talking about the factoring problem, right?Neeraj Kayal: Yes, factoring is one of the big ones here. And the RSA cryptosystem uses factoring.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, it's actually very interesting, right? You started out by trying to show that some of these problems are very, very hard, but I think, looking back, your first research paper, which happens to be a breakthrough work in itself, is in showing that a certain problem is actually easier to solve. Then we had originally thought right so, it is this seminal work on showing that primality testing can be solved in deterministic polynomial time. I mean, that's an amazing feat and you had worked on this paper with your collaborators as an undergrad, right?Neeraj Kayal: Yes.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Yeah, that's an incredible achievement. So maybe to motivate others who are in undergrad and who have an interest and inclination in such topics, could you maybe share us some story on how you got working in that problem and what sort of led you to this spark that eventually got you to this breakthrough result?Neeraj Kayal: So, my advisor Manindra, who also was the professor who taught us cryptography - he had been working on this problem for a long time and there were already algorithms that existed which are very good in practice- very very fast in practice, but they had this small chance that they might give the wrong answer. The chance was so small that practically it did not matter, but still as a mathematical challenge, it remained whether we could remove that small chance of error, and that's what the problem was about. So, Manindra had this approach and he had worked with other students also- some of our seniors- on it, and in that course, he came up with a conjecture. And then when we joined, me and my colleague Nitin, we joined this project , we came across this conjecture and my first reaction was that the conjecture is false. So, I tried to write a program which would find a counterexample and I thought we would be done in a few days-Just find that counterexample and the project would be over. So, I wrote a program- it will train for some time, didn't find a counterexample, so I decided to parallelize it. A huge number of machines in the computer center in IIT Kanpur started looking for that counterexample. And then to my surprise, we still couldn't find the counterexample. So there seemed to be something to it. Something seemed to be happening there which we didn't understand, and in trying to sort of prove that conjecture, we managed to prove some sort of weaker statement which sufficed for obtaining the polynomial time algorithm to test if a number is prime or not. But it was not the original conjecture itself. Many days after this result came out, we met a mathematician called Hendrik Lenstra who had worked on primality testing, and we told him about this conjecture. And after a few days he got back to us and it showed that if you assume some number theoretic conjecture is true, which we really really believe, it's true.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Ok, I see. So, the original conjecture, which you hoped to prove true is false, but the weaker conjecture was actually true, you proved it to be true, and that was enough for your eventual application.Neeraj Kayal: Yes, so in some sense we are very lucky that in trying to prove something false we managed to prove something useful.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Yeah, I mean it's a fascinating story, right? All the experiments that you ran pointed you towards proving it, and then you actually went and proved it. If you had found, I imagine what would have happened if you found a counterexample at that time, right?Neeraj Kayal: So yeah, Hendrix proof was very interesting. He showed that modulo this number theory conjecture a counterexample existed. But it would have to be very, very large and that's why you couldn't find it. So, he explained it beautifully.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Yeah, thanks for that story Neeraj. So. I guess from then on you've been working in complexity theory, right?Neeraj Kayal: That's right, yeah.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, for me at least, the Holy Grail in complexity theory that I've often encountered or seen is the P versus NP problem, which many of us might know. But you've been working on a very equally important, but a very close cousin of the problem, which is called the VP versus VNP problem, right? So, I'm going to take a stab at explaining what I understand of the problem. So, correct me whenever I'm wrong. So, you are interested in trying to understand the complexity of expressing polynomials using small circuits. So, for example, if you have a polynomial of the form X ^2 + Y ^2 + 2 XY, you could represent it as a small circuit which has a few addition operations and a few multiplication operations like you could express it as X ^2 + Y ^2 + 2 XY itself. Or you could express it as (X + Y)^2. Which may have a smaller representation in terms of a circuit. So, you have been working on trying to identify which polynomials have small representations and which polynomials are natural but still don't have small representations.Neeraj Kayal: That's right.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Is that a reasonable approximation of the problem you're thinking about?Neeraj Kayal: Yes, that's right. So, another way to put the same thing is what is the power of computation when you do additions, multiplications, subtractions, all these arithmetic operations. You could include division, square roots also.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, I have seen this VP class and it makes a lot of sense to me. It's the set of all the polynomials that can be captured by small sized circuits with the plus I mean addition and multiplication gates. I've also seen the VNP class, which seems to me at least to be a bit mysterious, right? So, these are all the polynomials whose coefficients of the individual monomials can be computed efficiently. Is that a reasonable definition, at least? Is my understanding correct?Neeraj Kayal: Yeah, that's the technical definition of this class, but there's another natural sort of intuition why we want to look at it, and the intuition is that it relates to counting the number of solutions to a problem, and also therefore to computing probabilities of various things happening.Ravi Krishnaswamy: I see. Ok, so that gives me a lot more understanding. I guess when you're able to estimate probabilities, you could also do sampling over those objects.Neeraj Kayal: Yes exactly.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Yeah, that's a very nice connection. I did not know about this. Thanks for that. So, you have been working, you have an agenda on trying to show some sort of a separation between the two classes, right, VP and VNP, by constructing these low depth circuits. So, you're able to show that all polynomials in VP have admit the low depth representation and your hope in this agenda is to find one polynomial in VNP which does not have a low depth representation, right?Neeraj Kayal: That's right.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, how far are you in this agenda and do you think we have all the tools needed to actually achieve success through this sort of a method?Neeraj Kayal: Yeah, so just historically for converting a circuit or a program into a low depth program, this was done earlier. Most of this work was done by other people. So, we haven't contributed much in that direction. We have been trying to prove certain polynomials don't have small depth and small sized arithmetic circuits. So, it's not clear to us whether the existing techniques are good enough to prove this or not. And like on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I think they are capable maybe, and on the other days I think maybe not. And this is what researchers generally deal with. Especially in these areas where you don't know whether your tools are good enough or not. And very recently, just last year, there was a big breakthrough by trio of complexity theorists who showed somewhat good lower bounds for all constant depth arithmetic formulas or circuits. And what was surprising also about this result is that, they use in a very clever way, techniques that were already known.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, they would have probably shown it on a Monday or Wednesday or Friday.Neeraj Kayal: Yes, yes. [Laughs]Ravi Krishnaswamy: OK, that's very interesting. So, you still don't know whether this will lead to success or not through this route.Neeraj Kayal: Yes, yeah, we still don't know that.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Are there other people approaching this problem through other techniques?Neeraj Kayal: So, there's a program called the Geometric Complexity Theory program initiated independently by other people who basically try to understand symmetries. Because implicit in this question is a whole bunch of symmetry, then they try to exploit that. And there's a field of mathematics called group theory and representation theory, which is all about understanding symmetries of objects. That area is beautiful, really beautiful, and a lot of advancement has been made there. So, people have been trying to also attack this problem through using those tools.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Yeah, that's very nice, I think. So basically, you're saying a lot of like diverse techniques from math and computer science are at play here and trying to help you on your progress.Neeraj Kayal: That's right.Ravi Krishnaswamy: I see. I mean, it's very beautiful. I find it fascinating and beautiful that a lot of these different diverse techniques from mathematics and computer science come into play into establishing these lower bounds. And what's more fascinating to me is that they are all not just from an intellectual curiosity standpoint. They seem to be powering a lot of things that we take for granted, right, right from, like, as you said, messaging each other through social networks or whatever it is. They seem to be like at the foundation- the inherent hardness of certain problems seem to be at the foundation of a lot of things that we take for granted.Neeraj Kayal: Yeah, that's right, Ravi. So, for example, I do transactions using my mobile phone and anyone who is within a reasonable distance of my mobile phone can read all the signals that my phone is sending. So, they can see all the communication that I'm having with the bank. And the fact that despite that they are not able to infer my banking passwords relies on the fact that certain problems are very inherently hard to solve and that's what we are trying to prove.Ravi Krishnaswamy: OK, so that's very interesting Neeraj. And in the last part of this podcast, I want to flip the topic around a little bit. So, you've been working a lot on showing lower bounds, and in lower bounds in arithmetic complexity. But lately in the last couple of years you have also been using those insights into showing some very nice algorithms for some learning problems. I find that also very cool, so maybe you can talk a little bit about that.Neeraj Kayal: Yeah, so the algorithms that we are trying to devise are trying to solve the following problem. More general version of it is the following. Given a function or a polynomial, what's the smallest number of operations that you need to do to be able to compute that function or polynomial? So, for Boolean functions this has a very long history. That essentially is like designing chips, and you can imagine it was naturally very useful to think about. But more recently, it turns out a lot of works have found another very surprising connection because of which this problem specifically for polynomials has also become very interesting. And the connection is this. Suppose you have some very big data set. For now, think of this data set as consisting of a bunch of points in high dimensional space. For example, you can think of images as a point, every image as a point in the high dimensional space. Now it turns out that you can take statistics of this data. So, for example, you can take what's the average value of the first coordinate, what's the average value of the second coordinate? Or what's the average value of the product of the first two coordinates in this data set and so on. So, you can take some of these statistics, encode them as the coefficients of a polynomial. And here's the interesting part. When the data has some very nice structure, then this polynomial tends to have a small circuit.Ravi Krishnaswamy: I see.Neeraj Kayal: And so, when you want to understand the structure of data, so this general area is called unsupervised learning. Turns out that it's useful to find small circuits for polynomials. So, this is the computational problem that we are looking at: given a polynomial, what's the smallest number of operations, or what's the smallest circuit representing this polynomial.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, if you're able to find the smallest circuit representing this, then from that you will be able to infer the underlying distribution or the structure of the underlying data.Neeraj Kayal: Yes, yes, that's right. So, this is one connection, and it also turns out that the lower bounds that we are proving, showing that certain things are very hard to compute are also useful for now devising algorithms to find the circuits of polynomials which do have small circuits and maybe let me give you some very rough sense of how that comes about, and I find this a bit fascinating. Here's how the lower bounds proofs work. So, underlying all those lower bounds for the various subclasses of circuits that we do have is a collection of linear maps and now it turns out that when you are given a polynomial which has a small circuit, using this polynomial and the collection of linear maps, which go into the lower bound proof you can form another big linear map, such that, very roughly, the eigen spaces of this new linear map correspond to the smallest circuit for F.Ravi Krishnaswamy: I see.Neeraj Kayal: And this was the connection that we discovered some time ago, which helped us find small circuits.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, you find small circuits by computing the eigen space of the of the map.Neeraj Kayal: Yes, of this other linear map. That's right Ravi.Ravi Krishnaswamy: I see that's very nice. Ok, so I think we covered a lot of the topics that I wanted to cover, so maybe I'll end with two philosophical questions. So, one is you began the podcast by talking about how as a kid, you thought computers or machines could be able to do everything that human intelligence can do. So, I think it's a vague question, but what's your take on that now? And two is what advice would you give for budding theoreticians, whether they're in school or college or grad school? What sort of advice would you give them?Neeraj Kayal: So, for the first question, Ravi, I know a lot of other people also share this feeling, that it's just a matter of time before we figure out how computers can themselves learn like humans do. Just human babies, they have an amazing ability to learn by observing things around them. And currently, despite all the progress, computers don't have that much ability. But I just think it's a matter of time before we figure that out, some sort of general artificial intelligence. To your second question, Ravi, I don't have much to offer other than perhaps a banal comment that anyone looking to work in this area should really enjoy thinking about these kinds of problems. They tend to be rather abstract, sometimes the applications are not always apparent, but if you enjoy thinking about them, I'm sure you'll do well.Ravi Krishnaswamy: That's great, Neeraj. It's been a pleasure chatting with you. Thanks a lot for your time and hope you had fun.Neeraj Kayal: Yeah, thanks Ravi. Thanks a lot for having me.

In this week's episode, the ladies of the VNP the ladies check in discussing why mental health matters. Sue explains why it is important to have a mental health professional conduct an assessment and provide a diagnosis, especially for children and adolescents. Is it the parents? This question has been a hot topic with the ladies before. Everyone is held to some responsibility but the ladies feel the word of the week is accountability.What is the problem in your community? What is the problem in the nation? How can we step up and help our children? Yoshie talks about her desire to continue to mentor young women and Von brings up a valid point that it takes an entire community to solve this problem. Yoshie and Von give great feedback on how VNP can support them. It's all about the action we have talked about long enough.Let's do our part!

Het CO2-emissiehandelssysteem gaat een nieuwe fase in, nu met het Europese Fit for 55-pakket het emissieplafond nog sneller zakt. Hoe acteert het bedrijfsleven in de wetenschap dat er in 2040 geen enkel emissierecht meer zal worden uitgegeven? Te gast aan tafel bij Tijdo van der Zee zijn Reyer Gerlagh, professor Economie aan de Tilburg University en Corneel Lambregts, lobbyist voor de VNP, de vereniging van Nederlandse papier- en kartonfabrieken.Luister vanaf woensdag 5 mei naar deze derde aflevering van Energeia’s Carbon Podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosts: Von, Sue, & Yoshie In this week's episode, the ladies of the VNP give an update on what's new in their lives. The ladies discuss being a blessing to someone else and how it makes them feel!! If you follow the show you know the ladies never stay on track...

Hosts: Sue, Yosh, & Von Do you know what today is... IT'S OUR BIRTHAVERSARY!!!! The Vary Necessary Podcast turns ONE today! Four women with various ways of thinking wanted to share with the world their thoughts on everything and they mean EVERYTHING! Von, Yoshie, and Sue reflect on what this year taught them as Podcaster. Learn about their favorite episodes, why it is important for them to continue, and what's next for the VNP. On behalf of The Vary Necessary Podcast, we would like to thank our listeners, family, and friends for all of your support, love, and suggestions. It means the world to us. To support the show Subscribe, Share, Like, & ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Star cash app: $TheVNPodcast Instagram: The Vary Necessary Podcast Facebook: Unapologetic Talk with Vary Necessary

Hosts: Sue, Yosh, & Von In this week's episode of The Vary Necessary Podcast, the ladies discuss senseless deaths and shootings in the world of hip hop. Is it the influence, way of life, or both that affects the decisions of people today? Music is the only outlet some have and they use it as a way to express themselves and relate to what they hear. The ladies want the hip-hop world to be here to reap the benefits of the seeds they plant. R.I.P. is becoming so consistent. So where are the parents? The children of today are our generation's children/grandchildren. Where is the accountability of today's parents? Are parents paying their children so they will leave them alone and continue living their best life? The ladies all agree that many parents want children to have more than what they did but responsibility needs to be taught along with reward.What needs to be done? Do we go back to the basics by ensuring our youth today have the social/life skills necessary to live a balanced life? Are chores still a thing? Can your child cook .... can you even cook?We have raised fast-food restaurant babies!Mentoring is VARY NECESSARY!!!The ladies of VNP agree it is time to put the cellphones down, cut the TV off, sit at the table, and communicate with our children/grandchildren more about having a balanced life. If we don't make changes the cycle will continue. To support the show Subscribe, Share, Like, & ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Star cash app: $TheVNPodcast Instagram: The Vary Necessary Podcast Facebook: Unapologetic Talk with Vary Necessary

Hosts: Sue, Yosh, & Von In this week's episode, the ladies of The VNP check-in by discussing the seasons and how the winter season changes your mood. Yoshie gives an explanation on treatments that help with SAD ( seasonal affective disorder )and MDD ( Major Depressive Disorder). The ladies' attempt to stay on task goes slightly to the left after Sue remembers an interesting story behind the infamous International Players Anthem song.Von shares her thoughts on how society feels that everyone is sexually involved which leads to the topic of discussion why celibacy and being a virgin in this day and time is so taboo. The ladies come to Venus William's defense on her choice to save herself for the right person. Sue retracts who Venus's alleged boyfriend is, which sparks another conversation on compatibility. Find out why Sue and Yoshie agree with Von when she states some men will never understand celibacy. The ladies all agree that there is nothing wrong with waiting and sharing their own experiences on practicing celibacy and much, much more! To support the show Subscribe, Share, Like, & ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Star cash app: $TheVNPodcast Instagram: The Vary Necessary Podcast Facebook: Unapologetic Talk with Vary Necessary

John van Schagen gaat in gesprek met ondernemers en experts in de energietransitie. Deze keer is dat met Roel van de Wiel van Enexis, en Gerrit Jan Koopman, directeur van de VNP (vereniging van de Nederlandse Papier en Karton Industrie) en voorzitter van het Zesde Cluster.

Hosts: Vonchella, Jen, Sue & Yoshie Do you believe the deaths of JFK, Dr. Sebi , and MLK was a part of a bigger plan lead by the government? Do you believe the death of our beloved Kobe Bryant was a cover to release the COVID-19 pandemic? Do you believe the Real ID and social media platforms were created to secretly follow our every move? Join the ladies of the VNP as they discuss conspiracy theories. One of the ladies even thinks Tupac is alive and well in the DR! Tune in! To support the show Subscribe, Share, Like, & ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Star cash app: $TheVNPodcast Instagram: The Vary Necessary Podcast Facebook: Unapologetic Talk with Vary Necessary

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Wie ist die lila Lüneburger Heide eigentlich entstanden Frau Hallmann? Julia Hallmann gehört zum Team des Vereins Naturschutzpark e.V. und hat sich dem Schutz der Lüneburger Heide verschrieben. Sie erzählt was die traditionelle Heidebauernwirtschaft in die Knie zwang,warum Redakteure und ein Pastor maßgeblich an der Gründung des ersten Naturschutzgebietes Deutschlands beteiligt waren und was zum Erhalt der Kulturlandschaft Lüneburger Heide notwendig ist.

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED - DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT A few weeks ago NEC Display, which is now Sharp NEC Display Solutions, started marketing a new product called NEC MediaPlayer. I saw the note and I thought, "Oh, OK, I'll write about this." But then I didn't, because I couldn't make heads or tails of what it was about. This podcast interview helped me clear the fog, and I suspect it will for others. MediaPlayer is software designed to work with the Raspberry Pi hardware that NEC uses as an alternative to the System on Chip offers from its display competitors. MediaPlayer has two aspects: There is a simple signage, LAN or sneakernet platform that allows companies to do things like put production KPIs or other content up on a screen, without investing in a full signage platform, because they don't need a full signage software platform. And there's a foundational CMS set-up that is there for the 15 or so CMS software partners who do digital signage on Raspberry Pi. If an end-user or integration partner uses NEC displays that support the Pi, they can select and install that software image right out of MediaPlayer. People who have been around digital signage for many years will likely wonder - Did they do Vukunet ... again? No, this is not that the rebirth of the circa 2009 NEC CMS and ad platform. I spoke with Chris Feldman, the product manager for NEC MediaPlayer. Subscribe to this podcast: iTunes * Google Play * RSS   TRANSCRIPT David: Chris, thank you for joining me. I wanted to talk to you about NEC, because I saw some PR about NEC media players and I read it and then I read it again and I thought I'm not quite getting what this is, so it would be lovely if we could walk through what NEC media players are all about.  Chris Feldman: Cool. Yeah, thanks for the opportunity. You're not the first. I think the confusion is that the media player exists in two parts and it's obviously tied to the system on a chip (or SOC) space in digital signage. A number of years ago, we released our displays that use the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3a as an open source platform for associates, allowing a lot of users to utilize that and the whole open architecture kind of digital signage. But one of the things that we found, as we're getting feedback from the market, was that it's great that we have this open architecture, but people really need an out of the box experience with it. So they need something where as soon as you open it up and turn it on it's got to do something other than just give you a desktop operating assessment screen..  David: Cause not everybody's a nerd and wants to develop that way.  Chris Feldman: Exactly. And, I think initially our thinking was, there's so many tools out there that people are just going to rush to it and be like, yeah, this is great, which is what they're still doing. But the fact of the matter is they needed an out of the box experience and so that brings us to the first part, which is the NEC media player. And so what we've done is we've looked at the media player experience overall And how it can fit within the NEC display, NEC display ecosystem, so to speak,and that's what we developed.  We worked together and we developed this media player that we had delivered onto the display. it comes pretty loaded so it's the standard image now on all the Raspberry Pis that we sell and we've also upgraded from the Computer Module 3 to the Computer Module 3+, so you're getting a bit of a bump up in CPU performance, but also the hard drive or the EMT on the internal memory on the device itself, it's bumping up from 16 gigs to 32 gigs. So you're getting a little faster CPU speed, and you're getting twice the amount of memory in there and then the mini player itself is really giving users the ability to really get up and running with signage very quickly. So we looked at things like playback, so it was important not to have gaps. People want to have, whatever images they have up there or videos or combination thereof, they want them to play slide-to-slide without any kind of black space or dead space in between. The new player does that and addresses that issue that was on the Pi. And so what we're able to do is we have that going, you can connect to it locally, so you can walk up to it, there’s a USB drive., I'll plug it in. You can use the wireless remote that comes with the display to actually load content onto the internal drive of the Raspberry Pi. You can use a wired keyboard as well, but one of the cooler things is you actually have the ability to control it over a network. So if you have a closed network, like a LAN setup where you have all your screens running the media player, you can actually talk to all of them, control them, and so you can set up playlists, you can set up schedules, you can set up everything that you're doing, with regards to content, over a network. That's a really powerful tool that we have there. We've added some things like streaming services, so you can actually stream content to it. You can have URLs that are accessible because it does also support touch. So say you have a lobby space in your corporate office, and you want to have a way to tie into a content you already have without having to spend more money, just to have this new digital sign that you have, you can just utilize your webpage. And then the cool part about it is it actually utilizes the display itself, that's one of the great things about using the internal Raspberry Pi, as opposed to an external Pi. One of the things we have is a real-time clock and a watchdog timer to maintain the high-res of the display. But we can also tie into the human sensor that we have either externally, with our KTRC kit or the one that's built into our VNP series displays that we offer. So you could have essentially a slideshow running and then when it sees someone walking in front of it, it could switch over to that website or switch over to that HTML file that you're looking at, if you're doing it by finding that type of thing. And then if you touch the screen, you can actually interact with it, which is a really powerful tool to offer customers just through a standard media player that's included with the Raspberry Pi. The second half, which is where a lot of people get confused is, again, looking at signage and what people wanted to do. These media players are great and what we designed was not designed to be an “end-all be-all” of media players. It's a great little device that offers a lot of functionality but the reality is once people really start to see the value of digital signage in their place, whether it's a retail establishment, quick stores, restaurant, corporate office, hospitals, wherever it is, and they start to see that potential, they'll want to do more things. And so to do that, you really need to have a true CMS running on the device. So we looked at that and we looked at the negative feedback that we received on imaging the Raspberry Pis on our displays and what we did is, we created this CMS platform within the media player. So when you have the media player running, on the top is a series of tabs that essentially denote what you're doing. You simply just arrow over to the CMS tab and then on there currently we have about eight or nine partners, and this list is growing, you can then move down and select a partner and you get a description of what that partner does, and then the option to install that software. So you can actually go to a company, or certainly a partner like Screenly or Yodeck, select their software, and if you're already using it, let's say you have a Screenly account, you have that up and running on regular media players throughout your facility. Now you want to add these displays with SOC, to expand your digital signage. You can click install, it will install the Screenly software, and then it'll run as a Screenly player on your network and you can manage it just like every other device you have working. And so that's where people are kinda getting lost because it's like a two-part construction to what we have.  David: So it sounds like in your first part of the description, many to most of the components that you would need, or in commonly found in a digital signage, CMS software platform particularly on the management side, but it's not marketed or presented as a CMS, and if you have customers who will want to go down a little path of using a commercial CMS, you have options to do that.  So am I right in thinking the first part of what you're describing is meant for companies that let's say already have a software development team of some kind, and they're looking for a signage platform that has foundational software and APi so that they can develop their thing on top of that without using a commercial CMS. Would that be accurate? Chris Feldman: Mostly. So first of all, it's designed around a LAN, right? You're not going to have, say like a quick service restaurant where you're managing several hundreds or thousands of stores. It's designed to be a closed loop, so to speak. So if you have a building, you don't pick a large company out there like Motorola, right? So if you have several campuses together, you can have a  local one off here in Schaumburg, you would have these displays on the wall and the administrator can access them and load content to it. But if you wanted to go to where they are, where they're downtown, you would need a separate set of media players running. So they're not really designed to be cloud-based, it's not really inter-connectable, so to speak and they all have to be on the same network and then they'll run existing content that you have. So it's for the user that needs more simple signage, not necessarily looking to invest in the expense of a CMS software, and then it still gets you into that realm, right? It still gets you into digital signage but you don't have the minutia control that you would over through a CMS. Let’s take Rise Vision, for example, those guys have a lot of control over what they're doing and we're not really trying to do that. What we're trying to do is get you in the ground floor, so to speak, get you a media player with enough robust functionality that it's actually useful, but at the same time, we want to be able to encourage you to work with any one of our partners. David: So let's say a manufacturer who wants to visualize some KPis from the production floor and just do it in that one facility over the LAN on a few displays. They could do this to find that you are all for that particular visualization that's coming out of, I don't know, Power BI or whatever it may be, throw that on there and you've got what you need.  And then the second tier of this is when you have partners, like Screenly or Yodeck, who already develop to Raspberry Pi that could be part of a well-defined ecosystem and your customers can look at the different options and go, “okay, these guys are more oriented to what I want to do, and I'll use that.” Chris Feldman: Yeah, if they can handle that.  David: When I first read this PR, I was thinking they’re not doing Vukunet again, are they?  Chris Feldman: (Laughter) You’re not the first one to mention that, but no, this is not Vukunet.  David: For those who don't understand what they we are going on about, about 10-11 years ago, NEC came out with a free CMS platform and a kind of a companion advertising platform called, Vukunet and AdVuku and I think the most accurate thing to say would be that it was a little early in the development of the ecosystem for that to really catch on. Chris Feldman: Yeah. And, ironically, I was actually involved with that as well. Maybe that's why I was chosen for this one, there's a lot that goes into it and you have to play to each other's strengths and one of the things about, the digital signage world is, it takes a village, right? These systems and these projects can get rather large and cumbersome, it's no longer just somebody going, “Oh, I want to throw a PowerPoint on the screen or a PDF slide from my menu board.” No, the amount of functionality that people need and some of the more complicated logistics really needs to take multiple partners to successfully launch one of these, even a moderate sized one to the market. And what we're trying to do is we're trying to simplify that, we're going to bring in as many people as we can together, so that it's easier for people to basically bring that to market.  David: So if I wanted to use Screenly as my CMS, working with NEC media player, with the software components that you were describing earlier, I assumed that there are similar components that Screenly has written and everything else, so how do you work around them, nto clash with each other?  Does a lot of the NEC media player functionality just shut off?  Chris Feldman: Yeah, literally that's what happens. So when you select that partner, it becomes that partner's player or that partner's end point or however you want to refer to it. So there's going to be no confusion. There's gonna be no clash, ‘cause that was honestly one of the original concerns when we were supposed to find what you're trying to do here, we didn't want to create something that was gonna create problems for us later. The idea is we want to work with these partners as well as we can and deliver an experience that we can have that QC control, to the end-user. David: Are there device management things like what you're describing with the wash-dock timer and things like that, that a developer like a Screenly or Yodeck or whoever can tap into if they don't have that themselves, or are there elective components that you can use?  Chris Feldman: Yeah. We work with a company called signageOS and they're helping us with this whole partner onboarding, and one of the things they do is they tie into that. So if they require things like CEC control, so you can utilize the remote, control it, or it ties into the touch capability, they're handling that vetting portion. And, in addition to that, we also have, and I like to refer to, is one of the best kept secrets in the AV, which is our never said administrative tool. I don't know if you're familiar with that. So again, it's one of our best kept secrets. Never said administrator is a tool that's been around with NEC for, I've been with NDC about 12 years now, and it's been around as long as I can remember, and it is networkable management for all your displays from desktop monitors up through projection, right? And as long as they're all connected, via a network, you can do all kinds of really great things. You can monitor them, they can set it up where if somebody were to change an input, for example, it blows my mind every time, every time you have a large screen somewhere, everybody wants to look at it and say, “Hey, can I get the game on there?” And then try to press the buttons and if you didn't laugh them out, all of a sudden you turned off whatever your digital signage application is and the screen is blank and so if you have a large building, it would be nice if the screen could tell you that because the screen already knows, and that's what it can do. You can set up a series of tasks that it can do, you can set up a time task where, if you're a school system and you want to shut off all your projectors at night to save the bulb, do you have the ability to do that? You can say, “okay, five o'clock turn everything off” and it'll do that and everything connected to it will do it, whether it's a screen projector, desktop monitor, what have you, and that is, available for download on our website and the standard edition is actually free of charge, and it's one of the reasons why it's the best kept secret. So it's something to use and it's an incredibly powerful tool that you can utilize either within your own facility or if you are a reseller or an AV integrator. This is something that you could also leverage as a service with your customers. So you can say, “Hey look, Mr. Customer, I can set this up. I can put all these screens on the network.” Obviously he will charge a fee for that and that's what it's there for. And that can be also tied into the available APis and so our Raspberry Pi, which talks to our display could then also connect to never said administrator. David: What’s the adoption rate for Raspberry Pi? I mean smart displays have been around since the early 2012-2013. The early ones weren't very good, but they've gotten better and I would say the whole idea of SOC displays is fairly mainstream now, there's a lot of them out there.  NEC, to my knowledge, is the only company that's gone down a different path with these slot loaded Raspberry Pis. How has that gone? And where are you with it? Is it right across your product line or just on a subset?  Chris Feldman: So we have a very wide breadth of screens that we actually utilize it on, screen sizes, everything from our 40 inch, whether it's a VRP series all the way up to our 98 inch screens. And that also includes our ultra narrow displays so the video wall displays as well. And so we have all these different screen lines that you can utilize within your network and tie into the software that you're using, like one very clear example, it's called Full Beamer. It's a great tool and they have this really awesome application that you can do video walls with Raspberry Pis by literally taking a photo with your phone. So you take the software, you load it onto a screen to take a picture of what the screens look like and each screen will have a QR code on there. You'd load that onto the website and it'll automatically scale the content, regardless of rotation onto the wall, which is an incredibly powerful tool that they can do with our screens. David: Why Raspberry Pi versus just putting in an ARM processor and doing what most of the other guys are doing?  Chris Feldman: Twofold. First, we've had a modular philosophy around everything that we do for computing for a long time. We've had OPS forever and then before that we had the SPC slot, and that's worked out really well for us. We've had a lot of really great successes.and we've got a lot of really great feedback on it.  So when we moved into SOC, what we didn't want to do is we didn't want to move away from that. We wanted to give customers that option and in addition, we also didn't want to necessarily build in the cost of the SOC into a screen that they're buying if they are not using it. So if they want to use a PC, they're not using SOC, why pay for it, or if they're using something external, why pay for it? So that's the first part. And the second part is really the, just the whole developer community around the Raspberry Pi, cause it's one thing to be having open architecture, because if you look at our competitors, everyone, they're all open, there's APis that are out there. Right now with the Raspberry Pi, you have kids sending these things to the moon, right? You have all kinds of really amazing things that people are building with Pi. I saw one application, I think it was a year ago, maybe two years ago, where somebody took a Raspberry Pi and connected the accelerometer that you have for your cell phone to it and then when you rotated the display, the content would rotate with the display. It was a really amazing thing that they were doing, with that smaller SOC. So that's what we're really trying to leverage with the Raspberry Pi inner displays, is that not just the level of creativity that affords the user, but just the global community built around it. People are really doing amazing things with it because you get stuck in something and you can on the web, post on a message board and somebody may have already run into that problem, and so that's what we wanted to do, what we wanted to leverage.  David: The interest in Raspberry Pi when it first came out and it probably still is that it's a $35 to $45 micro PC, and therefore I can save some money there. Often don't seem to understand that there are other things that you have to buy with it to get it all to work and it doesn't end up being 45 bucks. It costs more than that and it is a micro PC positioned, it’s something for makers and hobbyists and so on. Although there are millions out there and as you say, there's a huge development community, why would you go down that path instead of the Intel smart display modules or compute modules? Chris Feldman: The smart display modules, we actually are implementing as well. So the next generation displays will have the SDMs, available as a flat, And then the computer module will actually install underneath it, so if you look at the way that the screen is actually built, you have two halves, right?  You have SDMs and you have SDML, right? SDML takes the whole thing and the rest takes just a third of it. The unused portion is what the Raspberry Pi will connect to, so we're not going to connect to the SDM slot. And when we're specific about that, we're not connecting to that portion of the display. It's connected to its own proprietary connector on the other side, but you have that ability, so you could do things like run the Raspberry Pi and, potentially, another accessory that you have in that slot, that's running off of it. David: So you could use the Pi for media play out, but you could use an Intel i5 for computer vision, like your NEC application or something like that? Chris Feldman: Right and, again, the idea behind adopting the Pi was really built around the community that exists with the Raspberry Pi. It's one thing just to create a small SOC type PC, a little chip you drop in with some memory in the CPU, it's another thing to drop something in there that has some momentum behind it already, people already developing behind it. And as we were later to the market than everyone else, we wanted to leverage that, we wanted to have something that already had a development base behind it when we hit the market. I think when we launched, I think there were probably a dozen companies that we had on our website that already had CMS software that was running on Raspberry Pi, and we linked them right at the bottom so people get up and running very quickly. David: You've mentioned there's about eight or nine on there now with your dropdown? Chris Feldman: So the eight or nine are actually the partners part of the overall CMS platform that's on the Raspberry Pi. So if you look in the Pi itself, those are the eight or nine I talked about, those are the ones that are actually on the Pi. But if you go to our website, we actually have a media plan link on our website, it's actually connected.  Any one of our large format displays that have a Raspberry Pi slot, there's literally a link that you can click and say, “Hey, check out a new video player.” You click that link. It'll take you to our media player site. Go into all of the detail that I'm going on with you today and then, at the very bottom, there'll be a list of all the existing partners today that are on that Pi and then there's another button you can click, which will show you everybody that we know of that's working on the Pi. It's more than eight, right? So we probably have, and I have to draw a blank here, but probably about 15 partners total.  David: Okay. Is there any particular market or attribute about the kind of end users who are gravitating towards this technology solution versus, I don’t know, I see a lot of smart displays being used for QSR because it streamlines the install and things like that, or is there a representative kind of user who would go down your path?  Chris Feldman: That's really the great thing about the associate market as it is right now. A lot of CMS companies are rendering using HTML5, or through a standard browser or streaming something from a source. You can move away from like a standard type PC, to something like an associate and save a fair bit of money. The cost on screens will come down considerably, to buy even a small form factor PC, like an Intel that can oftentimes costs more than display, right? So now if you have this SOC that can then run that other content, that's an assumption being handled by a head-end, and it's acting as an endpoint. You can do a lot of really amazing things with it. And I don't think it's, yes, I can appeal to a specific vertical. You're really going to appeal to those that are looking to get into the signage market. But I've always been a little shocked by it, because there's an economy of scale that we're dealing with because, there's a screen, there's software, there's PCs, there's tablets, there's all these parts that kind of go into it. And then you have to multiply it by the number of locations that you want to have it in there, it's not just one screen from the menu board. The average menu board size is three. So if you take three times the number of stores and very quickly that number gets very large. So we can do something like this and be able to deliver that competing solution to the customer that lowers the cost of ownership and those that may have been wavering or, not necessarily, very motivated to adopt this, now it becomes much more inviting for them to do it. David: I have a feeling that you can't tell me who, but I'll ask anyways, and you can just say generically if necessary, do you have some good reference cases on large-scale deployments of viewer displays with the Pi inside? Chris Feldman: So we just released the media player and the Compute Module 3+ on our displays, we are just starting to deliver those now. So there is one case that will be listed soon so we can build a reference on our website and then those will start to develop as that grows out.  David: Is that retail? Chris Feldman: It was in the QSR space.  David: And like hundreds, thousands, millions? Chris Feldman: When it's released, we'll be able to tell you. (Laughter) David: All I know is that it's just a burden of anybody who is trying to market in this industry that the bigger the client, the harder it is to get permission to say anything about the job.  What will we see going forward with the media player? I know you mentioned OPS for the displays, but, how do you see this evolving over the next year?  Chris Feldman: Like I tried to mention earlier. So when I first started with NEC, if you looked at the kind of PCs that were being purchased, you're looking at a very low  type PC, moving up to a higher end type of tower PC with a video card, it was a standard bell curve, right? So the Core 2 Duo was the workhorse, the vast majority of screens that you saw out there were running something similar to an open Core 2 Duo, they were everywhere from airports to all other verticals, but as signage has continued to evolve, software design has gotten better, that standard bell curve is in verdict. So that middle of the road PC is not really seeing that much traction, the higher end PCs that are going to give you much more power and much more dynamic content because they're getting so much smaller, like the new, i5 STM that we have coming out, that performance significantly better than the previous generation i7. So you're getting all this power in this one device, that you can do. real-time 3d renders for wayfinding. So instead of just having a flat space looking map for your lobby, wayfinding, you could have an interactive 3d model that literally shows the walkthrough to go to where your location is at, those types of things.  And then on the lower end of things, you can get your information out, your menu board information out, your HD, PLEX shows or video content with audio, all that running on an SOC and the market is changing in the way where like the low end and the high end are becoming the dominant competing solutions. So that's what we're gonna see. I think we're going to see a lot more screens with built-in computing kind of leading the charge, but then I think also extension. So being able to get video at higher levels so are you talking 4k-8K, from a tower PC with a high-end video card, talking a lot of RAM, doing really dynamic stuff out to display as well so that's where signage seems to be going.  David: All right. That was great. Thank you Chris, for spending some time with me.  Chris Feldman: Thank you very much.  

Freibäder in Nordostniedersachsen dürfen mit Auflagen öffnen // Fohlen der Dülmener Wildpferde offenbar von Wolf gerissen - VNP fordert Regulation der Rudel

Aiming to "fix the bugs in our democracy," a people-powered activism movement has taken hold since the 2016 election. Those who are part of this wave are tackling difficult issues like gerrymandering, voting rights, and fairness in democracy through grassroots efforts. Today's guest is an experienced leader in this area. Katie Fahey is the executive director of The People, which empowers individuals to get involved in the political process. Previously, Fahey was the executive director of Voters Not Politicians (VNP), where she led more than 14,000 volunteers across Michigan to pass a ballot proposal with 61% of the vote that made political gerrymandering illegal. Prior to VNP, she worked in the garbage and recycling industry. She received her BA in Sustainable Business from Aquinas College in 2012. This episode is part of a series produced by the Princeton Gerrymandering Project and Princeton's Pace Center for Civil Engagement.

Среднеазиатская республика не может похвастаться высоким местом в списке стран со свободным Интернетом. В период работы резидента Ниязова Интернет был фактически запрещен, в настоящее время глава республики Гурбангулы Бердымухамедов способствовал созданию государственного провайдера, «Туркментелеком», который, тем не менее, не может обеспечить свободный доступ к сети для всех граждан. Политика ограничения возможностей использования ресурсов и доступа к сайтам порождает потребность в применении прокси-серверов и VNP, работающих в Туркмении. Читать дальше

The Iceman stun-eth! The Vid Neg Boyz are mesmerised by the shoddy Vanilla Ice vehicle Cool As Ice, directed by cereal extraordinaire David Kellogg. It's yet another frosty reception, as we give the film the cold shoulder, taking aim at Ice's fashion, Ice's acting, Ice's dancing and pretty much Ice in general. If you shudder to think how 90s a film can get then stop, collaborate, and listen to this whiffy turn of the century turd get the VNP treatment.Listen in here!

8/3/18 Michigan Supreme Court allows Voters Not Politicians redistricting proposal to qualify for Nov. 6 statewide ballot. VNP will be the fourth question to be decided by voters in the general election, and there may be a fifth --- raising the minimum wage. Genesee Co. District Judge David Goggins can't pull the trigger on a decision to bind over Nick Lyon, director of the state Dept. of Health & Human Services, for trial on charges relating to deaths from Legionnaire's Disease. Interview with Zach Gorchow, editor of Gongwer News Service. about what voters can expect to happen next Tuesday in the Aug. 7 primary election. Sponsored by www.DeadlineDetroit.com.

Based around true events. When Voyageurs National Park opened in the 1970's, real conflict existed between the park's builders and the people who owned land inside the new parks boundaries. This is a Romeo & Juliet tale with a VNP backdrop.

Based around true events. When Voyageurs National Park opened in the 1970's, real conflict existed between the park's builders and the people who owned land inside the new parks boundaries. This is a Romeo & Juliet tale with a VNP backdrop.

Voyageurs National Park wilderness has 200 backcountry camping sites and lives just beyond a popular fishing hub! This the 2nd of our 3-episode series, "Knowing Where You're Going," which provides an overview of the parks where many canoeists start out. VNP by the numbers: 200,000 acres 15,000 year-old landscape 200 designated camping sites 50,000 annual visitors $10 booking fee $16 per adult, per night Tune in for A Look Back at a Day in the Life of a Voyageur. Subscribe for future episodes and check out additional resources, posted at www.thetripcenter.wordpress.com! Credit to Anchor for an excellent podcast-creation platform (anchor.fm)! Music: "Blue Highway" by Podington Bear, Soul, Sound of Picture Production. Attribution-NonCommercial International License.

SBISD high school students aspiring to be teachers and coaches got an opportunity to hear from TJ Marcum from Texas A&M on how to develop and maintain healthy relationships through networking (VDP, VNP, VEP)

All my favourite techno tracks of 2016 from a range of techno producers such as Joseph Capriati, Daniel Nike, Christian Cambas, Adam Beyer, Ben Klock, Adam X, Heckman, Dubfire, Chris Liebing, Felix Wehden, Jay Lumen, Dense & Pika, Dubiosity, Protector 101, Black Roof, Repro, Birth Of Frequency, Traumprinz, Reeko, Kaiser, Observer, Gravitant Culture, Kostas Maskalides, K21 KROMA, Gotshell, Lewis Fautzi, Bart Skills, Nicole Moudabar, Vincent Hole, VNP, Janice, Yan Cook, Jewel Kid, Vincent Hole, UVB, Dax J, Dustin Zahn, Truncate, Alex Bau, Deepmash, CNCPT, Kaiserdisco, Exium, Rush Plus, Abstract Division, Edit Select, Thomas Hessler, SLAM, Cadans, Yotam Avni, K21 KROMA, Pfirter, Fixon, Marco Faraone, Lex Gorrie, Nuel, Lex Gorrie, Orphx, Nuel, Pierre Deutschmann and more..

All my favourite techno tracks of 2016 from a range of techno producers such as Joseph Capriati, Daniel Nike, Christian Cambas, Adam Beyer, Ben Klock, Adam X, Heckman, Dubfire, Chris Liebing, Felix Wehden, Jay Lumen, Dense & Pika, Dubiosity, Protector 101, Black Roof, Repro, Birth Of Frequency, Traumprinz, Reeko, Kaiser, Observer, Gravitant Culture, Kostas Maskalides, K21 KROMA, Gotshell, Lewis Fautzi, Bart Skills, Nicole Moudabar, Vincent Hole, VNP, Janice, Yan Cook, Jewel Kid, Vincent Hole, UVB, Dax J, Dustin Zahn, Truncate, Alex Bau, Deepmash, CNCPT, Kaiserdisco, Exium, Rush Plus, Abstract Division, Edit Select, Thomas Hessler, SLAM, Cadans, Yotam Avni, K21 KROMA, Pfirter, Fixon, Marco Faraone, Lex Gorrie, Nuel, Lex Gorrie, Orphx, Nuel, Pierre Deutschmann and more..

Kaiserdisco Live @ Prigl Festival - Brno/Czech Republic (16-07-2016) 01. Kaiserdisco & Fabio Neural - Stay With Me (Original Mix) - Unrilis 024 02. Adam Beyer & Joseph Capriati - Parallels (Original Mix) - Redimension 03. Alan Fitzpatrick - Terra Firma (Original Mix) - Drumcode 159 04. Reform - The Knowledge Of Difference (Original Mix) - On Edge Society 05. Kaiserdisco - Bonkers (Original Mix) - Drumcode 159 06. Rebekah - Anxiety (Original Mix) - Soma 07. Tessela - Rub (Original Mix) - Blueprint Records 08. Danilo Vigorito - Kilima (Original Mix) - Orion Muzik 09. Marco Bailey - Tunnel Express (Original Mix) - MBRLTD012 10. Kaiserdisco & Fabio Neural - Rush (Original Mix) - Unrilis 024 11. Johannes Heil - By Night Part Three (Original Mix) - Odd Even 12. Electric Rescue - Rexpirations (Original Mix) - Skryptom 27 13. VNP, Luca Agnelli - Wake Me Up (Luca Agnelli Remix) - Nice To Be Records 14. Richie Hawtin - Orange/Minus1 (Original Mix) - Minus This show is syndicated & distributed exclusively by Syndicast. If you are a radio station interested in airing the show or would like to distribute your podcast / radio show please register here: https://syndicast.co.uk/distribution/registration

Kaiserdisco Live @ Prigl Festival - Brno/Czech Republic (16-07-2016) 01. Kaiserdisco & Fabio Neural - Stay With Me (Original Mix) - Unrilis 024 02. Adam Beyer & Joseph Capriati - Parallels (Original Mix) - Redimension 03. Alan Fitzpatrick - Terra Firma (Original Mix) - Drumcode 159 04. Reform - The Knowledge Of Difference (Original Mix) - On Edge Society 05. Kaiserdisco - Bonkers (Original Mix) - Drumcode 159 06. Rebekah - Anxiety (Original Mix) - Soma 07. Tessela - Rub (Original Mix) - Blueprint Records 08. Danilo Vigorito - Kilima (Original Mix) - Orion Muzik 09. Marco Bailey - Tunnel Express (Original Mix) - MBRLTD012 10. Kaiserdisco & Fabio Neural - Rush (Original Mix) - Unrilis 024 11. Johannes Heil - By Night Part Three (Original Mix) - Odd Even 12. Electric Rescue - Rexpirations (Original Mix) - Skryptom 27 13. VNP, Luca Agnelli - Wake Me Up (Luca Agnelli Remix) - Nice To Be Records 14. Richie Hawtin - Orange/Minus1 (Original Mix) - Minus This show is syndicated & distributed exclusively by Syndicast. If you are a radio station interested in airing the show or would like to distribute your podcast / radio show please register here: https://syndicast.co.uk/distribution/registration